Author Topic: #589: The Royal Tenenbaums / Top 5 (Non-Kids) Movies To Show Your Kids  (Read 3011 times)

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maņana, that is a great discussion you linked to. Thanks.

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Okay, unrelated question, but wasn't Adam going to interview John Sayles?  Did I miss it?
I did. But not for Filmspotting. It's a video chat, on YouTube.

It is on Youtube and John looks like he just came from a work out.

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Okay, unrelated question, but wasn't Adam going to interview John Sayles?  Did I miss it?
I did. But not for Filmspotting. It's a video chat, on YouTube.

It is on Youtube and John looks like he just came from a work out.
I almost wore my blue tank. Would have been so embarrassing.
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I'd always shown my kids "adult" films because I thought they'd like them-- Monty Python and the Holy Grail was probably the biggest hit.  My youngest daughter would often wake up and just sit down with me to watch whatever I was watching.  My biggest surprise was when she sat down to watch most of Passion of Joan of Arc with me.  The movie was surprisingly captivating to both of us.

When I was still homeschooling my kids in grade school, I decided that their summer break would be watching classic movies that they'd never seen, but needed to.  I had them watch:
King Kong
Singin' In the Rain
Duck Soup
It's a Wonderful Life
Thief of Baghdad (1940)  (would this count as a kids movie?)

As well as others.  None of these were really successful, but they were remembered.  Well, mostly.

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I also appreciate in "Rochefort" that the English translation/subtitling kept the songs rhymed and from my limited French apprehension, I could tell they kept the nuance and sentiment of the French lyrics.

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And a great film for practical and in-camera special effects is Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.  Effects were done by Roman Coppola.

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Okay, unrelated question, but wasn't Adam going to interview John Sayles?  Did I miss it?
I did. But not for Filmspotting. It's a video chat, on YouTube.

It is on Youtube and John looks like he just came from a work out.
I almost wore my blue tank. Would have been so embarrassing.

Ha, I think somebody was either overdressed or underdressed, I'm just not sure who.

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Thanks for taking my suggestion for the Top 5!  I'm FAMOUS (well, semi-obscure movie criticism podcast famous, but I'll take my niche fame where I can get it)

Did anyone happen to write down all the honorable mentions and other films that were briefly discussed during this Top 5?  I wasn't in a place that was convenient to note taking when I was listening to the pod, and I don't want to have to re-listen if I can avoid it.

Loved the show. Several movies I either haven't heard of our wouldn't have thought to show my kids... and I've Ashley got a request in at my library for the Ty Burr book!
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