BS: What films do you rewatch?

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 01:04 PM

Black Robe is a powerful film, all right. Haven't seen Smoke Signals.

Regarding Dances With Wolves, a realistic ending to that story could only have been miserably, horribly tragic and bloody. I'm glad I didn't have to sit through such an ending, having lived (and died) through many such endings before, more times than I wanted to...you can choose to end a given story at any point you wish to.

They did add a postscript, saying that the free life of those plains people was over in ten years, didn't they?

You know, I eventually decided after years of spiritual study that all people are shining souls of the same nation (although they seldom seem to be aware of it), and it matters less what your genetic makeup is than it does what shirt you decide to wear today. The Medicine Wheel now includes all people in a great circle. There's no point getting arrogant over tribal afilliations or cultural purity, and it doesn't help anyone to do so (not that you can't celebrate it in a positive way). You have to look beyond the mere skin and hair to the spirit and consciousness within. That includes forgiving the past too, and not dragging old hatreds into the present where they do not belong.

I used to put Indians on a pedestal above other people. Now I put everyone on the same level field. It was a hard lesson to swallow.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST,SRS
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 02:03 PM

Good policy. A lot of people trip over that pedestal, or fall off of it, when they never should have had to deal with it.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 02:10 PM

"Pretty Woman" would certainly be a candidate for burning, it is such a piece of poison, except for one thing -- that damn Julia Roberts. She is so beautiful in that film that you are simply stunned into submission. Sure, lady, be a whore, go shopping, use credit cards as a symbol of freedom, whatever you want. Be an axe-murderer, see if I care.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 02:14 PM

Monty Python's Holy Grail, Billy Eliot, The Quiet Man, Casablanca, The Lion In Winter,Johnny Belinda, African Queen,To Kill A Mockinbird and my all time fave.The Maltese Falcon.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage, sans cookie
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 02:17 PM

I think the one to burn for that really stupid message is Grease. I hated that one, even if it did have a good cast.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 02:22 PM

Does anyone recall a film called Yellowdog. It is about a boy and his dog lost in the wilds of British Columbia. I woul;d see it ten times over...if I could find it .

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 03:27 PM

The one not to burn is The Lady's Not For Burning! Wonderful story (it was cast on television with Eilene Atkins and Richard Chamberlain. Has it been made into a film?)

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 03:47 PM

Alright... lemme try to just list a few... In whatever order they come to me in...

The Abyss... Great film... before James Cameron went nuts...
Any and all John Carpenter Films... Even the really bad stuff like Dark Star...
Fellowship Of The Ring... Despite it being Peter Jackson...
The 13th Warrior
Labyrinth
Legend
The Dark Crystal (Possibly the BEST fantasy film made to date!)
2001/2010
A Beautiful Mind (Didn't get anough Academy Awards in my opinion)
Dark City (One of the main things that was ripped off to make The Matrix)
The Animatrix (Some great short fiction
Cube
Stir Of Echoes
Clerks/Mallrats/Chasing Amy/Dogma/Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back (I have sorta a Kevin Smith crush)
Snatch
Aeon Flux
Conan The Barbarian
Flesh And Blood
Indian Jones (Thank the gods for the DVD release!)
Star Wars... (The movie... not the crap that came after it...)
The Iron GIant
Princess Mononoke
Gladiator (MMmm... Ridley Scott!)
Blade Runner

I HAVE to stop otherwise I'll be here all day!

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 04:05 PM

Yellowdog?

Do you maybe mean
Yellow Dog (1973)
Directed by
Terence Donovan

or
Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
Directed by
Phillip Borsos

Cause I'm betting you don't mean
Yellow Dog, The (1918)
Directed by
Colin Campbell

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 04:14 PM

Guest above mentioned "Billy Eliot." A great film to watch, as you just wait for that beautiful, beautiful final leap by the grown up Billy in Swan Lake. I have rented that film just to re-play that leap again and again, always with a lump in my throat.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST,got cookies?
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 04:24 PM

Couldn't resist it...got my cookies this AM

    A Confederacy of Dunces....John Kennedy Toole
    Stranger in a Strange Land....Robert Heinlein

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 05:02 PM

'Stranger In A Strange Land' hasn't been made into a film... At least not under that title....

I think you want the Books Reread thread...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 08:00 PM

Citizen Kane
The Jewel In The Crown (PBS series)
The Day The Earth Caught Fire (incredible special effects for the time)
Day Of The Triffids (I have always wanted to live in a lighthouse)
Wuthering Heights
Ramblin' Rose
The Apostle (just about anything with Robert Duvall)
Gone With The Wind
The Haunting (Julie Harris)
Village Of The Damned (60's version)
Pride and Prejudice (PBS series)
The Producers (and just about anything with Gene Wilder in it)

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 08:44 PM

Surely all that's "displacement activity", Little Hawk. In the situation they've been forced into, it's pretty inevitable. When people can't see a way to fight the oppressors, they fight each other, or themselves. Infighting, drink, suicide.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 08:59 PM

Movies - noone's mentioned two I'll watch any time I get the chance -

"Oh Brother Where Art Thou" and "Sullivan's Travels" (from which "Oh Brother" took its title).

Also Truffaut's "L'Enfant Sauvage"

And for modern films, "Amélie".

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 10:28 PM

Forgot to mention Amadeus. Bet I've watched it six times now -- it's the first video I ever wanted to own. IMO, it shows what moviemaking can be.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 11:36 PM

Clinton

I like your list. The Iron Giant is a classic. But what do I know, I liked WaterWorld, (and The Postman)

Don

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 12:25 AM

McGrath - There's a good deal of truth in what you said. The same kind of thing can be said of the black community in the USA...another traumatized and oppressed group of people who have suffered greatly in the last few hundred years. Only thing is, it can be pretty frustrating dealing with it, if you deeply love the traditional values of such a community. I loved everything "Indian" from the time I was old enough to walk, and I just naturally gravitated toward it with an innocent heart, so to speak, and got awfully frustrated later by all the infighting in the community. However, it was a powerful learning experience and it eventually led to my according greater respect to all people in general rather than a few in particular...so I guess it turned out okay in the end.

