More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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16 September
Maybe as Italian as Watney's¹, but Norman Jewison's Moonstruck² (1987) was a very agreeable - and, ultimately, moral - way to spend 103 minutes.— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 17, 2020
Cosmo : What's the matter, Pop ?
Dad³ : I'm... confused !
¹ So a student-guide once wrote of a restaurant.#OneLovelyThingToDay pic.twitter.com/c418HqKDVB
Neatly shot under David Watkin's direction, in NYC and Toronto, crisply edited by Lou Lombardo, and so tightly written by John Patrick Shanley that one would swear that it had been honed on a stage, Moonstruck has the grace of a tight ensemble work, dusted by Dick Hyman's score ! pic.twitter.com/iTGUKdmMZn— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 17, 2020
Sadly, does Shanley seem to have done anything nearly as impressive since ?— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) September 17, 2020
² Certainly not seen (in full) before to-night - which cannot be blamed on the moonlight (or the boogie).
³ For a film that centres on La bohème, a cute bit of casting here ? : https://t.co/prCndvmgmr pic.twitter.com/T3MJW0PcyI
Postlude :
If “Moonstruck” has a clear through line, it is about things that are wrong getting made right, a winding process that often involves committing some new wrongs along the way. https://t.co/yWLll4BZu4
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) December 9, 2021
And given that Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello) requires that Loretta go tell his brother (Nicolas Cage) and invite him to the marriage, this is a tragedy / comedy in the making - with Cage maybe as initially predispossessing as an urban Ethan Hawke to Sally Hawkins' Maudie... ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) December 9, 2021
What an astounding @E_N_O ‘s drive-in La Boheme proved to be. Technically towering achievement, making all that complexity work so magnificently in a car park, but artistically, from every point of view, a triumph. Funny, clever, moving. Manna from heaven for the opera-famished
— Donald Macleod (@DonaldMacleod01) September 19, 2020
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
