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30 January 2011

CHURCHILL - THE HOLLYWOOD YEARS: no one's finest hour

Witless crap.
Even within the context of the absurd and unfunny premise this story fails to hang together.
If cinema should last for a thousand years men will still say "This was a massive embarrassment to everyone involved."

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No film exists in a vacuum. Almost everything we watch at the cinema or on dvd is the result, however tangentaliy, of the films that have come before it. In the 1930s the big studios regularly cannibalised their own output in order to create enough product to satisfy the millions who went to the cinema every week. If a particular story clicked with the public it got recycled. If if it didn't click it still got re-used albeit with a more drastic rewrite.
By and large Hollywood today is still doing the same kind of thing. The big difference is that today's film-makers have almost a century's worth of movies to draw on for inspiration.
A lifetime of watching all kinds of films, but with a particular fondness for those produced in the 30s and 40s, has given me an enormous collection of reference points to draw on and inform the reviews which appear on The Film I've Just Seen.

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30 January 2011

CHURCHILL - THE HOLLYWOOD YEARS: no one's finest hour

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