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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Truman Show http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Truman Show en Tue, 19 May 2026 15:47:08 +0000 urchaidh on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257213 Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:39:51 +0000 urchaidh 257213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="http://i.imgur.com/vNcbSy0.jpg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/vNcbSy0t.jpg"></a> (click for bigger) dessert rat on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257177 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:36:58 +0000 dessert rat 257177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ wrt to Woman in the Dunes, i give you <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061065/?ref_=nv_sr_1">The face of another</a> I were right about that saddle on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257175 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:01:24 +0000 I were right about that saddle 257175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Definitely IWRATS watching it. Human ant lion. gembo on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257173 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:45:32 +0000 gembo 257173@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Bax that resume is a killer. Insect trapper trapped by Japanese villagers into living with female sand shoveler. Is that available on a single screening licence and we will put it on, happy to lose the £120 fee and just you and me and maybe IWRATS watching it. I watched great Kurosawa movie Rashimon which is Japanese villagers telling same story from different perspectives. Ironically in house of prof zisserman who proved the ball was over the line in the 1966 World Cup. He did not care whether it was over the line or not. minus six on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257160 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:06:27 +0000 minus six 257160@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ this thread has legs if its not too late, i'll recommend this one <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/">Woman in the Dunes</a> massive film, well ahead of its time dessert rat on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257141 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:55:53 +0000 dessert rat 257141@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ +1 The Guard tremendous stuff. I were right about that saddle on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257139 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:51:45 +0000 I were right about that saddle 257139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ maybe with some Peyote for the Balerno Massive instead of red wine I was wired to the moon when I saw Twin Peaks on the big screen. Still puzzled by many aspects of that evening. PS on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257135 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:26:12 +0000 PS 257135@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Not a barrel of laughs though but rains frogs at the end. And a terrific Aimee Mann soundtrack too. gembo on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257133 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:24:29 +0000 gembo 257133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @urchaidh, I know someone else who rates Restless Natives. THe others I am agreeing all strong, except maybe Kind Hearts (might not stand test of time?). Quite liked Cohen brothers remake of The Ladykillers Brendan Gleeson is great In Bruges. Also in one I think called The Guard. THis also has Don Cheadle running along a harbour wall in west of Ireland spitting fire out of an AK-47 With the Cinema we put on in Balerno we are very well attended on a blockbuster so for example when Dunkirk comes out on DVD we will be rammed. Our demographic is quite senior. However, if we go art house, numbers drop. We are looking for a Classics list that will guarantee numbers. We pout onThe Odd Couple a few years back and that really worked. But we promoted it heavily. (I was Walter - That's not linguine, that's garbage) This thread is therefore throwing up some good suggestions - you may only have seen them on TV but what about big screen? I would love to see Aguirre Wrath of God (another one for Bax) on the big screen, maybe with some Peyote for the Balerno Massive instead of red wine urchaidh on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257132 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:13:20 +0000 urchaidh 257132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ A few fcvorites in no particular order... Brazil Goodfellas Cinema Paradiso In Bruges Restless Natives Bladerunner Kind Hearts and Coronets Jungle Book (Disney Anim) Gregory's Girl The Searchers gembo on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257130 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:10:15 +0000 gembo 257130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @Baldycyclist, that is the start of the Tom Cruise film Magnolia. Not actually linked to the film as such but interesting. Bit like a short film before the main feature? Tom very good as evil misogynist Not a barrel of laughs though but rains frogs at the end. I were right about that saddle on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257129 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:06:17 +0000 I were right about that saddle 257129@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Liking Blazing Saddles is a key test of soundness. Strangelove also used to test colleagues proffering coffee. I only drink rainwater and grain alcohol. Baldcyclist on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257127 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:00:34 +0000 Baldcyclist 257127@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I don't get out much: 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Shawshank Redemption 3. Anything Star Wars 4. Dr Strangelove. 5. Blazing Saddles (you wouldn't get away with most of that now) 6. erm There was one film which I thought was hilarious where a man committing suicide by jumping out of the window, was accidentally shot dead as a gun was accidentally discharged out the window as the man went past. Can't remember what it was called. PS on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257121 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:05:12 +0000 PS 257121@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ (Master & Commander less sure) I think it just evokes all that eighteenth/nineteenth century naval stuff so well. An action film with long periods of no action, epic but human scale, iguanas, scientists, Russell Crowe being a leader of men, cellos, and it looks great. Huzzah! gembo on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998&page=2#post-257118 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:47:12 +0000 gembo 257118@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @PS, yes all good picks, (Master & Commander less sure) Can quote all of Withnail. Miller's Crossing is great, more violent than I recollected. No country very gripping and inexorable, ah wait though - THere will be blood, Daniel Day Lewis when he started doing the funny voices? I loved his transition from My Beauthiful Laundretter to Cecil Vyse in A room With A view (I found that I would call that acting, rather than what most actors do - play themself). The he did my left foot and maybe my fave In The Name of THe Father (postlethwaite I guess). However, on the funny voice front Last of the Mohicans (I will find you), Gangs of New York and THere will be Blood. Did not see Lincoln (I am guessing funny voice. I hear when he was a cobbler in ITaly his boots were lovely but dear. Rushmore probably my favourite Wes Anderson FISCHER I can quote all of The Life of Brian - The little wascal has spiwit. Has what sir? You know, bwavado, dewwing doo. About half past two sir PS on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257116 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:32:36 +0000 PS 257116@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ No trip in the vicinity of the Lakes is