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drumpounder · Joined: 20 Jun 2006

Oh yeah...you can certainly put The Search For The Holy Grail right up there too.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

God, I hope no one saw that.

Nowhere Man · Joined: 08 Feb 2004

Apocalypse Now

The Waking Life

A Clockwork Orange

After Hours

Adaptation

American Beauty

Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)

I like movies that start with "A".

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Beautiful Girls
Swingers
Braveheart
It's A Wonderful Life

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

Nowhere Man · Joined: 08 Feb 2004

I happened to buy Doolittle about a month after seeing that movie in film class.

It was a rare epiphany of "Wow, I know what this song is about!"

I treasure them both.

But I loved the movie because we'd always get these shorts before the main film. At that point, I thought, "Hmm. Silent Film. Gonna be pretty mundane."

I think everyone pretty much did.

Then...

I'll just say it was eye-opening.

Don't know about you, but remember: No movie=no song

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

drumpounder · Joined: 20 Jun 2006

Yeah...the good ol' days. Or not ! Music and books, music and books...that's what kept me going this past year. Only 18 teaching days left.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

zappalives · Joined: 15 May 2006 Location: Gyeongju

Movies so good they actually had an impact on my life:

La Strada and Zorba the Greek for their absolutely perfect endings about attitudes toward life and Tampopo for piquing my interest in Asia culture and cinima.

Best documentary ever: Little Dieter Needs to Fly, by Werner Herzog, possibly known today as the guy who made the film about the guy getting eaten by a bear, Grizzly Man (also good, but no Dieter).

Benicio · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:23 am Post subject:

I can never get enough of "Zoolander". The male model spoof is just too funny! Shoot me, but I love "Anchorman".

Now for a recommend from the serious side of things.

John Mellencamp (the singer, formerly John Cougar) made a semi-autibiographical movie called "Falling From Grace", taking its title from a beautiful Hank Williams Sr. song. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0104225/
Well, it's kind of like his story- small town Indiana boy makes it big in the music industry. He comes home to stay for a while, ends up wrestling with many old demons and issues left unsettled. It asks the question "can you really go home again?".
I'm from a small town that I was dying to get out of, so I can relate.

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

Ten Canoes
Dir. Rolf de Heer (The Tracker).

There is no better protrayal of Indigenous Australian culture than this one. Unfortunately, it will never, in all probability, be screened outside our country. It won't be lauded as a masterpiece by the R Eberts of the world, but it is certainly great. Set in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, the first scenes are in black and white, denoting a historical time prior to the invasion of the Europeans. During the course of the film, an old Yolngu man tells a story to his teenage brother as this group of men build canoes and hunt the magpie geese. The younger brother is keen on one of his wives, so the old man tells the story of their ancestor as they travel the country, and as he does so the 'sacred' songline event is portrayed in the full brilliant colour of the Top End. The actors, I suspect, were all Raminginning locals with no previous experience in film. de Heer gives great depth to the characters, and the people play their characters with dedication and humour. The complete absence of anything remotely alien to prehistoric Australia is utterly refreshing. One almost expects the European riding a horse through the scrub to come at any time, but it never does. I was transported more than any other film I've seen. I felt very much inside the story itself, because I've been to the place where the story comes from, and it made me want to go back. I felt like I was back there. The only things missing were the smells and the heat.

DAVID GULPILIL (excerpt from film): A long, long time ago, 10 of us men went on swamp to hunt the eggs of Gumang, the magpie goose. This young one was thinking wrong thoughts so this old fella tell him a story...

Tomorrow I'll be seeing The 3 Burials of Marquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones). I'm expecting great things from that one too. Anyone seen it?

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

it just occurred to me, has anyone mentioned 'the big lebowski'? if not, why not, and have any of you ever seen it with korean subtitles?