Lawrence of Arabia (revisted) (Technical: A+) (Content: A-): Ran over to a local theatre when I found out they were playing this. Not sure whether it was it being my second viewing, seeing it on the big screen, or seeing it with an audience, but I enjoyed it a lot more. I still feel the desert travel scenes are a bit overdone in the first half. Now my only question is whether to buy the current two disc special edition, or to wait and get the just announced Superbit.
North By Northwest (Technical: A) (Content: B+): Wow, the best James Bond film ever, and it's not even a Bond film!
I can't put my finger on why exactly I liked it so much though, just all around extremely well done. I felt the second half dragged a tiny bit, and the ending was a bit sudden. My first full viewing of a Hitchcock film, and now I'm ready for more!
Apocalypse Now (Techincal: A+) (Content: D): This film exemplified everything I dislike about war movies. Completely unsympathetic characters, an extremely simple plot, and a "message" that doesn't interest me in any way. (Note: I watched the original theatrical cut, not the extented "Redux" version. And I don't plan on revisting an even longer version of a movie I disliked so much, got way too many left on the list to see
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Pakeezah (Rating: N/A): Am I a shallow American? Maybe, but I only made it through about thirty five minutes of this before I had to turn it off. The style is just too foreign for me (no offense to India, Indians or fans of Bollywood), and the story didn't seem interesting enough for me to stick with it.
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