Flipping through the old movies on Amazon Prime last night with the wife and came across an old movie that I loved yet the wife had never seen. We both loved the movie and it got me thinking about what other gems are out there for us to rediscover?
The Movie was "Running on Empty" with Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti and the deceased River Phoenix.
Any suggestions for us?
"All the Right Moves" - Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, and Lea Thompson.
Good American football movie, but of course more than that. Chances are you've seen it - but if not, that's a good one.
Hobson's Choice
Passport to Pimlico
The Lavender Hill Mob
Marvellous films
I very rarely watch films on TV due to work commitments. But I have just watched a film called " HEAT " with Robert De Nero and Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, my kind of film, if you have not seen it, I recommend it.
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I very rarely watch films on TV due to work commitments. But I have just watched a film called " HEAT " with Robert De Nero and Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, my kind of film, if you have not seen it, I recommend it.
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One of my favourites. Also like LA Confidential and China Town.
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I very rarely watch films on TV due to work commitments. But I have just watched a film called " HEAT " with Robert De Nero and Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, my kind of film, if you have not seen it, I recommend it.
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One of my favourites. Also like LA Confidential and China Town.
yes I remember LA Confidential with Russell Crowe and Guy Pierce, that was good viewing, I cannot remember seeing China Town, I shall keep an eye out for that one and record it.
Big Trouble in Little China.
Quote from: Jem on June 23, 2019, 10:17:29 PM
Quote from: Woolly Mammoth on June 23, 2019, 09:40:03 PM
I very rarely watch films on TV due to work commitments. But I have just watched a film called " HEAT " with Robert De Nero and Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, my kind of film, if you have not seen it, I recommend it.
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One of my favourites. Also like LA Confidential and China Town.
LA Confidential is one of my favourites too. Detective film - my kind of thing! Se7en etc.
Zulu
Quote from: Woolly Mammoth on June 23, 2019, 09:40:03 PM
I very rarely watch films on TV due to work commitments. But I have just watched a film called " HEAT " with Robert De Nero and Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, my kind of film, if you have not seen it, I recommend it.
Great movie,we have DVD of it.
There is a right clanger of a mistake in the filming of it though,outside the bank scene the guy with Pacino spots them coming out way back which was impossible, and the bags they filled with money they could hardly pick of floor,yet when getting chased down road they were light as a feather over their shoulders,they wouldn't be able to run with them.
The wife and I like looking for bloomers,we were watching one of the "Only fools n horses" the other day,it has 2 great cock ups in it.
"Last Orders"
Fabulous stuff staring
Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, David Hemmings,Tom Courtney, Helen Mirren,Ray Winstone.
Quote from: BestOfBrede on June 23, 2019, 09:32:58 PM
Hobson's Choice
Passport to Pimlico
The Lavender Hill Mob
Marvellous films
Fab British films.
The Blue Lamp watched yesterday on Freeview 81, lots of exterior shots of 1950a London.
One night, a long time ago, me and my friends were having a drinking and movie night. We found this film on tv randomly. It featured Bob Hoskins and was directed by Shane Meadows. Being a fan of both, we settled down and watched it. "TwentyFourSeven". Black and white but absolute class film. Hoskins is on top form. One of his best since Mario Bros......(that last bit was a joke). In all seriousness tho, try and find it. Might be hard, think it's quite obscure, but well worth it.
There's also "The Warriors". Classic 70s film. And also "Once Were Warriors" which I picked up in blockbusters by mistake. Harrowing but very very good film from New Zealand.
If you want a bit of light heartedness "Love, Honour and Obey" is one of the best British comedies.
"Sexy Beast" with Ben Kingsley at his best.
And obviously "Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels".
And if you want foreign; "Pans Labyrinth" for Spanish and "Downfall" in German, for possibly the best all round acting of any film ever made.
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Quote from: Woolly Mammoth on June 23, 2019, 09:40:03 PM
I very rarely watch films on TV due to work commitments. But I have just watched a film called " HEAT " with Robert De Nero and Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, my kind of film, if you have not seen it, I recommend it.
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One of my favourites. Also like LA Confidential and China Town.
yes I remember LA Confidential with Russell Crowe and Guy Pierce, that was good viewing, I cannot remember seeing China Town, I shall keep an eye out for that one and record it.
