Best: Eugenie Leontovich, "Four Sons"
Dorothy McGuire, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"

Worst: Shelley Winters, "Lolita"
Betty Field, "Picnic"

Best: Brian Aherne, "My Son, My Son"
Worst: Christopher Walken, "Catch Me if You Can"

The most stressful element of moving house is trying to change your new address to many multiples of organizations/interested parties. [...] How have we all come to this?? We'll never move again; the stress of all this just isn't worth it. We moved last year. The bank where we each have individual ...

As is probably clear, I pay a company for the hosting of this site. For the last 12 hours or so, the site has been down, with a message saying that the account was suspended. When I got home last night, I contacted them and was told that the billing to my credit card had been declined. While I coul...

txfilmfan wrote: ↑June 28th, 2023, 10:45 am And they somehow made chess sexy...

An how!!!!!!!!!!!

"Adam's Rib". Cukor, 1949. A total masterpiece in glorious black and white:

This is a hard one because there are stunning performances from right across the world to be considered. But sticking mainly (but not exclusively) to English language film I'd say: Anton Walbrook, "The Red Shoes", Spencer Tracey, "Inherit the Wind" and "Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hy...

When I went to buy a new Sony television about 12 years ago, a friend told me to take a DVD of a beautiful black-and-white movie to the shop, to test out how it looked, because many TVs don't show black well. Here are frames of the DVD I took, from one of the most beautiful black-and-white movies. ...

"Nazi Agent", Jules Dassin, 1942 photographed by Harry Stradling. I couldn't get the picture to load.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is probably the most visually stunning films I have ever seen. The soft focus and the exaggerated sparkles used in the scenes in the fairy forest give the setting an ethereal quality and are just gorgeous. Apologies for the low-quality videos. These were the only on...

Oh yes, you are so right about these. Absolutely gorgeous!!!

Here is one Technicolor noir, " Leave Her to Heaven ", John M. Stahl 1946. I'm not sure how many other noir films were made in colour, but Polanski's " Chinatown " is definitely another one of these. Both films I mention are formulations of incest/the Oedipus Complex, strangely e...

Dargo, you have nominated "Best Years of Our Lives", which is my number one all-time film. Agree with what you said about "Casablanca" but, despite the fact that (a visably-aged - and yet still only 48) Conrad Veidt is in it, this film is well down the list of my top films. It's ...

I love monochrome film and always have. Today the finest cinematographer working in this medium is Roger Deakins from the UK. He has worked a lot with the Coen Brothers. "The Man Who Wasn't There" is a visual symphony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htxvLcSnOU0 Before that anything shot i...

"The Last Sunset", directed by Robert Aldrich. A very fine film - a psychological western with themes of incest - starring Kirk Douglas.