The fact is, virtually all people are being oppressed in one way or another...and the few rich and powerful at the top just love those old "divide and conquer" tactics of splitting the rest of us up into proud, hostile little tribes and focusing our anger on each other. Like Boss Tweed said in "Gangs of New York", "you can always get one half of the poor to kill the other half for you..." Uh-huh. Easily done. Just focus on the trivial differences...like skin colour, religion, nationality or language.

Peter T. - You are a wise man, my friend.

Clinton - Yeah. "The Abyss" is a great movie.

SINSULL - I've never seen "The Day The Earth Caught Fire". Sounds pretty spectacular.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 09:28 AM

I've just remembered another one, and I don't think anyone has mentioned it yet - "The Seven Faces of Dr Lao". There is something about it that really appeals to me.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 06:30 PM

No-one seems to be giving my nominations much airtime:

12 Angry Men
Reds
The Killing Fields
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
To Kill a Mocking Bird

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 01:44 AM

Well, I thought Reds and The Killing Fields were both great. I liked Dick Tracy too, not that there's much connection, aside from Warren Beatty...

Bonnie & Clyde is also a very striking and unforgettable movie.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 06:29 PM

Classics... but way to tame by todays standards Chuckie....

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST,Suzanne
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 05:40 AM

And how do you feel about The Shining, then?

Movies I don't mind seeing over and over -

The Harder They Fall
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Spot's Magical Christmas
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Spirited Away
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
2001 SPace Odyssey
Braveheart
The Gods Must Be Crazy
All Dogs Go to Heaven
The Jungle Book - the old one with Phil Harris
as Baloo and Louie Prima as King Louie
Charlotte's Web
Young Frankenstein (Put! Zhe Candle! Beck!)
any Peter Sellers movies (Pardon me, do you have a rheum?)
and of course, The Rocky Horror Picture show

Wow, once I started, the list became a whole lot longer than I thought it would! It strikes me that I'm not willing to rewatch
some of these because they're good, but because they transport
me back in time and space. Follow the yellow brick road!
I wonder why no one has mentioned the Wizard of OZ?

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 05:53 AM

The Glenn Miller story.
Spinal Tap.
All the films of Jaques Tati and Laurel and Hardy
Life of Brian.
Field of dreams.
Jaques Brel is alive and well..
Inherit the wind
And almost anything in French with subtitles.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Peace
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 11:52 PM

Platoon
Armageddon
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Does anyone know if Alec Guiness' "From the Horse's Mouth" from the book by Cary is available on VHS or DVD?

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 01:58 AM

Under the name "The Horse's Mouth," the film is available on both video and DVD in Canada and the US. For more info, go to imdb.com (Internet Movie Data Base, which I could not get along without).

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 03:16 AM

Black Orpheus, also known as Orfeo Negro.
First saw it in Wellington in 1963, it returned every few years but now it's been on telly and I have my own copy!
Also love The Party and West Side Story.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 11:45 PM

I don't watch a lot of TV, but every so often I put on either "Babe" or "Forest Gump". I could watch them anytime.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 02:25 AM

LadyHawke--I adore Rutger Hauer's horse! (And he ain't bad, either...)
The Big Chill
Children of a Lesser God
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (How do you know he's the King?)
Top Gun (for the scene where the fighter planes look like bees swarming)
King of Hearts
Harold and Maude
Anything with Kevin Costner in it--I like both Waterworld AND The Postman--Field of Dreams is my favorite, though.
To Kill a Mockingbird--just introduced my 11-year-old grandson to that one.
LOTR films
Harry Potter films
Too many more to list

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:05 AM

When people can't see a way to fight the oppressors, they fight each other, or themselves.

McGrath, perhaps that somewhat explains Americans' behavior these days?

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 03:15 AM

I can't believe I left Yellowbeard off my list!

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 11:40 AM

I can't believe noone's mentioned "The Adventures of Robin Hood" - that's the Erroll Flynn version.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 01:21 PM

I can... I had to watch it once, and I'll never do so again...

Mind, I don't really care for old movies...

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 01:28 PM

I'm not the least surprised at that, Clinton. Takes all sorts.

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: jacqui c
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 01:36 PM

I'd forgotten West Side Story - just got it on DVD - the ending makes me cry everytime.

The one I will watch again, when I'm in the right mood, is Schindler's List. My Ex wasn't one to sit through anything too long so I didn't tell him it was about three hours and mostly black and white. He came out of the cinema totally blown away by the film and I had to give him a potted history of the Holocaust as he really (even at the age of fifty) hadn't paid any attention to what happened there. Terrific film, but not one to watch when stressed or depressed!

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: Alba
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 02:21 PM

For me it's Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino when I want a warm and fuzzy feeling
13th Warrior and the Fifth Element just for fun
Now Voyager when I have a cold and can snuggle on the couch
Put them on and watch them again anytime Films:
Les enfants du paradis
Au revior les enfants
Raise the Red Lantern
The Shipping News
White Oleander
Don Juan de Marco
Chocolat
My name is Joe
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca
The Big Blue
and a few 100 more....
JD:>)

Subject: RE: BS: What films do you rewatch?
From: GUEST,John D
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 10:18 PM

Monty Walsh - loved the theme music and Mama Cass singing "The good times are coming".