My mistake, it's one word, Chinatown. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Jack spends half the film with a big plaster over his nose but I won't spoil it for you. Worth watching.
Quote from: BestOfBrede on June 23, 2019, 09:32:58 PM
Hobson's Choice
Passport to Pimlico
The Lavender Hill Mob
Marvellous films
Also...... The Titfield Thunderbolt.
The life and death of Colonel Blimp
A matter of life and death
Went the day well
Whites promotion video from 2001 !
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Quote from: Woolly Mammoth on June 23, 2019, 09:40:03 PM
I very rarely watch films on TV due to work commitments. But I have just watched a film called " HEAT " with Robert De Nero and Al Pacino and Val Kilmer, my kind of film, if you have not seen it, I recommend it.
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One of my favourites. Also like LA Confidential and China Town.
yes I remember LA Confidential with Russell Crowe and Guy Pierce, that was good viewing, I cannot remember seeing China Town, I shall keep an eye out for that one and record it.
My mistake, it's one word, Chinatown. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Jack spends half the film with a big plaster over his nose but I won't spoil it for you. Worth watching.
Chinatown is a great film.
Jack Nicholson also starred in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - another old film I saw again recently, and it still seems brilliant, and very relevant.
Also, Five Easy Pieces , was another good one. He also starred in the influential Easy Rider, and The Last Detail - all well worth watching again.
Quote from: Dodgin on June 24, 2019, 07:24:29 AM
The Blue Lamp watched yesterday on Freeview 81, lots of exterior shots of 1950a London.
Strong childhood memeories of watching the first British, and the only at the time, British TV police series - Dixon Of Dock Green, with Jack Warner -'Evening all'- who starred in The Blue lamp.
That showed an image of the police in this country, and crime here, that contrasted strongly with American series like Dragnet.
Not so much difference today, I think, though our police are still, mostly, unarmed.
If you do not mind subtitles, here are a couple of thriller/mysteries which are brilliantly executed on film. Both are up there with the best crime thrillers you will see. Not oldies, but certainly goldies.
You should know that I am a great fan of Hitchcock's movies with my favourite being, narrowly, 'North By Northwest' (1959) which has the goof of all goofs that Hitchcock apparently chose to leave in the movie. If you spot it you may understand why he left it there. (Hint: kids in films.)
'Tell No One (Ne le dis a persona)' (2006) is a French film about a doctor suspected, without convincing evidence, of killing his wife, who, eight years after the discovery of her body, seems to be sending him anonymous messages over the internet ...
'The Secret In their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos)' (2009) is an Argentine film about a retired federal justice agent writing a novel using an old closed case as his source, being dissatisfied with the official outcome. This film was remade in English (with Nicole Kidman), but the original is very much superior.
the right stuff - a film about the start of the US manned Space Program
How old does the film have to be because I think I'll watch the departed till I do the same.
I'm a bit of a horror fan so George A Romero films are my go to.
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Hobson's Choice
Passport to Pimlico
The Lavender Hill Mob
Marvellous films
Hobsons choice is a brilliant film, it is sort of forgotten by the masses, love it.
I watch Talking Pictures Channel which runs a lot of old British films, great stars, plots and filming. Funny thing is you can clearly hear every word that is spoken.
Absolutely, in my humble opinion of course, one of the All Time Great Comedies ever made....."Some Like it Hot".
Old movie, made in 1959, just a tad outdated, but still holds up very well, even today. A real Hoot and a Half.
A couple who have been on channel 81 a few times,"The Long Memory" John Mills,and "Went the day well"... Two smashing films.
The first film I saw about a real life serial killer during and after WWII in Notting Hill formulated an early opinion on the perils of capitol punishment. It haunts me to this day, even though I only saw it once in the seventies.
Filmed in 1971, it starred Richard Attenborough (in an unforgettable role), Judy Geeseon and John Hurt.
Nogood "dismembering '10 Rillington Place', isit" Boyo
Ealing Studios made many wonderful films. The Lavender Hill Mob is my favourite from there. But otherwise Deliverance is just about my top film.
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Quote from: filham on June 24, 2019, 05:13:30 PM
I watch Talking Pictures Channel which runs a lot of old British films, great stars, plots and filming. Funny thing is you can clearly hear every word that is spoken.
+1 I like to look at the old cars, empty roads and spot actors in their yoof. There a film sometimes on called Cosh Boys and near the end there is Roy Bentley caught on camera explaining football in a yoof club.
