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Great film, great review. 😊

Luis Buñuel ended on a high.

Can I recommend an immersion in life's experience before jumping to set conclusions which are ill conceived.

i appreciate show some light on considered inconsecuencial movies, specially for important people for movies, as a movie history exercise

if you have time will be good add some movie frames to catch the vibe ans complement your analysis

it has something to do with the 1967 Hong Kong riots? or just coincidence?

i gotta say that sidney lumet has a masterpice as a swang song. is a good idea for a video best swang songs. i agree that usually isnt the case

It held my kids attention which is not easy. It's also not a kids movie that's always screaming at you or crazy random nonsense.

I saw this movie twice recently and it was both spellbinding and heartbreaking deeply. A true remarkable weird masterpiece ❤

Thanks for this thoughtful discussion. This film is pretty impenetrable, and I've been trying to parse some of these ideas since seeing it earlier. Yours is the only video I've come across so far that has actually delved into the material of the film itself, rather than the history/making-of, which I sincerely appreciate.

I saw this when it was released in a theater, and a few times since. It was an acclaimed and popular, starry prestige women-centric drama. Most remarked on was the fight between Bancroft and MacLaine. Its 11 Oscar nominations were not surprising then, nor was its shutout. It was the year of Annie Hall, Julia, Star Wars and Close Encounters. Your articulate analysis is certainly valid. Director Herb Ross began as a dancer and then became a choreographer. He collaborated with screenwriter Arthur Laurents for this realistic, behind the scenes of the dance world which was personal to them. It is not among my all-time favorites, but it is worthy and of interest. At least, future generations of would-be Oscar experts will seek it out due to its non-winning pedigree.

Good review. I just watched the movie again after many years. I understand Montgomery Clift was originally cast in Brando's role, and I think he would have been a better fit. Clift was himself a gay man cast in many films as the male lead, at least twice with Taylor, and they had enormous chemistry. I didnt feel that connection between her and Brando. I though the standout roles were actually Brian Keith, Julie Harris, and Sabu as the houseboy.

I couldn't disagree more. The Red Violin is quite exellent, actually.

Herbert Ross was a very hit or miss director-he directed Footloose-suspect ENOUGH

Is this A I ? The cadence is so weird.

no mention of the excellent music? c'mon dude

Lost Horizon.

Thanks to Nick Park, any fuzzy dog that's clearly had _a close shave_ I refer to as Shaun. Some occasionally get the reference, most look past me wondering where my carer might be ;)

The manner in which Alex prepares her coffee,(or tea?)sets the tone for the whole film

Great movie. John Schlesinger is such an interesting director. I really enjoy these 70s movie’s reviews. What a decade for film.

I liked Finch in LOST HORIZON

The only bit I didn’t like was a presenter called Anton Deck. Americans won’t get that, but you’re lucky that two idiots from Newcastle called Ant & Dec aren’t on your TV. They even have to stand the same way round on camera, because their fans don’t know which one’s which.

Many of the references are British and possibly lost on Americans (Thunderbirds, The Italian Job, the rivalry between Yorkshire and Lancashire).

I’ll have to give this another whirl, saw it years ago and it didn’t land with me. As an aside, viv-a-vis _The Arrangement_ I saw a movie recently called _Strangers When We Meet (1960)_ that shares so many parallels it’s like an alternate version. It’s more conventional, not on the same level as Kazan’s movie, very much a time capsule from 1960, but still pretty good. Kirk Douglas is the lead as well, I thought it was interesting because it deals with the same themes (from a shallower angle perhaps). Figured I’d mention it if you are ever in to mood to revisit that one, not necessarily recommending it for review.

An astute and worthy appreciation of a great movie. Yes, review The Boys in the Band. It needs to be redeemed from the trendy canard that it is a negative view of 1960’s gay life and enforces stereotypes. The gay playwright based the characters on people he knew, including himself.

Good movie!

This is one of the only movies that I didn’t care for the first time I saw it. It hits harder with age and experience. Glenda Jackson was an interesting figure who we lost recently. Also you’re thinking of Black Sunday which is a movie about a blimp crashing into a football stadium.

love the video! glad you share my love for kore-eda :) your commentary on 'superhero' films turning into live action and losing their "goofy" charm made me think that you might really enjoy the spider-verse films, they are - in my opinion - the best films in that genre, by a landslide with supremely influential stylistic elements (the greatest 'animation' ever on a screen).

Loved this analysis. Thank you and a happy new year!

3rd time watching it. Absolutely loved it!

Tobin: Tell us what was the REAL reason America had armed forces / ships on Chinese waters in 1926. ?????

Been very depressed over the last few months, and as nothing really to watch on Christmas day here in the UK, but sat down to watch and it lifted me no end, i was laughing out loud thought out, and tears of joy down my cheers, Gromit is now my new hero he could even replace Keir Starmer as new Prime Minster, i hope its not too long before they come out with another one, six years and counting?