complete without "Are you the farmer?" being directed at a passing agricultural vehicle. I were right about that saddle on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257114 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:04:05 +0000 I were right about that saddle 257114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Withnail & I. Good pick. Elemental like the Big Lebowski. I saw a guy with a plastic bag tied round his foot just yesterday and immediately had a flashback. jdanielp on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257112 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:57:16 +0000 jdanielp 257112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I'm feeling bad about not having a Coen Brothers film in my list now. It would be one of The Hudsucker Proxy, No Country For Old Men and True Grit if I had to pick one. Rushmore is the closest to my top seven of anybody else's film picks so far (of those that I have actually seen), but I have a growing list to look out for on iPlayer... PS on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257110 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:43:39 +0000 PS 257110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Sometimes there's a man. And I'm taking about the Dude here. The Big Lebowski is so far ahead in my favourite films list that it is out of sight. Completely unspoiled. Left trailing in its wake: Chinatown Withnail & I Rushmore The Third Man Master and Commander The Elephant Man There Will Be Blood And, at the risk of over-Coening it, I'd probably throw in The Hudsucker Proxy and Miller's Crossing ahead of old favourites like The Sting and one of Clint's spaghetti things. jdanielp on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257109 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:32:31 +0000 jdanielp 257109@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ On the subject of existential films, I enjoyed A Ghost Story at the cinema at the weekend. It's a slow burner. gembo on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257107 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:42:36 +0000 gembo 257107@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Septober, Octember, Nowonder I like Stan's months of the year. Lighting his cigar with his thumb Trying to sell Fresh Fish at the docks. Jour de Fete lovely. Duck Soup quackers. Silent Running is existential I guess? I were right about that saddle on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257101 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:56:39 +0000 I were right about that saddle 257101@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @gembo Nearly went with Rio Bravo. Big Lebowski should have been there, though that's just like, my opinion, man. Duck Soup, Jour de fête....Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box... @Arrelcat Unwise to watch Silent Running alone. Support group required. Should really come with a warning - it is powerful stuff. gembo on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257100 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:14:29 +0000 gembo 257100@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I like a lot of old black and white films and older films with some colour double Indemnity The Maltese Falcon His girl Friday A bout de soufflé Derzu Usala (kurosawa's Russian movie) Chinatown Singing in the rain And probably because I am watching top of the lake The Piano Probably still also go with Raging Bull Favourite cowboy is probably still Rio Bravo For personal reasons The Big Lebowski Arellcat on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257099 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:35:42 +0000 Arellcat 257099@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Silent Running made a big impression on me when I was young. I haven't watched it for at least 20 years because it makes me so sad. I'm not much of a film connoisseur, but some of my favourites are: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631">Rollerball</a>. Brutal and futile distopian futurism. John Beck did most of his own rollerskating stunts. Speedball on the Atari was a homage, and I played it for hours and hours. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894">The Running Man</a>. Wisecracking, distopian futurism fluff. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092026">Paul</a>. Slovenly alien meets English sci-fi nerds. Pegg and Frost were old hands while Kristen Wiig hadn't yet hit the big time. I were right about that saddle on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257098 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:30:37 +0000 I were right about that saddle 257098@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I knew you would not fail me. Journeys. And the contradictions of masculinity. gembo on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257097 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:18:13 +0000 gembo 257097@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @iwrats They are all going on a journey. However, that might apply to @bax's list too. I were right about that saddle on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257096 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:56:06 +0000 I were right about that saddle 257096@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Cheers @gembo. Really opened up there, huh? Do I feel like Huey, Duey and Luey? When he tells them how to dig a grave, a little bit yes. Can you spot the common theme to my ten films with your professional antennae? gembo on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257095 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:51:10 +0000 gembo 257095@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @iwrats, nice list, do you feel like Huey, duey and luey? On a Blues Bothers spin off LP Dan Ackroyd as Elwood, introduces Belushi as Jake who is about to give a great version of Randy Newman's Guilty, as follows - And now my brother Jake would like to become increasingly intimate with you. Look, he's taking his coat off. When I put this dude to bed at night, he don't take his coat off. I were right about that saddle on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257094 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:43:40 +0000 I were right about that saddle 257094@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Not only have I never seen any of @bax's films I've never even heard of any of them. That said, here are a number of films I can remember watching more than once; 1) Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac. Faithful to the text, which is genius and therefore so is the film. 2) Henry Hathaway's True Grit. I want to be all of the characters. 3) Das Boot. The encounter with Thomson is the essence of my life in one minute. 4) To Kill a Mockingbird. I cry at an unexpected point. 5) Die Hard. You enjoyed it too. 6) The Wizard of Oz. Crystalline perfection with mad music. 7) Être et avoir. I cry at the expected point. 8) Blade Runner. Tears in the rain, dude. 9) Silent Running. A film that feels like I feel all the time. 10) The Blues Brothers. A film that feels like I'd like to feel all the time. jdanielp on "The Truman Show" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17998#post-257035 Fri, 11 Aug 2017 12:23:23 +0000 jdanielp 257035@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @bax that is an impressively high-brow top seven! I've only seen Stalker from your list (fairly recently) and I didn't get on all that well with it I'm afraid to say. My current seven are all relatively 'mainstream' English language films released within my (adult) lifetime, but I can assure you that there's diversity bubbling under! <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108598/">The Wrong Trousers</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/">Dark City</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120789/">Pleasantville</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/">Donnie Darko</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475276/">United 93</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0935075/">Rabbit Hole</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/">I, Daniel Blake</a> (listed in chronological order)