What's your favourite movie?

Dear Erik,

For all the posing of the presenter,(who?) I used to enjoy C4's films late on Saturday. I don't have a tele now so the chance is gone, but ther werre some truly marvelous continental films, which I enjoyed. Uusallly, like the best Englih films, they were slow. I remember one set in a fairly rural French Cafe where the familly disintegrated in the the courese of the film. One of the saddest I ever saw. I think the male lead was the same guy who acted the detective in F Foresythe's Day Of the Jackal.

I enjoy film almost as musch as music, but it is so much harder to find one's way roud.

All the best from Fredrik

I enjoy film almost as musch as music, but it is so much harder to find one's way roud.

All the best from Fredrik[/QUOTE]

Fredrik,

I have no music education at all and don't know a minim from a crotchet, I doubt I could have a meaningful music conversation with you - I would'nt know what you were talking about if you gave a deep analysis of a score. However, I have the annoying habit of guessing the entire plot and ending of almost every film I've ever seen after only 20 minutes viewing, even those renowned for 'totally unexpecected plot twists or endings'. A friend of mine actually searches for films to catch me out but I always get the twist or ending before it happens in the film - so I guess I know my way round film better than music. I would like to much more about the technical side of music but I don't think I much aptitude for learning an instrument despite being told I have a good ear. I like to watch say, The Cardiff singer of the year and generally predict the comments and voting of the judges but I can't even begin to bash out the simplest tune on an instrument - how can this be?

Regards,

Erik

Dear Erik,

I don't know. I love film and know nothing, but like you have a habit of guessing the end, Music matters less as the end is entirely personal, but means more to the person (and certainly me!)...

I played music because I was fascinated, and then was forced out by arthritis. I love music with every fibre, and indeed find it hard to disagree with anayone but the the earwickers of this world about it! He spouts such monumentally self promoting nonesense, which hardly concedes that ther is no right or wrong, but merely some wonderful shade of opinion. No right, though a good deal of wrong if you like!

Must sleep. 8 hours of slog, tomorrow. F

Good morning or evening to all you!
Let's go with some titles i do prefer.
First an unforgetable Monicelli's masterpiece with a wonderful couple: Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gasman.


Really great movie that shows the two part and souls of an Italy still devided in culture, needs and bents.
The one from the south (A. Sordi) that learn to manage an hard life with tricks and the other (V. Gasman) from the north that can't speak proper italian but get excited when talk to his companions about Bakunin and freedom while bending his head in front of seargents and officers.
Beautiful.

Another one.
Another great couple.
Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Peppino de Filippo.

Bladerunner, without a doubt cant wait for the Ultimate dvd release

If you like that kind of atmosphere..........

Gianluigi

I went back to the start of this thread and noted that your favourite movie is Orlando. I must admit that when it was released, I was hypnotised by it and watched it several times on video.

Of course, my fascination was due mostly to the strangely beautiful Tilda Swinton. I don't particularly like what she has been doing recently, but what a stunning looking woman!

Steve

Hi YO-YO!
Yes!
She is very nice and have very good acting skills, in my opinion.
The movie "Orlando" is one of the most magical and beautiful i've ever seen.
I like the first part, '600, because some fraim of it looks like an oil painting.
I do remember the small cut when Orlando was to be introduced in the queen sleeping room.
Amazing.

Gianluigi,

Watched "Avalon" Friday night, a great film had to watch it again yesterday afternoon to finally understand what exactly was going on. I,m still unsure about the ending though.

Justyn.

Just let think for a couple of years and i'll let you know!

What i love of that movie is the colours and the mix of black and white.
Anyway even Blade Runner's ending just leave different open doors to me.

Have to admit to my soft side when I say " GHOST ", paddy, demi and whoopy in great form for my money, blabbered like a baby the first time I saw it, best scene apart from the very end was when that sheet of window glass comes falling down on the baddies head, serves his own right, trying to get into demi's knickers barely an hour after paddy is shot
The special effects of the bad ghosts coming to take him away, on the subject, does anyone know how they came up with them noises? I do cos I am so sad I bought the dvd and watched the extras

War: "A Bridge too far"

Cruel fate: "Dr. Zhivago"

Being free: "Easy Rider"

Escapist Blood & Gore: "Kill Bill vol 1 & 2", "Pulp Fiction" & "Natural born killers"

Weird but entertaining: "What Dreams may come"

Soppy but irresistible: "When Harry met Sally"

Extravagant and tiring: "Ben Hur" & El Cid"

Disasters that were'nt complete disasters: "Towering Inferno" & "Volcano"

Thought provoking: "Dr Strangelove", "The killer elite", "The Manchurian Candidate (original version)", "Catch 22"

For Guianluiggi; Anything with Loren, Lollabridgida or Cardinale

regards
geoff

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serves his own right, trying to get into demi's knickers barely an hour after paddy is shot

Like you wouldn't be trying the exact same thing!

