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Post by bjd on Jun 19, 2009 16:29:41 GMT
I'm surprised how many of you have listed La Vie en Rose -- called La Môme in France. I thought she acted well, but I wasn't all that impressed with the movie itself.
The only cult movie I know of that played anywhere for years was The Rocky Horror Picture Show -- which I would watch again. I would drop everything to watch Woody Allen's Annie Hall and Manhattan. As well as most of the old Hitchcock movies. The Third Man too.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2009 16:43:12 GMT
I'm somewhat surprised at myself for listing it. I saw it the first time at my mother's. The sound wasn't set correctly on the remote and this got discussed over the movie. Then there was discussion about the time frame. After that there was griping over the sort of flashback format of the movie. By the time it was over, I was convinced it was a disjointed mess, although I was awed by Marian Cotillard. Anyway, I later watched it at home with no distractions and thought it was a great, extremely well done movie with many, many great touches. Now I'd like to see it again, as there are things that fascinate me in it, including some cultural questions. (The prostitutes' hair for instance -- was the fact that grown women wore their hair flowing down the back rather than "up" indicative of their status as loose women?)
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 19, 2009 18:24:41 GMT
I'm too vulgar, obviously - Blazing Saddles:
and the Ealing comedies, like Passport to Pimlico and the Ladykillers.
And of course, Fred and Ginger:
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Post by gyro on Jun 20, 2009 19:43:55 GMT
Nooooo, I mean a REAL song ...... !
(how about Young Frankenstein also, Pat ? A classic)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 20, 2009 23:29:54 GMT
I watched "... Gilbert Grape" again last night and was amazed that I'd totally forgotten the ending!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 18:26:03 GMT
When it was released in France in 1966, King of Hearts was not especially successful critically or at the box office. However when released in the U.S. a year later, it achieved bona fide cult film status, eventually running for five years at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts and other repertoire movie theaters. I was just about to post this about Central Square,that was the first time I saw it in 1970 and we used to go see it quite often there. Can picture it still. Thanks for the memory. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 19:08:42 GMT
Oh, I very well remember the ending of Gilbert Grape.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2009 23:33:33 GMT
It's pretty much unforgettable! But somehow I managed.
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Post by lola on Jun 22, 2009 1:53:28 GMT
Patrick, me too on the Fred and Ginger.
I have hinted to the family a few time about their compilation CD, but it has not yet arrived under the Christmas tree.
My daughter and I watched the one today with roller skating to Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, the overly involved plot and great songs, and the strange ending with all the Ginger masks.
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Post by lola on Jun 23, 2009 15:11:09 GMT
We watched Let the Right One In last night, a beautiful/disturbing film with what turned out to be some major vampire action, and I had to watch the "Let's Face the Music and Dance" scene from Fred and Ginger's Follow the Fleet before I went to bed.
I watched that scene many times on YouTube before they pulled it for copyright reasons, but happen to have the library DVD now. (Why pull that one scene specifically, I wonder?)
I have a high tolerance for It's a Wonderful Life, but not as often as yearly; always tear up at the scene where Mr. Gower realizes he put poison in the capsules.
My daughters and I watch the BBC Pride & Prejudice yearly.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2009 17:50:25 GMT
Blade Runner always fascinates me -- not at all the story but all of the background details.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2009 18:49:19 GMT
Blade Runner is on the very top of my can't-get-enough-of list.
I've mentioned this movie before, but perhaps not on this thread: Arizona Dream -- odd and compelling.
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Post by traveler63 on Jun 23, 2009 19:17:48 GMT
Jane Eyre 1944 version
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Post by nic on Jul 13, 2009 5:47:55 GMT
Both pictures are relatively new, but I continuously find myself watching the '02 version of The Quiet American, and '01's The Man From Elysian Fields.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 19:21:17 GMT
It just takes a random evening in front of the television to discover a film that you MUST SEE again. Tonight it is Betty Blue, ("37,2 le Matin") one of the most sensual films of the 1980's.
I thought it was splendid of Arte, the Franco-German cultural station to just annouce "Scenes of explicit sex may shock certain viewers."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 20:00:27 GMT
I'm a sucker for the Shawshank Redemption. Find myself watching it when it comes on TV. The pairing of Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman just works and the good guys,bad guys theme .All of it .
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2009 19:29:49 GMT
I always watch l'Auberge espagnole whenever I can see it. Romain Duris is my favourite actor.
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Post by greyghost1 on Aug 29, 2009 17:58:23 GMT
I too am a sucker for anything J. Depp...his new one Alice in Wonderland (to be released in March) should be excellent.
Le Divroce
The History Boys
And one I have yet to see on TV: Last Tango in Paris...I re-watch the DVD.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 29, 2009 20:24:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2009 21:48:44 GMT
I am ashamed to admit this, but I enjoy watching The Wizard of Oz when it is on TV. Luckily, that is extremely rare in France.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2009 22:32:24 GMT
I think I can recite the dialogue in The Wizard of Oz right along with the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2009 22:39:35 GMT
Well, it isn't exactly very complicated.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2009 22:42:06 GMT
Don't be smart, or I'll get you and your little dog, too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2009 1:45:00 GMT
Don't be smart, or I'll get you and your little dog, too. might be time to pull out the ruby slippers again B.!  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2009 2:43:10 GMT
Those are MY slippers, girlie, mine, I tell you! I'll stop at nothing to get them back! |
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Post by lola on Sept 6, 2009 3:27:53 GMT
Whenever a storm starts whipping up I cry "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" which never fails to amuse me, but no one else somehow.
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Post by lola on Sept 6, 2009 3:43:29 GMT
I'd watch just about anything with Depp in it, with exception of later Pirate movies. Ditto R. Crowe.
I's also in what must be the small subset of people who enjoy the BBC Pride and Prej AND the former HBO show Deadwood.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2009 3:49:41 GMT
Whenever a storm starts whipping up I cry "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" which never fails to amuse me, but no one else somehow. Oh ~~ that's hysterical! *pushes Lola to top of list of people admired* |
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Post by lola on Sept 6, 2009 23:59:39 GMT
awww...
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Post by Jazz on Sept 7, 2009 4:57:13 GMT
I'm surprised how many of you have listed La Vie en Rose -- called La Môme in France. I thought she acted well, but I wasn't all that impressed with the movie itself. The only cult movie I know of that played anywhere for years was The Rocky Horror Picture Show -- which I would watch again. I would drop everything to watch Woody Allen's Annie Hall and Manhattan. As well as most of the old Hitchcock movies. The Third Man too. I thought that Marion Cotillard was superb in the role of Piaf. The movie itself is excellent, a decent following of her life, production values etc. It is certainly in my top 10 of 'movie biographies' ever, usually the most difficult and the most mediocre of film genres. I wouldn't bother to flick the switch on my remote to watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Annie Hall or Manhatten. Hitchcock's work is brilliant, as is Orson Welles' The Third Man. |
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