What movie should I see?

[kliome]

A few favourites from my video shelf:

'Roger Dodger'
'Swingers'
'Sideways'
'Annie Hall'
'American graffitti'
'Little Miss Sunshines'
'Barton Fink'
'The Hustler'

I caught The Colour Of Money on the TV a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it for the first time.

[whore]

Another favorite film of mine is The French Connection. I think it won an Oscar for best picture and Gene Hackman won best actor for The French Connection II which was probably one of the best performances in film in my opinion.

[Guest]

Beautiful Boxer and Ma Vie En Rose. both have subtitles but i'm sure everone on this forum would enjoy

[anthony70]

mr kliome knows a good film when he see,s one.
id recommend watching his full list.

now for a different spin.
notice how the americans always make the british guys the thick twat and the ones who fuck it all up.?
not a lot of poeple notice, but you have a think about it.

the british were killed and looked incompetant in hurt locker.
the brit fucked up the german hand signal in inglorious basterds.
sean bean looked a twat in ronin.
ray winstone was a twat in indiana jones.
the brit is a twat in the film GO.
etc etc.....

yanks are taking the piss man.

[whore]

Back in the early 90's hollywood got alot of stick about token black guys getting killed off or playing the roll of the "twat". Hollywoods solution was the British twat. It has worked well for them as it helps the realism of a film.

[Ladyboy_Floyd]

Gentlemen,

Midnight Cowboy (1969): American drama based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and then-newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller roles are filled by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, and Barnard Hughes, and the film also features an uncredited cameo by M. Emmet Walsh.

Sylvia Miles was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, in what is one of the shortest performances ever nominated (clocking in under four minutes of screen-time). Both Hoffman and Voight were nominated for Best Actor awards.

The film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. In addition, it was the first X rated movie to win the Oscar: it is the only X-rated film to win an Oscar in any category, and one of two X-rated films to be nominated for an Oscar (the other being Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange).

Touching, though difficult, story of human friendship flowering in the most-difficult of circumstances

[Snick]

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[kahuna]

A finally got my crap out of storage and have managed to go through my rather
old collection...A few of the mostly older group that I watch multiple times...Some
a bit obscure...Sorry if some have already been mentioned but I'm a lazy fuck...

Assassination Tango - Robert Duval at his very best
Into The Night - Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum, David Bowe, Dan Aykroyd and many director cameos
Big Trouble in Little China - John Carpenter movie starring Kurt Russell
The LadyKillers - A very funny Tom Hanks movie from the Cohen Brothers
Lost In Translation - Perhaps this movie is more attractive to old guys...Ok, I'm old...
About Schmidt - Jack Nicholson plays everyman
The Right Stuff - An Epic...a Very honest rendition of Tom Wolfe's novel
Bullitt - Steve McQueen and a green 1968 Mustang GT 500...Need I say more...Ok, Jacqueline Bissett
Wag The Dog - Hoffman and De Niro
The Big Kahuna - A softer Glengarry Glen Ross

[El_hefe]

Nice list, I've seen most of those, esp. liked 'Lost in Translation" & "About Schmidt" (yes I am an old fart!)

My DVD player is on the fritz, discovered that just as I was settling in to a (long) evening with "The Singing Detective"

Hey, I thought of a good Thai movie, no really , that I saw last year & give thumbs up to: "6ixty9" I believe is the way it is spelled, anyone else catch it?

[deepthroat]

Just went to see Alice In Wonderland and was knocked out. I was highly skeptical as I cannot remember ever seeing a Tim Burton film that had staying power - they're usually like cotton candy and although tasty, leave me feeling empty afterwards. This was fantastic though, but then again that may be because I had such low expectations going in.

Five of my all time favorites? Oh, if you insist.... (and in no particular order):

THE NATURAL - Robert Redford, Wiford Brimley. An American fairy tale.
PULP FICTION - nothing needs to be said.
MOULIN ROUGE - my friends all decided I'm a closet gay when I "came out" with my love for this film. Maybe they're right.
GODFATHER/GODFATHER II - must see it in the new Blu-Ray restoration version.
BOOGIE NIGHTS - Paul Thomas Anderson classic about the 70's porn industry. A tour-de-force of whirlwind filmmaking.

6 others that I continue to watch every 3 or 4 years and haven't yet tired of:
The Great Escape - WWII prisoner of war escape classic.
Blade Runner
Gladiator - also by the director of Blade Runner
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - based upon the novel by Cameron Crowe
Almost Famous - written and directed by Cameron Crowe, loosely based upon his life as a teenage correspondent for Rolling Stone.
Magnolia - PT Anderson's followup to Boogie Nights. Better than There Will Be Blood which got all the critical accolades.
The Sound of Music

[deepthroat]

aw fuck... now I read the entire thread and see this was supposed to be about "quirky little films no one knows about". Guess I could pretend I didn't know The Godfather or Pulp Fiction were at all popular, but then you'd all think maybe Boarhog had hacked my account. Guess it's best to just fess up and beg your pardon.

[pacman]

Alice in Wonderland is a quirky little film that no one knows about. Or that seems to be the case going by its box office numbers. A good start but many negative reviews have slowed it right down.

I also saw it (don't ask) & with zero expectations, I was impressed by what a good job Tim Burton managed to do with it. Of course with the huge budget that was spent on it, I can't see how it could not have been good.

I can't see anyone ever topping Burton's version, he has used every cinematic trick known to man, but like the ticket seller said when I asked if it was worth the money "you can't fail to be entertained by it".

I was always curious how such a classic in the hands of a talented director with a vast budget to spend on effects was so quickly dismissed by some of the critics. A few of these know-all armchair experts gave it 2 out of 5.

Perhaps they should go back & sit through the whole thing. I don't regret seeing it but it is still a kid's film, albeit a spectacular treatment of one. No one should expect more than that. No smart arse complaints please that I persuaded anyone to see it, it is what it is.

Now I need to find out if Deepthroat is stalking me... from 20,000 kms away...        

(The Sound of Music!!      now that IS    )

[deepthroat]

(pacman @ Mar. 31 2010,17:43) like the ticket seller said when I asked if it was worth the money "you can't fail to be entertained by it".

(The Sound of Music!!      now that IS    )

That right there is a major indicator of the differences between our cultures, and in particular our educational systems. In the US, the ticket taker would've responded with a guttural utterance, or at best something along the lines of "Uh, yeah... it's pretty cool." Polysyllabic verbs like "entertaining" aren't part of the common man's vocabulary any more. Even expressions like "can't fail to...." aren't common parlance any longer.

And "The Sound of Music"? One of the 50 greatest films of all time. Surely that's not considered gay is it?

Perhaps I should come out of this closet afterall.

[whore]

Vanishing Point is a good film from the 70's. Worth a watch if anyone hasnt seen it.

[kahuna]

Damn...You're right, that's a great movie...Gotta get a copy...eBay here I come...