Tommy Lee Jones directs himself and a sensational cast in this western. I couldn't believe how wonderful it was, and went to imdb to see who directed it. The look and feel of this movie are perfect, and every moment rings true. It also looks great. Jones' eye is superb, and the shots are brilliant without calling attention to themselves. Terrific.
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A Christmas Carol
(1951)
The BEST Christmas Carol, hands down
1 June 2003
This is the best version of A Christmas Carol ever filmed. Alastair Sim is simply perfect, surprising, funny, unsentimental, and finally touching. (Skip the Gene Lockhart version, which is painful by comparison.) This is the real thing.
If you read Dickens' novella, then watch this movie, you'll think Dickens must have been the art director, camerman, and director of this film---it's sensationally true to the tone and humor of Dickens.
The only thing added is a kind of Oedipal back story to Scrooge, but it works. Perfect supporting performances by Kathleen Harrison as Scrooge's maid, and Michael Hodern as Marley. But it's Sim's movie, top to bottom. If this doesn't make you laugh when Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning, and then cry at the end, nothing will.
If you read Dickens' novella, then watch this movie, you'll think Dickens must have been the art director, camerman, and director of this film---it's sensationally true to the tone and humor of Dickens.
The only thing added is a kind of Oedipal back story to Scrooge, but it works. Perfect supporting performances by Kathleen Harrison as Scrooge's maid, and Michael Hodern as Marley. But it's Sim's movie, top to bottom. If this doesn't make you laugh when Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning, and then cry at the end, nothing will.
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