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Post by Dominique on May 12, 2008 5:18:17 GMT -5
I'm after some movie recommendations, what do you think are movies everyone should see at some point? Cult/classic/foreign/arthouse or just plain good?
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Post by Isa on May 12, 2008 7:38:35 GMT -5
Just off the top of my head: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Shining, Rosemary's Baby, Full Metal Jacket, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, The Player, A Clockwork Orange, Kill Bill, Amelie, Goodbye Lenin, Shindler's List, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Volver, Y tu mama tambien, Life is Beautiful, The Sea Inside, Pan's Labyrinth... I guess that's a start!
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Post by Carma on May 12, 2008 7:53:40 GMT -5
haha, i'd say that's a start Isa! Goodbye Lenin is really nice!
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Post by laisita on May 12, 2008 22:46:47 GMT -5
Ok just to name a few.......classics: Gone with the wind, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, West Side Story, A streetcar named desire, Sabrina, Spartacus, To kill a monckingbird, Psyscho.
modern/cult: Annie Hall, Raging Bull, Chinatown, JAWS, Forrest Gump, Taxi Driver, India Jones sequals, StarWars, The Godfather, When Harry met Sally, Slepples in Seattle, Alien, American Beauty,Fargo, Donnie Darko, Leon......
contemporary: The Lord of the Rings, No country for old man, Juno, Into the Wild, Im not there....
chick flicks: Beaches, Nothing Hill, Youve got mail, Runaway Bride, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, How to lose a guy in ten days, Thelma and Louise, Somethings gotta give ......
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Post by Lu on May 13, 2008 11:22:26 GMT -5
wow  I was looking for movie recommendations too! |
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Post by Bina on May 13, 2008 17:52:29 GMT -5
The little shop of horrors, Donnie Darko, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Murder by death, Harvey, Dead men don´t wear plaid, etc |
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Post by thenephilim on May 13, 2008 18:41:53 GMT -5
Hmmmm....
Amelie
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Breakfast Club
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Pretty in Pink
Sixteen Candles
Pan's Labyrinth
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Edward Scissorhands
A Clockwork Orange
A lot of those were repeats, but what does that tell you? That they truly are classics!
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Post by Lucky on May 14, 2008 10:57:22 GMT -5
Oh I'm feeling so small. I haven't seen any  .. except Lord of the Rings and Kill Bill.. I know I'm horrible. |
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Post by thenephilim on May 14, 2008 11:56:33 GMT -5
Oh you aren't horrible, Lucky!
Believe me, there are TONS of movies I haven't seen and should have!
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Post by Dominique on May 15, 2008 7:44:59 GMT -5
Thanks for all the recommendations!
Another thing I'm really interested in is foreign films, can anyone recommend any? Apart from like Amelie, Life is Beautiful, Pan's Labyrinth and that Swedish one last year about the composer that was so popular (can't remember its name).
I'd like to know some good French ones actually, I saw one last year sometime about someone stalking this family and sending them photographs which I really enjoyed (again I can't remember it's name lol).
A bit OT but has anyone heard about the sequel to Donnie Darko being made? I'm excited! I'd also like to see Southland Tales, the director's latest movie but I haven't read very good reviews/
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Post by laisita on May 15, 2008 8:40:36 GMT -5
Thanks for all the recommendations! Another thing I'm really interested in is foreign films, can anyone recommend any? Apart from like Amelie, Life is Beautiful, Pan's Labyrinth and that Swedish one last year about the composer that was so popular (can't remember its name). I'd like to know some good French ones actually, I saw one last year sometime about someone stalking this family and sending them photographs which I really enjoyed (again I can't remember it's name lol). A bit OT but has anyone heard about the sequel to Donnie Darko being made? I'm excited! I'd also like to see Southland Tales, the director's latest movie but I haven't read very good reviews/ I think your refering to Once. Ok about Southland Tales, after seen Donnie darko I was with huge expectations for this one and unlike many reviews it was not that hard to get, theres a couple of subplots maybe to much for my taste , the whole traveling to the past and future is done again and the consequences of it too. I think the problem was the charaters beign rush in to story after story, that made them not that appealing or easy to relate, and the few that I like had little time on the screen yeah im talking about SMG who was great on the movie as krista kapowski. Overall it was an interesting different movie with such a bizarre world with unic and different characteres, it was definitely not a waist of time like so many of my friends said but anyway the movie its not for everybody. If you have a chance to see it let me know if you like it or not. |
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Post by maria on May 15, 2008 12:34:56 GMT -5
Cult: Grey Gardens. I just bought it a couple of days ago and they mention it in Gilmore Girls as well, I think.
Foreign: My favourite movie is Norwegian and I think it's been released in USA. "Reprise" by Joachim Trier. Not to be mistaken with Lars von Trier who's also made many of my favourite movies: Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves.
"Fanny och Alexander" by Ingmar Bergman is amazing too. So I think that covers Scandinavia pretty well.
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Post by thenephilim on May 15, 2008 16:13:01 GMT -5
As far as French movies go, I recently bought "Paris, J'taime".
It was really really good.
I recommend it.
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Post by Hanna on May 16, 2008 3:31:33 GMT -5
Another great French movie is the one based on Anna Gavalda's book Together we are Less Alone (or something like that), I can't remember the movie title, but Audrey Tatou (Amelie) plays in that one too:)
I know Running with Scissors probably is a bit off topic to recommend, but I think this should be on the new cult list:)
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.. except Lord of the Rings and Kill Bill.. I know I'm horrible.
