09-24-2019, 03:51 PM
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The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Again Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder explores post-war Germany, starting with the marriage ceremony of the title during an Allied bombing raid (symbolising what is to come for the couple). Maria (Hanna Schygulla) dedicates her life to her husband despite war, imprisonment, geographical separation and fate conspiring to keep them apart and disaster striking whenever they meet. Schygulla is captivating in the lead role, Fassbinder has such empathy for his damaged characters and the film looks much more visually polished than some of his other films. Another masterpiece.
The official BFI 47th best British film...
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
'I'm All Right Jack' is an Ealing Studios style farce (but from British Lion Films) satirising dysfunctional industrial relations. Everybody gets it with both barrels from the belligerent trade unionists, to the corrupt bosses. Ian Carmichael plays a naive middle-class graduate who fails to attain his expected managerial position, ends up on the militant shopfloor and so unwittingly becomes the cause of nationwide unrest. Peter Sellers plays his resolutely communist shop steward, comically trapped between sheltering this struggling new worker and railing against the upset he causes. The rest of the stellar cast is a whose-who of 50s Comedy including Terry-Thomas, Miles Malleson, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford and John Le Mesurier.
Again Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder explores post-war Germany, starting with the marriage ceremony of the title during an Allied bombing raid (symbolising what is to come for the couple). Maria (Hanna Schygulla) dedicates her life to her husband despite war, imprisonment, geographical separation and fate conspiring to keep them apart and disaster striking whenever they meet. Schygulla is captivating in the lead role, Fassbinder has such empathy for his damaged characters and the film looks much more visually polished than some of his other films. Another masterpiece.
The official BFI 47th best British film...
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
'I'm All Right Jack' is an Ealing Studios style farce (but from British Lion Films) satirising dysfunctional industrial relations. Everybody gets it with both barrels from the belligerent trade unionists, to the corrupt bosses. Ian Carmichael plays a naive middle-class graduate who fails to attain his expected managerial position, ends up on the militant shopfloor and so unwittingly becomes the cause of nationwide unrest. Peter Sellers plays his resolutely communist shop steward, comically trapped between sheltering this struggling new worker and railing against the upset he causes. The rest of the stellar cast is a whose-who of 50s Comedy including Terry-Thomas, Miles Malleson, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford and John Le Mesurier.
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