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Lumière:
Some films that I have seen more times than I can count:
Brokeback mountain
Maurice
Priest
If these walls could talk 1/2
The Good the bad and the Ugly (hence the avatar :) )
hermitdave:
1. Brokeback Mountain 2. The trip to Bountiful 3.My Life as a Dog 4.My Beautiful Laundrette 5. Somewhere in Time 6. Snow Falling on Cedars 7. Manhattan 8. Pink Flamingos 9. Rimbaud 10. Barfly
moremojo:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 19, 2006, 02:09:30 pm --- I studied Pasolini, Antonioni, and Bertolucci in college. We thought we'd have the same caliber of movies to watch our whole lives--what happened??!!
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Antonioni and Bertolucci are still among the living, though their output has been apparently sporadic, in both quantity and quality (Antonioni, of course, suffered a major stroke some two decades ago). I personally liked Bertolucci's Besieged, which starred Thandie Newton and David Thewlis, and found it interesting that both Newton and Thewlis are equally treated as erotic objects of attraction for the viewer.
Antonioni's 1962 masterpiece The Eclipse is one of my favorite films--it made my ten-best list on this thread.
Have you seen anything by Nanni Moretti? I caught his Caro diario on cable television, and found it delightfully droll and memorable. Moretti might be described as something like an Italian Woody Allen, and he seems to be considered one of the more estimable Italian filmmakers working today.
Cheers,
Scott
Sheyne:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on April 19, 2006, 10:02:58 am ---
--- Quote from: hungry_hungryhippos on April 19, 2006, 09:52:24 am ---And its so weird you say you love Mandy Patinkin in Princess Bride - he was the only character in the film I liked when I first saw it. The others have grown on me since, but I couldn't take my eyes off the guy!!! Are you a fan of his music?
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I know he sings, and I remember being floored by his singing in an episode of Dead Like Me, I think it was, once. But I haven't picked up any of his CDs yet. Any recommendations?
And I know just what you mean. The first time I saw The Princess Bride, everyone was going on about Cary Elwes and I kept saying, "But you know who I really liked in it was that Mandy Patinkin." They'd go "Who?" I'd go, "You know - Inigo Montoya - 'you killed my father - prepare to die.'" That fire in his eyes just draws me right in, no matter what he's saying or doing. I just love him. I loved him on Chicago Hope and on Dead Like Me. Even when he plays a very flawed or almost unlikable character, I can't help but like him and relate to him.
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Chicago Hope was the one I was thinking about, re singing. I was in Sydney over 10 years ago and I was watching an episode of it in one of my mates' rooms (we were all put up in a hotel down there for a year - shenanigans!!!!) and we were mucking about something fierce, throwing food etc and this one episode, Mandy's character sings to his wife, who I believe was mentally ill??? You might remember more than me, but I was dumbfounded. Me and this guy just stopped dead in our shenaniganny tracks as we listened to the song he sand to the wife and I got misty in the eyes, so did Darren. He's got the most unusual voice I've ever heard but SO moving! I can't pick up ANY of his albums over here but that one song is in my memory - I can't even remember what it was called now, but it was so beautiful. Sorry for vagueness, its about 6:30am here... *yawns*
cmr107:
OK, not saying these are the best quality movies, but some that I've seen MANY times (excluding the obvious) are:
Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride
My Cousin Vinny
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Best in Show
A Mighty Wind
10 Things I Hate About You
Pretty Woman
That's all I can think of at the moment. Might add more later.
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