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Garrett 2022-03-13 08:01:01
still very good
1964 Oscar for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay and Score + Best Actor in Venice.
A typical postmodern nonsensical comedy, narrative: masked characters + exaggerated plot + sudden and forcible reversal of happy ending.
Formally: the character's various words and deeds breaking the fourth...
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Tina 2022-03-13 08:01:01
[Film Review] Tom Jones (1963) 7.3/10
"a resplendent period treat enveloped with ample, lilting, euphonious selections, both aurally and visually."
British New Wave practitioner Tony Richardson's rumbustious Oscar BEST PICTURE champ has been degraded to something of a damp squib half an century later since its triumph is deemed as...
Rachel Kempson
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Hester 2022-03-24 09:03:48
The Great Brightness of the British Masters Exhibition. Wonderful, joyful, bright atmosphere like the last time I watched "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the presence of the camera is really strong (it's hard to imagine that we broke the fourth wall when we were filming the Qing Palace drama), the hand-held (horseback?) photography of the hunting scene Vigorous, combined with the whole film, is also a symbol of turning prey into "sacrifice". The text is like a British custom version of Oedipus, but the tragic is replaced by a nonsensical and vulgar joke (such as the obviously clean and sanitized passage of the naked woman, which is likened to Orpheus with Eurydice), right Silent film-style parody (including stop-motion and fancy transitions) and documentary film style (where the exteriors appear to be full of natural light) create an interesting mix of creativity rarely seen in stylized commercial blockbusters these days.
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Helga 2022-03-26 09:01:14
The rhythm is simple and lively, the appearance and values of that era seem to be original, and the real restoration without the perspective of modern people is a rare objective and real
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