The last 3 films I watched all the way through were:
My Cousin Rachel (1952) OIivia deHavilland, Richard Burton, John Sutton, Audrey Dalton. Daphne Du Maurier's Gothic novel of a young man and his cousin by marriage, Rachel. The film perfectly mimics the novels ambiguity and at the end you still can't tell for sure if this 'cousin' is angel or devil. As Philip Ashley moans at the end...."Rachel, my torment..... ". Beautiful black and white cinematography, costumes, and a great Franz Waxman music score. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044937/
Death On The Nile (1978) Based on an Agatha Christie novel of a rich heiress, who steals her best friends fiancee, marries him, and then is followed and harassed by the former friend on their honeymoon. It culminates on a steamer going up the Nile River to visit the temples of Karnac. A very large cast of A-list actors, in 1920's styles and sets, has fun with this mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot and David Niven as his friend, Col. Johnny Race try to figure out who has murdered the heiress, Linnet Doyle. Frankly, all the talk by Ustinov, in his accent, made me doze off. Rewound and tried again, but I went to sleep again. I do love the music theme by Nino Rota. Lovely. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077413/
A Little Trip To Heaven (2005) Julia Stiles, Forrest Whitaker, Peter Coyote, Jeremy Renner, Philip Jackson. Shot in Iceland, financed in part by Icelandic Film Fund, Nordic Film and TV-Fund etc., and using almost all crew members from Iceland. The story is of a couple and the woman's brother who are involved with insurance scams. Whitaker is a company investigator sent to the town where the woman who is the beneficiary of a million dollar policy lives to see if he can discover anything fishy so they can refuse to pay off. Interesting story. The two loser guys she has to put up with are worthless, but for some reason she seems sympathetic so Whitaker wants to help her and her little boy. You feel cold watching these landscapes and night scenes. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420740/
Yesterday it rained all day, and the beautiful Autumn Sunset maple in the backyard last all its' leaves. The walnut trees still are golden. And we have another variety of maple in the front yard that is just starting to turn colors, so it will still be pretty for a while. But Halloween is fast approaching and chill and creepy and things that go bump in the night will soon be here........
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