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Alan Arkin recommended The Horse's Mouth (1958) in Movies (curated)

 
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
1958 | Classics, Comedy
3.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"My favorite Alec Guinness performance, and the best portrait of an artist that I’ve ever seen. Filled with humor, madness, and obsession, with a wonderful script by Guinness."

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The Horse's Mouth (1958)
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
1958 | Classics, Comedy
3.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Alec Guinness at his peak, as a mad, misanthropic artist living on a houseboat. Very funny satire on the “art” industry."

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Frank Kozik recommended Oliver Twist (1948) in Movies (curated)

 
Oliver Twist (1948)
Oliver Twist (1948)
1948 |
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"This contains some of the most luminescent black-and-white cinematography ever seen. Fagin, as portrayed by Alec Guinness, will have you squirming with repulsion, yet unable to take your eyes off his balding pate."

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Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated The Ladykillers (1955) in Movies

Oct 29, 2021 (Updated Nov 2, 2021)  
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
1955 | Comedy, Film-Noir, Thriller
A classic Ealing comedy with a superb cast that has always been a favourite of mine since I was a child and it's the film that first introduced me to Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness.
  
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
1949 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Alec Guinness’s stunning versatility, playing a whole cast’s worth of characters, combined with his comic genius makes this a movie that should be enshrined. Funny how Guinness gets credit in many people’s faulty memories for Dennis Price’s high style performance. Can there be people who’ve never seen this treasure? Even once? How sad."

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Otway93 (567 KP) rated The Little Drummer Girl in TV

Oct 25, 2019 (Updated Oct 25, 2019)  
The Little Drummer Girl
The Little Drummer Girl
2018 | Thriller
Cast (1 more)
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Ok, but not the most thrilling.
As a huge fan of John le Carré, and have enjoyed many other film/TV adaptations of his work, I couldn't wait for this one!

Unfortunately, on screen it felt particularly dull. Series like The Night Manager, and even the early TV adaptations featuring Sir Alec Guinness, this series failed to capture the mix of excitement and suspense the book provides.
  
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
1949 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"A perfect black comedy with one of the most underappreciated central performances in film history, by Dennis Price (and a handful of genius ones by Alec Guinness). Truly funny and as dark as sin, this is a film that still feels ahead of its time. The attached “American” ending helps remind us just how annoyingly safe and predictable American tastes can be—did we really need to be reminded?#"

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) in Movies

Mar 4, 2018 (Updated Mar 4, 2018)  
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
1949 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Justly acclaimed black comedy is a somewhat atypical film from Ealing Studios, better known for their affectionate depictions of post-war British life. Calculating man-on-the-make Dennis Price sets out to get on in the world by murdering the eight members of the D'Ascoyne family who stand between him and inheriting the dukedom of Chalfont.

Best known for the fact that Alec Guinness plays all the D'Ascoynes, but Dennis Price is just as good as the homicidal would-be aristocrat. The broad comedy of some of Guinness' performances, plus the staging of several of the murders, is underpinned by some much subtler and more understated humour about class and morality. One of those films you can watch several times and still find new layers to enjoy; very funny, too, though that should go without saying.
  
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
1951 | International, Classics, Comedy
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"Alex Guinness, to me is — forget De Niro, forget Pacino — he’s the man. Alec Guinness is such a quintessential English actor, but he’s also a brilliant actor. He’s just the best. And The Man in the White Suit is just such a beautiful, charming movie. It’s about a man who invents a suit that you don’t have to wash. It’s a whole movie about it! It’s something that some of the more flamboyant directors should think about remaking. [Laughs] It’s about this guy who invents this material that keeps white all the time. It’s directed by Alexander Mackendrick, a fellow Scot, and the opening title sequence is amazing. Mackendrick is a brilliant director. I just enjoy his work; I enjoy the pace of his work. I think he’s really overlooked. He did The Ladykillers and Whisky Galore, and The Sweet Smell of Success. A lot of really cool movies. Alec Guinness, to me — forget Star Wars and all that — he’s just the best. And to work with someone like Alexander Mackendrick, who really understood what a story meant…it’s funny, because on IMDB the movie is listed as sci-fi. It’s not sci-fi, that’s ridiculous! It’s actually a very nice tale, about inventing the thing that nobody wants. Like a car that doesn’t need petrol. The thing that people don’t want because of the money [the auto industry] could make off of you. If you say hey great, I’ve invented this car that doesn’t need petrol, and then there’s a silence, and then there’s a gunshot, and you’re dead. It’s that kind of thing."

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1957 | Classics, Drama, War

"Today, I’m gonna have to go with The Bridge On the River Kwai. You see that movie on the big screen and Alec Guinness is so proud of his bridge, then he drops this little stick he carries with him the whole time into the water and you start… I think for a guy my age, you start to realize there’s something very profound about the movie, about how we all get so self-important about what our lives are. But really all any of us are doing is building sand castles. There’s something much bigger at work in the universe than anything any one of us can do alone."

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