The Company You Keep (2012)
CRUMBLIES… So – it was old Jack and the women again. Off to the TV room we trundled, Melancholy Meg and Leery Liz up by the television, me further … Continue Reading The Company You Keep (2012)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
CRUMBLIES… Wow. Here’s a film to chill my generation to the bone. Old Jack is lucky, of course, I got to be with Mrs Jack until she left the … Continue Reading Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Harold and Maude (1971)
CRUMBLIES… “Ok!” I shouted across the breakfast room, “Who’s up for a touch of the comedy of the absurd and a love affair between an octogenarian and a rich boy?” … Continue Reading Harold and Maude (1971)
I’ll See You In My Dreams (2015)
CRUMBLIES… We all gathered for this one. The TV room was packed with women watching a film led by women, men still getting the ladies of their generation, combined oldsters … Continue Reading I’ll See You In My Dreams (2015)
In the Courtyard / Dans La Cour (2014)
CRUMBLIES… Catherine Deneuve. Nuff said, old Jack is in. Oh, the trouble I got into with Mrs Jack for popping to le cinéma français back in the day. Well, Mrs … Continue Reading In the Courtyard / Dans La Cour (2014)
Youth in Oregon (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Old Jack can be a bit slow sometimes. I popped this on the box expecting a story of family fun, Frank Langella as comedy grandpa, Christina Applegate as gorgeous, … Continue Reading Youth in Oregon (2016)
Enoch Arden (1911)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNvb9X9QafA CRUMBLIES… Okay, so I hit upon this ancient short while scrolling through one of those out-of-copyright film apps on the home’s AppleTV. Classix or Classic Films or somesuch. There … Continue Reading Enoch Arden (1911)
Broken Flowers (2005)
CRUMBLIES… Tipsy Tina was being dried out one idle weekend in the home. Well, I assume she was, because an all-new clarity of thought was bubbling out of her with … Continue Reading Broken Flowers (2005)
Family Business (1989)
CRUMBLIES… Now this is more like it! A story of three glorious generations of a criminal – or about to be criminal – family with Sean Connery as the devilishly … Continue Reading Family Business (1989)
Three Evenings / Yerek Yereko (2010)
CRUMBLIES… Young Steve found a middle-aged nightmare on Amazon Video. And it is shuddersome. Women – imagine your significant other has turned into a drunk, gotten in with another woman … Continue Reading Three Evenings / Yerek Yereko (2010)
Space Cowboys (2000)
CRUMBLIES… Here are two entirely different films stapled together by Clint Eastwood to thrill gentlemen of slow minds and great age. Space Cowboys begins in the blue-tinted past with weirdly … Continue Reading Space Cowboys (2000)
Out to Sea (1997)
CRUMBLIES… Park your brains, oldsters, this is a film of charm, creaking style and lame jokes. And it knows it, and sambas its way though them with a wink … Continue Reading Out to Sea (1997)
The Straight Story (1999)
CRUMBLIES… Now here’s a film with a simple, beautiful premise. An old, ill man determines to see his estranged brother before they die. His eyes are bad, so he can’t … Continue Reading The Straight Story (1999)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
CRUMBLIES… Time is cruel. Implacable. A great, slow, heartless beast that destroys us all. Picture it as an eclipse, shutting out our own, small suns, with the implacabilitiy of a … Continue Reading No Country for Old Men (2007)
Irreplaceable / Médecin de Campagne (2016)
CRUMBLIES… Ahhhh, more calming work from François Cluzet (here as Doctor Werner) and the goodly folk of rural France. Entirely different to the School of Life (made a year later), … Continue Reading Irreplaceable / Médecin de Campagne (2016)
Ikiru (1952)
CRUMBLIES… Oh, but this is good. You want a story of a life regretted and a scrabble for salvation, perhaps self-redemption, then you gotta go Akira Kurosawa. The man who … Continue Reading Ikiru (1952)
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