simon evans

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Favorite films

  • In a Lonely Place
  • Deadline - U.S.A.
  • Separate Tables
  • Skyscraper Souls

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  • I Know Where I'm Going!

    ★★★

  • High Ground

  • Cleaner

    ½

  • Last Breath

    ★★★★

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  • I Know Where I'm Going!

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    ★★★

    Superb 40's Powell & Pressburger movie starring Wendy Hiller as a woman attempting to get to her own wedding in the Western Isles of Scotland. Wendy Hiller is superb but watch out for the stunning Pamela Brown as Catriona Potts. They really don't make them like this anymore.

  • High Ground

    High Ground

    Oh Dear. Gun toting American crap. The wild west has broken out once again. Jon Voight in a pitiful end to a long career supported by a bunch of nobodies going nowhere.

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  • 8½

    ½

    A masterpiece they say. I have never seen a movie where i simply did not 'get' any of it. Total shambles from start to finish. I would not know where to start and where to end. Not one minute of this two hour piece did i understand or care to understand. I am obviously not 'in' on what is meant to be great. I felt like i had watched a movie where if you felt like throwing an idea 'into…

  • Le Samouraï

    Le Samouraï

    The arty crowd simply love this movie. Why? Good question. Boring yes, faceless, ridiculous. Imagine a man in a polar bear outfit starts a fight in a crowded shopping mall and people were asked if they could pick him out on an identity parade. Well, that's Le Samourai. Alain Delon is a clumsy failure of a hitman who walks around in a light coloured raincoat and a fancy hat. He stands out like a 'polar bear' in a coal mine.…