Talk about the moment of happiness!! Being able to watch perfectly restored "the original" and "the plural" two weeks in a row is what I am taking about. It must have been tough to choose the right director for "the sequel" but James Cameron was right there with his initial hike at that time, especially when his two year earlier title, "The Terminator", promised his future success. The storyline itself has shifted towards female side and the final round starts with the famous gong: "Get away from her, you bxxxx!" I can guarantee that you will be wide awake until the point 137 minutes later from the beginning!
From the line up of Film Forum's "SUMMER FESTIVAL OF FANTASY, HORROR & SCIENCE FICTION" in 2013. It was brought to us as a DCP version and the level of restoration was so high! I felt honored to be able to watch the work in "may be better than the original" condition. The length was almost two hours but I cannot think of that many other "long" movies, which make me forget the sense of time. The high tense of the last half of story lasts until the very end. Sigourney Weaver was at 30 years old when this was released and that was the best timing to shoot this role "Ripley", a young, beautiful, intelligent and yet athletic lady. That also reminds me that the next timing I was impressed by her beauty in 1995 released "Copycat", which is 16 years later from this one! It looks like this was director Ridley Scott's first commercial big success title. By skimming through his list of works, I feel so powerless. There are still too many titles I have to conquer with!
A masterpiece at MoMA theatre I stumbled into during a weekend.It was actually intended as a birthday celebration for the film director of this title, Elia Kazan. This rare last name forced me to do several clicks and.... voila! My hunch was right. It was connected to two generations later talent, Zoe Kazan, who was familiar in "Meek's Cutoff" and a theatrical work, "A Behanding in Spokane" with Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, and Anthony Mackie. In other words, she is one of rare Hollywood stars I have seen in live format. Having said those all kind of trivia, I totally understood why this has been called as one of three James Dean's greatest movies. He was too perfect to play such a boy with very naive and sad feelings. To fully understand the reason of title, I guess I have to be a bit more familiar with the bible...