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Nothing has ever come close has it. I watched both The Last Detail and Five Easy Pieces again recently and you could see the brilliance but when the right vehicle came along............ never to be beaten imo.

The times I,ve wanted to re-enact that scene when you meet a jobsworth in a bar or restaurant after a bad day. I got close in the Pull and Pump pub in Brighton when this snotty barmaid wouldn’t serve me a pint of Leffe because, “ don’t you know it’s 6% “. “Well give me 2 halves then so as I...

she is one of my all time faves. Was it back to back oscars for her with The Accused ?

I thought Hardy was incredible in The Drop as well. Waltz cornered the market in recent years in the ‘Hamming it up’ stakes but to underplay like Hardy did and still hold that screen presence was top notch.

Don’t be silly now.

I put ‘ Kubricks criticism of Schindler’s list’ into Google just now and got this. In 1980, he told the author Michael Herr that what he wanted most was to make a film about the Holocaust, “but good luck in putting all that into a two-hour movie.” Frederic Raphael, who co-authored the...

If you didn’t realise that Kubrick could criticise and exults within 5 minutes you haven’t followed his career then. Plenty of criticism from within the Jewish community elsewhere on Spielberg’s film not less than from Imre Kertesz the writer and poet who was a death camp survivor himself who...

Its kitsch Uncle. It loses any power as a serious piece about the holocaust because it’s about Schindler and his epiphany - the child in red - and the portrayal of Goeth as a one dimensional psychopath, whereas that sort of evil is rarely as unclothed as Fiennes portrays. Where the evil is...

I always struggle to reconize outstanding individual performances when a film is as dreadful as Schindler’s List was. I’m totally with Kubrick on his take on the film. Spielberg can’t even show any Jewish prisoners as anything other than just extras. Kubrick : “Think that was about the...

Definetly Nicholson in Cuckoos Nest. Stand alone performance in my opinion since I’ve been watching cinema.