War: "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Cruel fate: "Brazil"

Being free: "The Shawshank Redemption"

Escapist Blood & Gore: "The Thing (1982) - Seven"

Weird but entertaining: "Donnie Darko - Blue Velvet -Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me - The Wicker Man"

Soppy but irresistible: "It's a Wonderful Life"

Extravagant and tiring: "Spartacus"

Disasters that were'nt complete disasters: "Towering Inferno - Titanic"

Thought provoking: "Dr Strangelove - 'Breaker' Morant"

Outstanding: "The Usual Suspects"

I'm going to be really pretentious and name a number of films that some of you will have never heard of, but if you don't like it, tough...

La Regle Du Jeu - Jean Renoir
La Grande Illusion - Jean Renoir
Badlands - Terence Malick
Il Gattopardo - Luchino Visconti
Songs of Our Forgotten Ancestors - Sergo Paradjanov
Twentieth Century - Howard Hawks
Ordet - Carl Dreyer
A Bout de Souffle - Jean-Luc Goddard
Central do Brasil - Walter Salles
This Is Spinal Tap - Rob Reiner
A Matter of Life And Death - Michael Powell/Emeric Pressberger
North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles
Carry On Up The Khyber - Gerald Thomas
The Red Shoes - Michael Powell/Emeric Pressberger
Peeping Tom - Michael Powell
The River - Jean Renoir
Black Narcissus - Michael Powell/Emeric Pressberger
L'Atalante - Jean Vigo
Aleksandr Nevsky - Sergei Eisenstein
The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah
Apocalypse Now Redux - Francis Coppola
Night of The Hunter - Charles Laughton
King of Comedy - Martin Scorsese
Le Crime de M. Lange - Jean Renoir
Godfathers 1 & 2 - Francis Coppola
Mat - Vsevolod Pudovkin
Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
Heat - Michael Mann
12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet
L'Avventura - Michaelangelo Antonioni
The Man With Two Brains - Carl Reiner
Shane - George Stevens
Viridiana - Luis Bunuel
Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder
Lawrence Of Arabia - David Lean
8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
Dr Zhivago - David Lean (sentimental I know, and a travesty of an adaption of a great book, but I love it)
The Adventures Of Robin Hood - Michael Curtiz

er, that's it...

(apologies for the under-representation of Asian cinema, but I've never seen an Ozu or Mizoguchi, something I must rectify, and my knowledge of Indian, Iranian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean cinema is sketchy...)

Worst...
All Star Wars - various hacks (juvenile rubbish, lamentably influential)
All Lord of the Rings - Peter Jackson (sad CGI bombast for weirdos who play with lead figurines, hang around Games Workshop and speak Elvish)
It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (toxic sentimentality)
Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont (overrated mush, bafflingly popular)
That terrible 80s fim about the SAS with Lewis Collins in it (need I say more)
Titanic - James Cameron (dreadful - I'd rather nail my earlobes to the floor than sit through that shite again)
The Patriot - Mel "I Know My History" Gibson (filthy lies)
The Passion Of The Christ - Mel Gibson again (religious porn)
Braveheart - Mel fucking Gibson (more downright fibs)
Sin City - Frank Miller/Robert Rodgriguez (nasty, smug and not half as clever s it thinks it is)

Plenty to be going on with there...

21 GRAMS

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Originally posted by Kevin-W:
I'm going to be really pretentious and name a number of films that some of you will have never heard of, but if you don't like it, tough...

Pretentious and presumptious . Ive seen them all. I almost thought you knew what you were talking about until I read your comments concerning the worst films . Still there is no accounting for taste. I hope you do get into asian cinema - China, Taiwan and Korea are making some very fine films these days.

A masterpiece from Iran which has been producing exceptional movies in the last ten years.

Haim

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Originally posted by erik scothron:
I hope you do get into asian cinema - China, Taiwan and Korea are making some very fine films these days.

Erik, for you:

'Infernal Affairs' from Hong Kong.

Haim

Sorry,
Posted it twice

Got in the store to buy a DVD player for my father's birthday and found this.
Everytime i see this movie i do break my jaw laughing!

Late night movie.
Wonderful soundtrack.

'The battle of Algiers'

Has anyone seen it?

Haim