What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

**Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:42 pm**

georgecat wrote:From Here To Eternity

(I love Montgomery Clift but war movies bore me a bit)

I don't think of that as a war movie, for some reason. It is such a great film...I love Monty too (I think my favorite role of his is the poor schlub he played in Judgement at Nuremburg), but Frank Sinatra is great in it too (he HAD to be, his career was in the toilet) and Ernest Borgnine is magnificent. Truly threatening and scary, which was compounded by the fact that I grew up knowing him as the happy go lucky skipper of McHale's Navy. (Every time I see the Simpsons that he guest starred in I die laughing when he says "hi kids! I'm Ernest Borgnine, You probably know me as Sgt Fatso Judson.") And the whole Burt Lancaster/Deborah Kerr/ocean thing...

I'm a big Montgomery Clift fan because of Joe Strummer.

So funny that Monty and Brando both came from OMAHA.

**Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:42 pm**

O'Blivion wrote:.

So funny that Monty and Brando both came from OMAHA.

...........and James Dean from Indiana. Hillbillies all.

**Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:32 pm**

O'Blivion wrote:
So funny that Monty and Brando both came from OMAHA.

As well as Koolaid and Fred Astaire :wink:

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:00 am**

Mad Max a couple days ago. Forgot all of it, its been so long. Loved it.

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:20 pm**

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5187966.stm

The movie Casablanca heads a list of 25 classics compiled by Radio Times as a "crash course" for aspiring film buffs.
The list also includes films as diverse as the Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and the 1919 German silent movie The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.

It also includes the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon, which starred Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck.

Radio Times film editor Andrew Collins, who compiled the list, said: "Snobbery does not belong to the film buff."

He added: "To understand the 1980s/1990s blockbuster, you must accept producer Jerry Bruckheimer into your life. Armageddon is the pinnacle of Bruckheimer excess."

The film, which sees Willis and Affleck battling to save the world from a giant asteroid, made £500m worldwide, but was derided by critics.

Other films in the list include Rear Window, High Noon and Bonnie and Clyde.

Cary Grant's comedy Bringing Up Baby, Salvador Dali's 16-minute surrealistic film Un Chien Andalou and nine-hour Holocaust documentary Shoah are also included.

And there is also a place for Heaven's Gate, by director Michael Cimino, which cost £40m to make, yet made just £3.4m at the US box office.

The list was compiled to mark this Sunday's relaunch of Film Four as a free-to-air channel.

The full list:

Casablanca (1942)
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)
Blade Runner (1982)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Build My Gallows High (1947)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
High Noon (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Un Chien Andalou (1928)
Armageddon (1998)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Annie Hall (1977)
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Performance (1970)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Blackboards (2000)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Shoah (1985)
Winter Light (1962)
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I have seen three of these

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:43 pm**

Un Chien Andalou was the "opening act" on David Bowie's Station To Station tour in 1976, in his Thin White Duke phase. I always thought it was a Luis Bunuel film. In any event, although I caught Bowie's show at Wembley Empire Pool (Arena), I took great care to MISS the opening act, as I'm squeamish and its famous slicing-the-eyeball-of-a-cow scene was much hyped in the advance music press ballyhoo about the tour. Bowie himself was great, if a little glazed-looking.

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:02 pm**

philipchevron wrote:Un Chien Andalou was the "opening act" on David Bowie's Station To Station tour in 1976, in his Thin White Duke phase. I always thought it was a Luis Bunuel film. In any event, although I caught Bowie's show at Wembley Empire Pool (Arena), I took great care to MISS the opening act, as I'm squeamish and its famous slicing-the-eyeball-of-a-cow scene was much hyped in the advance music press ballyhoo about the tour. Bowie himself was great, if a little glazed-looking.

Un Chien Andalou was written by Dali and Bunuel and directed by Bunuel. The pair also collaborated on L'Age D'Or, but Dali had his name removed from the finished film because there weren't enough rotting donkeys in it to suit his taste. (Unlike the Andalusian Dog which has donkeys aplenty.)

I too judge films by how many rotting donkeys are in them.

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:29 pm**

There aren't many rotting donkeys in the rest of that BBC/FilmFour list, alas. Mostly achingly hip nonsense.

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:39 pm**

The list is sadly missing of two things:

o Rotting Donkeys
o Cinema from regions other than North America and Europe

Where is Bollywood? Where is Japan? Surely Kirosawa warrants inclusion on this list? "The Seven Samurai"? "The Throne of Blood"? Numerous others...

Ah well. Still a pretty good list.

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:55 pm**

DzM wrote:The list is sadly missing of two things:

o Rotting Donkeys
o Cinema from regions other than North America and Europe

Where is Bollywood? Where is Japan? Surely Kirosawa warrants inclusion on this list? "The Seven Samurai"? "The Throne of Blood"? Numerous others...

Ah well. Still a pretty good list.

Well, "The Hidden Fortress" is on it. That's a pretty good Kurasawa film.
There are also no Mexican wrestling movies on the list. Where is "Rock and Roll Wrestling Women Meet The Aztec Mummy"? Eh?

Lists like that always remind me of the scene in "Annie Hall" where Woody Allen is carefully scattering paperbacks around his apartment to make himself appear more intellectual. I love that scene because I'm guilty of that same vanity - my film list would be even more unbearably, self-consciously artsy-fartsy. Where is "Meshes of the Afternoon"? Why are there no Dr. Mabuse movies on it? Where's "The Golem"?

And where the hell is Ed Wood?

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:17 pm**

Where is "She Wants To Sing, She Will Never Be A Nun, She Will Bless Her Homeland Forever" as I believe it is called in China?

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:32 pm**

My mother and I are going out tonight!

A nice meal in snobby Clapham followed by a film I'm dying to see..

The wind that shakes the barley?

Anyone seen it?

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:32 pm**

It's been a long time since I saw a reference to Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou". Brings back memories of cinema classes and Night of the Living dead for some odd reason.

Wonder what it would be like to watch it again.

And yes, I did turn away at the "eye" scene. :oops:

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:18 pm**

Chichi Ramone wrote:It's been a long time since I saw a reference to Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou". Brings back memories of cinema classes and Night of the Living dead for some odd reason. Wonder what it would be like to watch it again.
And yes, I did turn away at the "eye" scene.

But the eye scene is so tame by today's standards (even compared to today's television standards).

For me Night of the Living Dead will always be pared with American Werewolf in London since the first time I really saw either of them was as a double-feature at UCSC when I was 16. Good times ...

**Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:14 pm**

Yikes I've only seen a few of those top 25. How sad???
Course if there were more donkeys in them....

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