So you like the Newman/Redford bromance Travs? I take it you've seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
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So you like the Newman/Redford bromance Travs? I take it you've seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Anthropoid. Gripping, no nonsense, WW2 film based on true events - a group of GB trained SOE Czech agents sent to Czechoslovakia A must watch. Those guys (and gals) were so brave. And we think we've got tough times now! Lead character is that bloke from Peaky Blinders - Cillian whatchamacallit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blAK...a-rp3i3BxP0t0b
To my shame i've not seen that one! Or not that i remember!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
Tonight's viewing will be Support Your Local Gunfighter (James Garner)
Butch Cassidy is a classic of the genre. 10 times better than the Sting which was filmed to capitalise on the chemistry that earlier film discovered. Of COURSE its hackneyed and of it's time. But it's great fun.
Personally I thought in The Sting it was Robert Shaw (who played the villain, Lonnegan) who was the star of the show...
Green Zone
Watched it the other night. Good story line.
He did rather steal it, didn't he!Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs
Saw True Romance for the first time recently.
Come on Graham B who was the best Sherlock Holmes?
Basil Rathbone.Quote:
Originally Posted by CL
There is no other.
Of course. This is not even up for debate...Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Better not mention Jeremy Brett then...
The Fabulous Baker Boys is one of my (many) favourites. And Michelle Pfeiffer sprawled over the piano singing Makin' Whoopee is one of my favourite scenes in it.
Not a lot of people know this but the song You're Sixteen, sung in the film as part of the brothers' reconciliation, was recorded by Johnny Burnette, getting to #3 in the UK. Burnette's earlier stuff was much better though. He drowned after falling off his boat in 1964 aged 30. (Surprising what you can find out reading the Fell Runners Forum, isn't it?)
Well I never...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flem
Agreed. By a million milesQuote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I’ve seen so many brilliant films this year. I can’t even remember them all but here’s a snapshot....
Emma
Little Women
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Uncut gems
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
1917
The Half of It
Le Mans 66 (Ford vs Ferrari)
Some at the cinema and some on tv or streaming. The ‘trouble’ with Netflix is that you can never not find a brilliant film
I thought Uncut Gems was a very striking film. Engaging, disturbing and memorable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fellbeast
And really noisy with everyone manically speaking across each other all the time. A brilliant ending 😊Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Stanley Kubricks Clockwork orange a good study on the dangers of behavarioal psycology and psycolgical condtioning plus Malcom McDowels acting was Brilliant, combined with the soundtrack combination of classical music Particulary beethovens 9th and electonic synth was awesome.
Shindlers List is another of my Favorites, as is Alfred Alfred Hitchcocks Psyhco
There has been a few good films I have seen but the combination of Music, acting and thought provoking questions The Clockwork Orange raised makes it stand out for me.
A clockwork orange is a film I think that’s not aged that well. It came out when I was an impressionable yoof and, although I didn’t go so far as a bowler hat, me and my friends all went a bit droogie at the time. And it did cause a fair bit of trouble from memory (the film got banned for a while didn’t it?). Then later I was really impressed by it - especially Beethoven’s 9th and the fact that some of it was filmed in Aylesbury’s (old concrete) shopping mall 🙄. Now though I’m not so sure - the rape scene at the country house alone definitely does the film no favours
3 French Directors.
Le Boucher Claude Chabrol
Pierrot Le Fou Jean-Luc Godard
La Nuit Americaine Francois Truffaut
3 Italian
Blow Up Michelangelo Antonioni
1900 Bernardo Bertolucci
Death In Venice Luchino Visconti
3 USA
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid Sam Peckinpah
Love & Friendship Walt Stillman
A Touch of Evil Orson Welles
3 English
Point Blank John Boorman
Get Carter Stephen Kay
In Bruges Martin McDonagh
3 Swedish
Ingmar Bergman x3
3 Japanese
Kurosawa x3
Looks like you overlooked your favourite from the Carry on . . . series of films
My faves in no particular order... I am by no means a film buff/geek, as the list will no doubt show... don't think I've been to the cinema in nearly 20 years...
Falling Down
Cincinnati Kid
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
Cool Hand Luke
Around The World In 80 Days
I.D. (most football/hooligan films are absolute cack… but this one about the four undercover police, and the main character's addiction and descent into hooliganism, and his eventual breakdown, is absolutely brilliant).
