A Night to Remember

in my humble opinion a night to remember is a better film than titanic. it's more realistic (okay, not so much the effects but the story), it's shorter and it just plays very well almost 60 years later. the effects are stellar for it's time, the acting for the most part is superb, the cinematography is great, the use of music (or the use of silence) is very effective and the build up and eventual sinking of the ship is exhilarating. there is no cheesy love story and made up characters here. no, this is a fictionalized documentary of the ill fated voyage of the titanic and i tell you it is read more

7 la ultima noche del titanic. muchas escenas fueron copiadas en la película de james cameron. read more

My classic movie for this week is another movie account of the ill fated Titanic without the Jack and Rose romance. This film probably gave a better look into the passengers and their fates. I do remember thinking that the ship sunk a lot slower than the 1997 version, making it was something to make the later version more thrilling. I did like the later version but its good to get a different perspective. read more

Even though the significance of any particular Criterion DVD's spine number varies from appropriately symbolic (think of #1, Jean Renoir's majestic Grand Illusion or last year's ceremonial selection of the Rossellini War Trilogy box as #500) to mostly random and meaningless (just about all the other films in the collection), there's something about being in the Top Ten of any sequentially numbered group of objects that lends a measure of gravitas. Each of the films, except for the one at hand here, seems to have had a larger-than-usual degree of attention paid to it by the Criterion fan base.... read more