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[Jeimuzu]

Directed by Ridley Scott

Random trivia #107
He used to work at my local cinema

You're all heathens, because thus far nobody appears to have mentioned Monty Python's Holy Grail or Life of Brian.

Equus is quite good, too, on the drama side of things.

Kung Fu Hustle, purely on how much it parodies kung fu movies.

I'm always making plans to get Shaolin Soccer, too, I've heard good things about that.

And of course, the obvious ones - Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, etc.

 

[phoenix99]

Random trivia #107
He used to work at my local cinema

Ridley Scott worked at your local cinema? WOW !

 

[skibby]

Porn: Sailor in the Wild

Classic Comedy: The Palm Beach Story

Fun Trash: All the Fine Young Cannibals

Foreign Film: Bad Education

Recent Indie: Clean

Best film of 2006: Babel? I haven't seen them all yet

Best modern painter: Josef Albers

We have very similar taste in movies.

 

[skibby]

Porn: Sailor in the Wild

Classic Comedy: The Palm Beach Story

Fun Trash: All the Fine Young Cannibals

Foreign Film: Bad Education

Recent Indie: Clean

Best film of 2006: Babel? I haven't seen them all yet

Best modern painter: Josef Albers

We have very similar taste in movies. How'd you get so refined?

As for your taste in modern art - I'm glad you can recognize genius! I'll have to watch you very closely.

Sorry for the double post. How'd that happen.

 

[phoenix99]

Martin Scorsese's After Hours is a dark, tragi-comic tale of a fish out of water, centering on an uptight, white-bread computer consultant from uptown Manhattan who finds himself in the nightmarish and incomprehensible (to him) world of Soho after dark. The ordeal begins when Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) gets lonely and decides to leave the posh East Side and search the Soho streets for some loving from Marcy (Rosanna Arquette), the pretty young woman he met in a downtown cafe. He has her phone number and works up the nerve to call. She wants to see him, and so Paul grabs $20, hails a taxi and sets out. The weirdness begins when he loses his money during the high-speed cab ride. His visit to Marcy's loft, where he meets her crazed artist roommate Kiki (Linda Fiorentino), is a disaster, as is his encounter with the beehive-wearing retro waitress Julie (Teri Garr).

 

[miaplacidus]

I'd recommend you:

The Silence of the Lambs (USA, 1991. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster)

Good bye Lenin! (Germany, 2003. Starring Daniel Bruehl and Katrin Sass)

 

[phoenix99]

Pretty boy actor C. Thomas Howell stars in this dark, violent suspense film about the strange psychological bond between a traveling serial killer and one of his intended victims. Driving cross-country from Chicago to San Diego, Jim (Howell) narrowly avoids an accident when he falls asleep at the wheel. He picks up a hitchhiker to help stay awake, but within five minutes, the erratic John Ryder (Rutger Hauer) has threatened not only Jim's life, but also his manhood, brandishing a switchblade to the boy's crotch and ordering him to keep driving. Jim manages to escape, but soon Ryder begins a game of cat-and-mouse across the Texas highways, taunting the lad from the windows of passing cars, then leaving the corpses of his victims in their vehicles by the side of the road for Jim to discover. A sympathetic face arrives in the form of Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the waitress at an otherwise deserted truck stop in this bleak, abandoned landscape, but the local police soon arrive, intent on hanging Jim out to dry for the string of grisly murders. The stakes continue to mount in Ryder's little game until Jim finds himself embroiled in a statewide manhunt with Nash at his side. Former cinematographer Robert Harmon made his directorial debut with this popular thriller; screenwriter Eric Red, also making his debut, would go on to write similarly brooding genre fare including Near Dark, Bad Moon, and Alien 3.

 

[Raybee]

"What's eating Gilbert Grape? " Is one of my favourite films. Everything about it is understated to the point that your heart just caves in for these people. Great performance from a very young Leonardo Di Capprio, and Johnny Depp.

 

[LatinoSTAR]

Alien, Aliens, Legend....anything by ridley scott

 

[phoenix99]

The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift). The three men come up with a plan to corral some misfit mustangs and sell them for dog food, but Gay's new girlfriend Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe), a high-minded ex-stripper who has just divorced her husband Ray (Kevin McCarthy) in Reno, is appalled by the plan. Although both Guido and Perce are also in love with Roslyn, she stands by Gay, sure that in the end he will do the right thing, even as he and his pals begin their planned roundup.

 

[phoenix99]

In this offbeat crime film, Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) an English mobster turned informant, has been given a new identity and has been living in a small, isolated village in Spain for 10 years. Unfortunately for Parker, the men he has betrayed have ascertained his whereabouts and send Braddock (John Hurt), a professional hitman, and his apprentice Myron (Tim Roth) to bring Parker to Paris where his ex-associates await. After kidnapping Parker, nothing goes as planned. Now they are followed by a Spanish policeman (Fernando Rey) who seems to anticipate each of their moves, and they are burdened by Maggie (Laura del Sol), the mistress of a fellow mobster they were forced to kill. What should have been a routine hit becomes a psychological battle between all the participants as Parker, in a fight for time and for his life, plays one against the other. Set against the bleak Spanish landscape and featuring evocative and memorable theme music by Eric Clapton, the film builds to a surprising conclusion where the true nature of all the characters is revealed. Terence Stamp develops the character of Parker in a subtle but surprisingly comic performance and Laura del Sol shines as a woman who will do what is necessary to survive. Tim Roth, in his film debut, plays a brutal, but oddly endearing thug. But it is John Hurt, in a sensitive and nuanced performance, who brings a perceptive intelligence and depth to his role which adds a philosophical and psychological dimension to the film. Hurt plays his difficult role without a misstep and with a rare economy of action. Thoughtful and frequently amusing, The Hit, superbly written by Peter Prince, is both a compelling and suspenseful crime drama and also a deep and profound meditation on life, death and courage.