Torn Curtain
I watched the latest episode of Doctor Who last night which was a really good episode and featured the return of the weird living Weeping Angel statues.
Last night I was watching the 2002 film Three, which consists of three short horror films by three different directors from three different countries. First up from South Korea is "Memories", directed by Kim Ji-Woon, in which a man visits a psychiatrist to recover his memories of the day his wife disappeared, while his wife wanders around a city with no memory of where she is and how she got there. Seperatley, they both start to remember what happened. Secondly from Thailand is "The Wheel", directed by Nonzee Nimibutr, in which a thetre troupe steal some traditional Thai puppets, only to find that the puppets are protected by a deadly curse. Finally from Hong Kong is "Going Home", in which a cop, searching for his missing son, is kidnapped and imprisoned by his neighbour. Like all anthology films it is kind of hit and miss but mostly it works pretty well. In Western territories the film was released after it's sequel Three... Extremes and so it was sold there as Three... Extremes 2.
My parents are away at a wedding this weekend and so I didn't go to their house for lunch today, and just decided to stay in at home. I watched the 1966 film Torn Curtain, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as a world famous American nuclear scientist and his fiancee who apparantly defect to Communist East Germany to work on an experiemntal weapon. The movie is not very highly rated by Hitchcock fans, but it does have it's moments in particular a long, wordless sequence where Newman and a German woman have huge difficulty in killing a spy. Hitchock wanted the sequence to show how physically difficult it can be to actually kill someone. Apparently, Hitchcock had Newman and Andrews forced on him by the studio and was not happy about it, especially Newman's "Method" acting. For one scene Newman asked Hitchcock what his character's motivation was for the scene and Hitchock snapped "your motivation is your salary."
Last night I was watching the 2002 film Three, which consists of three short horror films by three different directors from three different countries. First up from South Korea is "Memories", directed by Kim Ji-Woon, in which a man visits a psychiatrist to recover his memories of the day his wife disappeared, while his wife wanders around a city with no memory of where she is and how she got there. Seperatley, they both start to remember what happened. Secondly from Thailand is "The Wheel", directed by Nonzee Nimibutr, in which a thetre troupe steal some traditional Thai puppets, only to find that the puppets are protected by a deadly curse. Finally from Hong Kong is "Going Home", in which a cop, searching for his missing son, is kidnapped and imprisoned by his neighbour. Like all anthology films it is kind of hit and miss but mostly it works pretty well. In Western territories the film was released after it's sequel Three... Extremes and so it was sold there as Three... Extremes 2.
My parents are away at a wedding this weekend and so I didn't go to their house for lunch today, and just decided to stay in at home. I watched the 1966 film Torn Curtain, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as a world famous American nuclear scientist and his fiancee who apparantly defect to Communist East Germany to work on an experiemntal weapon. The movie is not very highly rated by Hitchcock fans, but it does have it's moments in particular a long, wordless sequence where Newman and a German woman have huge difficulty in killing a spy. Hitchock wanted the sequence to show how physically difficult it can be to actually kill someone. Apparently, Hitchcock had Newman and Andrews forced on him by the studio and was not happy about it, especially Newman's "Method" acting. For one scene Newman asked Hitchcock what his character's motivation was for the scene and Hitchock snapped "your motivation is your salary."
Labels: Doctor Who, horror, movies, thriller
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