Heart of Darkness (1993)

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Good, but somewhat too literate adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel  is nevertheless visually imaginative and features competent performances by Roth and Malkovich.

The Movies I Watched in July

20,000 Days on Earth 2014  7

Les amants de Montparnasse 1958  7

Beware of Mr. Baker 2012  6
The Book of Eli 2010  6
Cause For Alarm! 1951  6
Crawl 2019  5
Dear Murderer 1947  6
Duran Duran: Unstaged 2014  6
Emma. 2020  6
The Fall 2019  7

Family Romance, LLC 2019  7

First Man 2018  6
Guilty Bystander 1950  6
Halloween 2018  6
Heart of Darkness 1993  6
I am Not a Serial Killer 2016  6
I Called Him Morgan 2016  7

Ida B. Wells: A Passion For Justice 1989  6
L'inconnu du lac 2013  6
Lock Up 1989  6
Malchik russkiy 2019  7

 
The Maidens of Fetish Street 1966  5
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 2013  6
My Cousin Rachel 1952  7

Numéro deux 1975  6
Primer 2004  6
Shanty Tramp 1967  5
Sicilia! 1999  7

Spring Night Summer Night 1967  7

La tendre ennemie 1936  6
Victor Frankenstein 2015  6

First Lines: Joseph Conrad - Nostromo

In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco - the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity - had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

First Lines: Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

First lines: Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent

Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.

New Stuff: Joseph Conrad

He never really did write an autobiography; this is a collection of his writings of autobiographical nature.

First Lines: Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim

He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.

Sabotage (1936)

A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London, but when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.

Superb early Hitchcock thriller based on Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent with some famous sequences.