4. Rear window.

Títle: Rear Window
Director:  Alfred Hitchcock
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1954
Runnig time: 108´
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly.
Thelma Ritter
Selected by: Noe

Old movies always have had a special charm for me and if the director is Alfred Hitchcock I think it's a safe bet for, without more pretensions, to pass a very good time.

So, for my first staging of our cineclub, I chose this friendly film that reminded me, not so old, times of my childhood.

Through this enigmatic window we can see the weaknesses of human beings, marriage, loneliness, misunderstanding between men and women, coexistence and the hopelessness of so many everyday situations.

An impeccable direction and a gripping atmosphere. Great actors like James Stewart and Thelma Ritter made great performances, and Grace Kelly fills the screen with her natural beauty.

There are several simple and profound stories, dialogues and scenes of suspense to remember.

As always, we enjoyed another wonderful evening  with the best company.

3. Terminator

Títle: Terminator
Director: James Cameron
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1984
Runnig time: 108´
Starring: Arnold Shwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
Selected by: Javier Gorritxo, Mari Jose, or both, we don´t know....

Hello everyone.

It is said that a movie-club without a blog is not the same, so I am writing this in order to check it.

Last Saturday we watched Terminator.

On last Saturday we invited the other members of our club to our house. What movie could we chose? There are so many great films, but they would like them. Which one should be the first? Could we decide without arguing?

As always stopmoney, the person I am in love with, had the solution. Both of us should make a list of five to ten films and the movie that was in all the list would be the winner.

I am not very clever but when I was finishing my list I knew that “The Terminator” was going to be our election.

It is a great movie, directed in 1984 by James Cameron before being famous. It is a science fiction thriller with one of the most threatening enemy you can have “a cyborg”. In my opinion the best role of Schwarzenegger ever. It has a good script that allows you to discuss about what is first the egg or the chicken and things like that. The action scenes and rapid pacing are amazing you can see how good was Cameron (as in Alien 2 also).

I haven’t seen it in the last 10 or 20 years so I had blend some images from the second and the first terminators, but I enjoyed a lot watching at it again. It is an 80`s film so is quite violent, Schwarzenegger's slamming brutally into anything that gets in his way: I think that nowadays they would take off some of this images. Nevertheless there are some great images, like when you are looking through the Cyborg eyes all in red or the hand of the Terminator trying to catch Sara Conor this one was copy in “the Curse of the black pearl”.

We saw a very unusual making of the movie (well indeed is about terminator 2), It is only available in Spanish. You can see in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS1dCPHU1gE

All in all a great film with a great company, and always is an extra point to see the 80`s hairdressers, people listen to walkman and not being able to use a mobile phone. All of these very weird for my children ;-)

I am thinking about my new list……

2. Four Wedings and a Funeral.

Títle: Four Weddings and a Funeral
Director: Mike Newelll
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1994
Runnig time: 117´
Starring: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Simon Callow, Kristin Scott Thomas, ...
Selected by: ............... Put your name or alias here, come on, Guillermo!








And here you must talk about this movie, what you choosed it, or whatever you want... Come on, don´t by shy!!!

1. Love Actually

 
Título: Love Actually
Director: Richard Curtis
País: United Kingdom
Año: 2003
Duración: 136´
Reparto: Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Keira Knigthley, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, and a lot of more great actors and actress.
Elegida por: Notoriamente Nefasto (or Notoriusly Grim, I don´t know...)





 






 I was looking for the movie to start with our English Cineclub, with a couple of ideas in mind, when my wife suggested this movie. As always, she was right. At that precise moment I realised it was the perfect movie to start with. Not only it´s one of my very favourite movies ever, even the time of the year was perfect! We were not five as in the movie, but three weeks from Christmas.

I felt quite surprised because a lot of you haven´t seen already the movie, but, as I said, this is a lucky advantage for you. But you can not longer say that!

I love the movie for a lot of reasons, and it has the power of making me laugh or get moved every time I see it. English humor has always something different that I usually prefer, and for me all the movie is great. But if I must choose one funny moment, I do with Mr. Hugh Grant dancing in 10th Downing street, for example.

Talking about getting moved, I always found a little mote in my eyes when  Emma Thompson discovers that the necklace is not for her. Only seeing this little scene, you can know what a great actress she is, only with this few minutes of interpretation. 

There is a phrase I love too. When the stepfather, Liam Neeson, talks to his kid, and he is encouraging him to go for the girl, and the kid says: "Ok, Dad. Let´s do it. Let´s go get the shit kicked out of us by love". Brilliant! It´s a philosophy!

But, as I said, for me, the more shocking part of the movie is the beginning. The truth that is told then by the "voice over"  is something that I actually haven´t realised. Sometimes is hard to wake up and reading the newspapers or watching the news, but I always try to see the world the way in the film is told. 
Because is truth, trust me.

So, I hope that all of you really enjoyed the movie, and the Cineclub indeed. As other said: "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."