Uncle Scoopy's Fun House

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I've already written at length about this movie and its Swedish predecessor.

This latest film clip is nowhere near Blu-Ray quality, but is much sharper than the previous versions.

TV Round-Up

Here's Clementine Poidatz in episodes three and four of Les hommes de l'ombre in 1080p from DeepatSea.

* Yellow asterisk: funny (maybe).

* White asterisk: expanded format.

* Blue asterisk: not mine.

No asterisk: it probably sucks.

OTHER CRAP:

Catch the deluxe version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles, here.

Don't Look Now

(1973)

Julie Christie 1080p film clips

Hard Knocks

(1980)

Johnny's comments:

Back to the VHS vault.

Hard Knocks is a drama about a teenage girl Samantha (Tracy Mann) who has had her fair share of trouble. Out of juvie after performing an armed robbery with her mates, she's keen to start again going straight. Of course, that isn't going to be easy. Her old friends haven't moved on at all, in fact they've dug deeper into that hole, so she attempts to avoid them. She has also started modelling and meets a woman who tries to get her better modelling gigs, except it turns out the guy doing the hiring will get her gigs if she sleeps with him. All the while, it feels as though Samantha is going to find it hard to get out of her hole and this is amplified when the cops who arrested her begin to harrass her. Hard Knocks is a pretty simple film, you've seen it all before, but it's short film (barely 75 minutes) which definitely helps. This is a character study, so the plot gets the short shrift and so do most of the supporting characters. Tracy Mann does some good work here as the whole film rests on her and is pretty convincing both pre and post-juvie. The film is perfectly servicable but hardly groundbreaking or for that matter. riveting.

Again, as with all stuff taken from VHS, the quality is down, but this one is pretty poor I have to say. Doubt there will be a DVD release any time soon. Ah well...

Tracy Mann film clips

CLIPS

Jenna Fournier in The Sleeper (2012)

Olga Dykhovichnaya in Twilight Portrait (2011)

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen in season two of "Borgen"

Aglaia Szyszkowitz in Die Schatten die dich holen (2010)

Jenna Harrison in My Brother Tom (2001)

Pauline Lafont in L'ete en pente douce (1987) in 1440x772 res

Andrea Thompson in Nightmare Weekend (1986). It's in vhs quality, but this is a real rarity. It's the first time I've seen the entire scene in a film clip, and even the previous caps were not very strong.