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Postby inkinthewell on Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:46 am

Here's just a few from my long, long, very long list of favourite films:
'Les vacances de M. Hulot' by Jacques Tati
'La grande illusion' by Jean Renoir
'Ninotchka' by Ernst Lubitsch
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Postby anortherncod on Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:04 am

C'mon Inky, no Italian films? Tell us what your favourite home-grown ones are :wink:
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Postby godisinthesilences on Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:30 am

my all time fav is Dr Zhivago
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Postby Lady Arcadia on Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:53 am

I've got a couple of favourites that never seem to change...

East of Eden - James Dean's best movie IMHO

Casablanca - Only Bogie can say "here's looking at you kid", and not be laughed at.

Arthur - Who couldn't fall in love with a cute Dudley Moore (may he RIP)

The Grapes of Wrath - an old B&W number, but with the credit crunch getting worse... it is quite relevant for today.
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Postby inkinthewell on Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:48 am

anortherncod wrote:C'mon Inky, no Italian films?

Ok, you asked for it!!! :smt079
'Il vangelo secondo Matteo' by Pier Paolo Pasolini (I saw this film for the first time on BBC2!!! My jaw dropped and stayed down the whole 137 minutes :smt118. Pure cinematographic art. You don't get many chances of seeing PPP's films on TV in Italy, and when they do show them, it's at half past two in the morning.:?:)
'Durante l'estate' by Ermanno Olmi
'Italiani brava gente' by Giuseppe De Santis
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Postby anortherncod on Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:19 am

I'd agree about the first one - but not seen the other two...
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Postby Tanya80 on Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:08 pm

The Invisible Woman starring Virginia Bruce & John Barrymore

Number Seventeen

Prizzi's Honor

Sid & Nancy

& many more :)
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Postby inkinthewell on Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:10 pm

anortherncod wrote:I'd agree about the first one

Good girl! :smt023
Shamefully, none of the other two have been edited on dvd.
Nosing about on the internet I just discovered that Italiani Brava Gente is known as Attack And Retreat in the US, and Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy are in the cast.
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Postby lastgoldstar on Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:12 am

I think this a pretty long list for me (I work in a movie store 8) ), but I will have to say that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was the best film I have seen in a loooooong time. It was AMAZING.
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Postby Simonp on Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:49 am

Alien
Lost In Translation
The Piano
MANAFON MANAFON MANAFON MANAFON MANAFON MANAFON MANAFON MANAFON MANAFON
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Postby Chet on Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:58 am

QUI ETES-VOUS POLLY MAGOO?
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE
LOST IN TRANSLATION
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR LAWRENCE
LET'S GET LOST
THE SHINING
TONY TAKITANI
JE T'AIME MOI NON PLUS
BREAKING THE WAVES
ELECTROMA
PERSONA...
And my heart sings of many things
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Postby E.T. on Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:02 pm

the science of sleep
only one DVD I wanted to bought

other good movies for me
Raputa (I forget it's overseas title, hayao miyazaki's)
Festival Express
Mondovino
Klimt
This is Bossa Nova

I missed "Glenn Gould Off the Record / On the Record" at cinema :(
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Postby neonico on Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:07 pm

favorite films are

1.The Island

2. No 23

3. Scanner darkly

4. The sea house
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Postby Silver Moon on Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:54 am

To name just a few...

Fanny and Alexander (Favorite Christmas Movie)
Lost in Translation
Back To the Future
Eraserhead
Sex Lies and Videotape
Shadows and Fog

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Postby inkinthewell on Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:06 pm

Silver Moon wrote:Fanny and Alexander


Brilliant! Some good ten years ago they aired the tv version (5 hours 12 minutes) from 1 am onwards. I was so entranced I never even blinked. :shock:

Question for Chet: how do you pronounce Ingmar Bergman in swedish? Is it true that the 'g's become 'y's?

And speaking of Bergman, how about Kvinnors Vantan? (The film, not the pronunciation.)
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