Vengeance Most Fowl was without a doubt my most hyped film of 2024. We haven’t had a Wallace & Gromit film in so long that I’m willing to overlook most of my gripes. It still had most of the charm and wit, and I can only hope that there are plans for more since Feathers getting away doesn’t feel quite right.

The cgi explosion made me and my grown up sons laugh possibly more than anything, spoofing the hollywood trope of every vehicle crash ending in a huge fireball regardless of how ridiculous it is. Also as a family we recently had a weeks holiday on a barge, (highly recommended) and loved the chase scene which meant more to us than possibly an American viewer.

It was brilliant…proud of my country England, to produce such fantastic genius.

Watched it yesterday, was a fantastic, funny movie - really enjoyed it and hopefully will rewatch soon.

Good review but as a proud northerner, I will have to take you to task on a couple of comments! First, it is completely wrong to say there aren't any big stars in the film. Peter Kay (Chief Inspector Mackintosh) is a massive UK celebrity and one of the most popular stand-up comedians in the country. Reece Shearsmith (Norbot) has created and starred in in countless award winning TV shows in recent years - including the League of Gentlemen and Inside Number 9. Both are big stars and proud northerners! Finally, I have to object to your use of woke. It was completely unnecessary. People only make these things an issue by making them an issue - which is what you did by even raising the matter.

WtF thinks The Red Violin is a "fancy French art film"??? Nice straw man, fraunchy.

Just a quick comment on the voice acting, Wallace new voice actor is excellent Peter Kay is one of the best known British comedians and Reece Shearsmith is one of the best actor writers working today , League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No 9 ( all with the equally brilliant Steve Pemberton ) 😊😊😊😊

Good jokes re rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Sign: YORKSHIRE BORDER KEEP OUT Sign: LANCASHIRE BORDER NO YOU KEEP OUT Sign: NO PARKIN (Parkin is a cake)

Not only a rack focus, but there was a dolly zoom in there too. Their use of cinematic techniques is a hallmark of their work

Emanuel Desperados - his drum playing was the (uncredited) inspiration for the Cadbury Gorilla advert

Bro I’ve seen the film back in October at AFI Fest. Already told everyone to watch it once it’s out.

To me this was a very good and sensible and fair assessment of the movie. I do not think it is any coincidence that it is The Draftsman's contract and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her lover that are Greenaway's most popular movies as these are the ones that have the most plot. Although The Cook and the Thief has some very (deliberately) depraved and disgusting images within it, it is a ultimately a very warm and passionate film - especially some of the speeches by the Wife (Helen Mirren) just before she takes her revenge on her husband. The fact that the film is also a very acidic comment on Thatcherism taken to its logical conclusion also helps to make it very warm and passionate. On the other hand the film Greenaway made a little later - The Baby of Macon (1993) is utterly utterly icey cold. This is very deliberate. It may prove with the passing of time to be a masterpiece but it was too much for me and I had to switch it off. A fascinating and informative film but not for those who get very disturbed and upset. In most Greenaway films image rather than story or even acting is the king. I think drowning by numbers and an earlier film a Zed and two noughts (1985) can be best understood not as stories in anything like the real world (however you define that) but as fascinating collages and ideas about sex and death and lists and games. I have nothing against narrative movies which tell stories and have enjoyed many of them but I also applaud Greenaway's films focusing on image and being thematic studies of sex and death. Why choose when you can have both? I also agree with Greenaway that cinema much of the time is being very conventional and playing it safe. It is good to have a constructive radicle like Greenaway to shake things up a bit.

It's ok,but the pace, tempo and editing is too fast. Wallace has too much dialogue. Watch it back to back with previous films.

If you need any reassurance about what the people of Britain think of this movie, everyone is talking about it after it was shown in BBC1 on Christmas Day.

Very interesting review, thanks. I thought the line “AI lad, see how embracing technology makes our lives better.” Was great. He’s saying AI instead of a local colloquialism, ‘ay up’ With the street with a hill, I wonder if that’s a nod to the motorways in Thunderbirds.

In the discussion of corporate greed, it’s important to acknowledge that Aardman is a co-operative, in that the employees are the share holders and share in the profits.

18:00 - re: the time setting. I think that’s a troupe of the ‘Northern’ genre where you don’t really know the age of the setting, just that it’s vaguely somewhere between the Edwardian and the now. It’s a theme of being left behind, the world might be modernising elsewhere but the North has been left behind and things are how they’ve always been. If you get a chance to play the game ‘thank goodness you’re here’, it uses it to full effect. The cut scenes are from the 50s/60s while the game is contemporary. Even in the movie, Wallace’s UI for his home computer is a weirdly anachronistic. 21:50 - Now that you bring it up the two uniforms that the police officers wear is deliberately anachronistic. Mackintosh wears a very traditional smart uniform inc. hard hat whereas the new officer wears a more contemporary uniform with stab vest and walkie-talkie.

The attraction in these films is that we're always new a different from each other. This vmf is a resurrection of Feathers. Should have left him in jail. The best film of all? You must be joking!!!