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OT: Movie recommendations
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: JennyC on June 16, 2006, 04:16:14 pm ---Has anyone saw "An Inconvenient Truth"? How was it?
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Oh, pick me, pick me! Yes, I've seen it. I thought it was quite good. Very scary stuff. Some of the stuff Al Gore had in those slides was pretty damning evidence that the meltdown has already begun. I was angry and sad after first seeing it - I couldn't shake the thought (still can't) of what a really good man Al Gore is and of how different things would be had he won in 2000. And he was nothing like the Campaigning Al Gore - he was warm and witty and eloquent. It's a shame that whoever his handlers were in 2000 couldn't just let him be himself - there ain't nothing wrong with the way he communicates when he's just speaking off the cuff.
If it's not already obvious, I recommend it highly.
SFEnnisSF:
I saw Prarie Home Companion this weekend and I LOVED IT! :D
JennyC:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on June 25, 2006, 12:12:00 pm ---Oh, pick me, pick me! Yes, I've seen it. I thought it was quite good. Very scary stuff. Some of the stuff Al Gore had in those slides was pretty damning evidence that the meltdown has already begun. I was angry and sad after first seeing it - I couldn't shake the thought (still can't) of what a really good man Al Gore is and of how different things would be had he won in 2000. And he was nothing like the Campaigning Al Gore - he was warm and witty and eloquent. It's a shame that whoever his handlers were in 2000 couldn't just let him be himself - there ain't nothing wrong with the way he communicates when he's just speaking off the cuff.
If it's not already obvious, I recommend it highly.
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Thanks Barb. Now I remembered that you said you were going to see the movie one weekend. I will try to find some time to see the movie.
Sheyne:
--- Quote from: littleguitar on June 20, 2006, 09:37:49 am ---I just watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang yesterday with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. I really enjoyed it. It's an LA detective story with a lot of comedy and a strangely good performance by Val Kilmer as private eye "Gay" Perry. Some parts lost me, but overall I thought it was very funny.
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This is GREAT film. There are soooo many great exchanges of dialogue between Downey and Kilmer but probably my favourite is this one:
Harry: [after meeting "Gay Perry"] Still gay?
Perry: No, knee-deep in pussy. I just love the name so much I can't get rid of it.
;D
dly64:
--- Quote from: moremojo on June 06, 2006, 06:00:23 pm ---Here are some films I recommend for their beauty, thoughtfulness, and/or life-enhancing qualities (listed in no particular order):
Ordet (1955) Gertrud (1964) The Ladies' Man (1961) Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Au hasard Ballthazar (1966) Unsere Afrikareise (1966) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) F for Fake (1974) Playtime (1967) Du skal aere din hustru (1925) The Circus (1928) Freaks (1932) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) The Scenic Route (1978) Pather Panchali (1955) I Was Born, But... (1932) Passing Fancy (1933) Celine et Julie vont en bateau (1974) Erogeny (1976) Andrei Rublev (1969) Topsy-Turvy (1999) Beau travail (1999) An Actor's Revenge (1963) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) Passion in the Desert (1997) Without You I'm Nothing (1990) Gerry (2002) Yes (2004) Barry Lyndon (1975) Gregory's Girl (1981) Easy Street (1917) Intolerance (1916) Les Vampires (1915) The Man with a Movie Camera (1929) The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952) A New Leaf (1971) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Divine Madness! (1980) Hairspray (1987) Daughters of the Dust (1991) Jungfrukallan (1960) Mahanagar (1963) Local Hero (1983) The Apple (1998) L'eclisse (1962)Le notti di Cabiria (1957) To Live (1994) The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985) Solaris (1972) ..last, but not least... Brokeback Mountain (2005) Scott M.
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OMG, Scott! Someone after my own heart!
Here are some others you might like??? (no particular order ... BBM is a given):
Pandora's Box (1928)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921)
Sunrise (1926)
Metropolis (1927)
Vampyr (1930
Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)
Fall of the House of Usher (1927)
Random Harvest (1942)
Red Dust (1932)
Dinner at Eight (1934)
Bombshell (1933)
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon of the Spring (1987)
Seventh Seal (1958)
8 1/2 (1963)
Okay guys ... I could go on and on. I think all of those are classics. If you are considering giving silents a try, start with "Pandora's Box." It's fabulous and shockling modern in some of its themes.
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