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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: PoppaGator Date: 25 Feb 08 - 12:07 PM The song that won the "Best Song" Oscar was the one played in the music store, shortly after the characters first meet, and the first time she has access to a piano. The song used for the studio-recording scene, "When Your Mind's Made Up," is probably my favorite in the film, the one I would have nominated for the Oscar competition. It would certainly have been just as likely to win. Maybe it was held back from consideration because it's written in "difficult" 5/4 time. The director's DVD commentary points out that the other three actor/musicians sen in the studio are not actually heard on this song, that the song is actually being played by the Frames (Glen's regular band) plus Marketa. The young drummer who appears onscreen, in particular, was singled out for not being able to play well enough on this the song. I don't imagine many (or any) of the other songs were overdubbed in this manner; the low budget cannot have allowed for very much such manipulation. There's another concurrent thread about "Once," by the way, initiated back when the film first came out and revived right now thanks to the Academy Award connection... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 25 Feb 08 - 01:34 PM Jeanie mentioned the forthcoming movie The Bank Job, with a script by Clement & La Frenais, and that reminded me of a movie scripted by them a few years ago (1999) which I really loved, though I've never had a chance to see it on the big screen. It's "Still Crazy" - sort of an Auf Wiedersehn Pet clone, but in the world of Rock music rather than the building trade. Anyone who's ever played in any kind of band or group at any level will recognise aspects of it. And it's got a cracker of a song that winds it all up, and sums it all up. Here it is on YouTube- The Flame Still Burns |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Jeanie Date: 26 Feb 08 - 04:01 AM Yes, McGrath - I'll second that film ! I never saw it in the cinema, either. It was on TV very late one Christmas about 5 years ago and I managed to tape it. Great film. - jeanie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:41 AM The Water Horse I started a thread on it, but it could be merged in here if a J-Clone is watching? I'm a big fan of the original St Trinians films and comic strip so I'm avoiding the new film. I do want to see 'Sweeney Todd' to see if it's like the song, but I may run out of time. I certainly ran out of money yesterday - over £10 for one adult and child, mid afternoon on a weekday... and that was without popcorn, drinks or sweeties. At this rate, it's cheaper to wait the extra 3 months for the DVD to be released. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: RangerSteve Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:09 PM Sweeney Todd was a disappointment to me. I saw it on Broadway with Angela Lansbury years ago and loved it. The movie was too grim. The whole movie is done in shades of gray and dark blue with hardly a primary color for the entire time. I was angry after it was over. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: RangerSteve Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:35 PM I just finished watching "The Assassination Of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford". I strongly recommend it. Not your usual outlaw movie. No spectacular bank robberies, no chase scenes. It was more about Ford and his fate. Maybe the best historical movie I've seen in a long time. (I started to call it a Western, but it takes place mostly in Missouri. A Mid-western, maybe). 3:10 From Yuma was also good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Alice Date: 27 Feb 08 - 08:13 PM Just watched Little Miss Sunshine on DVD. Good film. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:35 PM McGrath, thanks for recommending "Still Crazy." I've just put it in my queue at Netflix. That song was really neat, esp. the poignancy which came through their performances. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 01 Mar 08 - 10:57 PM We just watched a gem of a movie. It is called The Way Home, is from Korea and, in fact, won Korea's equivalent of an Oscar and outsold Lord of the Rings in Korea in 2002, when it came out. There's stuff about it at IMDB, but this review is a bit better, imo. A beautiful movie, esp. for grandmothers and grandchildren every where! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: rich-joy Date: 02 Mar 08 - 07:33 AM "As It Is In Heaven" - from Sweden - and my partner is still raving about it!! Cheers! R-J |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: number 6 Date: 06 Mar 08 - 08:46 PM Here's a trailer for a very powerful (but rather dark) documentary I saw just recently. Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,heric Date: 07 Mar 08 - 03:51 PM Just saw the documentary Deep Water, the story of solo sailor Donald Crowhurst in 1968. Not an ocean storm adventure film, so don't be mislead. If you go in completely ignorant of the story, as I did, it is mind-bending. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Slag Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:12 PM Fools Gold, very entertaining, well acted, unbelievable but so what! