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USA, 114 min, b&w
Howard Hawks (Director)
I slowly come to the end of classic Noire movies’ primary list and tonight I watched one of the American critics’ favorite – The big sleep. And admit I am slightly stumbled but more about that below.
So, we have screening a Raymond Chandler’s novel about of course the private detective adventures. His name is Philip Marlowe. The movie is famous first of all because three months after the shootings two of its main actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall married. That was probably the cause of some family squabbles so Bogart was on a bender during the entire shooting period. In those rare moments when he was able to appear on the set, I suspect camera lens steamed from his morning-after breath. But the film is not about that, of course.
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Popularity: 5% [?]
Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress and model.
After having a successful career as a model, Fox launched her acting career in 2001, in which she played a supporting role as Brianna Wallace in Holiday in the Sun, starring opposite Mary Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. Fox then guest starred in various television series, including What I Like About You, Two and a Half Men, The Help, Ocean Ave. and having a recurring role on Hope and Faith.
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Popularity: unranked [?]
USA, 147 min, color.
Miсhael Bay (Director)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is not just the ultimate digital boost. This is cinematic cataclysm in all senses of the word, both good and bad. Everything we watch in the first series now multiplied by a hundred.
Two years ago the first Transformers left me completely indifferent and even made me feel some kind of disgusting. But at this time, I suddenly was able to get pleasure and it doesn’t confuse me.
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Popularity: unranked [?]
Matthew Ryan Phillippe (born September 10, 1974), better known as Ryan Phillippe, is an American actor. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s, starring in a string of teen-oriented films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54.
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Popularity: 8% [?]
USA, 96 min, color&3D
Pete Docter (director), Bob Peterson (co-director)
The main idea with which I left the cinema that I’m not interested envy our ancestors. All these people who lived in the era when The Beatles released new albums and our fathers and grandfathers were waiting for them. And those ancestors, who saw on the screen Godfather in the premiere weekend, and told then in offices and telephone conversations that Marlon Brando cool even when he’s fat. And those ancestors, who watched through spyglasses at the sky, hoping to see a space satellite with antennas all around the body.
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Popularity: 17% [?]
USA, 130 min, color.
McG (Director)
Generally it’s a good movie which of course slightly dull, has no individuality and consists mostly of action. But this movie totally beats the previous third issue. For example, Crystal Bale is making attempts to play off an interesting character that was not observed for him at all in Dark Night. There is also a giant battle robot, which I think eats young transformers on breakfast. And we are introduced to fearless hero of 2018 Marcus Wright, who in my humble opinion made the entire movie.
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Popularity: 19% [?]
Halle Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster’s Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokeswoman. She has also been involved in the production side of several of her films.
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Popularity: 33% [?]
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English model and former actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s.
Born in Basingstoke, Hurley was a struggling actress in 1987, when she met Grant while working on a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento. In 1994, Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral. Hurley accompanied him to the film’s London premiere and was noted for wearing a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins. According to The Guardian, Hurley was “then known as ‘Hugh Grant’s girlfriend,’ now known as ‘Hugh Grant’s former girlfriend,’” due to their high-profile romantic relationship that ended in 2000.
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Popularity: 35% [?]
USA, 112 min, b&w
Orson Welles (Director)
It is common opinion to take Touch of Evil the most recent classic Noire movie – the first was Maltese Falcon (1941) directed by John Huston.
Touch of Evil is also called the greatest B-Movie of all times. That’s quit funny for all who already read director’s name, but it’s true – in defiance of all common sense this movie was distributed as an additional bonus to ordinary drama The Female Animal and the US audience staid indifferent to it.
The reaction of rest of the world (and mine) on Touch of Evil differs.
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Popularity: 33% [?]
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