Favourite Films

The Guernsey Literary blah blah potato peel writing group of societies and stuff:

Bizarrely i discovered this work to have an IMDB rating of 7.4...i concur, it's a great story.

Bridge On The River Kwai was on this afternoon :cool:

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Originally Posted by Marco

They are, and I'd have been slightly less scathing if you'd mentioned it was based on a Jane Austen novella.

A bit complicated for the first-time viewer I thought, and certainly not suitable for consuming many units of alcohol with, but your description was fair and accurate.

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As I suggested it is a witty and vivacious film, directed with style and well served by the players, that bears repeated viewings and which will only be appreciated by the more articulate, erudite and sophisticated members of this Forum - typically those who respect vintage cycling jerseys. :)

We're half way through it having been interrupted by a phone call last night. It's charming so far, and I'm guessing it's building up to a dramatic finish. Maybe a Tarantino-style shoot out, or a horse-and-trap chase through the streets of old London. Or perhaps both - no spoilers please.

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Originally Posted by noel

We're half way through it having been interrupted by a phone call last night. It's charming so far, and I'm guessing it's building up to a dramatic finish. Maybe a Tarantino-style shoot out, or a horse-and-trap chase through the streets of old London. Or perhaps both - no spoilers please.

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More The Outlaw Josey Wales but are you sure you haven't seen it before?

I watched North By Northwest this tea-time. Rather enjoyed it, with the exception of the very corny ending.

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Originally Posted by noel

We're half way through it having been interrupted by a phone call last night. It's charming so far, and I'm guessing it's building up to a dramatic finish. Maybe a Tarantino-style shoot out, or a horse-and-trap chase through the streets of old London. Or perhaps both - no spoilers please.

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We've just finished Love and Friendship. I can see what you mean about watching it twice. The conversations are quick and the direction is interesting in that it leaves you to make your own decisions on who is getting their own way, and who has what motives.

Perhaps it worked better without the need for a shootout at the end. ;)

Thanks for the recommendation.

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Originally Posted by noel

We've just finished Love and Friendship. I can see what you mean about watching it twice. The conversations are quick and the direction is interesting in that it leaves you to make your own decisions on who is getting their own way, and who has what motives.

Perhaps it worked better without the need for a shootout at the end. ;)

Thanks for the recommendation.

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Thank you.

There isn't much of a shoot out but Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid directed by Sam Peckinpah is pretty good in its way; and is the only western I have ever bought on DVD. (Well actually I have two versions, one being the "Director's Cut" - although the Director was dead by the time that version was reconstructed).:)

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Originally Posted by Marco

You mean you haven't got Once upon a time in the West on DVD?

Beautifully made with Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone at the top of their game. If you like westerns then I would recommend it. It's on the long side, so I watch it in two or three instalments. If you don't like Henry Fonda or Charles Bronson you can always wonder at the size of Claudia Cardinale's eyes, (Yes I did say 'eyes'), and it even features railways.

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Obviously not - but then I have seen it a few times. Obviously.

And without being too much of an art-house film buff and without digressing into where the authorship of a film lies, whilst Leone undoubtedly re-energised the western genre and his films display good old shoot
'em ups in a flamboyant way, they don't raise the deeper issues that are at the core of films like Red River,The Searchers or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

And, of course, Pat Garrett and Bill The Kid

And if I get the hots for Claudia Cardinale I can watch my DVD of Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo (The Leopard to you):).

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you can always wonder at the size of Claudia Cardinale's eyes,

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Is she any relation to a famous fell runner from Otley?