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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 27, 2009 21:38:18 GMT
Post 'em here! Beautiful!  AH |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 28, 2009 9:17:43 GMT
The Good the bad and ugly is a great film, and the ending is amazingly good - just brings it back to the beginning. (The whole film is particularly good if you've got a hangover, I've found. Maybe the bangs aren't good, but the pace of the thing is perfect - very soothing.)
The opening of Aguirre, Wrath of God is a good moment: when the camera moves across and you realise how many people he's got going down into the valley; I think ever there you're not thinking of it as a made up film, but more of a record of something that really happened (which, in part, it really was).
(This is a trailer, with a bit of the start. It is also in German; I found an English version, but it was awful - really plummy.)
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 29, 2009 7:46:45 GMT
Hey, I actually watched some of that film many years ago when I was stoned and couldn't be arsed changing channels...it was the original language, but had subtitles (I think it was probably on C4 who always show wierd shit like that) I remember the raft journey and them sending some black slave ashore to frighten the indians. I never knew what it was called, but I know now. Thanks for your contribution. AH |
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Post by trubble on Aug 29, 2009 8:12:32 GMT
Oooh Alph! It's like you are channeling Barry Norman.  We played this greatest moments thing in the chatroom last night and it got a bit hot in there. I will let everso talk you through her clip herself. |
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Post by everso on Aug 31, 2009 15:49:06 GMT
Alph, I would have thought this one would be your first choice: For me, um,  Will he make it? No, damn it, he always gets stuck in the barbed wire. |
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 31, 2009 21:58:50 GMT
(This is a trailer, with a bit of the start. It is also in German; I found an English version, but it was awful - really plummy.) Ye Gods!  I remember seeing that with subtitles on a black & white TV when my brother came over for a couple of weeks. I'd love to see it again actually, the conquistador who screwed up drifting down the Amazon (?) screaming "I am the Wrath of God" at the trees - madder than a sack of cats  And here, what I have always felt the most chilling extract from any film, that says everything you really wish you did not know about the human race. So very true - tomorrow did belong to them. And look what they did with it   |
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Post by everso on Aug 31, 2009 22:03:23 GMT
Cabaret. Great film. Quite chilling, yes.
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 31, 2009 23:58:52 GMT
Not necessarily a 'greatest' moment but some interesting ones. Two men getting to know each other, one morally whitewashed! The entire film is on YouTube.
The near-naked man (actor well known from a slightly earlier musical) has just transferred a gold chain from himself to the man in the shirt who has him captive. The remark about 'brothers' is not so good considering that shortly before he had killed his nominally superior brother and hanged his entire harem in a civil war. He even had pregnant wives opened to hang the children separately. That is probably what you get from 300 years of semi-incest.
He tells a strange tale about this. Many years later on interview he was asked where he got the accent and said that as there was no record he made it up and "I could have played the part standing on my head without history contradicting it". But much later he came across a translation of a journal that referred to "a high-pitched voice with a strange way of breaking long vowels" which suggests that he was not far off. Maybe something was guiding him.
Man: too great to be beast, too small to be angel - so devil.
Another episode from glorious history. The most intentionally violent sequence for many years after it was filmed, with no pretended excuse of 'entertainment' value. Do not watch after eating. Appalling stuff. So it should be.
One of the funniest chase scenes ever but I couldn't find it. So here's the closing credits instead. Buster Keaton's last film - him running (seven times around the seven hills of Rome) at the start.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 2, 2009 9:56:01 GMT
The Lighthorsemen - Battle of Beersheba - The Charge
Great piece of film.
AH
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Post by Flatypus on Sept 2, 2009 22:16:30 GMT
Well, if it's cavalry you like, jolly old Baldy
While looking I found a new Russian version came out this April but when it will be here or whether dubbed or subtitled Ki znayet?
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Post by aubrey on Sept 15, 2009 14:38:36 GMT
Fill your hands you son-of-a-bitch!
(But for all that the girl - Mattie - says that Rooster has grit, the real True Grit is Mattie herself.)
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Post by percyplum on Sept 21, 2009 14:30:02 GMT
This scene from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (one of my all-time fave films) is one of the best in the movie.
The look on the bimbos faces when the incomparable Kathy Bates has her "Towanda" moment is superb!
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 21, 2009 14:52:34 GMT
Bladerunner - Tears in the rain...
AH
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Post by chrislord on Sept 23, 2009 9:03:42 GMT
Far too many westerns and war movies...
I prefer a good weepie...with a box of kleenex to hand.
Here is arguably the greatest ever scene in movie history.
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Post by chrislord on Sept 23, 2009 13:36:07 GMT
...and here's another
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Feb 16, 2010 18:31:53 GMT
Bumped from the depths of time... Turn this one the feck up and enjoy.  AH |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Feb 16, 2010 18:43:11 GMT
Bumped from the depths of time... Turn this one the feck up and enjoy. AH Wondeful film AH...but it doesn't work on the small screen...like Star Wars...you have to see this at the pictures...and then get fish and chips and still have change from a fiver. |
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Post by everso on Feb 16, 2010 21:17:52 GMT
Did anyone see "Apocolypto" the other evening?
Great stuff - violent, but excellent.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Feb 16, 2010 22:13:51 GMT
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Post by everso on Feb 16, 2010 22:25:32 GMT
I found it a really compelling film, and odd that I didn't really seem to notice that it was a 'foreign language' film! And a reasonably happy ending too, which I always like.
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