Films That Stayed In My Mind Since I First Saw Them
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- DirectorMartin DonovanStarsHart BochnerColin FirthDora BryanIn early 1980s Buenos Aires, a struggling movie theater owner takes in a roommate but suspects he is responsible for a series of political assassinations.It keeps coming back to my mind. People, other films and even bits of conversation will take me back to this 1989 film with one of the greatest performances ever by Colin Firth
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsKim StanleyRichard AttenboroughMargaret LaceyA medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.Kim Stanley's performance becomes visible to me when I see a woman walking some kind of personal edge.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsRoman PolanskiIsabelle AdjaniMelvyn DouglasA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.Entering certain apartment buildings, flashes of Shelley Winters as "the concierge" come to me as a warning of sorts.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonRobert NewtonCyril CusackA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.Children in the streets at night, bring me images of this wonderful film. "Give us a penny"
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsMeryl StreepSam NeillAndré MaranneA young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.Every bi-polar person I know reminds me of Meryl Streep in this film and has helped me to be more understanding and compassionated