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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2009 10:54:34 GMT
I think that there are a certain number of us who can't get enough of certain films. It doesn't necessarily mean that we have seen them 50 times (although some people do that sort of thing), but they are the sort of film that if you come across them unexpectedly on your TV screen, you drop what you are doing to sit down and watch them again.
That's the sort of thing that happens to me, but, having written that, no specific title comes to mind at the moment except maybe Donnie Darko. Most of the films that get me to sit down are brainless feel-good comedies, though.
I'll get back to this with some more titles soon.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2009 11:28:39 GMT
Most Marx Bros. movies " Bergman movies Jules et Jim All that come to mind at the moment,it's early...
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Post by gyro on Apr 25, 2009 22:02:44 GMT
Spartacus.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2009 22:09:50 GMT
Actually, Lawrence of Arabia came to mind when I started the OP. There are so many stunning scenes in it that it sucks me in whenever I catch it on a TV screen.
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Post by gyro on Apr 25, 2009 22:13:33 GMT
See also the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2009 22:25:24 GMT
I didn't want to say that because it would make me sound like a total geek.
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Post by Jazz on Apr 25, 2009 22:29:30 GMT
to begin with...
Lawrence of Arabia La Vie en Rose The Secret Garden (version directed by Agnieska Holland, this is a children's film) Amelie
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Post by gyro on Apr 25, 2009 22:36:39 GMT
Really ? I didn't think you could get any more pretentious.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2009 22:47:46 GMT
Oh, I can crank it up so high if I want to, Gyro. I have very high pretentions.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 26, 2009 21:16:45 GMT
I'll ignore the blabla and say "The Lord of the Rings trilogy" because I just love that Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
It seems many French-speaking people cannot get enough of any Bourvil/de Funes war films. THey are good quality and good fun, though!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2009 21:25:12 GMT
I think I am addicted to "boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl" films but only when the people are young and innocent. For example, I found "Sleepless in Seattle" pleasant, but those were mature adults and I didn't really care. When it is teenagers or young adults, and they still have ideals and have not yet been jaundiced by real life, I cannot stop watching.
I remember there was a movie quite a few years ago that I saw on my cable movie channel that was about some uni student in love with a girl who ended up in California and he crossed the country to be with her again after fucking everything up (I don't even remember how he fucked it up), and of course love reigned supreme at the end. On that channel, movies were shown six times in two weeks, and I think I saw it every single time -- and if I found it on TV again, I would watch it again in a heartbeat.
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Post by tillystar on Apr 27, 2009 14:59:09 GMT
Beaches My Best Friend's Wedding (just for the last scene when Rupert Everett is on the phone to Julia Roberts) Dr Zhivago Gone with the Wind La Vie en Rose Lord of the Rings
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Post by gyro on Apr 28, 2009 18:49:43 GMT
Blade Runner Goodbye Lenin Angels With Dirty Faces An American Werewolf In London Key Largo
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Post by Jazz on Apr 28, 2009 19:35:16 GMT
The Best of Youth Casablanca The Closet (Le Placard) Amelie The Third Man Before Sunrise and Before Sunset Metropolis
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Post by gyro on Apr 28, 2009 19:41:20 GMT
Yeah, agree with Amelie, Casablanca and the Third Man ....
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Post by gyro on Apr 28, 2009 19:41:42 GMT
Also, Life Of Brian, The Holy Grail ....
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Post by Kimby on Apr 28, 2009 22:09:02 GMT
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset I thought of these when I read about kerouac's love of "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" films. (I think it's After Sunset, though. ONE of the two titles has "After" in it....)
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Post by Jazz on Apr 29, 2009 0:52:03 GMT
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset I thought of these when I read about kerouac's love of "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" films. (I think it's After Sunset, though. ONE of the two titles has "After" in it....) The correct titles are Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.
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Post by gyro on Apr 29, 2009 4:30:26 GMT
Not seen either, but I was under the impression the 2nd one was fairly poor compared to the first. Neither particularly appeal to me, mind you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2009 4:59:17 GMT
I never saw either of them.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 29, 2009 14:32:18 GMT
Jazz, I stand corrected. To my surprise.
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Post by traveler63 on Jun 17, 2009 19:38:13 GMT
Here is my List:
Heat Ferris Bullers Day Off Chocolat I know, cheesy all the Pirates of the Caribbean Oh, h---anything Johnny Depp is in. I am anxiously waiting for his new one Dillenger, who was actually captured here in Tucson Lawrence of Arabia
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 18, 2009 17:13:47 GMT
400 Blows, Harold and Maude, The wrath of Agarrie(sp?), all goddard, Truffaut and Chabrel films, Berman's Films, King of Hearts, Juliet of the spirits, The Conformist, The Samarai
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 18, 2009 17:19:51 GMT
Ohhhhhh ~~ The King of Hearts! I LOVE that movie.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2009 18:30:41 GMT
I don't think I have ever watched The King of Hearts all the way through. Oddly enough, it was not ever popular in France and most people here have never heard of it.
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Post by gyro on Jun 18, 2009 19:38:32 GMT
Traveler63; is that what it's called where you are, Dillinger ? Here in the UK it's been titled 'Public Enemies'. I'd like to see it, but I don't think - being a Michael Mann fillum - it'll be a 12a or 12 which means I won't be able to go with my daughter. Which means I probably won't see it.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 18, 2009 20:33:00 GMT
Keruoac, it is considered a cult film and antiwar. It played here at one theater for five years!
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 18, 2009 20:34:39 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.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2009 20:48:11 GMT
In France, it was Harold & Maude that ran at one cinema for more than 10 years.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2009 4:28:58 GMT
Along with others here I'd have to say Bladerunner & La Vie en Rose, but want to add Ghost Dog -- such a wonderful movie.
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