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Wonderful evening taking chums to Casablanca at the Filmhouse, then food after.
It was booked before the awful medical news, so turned into a bit of a much-needed morale booster too.
Also a movie with a strong f**k the fascists theme, always welcome.
The Filmhouse is screening Casablanca over the Valentine's weekend, just booked tix for chums & me.
Apart from being one of my all-time favourite films, I really, *really* need to see scenes where the good guys beat the fascists. We did it before. We'll do it again if we have to.
This evening's viewing: the 1944 adaptation of Farewell, My Lovely. I've seen the much later version, but not this one, & I'm partial to a bit of Raymond Chandler, so when it turned up on the BBC iPlayer, that was it.
#Film #FarewellMyLovely #RaymondChandler #FilmNoir #1940sFilm
Utter delight to have the Filmhouse back for its first Christmas season in years, and It's a Wonderful Life still wove its eternal magic today.
Jimmy Stewart, freshly back from the horrors he saw in the war, comrades lost in front of his yes, here trying to return to acting in a movie that moves through darkness to hope & love. Wonderful.
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Day off; some recovery from the festive shopping frenzy. Coffee and classic #Christmas movie with It's a Wonderful Life, first festive season at Filmhouse in too long. Missed this these last couple of years.
Attaboy, Clarence, attaboy...
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Day off tomorrow, and have tickets booked to matinee screening of It's a Wonderful Life at my beloved Filmhouse.
First festive screenings since the FH reopened in the summer, after several years without it, so for me it is a little like going back to Bedford Falls. Hello, box office, hello cafe!!
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #film #ClassicFilm #1940sFilm #JamesStewart #BedfordFalls #ItsAWonderfulLife #cinema #Christmas #Noel #FrankCapra
This evening's viewing: 1945 British flick Dead of Night, largely held to be the grandaddy of the "portmanteau" style of anthology #horror that Hammer and Amicus would use often in the 60s and 70s (also boasts an early "is the ventriloquist mad or the dummy alive?" story)
Unusual for the time, also unusual in being an Ealing production, better known for their comedies.
#film #films #1940sFilm #Horror #Portmanteau #AnthologyFilm #HorrorAnthology #HorrorFilm #DeadOfNight.
"A superb piece": the BFI (British Film Institute) has a restored 4k version of 1949's Stray Dog by the iconic Akira Kurosawa, and starring the legendary Toshiro Mifune, coming out on January 27th. My review is up now on @PhilEdwards 's Live For Films now - https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/01/22/blu-ray-review-akira-kurosawas-stray-dog-a-superb-piece-by-a-cast-and-crew-at-the-top-of-their-game/
#film #films #ClassicFilm #JapaneseFilm #AkiraKurosawa #ToshiroMifune #StrayDog #Noir #NoirFilm #BFI #BritishFilmInstitute #BluRay #review #1940sFilm
This evening's viewing distraction: new 4k restored version of 1949's Stray Dog by the masterful Akira Kurosawa, which will be getting the Blu-Ray 4k release from the BFI at the end of January https://shop.bfi.org.uk/stray-dog-blu-ray.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqdYc1IK3H7qU94DGeUT_IchsMvVpc1aOvrb_FPxBn4Y8_L1tFd
As ever my review will follow later on @PhilEdwards 's Live For Films
#film #films #JapaneseFilm #ClassicFilm #AkiraKurosawa #StrayDog #1940sFilm #BFI #BluRay
The scene where the singing of the Marseillaise drowns out the bellowing Nazis gets me every time I watch this film. Must have been very emotional for the original audience, in the middle of WWII, with no idea how it would end.
These days it reminds me we've faced seemingly overwhelming fascism before, and good people stood up to it, and crushed it. I need to remember that a lot these days...
#film #Casablanca #films #ClassicFilms #1940sFilm #fascism #hope
Double Bogie on Boxing Day, The Big Sleep, then Casablanca on BBC2, watching with dad.
Bogie, Bacall and Bergman; absolute classic Hollywood gold...
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That final reel in the Fun House and the Hall of Mirrors, just brilliant cinema
"Give my regards to the sunrise..."
#film #FilmNoir #RitaHayworth #OrsonWelles #TheLadyFromShanghai #HallOfMirrors #movie #ClassicFilm #1940sFilm
This evening's viewing distraction: some classic 1940s Noir with The Lady From Shanghai. Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth (then married to Welles), and that hall of mirrors scene.
#film #ClassicFilm #1940sFilm #FilmNoir #films #OrsonWelles #RitaHayworth #movie #TheLadyFromShanghai
It's #InternationalAnimationDay , so in tribute, here is The Count himself, Bela Lugosi, modelling reference poses for Disney animators for Chernabog in 1940's Fantasia.
#animation #film #films #movie #cinema #Disney #Fantasia #demon #Chernobog #BelaLugosi #1940sFilm
Classic flick The Lady From Shanghai is on the Talking Pictures channel (sorry, UK only) tonight at 9. Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and that amazing hall of mirrors scene...
#film #FilmNoir #RitaHayworth #OrsonWelles #ClassicFilm #1940sFilm #movie