{"id":36268,"date":"2016-09-21T20:20:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T03:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=36268"},"modified":"2016-09-21T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T03:43:35","slug":"challenge-week-34-the-long-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/challenge-week-34-the-long-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Week 34: The Long Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of the few films I hadn’t heard of at all going into this challenge, even more surprising as it’s an older film, and a noir to boot! The trick is it’s British noir, and I’m not as familiar with that as I should be, so thank you for pointing me in this direction, Grant.<\/p>\n

A rather complicated plot setup lands bright young Phillip Davidson in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, and when he gets out twelve years later, he’s no longer bright and young, but bitter and seeking revenge. A lot of the film is quieter than you’d expect, with Phillip spending time alone on a beached boat in a remote part of England and forming a tentative relationship with an abused barmaid in between trying to find the men responsible for his unjust imprisonment.<\/p>\n

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It’s probably too complicated for its own good (no joke, I was distracted when I first started watching it, got about 45 minutes in and had to restart completely because I had no idea what was going on – I paid closer attention the second time!), with a lot of characters and plots and subplots, but as long as I gave it its proper due, it was quite enjoyable and had a lot of quite good cinematography to help along the noir feeling, despite the British accents and generally bright and often rural settings.<\/p>\n

Stats and stuff…<\/h3>\n

1953, UK<\/em>
\ndirected by Robert Hamer, written by Robert Hamer and Frank Harvey<\/em>
\nstarring John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh, John Chandos, John Slater<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m ranking all my Challenge films on Flickchart (as I do all the films I see), a movie-ranking website that asks you to choose your favorite between two movies until it builds a ranked list of your favorites. Just for fun, I will average out the rankings and keep a running tally of whose recommendations rank the highest. When you add a film to Flickchart, it pits it against films already on your chart to see where it should fall. Here’s how The Long Memory<\/em> entered my chart:<\/p>\n

The Long Memory<\/b> > I Was a Male War Bride
\nThe Long Memory<\/b> > La Dolce Vita
\nThe Long Memory < Anna Karenina<\/b> (2012)
\nThe Long Memory < Les Miserables<\/b> (2012)
\nThe Long Memory<\/b> > Transamerica
\nThe Long Memory < Looper<\/b>
\nThe Long Memory<\/b> > Once Upon a Time in Mexico
\nThe Long Memory < Little Rural Riding Hood<\/b>
\nThe Long Memory < Shaun the Sheep Movie<\/b>
\nThe Long Memory < The Sting<\/b>
\nThe Long Memory < Thirst<\/b>
\nThe Long Memory < Vagabond<\/b><\/p>\n

Final #780 out of 3699 films on my chart (79%)<\/p>\n

It is now my #1 Robert Hamer film (but Kind Hearts and Coronets<\/em> is too low), my #2 John Mills film, my #3 British Noir, and my #14 film of 1953.<\/p>\n

The Long Memory<\/em> was recommended by Grant Watson, a friend from the Twitter.<\/p>\n

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