Showing posts with label 1969. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1969. Show all posts
Saturday, 22 April 2017

If its Tuesday this must be Belgium - 1969

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A friend who works in travel wanted to re-see this, so I got a copy for him - its passably amusing, dealing with a coach tour of Europe i...
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Saturday, 4 March 2017

Beatles for sale - in vinyl

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Now that vinyl records are back again - and a lot pricier than they used to be, a new collection of The Beatles albums in vinyl caught my...
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Sunday, 29 May 2016

Laughter in the Dark, 1969

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Or: The Burton film that wasn't .... Tony Richardson's LAUGHTER IN THE DARK seems a very rare movie now, there are only 3 commen...
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Friday, 1 April 2016

Bad Movies We Love: Justine

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The little-seen JUSTINE  from 1969 is one of those 'literary' 20th Century Fox movies - from the Laurence Durrell book, set in Al...
Saturday, 12 September 2015

Two gentlemen sharing - very 1969

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I am indebted once again to my friend Colin for unearthing this missing 1969 movie - a very bizarre view now, but capturing that late 1960s...
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Friday, 17 July 2015

Dolly

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Interesting to see HELLO DOLLY again .... back in 1969 when in my twenties this seemed an elephantine old-fashioned film in that era of ...
Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Tea and sympathy for a midnight cowboy

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MIDNIGHT COWBOY was on television again and I had to go back to it, after not seeing it in decades, and I have been reading about the 1956...
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Monday, 15 December 2014

Another ship of fools ....

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Based on the true story of a ship carrying German-Jewish refugees which was sent to Havana in 1939 by the Nazis but was denied permissio...
Friday, 3 October 2014

Delon, Gabin et le Clan des Siciliens

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We like a good French thriller and Henri Verneuil's THE SICLIAN CLAN is certainly a corker. It re-teams, in 1969, Alain Delon and Je...
Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Julia ? On the Beach ? The Arrangement ?

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This week I am looking at and revaluating some "prestige" films that were  big in their day,  but do they still stand up now ? JU...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Grand Guignol quartet ...

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Let us now turn our attention to some prime ham examples of those grand guignol bloody comedy thrillers dished up by Hollywood in the 196...