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Quote from: Mince n Tatties on June 24, 2019, 06:16:41 PM
A couple who have been on channel 81 a few times,"The Long Memory" John Mills,and "Went the day well"... Two smashing films.
"The long memory" is typical of the great almost forgotten, or in my case never seen films that pop up on TV and really grip you.
Another gripping film is "49th Parallel" ...........In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of Germans attempt to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as French-Canadian fur trapper Johnnie (Laurence Olivier) and soldier Andy Brock (Raymond Massey).
I'm not much of a film watcher , poor concentration span.
But when on a flight which I am a fair bit , can't resist watching "the graduate" if it's available and maybe "sleeping with the enemy" (julia Roberts)
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Hobson's Choice
Passport to Pimlico
The Lavender Hill Mob
Marvellous films
Also...... The Titfield Thunderbolt.
The life and death of Colonel Blimp
A matter of life and death
Went the day well
Titchfield Thunderbolt but, yes, good call.
I'd add The Admirable Crighton.
My favourite film as a youngster 'Hue and Cry' made not long after the War.
A classic comedy filmed largely on location and showing the bombed areas of Central London around what is now the South Bank area.
Loads of kids involved in the big chase across the bombsites to catch Jack Warner (?) and the crooks.
Every kid who saw iy would have wished they could have been part of it.
Quote from: WhiteJC on June 24, 2019, 01:16:24 PM
the right stuff - a film about the start of the US manned Space Program
Have you read the book that this film came from?
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My favourite film as a youngster 'Hue and Cry' made not long after the War.
A classic comedy filmed largely on location and showing the bombed areas of Central London around what is now the South Bank area.
Loads of kids involved in the big chase across the bombsites to catch Jack Warner (?) and the crooks.
Every kid who saw iy would have wished they could have been part of it.
Brilliant film!
Also starring Alastair Sim & a young harry Fowler!
I love watching 'Goodbye Mr Chips'
Quote from: dgnffc on June 25, 2019, 04:03:17 PM
I love watching 'Goodbye Mr Chips'
Love Peter O'Toole will have to look this up as a rental.
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Quote from: WhiteJC on June 24, 2019, 01:16:24 PM
the right stuff - a film about the start of the US manned Space Program
Have you read the book that this film came from?
yes I have, interesting read by Tom Wolfe. I read it after I saw the film but I wish I'd read it before. Chuck Yeager was a boyhood hero of mine, if he'd gone to University he probably would have been one of the first US astronauts?
Can't bear Will Hay films especially 'Ask a policeman' which finished at Brooklands circuit at Weybridge.
Old, simple humour and you can see how modern comedians took their lead from him
He used to live at Sunbury, not sure he was a Lillywhite though !
King Rat...1965 WWII movie...Changi Prison(?), Singapore. Aussie, Brits, and American POWs of camp run by Japanese. James Fox, good performance. Tom Courtney, excellent. But the scrounger, American George Segal, maybe his greatest performance.
Also recommend Viridiana, Luis Bunuel's masterpiece. 1961. In Spanish. Bunuel also made That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). I haven't seen it in decades, but I remember being wowed by it.
BAT 21
Also, two nights ago I was messing around on Netflix and stumbled upon a South Korea movie, Last Train to Busan. A zombie movie. I know, I know--not another zombie movie, right? Well, this one's a little different. Highest grossing film in that country a few years ago. Full of metaphor and allegory about the selfish times we live in.
Kurosawa's "Ran" is worth revisiting. Inspired by King Lear. The director was near blind at the time. Think of Beethoven's Ninth. Deaf. Beautiful movie.
Any of you not yet seen "Run Lola Run", 1998 (German)? Blew me away.
Battle Royale. Read the book, so I had to see the movie. Japan, 2000. Japanese school children taken by the state, put on an island, given weapons, outfitted with collars and locating device, and forced to hunt down and kill one another until there's supposedly only one left. subgroups bond for self protection. Themes explored: violence, conformity, youth distrust of the modern state. Is it great film making? Maybe not. But it's original. Nothing like it out there.
Polanski's Knife in the Water. In Polish. He may be a child molester, but he's a gifted director. Cul de Sac...see that one too.
The Bicycle Thief (Da Sica, 1948). Wages of Fear.
