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The Friends of Eddie Coyle motivated me to start this topic. As a Senor citizen I can do this all day but I hope I'm not alone.
Office Space- "Maybe I'll get to show her my O-face". Gangsta soundtrack too funny.
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Two brit comedies . . Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's Bedazzled and The Wrong Box with a brilliant cameo by Peter Sellers. They were made in the 60's and the latter only recently made it to DVD. And a third, Local Hero, a tender comedy with a funny Burt Lancaster if you can believe that.A handful of others: The Quiet American- a love story for old men and commentary on modern day colonialism; Lone Star (John Sayles is a fine writer/director, IMO, and his The Brother From Another Planet is a hoot); Atlantic City, a Louis Malle movie also with Burt Lancaster it just so happens and Susan Sarandon in her first (I think) movie.
Worth a first look if you haven't seen them.
Edits: 07/27/09
As someone whose best friend had a father who was a French chef and owned a locally famous restaurant, I always found this film charming. If you like Bedazzled and The Wrong Box, you should look for it.I've always had a soft spot for The Wrong Box - along with its score - but few have seen it. TWB also features a very young and handsome Michael Caine. Bedazzled, of course, is a classic.
I was lucky enough to see Peter Cook and Dudley Moore live on stage in one of their touring shows: "Good Evening". They were side splittingly hilarious. I laughed til I hurt.
The Quiet American got generally favorable ift somewhat mixed reviews when it came out, yet it is among my favorite adpatations of Graham Greene, featuring yet another wonderful performance from Michael Caine
Local Hero is one of those small films that often pops up on people'
s fave lists.Sayles is one of the only true independent filmmakers in the US. I have seen all his films, and I think Lone Star is a masterpiece. I'm also very fond of Matewan and Eight Men Out (not least because I'm IN EMO).
Malle's Atlantic City is another masterpiece, another great turn by Lancaster. I think only someone very wise could have made this film.
Edits: 08/04/09
The Dancer Upstairs- Directed by John Malkovich with Javier Bardem in the lead. He plays an anti terrorist police captain in Equador (my best guess as it really never says) with an attraction for his daughter's ballet teacher. And the plot doth thicken. See this and you'll know why the Coen Brothers were so intent on getting him for No Country. I mean this actor oozes cha-ris-ma. And Malkovich gets a really fine performance from him. In english, mostly. What spanish there is has subtitles.
Edits: 08/11/09
The Year of Living Dangerously. On cable today where I'm at. Anybody out there?
are ones I always come back to; easy to do since he incorpoartes so much symbolism in his work and dream-like images. I just get lost in them. Nostalghia can definitely drag at times (well all his films can), but Stalker is such a mind-job that I just get sucked in - that's one that deserves a remake.
repeatedly the rest of your life.
Satantango is his true masterpiece though I think Damnation it's equal, though far shorter.
You have to see the bonus material to realize how crafty and thought out the entire work was.
Same goes for Russian Ark....see it several times, inlcuding the bonus material--which means more than the work.
NO GRITS NO GLORY
Raping that printer was classic...as good as Dave killing HAL in 2001. "My mind is going, I can feel it!"
Actually all of Malick's films.
Edits: 07/12/09
The musical score was "Jaws" like.
NO GRITS NO GLORY
One of my favorite movies . . . period.
It got lots of criticism . . . the philosophial musings, nature vs. man theme, etc. I guess you connect to it or you don't. I did with The Thin Red Line. I've heard there was lots more footage, and it had to be drastically cut to fit in the theater venue. It's a shame will never see the longer cut (when blu-ray does appear, I doubt it will much longer, if at all.)
Now A New World seems to continue the same themes, but I just didn't connect with it. In fact, I got bored. No, I didn't see the new cut released only on DVD. Last time I tried that approach (Kingdom of Heaven), it didn't redeem the movie for me.
Hoping for good things from Malick's forthcoming movie . . . it should be released in 2010, at the latest.
Bloody good, Mr. Dave. Saw Badlands again not too long ago. Brillant piece of work. Thin Red Line won't let me forget how imperfect a shit storm can be and for the poor bastards carrying the load. One thing that stood out is this was the age (as portrayed) of the enemy soldiers. Just pawns when you think about it. Aren't all privates.
When I was still in Britain I watched it with a friend, a very macho motor bike and leather jacket kind of guy and I was thinking it might be a bit too touchy feelie for him, but at the end he just said "WOW... what a film.... about what war does to people... wow".
I don't normally buy DVDs, but TRL I bought.
Rod
"Office Space" has to take the award as the most often shown film on cable TV, at least on the crappy Comcast system. The humor is relateable to just about anyone who has worked in a dysfunctional company, who had a boss like Lumbergh, played by Gary Cole, who I went to high school with here in Rolling Meadows, IL.
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Probability is probably the key to life.
(Lumbergh) 'uh if you could go ahead and come in Saturday too that would be super'
Office Space, I must have seen in 10 times - I do not have a life...
thanks
Phil
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Thought Charlie Wilson's War was better the second time around.
2 Days in the Valley. Multi layered mystery with an ensemble cast including Charlize Theron (in her film debut) and Teri Hatcher. The do battle even. With a nasty James Spader. Fun flick.
Oh Lucky Man- Lindsey Anderson's piece de resistance. Zen at the movies. New on DVD, I think. Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, etc.
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