ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[MaineWriter]

Next up: T in 1989

[Meryl]

Next: "U" in 1988

[southendmd]

IMDb:  This film documents the 1987 North American tour of the great rock band, U2. Fresh with their success of their best selling album, The Joshua Tree, the band plays monster gigs. Along the way, the band takes the opportunity in indulge in some special musical activities like playing with BB King and performing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking" with a famous church choir. All the while, concert footage of the band's biggest hits on tour is featured while Bono speaks his mind on the problems of his homeland

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==Comment==
This is all I could find...

Starring:Scott Glenn, Barbara Stock, Thomas G. Waites
Synopsis: This crime drama tells the story of the man behind the terrible Kansas City massacre, Verne Miller. Miller started out as a South Dakota sheriff and during the 1920s became a notorious gangster hit man. He started out doing jobs for Al Capone in Chicago and was so good at his job that Capone appointed him head of his Kansas City operation. The trouble begins when Miller thinks he has more power than he actually does and defies his boss to save two captured gangsters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

[MaineWriter]

==from IMDb==

Along with 'Threads' this is probably one of the best anti war films. Adapted from Raymond Brigg's 1982 Graphic Novel, legendary Japanese animator Jimmy Murakami does an amazing job of bringing the story to screen. Originally Murakami wanted a live action film but he didn't have the budget so instead used a combination of 3D backgrounds and 2D characters and it works extremely well.

The story follows retired couple Jim and Hilda Bloggs as they reminisce on their experiences of the Second World War through rose tinted glasses, as WWIII begins. John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft bring Jim and Hilda to life making you forget that you're watching two animated drawings. They try and 'do the correct thing' in making a fall out shelter despite conflicting government advice (the famous 'protect and survive' leaflets) but don't grasp the situation. Amazingly they survive a superbly animated nuclear attack but then it just gut wrenching to watch them succumb to radiation sickness but not knowing what is happening.

Finally the soundtrack is also one of the best, with specially written songs from David Bowie, Roger Waters and Genesis perfectly complementing the film.



Next up: Wildcard X! Any movie, any year!

[southendmd]

It is no exaggeration to say that this film is the reason I became a psychiatrist.  Alain Resnais brilliantly juxtaposes the psychologist Henri Laborit and his study of the evolutionary layers of the brain and animal behavior with real human drama (featuring a young Gerard Depardieu), with old clips of French film greats like Jean Gabin and Jean Marais to create an extraordinary film that is like nothing else in cinema.

[dot-matrix]

=comment=
Sorry I messed up the round folks   
I got confuzzeled

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==Comment==
Man, the eighties had the worst hairstyles!

[Meryl]

Next: B from 1982

[dot-matrix]

 
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Sorry Leslie