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br1
Location: La Paz, Bolivia
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- #21
- Posted: 02/08/2010 21:35
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I like this animated films:
Allegro Non Troppo
Yellow Submarine
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Boogn1sh
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Location: Chicago
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- #22
- Posted: 02/08/2010 22:09
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| RFNAPLES wrote: | | Boogn1sh wrote: | | why an exception was made for Lawrence of Arabia which is unquestionably a British film we'll never know |
The film was made by Horizon Pictures (British) and Columbia Pictures (American). |
I understand why it was eligible, but c'mon a film about a British officer directed by David Lean (a brit) produced by an Austrian through a British company from a British script, with a British cinematographer and composer, starring the very Irish Peter O'Toole. I understand our desire to claim it, its a fantastic film, but there's almost nothing American about it but some money that was thrown down.
Elston, I gotta admit I'm kind of playing devil's advocate cause I'm usually the pretentious twat saying how much I hate main stream films  I agree that Gone with the Wind is about as boring as it gets. Spielberg is indeed WAY over represented in the list. I was mainly trying to point out that many of the greatest films aren't American or in English. Speaking of Welles how bout the opening to Touch of Evil, about as epic and badass as anything ever filmed...
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Elston
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- #23
- Posted: 02/08/2010 23:36
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| Boogn1sh wrote: | | Elston, I gotta admit I'm kind of playing devil's advocate cause I'm usually the pretentious twat saying how much I hate main stream films I agree that Gone with the Wind is about as boring as it gets. Spielberg is indeed WAY over represented in the list. I was mainly trying to point out that many of the greatest films aren't American or in English. Speaking of Welles how bout the opening to Touch of Evil, about as epic and badass as anything ever filmed... |
Totally. And how bout F for Fake? It's like...an avant-garde Orson Welles documentary. He is so strange, but always seems to make it work gracefully. As for not all the greatest films being English, that's very true. Many of the 'greatest' films came out of Europe, which makes sense considering how rich their cultural legacy is. But still, on the whole I generally prefer American (or British) films. One big plus is that you can sit back and watch the film without having to read subtitles, two is that, well, that's OUR culture! Those films are easier to relate to even if most of them are junk. But it's true. You find so many of the greatest films from foreign language - Godard, Bunuel, Tarkovsky, Bergman, Tsai Ming-Liang, Kiarostami etc.
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videoheadcleaner
formerly Harkan
Gender: Male
Age: 38
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- #24
- Posted: 02/09/2010 06:58
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In no order:
North By Northwest
Clue (1985)
Donnie Darko
Brick
The Interview (aussie film)
Sin City
Harvey (Jimmy Stewart)
The Truman Show
Young Frankenstein
Bullitt
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Freddie55
Gender: Male
Location: Toronto, ON
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- #25
- Posted: 02/09/2010 07:22
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Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar
Local Hero, Gregory's Girl and anything else by Bill Forsyth
The Man Who Would Be King
The Right Stuff
The Hustler
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Being there
Dazed and Confused
Heathers
Mean Girls
Salaam Bombay!
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
Ghost World
Mountains of the Moon
Fitzcarraldo
Harold and Maude
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Mean Streets
Repo Man
The Straight Story
Miller's Crossing
Stranger than Paradise
After Hours
Rushmore
Pecker
Igby Goes Down
The Legend of 1900
and many many more
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The Seer
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Location: Paris
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- #26
- Posted: 02/09/2010 09:36
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| Freddie55 wrote: |
Ghost World
Rushmore
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i haven't seen much from your list but i guess if the two movies above are in, it has to be a good one ! the lastest movie of Wes Anderson is really good too (Fantastic Mr. Fox), isn't it ?
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badfaith
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Location: Kent
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- #27
- Posted: 02/09/2010 13:06
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| Elston wrote: | | Hey, Mike Leigh is a genius. Either All or Nothing or Abagail's Party (apparently Very Drake is good too) |
Indeed, a lot of old british films were very good because they were diverse and original, but now it's the same old crap, costume drama or quaint rom-com starring Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren etc. Where are the Wicker man's of our time?
...and don't get me started on Keira Knightly. All very nice to look at, until she smiles, then she reminds me of one of Ridley Scott's aliens when it's about to shoot that toothy cock out of it's mouth- her lips peel back over the toothsome horror of her face, and I half expect her to start hissing like like on of those beasties and the aforementioned shaft to protrude from her skeletal physog!
And no matter what she does,it's impossible to care about her character.
rant over. Carry on.
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Richie Hunt
Gender: Male
Age: 110
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- #28
- Posted: 02/10/2010 12:15
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District 9
Children of Men
No Country for Old Men
No Country in District 9 for Children of Old Men - producer Harvos
are a couple of my favorite.... if Harvos was around they'd be in his favorite too
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Gooserocker
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- #29
- Posted: 02/10/2010 12:33
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I've always been a big fan of Big Fan
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thomas697
Gender: Male
Location: Melbourne
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- #30
- Posted: 05/15/2010 04:07
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The Royal Tenenbaums
True Romance (One of the most intense/funny scenes of all time)
Casablanca
The Godfather I/II
Pulp Fiction
Collateral (cant explain, just a soft spot)
Schindler's List
Wall E
No Country for old Men
American History X
A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
So many!
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