Films

[geoffr]

Feb 28, 2024 8:39:32 GMT Kath said:

Feb 27, 2024 23:11:31 GMT John Farrell said:

The original film of M*A*S*H. Master and Commander - I have read the book, and have the film on DVD...Lord of the Rings ditto. A few weeks ago I picked up the DVD of the 1969 film Battle of Britain; I haven't watched it yet - when my son visits at Easter I'll watch it with him.

Loved M*A*S*H!  Not even heard of Master and Commander but just googled and it looks good!  Not touching Lord of the Rings.  Sorry.

Episode 1 of Lord of the Rings sent me to sleep on a flight from London to Johannesburg

[Kath]

Feb 28, 2024 0:45:10 GMT lesleysm2 said:

A list of my favourite films is going to take some doing but okay in no particular order
Goodfella's 
Some like it hot
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Trainspotting
Dr Strange
Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Easy Rider
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Let the Right One in (Not the American remake)
Wicker Man
Shawshank Redemption 
The Wall
Blazin' Sadlles
The Sleeper
Carrie
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Going Postal
A Clockwork Orange
Airplane
Cape Fear
Magic
Psycho
The Evil Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Shaun of the Dead
This is Spinal Tap
Wayne's World
The Green Mile
When the Wind Blows
Hot Fuzz
Cabaret
Leon
Tommy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Meaning of Life
Life of Brian
The Devils
Crimes of Passion
la Cage Aux Folles


Etc...Dave was a movie buff so it sorta rubbed off on me but since he died I don't watch many films or for that matter much telly

The emojis are just to denote which I've seen   and which I've not  .  No judgement implied.  Of the ones you've listed, Cape Fear and La Cage Aux Folles were my favourites.  

[Kath]

Feb 28, 2024 0:48:32 GMT lesleysm2 said:

I forgot
The Omen
The Exorcist
Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street
An American Werewolf in London
From Dusk til Dawn

Yes I do like a good horror movie

the last one having reminded me to add another great film I forgot about

Up in Smoke

And how did I forget The Blues Brothers?

Weirdly, I'm not really into horror films but I seem to have seen quite a few.   The Blues Brothers is probably one of only about two films that I'm happy to watch over and over.  

[MJB]

If you have access to a large screen TV I heartily recommend revisiting some of the epics from the golden age of cinema. Films like Lawrence of Arabia and How the West Was Won look amazing viewed on the scale the film makers made them for.

Personal favourite films are 1980s black comedy, Restless Natives and Baz Luhrmann's camp classic, Strictly Ballroom. I do enjoy a good war film. Hacksaw Ridge, 1917, and Dunkirk (2017) are very, very good, although the latter can be challenging to watch as it goes back and forth along the timeline. There are some very good foreign language war films on Amazon and Netflix, which give a different perspective on events. The Russians produce some excellent films, but the best I have seen is the Italian film, El Alamein, The Line of Fire.

[spinno]

Ice Cold in Alex is one of my favourite war films

[zou]

I'm not a massive movie watcher but appreciate good cinematography. The opening few minutes of Once Upon A Time in the West are right up there amongst the best in my opinion, even if the rest of the film falls a bit flat. Hero (Jet Li) is absolutely worth a watch for it's use of colour, the staging, the structure. Kurosawa is always worth watching too, comparing Shichinin no Samurai with the Magnificent Seven, or Yojimbo with a Fistful of Dollars.

Scorsese's The Departed gets great reviews but isn't a patch on the HK original, Infernal Affairs.

[spinno]

I have films I watch for the joy of escapism
Star Trek 2 - The Wrath of Khan - Ricardo Montalban and William Shatner trying to out ham each other
Star Trek 6 -The Undiscovered Country - Christopher Plummer and William Shatner trying to out ham each other
Flash - Brian Blessed so understated
Where Eagles Dare - Broadsword calling Danny Boy, need I say more

[don]

Feb 28, 2024 0:45:10 GMT lesleysm2 said:

