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Phil Hardy

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No Blade of Grass (1970) 29% EDIT “No Blade of Grass lacks the primitive power of Wilde's earlier films... in its social attitudes and theorising, it exposes the shallowness of Wilde's conception of man as an animal dressed in civilised trappings that can, all too easily, be slipped off.” – Time Out Mar 4, 2020 Full Review Life at the Top (1965) 20% EDIT “A lacklustre sequel to Room at the Top.” – Time Out Mar 2, 2020 Full Review The Marquise of O... (1976) 80% EDIT “[Rohmer] opting, in his colour scheme, sets and camerawork, for a style that hovers between formalism and realism, and so further distances the viewer from the characters.” – Time Out Sep 28, 2007 Full Review Patton (1970) 92% EDIT “The film lays bare the roots of Patton's lust for power in his willingess to sacrifice everything to his vaunting ego, a trait which is mirrored in George C Scott's superb performance.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Let It Be (1970) 81% EDIT “The sycophancy of the direction notwithstanding, this survives as a fascinating record of both the Beatles' collapse and their unending power over their audience (us).” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Winchester '73 (1950) 100% EDIT “Mann's first film with James Stewart, with whom he was to make a series of classic Westerns, this offers the clearest example of Mann's use of the revenge plot.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Story of Adele H (1975) 93% EDIT “The film is a disaster because, in place of the self-conscious reflection of her predicament conveyed by Adèle's journal (on which the film is based), Truffaut opts for the Hollywood formula of hapless unrequited love.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 96% EDIT “A classic example of a film that fudges the issues it raises.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review To Have and Have Not (1944) 95% EDIT “Bogie and Bacall fell in love while making the film, and their scenes reflect this, giving To Have and Have Not a degree of emotional presence that is unusual in the 'bite on the bullet' world of Hawks.” – Time Out Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Five Easy Pieces (1970) 89% EDIT “The result is less a story and more a collection of incidents and character studies, all of which inform each other and extend our understanding of Nicholson's mode of survival: flight.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 91% EDIT “Demonstrated Eastwood's ability to recreate his first starring role, as the mythic Man with No Name of the Italian Westerns, and to subtly undercut it through comedy and mockery.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Far From the Madding Crowd (1967) 64% EDIT “Another classic bites the dust.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review White Heat (1949) 94% EDIT “Despite chronology (deranged by the censor's influence on the studios), this is really the fitting climax of the '30s gangster movie.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2006 Full Review
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