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Not much of a WA fan, but I really liked Juno and Little Miss Sunshine. Both were quite funny and poignant.
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Sue, I agree with you on Sophie's Choice..I will never forget the scene where she has to choose which child to lose....heartwrenching! Other favorites:
Good Will Hunting
Prince of Tides
Dirty Dancing
and all time favorite: Legend of the Falls...sigh...Brad Pitt as Tristin...doesn't get any better than that!
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Page wrote:Sue, I agree with you on Sophie's Choice..I will never forget the scene where she has to choose which child to lose....heartwrenching! Other favorites:
Good Will Hunting
Prince of Tides
Dirty Dancing
and all time favorite: Legend of the Falls...sigh...Brad Pitt as Tristin...doesn't get any better than that! Oh yeah, got that right, just thinking about him in those jeans, with that hair...............
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Here's a couple i love and haven't seen listed:
Out of Africa
Witness
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watchthemoon wrote:Here's a couple i love and haven't seen listed:
Out of Africa
Witness Out of Africa was great, loved Streep/Redford.
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I'm adding one I just watched on Showtime this afternoon, "The Kite Runner". Made me cry and opened my eyes at bit to boot.
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The Big Lebowski - Jeff Bridges,John Goodman,Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi
The Ref - with Judy Sivad, Kevin Spacey abd Dennis leary
The Royal Tennenbaums -Gene Hackman, Luke and Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow,Ben Stiller, Anjelica huston Alec Baldwin,
zero Effect - Ben Stiller Bill Pullman,
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Steve Martin
**Down by Law Roberto Benini, Tom Waites,Hugh Laurie you have to like Jim Jarmusch or don't bother. If you do also see night on Earth
**Bitter Moon - directed by Roman Polanski starring his wife Emanuel Seignier, Peter Coyote,Kristen Scott Thomas and Hugh Grant. This will make your skin crawl.
The Golden Compass - Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman,Ian Mckellen, Sam Elliot
Sorry so many but I thought it might be a big surgery. Mostly comedies for the medical benefits Actually see Bitter Moon when you're already home
Almost forgot The Grifters with Annette Bening, John Cusak and Anjelica Huston
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DCNGA wrote:I'm adding one I just watched on Showtime this afternoon, "The Kite Runner". Made me cry and opened my eyes at bit to boot. Oh yeah, very good. I did not know what was going to happen next with this film. What did Amir say at the end to his friend, something like, For you, a thousand times more or over?
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sam wrote:The Big Lebowski - Jeff Bridges,John Goodman,Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi
The Ref - with Judy Sivad, Kevin Spacey abd Dennis leary
The Royal Tennenbaums -Gene Hackman, Luke and Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow,Ben Stiller, Anjelica huston Alec Baldwin,
zero Effect - Ben Stiller Bill Pullman,
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Steve Martin
**Down by Law Roberto Benini, Tom Waites,Hugh Laurie you have to like Jim Jarmusch or don't bother. If you do also see night on Earth
**Bitter Moon - directed by Roman Polanski starring his wife Emanuel Seignier, Peter Coyote,Kristen Scott Thomas and Hugh Grant. This will make your skin crawl.
The Golden Compass - Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman,Ian Mckellen, Sam Elliot
Sorry so many but I thought it might be a big surgery. Mostly comedies for the medical benefits Actually see Bitter Moon when you're already home
Almost forgot The Grifters with Annette Bening, John Cusak and Anjelica Huston Geez, the only one of these I have seen is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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Reviving an old thread:
Un coeur en hiver
Camille Claudel
Wings of Desire
Blade Runner
Cat People
The Story of Adele H.
Amadeus
La Dolce Vita
Jane Eyre (Timothy Dalton version, yum!)
The Motorcycle Diaries
I'm sure I can think of more.
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For me, ANY horror movie with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorie etc in it. A lot of movies that came out in 30's and 40's and 50's.
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Fletch
Gone with The Wind
Caddyshack
Jaws I and II
American Pie
War of the Roses
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I like Period Films and also Foreign Films - Picnic at Hanging Rock (Director is Peter Weir - who did The Truman show) Age of Innocence (Scorcese) The Godfather (I and III) Dr. Zhivago (David Lean) Grease The Hours (beautiful Sound track by Philip Glass) The Double Life of Veronique Vincent and Theo (Altman) Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) Room with a View
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Oh yeah, that was an amazing read, too! I got about 3/4 of the way through the sequel book, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and THREW IT AWAY. It was the most gut-punching, gawdawful saga. Made me want to poke my eyes out it haunted me so. ========================================= DCNGA wrote:I'm adding one I just watched on Showtime this afternoon, "The Kite Runner". Made me cry and opened my eyes at bit to boot.