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Amergin Date: 08 Mar 08 - 05:18 AM I watched a fabulous documentary called The Devil Came On Horseback...it was about a marine captain who was in Darfur as an observer....and as soon as he got out of there almost....he released the photos he had taken....and it is about his efforts to get some one to take action....and the politicians all doing some posturing but doing nothing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,JTT Date: 08 Mar 08 - 06:14 AM Oh yes, Triplets of Belleville/ Rendezvous a Belleville/ Belleville Rendezvous (some clips on YouTube under the last title). Brilliant, but weird, sad and kind of disturbing. But one of the great dogs of film, and the old ladies are wonderful. One of the most disturbing films I've ever seen: Grave of the Fireflies - a Japanese animation about two children who starve to death during and after World War II, based on its author's own childhood. Sold as a double bill with this, My Neighbor Totoro, a charming animation about two little girls and their father, who move to the country to be near their hospitalised mother, and the magical creatures the girls encounter there. A film I used to put on for any visiting kids when I had a telly. I also used to put on (for older kids - it's a bit scary) The Time Bandits, a Terry Gilliam film about a boy and a band of bandit dwarves travelling through time pursued by a besuited God. Satan does a nice turn as a game-show host. All kinds of stars, including Sean Connery as Theseus and John Cleese playing Robin Hood in a killing imitation of Prince Philip ("Eh, thenk you, the poor will be *so* grateful. (Who were those *dreadful* people?)" he drawls.) Plus all the other Ghibli ones - Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, etc. If you like St Trinian's, you'll love The Happiest Days of Your Life - due out soon on DVD. Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford as headmaster and headmistress of two minor public schools who find that the post-war Department of Education has accidentally housed their boys' and girls' schools together. Very, very funny, with a great performance by Joyce Grenfell as a delicately hearty gym mistress. Baraka - not a plotty type of film but a meditation in utterly beautiful film about life and religion. Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders' strange film about angels. Beautiful and brilliant. Bubba Ho Tep - Elvis and JFK are together in an old people's home invaded by an evil mummy. Say no more. This film has everything. That's enough for now. I could go on... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: freda underhill Date: 08 Mar 08 - 09:03 AM Romuald et Juliette, starring Daniel Auteuil and .. I don't know her name, but she is wonderful. this is a great movie - very funny and full of social insight and irony. i loved it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Don Firth Date: 09 Mar 08 - 03:12 PM Yeah! Just saw a good one a couple of evenings ago that we got on our NetFlix subscription. "Quigley Down Under." It takes place in the late eighteen-hundreds in Australia. Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is an American cowboy hired to come to Australia because he is a crack shot with a long-range rifle. Sniper type. The man who hires him is Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman), who owns a ranch (station?), and Quigley is under the impression that he's being hired to kill varmints that are plaguing Marston's livestock. Marston has a different idea of what constitutes "varmints," and when Marston tells Quigley what he wants him to do, Quigley picks him up and throws him bodily out his own front door. Their relatationship kinda goes downhill from there. . . . Very early on, when Quigley gets off the boat in Western Australia, he runs into Crazy Cora (Laura San Giacomo), also an American. Crazy Cora is cuter than a bucketful of koalas, but she's as loopy as a loon. Later in the movie, you learn about the tragedy that made her that way. It's one hell of an adventure story. A lot of the elements of a good Western, but an unusual and awe inspiring setting, a gripping plot, interesting characters, the haunting presence (whether you see them or not) of the aborigines, and sometimes some pretty snappy dialogue, [Quigley has been beaten and left for dead in the Australian desert]Heck of a movie! Check it out. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Thompson Date: 09 Mar 08 - 04:52 PM Anything with Daniel Auteuil is fabulous. La Vie est un Enfer - strange but great. La Reine Margot - ditto: a film about the St Bartholemew's Day Massacre of Protestants in France, "Good King Henry" (Henri de Navarre) and the Medicis. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Skivee Date: 09 Mar 08 - 05:56 PM Because nobody else bit Don's bait: A vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost walk into a bar. The bartender says, "(To the vampire and werewolf) We don't much care fer yer kind around here; you have ta go. But we do serve spirits" I Am Legend was a better film than I expected. Better by far than the old Chuck Heston version. I really liked Will Smith's acting. The "abandoned NYC CGI was pretty spiffy. Using the USS Intrepid's SR-71 as a golf tee was a hoot.(Not giving that away, it was in the TV commercials) On the other hand, I just saw an alternate ending to it that was so much better than the one they used, I wanted to thump whoever made the choice with a stick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Art Thieme Date: 09 Mar 08 - 07:16 PM there are not new, but they're good I thought. Netflix rules!!! Little Boy Blue The Butterfly Effect Chelsea Walls King Arthur Wild Things Monsters Ball Long Voyage Home Bullet Life On The Mississippi Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 09 Mar 08 - 08:33 PM Netflix DOES rule! I just watched The Magdalene Sisters. Whew! That was a tough one to watch, knowing it was all true to life and reading what became of he girls. What a terrible and sad thing to have going on and the last laundry didn't close down until 1996. Shameful. (Now, I'll not say a word more...go look it up...it's worth it!