Pros: Cinematography, town atmosphere, restrained directing, Pidgeon Cons: No emotional impact, inexplicable ending, episodic, slow in places
Ladies and Gentlemen, there exists a film based around a coal mine that doesn’t revolve around the workers ballet dancing, stripping, or playing in a brass band. The coal miners MINE. It's a pity, because those three films ( The Full Monty, Billy...
Pros: Good, Modernist feel, Interesting characters, Decent-enough DVD bonus features Cons: Acting is stiff in many places, Voiceovers get monotonous.
When I started my investigations into every film that won Best Picture, there were strangely very few surprises for me. Popular movies that rocked the box office (especially at the time) seldom did as well as artsy films (“Annie Hall” defeating “Star ...
In our more openly cynical era, the 'flaws' of How Green Was My Valley are all too obvious. The story is sentimental and romanticized. Many of the supporting characters are stereotyped: the mine owner's son (Marten Lamont) is an insufferable fop,...
Pros: That a film this beautiful was ever made. Cons: That more films aren't made this way.
“How Green Was My Valley” is indisputably, one of the greatest films ever made. The caveat to this bold and provocative statement is that it is intended for sentimentalists who believe in the struggles of the hard-working poor around the world. If you...
Pros: Endearing drama, told with richness of visualization, warmth and humor Cons: The quaint sentiment, and knockabout, broad humor may bother some
As Huw Morgan leaves his home of 50 years, wraps a book and clothes within his mother’s shawl, he recollects his early life, and an exquisite nostalgia illuminates the images of blackened stone, the chimneys, smoke and sooty faces of a Welsh mining ...
Today's lesson, boys and girls, is primarily about the vocabulary of movie criticism. Movie criticism is a lot like winetasting. Everyone uses many of the same words to describe completely different phenomena. Yet often that doesn't mean that the...
Set in a Welsh village, it tells a wonderful tale of a poor mining family. Their lives unfold as we witness their joy and sorrow, their trails and tribulations.
This a carefully crafted scrip with not a hint of sentimentally despite the...
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