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pierppasolini · 7 months

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The Rainbow (1989) // dir. Ken Russell

#Sammi Davis #Paul McGann #The Rainbow #Ken Russell #my caps #my edits #*therainbow

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cinematicjourney · 29 days

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The Rainbow (1989) | dir. Ken Russell

#the rainbow #ken russell #sammi davis #amanda donohoe #paul mcgann #films #movies #cinematography #scenery #screencaps

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lobbycards · 3 months

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Four Rooms, Spanish Lobby Card. 1995

#Lobby Cards #submission #Four Rooms #Allison Anders #Madonna #Sammi Davis #Valeria Golino #Lili Taylor #Ione Skye #lobby card

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hairtusk · 8 months

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Paul McGann & Sammi Davis, D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rainbow', (dir. Ken Russell, 1989)

#foaming at the mouth waiting for my dvd to arrive so i can post proper gifsets / stills #soon.#the rainbow 1989 #ken russell #the rainbow #d.h. lawrence #paul mcgann #sammi davis

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shesnake · 2 years

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lesbians

#the lair of the white worm #ken russell #peter capaldi #sammi davis #film

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vsthepomegranate · 1 year

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The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

by Ken Russell

#1980s movies #Ken Russell #Bram Stoker #amanda donohoe #hugh grant #peter capaldi #vampire #horror #satire #folk horror #sammi davis #lady sylvia marsh

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itcanbefilmed · 5 months

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The Rainbow (Ken Russell, 1989)

#ken russell #the rainbow #women in love #david hemmings #glenda jackson #sammi davis

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imlovelace · 8 months

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i just finished watching the lair of the white worm and like WHAT WAS ALL OF THIS ABOUT?

#the lair of the white worm #hugh grant #peter capaldi #amanda donohoe #sammi davis #catherine oxenberg #ken russell #1988 #80s #80s horror #horror #horror movies #horror films #movies #film #movie blog #film blog

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cantsayidont · 17 days

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Hateration holleration, oddball selections:

MOTHERS' INSTINCT (2024): Peculiar drama-cum-thriller, set in 1960, starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway as suburban neighbors Alice and Celine, whose friendship is disrupted when Celine's young son Max (Baylen D. Bielitz) is killed in an accident. Afterward, Celine becomes unusually attached to Alice's son Theo (Eamon O'Connell), who was Max's best friend, which begins to make Alice very nervous. Does Celine mean Theo harm, or is Alice's guilt (she was watching Max at the time of his accident) making her paranoid? The way the plot plays out offers little tension and few surprises — it feels a little twist-deficient as a thriller, attempting to compensate with a surprisingly dark finale — and it doesn't offer a lot of motive for the eventual drastic escalations beyond "sometimes motherhood makes women crazy." Also, while one can see why Chastain and Hathaway were interested in these parts as actors, they both seem a little too old for their characters, and Anders Anielsen Lie and Josh Charles are both wasted as their respective husbands. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Early on, it seems like there's something between Alice and Celine, but the movie isn't interested in exploring or even acknowledging that. VERDICT: Grim and gloomy, but never very exciting, and it keeps flirting with the idea of making some kind of point about the sexual politics of its time that never gels.

THE POKER HOUSE (2008): Lori Petty made her directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical drama, scripted by David Alan Grier from Petty's story about an eventful and upsetting day in the life of a 14-year-old girl named Agnes (Jennifer Lawrence), growing up dirt poor in a rough, mostly Black neighborhood, where her mother Sarah (Selma Blair) turns tricks when her boyfriend/pimp Duval (Bokeem Woodbine) isn't running illegal poker games, leaving Agnes in loco parentis for her younger sisters (Chloë Grace Moretz and Sophi Bairley), who hang out at the local bar while Agnes is at school. The story takes some dark turns — it centers on Agnes being sexually assaulted by Duval — but because it's based on Petty's own life, it's never indulgently sordid, and, with the notable exception of Sarah, it has a lot of compassion for the people in Agnes' neighborhood, who are doing the best they can with almost nothing to work with. As a result, the film is heartfelt if not particularly polished. (Curiously, it was produced by prolific TV writer-producer Stephen J. Cannell, best known for detective and action shows including THE ROCKFORD FILES, THE A-TEAM, HUNTER, and SILK STALKINGS, with a score by TV perennial Mike Post.) CONTAINS LESBIANS? Nope. VERDICT: If you like Lori Petty and can handle the subject matter (CWs apply for sexual violence), it's worth a look.

THE RAINBOW (1989): Earnest but somewhat awkward Ken Russell dramatization of the last section of the 1915 D.H. Lawrence novel, set around the end of the 19th century, about a young woman from Derbyshire, Ursula Brangwen (Sammi Davis), who has affairs with both her swimming instructor Winifred (Amanda Donohue) and a young soldier named Anton (Paul McGann), while striving for financial, intellectual, and romantic freedom that her era doesn't offer or encourage, especially for women. It's sort of a prequel to Russell's 1969 adaptation of Lawrence's WOMEN IN LOVE, which follows Ursula and her sister Gudrun 20 years later. I have not read either novel, so I can't say how Russell's versions compare, but taken strictly on its own terms, THE RAINBOW feels like something director Stephanie Rothman might have made for Roger Corman in the '70s, with dollops of Second Wave feminist idealism in what often plays like an exploitation movie. The uneasiness of that mixture leaves no space to interrogate some troubling aspects of the plot, like Ursula's racist ideas about moving to India with Anton, or her violent outburst at a student in the school where she becomes a teacher. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Ursula is bisexual, and part of the plot deals with her relationship with Winifred. VERDICT: At the risk of undermining my literary bona fides, I thought it worked far better as an exploitation movie than a feminist drama.

#movies #hateration holleration #mothers' instinct #the poker house #the rainbow #anne hathaway #jessica chastain #lori petty #david alan grier #jennifer lawrence #chloe grace moretz #bokeem woodbine #stephn j cannell #ken russell #sammi davis #amanda donohue #d h lawrence #i have never read lawrence

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myoldsox · 26 days

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A Prayer for the Dying (1987) - IMDb

#a prayer for the dying #film #1987 #uk #mickey rourke #bob hoskins #alan bates #liam neeson #sammi davis #alison doody #camille coduri #Christopher fulford #anthony head #karl johnson

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theoscarsproject · 4 months

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Hope and Glory (1987). Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.

A really compelling exercise in memory and manages to marry the playfulness of childhood with the brutality of war and the London Blitz pretty seamlessly. I don't know if I loved it exactly, but it pulled me in and I think the sense of family survival both as a unit and as individuals with their own pre-and-post war identities was richly drawn. 8/10.