Eoin Daly

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Favorite films

  • Mildred Pierce
  • Daisy Kenyon
  • Sudden Fear
  • The Women

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  • Mildred Pierce

    ★★★★★

  • Tuner

    ★★★

  • Disclosure Day

    ★★★½

  • A Woman's Face

    ★★★★

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Mildred Pierce
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Having just watched Mildred Pierce a month ago to celebrate Crawford's Oscar winning turn a revisit wasn't fully necessary but given my love for the Hollywood classic I was not upset to revisit the film.

Joan Crawford the actress and the character Mildred Pierce are rightfully one in the same in my mind as both character and actress succeeding through great effort and repeated trying. Even when problems presented to both women they pushed through only achieving success. Crawford truly…

The Women
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

While the second half of the 1930's proved a difficult period in her career as Crawford played a variety of good meaning working girls pursued by richer men audiences supposedly lost interest in the once big Crawford so taking a supporting part in this ensemble heavy comedy surely was a risk yet one which totally paid off. The risk too was Crawford playing the first unlikeable role of "the Other Woman" who audiences going in were meant to root against…

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A Woman's Face
★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Joan Crawford plays Anna Holm a female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman. Crawford starring in this American remake of the Ingrid Bergman earlier Swedish production is mesmorising. Crawford delivers such a fine dramatic performance balancing the regret feelings whilst reliving her past, the vengeance she takes during some tortorous experiences she has and ultimately Crawford brings life to this complex leading part.

Crawford spoke…

The Shining Hour
★★★½ Rewatched

Joan Crawford plays Olivia Riley a nightclub dancer who marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law. Crawford like fellow stars of the 1930's had the unfair association with being labelled box office poison when the work she was producing was still stellar. As is the case with this fun romantic drama where Crawford again plays into the working girl turned possible rich wife she honestly plays Olivia as a flawed woman who is tested by…

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Bugonia
★★ Watched

Ok this Emma Stone/Yorgos cinematic universe just continues to confound me and not in a good way. Their first collaboration The Favourite easily is strongest and each feature the two have made together just leaves me unimpressed.

Bugonia is a film whose praise confuses me as I was unmoved by it's environmental messaging contrasted with it's character explorations. The viewing experience was as torturous as the Stone's characters torture by her captures was throughout.

If unsure you could skip this and not feel as if you've missed some great masterwork.

Quo Vadis
★★½ Watched

Ustinov as Nero was just like an adult baby curiously discovering the world. It’s a campy performance that I find to be both terrible abd good at the sane time.