Macbeth (2021)

aka The Tragedy of Macbeth, 1st film directed solo by Joel Coen of the Coen bros. fame. An Apple+ Original film.

Got to say I was hugely dissapointed by it. Found it boring and yes black and white, but that just makes it closer to Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948)...Still think Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood was the best of 'em...Polanski was in color, Jed Kurzel's was shite (fell even asleep in Cannes at the Lumiere screening,-----in 2015)

3 Oscars noms, for the beautiful cinematography by Bruno Delbonel, production design & Denzel (c'mon)

Soylent Green (1973/2022)

  The year is 2022 !!! Another bleak Sf that comes to date after Blade Runner's 2019 (November:)

RIP Sidney Poitier

Who's Coming to Dinner? 

In the Heat of The Night, They Call Me Mr.Tibbs, (& The Organisation, all asVirgil Tibbs)

To Sir With Love...

The Defiant Ones

director: 9 films including the classic comedies Stir Crazy (1980) and Hanky Panky (1982)

-Sidney Poitier, The 1st black actor to get an Oscar (Lilies in  the Field,1963) and one of the msot influential activitsts for Civil freedom rights, later on UN ambassador, died at 94. RIP...

as a trivia fact Peter Bogdanovich directed him in To Sir With Love II  in 1996.They died in the same day, January 6th 2022....

RIP Peter Bogdanovich

He was one of my heroes, form very early when I first read about him. His life was more than a movie, more than the films he directed. He was a part of the Hollywood Elite, more than an insider, a cinephile and most of all, a survivor of that jungle. Targets, The last Picture Show,What's Up Doc, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon, Saint Jack, They all Laughed, Noises Off, The Cat`s Meow, the documentaries about his heroes whom he met and befriended. John Ford, Howard Hawks, Orson Welles. He was part of Welles unifinished mythical The Other Side of the Wind (that you can seee now on Netflix). He was an occasional actor too, the psychiatrist in The Sopranos. Peter Bogdanovich died on January 6th 2022. He was 82.

“There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't” -Peter Bogdanovich