Young Victoria: This movie goes over Victoria's ascension to the throne and the events leading up to and after her marriage to Prince Albert. It was a nice enjoyable movie but even with my limited knowledge of Victoria and Albert, I was aware of things that were not correct. Nice movie but not overly accurate.

To Have and Have Not: This is Bogie and Bacall's first movie together and was shot while the famous couple were falling in love. The movie is based on a Hemingway book by the same title, I have no love for Hemingway but I do enjoy this movie.

Adam's Rib: This is a funny movie, but more than that it's a movie about laws and equality, specificly equality between women and men. Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play a married couple of lawyers who find themselves testing their relationship when they go against each other in court. I think this must have been quite a monumental movie, such issues were not common place then as they are today. I still don't know how to take this movie, there are many blows forged for women's equality, but it almost feels bitter sweet, I could just not be seeing, but it feels like the dominant male sentiment of the day, has the last laugh in the end.

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: This was a movie that I'd wanted to see at international cinema but missed, I wasn't quite sure what to expect but the preview I saw must have looked cool or something. This movie is French and half chick flick, half horror movie, I felt a lot safer in the world before watching this movie. The way the story is portrayed is not done in the traditional sense but from two different sides, first we see the story from the girl's point of view, then from the guys and the difference in their point of views is quite a shock. This isn't a movie that I ever want to see again, in fact I'm wishing that I hadn't seen it because it really creeped me out.

The Bourne Ultimatum: I am a fan of the whole trilogy and I think this might be the coolest of them all. These movies are flawless and each one ups the ante. In this movie Bourne finally makes it back to his beginning and seems to have gotten away from the CIA once and for all...unless there's another movie that I haven't heard about.
Sabrina: There are two versions of this movie, the original with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart and the newer one with Harrison Ford and Juila O.... I forget, at any rate, I am talking about the original. I love this movie, it's a charming Cinderella story with very witty humor. This is the movie where Hepburn and Givinchy got together. I like both versions of this movie but this version is my favorite, I find Bogie more believable as Linus Larabee, William Holden more charming and of course how could anyone out do Audrey Hepburn?

Charlie's Angels: This movie has absolutly no redeaming value

Strictly Ballroom: This movie tells a story that has been told many times before, rebel guy, homely girl who come together to do something amazing and in the process the girl becomes beautiful and the two fall in love. It's been done many times before, but I still quite enjoyed this movie and I love dancing movies.

Marilyn Hodgkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School: This was an interesting movie, I'm still not quite sure what to think about it. It's very different from most movies I've seen, I'm pretty sure the essential story isn't one that's all that original but the movie itself is quite unique I think. I like it and I don't. I don't believe I'll be going back to this movie over and over again.

Dark Passage: Bogie and Bacall in a film noir type romance. This movie is interesting, I think it was sort of experimental. For most of the movie you don't see Bogie's face, the camera angle is as if you're seeing what his character is, kinda cool, kinda weird. This movie is noir, but it's not really dark on the whole, at least I didn't think so, but I guess I also haven't seen much noir lately either. Anyway, I like this movie and recommend it.

Casablanca: So the AFI named Citizen Kane as their number one film and Casablanca as number two, if I did it I don't think that I'd put Citizen Kane on the list at all and Casablanca would most deffinatly be number one. Casablanca was a serindipitous movie where dispite being writen as it was being filmed and noone knowing what the ending would be, everything sort of worked out and it's still a classic today. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman both shine in this movie, but not alone, I've come to believe that in a great movie there's also a great cast of minor characters and this Casablanca has in Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreets, Claude Rains and others who's names I don't know. I love this movie and think that everyone should see it, it's got action, drama, comedy, romance, it's wonderful. Favorite line: "Are my eyes really brown?"

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Let me start of by clarifying that I have no interest in the books whatsoever; I was drawn to this movie because Jim Carey was in it. This is a very funny movie, there are great actors in it like Jim Carey and Meryl Streep. Carey plays multiple characters, all of which are superb. I like it, but I don't love it as I do some other movies.

