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Bubba Ho-Tep
Hellboy 2
The Train
The Searchers
Brazil (directors cut)
Unforgiven
Platoon
Lawrence of Arabia
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zombie1210
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
I now have a new guilty pleasure, the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Tim Curry is great!
(he also plays butler Wadsworth in another favorite movie of mine, Clue.)
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Tim is great. I'll watch anything he's in. Even a small part.
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BBP
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I have the DVD now, played it a sick amount of times. It has a "participation timer" which shows in the subtitle track when to misbehave (= putting
newspaper over your head, throwing toast, throwing cards etc), a "midnight viewing" soundtrack with the audience yelling, and some interesting footage
of a midnight viewing.
Curry is a brilliant actor! I barely recognized him, even though I'd seen Clue several times.
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I've missed the obvious joke:
Annie! You like Annie? And Home Alone 2?
(hoping his Duckman episodes are on-line...)
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BBP
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Have another addition to my Favourite Movie list: Delicatessen. French movie, directed by Jean-Marie Jeunet (Amélie) in 1991. Totally bizarre, lovable
music and the funniest sex scene I've ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P7ZjMfOMk0&feature=related
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Alphaville
Touch of Evil
Mean Streets
Heavy Traffic
Lost Highway
200 Motels
And just about every other movie made by the directors of the above.
\"Join the march and eat my starch!\"
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I really like his movies and
particularly Delicatessen, he developed a whole personal universe in his first movies.
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BBP
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It's a shame he's hard to find... except for Amélie, of course.
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And yesterday Belgian TV aired another Jeunet: Un long dimanche de fiançailles.  Beautiful... I was never keen on war movies but this is an exception (along with Full Metal Jacket and Der Untergang).
But did he ever make a movie without Dominique Pinon?
[Edited on 6-11-08 by BBP]
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no, Jeunet always works with Pinon, I don't know a movie without him, he's even in Alien IV.
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BBP
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Gosh... I already found it disturbing that he was the good guy in Delicatessen after seeing him as pub asshole in Amélie... guess he's too
recognizable. Kinda like Bill Murray.
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Some movies I've watched for the first time recently and really liked are:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Alien
Mystery Train (by Jim Jarmusch)
Down By Law (also Jim Jarmusch)
Batman Returns (one of the good ones...Tim Burton)
Amelie
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BBP
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Amélie is beautiful! I recently saw it for the third time. Batman Returns was one I very much enjoyed too.
The only good film I saw for the first time recently, is Lolita. Good ol' Stanley.
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saw Darjeeling Limited some 13 months ago.
liked it. Not a fan of Wes Anderson, but liked this one.
also got the dvd for the Buena Vista Social Club.
If you haven't seen this yet, do so.
Music is all the best and the stories are fascinating.
Remembered it was great when I saw it in the theater, 10-12 years ago.
But to watch it again now, brings so much home again.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
Amélie is beautiful! I recently saw it for the third time. Batman Returns was one I very much enjoyed too.
The only good film I saw for the first time recently, is Lolita. Good ol' Stanley. |
I'm surprised how much i liked Batman Returns. It's actually extremely funny. I think it's just as good as the original Batman.
Yeah, Lolita is great. Not very well received by a lot of critics though i don't think. It wouldn't be nearly as good if it weren't for Peter Sellers.
He really brightens it up. I didn't even realise Lolita was literary classic until a few years after i'd seen the film.
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Lolita was a bestseller! Although over 20 editors rejected the manuscript. I fear though, that its popularity is more caused by the highly descriptive
love scenes than its literary quality.
I'm reading the book now actually, it has a lot of metaphors and simili.
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Imagine James Mason and the girl in that singing a duet of Pick Me I'm Clean. In character.
That's pretty much what I got out of the book. HH is messed up with all the pushing and prodding of western ads and expectations and junk and just
wants something that isn't tainted with all that stuff, or so he thinks. He thinks he's so smart and yet doesn't get that it's all so much
simpler.
The girl in that may in fact be 'tainted', but as a product of that stuff, not a knowing participant. Kubrick's depiction of her is smart, she learns
and grows. H doesn't much at all.
I think it's popularity came from the sensational nature of the age difference.
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Insightful words Mr Punk. And Buena Vista Social Club is riveting viewing. I only discovered a few months ago that Ry Cooder was part of an early
incarnation of the Magic Band. That's wayyy cool.
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It just occurred that The Graduate is a similar story with switched gender roles
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Similar to Lolita? I never noticed that. You're right. The feel is very different though. I think the difference in age between Benjamin in the
Graduate and Lolita makes a big difference. Benjamin is old enough to know exactly what's going on and Lolita isn't. But in some ways the male
characters in both movies are very isolated. Ben is in like a post-collage limbo and Humbert has a mid-life crisis and is pretty alone. In Lolita
though Lolita isn't really isolated like Ben in the Graduate...she's more poached out of a normal high school life by Humbert. In the Graduate
Benjamin is sort of looking for something different.
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