Good movies- Old & new
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Yesiree - Excellent movies- all worth a gander again.
Joe Black-Brad Pitt - an excellent actor for a variety of roles- Anthony Hopkins- Cannot say enough about him.
Have you seen The Worlds Fastest Indian??
Love the scene where he cuts the grass before leaving for the US.
World's Fastest Indian is a great movie, Goober. It had a personal touch for me as my first husband and I went down to Bonneville with a 'souped-up' Harley to try and do the same thing - set a land world speed record. We didn't set any records but we did come home with wonderful memories.
Among my favs are: Legends of the Fall, The Edge, The River, Dead Poets Society, Avatar, Fargo, Red Dragon, and The Mission.
Among my favs are: Legends of the Fall, The Edge, The River, Dead Poets Society, Avatar, Fargo, Red Dragon, and The Mission.
As I mentioned on another thread, I just watched Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady (by Henry James).
I usually only watch old movies and started Roman Scandals [1933] - a hilarious comedy about Depression era politics. Will finish viewing it tomorrow.
I usually only watch old movies and started Roman Scandals [1933] - a hilarious comedy about Depression era politics. Will finish viewing it tomorrow.
To mention but a few.
Dramatic, suspenseful, adventurous, fun and thought provoking.
All have withstood the test of time.
Dramatic, suspenseful, adventurous, fun and thought provoking.
All have withstood the test of time.
I have never watched the Exorcist or ET...I can't watch horror and have no idea why I never got around to ET. How's it going SOL?
"It's a Wonderful Life" is my guilty pleasure, feel good, every year at Christmas time movie. Since childhood.
No,lol, if you had to turn off Sinister, then you definitely don't want to watch The Exorcist.
Although personally I think it's the high priestess of horror films.
BRIGHTON ROCK (1947)
Pinkie Brown (played by Richard Attenborough, the elder brother of TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough) is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it to be suicide. This doesn't convince Ida Arnold, who was with Fred just before he died, and she sets out to find the truth. She comes across naive waitress Rose, who can prove that Fred was murdered. In an attempt to keep Rose quiet Pinkie marries her. But with his gang beginning to doubt his ability, and his rivals taking over his business, Pinkie starts to become more desperate and violent.
Also starring the future First Doctor Who, William Hartnell.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
One of the greatest movies ever made - and probably the greatest British movie ever made - A Clockwork Orange employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian future Britain.
Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the main character, is a charismatic, sociopathic delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, "friend", "buddy"). The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via controversial psychological conditioning. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
Its extreme sexual violence saw this movie banned in Britain from 1972 until 1999.
The English/Irish trip hop duo Moloko get their name from the Nadsat word for "milk".
THE 39 STEPS (1935)
A "must see" classic that most movie buffs still regard as an essential element in their personal film collection. A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent prevent an organisation of spies called The 39 Steps from stealing top secret information. When the agent is killed and he stands accused of the murder, he goes on the run with an attractive woman to save himself and stop the spy ring.
THE WICKER MAN (1973)
This British horror is probably the greatest horror of all time. The film is now considered a cult classic. Inspired by the basic scenario of David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, the story centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the fictional isolated Hebridean island of Summerisle, famed for its popular and unusually abundant fruit produce, in search of a missing girl the locals claim never existed. Howie, a devout and celibate Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island practise a form of Celtic paganism - and horrified that HE is to be their next sacrifice.....
THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
Black comedy. Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter Sellers, homicidal Herbert Lom and punchdrunk Danny Green. The gang uses Guinness' flat as headquarters as they conceive a daring £60,000 robbery. After pulling off the job, the gang stuffs the loot in a railway station locker. To avoid detection, Guinness convinces the ever-trusting Johnson to pick up the money. Through a series of comic complications, Johnson returns home with a police escort, with neither the woman nor the bobbies suspecting that she's carrying a fortune in her suitcase. Mistakenly believing that Johnson has ratted on them, the gang reluctantly plans to eliminate her.
Pinkie Brown (played by Richard Attenborough, the elder brother of TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough) is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it to be suicide. This doesn't convince Ida Arnold, who was with Fred just before he died, and she sets out to find the truth. She comes across naive waitress Rose, who can prove that Fred was murdered. In an attempt to keep Rose quiet Pinkie marries her. But with his gang beginning to doubt his ability, and his rivals taking over his business, Pinkie starts to become more desperate and violent.
Also starring the future First Doctor Who, William Hartnell.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
One of the greatest movies ever made - and probably the greatest British movie ever made - A Clockwork Orange employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian future Britain.
Alex (Malcolm McDowell), the main character, is a charismatic, sociopathic delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and what is termed "ultra-violence". He leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, "friend", "buddy"). The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via controversial psychological conditioning. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
Its extreme sexual violence saw this movie banned in Britain from 1972 until 1999.
The English/Irish trip hop duo Moloko get their name from the Nadsat word for "milk".
THE 39 STEPS (1935)
A "must see" classic that most movie buffs still regard as an essential element in their personal film collection. A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent prevent an organisation of spies called The 39 Steps from stealing top secret information. When the agent is killed and he stands accused of the murder, he goes on the run with an attractive woman to save himself and stop the spy ring.
THE WICKER MAN (1973)
This British horror is probably the greatest horror of all time. The film is now considered a cult classic. Inspired by the basic scenario of David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, the story centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the fictional isolated Hebridean island of Summerisle, famed for its popular and unusually abundant fruit produce, in search of a missing girl the locals claim never existed. Howie, a devout and celibate Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island practise a form of Celtic paganism - and horrified that HE is to be their next sacrifice.....
THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
Black comedy. Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter Sellers, homicidal Herbert Lom and punchdrunk Danny Green. The gang uses Guinness' flat as headquarters as they conceive a daring £60,000 robbery. After pulling off the job, the gang stuffs the loot in a railway station locker. To avoid detection, Guinness convinces the ever-trusting Johnson to pick up the money. Through a series of comic complications, Johnson returns home with a police escort, with neither the woman nor the bobbies suspecting that she's carrying a fortune in her suitcase. Mistakenly believing that Johnson has ratted on them, the gang reluctantly plans to eliminate her.
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as I'm sure most of you know, I am a huge Chaplin fan - for all his great works, this is the one he was most proud of and wished to be remembered by the most:
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can't say that I know of anything that quite approaches this today but recommend "Nebraska" as it has a Chaplinesque lead character
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can't say that I know of anything that quite approaches this today but recommend "Nebraska" as it has a Chaplinesque lead character
I'm watching the Bridges of Madison county. Corny sappy movie but then, I'm a carny sappy kinda person
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My favourite Chaplin film is The Dictator. I love old movies! Particular favourite for me is Alistair Sim I loved watching him perform.
I love the old horrors. Vincent Price in The House On Haunted Hill and again in The Bat with Agnes Moorehead.
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