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>1968 version with Jack Palance & Denholm Elliott: Canadian TV movie shot on video, so it looks a bit clangy at times with early video technology, although the sets/lighting are excellent.
It's a lot more wordy & literary, with more plot, than the 1931; with some really great lines:
"Mr. Hyde: If you kill me, you'll be killing Henry Jekyll!
Devlin: You don't understand, do you? Jekyll deserves to die - he's the one who's responsible, not you."
All round excellent & thoroughly recommended.
>1996 version called Mary Reilly, filmed from the point of view of his maid. Starring Julia Roberts & John Malkovich.
Directed by Steven Frears. I hated it.
It was everything awful about so many modern British films - utterly dreary: dreary, artless cinematography & lighting; dreary hammy acting that all sounds overdubbed with dreary flat lifeless sound; dreary soundtrack that sounds like every other cliched dreary annoying soundtrack, etc.
AVOID
>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981) with wild-eyed Udo Kier, Italian totty Marina Pierro, & directed by Walerian Borowczyk.
A dreamstate, nightmare, sleazy, degenerate art film, with hypnotic soundtrack by Bernard Parmegiani.
Definitely worth checking out
(And the tears get more teary each time ... that soundtrack ....)
Today I watched another classic I’d somehow never seen...
The Man Who Would Be King
Very good - with some of the usual minor irritations of old-school movie-making, but overall a jolly good yarn . Probably won’t watch it again, but pleased to have finally seen it.
8/10
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It lacks that slightly quirky human interest element of the first film but it’s a well made romp. It doesn’t really add anything to the series but if you like a car chase and a bit of fisticuffs it might be the film for you.
But it's been in my "to rewatch" folder for a while now.
This year I've been enjoying lots of other "colonial" films like The Four Feathers (1939), Khartoum, Four Feathers (1978), March Or Die, North West Frontier, Gunga Din, Zulu and Zulu Dawn.
The Four Feathers (1939) is one I'd really recommend.
I recognise title of Straight On Till Morning, but can't recall it.
Will check it out.
I liked it, and agree with ICBM that it gets better with 2nd, 3rd watch.
I've seen it for the first time in IMAX and music felt too overwhelming, whole thing a bit chaotic, but still a solid movie. When I watched it at home and paid attention to certain details I started to rate it higher.
Possibly- With the lack of decent big, blockbuster sci-fi movies (there are some good indie titles) I rate it even higher but still...
Ironically, I just finished reading The Man Who Would Be King yesterday!
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Moulin Rouge
MrsICBM has seen this with some friends and didn't really like it, and I have to say I'm not a fan of musicals generally.
But this is a work of slightly demented genius. It is a musical, but it also comes across as a satire on musicals while being brilliantly made and even quite emotional in places. There's so much packed in it's almost hard to catch everything, and I think it probably needs watching more than once. (Which might be useful, since I'll be off work for some time!)
9/10
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Of course, I'm late to the party...but what a film. Shot brilliantly, superb acting and an accurate reflection of early Joy Division. I felt sad after watching it, but in a good way as it's reinvigorated my love for JD.
9/10.