What's your favourite movie?

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Originally posted by HR:


'The battle of Algiers'

Has anyone seen it?

Haim

Yes, Saw it ages ago. Impressive. Watched it at the Army School of Infantry, Warminster.

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Originally posted by erik scothron:
'The battle of Algiers'

Has anyone seen it?

Haim

Yes, Saw it ages ago. Impressive. Watched it at the Army School of Infantry, Warminster.[/QUOTE]

Erik,

Perhaps we should sent some copies to Iraq?
It is amazing that no one learns from history.

Haim

The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999 Iran)

A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Duellists
Bladerunner
Alien
Legend
Thief(1981)
Barton Fink
Blood Simple
Miller's Crossing
The Hudsucker Proxy
Dumb and Dumber
Kingpin(1996)
The Pink Panther(1964)
Ereaserhead
The Rivers Edge(1987)
Seven Days In May
The Grifters
Night of the Living Dead(1968)
Dirty Harry
Bedazzled(1968)
12 Monkeys
As Good as it Gets
A River Runs Through It (Ahh...me home town)
The Ice Storm
Willow
Chinatown
Joe Dirt
Napoleon Dynamite
The Devil's Rejects

By no means a complete list.

DCT

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Originally posted by HR:

quote:

Originally posted by erik scothron:
'The battle of Algiers'

Has anyone seen it?

Haim

Yes, Saw it ages ago. Impressive. Watched it at the Army School of Infantry, Warminster.

Erik,

Perhaps we should sent some copies to Iraq?
It is amazing that no one learns from history.

Haim[/QUOTE]

Iraq and Israel/Palestine and a few others. I agree you you (and Voltaire) 'The only thing history teaches us is that history teaches us nothing'.

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Originally posted by David Tribe:
A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Duellists

David,

I'm pleased to see the Duellists in your list - I was spellbound when I first saw it at the cinema years ago.

Erik

'The 400 Blows' by Francois Truffault, based on his childhood.

Haim

Hi HR!
Good choice.
I allow myself to suggest a couple of other good old films:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Hi HR!
Good choice.
I allow myself to suggest a couple of other good old films:

Gianluigi,

Thank you. I am always looking for a good movie to watch. If you did not see the Bbattle of Algiers I highly recommend it. The film maker was Italian.

Regards,

Haim

Hi HR!
Thanks for suggest!
I'll send some more!

KIPPUR

One of the very few Israeli movies that I like. It takes place during the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, and it is based on the personal experience of Amos Gitai, the movie director.
In the few first days of the war, two reserve soldiers fail to hook up with their reserve unit and instead end up with a medical crew which is assigned to evacuate wounded soldiers and extract pilots who are shot down behind enemy lines. Hardly any dialogue but excellent cinematography and sound to convey a real sense of the confussion and the caos of a war.

Haim

A silent Russian movie (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein with music by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Distant Voices, Still Lives, directed by Terence Davies

I hope that this masterpiece is released on DVD some day.

Some titles in my bookshelf.............





And this beautiful one:

Another masterpiece at my eyes:

Movie for the evening.

Un Homme et Une Femme, great music too.

Hi HR!
This has a very nice soundtrack as well.

Late at night movie.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrda

With Tommy Lee Jones. A new film that came out recently and whiich I saw tonight.

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Hi HR!
This has a very nice soundtrack as well.

Gianluigi,

I agree. Very good music and film, much better than Saving Private Ryan that everyone liked here (US), and I hated.

Regards,

Haim

Syriana.
Another very good film, a bit complicated, that is out there now.

Haim

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Originally posted by HR:
I agree. Very good music and film, much better than Saving Private Ryan that everyone liked here (US), and I hated.

Hi Haim!
Saving Private Ryan has the patriotic cut that make it boring after the first time.
All those accurate deaths, wounds and amputations make it a blood shower.
I do prefer the old 1962 "The longest day" to it.

Hans Zimmer did write a very good soundtrack for "Thin red line".
Have you ever listened to the "Gladiator" soundtrack.
There are some beautiful parts with Lisa Gerrard as well.
Takes me back to the best pieces of old Dead Can Dance!

Cheers
Gianluigi