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CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962)
First viewing of my first Varda film — it won’t be my last of either. Loved it.
Written and directed by Agnès Varda. Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorotheé Blanc, and Michel Legrand. Released 14 April 1962.
Spent 14 hours with my favorite film of all time today. Could do worse.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968): directed by Sergio Leone from a script by Leone and Sergio Donati based on an original story by Leone, Dario Argento, and Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Gabriele Ferzetti. Released 20 December 1968.
mr knight
Looking very forward to 30 March.
3:10 to yuma (2007)
(Rewatch): Still holds up - though it could have done without the first two acts and hewed more closely to Elmore Leonard's original short story. Truth of life: always trust Elmore Leonard's writing over your own impulse when it comes to adaptation – given how they re-examined 90% of everything we saw previous in hotel dialogue. Still, though, Bale and Crowe are a perfect pairing and Ben Foster is spectacular. Thinking: was this Crowe's last great role? Unless I'm blanking on it, I have to consider it to be so. Haven't seen the original with Glen Ford.
Directed by James Mangold from a screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard's original short story by Halstead Welles, Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas. Starring Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Alan Tudyk, and Logan Lerman. Released 07 September 2007.