Django (1966)
Much of the film plays as an action movie. There’s a lot of atmospheric ponderousness at the start, but once things kick off they rarely let up... It’s practically a definition of bang for your buck, which I’m sure goes a long way to explaining its popularity.
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Moonfleet (1955)
What you’d call a curio. It’s a colour CinemaScope Hollywood adventure movie from a director best known for epic German silents or dark film noirs; it’s not been passed by the BBFC since its original release in the ’50s; I believe it’s also unavailable in the US; yet a poll in France’s Cahiers du cinéma ranked it the 32nd “most essential film”
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Chinatown (1974)
It’s often held up as an example of a perfectly structured screenplay... packed with imagery and subtext for those who want it, but if that’s not your thing it still makes for a darn good thriller with a few neat twists.
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Hellboy: Director's Cut (2004)
A surprise hit on release, this live action adaptation of the cult comic book is an exciting and entertaining, though flawed, mix of pulp fantasy, gothic style and action.
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
del Toro’s creation seems to overflow — the laying of plot threads for a further film is even more overt than it was in the first film — which makes it even more unfortunate that the director’s long term commitment to about half a dozen projects makes a proposed trilogy-closer seem increasingly unlikely.
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Sense and Sensibility (1995)
A host of familiar British faces turn up in this Oscar-winning adaptation of the Austen-novel-with-the-name-like-Pride-and-Prejudice-only-not. Fans of any of the following will love this film: Jane Austen, costume drama in general, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet.
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More next Sunday.
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