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This Property Is Condemned, a review by Hal

Title: This Property Is Condemned
Year: 1966
Director: Sydney Pollack
Rating: NR
Length: 110 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono
Subtitles: English

Stars:
Natalie Wood
Robert Redford
Charles Bronson
Kate Reid
Mary Badham

Plot:
Repressed desires, sultry women, sweltering weather and a handsome new stranger in town... this is playwright Tennessee Williams at his very best. Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, is particularly devastated with the arrival of Owen Legate (Robert Redford) , a railroad official with a pocketful of pink slips for the rail yard employees. Natalie Wood is captivating as Alva Starr, the coquettish town flirt with plenty of big plans but nowhere to go... until Legate appears on her doorstep. Their ensuing affair enrages Alva's distant, uncaring mother (Kate Reid) - and ignites a town's revenge. Masterfully directed by Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were, Out of Africa, The Firm) and co-written for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather trilogy), This Property Is Condemned sizzles with unbridled passion and fiery emotion.

Extras:
Scene Access
Closed Captioned

Take the writing of Tennessee Williams, screenplay of Francis Ford Coppola and direction of Sydney Pollack and throw in the acting (and beauty) of Natalie Wood and Robert Redford and you cannot expect anything but an outstanding film.  This poignant story of a starry-eyed flirtatious dreamer from backwoods Dodson, MS (Wood) and a cynical railroad man (Redford) from sophisticated and exciting New Orleans is a study in stark contrasts and the realities of the human condition; from manipulating mother to lonely married man with an invalid wife to the desperation of men losing their jobs in desperate times.  Excellent film in all respects!
What a shame the beauty of one such as Natalie Wood was lost to us at such an early age.  She was one beautiful young lady!


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(From This Property Is Condemned on July 26th, 2010)

Alucard, a review by Jimmy

Title : Alucard (2003)

Overview
A modern telling of Bram Stoker's classic!

My Impression
My god this movie is endless...  It is not only long by its running time (2h30), but by the way it is construct. Let me explain, all the movie is based on the diary of the principal characters (I think that the original Bram Stoker's book was like that also) and everytime something a little bit interesting happen we switch to a new diary. This switching make a very confusing film (of course, I've to be honest by confessing that I've fallen asleep a couple of time). This is a really big negative, because the movie itself is well made and a good conversion of an old story in the modern time. The movie is just too long for a low budget... But the last 10 minutes are great!

Maybe you will like it Pete, since you're a biggest vampire movie fan than me. Don't let my review discourage you  

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(From Jimmy's 2009 Horror Marathon on October 4th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl: Staffel 1 (1982/Germany) IMDb | Wikipedia (Germany) Length: 630 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 1 Subtitles:

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Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl
Season 1.01 Spuk in der Werkstatt
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Director:
Cast: Gustl Bayrhammer (Meister Eder), Hans Clarin (Pumuckl (voice))

A childhood favorite of mine. And a TV series which can be enjoyed by both kids and adults. Still 40 years later, it really holds up and is a joy to watch as an adult. Also something my son enjoys.
It is a show about a cobold, who is stuck to live with an old man (Eder) in his workshop. It is a mix between animation (Pumuckl) and live-action (everything else). And for a forty year old German TV show this mix holds up suprisingly well.
I like how Eder and Pumuckl are immediate friends. In my memory Pumuckl always annoyed Eder, but that isn't so. Eder is really happy to have Pumuckl as a companion. And Pumuckl really respects Eder and mostly listens to him.



(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on February 21st, 2022)