is character seemed to me to be not only her father figure, and psychotic, and cruel, and a terrifying contemptuous finger-breaker, but ferociously and utterly gay

Hahaha. I must locate a copy of the film to see if I see this now.

I was expecting some grand tragedy of the ending where Mason's character would get what's coming to him but it would be operatically fucked-up in a way I'd find interesting, then the happy-ending made me go, "... the hell?" Still, I love the film for the melodrama, headgames and WTFery. And James Mason, damn his eyes.

He walked the line between a tragic woobie and the creepy sociopath really well. He made a couple of very fine Carol Reed films around that time -- "Odd Man Out" and "The Man Between", where the story of the tragically flawed antihero took a more sense-making path.

Epic fail: Jewel Staite's movie THE TRIBE (which basically looked like a Lost rip off) has been renamed THE LOST TRIBE, with Jewel recast. The producer gives a somewhat amusing and major league wankage interview about it: [link]

Although reading the interview I'd say the producer has no idea what the fuck he's doing.

Yes I work in a theatre so I get to see movies for free so it kinda doesn't count.

just watched Once. i pretty much had goosebumps through the entire thing. amazing, beautiful and really, really lovely.

I loved Once too, tiggy. I got the OST and the other version they put out, they're on iTunes - lovely.

"You're making out with your physically abusive clinically insane gay uncle and I should be happy for you? I...but...What? How? WHAT?"

bwah! A very reasonable response, and very likely how I'd have reacted if I'd seen it as an adult - but I was about ten, and crushing hugely on James Mason. Um. So - yeah. Um.

Wow, finally sort of read that article on The [Lost] Tribe and what an unprofessional, gossipy ass! I don't care if any of it was true, you don't speak out of school like regarding your colleagues. "Everyone was so horrible and undedicated except for ME ME ME!". I say good for Jewel for getting the fuck away from that.

"Odd Man Out"

Loved this, but I can bearly stand to watch it because it's so heartbreakingly sad.

"The Man Between"

I was a bit dissapointed in this. Mason was fine (as was Claire Bloom), but it seemed to be trying to hard to be another THIRD MAN.

The Wicked Lady. THAT is where it's at.

Aye, Juliebird. It's Avatar Entertainment's first film, and I suspect last film, considering they went way over budget and nearly got sued. Jewel was ill during the shoot and it was a complete disaster anyway in terms of logistics (Jewel blogged about the director 'not being available' during the shoot). The fact they went back and reshot it in a place without electricity, to me, suggests they just did not have a clue what they were doing.

The sad thing is Jewel appears to be getting the blame for the mess it turned in to. Something tells me it wasn't her fault.