I wondered while watching if Kurosawa had been influenced at all by the Dr. Kildare series with Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres in making his transcendent Tokugawa period medical melodrama.
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High and Low 1963
A movie of two halves for sure, and since we tend to watch films in two halves, we left off in the middle of this not sure it would retain our attention for the duration. But it massively switches gears, and turns into a procedural for the ages. Rewatching with commentary, the almost chamber drama first half took on an entirely different tone.
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The Court Jester 1955
A perfectly silly Robin Hood-esque parody; with silly wordplay, silly songs, silly sight gags, and lot's of colorfully costumed little people. Danny Kaye is delightful and charming, Glynis Johns makes my knees wobble, and it's mid-50's Technicolor is gorgeous. Delightful family fun.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
Nancy: "Why do we always expect metal ships?"
Jack: "I've never expected metal ships"The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers came out two years before I was born, and was one of the earliest horror / science fiction films I remember seeing. It was in regular rotation on late-night Creature Feature TV, and I probably saw it at least a half-dozen times by the time I saw Philip Kaufman's remake in 1978. Aside from a couple of key scenes,…
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