Reviews

[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out]

10 Rillington Place isn't a perfect film - in my opinion - but it's a competent look at one of Britain's most chilling serial killers (I'd recommend reading up about John Christie himself if you don't know much of the background) with some good performances by both Attenborough and Hurt (and also Ge...

Lowe's character was perhaps the highlight of the film - a menacing, devious, and malicious character who is a reasonably decent film villain.

After watching this, and I didn't know a great deal about Joan of Arc prior to watching the film, I was persuaded to research into her life more thoroughly, and she certainly seems to be a divisive historical character.

In the original script, Han Solo was supposed to say, "Just remember that, Leia, because I'll be back," but at the time of filming, Harrison Ford wasn't entirely certain he did want to come back for a third film.

The length of the film actually diluted the quality of the film, for me - I suppose you could argue that it's an epic but it didn't even have that power for me as it's a fairly ordinary story that doesn't require such a running time.

However, I think that's part of the film's appeal in some ways.

The book never indicates that the character was a priest, but it was added to the film since the filming was right in the middle of the priest scandal in the Boston Archdiocese.

Overall, this is a fantastic film, one of the best ever, almost certainly the best western ever, and a film that covers the gamut of emotion and feeling, from sadness and pain to wit, and from that to violence and evil.

This is a challenging film, I don't doubt that, and it was made perhaps even more challenging for me as it's the first Japanese film I've watched, and probably one of the first foreign films I've seen given that the majority of my viewing over my lifetime has been mostly British and US film.