This week's film is a hard hitting Oscar winning film about the horrors that happened during world war two following the story of one Jewish pianist under Nazi rule. This is a hard watch showing the best and worst of human nature. Recommended watching but you might not be able to watch it twice. Another 5/5 but for a very different film from last week.
Halloween Special - a classic - Nosferatu. I saw it at the cinema with live music. I understand the music was more jazzy then usual. To the modern horror movie watcher it isn't scary but it is interesting. Despite my difficulties in the past with black and white (let alone silent) films this held my interest. I finally saw all those famous images of it in context as well!
The original film was actually destroyed due to copyright issues - Nosferatu is Romanian for vampire and the film is a thinly disguised rip off of Dracula. This film is one of the more recent piercing together of remaining records in archives.
Went to watch this on my birthday with my mother - then got very embarrassed when lesbian sex started. With that out of the way let me get started on the film...
This is a historical drama about a reforming unmarried Swedish Queen alone on the throne at the time of religious upheaval between Protestants and Catholics. This sounds a lot like Elizabeth 1st but with an addition - hence my embarrassment because I didn't know that. The addition being in reality Queen Christina was suspected to be a lesbian, in the film they make this explicit. For some reason even though English was a second language for the actors they mainly spoke English some intonation was off a bit which was off-putting. Loved the outfits though. Overall I'd rate the film a 3/5.
This is rather a cult film I expect you may have heard of already. Have to say I did enjoy watching it and seeing how little things changed the time line each time. If you haven't heard of the film before the basic summary is Lola's drug dealing boyfriend has lost a lot of money on the train and is in line to be killed by his boss if he doesn't get it in time. Lola then runs against the clock trying to get the money and get it to her boyfriend in time. This rewinds and happens again and again with different consequences as Lola struggles against the clock. Recommended watching 4/5.
Fan made trailer for the film as I can't find the official one.
