| Title |
Director
/ Actors / Writer / Producer |
Description |
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| Alfie
(1966) |
d.
Lewis Gilbert
a.
Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin
|
Effectively cast, Caine's most
impressionable character of Alfie still poses a plethora of
questions about infidelity and morality... Why do we find ourselves
warming to the mischievous cockney? Even in this new century,
some moronic, primal male mentalities still find inspiration
from this shallow, '60's shag-hound! And why do gullible females
still submit to, and even forgive Alfie's crude behaviour? Apart
from perhaps these gender rolls being occasionally reversed...
or even shared, has much really changed in 40 years?
So, what is it all about
Alfie?..
|
USA
UK
|
L-G |
| An
Affair to Remember (1957) |
d.Leo
McCarey
a.
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr
|
The
mother of all pink champagne movies. Weepy. |
USA
UK
|
L-G |
| Father
Goose (1964) |
d.
Ralph Nelson
a.
Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard
|
A
delightful and repeatedly enjoyable matinee romp with Walter Eckland,
(played by Grant), Caron and her sprinkling of charges... seven
schoolgirls... all of them stranded on a pacific island during
WWII. |
USA
UK
|
L-G |
| gThe
Great Race (1965) |
d.
Blake
Edwards
a.
Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk
|
Wacky Races on speed and obviously
the movie that inspired the cartoons. Completely potty from
start to finishing post. They don't make 'em like this anymore,
etc. etc.
|
USA
UK
|
L-G |
| How
To Steal A Million (1966) |
d.
William
Wyler
a.
Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole
w.
Harry Kurnitz
|
Starring
the jet set princess of Pink Champagne comedy. Some nice lines
and subtle comic character studies. Set in a Paris we all like
to imagine still exists. (Particularly when viewed from behind
the wheel of a primrose coloured E-type convertible). |
USA
UK
|
L-G |
| Monsieur
Hulot's Holiday (1953) |
d.a.
Jacques Tati,
a.
Nathalie Pascaud
|
The
film that introduced Tati's gauche character Monsieur Hulot, whose
increasingly surreal adventures continued up until 1970 with Mon
Oncle, Playtime, and Traffic (all listed here). Tati's films define
a European style which one loves or snubs. The comedies of errors...
funny or sad. Tati was both... and brilliant at it. |
USA
UK
|
L-G |
| Police
Squad! (1982) |
Created
by David
and Jerry Zucker
a.
Leslie Nielsen
|
Because the idea was to parody the 60's/70's "Quinn Martin"
era of TV cop dramas, these original small screen episodes sit
deadpan perfectly. The subsequent Police Squad movies (unlike
big screen Airplane! by the same team), seemed rather diluted
in comparison. VHS versions only vol1 and vol2 |
USA
UK
|
L-G |
| Sabrina
(1995) |
d.
Sydney Pollack
a.
Harrison Ford, Julia Ormand
|
Although
a 1990's remake of the Bogart original, this version stands on
its own by reflecting colorful feel-good factors of '50's pink
champagne classics and done with authentic charm. A chauffeur's
daughter falls in love with the son of the wealthy Larrabee household....
Take it from here Harrison! |
USA
UK
|
L-G |
| Suspiria
(1977) |
d.
Dario Argento
a.
Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini
|
A
masterful, dreamlike horror which you might imagine could haunt
you forever after seeing it. At least It might if you ignore the
last few cheesy minutes. That being said, the film oozes "eerie"
which carries it high above the Elm Street type shlock that followed
in later years |
USA
UK
|
L-G |
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