Summer Midnight Filmfest (Part 2)
DIRTY HARRY 
Dir.: Don Siegel / Cast: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson
Year Released: 1971
Clint Eastwood stars as Harry Callahan, a disgruntled police officer of San Francisco, in this 1971 film, Dirty Harry. He loathes the fact that criminal elements seem to have been babied by more rights afforded to them than their victims. A callous or, maybe psychopathic, killer is on the loose, on a sniping spree, and making demands for $200,000 or else he will continue random assassinations of innocent victims. The tables get turned on Harry when the confident sniper uses these rights to get away with murder and make Harry Callahan look "dirty” or bad.
This is a stylish genre movie that is a must for fans of the genre.
Rating: 3.0/4.0
EVIL (Ondskan)
Dir.: Mikael Hafstrom / Cast: Andreas Wilson, Johan Rabaeus, Marie Richardson
Year Released: 2003 / In Swedish, with English subtitles
Erik Ponti, convincingly portrayed by Andreas Wilson, is a student with a good scholastic potential but whose patterns of violence results in his expulsion. At home, his stepfather whips him with a leather belt on the slightest provocation or made-up reasons. His mother, whom he adores and respects, sends him to a boarding school for the rich to give him his last chance to avoid being a delinquent. There, he vows to extreme discipline, to focus on academics, and not to be involved in any trouble; this will be provoked by the school's student council that is loaded with evil rules and penalties for the struggling students in the lower level – the so-called horrors of boarding school.
The film is compelling. It was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 76th Academy Awards.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
Dir.: Don Siegel / Cast: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson
Year Released: 1971
Clint Eastwood stars as Harry Callahan, a disgruntled police officer of San Francisco, in this 1971 film, Dirty Harry. He loathes the fact that criminal elements seem to have been babied by more rights afforded to them than their victims. A callous or, maybe psychopathic, killer is on the loose, on a sniping spree, and making demands for $200,000 or else he will continue random assassinations of innocent victims. The tables get turned on Harry when the confident sniper uses these rights to get away with murder and make Harry Callahan look "dirty” or bad.
This is a stylish genre movie that is a must for fans of the genre.
Rating: 3.0/4.0
EVIL (Ondskan)
Dir.: Mikael Hafstrom / Cast: Andreas Wilson, Johan Rabaeus, Marie Richardson
Year Released: 2003 / In Swedish, with English subtitles
Erik Ponti, convincingly portrayed by Andreas Wilson, is a student with a good scholastic potential but whose patterns of violence results in his expulsion. At home, his stepfather whips him with a leather belt on the slightest provocation or made-up reasons. His mother, whom he adores and respects, sends him to a boarding school for the rich to give him his last chance to avoid being a delinquent. There, he vows to extreme discipline, to focus on academics, and not to be involved in any trouble; this will be provoked by the school's student council that is loaded with evil rules and penalties for the struggling students in the lower level – the so-called horrors of boarding school.
The film is compelling. It was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 76th Academy Awards.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
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