Gigi: This is an older musical about a group of Parisians, lovers and mistresses...that might not be the right term but anyway... It's a sweet little story, nothing earth shaking, but amusing, it's a nice comforting sort of movie, one just to enjoy and not worry about anything too much. Despite the lovers and mistresses it's not inappropriate. I quite enjoy this movie every time I see it.

Back To The Future: This is an awesome, crazy, funny, 80s movie. Michael J. Fox goes back in time and sees his parents when they were his age. He has to get them together or he won't exist in the future. It's a fun movie.

Friday, May 8

The Bourn Identity: I love these movies, I love a spy type action thriller well done, and that serise is just that. I have the spy fascination but I've found that I now prefer to watch something that at least seems like a more realistic spy world, than the gadgeted, and farsical world of spies. This being said I also love Chuck, so it goes both ways I guess. Anyway, if you're into spy/ action coolness, I highly recomend Bourn, however I didn't love the books...and they have a way different plot.
Anything Goes: I got this musical because it has Donald O'Connor and I'm a fan, however it wasn't one of those amazing musicals I felt, just mediocer, but maybe if you really love Cole Porter you'd think better of it, who knows. Bing Crosby's also in it but I'm not a huge fan of his.
Mr. Deed's Goes to Town: I got this to see more of Frank Capra's movies. It wasn't bad but also not my favorite. I assume that Mr. Deed's with Adam Sandler took it's plot from this.
The Big Sleep: Bogie, Bacall, it was the first time I'd seen a movie with both of them. I liked it a lot. I have no idea where the title came from though.
The Bachelor and The Bobby Soxer: I love Carey Grant, however not a favorite, I probably won't watch it again.
The Nun's Story: I got this to see Audrey Hepburn and it was not what I was expecting. It was very interesting, I can't say how accurate because I've never been Catholic, I learned a lot, hopefully not things that aren't true. However even if I ever became Catholic, I never, ever want to be a nun.

Friday, May 29

People Will Talk: Okay so this isn't actually Hepburn or Bogie, it's yet another Carey Grant movie. It's a fun movie with some interesting plot twists. I quite liked the part about the trains. It's a fun movie.
How To Steal A Million: I love this movie, it's very funny and in the crime thriller family. Audrey Hepburn plays a French girl who's father forges paintings, much to her dismay. She meets Peter O'Toole when she shoots him as an intruder in her house. Circumstances occur which force her to join O'Toole and to break into an art museum to protect her father from going to jail.
High Sierra: One of Bogie's big break through movies. A crime thriller, much more so than the previous movie. Love, crime, mountains, a lovable dog... Not my favorite but alright.
Two For The Road: Another Audrey Hepburn movie. The character she plays in this movie is more on the Holly Golightly side of things than the sweet innocent girls Hepburn quite often played. I liked this movie, I think, but it was very sad, it's the story (shown all out of cronolgical sequence) of a couple thorough their relationship together and their travles. It's a rocky marriage and it made me sad to wonder if many marriages out there are or have been like that and to wonder how being so in love isn't enough it would seem, to keep a marriage going.
Love in the Afternoon: Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper, Cooper is a big player. Hepburn's father is a private detective and she uses stories from his files to make Cooper jelous and become a one woman man. It's a cute movie.
Paris When it Sizzles: This movie is funny because of the way it portrays Hollywood, and how accuratly. Hepburn and William Holden. It's kind of a strange movie but that's part of what makes it so funny. It's also a chance to see Tony Curtis play a little bit part.
The Maltese Falcon: I'd heard about this movie, or perhaps the book, for years and I finally got around to watching it and seeing the famed Sam Spade. I though this was a really good movie, good mystery and acting and a very good ending. Another movie with Bogie.
The African Queen: This is only a partial report because the DVD was too scratched up to play the whole movie. I liked what I saw. It stars Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. I haven't seen any movies with Katherine Hepburn for a while and I'd forgotten what a wonderful actress she was. I'll try and get a better copy of the movie and report when I do.