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Old 06-14-2006, 04:08 AM   #46
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Horseman on the Roof - epic-style French drama set in time of cholera plague and war - holds the attention well despite the subtitles
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Old 06-14-2006, 05:35 AM   #47
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what about liquid sky? did that suck?
Maybe...but October Sky didn't.
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Old 06-14-2006, 09:42 AM   #48
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Oh wow, I almost remember seeing that. It was the early 80s, which is why I only almost remember...
See? That's what I'm talkin about.
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Old 06-14-2006, 10:34 AM   #49
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Who has not heard of Eraserhead?
Show of hands, please?
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Old 06-14-2006, 10:43 AM   #50
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I've seen it laying around, but havent actually watched the movie
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Old 06-14-2006, 10:51 AM   #51
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Same here ... just never managed to see it. And I love films by David Lynch.
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Old 06-14-2006, 08:09 PM   #52
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Just like regular chickens...
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Old 06-16-2006, 10:15 AM   #53
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Ahhh, Eraserhead. A classic, no doubt!
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Old 06-16-2006, 10:16 AM   #54
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Same here ... just never managed to see it. And I love films by David Lynch.
Did you get the shorts?... very cool.
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Old 06-16-2006, 10:22 AM   #55
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What about Batteries Not Included? Anyone seen that?
Or what about the movie with a black cat that could talk and move stuff by telekensis? That's all I remember. Good stuff though.
The Black Cat, 1981

My favorite movie that no one has ever heard of? The L-shaped Room, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. This movie I happened to catch on TV some years ago, and it made me fall in love with the independent film genre.

Has anyone else seen it?
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Old 06-16-2006, 11:12 AM   #56
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The Black Cat, 1981

My favorite movie that no one has ever heard of? The L-shaped Room, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. This movie I happened to catch on TV some years ago, and it made me fall in love with the independent film genre.

Has anyone else seen it?
If you like L-shaped room - try three other British films starring Carol White from around the same time: 'Poor cow', 'Cathy come home' and 'I'll never forget what's 'isname' - first two very much of the style of L-shaped Room, last one a bit glossier. less believeable but still good for its day (also starred a young looking Oliver Reed)
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Old 06-16-2006, 11:25 AM   #57
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Courtesy of one of our national dailies (Daily Mail) I've just acquired a set of DVDs of some of the great British Ealing Studios classics - includes 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', 'The Man in the White Suit', the original 'The Ladykillers'
'Passport to Pimlico' and a good few others...
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Old 06-16-2006, 11:32 AM   #58
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Anyone heard of Half Baked? It's not too obscure, and with this crowd, im sure someone's seen it.
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Old 06-16-2006, 11:57 AM   #59
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If you like L-shaped room - try three other British films starring Carol White from around the same time: 'Poor cow', 'Cathy come home' and 'I'll never forget what's 'isname' - first two very much of the style of L-shaped Room, last one a bit glossier. less believeable but still good for its day (also starred a young looking Oliver Reed)
Thanks for the recommendations. I will put them on my list of movies I need to see!
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Old 06-17-2006, 11:13 AM   #60
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That was a tremedously funny movie.

Alec Guinness made a lot of comedies in the 50's and 60's

I also remember seeing part of "The Captains Paradise", about a ferry captain who is a bigamist with wives on both shores.

In Barnacle Bill, Alec Guiness is a seasick captain from a long line of naval heroes who inherits an amusement pier.

Our Man in Havana is about a British Intelligence contractor who invents stories in order to make ends meet. It's like The Tailor of Panama, but it's a comedy and was done decades before leCarre wrote the novel that became that movie.

Guinness is fine as a serious actor, but he is brilliant in comedies.
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