When I did a “Ten best Christmas movies relay race” last year on the Dutch version of my site, there was one blogger who added this movie, which was a movie no one heard about and it remained in the list. It was a good reason for me to add this film noir from the sixties in my blindspot list for 2018 and watch it around Christmas time to make up my mind about it. Is Blast of Silence a Christmas movie and should you have seen it? Continue reading
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West Side Story (1961) – Review
West Side Story is a title that was not part of my Blindspot films this year, but I still was very curious about it. A musical from the sixties that won no less than ten Oscars and that I never came around to watching. When I saw this film was available on the inflight entertainment system this past summer I thought it was a good choice to kill some time. Continue reading
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
During the last couple of years I’ve seen a lot of classic movies I had never seen before thanks to working through the IMDB top 250 list. Of course amongst those classics there were some which I simply didn’t like, but where I understood why they are so loved by many. Not everyone likes the same things. Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a movie which I hadn’t watched yet. Of course I knew the iconic image of Audrey Hepburn with the jewelery and the cigaret, but I had never seen anything else about the film. When Inspired Ground did a tribute to the movie I decide it was time to finally check it out and try to understand what all the fuss is about. Continue reading
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
Besides new films i can also really enjoy the old ones. Judgement at Nuremberg is a good example. As the title already suggests, this is about the trials in Nuremberg against a couple of judges that ruled during the Nazi period. The question that is asked is if they were merely doing their job based on rightful laws or if they could be punished for sentencing hundreds of people (to concentration camps and having other things happen to them) based on laws that were against humanity.
The movie shows an interesting image of the trial and the arguments used by both lawyers. It also uses real images of the concentration camps, with chilling effect. The final judgement must have been very hard. Maximilian Schell is excellent in his role as the defense (he reminded me of Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds) of the judges and really is the point of focus in every scene he appears in. He won an Oscar for this role. Recommended for people who like courtroom dramas or want to know more about this piece of history.
Score: 9