I agree— THE FRENCH LIEUTENANTS WOMAN is a surprisingly overlooked film.  Harold Pinter did a number of good adaptations of tricky material  (THE GO BETWEEN, TURTLE DIARY)

Maybe its posted further on down the chain, but L.A CONFIDENTIAL is the one film I regretted not seeing on the inventory.  It did a really good job of condensing a good plot from a labyrinthian story while finding a consistent tone and theme of its own

As a corollary to the Anachronist— The subplot involving the girl with the gargantuan vagina = Hooper and Mrs. Brody.

Thanks for the considerate and detailed response.  I should revisit this, as I've enjoyed practically everything else I've encountered by Dahl.  It just came to mind because I recently re-watched the James Bond opus YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE that Dahl wrote.  His whimsy is all over the story, and it marked a change of tone…

My first big literary disappointment was CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR, although I do recall a funny moment when the President of the U.S. swears on T.V. and all of the kids in America follow suit.  I don't remember what I didn't like about it overall, just that the lightning didn't strike twice.

Gotta say that I share Fontana's frustration over the demise of the miniseries.  Just think how fun BOARDWALK EMPIRE (to cite one example) would be without all of the padding out to make it 12 episodes.

In light of this article, Tasha should revisit her review of J. EDGAR, a noteworthy though imperfect film, that presented the present by way of the past in complex and ambiguous ways.

to Craig:  Keep in mind that its a reconstruction, not a director's cut, and I think you'll like it.  The North Africa episode is still choppy, but the rest of the movie deepens in its outlook on how the means of surviving war deadens ones sensibilities to the suffering of others.

And its kind of odd that this, and 7 WOMEN didn't make the Warner's Ford box set that came out after the Ford/ Wayne one about 4 or 5 years ago.

I guess that THE RING movies kind of work on this premise, although they only focus on one person's possession of the haunted video at a time.  Classy list overall.

About a year and a half ago Some friends of mine came over and we watched the 1976 cut of KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE.  After laughing and being jaw- droppingly astonished at its audacity (and moments of extreme awkwardness) we all felt that we just witnessed a lost masterpiece of 70s cinema.

With CARLOS & MILDRED PIERCE the format might be making a strong comeback.    Certain T.V. series might not be better, just different, with a certain amount of compression, but they might still be good and be a bit more accessible

The fact that THE PROWLER and M are unavailable in the U.S. is a national disgrace.

TRACK OF THE CAT, based on Van Tillman Clark's other novel, is also very good.

WILD BOYS, and the other Great Depression opus, HEROES FOR SALE, Really revitalize the social problem genre with their pulpy energy—Kind of anticipating Sam Fuller by a couple of decades.

TWE is my favorite movie depicting a war that was not framed by events pertaining to my lifetime.  Really heartbreaking in its depiction of stoicism and sacrifice, and genuinely poetic in its execution.  I think Ford got a bad rap during the "New Hollywood" era as he represented the establishment, in terms of…

Wagon Master was directed by John Ford

I wouldn't describe her character as passive, as she does initiate the drama by defying her father and at times tries to extricate herself from captivity.  Its that all a avenues of resiitance lead to an even worse bad place, and passivity becomes the only means of survival.  Frankly, this premise felt too self…

I concur.  It's fantastic in spite of itself.  It's lighting and art design is also inspired by the contemporary fantasy art aesthetics of the period, which wasn't always the case in the genre at the time.

I'd assumed that it was incidents like these that led to the curtailment of his career.