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The Moonstone (2016)
Very enjoyable
I felt when I was watching this that it really seemed of the time. I have looked at some of these productions set in the past and they've got too modern a feel.
The players seem to more of today than the time it's supposed to be. I didn't find that with this one. Did Wilkie mean for the Betteridges to be of African descent and the maid to be Irish or is that an attempt to make it more inclusive? I'm Irish but I don't remember the maid being Irish. She was very good in the part. All the cast were excellent.
Bates Motel (2013)
Modern day setting
I'm only just starting to watch it and it looks good. I think it would have made more sense to set it in an earlier time as the original was set in the 50s but I suppose it'll work out.
Dickensian (2015)
So Original
I have just gotten around to watching Dickensian and it's brilliant. The acting, the sets and the whole idea is so original. I don't want it to finish. Any concerns I have are small. I've noticed or think I have anyway that there are light bulbs in some of the oil-lamps and there's no effort to hide them. I'm surprised at the BBC as they are excellent. Is there a reason that Little Nell is mixed race and the artful dodger too. Dickens never said what they were but I think it's always been that that they were typical kids from London? Addictive viewing.,
Dickensian (2015)
So Original
I have just gotten around to watching Dickensian and it's brilliant. The acting, the sets and the whole idea is so original. I don't want it to finish. Any concerns I have are small. I've noticed or think I have anyway that there are light bulbs in some of the oil-lamps and there's no effort to hide them. I'm surprised at the BBC as they are excellent. Is there a reason that Little Nell is mixed race and the artful dodger too. Dickens never said what they were but I think it's always been that that they were typical kids from London? Addictive viewing.,
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Loads of feeling
This film did have lots of feeling in it and the slow background music at the end is haunting. I know people at that time did wear all sorts of hats but they also wore cowboy hats and slouch hats and different hats on Sundays when they put on their Sunday clothes. I know this is an attempt by the director to be more authentic but I've seen this with Sherlock Holmes. Modern made movies have him smoking cigarettes instead of his pipe. Yes, he smoked cigarettes too but he did smoke his pipe a lot.
Don' t know if it's true that Jesse let himself get shot, maybe he did. That's the impression here anyway. I can't imagine why he would want to start dusting on the same morning he's heading off to rob a bank. Maybe there's something in it.
Jesse married his childhood sweetheart Zee but it would have been nice to know what she had to say or how much she knew. They were very close. A good film.
Was there really somebody called Ella May in Bob's life?
The Little Stranger (2018)
Atmospheric
Very atmospheric and styles music all looked authentic. Who was the little stranger and who pushed Caroline over the banisters?
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Locations
Where was the little house that we saw Yuri and Lara walking to after they'd met in the library, filmed. Also the inside of the house was that a studio and where is it.
A Month in the Country (1987)
Lovely Film
I saw this in 1987 when it came out in a cinema in Dublin. I loved it, the time, the place everything. I don't know if it's me but I wonder if it was made now would it still feel the same. I sometimes look at new period pieces and the actors look too modern or modern views are being given. It's as if they are acting for a modern day audience. I did not feel that this film was like that. It was authentic. Were the inside shots really inside the church in Radnage and where was the house where Rev Keach and his wife were living? Was it a real house, it looked like it. When I saw this film in 1987 I was with a good friend of mine. He died a few years later in an accident and some more years later Natasha Richardson died following an accident. I will look at this film again and think of them both.
The New Adventures of Black Beauty (1992)
The New adventures of Black Beauty Season 2
It was good to see Black Beauty running around again. The new adventures season 1 with some of the old cast was very good but the second season was even better. There was a great feeling of mystery in it.
The New Adventures of Black Beauty (1990)
The New Adventures of Black Beauty 1990
It was nice to see the old farm again and Dr Gordon and Jenny. I like the way they now have a Vicky again as that was the original girl's name played by Judi Bowker and then followed by Jenny played by Stacy Dorning. The settings, clothes etc are all excellent. I felt though it was catering to a modern audience. A feeling of it being set in another era with today's views.
The Other Side of the Lake (2016)
A moving ghost story
The other side of the lake is one of those tug at the heart ghost stories that reels us in to it's other world. It was directed by Rosita Clarke ( for which she was awarded best director in the Ladies first film festival in Cork 2017), and based on the short story, Lost Love by Jim Burke. It was filmed in the beautiful countryside of Dorset in England and along the Dorset coast. It tells the story of two former lovers from the 1790's who's souls are lost in the spirit world having been separated by untimely deaths and how a boy from modern times is called on to help them meet and hold each other again.
Rosita Clarke has done an excellent job in bringing this moving tale to the screen despite limited resources. She shows us what it looks like in the ghostly world of Jim Burke's tale of lost love.
To Walk Invisible (2016)
The Bronte sisters and brother and Irish father.
Really excellently put together and not like any way we've seen the Brontes before. Sets and locations spot on right even down to the regency couch that Emily is supposed to have died on. I wondered about the sexless names. Did the sisters feel that what they wrote about for example Wuthering Heights, was thought too violent and nasty to have been written by a woman? Anyway it seems to have been handled tastefully by the writer and not overdone on any score to please a more modern audience. It must have been nice for them to reveal themselves but at the same time such a big deal for them being such private people. I noticed it didn't go into the other deaths. I was wondering was Emily going to die on the sofa. All the actresses playing the sisters were great. Charlie Murphy (Anne) did the accent well given that she's not British but Irish in real life.