RE: movies | from bkahunaJan 25 2003 - 22:01
Late again, but
Clockwork Orange
Harold and Maude
Miller's Crossing
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Wall
Urrrgh! - A Music War
Memento
Idaho music Message boardLate again, but
Clockwork Orange
Harold and Maude
Miller's Crossing
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Wall
Urrrgh! - A Music War
Memento
THE WICKER MAN!!!
"jerry, it's frank costanza. mr. steinbrenner's here, george is dead, call me back"
"i dunno, maybe it's just my softspot for anything that includes the wilson bro's and/or jerry stiller ... (seinfeld anyone ?!)"
YOU WANNA PIECE OF ME??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
a guilty pleasure of mine, as of late, has been ZOOLANDER.
if you can get past the horrid plot (to kill the prime minister of malaysia in order to preserve child labor and hence, lower garment costs) and ben stiller's rather pretentious acting.. there's some funny writing and off-kilter humor which lead to some over-the-top laughs... i think this film got, at best, "one star", but then again, what the f*&k do the critics know anyway ???
i dunno, maybe it's just my softspot for anything that includes the wilson bro's and/or jerry stiller ... (seinfeld anyone ?!)
Thanks, Dan.
How come nobody has mentioned Mallrats yet ? Maybe it's just me...
Withnail and I
"We want the finest wines available to humanity, and we want them now!"
The headless eyes. Classic D horror film. Amazing acting performances.
This is slightly off topic, but one of my favorite movies of all time is Privilege, starring Paul Jones (lead singer of Manfred Mann) and Jean Shrimpton. I've never been able to find it on video, and I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might obtain a copy of it. It was filmed in the UK in 1967. Thanks.
I know it is pure cheese, I know it doesn't hold a candle to the book, I know the acting is less than great, but I still can't get over "High Fidelity". Brilliant. Read the book too...
"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands -- literally thousands -- of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
definetly fisher king! (good call, i left that one off my list like an idiot)
Fisher king.
Blade Runner has always been and will continue to be my favorite movie, which I can watch over and over and over again.
But, there's others...
Shawshank Redemption, City of Lost Children (French), Alien, Unforgiven, Office Space, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, River Runs Through It, Seven, Seventh Seal (Swedish), Ridicule (French)...and more that I can't think of
top five #1 bottle rocket #2 fraility #3 the thing (john carpenter) #4 heat #5 harold and maude
I agree with Jeff B
E mail me if you want...
Gummo and Salo are 2 of the most disturbing films I've seen....
children of paridise
napoleon (1927)
the passion of joan of arc
the samurai trilogy (w/mifune)
l'atlante
harvey
what's new pussycat?
horsefeathers
jeff got me to find this really
cool movie called woman in the dunes (the books pretty good too)
some came running
and amelie
Some of these have already been mentioned, but thought I would put my 2 cents in...
Dancer in The Dark
Breaking the Waves
Mullholland Drive
Memento
American History X
Magnolia
Freeway
Donnie Darko
Life as a House
Waking Life
Fargo
Office Space
Something about Mary
As Good as it Gets
Amelie
& lots more I can't think of right now...
Uh, I'm a huge fan of "happy accidents". IFC film that just came out on DVD. good stuff.
Yes, Dead Man, and pretty much anything else by Jarmusch, especially Mystery Train. Also, though not a great movie, The Last Movie, directed by Dennis Hopper. Stars Peter Fonda and an entire cast of peyote-crazed extras. Very strange "follow-up" to Easy Rider that pretty much destroyed Hopper's career as a director at the time. An absolute train wreck of a film.
amelie is great
intrument (the fugazi documentary) is equally good as has been mentioned
godfather 1 & 2 classic
Citizen Kane unbelievable for its day and the documentary that comes with the dvd is really sweet
the professional somebody else said it already, but it's just classic
christopher walken and christopher guest films always qualify
I love the movie "Leaving Las Vegas." It's the only movie I've ever bought.
Personally I thought Evil Dead 2 was better than 1.
Pretty much everything that Christopher Walken has been in. If you can find it... the direct-to-video gem "Search and Destroy" is actually probably one of the better movies ever made... that absolutely nobody saw.
wow, great topic. i would have to say all time highs would be "lord or the rings" I'm surprised thats not on here yet. "Chicago" saw it last week, fucking amazing performances, "Dancer in the Dark" would love to watch it over and over but at the end i want to kill myself. "Sneakers", excellent. And the one movie i could watch forever, not to mention a great who dun it, "Star Trek 6, the Undiscovered Country" and I'm not even a big fan of the series, how that works, i don't know! OHHHHHHHHHH i almost forgot, "Donnie Darko" if you haven't seen this movie, you are really missing out.
close encounters of the third kind-original version
more true to life than the x-files
ha ha ha ha
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch film / amazing Soundtrack by Neil Young & beautiful cinematography)
Bottle Rocket (think I've seen it at least 50 times.. Kumar rocks the shit!)
