#pete postlethwaite

[marthajefferson]

They terrorized me for seven days. After that, they threatened to kill my father. I'd have fucking signed anything after that.

Daniel Day-Lewis & Pete Postlethwaite IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (1993), dir. Jim Sheridan

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Dragonheart (1996)

[ozu-teapot]

Anchoress | Chris Newby | 1993

[ratleyland]

I haven't watched this movie in almost 20 years.

Some of the dialogue between Bowen and Draco about life and honour still 'hold up'; even to this day.

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A Private Function (1984) Malcolm Mowbray

October 28th 2024

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[arkygifs]

𝄢 Brassed Off (1996)

[90smovies]

[camyfilms]

ROMEO + JULIET 1996

And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.

[marthajefferson]

"You're very good at the English, aren't you? You see, I don't understand your language. "Justice." "Mercy." "Clemency." I literally don't understand what those words mean. I'd like to put in an application to get all my teeth extracted. That way I could put my fist in my mouth and never speak another word of fuckin' English so long as I live!"

based on a true story, IN THE NAME OF FATHER (1993) dir. Jim Sheridan

[swan2swan]

How and why are his business.

[knowyourbmovieactors]

OCTOBER HORROR MOVIES 2024 (DVD EDITION) #28 THE OMEN (2006)

Oh my god, it's ANOTHER 2000s remake of an old horror film. This time, the ritual sacrifice on the slab is Richard Donner's classic 1976 film, The Omen. Let's dive in...

You can call this new version a "remake" in the most literal definition of that word, because it literally remakes everything that the original already did. It hews so closely to Donner's version that the ostensible screenwriter, Dan McDermott, had his writing credit stricken by the WGA. Instead, David Seltzer, the writer of the '76 film, was ultimately given credit. Every character, every scene, practically every THING in this remake is almost exactly as it was in the original, only updated to take place in the 2000s instead of the '70s. It's not as egregious as Gus van Sant's nearly shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, but it's treading in that territory.

There's some top-tier talent on the screen--Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon, Mia Farrow; they're all doing their best--but to what end? The film has no aspirations beyond what the original film already did, and it barely accomplishes those. Director John Moore's previous movie, Flight of the Phoenix, was also a remake, and it bombed hard at the box office. Why anyone would look at that and say, "Yeah, let's put that guy on another remake," is beyond me. There's a deeply cynical part of me that thinks this entire project was greenlit because the producers thought it would be a great publicity stunt to release an "Omen" remake on June 6, 2006 (or "6-6-06" as all the marketing materials trumpet).

And it did work as a publicity stunt. This version of The Omen did eke out a profit; but, again, to what end? Whenever anybody hears the name "Damien", they're still going to hear it being said in Gregory Peck's voice from 1976. The only legacy this remake will have is as a cheap "gotcha" question in a trivia contest.

THINGS I LEARNED FROM THE DVD EXTRAS -John Moore: "You're going to ask me why I wanted to do this film, and I haven't even been able to answer that for myself. But I have to come up with a salable answer."

-Dan McDermott (whose name and title are blurred out on the screen): "You spend a lot of time alone in a room with a laptop trying to bring to life the ideas and the vision that you have. You spend six to eight months of your life alone with a laptop, and it's such a thrill to be here and watch it happen."

-Liev Schreiber: "When I got the call, my first thought was, 'Oh shit. Another remake.'"

[myforeverworldofmovies]

endless list of my favourite couples:

28. Gloria & Len (the sins)

[tinyreviews]

Tiny Review: Amistad 1997. Masterful storytelling.

Holy smokes, I love this! Every part of it is superb. Especially the last act where all the buildup comes to a climax. And you can feel the buildup having buildups, and the tension building up.

It’s a well-done (exaggerated) historical fiction. The main events really did happen. The mutiny on Amistad. The court battle. John Quincy Adams, son of the Founding Father John Adams, really did represent the Africans in the case of United States v. The Amistad.

Amistad is also quite a poetic title. Ami, meaning friend. Stad, meaning city. That is, friendship. Ironic, for a slave ship. And fitting, as well, for the bonds between the men.

Besides the main theme of slavery and freedom. There is also side-themes of struggle and greatness and has-beenary and righteousness and spirituality. A heroic tale really.

And the movie does all this with such masterful and poetry. MUST WATCH!

Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and Matthew McConaughey starred, with Djimon Hounsou in his breakout role as Cinqué; Pete Postlethwaite, Nigel Hawthorne, and a then unknown Chiwetel Ejiofor.

[victusinveritas]

'DragonHeart' brings the epic fantasy tale by Patrick Read Johnson and Charles Edward Pogue to life. This 1996 film stars Dennis Quaid, Dina Meyer, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, and of course, Sean Connery as the voice of Draco the dragon.