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Don Firth Date: 09 Mar 08 - 09:12 PM In my post above regarding the movie "Quigley Down Under," I may have inadvertently transgressed the bounds of political correctness in my use of the term "aborigine." Knowing very little about these people, I did a bit of googling and encountered the following: The word "aboriginal," appearing in English since at least the 17th century and meaning "first or earliest known, indigenous," (Latin Aborigines, from ab: from, and origo: origin, beginning), has been used in Australia to describe its Indigenous peoples as early as 1789. It soon became capitalised and employed as the common name to refer to all Indigenous Australians. Strictly speaking, "Aborigine" is the noun and "Aboriginal" the adjectival form; however the latter is often also employed to stand as a noun. Note that the use of "Aborigine(s)" or "Aboriginal(s)" in this sense, i.e., as a noun, has acquired negative, even derogatory connotations among some sectors of the community, who regard it as insensitive, and even offensive. The more acceptable and correct expression is "Aboriginal Australians" or "Aboriginal people", though even this is sometimes regarded as an expression to be avoided because of its historical associations with colonialism. "Indigenous Australians" has found increasing acceptance, particularly since the 1980s.No offense intended. Terrific movie, though! In the story, the Indigenous Australians are among "the good guys" in a quiet, but very effective way. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 10 Mar 08 - 12:44 PM And, I have found Magdalene Girls was based on composites of many women's stories, rather than those specific characters which were featured. Still, appalling in its truth of what really went on. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: RangerSteve Date: 10 Mar 08 - 02:02 PM The last few movies I saw weren't anything worth raving about. "Gone, Baby, Gone" was just okay, in my opinion. "Darjeeling Express" (I think that was the name", was mildly entertaining, not the rousing comedy that some critics claimed it was. I went back to renting British TV series. (Thank God for Netflix for having them). I'm alternating between "Ballykissangel" and "Upstairs, Downstairs". The first was new to me when I started watching it, the second was one that I had only seen occasionally when it was new and I'm re-acquainting myself with it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Art Thieme Date: 10 Mar 08 - 04:49 PM Don Firth Do you know if they ever issued an aboriginal cast recording for Quigley??????????? ;-) Personally, the film didn't get to me. Did not last through it as I recall. All the best, Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Riginslinger Date: 10 Mar 08 - 05:00 PM Seen any good movies lately? Yes, I watched "Sometimes a Great Notion," the other day, on VHS. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,Shimrod Date: 11 Mar 08 - 03:21 PM I've just watched a crap one - 'Tristan and Isolde'. It was set in "Dark Age Britain" (as imagined by some crass tw*t from Beverley Hills). In an opening scene a character gives a 'presentation' involving a sort of 'flip-chart' made of deer skin (yes, really!). Everyone in the film seems to be able to read and write and frequently sign treaties and read books (small, neat portable ones). In spite of its dramatic theme the film is fairly boring and packed full of Hollywood cliches. My favourite film of all time is 'Last of the Mohicans' - the Michael Mann one with Daniel Day Lewis playing Hawkeye. An astonishing recreation of the wars between the British and French in Eighteenth Century North America. It also unfolds at break-neck speed and had me on the edge of my seat all the way through. Why can't all films be like that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Becca72 Date: 11 Mar 08 - 03:46 PM If you're looking for brain candy and not historical documentary, I just saw 10,000 BC yesterday...it's pretty slow in the beginning, but it picks up. Probably worth renting instead of dropping $9 to see it in the theater, though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: number 6 Date: 11 Mar 08 - 03:58 PM Yikes ... for a brief moment there Becca i though you meant "One Million Years B.C." ... that movie Raquel Welch starred in. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Becca72 Date: 11 Mar 08 - 05:02 PM LOL number 6...she's not really my style. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Sep 08 - 09:27 PM Down to the Sea in Ships (HOW does it END??? PM if you know so as not to spoil it for others please) Captains Courageous Mystery Train Born in the Brothels of Calcutta Ulee's Gold The Last Wave Reservoir Dogs (Just got a DVR and in love with the IFC channel! Hated to erase these!) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: DougR Date: 01 Sep 08 - 09:34 PM Yes. "Tell No one." A French film with subtitles. