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  1. gembo
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    @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

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  2. PS
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    (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!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. Baldcyclist
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    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.

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  4. I were right about that saddle
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    Liking Blazing Saddles is a key test of soundness. Strangelove also used to test colleagues proffering coffee. I only drink rainwater and grain alcohol.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. gembo
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    @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.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. urchaidh
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    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

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  7. gembo
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    @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

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  8. PS
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    Not a barrel of laughs though but rains frogs at the end.

    And a terrific Aimee Mann soundtrack too.

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  9. I were right about that saddle
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    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.

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  10. dessert rat
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    +1 The Guard

    tremendous stuff.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  11. minus six
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    this thread has legs

    if its not too late, i'll recommend this one

    Woman in the Dunes

    massive film, well ahead of its time

    Posted 7 years ago #

  12. gembo
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    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.

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  13. I were right about that saddle
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    Definitely IWRATS watching it. Human ant lion.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  14. dessert rat
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    wrt to Woman in the Dunes, i give you The face of another

    Posted 7 years ago #

  15. urchaidh
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