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Re: Film Favorites
« Reply #560 on: November 21, 2012, 09:55:40 PM »
I have got to see that Antares! Their relationship was the only interesting thing about the musical remake.


oldkid, I agree on Another Year. It gets my vote.




Many of my favorite films are during the courtship stage, or love of the unrequited sort, so if you ask those kind of questions, I'll have a lot to work with. :)

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Re: Film Favorites
« Reply #561 on: November 21, 2012, 10:02:55 PM »
I've just realized how many of my top 100, especially the top 20, are essentially about marriage.  But I'll go with George and Martha from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? just for the fireworks.

Other films from my top list that revolve around marriage:

1. Scenes From a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
2. Mahanagar (1963, Satyajit Ray)
5. A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
10. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray)
15. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
16. Jules and Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)
48. The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000, Anh Hung Tran)
68. I Fidanzati (1963, Ermanno Olmi)
77. Sita Sings the Blues (2008, Nina Paley)
84. Three Colors: Blue (1993, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
92. Shame (1968, Ingmar Bergman)
95. Drowning by Numbers (1988, Peter Greenaway)

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« Reply #562 on: November 22, 2012, 01:54:09 AM »
Another Year is a great choice and if put to a vote it would probably get mine. Since it's been mentioned already I'd like to name Fredric March and Myrna Loy in The Best Years of Our Lives. There's a great scene that really sticks with me when the couple explain to their daughter that the marriage hasn't been as easy as it appeared.
"How many times have I told you I hated you, and believed it in my heart. How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me, that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?"


On the flip side, I doubt anything will match the heartbreak of Scenes From a Marriage, but this year I watched A Married Couple and said

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This jumps to the top of the list for worst date movie ever, surpassing Scenes From a Marriage and The Brown Bunny. The climactic scene reminded me of the power of capturing a life-altering event on camera. It's the domestic equal to the gunfire in Harlan County USA. The final discussion is great, but the way it ends really struck me like no other film about married couples.

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Re: Film Favorites
« Reply #563 on: November 26, 2012, 11:53:24 PM »
What is your favorite heist film?
"It's not art unless it has the potential to be a disaster." Bansky

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« Reply #564 on: November 27, 2012, 12:14:14 AM »
The opening of Zulawski's L'amour braque.
I posted this once or twice already, but here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfLax9uUjVw

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Re: Film Favorites
« Reply #565 on: November 27, 2012, 03:31:32 AM »
The original Italian Job

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Re: Film Favorites
« Reply #566 on: November 27, 2012, 05:38:12 AM »

oldkid, I agree on Another Year. It gets my vote.




Yes, they are truly a deceptively maniacal pair.

What is your favorite heist film?

Le Cercle Rouge followed by Ocean's Eleven (2001).


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Re: Film Favorites
« Reply #567 on: November 27, 2012, 07:02:15 AM »

oldkid, I agree on Another Year. It gets my vote.

Yes, they are truly a deceptively maniacal pair.

Totoro, I'm sorry you feel that way. As I recall, you weren't happy with the way they treat their friends. I don't think I'll be able to convince you that they are actually quite compassionate in their interactions with others as they both accept and set limits, but putting that aside for a minute, there's something else going on that's equally fascinating. By shared experiences, interests and temperaments, Tom and Gerri created a type of shorthand that can be seen in their looks and body language, the way they work alongside each other, their touch. They both go out and knock about in the real world, but their world together is their own personal haven, which they protect, rightfully so. Success like that should be celebrated and if possible emulated, not begrudged.

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« Reply #568 on: November 27, 2012, 08:30:23 AM »
The opening of Zulawski's L'amour braque.
I posted this once or twice already, but here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfLax9uUjVw

I saw that clip before, only now it has a different meaning because I've been introduced to Zulawski. jbissell has planted his seed in me and his style has definitely taken root.


There are a lot of good heist films, but the best would have to be Die Hard.
"Well, when you steal $600, you can just disappear. When you steal 600 million, they will find you, unless they think you're already dead."
"...by the time they figure out what went wrong, we'll be sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent."
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« Reply #569 on: November 27, 2012, 09:41:57 AM »
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