With this being the film that launched Frank Sinatra to major things for MGM, this proves to be a great classic musical that hits all the right spots. Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra play two sailors on shore leave and who both fall for the same woman. Cue some great song and dance numbers by the pair, together and apart. Kathryn Grayson is also excellent as the female lead with also some great songs to sing. Also, watch out for the much celebrated sequence with Gene Kelly partnering Jerry the mouse (from Tom & Jerry). All in all, an excellent film.
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I saw a Sam Shepherd play recently, so I was quite surprised to see that Sam Shepherd wrote this screenplay. But having seen two pieces of his work, you can detect a style. Shepherd examines the dark side of families, the frustrations, the pain, the fights and their consequences. He likes long monologues uncovering a web of events and feelings. I think the dialogue in this film is superb.
The landscape and the music is also rich in metaphor. Kinski is a wisperish, idealised beauty. The other adult characters are weatherbeaten by life's demands. This is a long, slow and often banal film, but it says something about real lives. I first saw this film over twenty years ago. It lingers and haunts, and that thematic strum of the guitar stays ... Read More:
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Eugene O'Neill finished writing "Long Day's Journey Into Night" in 1940, but when he died in 1951 his will specifically stated the play was not to be produced until at least 25-years after his death. Because his widow relented and gave her permission for this "play of old sorrow written in tears and blood" we are left with this 1962 film and Katharine Hepburn's greatest acting performance. I first stumbled upon this film on late night television twenty years ago and I still remember staying up and crying throughout the emotionally devastating conclusion with the camera slowly pulling back from the family sitting around the table before a stunning series of emotional close ups of the doomed Tyrones.
What is there to say about the best film of the 1980's. This film is a modern day fairy tale, a surreal crime thriller and certainly one of Lynch's best and most rated films.
I just want to leave a note about the DVD, similar to what others have said, avoid the Prism Production of this, bad video, bad sound and ugly looking. Instead stretch yourself a few more £'s with the recently restored Sanctuary copy with bonus disk...
Prepare yourself for the voyeuristic journey, in this strange world.
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Director Gregor Jordan (director of the rubbish movie Ned Kelly) presents us with a world of the Buffalo Soldiers wherein men are fired up for combat, but resort to power games amongst themselves that become violent. Not just beatings, but resorting to murder as well. These are bad men doing bad things. They are so wrapped up in their own obsessions with domination that they don't even know if they're in East Germany or West Germany. The humour is edgy, as with the soldier who died at the start during the indoor football game, found filled with drugs - including a birth control pill he took by mistake. Buffalo Soldiers skillfully shows that the peace can be just as crazy as the war. The ost music by David Holmes is everybit as good as anything he composed for the Oceans ... Read More:
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Director Gregor Jordan (director of the rubbish movie Ned Kelly) presents us with a world of the Buffalo Soldiers wherein men are fired up for combat, but resort to power games amongst themselves that become violent. Not just beatings, but resorting to murder as well. These are bad men doing bad things. They are so wrapped up in their own obsessions with domination that they don't even know if they're in East Germany or West Germany. The humour is edgy, as with the soldier who died at the start during the indoor football game, found filled with drugs - including a birth control pill he took by mistake. Buffalo Soldiers skillfully shows that the peace can be just as crazy as the war. The ost music by David Holmes is everybit as good as anything he composed for the Oceans ... Read More:
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Director Gregor Jordan (director of the rubbish movie Ned Kelly) presents us with a world of the Buffalo Soldiers wherein men are fired up for combat, but resort to power games amongst themselves that become violent. Not just beatings, but resorting to murder as well. These are bad men doing bad things. They are so wrapped up in their own obsessions with domination that they don't even know if they're in East Germany or West Germany. The humour is edgy, as with the soldier who died at the start during the indoor football game, found filled with drugs - including a birth control pill he took by mistake. Buffalo Soldiers skillfully shows that the peace can be just as crazy as the war. The ost music by David Holmes is everybit as good as anything he composed for the Oceans ... Read More:
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