The Big Lebowski (Cohen Bros.)
Mulholland Drive (basically, anything by "Lynch" will do..)
Pi & Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky films)
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, of course)
I guess I should also mention that I like war films (perhaps because I'm such a history buff...) I thought that, for the most part, last year's "We Were Soldiers" was very well done...
ooOOoo, this is fun.. let's hear your fav's people !
"Hell no! Call me Charlie. Well Barton, you might say I sell peace of mind. Insurance is my game - door-to-door, human contact, still the only way to move merchandise."
Absolutely LOVE Barton Fink!
That would make it on MY ten fave.
(CK: Keeping an eye on that part of the world...might be moving to Bennington,VT....hope to know soon)
mm, that looks odd like this...so:
Heavy,
Bagdad Cafe,
Paris Texas
Trainspotters
heavy
bagdad cafe
paris texas
trainspotters
This is a great thread to jog the old memory. JB--there is much white but little of the yellow orb that sometimes visits our skies.
it's rare i want to watch films more than once or twice but i've seen the following too many times:
the tank - w/jason patric about a lost russian tank unit in afghanistan.
last temptation of christ.
mrs. parker & the vicious circle.
bad influence.
drugstore cowboy.
a clockwork orange.
pump up the volume.
killing zoe.
cool hand luke.
fugazi - instrument. is a great documentary.
Leon (aka The Professional in the states) - the international version
La Femme Nikita
Heat
Falling Down
Pi
Barton Fink
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...
Blue Velvet/David Lynch
Anyone seen Dark Days??? Fab documentary and if you have the DVD, amazing story behind the movie too.
Sorry.
Wow, your mom was Audrey. That's cool.
The movies I watch over and over are This is Spinal Tap (I still find something new each time)and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (underrated lowbrow classic). I don't really like to watch serious, artsy films more than once- they lose their impact.
Wow, your mom was Audrey. That's cool.
The movies I watch over and over are This is Spinal Tap (I still find something new each time)and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (underrated lowbrow classic). I don't really like to watch serious, artsy films more than once- they lose their impact.
Chinatown (1974 Polanski) amazing score!!
Bad Timing:a sensual obsession (1980 Nicholas Roeg)
Naked (1994?)
The Third Man (Carol Reed) check out the haunting zither music by Anton Karas...
Death takes a holiday (1933 Fredrich March version)
Pepe Le Moko or "Algiers" (early fim noir hollywood version of same film with Charles Boyer - 1934?)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Le Mepris / "Contempt" (J-L goddard)
and everything CK likes.....
(how's the weather in Syracuse?)
For laughs:
Pink Flamingos (J. Waters)
Ilsa: She wolf of the SS (?)
Little shop of horrors (1960 Roger Corman version starring... my MOM!)
Lonesome Cowboys (Warhol)
good subject!
Lets hear some more!
"A.I." - "The Elephant Man" - "The Thin Red Line" - "Magnolia" - "Jacob's Ladder" - "Re-Animator" - "Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn" - "Blair Witch"(sorry) -
watch over and over....
"Dead Alive" - "From Beyond" - "American Psycho" - all my Spongebob Squarepants videos.
m2
I'll have to check out Bottle Rocket. Those Christopher Guest "mockumentaries" are thoroughly enjoyable. I loved Rushmore, never saw Evil Dead (I know, how could I not have?) or the others Rob s mentions. I'll look into them.
The Evil Dead, Rushmore,
Harold & Maude, Night of the hunter, Miller's Crossing. I could go all day (this is not a movie).
Two words:
Bottle Rocket. Greatest movie I've ever seen. Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show are worth mentioning.
directors: werener herzog, lars von trier, harmony korine. look them up at allmovie.com
Here's a range of foreign films: Wings of Desire; Walkabout; Last Tango in Paris; Picnic at Hanging Rock; The Tenant; The Seventh Seal; My Left Foot; The Ruling Class.
Recent American: Bottle Rocket (actually, any Wes Anderson directed); Being John Malkovich; Memento.
what's the best movie you've ever seen? one that really reaches you. you can name more than 1 if you need to.
also, what's a movie you can watch a bunch of times and never get tired of it.
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