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The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic.
Agreed, now watch Enemy of the State. Hackman must have known what he was doing.
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The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic.
Agreed, now watch The Lives of Others (and Enemy of the State)
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The Long Good Friday
Love this. One of few films I have on DVD and rewatch. Helen Mirren is great in it, there's that bloke from Casualty, and the fountain of blood moment always gets some audible reaction from people who haven't seen it before. Final scene with the music and Bob Hoskin's expressions is brilliant.
It's one of a "London trilogy" (selected by me) but the best film of them. The others being London (my favourite - gets a rewatch at least once a year), and Dirty Pretty Things (which I haven't seen for a while, the acting's a bit hammy and it doesn't bear rewatching as much as the others).
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This weekend's viewing:
Dune (2021) - first time seeing it since I saw it in the cinema. Still a big fat 3/5 from me. It probably doesn't help that I really enjoyed the book but something just didn't click either time. I'll still see the second one when it comes out though.
The Long Good Friday - quite enjoyable, mostly for the glimpses of scummy, late 70s London and some of the hardest/ most disgusting looking blokes you'll ever see.
The Conversation - fucking amazing. Insanely tense and paranoid throughout whilst somehow remaining really melancholic. Gene Hackman in one of the best, most understated performances of all time. Wish I'd watched it years ago!