09-18-2009, 12:46 PM
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I wanted to start a recommendation thread for any films that have interesting, intelligent plots or content (or at the very least are exceedingly well done) that may be a bit older, somewhat obscure, etc.
My submission is To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. starring Maggie Smith (a.k.a Miss McGonagall to younger folks). It's the story of a private school teacher in Edinburgh in 1932. She's very vain, and quite a maniputlative type of person who enjoys her noteriaty and popularity among the staff, with men, and each year she gathers a close knit group of girls from the incoming freshman class there after known as "Brodie's Girls," which for the next four years recieve her special, non-sanctioned, "sensual" education. She describes herself as an artistic, passionate, bohemian type of person with great intellectual freedom and curiosity, a real adventure seeker when actually she's deeply cynical, controlling, and sexually repressed. She likes to allure and tease men and yet draws away when true intamacy threatens. She's the type that's more in love with the chase then with the capture. So these girls of hers, they listen to her private lectures on the pleasures of a bohemian, artistic, ideal-driven life, and naive as they are they take her word and example as truth, and she fashions them as she sees fit. I wont explain any more, as it will give too much of the plot away. In any case, if you've never seen or heard of it, you might like to check it out. |
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09-18-2009, 01:22 PM
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To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. The story of Lady Emma Hamilton To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. ...and her infamous, scandalous affair with Lord Nelson (you know, the guy up on the pole in Trafalgar Square?) At the risk of annoying several people around here, I'm going to say that the Emma Hamilton character strikes me as a pretty classic ESFJ. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. It's very old school, lots of swoopy romantic moments and music to match, a certain amount of mugging for the camera in close ups. Not a lot of depth, pretty highly fictionalized. But I've always liked this movie... for some reason, it just sticks in my mind. It's beautiful, a glittering B&W costume drama. And Vivien Leigh. Talk about "it" factor. This movie emphasizes how, when certain people are on screen, you can't not look at them. She's one of those people. |
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09-18-2009, 01:37 PM
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09-18-2009, 04:23 PM
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Let The Right One In
This is a movie that was made in 2008 and based on a book written in 2004 by Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist. The movie is hauntingly beautiful. For me the most important theme had to do with loneliness and isolation from society. Many of the characters deal with this theme in their own ways. I don't want to give too much away. Now this is a vampire flick, just to let you know, but honestly it's so much more than that. Also, it is subtitled. There are two subtitled versions - the American version is not as good a translation. P.S. Watch their hands...I think they tell a mini version of the story itself. |
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09-18-2009, 05:06 PM
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good topic
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09-18-2009, 08:18 PM
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Too many for me to list. I love film noir/ foreign films.
1. Le Samourai - a very sexy Alain Delon as hitman; very stylish 2. Rififi - the 1950s heist film upon which many heist films are built on 3. Black Orpheus - Rio De Janeiro, Carnival, and the myth of Orpheus/ Eurydice 4. Diabolique 5. Elevator to the Gallows - murder, Paris, and cool Miles Davis score 6. The Visitor - which I haven't been able to find on DVD - post-WW2 revenge with Ingrid Bergman/ Anthony Quinn Take a look at the Criterion Collection for ideas. |
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09-18-2009, 08:56 PM
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Happiness (one of the funniest movie ever! that is if you have a very twisted sense of humor)
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09-19-2009, 07:19 AM
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Kung Fu Hustle - not old but great
Another slightly odd film but I loved it is Punch Drunk Love |
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09-19-2009, 11:49 AM
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Oh, yeah, Touch of Evil. Charlton Heston as a Mexican guy trying to crack a "dope ring", Janet Leigh as his American wife, and an aging Marlene Dietrich as one of the local denizens. Drug wars on the border in the 1950s. This is such a weird, shadowy, seedy movie. I saw this in a theatrical re-release, years ago. |
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09-21-2009, 10:30 AM
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"Donnie Darko" is twisted and bizarre meditation on the nature of time and reality.
As is "The Jacket". Both are relatively recent. |
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09-21-2009, 10:41 AM
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To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Again, not a challenging-interesting movie, per se, but I like it. Might be hard to find. It's the story of Gilbert & Sullivan creating The Mikado... great Belle Époque costumes, sets, and (if you don't hate Gilbert & Sullivan) music. |
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09-21-2009, 10:43 AM
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I loved Kung Fu Hustle! Excellent choice.
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09-21-2009, 11:10 AM
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LOVE this film. And it makes me think of Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures because of the two main character's obsession with Orson Welles. Also a very good film. |
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09-21-2009, 11:14 AM
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'The Innocents' and 'Eyes Without a Face'.
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09-21-2009, 11:15 AM
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The Creator
It's with Peter O'toole and I LOVE him. About a professor who keeps his dead wife's cells in his garage in the hopes of one day cloning her. It's pretty fascinating, though low on science and high on relationship stuff. I pretty much like anything with O'toole. Also Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog. OK this movie is just weird as hell but somehow makes my heart ache. I'm too scared to watch it again. Same with Aguirre the Wrath of God, also with same actor and directed by Herzog. These two movies I don't so much love as they just make me feel... helpless and frustrated. Lol. Not sure if they belong in this thread as they are foreign films but I thought I would mention them. |
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09-21-2009, 11:55 AM
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Seconded. I actually own this one on DVD. |
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09-21-2009, 12:08 PM
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Oooo! Oooo!
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. (this is almost an obvious choice) To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. (care for a movie w/ zero dialog?) To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. (the original w/ Zero Mostel - speaking of zero's) To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. (Sean Connery as a monk?? A medieval whodunit?!!) |
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09-21-2009, 12:25 PM
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hahaha yeah such a funny and clever film set in the post apocalyptic world. |
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09-21-2009, 12:45 PM
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To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. . To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. This one loves the concept question "Does power corrupt or is it might makes right?" |
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09-21-2009, 05:25 PM
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I will check out The Creator for sure, I am also a fan of Mr O'toole. I am not gay or anything, but I think he is one of the most beautiful gentlemen ever! He still got it, loved him in Venus, another one of his really fine and underrated films, just like Murphy's War. |
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09-23-2009, 04:15 PM
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Helpless and frustrated, that's a great description. Herzog is one of the few postwar German filmmakers I really like. |
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09-23-2009, 04:37 PM
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yeah same here, not exactly a fan of the 'Dogme95' minimalist film making style. Festen was one of a kind film, the director did a wonderful job of unfolding such an engaging story, it was pretty much a live play on film. |
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09-23-2009, 05:10 PM
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Recently I saw Prelude to a Kiss on hulu. I thought it was going to be a romantic comedy and was watching it in order to cure my insomnia. I ended up watching the whole thing. Ebert wrote of this film: "Although it could probably do more with its story, what it does is gentle and moving. The film is fairly hard to categorize, which is one of its strengths . . . Of the dialogue, I'll say how unusual it is for Hollywood characters to talk longingly and thoughtfully about our search for happiness in this world where most assuredly we will die. Prelude to a Kiss is the kind of movie that can inspire long conversations about the only subject really worth talking about, the Meaning of It All."
Nobody ever talks about this movie! I enjoyed it, too. |
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09-23-2009, 05:22 PM
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I haven't seen this movie since it was released in the theatres but I remember it to be quite impressive.
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09-23-2009, 06:43 PM
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I can absolutely vouch for this! This is the only movie I have ever seen that has actually moved me deeply. The best movie I have ever seen. It's a highly visual movie, so those who are a bit less artistically inclined may not completely grasp the deeper nuances. Watch this movie. |
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