http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info The Great Silence Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:33:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this British-made gothic suspenser, Lana Turner toplines as a sick-in-the-head mummy who has killed her whisper suppress and goes on to blight her bastard son's life, in the final seeing that his child and marriage are destroyed before she herself ends up an ironic corpse. It's all heavy with ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/07/01/persecution-1974/ 2 Stars (out of 4) Thinking Inside the Box It all began not far from The City as the famous Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, which inspired Mario Giordano to write his novel Black Box , which in turn inspired German director Oliver Hirschbiegel to make a film, Das Experiment . Strangely enough, the story works better ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/29/2-stars-out-of-4-thinking-i/ Quintessential film noir. The term "film noir" (or "dark film") as you probably be acquainted with was coined by the French isolated in the fifties to describe movies of the previous decade that derived from the cynicism of World War II, movies popularized in the Synergetic ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/28/quintessential-film-noirth/ Dr Sullivan Travis - ‘Dr T’ (Richard Gere), is all the rage, professional and under stress at feat and at living quarters. His partner (Farrah Fawcett) is in psychiatric charge, his daughter Dee Dee (Kate Hudson) is about to get married but should she…so his golf pro, Bree (Helen Hunt) is a welcome ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/23/dr-t-and-the-women-2000/ Many fans of Peter Jackson's "The Aristocrat of the Rings" project were ecstatic that "The Ruler of the Rings: The Return of the King" took home eleven Oscars in Hike 2004. I was on top of the world to accept that the American Academy ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/22/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-review/ "Filled with flights of outrageous excesses." Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz Controversial Japanese director Seijun Suzuki, a hired hand at Nikkatsu studio where he made some 40 films, turns  out the visually stylish and bizarrely humorous B-movie Tokyo Drifter, but like all his films it lacks narrative clarity. This confusing film always remains entertaining as it is filled ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/20/tokyo-drifter-review/ Like the raw and brutal Sin City a few years before, Frank Miller's 300 stands as one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the 1990s. Employing the writer and author's testosterone-fueled dialogue and distinct visual style (highlighted further by the bold color palette of Miller's partner, Lynn Varley), ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/17/300-2007/ Colman is a shell-shocked WWI amnesiac who meets and marries music theatre singer Garson; a collision with a taxi makes him leave behind he's married to her and return to his pedigreed family background; but she becomes his secretary, and eventually another bolt from the blue...Eclipsed at the speedily only ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/15/random-harvest-1942/ Friends tell me that in a past life I taught high school. For on the verge of forty years. Understandably, it was with a merger of blessing and disquiet that I approached producer-writer-chief honcho Nanette Burstein's 2008 documentary "American Teen." The film ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/13/american-teen-2008/ Errol Flynn: The Signature Assemblage Warner DVD Way Date April 19, 2005 59.92 or separately at 19.97 1:37 flat satiated frame Captain Blood The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex The Sea Hawk They Died With Their Boots On Wheeze City A few seasons back fans were lamenting the dearth of classic Warner Bros. films on DVD, a situation that is rapidly turning ... http://thegreatsilence.maydee.info/2010/06/10/errol-flynn-the-signature-co/