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Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Matt Brunson Film Frenzy. A smoky, jazzy mood-ring of a movie. Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2021. Joe Leydon The Moving Picture Show....
- Stormy Monday | Rotten Tomatoes
78% Tomatometer 18 Reviews 49% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings...
- Stormy Monday | Rotten Tomatoes
78% Tomatometer 18 Reviews 49% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Brendan (Sean Bean) begins to work at a jazz joint in a seedy part of Newcastle, England, and soon develops a friendship with the...
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- Mike Figgis
- R
- Melanie Griffith
“Stormy Monday” is about the way light falls on wet pavement stones, and about how a neon sign glows in a darkened doorway. It is about the attitudes that men strike when they feel in control of a situation, and the way their shoulders slump when someone else takes power.
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- Picture 7/10
- Audio 7/10
- Extras 5/10
- Closing
In 1988, Mike Figgis (Internal Affairs, Leaving Las Vegas) made his feature directorial debut with Stormy Monday, a taut, noir-influenced gangster movie that drew on his key formative influences, including his youth in the Newcastle of the late '50s and early '60s, and the city's vibrant jazz scene. Sean Bean (Ronin) plays Brendan, a young loafer t...
Mike Figgis’ debut feature film, Stormy Monday, receives a new dual-format edition from Arrow Video. The Blu-ray sports a 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation with an aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The notes indicate Arrow is using a high-definition master created in 2010 and upon seeing that (before throwing the disc in admittedly) I didn’t hold out m...
Audio is presented in lossless PCM 2.0 stereo surround. It sounds okay, nothing too special. There can be a bit of hollowness present in the jazz score, and some effects can be flat, but dialogue is easy to hear and there is some decent surround activity.
Arrow includes a few features, including (surprisingly) an audio commentaryfeaturing Mike Figgis and moderated by critic Damon Wise. Disappointingly it’s a bit dry but Figgis gets into details about the production and what he was trying to accomplish. He goes over some of the limitations he faced (budget being the biggest) and the nervousness he co...
Arrow puts together a fairly solid release. Much to my surprise the picture looks really good and the couple of supplements we do get are worth going through. BUY AT:
When Roger Ebert wrote his review of Stormy Monday back in 1988, he pondered why critics tend to talk more about story than about visuals. “Maybe it’s because we work in words, and stories are told in words, and it’s harder to use words to paint pictures. But it might be worth a try.”.
Aug 8, 2017 · Mike Figgis' Stormy Monday is a peculiar little film. Figgis, who would go on to score two Academy Award nominations for Leaving Las Vegas, made his debut with this low-key British gangster thriller that moves to its own unique rhythm.
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By Joe Leydon archives, reviews. May 20, 1988 | Stormy Monday is a sleek, smoky romantic thriller, the sort of atmospheric neo-film noir that even very experienced directors seldom manage to pull off.
