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BiggieTembo 16th Jul 2015		Cinema Fitzcarraldo (1982) (1982)	Great upload of a great film JamieEduardo! A question though: I'm interested to know why you describe this film specifically as an Hispanic Interest Film? Because it was filmed in South America? I see this film as a study of one man's towering ambition and megalomanical obsession of starting an opera school in the Peruvian jungle by dragging a flat-bottomed paddle steamer riverboat over a mountain. Yes, there's a metaphor in there somewhere! Shouldn't it therefore be a human-interest film, then? Or a maritime interest film? Or even an one man's towering ambition and megalomanical obsession of starting an opera school in the Peruvian jungle by dragging a flat-bottomed paddle steamer riverboat over a mountain interest film? I'm of course stretching the concept there, but it seems to me to be more of a European idea of the strange, dark, tough wilderness and it's challenges to humankind's crazy ideas and ambitions, which will always be thwarted by some kind of natural retribution (if humankind doesn't respect the wilderness)... Most of Werner Herzog's films, in my opinion, deal with themes such as these.
BiggieTembo 7th Jul 2015		Cinema The Missouri Breaks (1976) (1976)	Tom Logan: Wake up! Just got yer throat cut!
BiggieTembo 26th Jun 2015		Cinema See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) (1989)	Dave Lyons: Fuzzywuzzy was a woman?
BiggieTembo 17th Jun 2015		Cinema Mona Lisa (1986) (1986)	George: Ornamental spaghetti!
BiggieTembo 13th Jun 2015		Cinema 10 Rillington Place (1971) (1971)	File under: Creepy. This film is all the more creepy because it's based on true events. Attenborough's portrayal of Christie is so normal and matter-of-fact, it makes it even more creepier. This film really gets under your skin. In a word, creepy. P.S.: Creepy.
BiggieTembo 10th Jun 2015		Cinema Slipstream (1989)	Matt Owens (to the android, Byron): Hell, I bet you'd even get out of the shower to take a pss!*
BiggieTembo 9th Jun 2015		Cinema The Beguiled (1971) (1971)	Hey Henry29 I know exactly the film you're on about ... Honey I Shrunk The Kids o_O No seriously, Castle Keep? The Keep? A Midnight Clear?
BiggieTembo 9th Jun 2015		Cinema The Beguiled (1971) (1971)	Clint Eastwood as a randy manipulating git. Normally it's the women that play those roles, aye, Mr. 60s Hollywood Film Producer, aye, aye?
BiggieTembo 7th Jun 2015		Cinema The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) (1991)	In the same way that great songs are overplayed on the radio, resulting in total saturation, this film was mercilessly marketed in the UK upon release - so much so that when I saw the film it was a total damp squib. They were even touting it as the scariest film ever made. Great work by the promotion guys ;-), but it killed it for me upon first viewing. Shame, because after the dust had settled, it was a pretty creepy film. Still think that Brian Cox's Hannibal Lector in Manhunter was much creepier than Hopkins (no disrespect to Hopkins, though).
BiggieTembo 7th Jun 2015		Cinema Brazil (1985) (1985)	Spoor: You've 'ad that bstard Tuttle 'ere!*
BiggieTembo 7th Jun 2015		Cinema The Blue Max (1966) (1966)	Anton Diffring always played the evil nazi in many of the British-made war films
BiggieTembo 5th Jun 2015		Cinema Mad Max (1979) (1979)	The Toecutter: Kundalini wants his hand back!
BiggieTembo 5th Jun 2015		Cinema The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938) (1938)	Robin Hood: Hah hah hah... hah hah hah!
BiggieTembo 5th Jun 2015		Cinema Withnail & I (1987) (1987)	Bloke In Pub: Perfume Ponce! Withnail: Pure, unadulterated child's pss!*
BiggieTembo 31st May 2015		Cinema The Jazz Singer (1927)	I sang when I heard him faint
BiggieTembo 31st May 2015		Cinema Withnail & I (1987) (1987)	Withnail: You can stick it up your arse, and fk off while you're doing it! Uncle Monty: I mean to have you, boy, even if it means burglary! Farmer: Shut that gate! That bull's randy! Withnail: I demand to have some booze! Withnail (beginning to sob): Please, Sir... My wife... she's having a baby I (Marwood). I've got the fear!
