stuhh2001

I can't help it. English acting is my opium. It intoxicates me, it enslaves me. They do it better (acting) over there than anywhere else.

The cast is superb, starting with Jane Horrocks in the title role. Don't deny yourself the pleasure of seeing her, and Michael Caine, in the delightful "Little Voice".

I am most drawn to Mrs. Pritchard's chief aide, Catherine Walker, played by the astounding Janet Mcteer. This is a performance beyond mere acting. A woman who can seem mannish, frighteningly formidable, cruel, yet vulnerable, in desperate need of affection, and just when you think she would frighten most men, she goes to bed with a man old enough to be her son.

I reviewed Ms. Mcteer very favorably in the 2000, "Songcatcher", and forgot about it till I looked up her credits, in the wonderful IMDb. IMDb is surely one of the great venues of our time. I would like to thank Mr. IMDb, but this information doesn't seem to be available.

I've only seen the first three installments. No. 4 of 6 is on it's way, and I can't wait!!

Until I saw some of the user's negative comments, I thought I was a terrible person, cause I never liked this movie, and it seemed that everyone else did. Every time I mentioned it, people would go into raptures reserved for the culmination of a romantic interlude. (I think I cleaned THAT up, pretty well.) "The tango, how about the tango, they'ed shout at me." "You're nuts. Whaddya mean you didn't like Pacino?"

Well, folks, the first time I saw it I pushed "eject" after twenty minutes, and never regretted it. I thought it was an overacted, contrived production that for me didn't work.

A friend with secret ties to secret organizations threatened me recently with dire punishments if I failed to see the complete film.

I saw the whole overrated complete thing, AND I STILL DON'T LIKE IT.

The tango is not a real tango. This would be laughed off the stage in Argentina. However I thought that Pacino and the young lady did it well. I counted the length of the shots in the dance and the camera changed shots every six or seven seconds. This means that they did the dance in very short segments, or they did it complete, and it was edited in short clips. I don't know how it was shot, but if they did it in one take I applaud them.

If I heard correctly, Slade's blindness was due to juggling hand grenades. Well don't hand grenades that close tear your head off, or, at the very least, horribly disfigure one. Or maybe Col. Slade "ducked" just in time.

The best moments for me, were Bradley Whitford of "The West Wing" telling Slade what a bastard he was at the Thanksgiving dinner and, the then unknown Seymour Phillip Hoffman as the campus wise guy. Hoffman, as befits a great actor, got into the business, to meet a girl in his school drama club. From such mundane things does art rear it's ugly head.

A Pacino film that almost no one saw, "Panic In Needle Park", his first starring role, is highly recommended.

Patricia (Bosworth) I loved your "Montgomery Clift", and "Diane Arbus". You betrayed us by putting your name to this piece of unspeakable filth. Now I know why Diane's daughter Doon, wouldn't let you use any of Diane's pictures for your biog. Or refuse most art galleries the use of the photos for exhibition purposes. Why do do think Sinatra made a fist when he got within 20 feet of the jackals called journalists, or Brando regarded them as the lowest of the low.

June 24, 2007 will go down as the worst cinematic experience of my life. Other than that, I loved the film. Mr. IMDb has just told me I submitted a review without the required ten lines. I remember when IMDb started "user comments", there would be reviews that said, "I thought the movie was very good" AND WAS PRINTED HERE!