A list of my favourite films is going to take some doing but okay in no particular order
Goodfella's
Some like it hot
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Trainspotting
Dr Strange
Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Easy Rider
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Let the Right One in (Not the American remake)
Wicker Man
Shawshank Redemption
The Wall
Blazin' Sadlles
The Sleeper
Carrie
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Going Postal
A Clockwork Orange
Airplane
Cape Fear
Magic
Psycho
The Evil Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Shaun of the Dead
This is Spinal Tap
Wayne's World
The Green Mile
When the Wind Blows
Hot Fuzz
Cabaret
Leon
Tommy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Meaning of Life
Life of Brian
The Devils
Crimes of Passion
la Cage Aux Folles


Etc...Dave was a movie buff so it sorta rubbed off on me but since he died I don't watch many films or for that matter much telly

I tend not to watch films and upon reading your list I think I have seen three of them. I haven’t been to the cinema in years. 

[Kath]

Feb 28, 2024 9:40:09 GMT MJB said:

If you have access to a large screen TV I heartily recommend revisiting some of the epics from the golden age of cinema. Films like Lawrence of Arabia and How the West Was Won look amazing viewed on the scale the film makers made them for.

Personal favourite films are 1980s black comedy, Restless Natives and Baz Luhrmann's camp classic, Strictly Ballroom. I do enjoy a good war film. Hacksaw Ridge, 1917, and Dunkirk (2017) are very, very good, although the latter can be challenging to watch as it goes back and forth along the timeline. There are some very good foreign language war films on Amazon and Netflix, which give a different perspective on events. The Russians produce some excellent films, but the best I have seen is the Italian film, El Alamein, The Line of Fire.

I made my family watch Restless Natives a while back - they'd never heard of it but it's a treat!

We also re-watched Brassed Off, another favourite of mine.

I don't have a massive TV because I don't have a massive room to put one in. But as a child we had a tiny B&W tv nad it didn't stop me enjoying the old films.   My own favourites tended to be things that were adaptations of books - I was an avid reader of Alistair MacLean novels and loved The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare and Ice Station Zebra.  

[Kath]

By the way Lesley, I hope you mean the original French film, La Cage Aux Folles and not the English language verison The Birdcage?

[aitch]

Mar 9, 2024 14:09:23 GMT Kath said:

By the way Lesley, I hope you mean the original French film, La Cage Aux Folles and not the English language verison The Birdcage?

Actually , I always thought the English version was the best film Robin Williams made. Not that I thought much of his other stuff.

And if you like OLD films, Talking Pictures TV occasionally has some good ones - The Ghost and Mrs Muir comes round occasionally, and the original Heaven Can Wait  - much better than the re-make.

[MJB]

Mar 9, 2024 14:06:55 GMT Kath said:

made my family watch Restless Natives a while back - they'd never heard of it but it's a treat!

I'm relieved to hear that. I was beginning to think I'd dreamt it, as no one I know had heard of it.

[Kath]

Mar 9, 2024 17:14:55 GMT MJB said:

Mar 9, 2024 14:06:55 GMT Kath said:

made my family watch Restless Natives a while back - they'd never heard of it but it's a treat!

I'm relieved to hear that. I was beginning to think I'd dreamt it, as no one I know had heard of it.

You definitely didn't dream it.  Had a great 80s soundtrack too.

[lesleysm2]

Mar 9, 2024 14:09:23 GMT Kath said:

By the way Lesley, I hope you mean the original French film, La Cage Aux Folles and not the English language verison The Birdcage?

But of course I've even seen The Birdcage 

[Chester PB]

I could write a very long list, which would include many of those films is previous postings. However, I think I can add a few (in no particular order):

The Seven Samurai - I saw a new print of the complete version at a BFI regional film theatre in the late 1970s. Over 3 hours long, but seemed like half that. It makes the US version (The Magnificent Seven) look like rubbish.

Mishima - again I saw this at a cinema when first released, and managed to find a region 1 DVD a few years ago.

The Battle of Algiers - not one of Charles de Gaulle's favourite films. A visually stunning monochrome anamorphic film that I saw once at a cinema, but sadly the only DVD I could find has been cropped to 16x9.

The Hairdresser's Husband - eccentric, French and a favourite.

2001 - I saw this at a cinema on its first release when I was 12, and have never been the same since.

Has anybody mentioned The Godfather? I was just old (16) enough to see this at a cinema on its original release, and because I had gone directly from school and was wearing the school uniform I was asked how old I was.