I don’t think I’ve seen any of those French and Italian films - I’ll have a look on Netflix and see if any are on, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I might’ve seen a couple of Ingmar Berman’s and I have definitely seen quite a few of Kurosawa’s - 7 Samurai, Ran, Rashomon, Kagemusha for sure. I’ve seen all of your American recommendations and the English, other than John Boorman’s point blank. I’ve seen loads of other Boormans though -Deliverence obvs, Excalibur, Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory and two or three others.
I love film lists 😊
Another great film seen not so long ago - Captain America which is absolutely brilliant and absolutely isn’t a super hero film (although the whole family in it are super and heroes)
Well Andrew I have scoured my shelves and I seem to be, alas, deficient...but so little time, so many films.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
I now fear that on my death bed I will be heard to mutter "If there is one movie I really wish I had seen... :)
Le Boucher is wonderful. Filmed in Tremolat in the Dordogne - I've visited the film sites. I have every film directed by Chabrol on DVD - there are over 50 and some are absolutely awful (I am almost certainly the only person who has all his films outside France, some of my DVDs are not strictly legal) and I consider it to be his masterpiece. It is about morality and guilt and in a subtle and understated way profoundly shocking.
Day for Night is the most joyous film about film making I have ever seen. I even bought the sound track.
Everybody has heard of Bergman's The Seventh Seal and nobody ever forgets the Knight playing chess with death - but his master piece is the full length version of Fanny & Alexandra.
I think Point Blank is the best "American" (it was filmed in Los Angeles) film ever directed by an English man. The General is good and so is Deliverance but with Point Blank he out film noired American directors at their own game. When I saw it in 1967 it was a like a hand grenade exploding in my face. Oh and it has a ravishing Angie Dickinson.
Michelangelo Antonioni has been my favourite Italian Director since university - but very "art house". His films are very, very slow and enigmatic and even his most accessible film, Blow Up (filmed in England) is enigmatic. He is no longer in favour with cenephiles.
Although since he is dead I guess he can live with that.
(I quite like cinema).
QUOTE=Fellbeast;663740]I don’t think I’ve seen any of those French and Italian films - I’ll have a look on Netflix and see if any are on, thanks.
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Das Boot... Haven't quite got to the end of it this evening, but looks likely to make it onto my list of faves...
Had the misfortune to sit through the whole of the Glimmer Man (1996, Steven Segal) this evening.
Christ...
To Sir, With Love.... Sidney Potier, 1967
Watched again over the past couple of days, great film.
Tora Tora Tora (1970) telling the tale of the attack on Pearl Harbour from both sides.
My dog Skip.
I’m working my way through this list
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%...e_21st_Century
I’ve watched about twenty four and have enjoyed most.
I am impressed. There isn't much froth in there.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by millipede
I am also relieved that I have seen more than 24 since I reckon to be a film buff!
Almost time for me to watch Bernard and the Genie again.
My favourite so far is Spirited Away. Do you love it GB?Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I reckon IÂ’ve seen getting on for 60 of those. A brilliant list. Glad to see Amelie made the cut
My favourite is Inside Llewyn Davis which I liked so much I bought the DVD. It was inspired by Dave Van Ronk's autobiography which I also have!
It was DVR whose arrangement of House of the Rising Sun Bob Dylan plagiarised and I believe Dylan eventually paid DVR some "guilt money". Which is slightly surprising because Mr Dylan is short on integrity but long on theft.
Incidentally the "house" is not the brothel that has passed into folklore but the New Orleans Parish Women's Prison - but what have the facts to do with anything?:)
I am relieved to not reckon I'm a film buff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
I haven't seen any of them!
I've only seen 15, but agree a good list - looking forward to watching more. Always good to get intelligent suggestions.Quote:
Originally Posted by millipede
Pan's Labyrinth - Thats an odd film. I enjoyed Being John Malkovich and American Beauty, but very few Hollywood offerings.
Go on then Mr Breeze - give us your top ten film recommendations. ItÂ’s going to be a quiet Christmas ....,Quote:
Originally Posted by Graham Breeze
Almost Famous is there, what a great film