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Sep 08 - 12:54 AM I agree that "Last of the Mohicans" with Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the finest films of all time. Just superb. Another great one is "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World". For monster films..."Cloverfield" was rather good in its own way, I think. It was a bran new approach to city-wrecking monsters, in that no attempt at all is made to explain where the monster came from or why or anything at all about that...but you were just faced with the actual events unfolding right on the spot. Quite effective, I thought. The recent animated feature "Wall-EE" was pretty good. And for an absolute animated masterpiece of a movie: "Ratatouille" It has great adventure, wonderful humour, terrific subtlety, brilliant animation, great characters, and a truly heartfelt script in every way possible. For a great extended TV series, rent yourself all the episodes in the 2005 HBO series "Rome". Very, very good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,heric Date: 02 Sep 08 - 01:26 AM The Violin. Wonderful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 02 Sep 08 - 08:38 AM I have just seen Son of Rambow, great film. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: john f weldon Date: 02 Sep 08 - 09:50 AM I don't think anyone's mentioned No Country For Old Men. If you like villains, this guy Javier Bardem beats Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson (a couple of Jokers). He's up there with Anthony Hopkin's Hannibal Lecter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Wesley S Date: 02 Sep 08 - 11:02 AM Not exactly a GOOD movie - but far better than I was expecting was "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman. It's an updated version of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Also on another thread I've pointed out that the TV miniseries "Lonesome Dove" has been rereleased in a widescreen version. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Big Al Whittle Date: 02 Sep 08 - 04:16 PM See my post about the Leadbelly movie. its a musicians movie. Civilians won't get it. It opens up his music for you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 02 Sep 08 - 07:34 PM I saw "No Country For Old Men". It had some strong points here and there...but I ended up really not liking it much at all by the end, and frankly wondering what the hell the point would be to even making such a movie? It's like a sort of high class snuff film with an ending that's a total non-sequitor and defeats whatever sense of direction the movie ever had. If I were giving it a review it would be a weak 2 and a half out of four stars. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Joe_F Date: 02 Sep 08 - 09:03 PM Ace in the Hole Heathers If I Had a Million Ikiru The Lost Weekend A Man for All Seasons Miracle on 34th Street Paths of Glory Revenge of the Nerds A Taste of Honey Yidl mitn Fidl |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,Sawzaw Date: 02 Sep 08 - 09:31 PM Kit Kittredge was a good movie, especially for kids, to see. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,Barry Normal Date: 02 Sep 08 - 10:19 PM "300" DVD, tonight; astonishingly good "Gladiatress" BBC1, last night; astonishingly bad enjoyed both... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: katlaughing Date: 02 Sep 08 - 10:58 PM Dead Man with Gary Farmer and Johnny Depp. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Sep 08 - 12:31 AM Sweeney Todd - Another outstanding performance by Johnny Depp, and everyone else in it was great too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: MAG Date: 03 Sep 08 - 11:32 PM Yeah, I liked *Tell No One* too. I know the Indiana Jones movies have stupid plots, but that's part of the point, right? I loved the new one. Even if I hate perpetuating urban legends like the crystal skulls. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: Little Hawk Date: 04 Sep 08 - 12:44 AM Yeah, I really enjoyed it too. Good clean fun. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: GUEST,Neil D Date: 04 Sep 08 - 03:24 PM I may have mentioned this on another thread, but there is one film I've seen that even afer 2 years is still the first movie out of my mouth when recommending films. It is called "Everything is Illuminated" and it has more heart than anything I've ever seen. Based on the debut novel by Jonathan Safran Foer with first time direction by the fine actor Liev Schreiber this movie will have you laughing till your sides ache and then a half hour later, genuinely bawling your eyes out. It stars Elijah Wood and a refreshing turn by Eugene Hutz, but in my opinion Boris Leskin as "Grandfather" should have easily won an Academy Award. I've seen it many time in the past couple years, we keep getting and making friends sit down and watch it, and I never tire of it. If you have not seen it, see it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: quokka Date: 04 Sep 08 - 11:40 PM 'A Very British Gangster' - documentary made by Irish investigative journalist Donal McIntyre about Manchester crime boss Dominic Noonan. If you liked 'Snatch' and 'Lock Stock' you'll love this! I saw it at a festival though - not sure if it's had a general release. Was shown at Sundance 2007. May be out on DVD. VERY powerful film. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: maire-aine Date: 05 Sep 08 - 01:08 AM Saw "Bottle Shock" a couple weeks ago. Very enjoyable, but probably not widely distributed. Check for a Landmark Theater in your area. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately? From: MAG Date: 05 Sep 08 - 10:32 AM Since this has become wine country, I'll look for Bottle Shock. It hasn't played here yet, although I noticed it is playing in Portland (Oregon). |
