Four-star movie: Of Mice and Men

[carbonel]

Of Mice and Men
Director: Lewis Milestone
1939

Now this is a sad, sad movie, and for once I'm not going to pick holes in the plot. I gather it's a close adaptation of the original Steinbeck story. I knew the basic plot already, and hadn't really been looking forward to watching it. It drew me in and had me hoping for a better ending despite that.

Synopsis and more information here.

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And that catches me up with my current four-star watching. There will be more over the summer, because there's less network TV to keep up with. Next up are Nights of Cabiria and A Night at the Opera, which will finish off all the movies on the list starting with the letter N. There are a surprising number of O movies after that.

Comments

Nights of Cabiria

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Nights of Cabiria is wonderful if you can transport yourself back to 1957 or at least put on a pair of old-time glasses.

Re: Nights of Cabiria

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I've had to do that with a lot of the 4-star movies throughout this project. This will be my third or fourth Fellini movie, and from the reviews, it appears to be the most coherent one I'll have seen.

Re: Nights of Cabiria

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Director (25 credits)
1993 The King of Ads (Documentary) (segments "Campari commercial", "Barilla commercial")
1990 The Voice of the Moon

1987 Intervista

1986 Ginger and Fred

X 1983 And the Ship Sails On

X 1980 City of Women

1978 Orchestra Rehearsal

1976 Fellini's Casanova

X 1973 Amarcord

X 1972 Roma

1970 The Clowns (TV Movie documentary)

X 1969 Fellini Satyricon

1969 NBC Experiment in Television (TV Series) (1 episode) - Fellini: A Director's Notebook (1969)

1968 Spirits of the Dead (segment "Toby Dammit")

X 1965 Juliet of the Spirits

X 1963 8½

1962 Boccaccio '70 (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")

X 1960 La Dolce Vita

X 1957 The Nights of Cabiria

1955 Il Bidone

X 1954 La Strada

1953 Love in the City (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")

X 1953 I Vitelloni

X 1952 The White Sheik

1950 Variety Lights