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Lara, you are complete ROMANTIC! ALL of these movies are exquisitely filmed! "Picnic at Hanging Rock" - wow! That one gave me goosebumps a mile high. And you may want to check out "Heavenly Creatures" for a true-life, spine-tingling tale of two gals who become a bit too close ... and murder is the outcome. Very well done. ================================== Larazelle wrote:I like Period Films and also Foreign Films -
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Director is Peter Weir - who did The Truman show)
Age of Innocence (Scorcese)
The Godfather (I and III)
Dr. Zhivago (David Lean)
Grease
The Hours (beautiful Sound track by Philip Glass)
The Double Life of Veronique
Vincent and Theo (Altman)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
Room with a View
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Bugjune wrote:Lara, you are complete ROMANTIC! ALL of these movies are exquisitely filmed!
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" - wow! That one gave me goosebumps a mile high.
And you may want to check out "Heavenly Creatures" for a true-life, spine-tingling tale of two gals who become a bit too close ... and murder is the outcome. Very well done.
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Hey Bug - we must be on the same wavelength if you had such a visceral reaction to POHR - that beautiful Pan flute soundtrack itself gives me goosbumps LOL - I really did not expect anyone to recognize this movie as it is an old one (1975) and Australian to boot I don't watch many movies - I'm very picky with my time - but then the ones I love I watch A LOT - like I have watched Picnic on Hanging Rock at least 20 times - Its a mesmeric movie - but not for everyone - (its slow moving and has no high action or sexy scenes so its not a crowd pleaser) - but - but then I much prefer foreign movies to American -since I find the latter very predictable with a few exceptions here and there - BTW Bug have you watched Gallipoli - its by the same director (Peter Weir) Its a war film (WW1) I have watched Heavenly creatures - I found it too unsettling - I would definitely not see that one more than once - leave alone 20 times - LOL
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Indeed! I couldn't sleep after seeing PAHR - it was that chilling. And like you say, there may not be a lot of whizzbang action, but that only serves to build this incredible, hair-standing-vertical TENSION! The fact that the mystery is still unresolved at the end of the movie is enough to make me sprout a new rash! I have not seen "Gallipoli" yet - which apparently has excellent acting and story-telling. Thanks for the recommendation. I also prefer foreign movies and had seen about 90% of all the titles from our local movie rental place (before they went belly-UP!). You might want to check out the odd, savage and even mystical "Cabeza de Vaca" about a lone Spanish conquistador stranded on the tip of FL, circa 1500s, who finds out the local Indians are not the savages he's been led to believe. Read more at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101529/plotsummarySave me the aisle seat! Cheers. Larazelle wrote:
Hey Bug -
we must be on the same wavelength if you had such a visceral reaction to POHR - that beautiful Pan flute soundtrack itself gives me goosbumps LOL - I really did not expect anyone to recognize this movie as it is an old one (1975) and Australian to boot I don't watch many movies - I'm very picky with my time - but then the ones I love I watch A LOT - like I have watched Picnic on Hanging Rock at least 20 times - Its a mesmeric movie - but not for everyone - (its slow moving and has no high action or sexy scenes so its not a crowd pleaser) - but - but then I much prefer foreign movies to American -since I find the latter very predictable with a few exceptions here and there - BTW Bug have you watched Gallipoli - its by the same director (Peter Weir) Its a war film (WW1) I have watched Heavenly creatures - I found it too unsettling - I would definitely not see that one more than once - leave alone 20 times - LOL
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I'm not a big movie watcher, but if I were stuck on an island I'd probably pick:
V
The Age of Innocence
Divorcing Jack
strongly tied with Lost in Translation
These are all movies I could easily watch over and over again.
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Talullah wrote:Fletch
Gone with The Wind
Caddyshack
Jaws I and II
American Pie
War of the Roses
Love GWW & Jaws is one of the greatest! I got the DVD and in the director's commentary section there is a quote by Speilberg I think where he mentions how disappointed he was when he first saw the shark that was made for the film. "It looked so fake. It just looked like a giant turd in the water" So he decided to show as little of the shark as he possibly could. lol. As a result he ends up using tricks like music, wreckage & shadows to build suspense instead. It actually made the movie even better because it made the turd-shark seem like this mysterious figure.
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