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Old Movies: The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Lines:
If Christopher Lee doesn't have all white hair, then yes, it's old. (I think he was starting to go grey from what I remember.)

Border Reiver:
So, then the copies I have of Hammer's The Mummy, Horror of Dracula, and Evil of Frankenstein where he had dark hair count as old then?

a pack of wolves:
Yes! It's pretty much my favourite film of all time and it did the same to me the first time I saw it. I think that panning shot of the water is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Everything in that film is perfect though, a single shot from it is worth more attention than most other films in their entirety. The discussions on art, that poem (I believe by Tarkovsky's father, who was a notable poet), the amazing scene in the meat grinder, the whole idea of throwing metal with cloth attached to determine the safe path, oh god that shot of the dog that's so amazingly done... I get excited just thinking about that film.

You should watch Mirror if you haven't already. It has a similar level of heartbreaking melancholy, depth and incredible attention to visual detail. And then there's his superb film of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, although it deviates from the book somewhat and leaves a few of the themes out (you pretty much have to, Lem's book brings in a ridiculous number of concepts) it's pretty faithful to the feel. Very, very good, although I hear Lem hated it.

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