Saturday, May 30, 2009

Movie watched: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

Connection to The Sting: 1. Paul Newman, 2. Robert Redford, 3. George
Roy Hill (director)

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Movie watched: The Sting

Connection to Night Sun: Ernest Hemingway. Paul Newman was in Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man and Julian Sands was in The Sun Also Rises (1984).

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Movie watched: Night Sun (Il Sole Anche di Notte)

Connection to War & Peace: both films were based on works by Tolstoy.

Gina wondered how this got on our Ziplist. I'll fess up - I zipped everything available with Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Movie watched: War & Peace

Connection to Charade: Audrey Hepburn stars in both films.

Gina had a few words to say about this one.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Movie watched: Charade

Connection to Marie Antoinette: Both films have Paris has locations. This also has a connection to Duplicity, which we just saw in the cinema (which doesn't require a connection) - both films are RomCom-Thrillers.

**Note: Charade is one of the best films ever: fantastic script, great acting & direction, I could go on and on.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Movie watched: Marie Antoinette

Connection to Elizabeth the Golden Age: both films have royalty as themes/characters.

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Movie watched: Elizabeth The Golden Age

Connection to Map of the Human Heart: The Northwest Passage - in MOTHH, Patrick Bergin's character was mapping in the Arctic. Elizabeth I sent Frobisher to find the Northwest Passage.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Movie watched

Two Lovers (i.e. Joaquin Closet's last movie). Free Preview in the Cinema, no connection required. This was actually fairly good and not at all what I was expecting. It had one particular flaw that could have been easily corrected by the removal of one scene. Since it's a spoiler, I won't tell you which one.

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Movie watched: Map of the Human Heart

Connection to Tsotsi: Both films were co-productions, both made by white guys about characters that aren't white.

Map of the Human Heart was really not that good. I can't remember how it ended up on our Zip list but it really proves that Zip needs to add the functionality to include a brief note as to why you Zip a movie. They often come so long afterwards you can't possibly recall what made you want to see them. I'm going to pester Zip to add this.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Movie watched: Tsotsi

Connection to Conspiracy: Tsotsi rhymes with Nazi, the subject of Conspiracy (I know, I know).