BiggieTembo 31st May 2015		Cinema The Doors (1991) (1991)	Leonardo Di Caprio still can't even manage a proper beard, and he's 40-odd now. Gimme a good old Brian Blessed anyday. Or Kurt Russell in The Thing. Or Di Niro in Angel Heart. Or Tom Hanks in Castaway (Wilson! Mnablahblubblubhehhehhehgeep! - and he had blonde dreadlocks too!)
BiggieTembo 31st May 2015		Cinema The Doors (1991) (1991)	Saw this when it came out. Not bad. Had a bit of a problem with fake beards in films at the time. Why don't actors just grow real beards? Maybe the beards they grow don't look like the characters they are supposed to represent: For example, if they made a film of Grizzly Adams and the actor could only manage a wispy German-80s-top-lip-fluff, then I guess that would be a problem too. Mmm. Anyway, another glitch I had with this film was Kilmer's protrayal of Morrison. I can't imagine anyone in reality hanging around with a guy who was so loose, sublime and spaced out - all the fricken time. I'd just think, f**k this guy, he's a self-obsessed tripping loser! Morrison must have been coherent at least some of the time, else they wouldn't have been able to make the great records they made. Never even got to see Meg Ryan naked either. Not that I'm that bothered, to tell the truth.
BiggieTembo 31st May 2015		Cinema A Canterbury Tale (1944) (1944)	I like the idea of The Glue Man, going around dolloping glue in ladies' hair! But the rest of the film is very dated, if we just go by the dialogue. Some of the characters are also very "Gee! You think so?" innocent naive types, which thankfully we've come away from since the 50s, generally speaking. This make the "yokels" seem more realistic than the main characters and they themselves are total stereotypes! But there is a charming scene between a local carpenter and the American Soldier character. The soldier is all "Golly! Gee!" 1930s type speaking and talks to the old carpenter like he's a baby or something (in fact, everybody talks to everybody else like they are babies, except the great and sinister Eric Portman. Even Dennis Price turns up as a Bren Gun Carrier driver, Tommy helmet and all, and talks in a Sadler's Wells theatre accent!) The Carpenter guy seems like some local Kent guy Powell and Pressburger found, and liked, and put him in the movie. In the scene they talk about various types of wood, and how it is dried out, because the American Soldier's Dad was also a carpenter. It's a nice, as-authentic-as-we're-going-to-get scene from a film made during WW2, trying to avoid being too over-propagandistic (is that a real word?) There's some nice cinematic visuals too - interesting framings and use of lighting, black-and-white, etc, which is always a great feature of Powell/Pressburger films. Lovely locations also - old mill buildings and farms and rolling hills down Kent way, which have probably long since gone (can't find a melancholy smiley but if I could I would insert it here), and interesting to see the bomb-clearance sites in Canturbury as they were, so we get a bit of social history as well ;-)
BiggieTembo 31st May 2015		Cinema The Tall Target (1951) (1951)	Ahh a great twisty exciting thriller, set for the most part aboard a train, and involving a plot against Abraham Lincoln, and a lone "cop" who is trying to prevent it. Another saw-this-one-afternoon-when-I-was-on-a-sickie-from-school, and it blew me away. A kind-of Film Noir Train Detective Western, if you gotta find a genre for that!
BiggieTembo 31st May 2015		Cinema The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1939) (1939)	Basil Fricken Rathbone! There was an actor! They used to show these in the weekeday afternoons in the UK when I was a kid (the afternoon matinee slot), and I used to see 'em whenever I was on a sickie from school, sitting there on the sofa, all alone in the house while everyone else was at school/work, experiencing all these creepy Victorian characters. This is probably the creepiest one of the lot.
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		Cinema Flash Gordon (1980)	Oh yeah this was a good 'un. Loads of fun - like a Glam Rock Space Movie. Peter Duncan from Blue Peter even gets killed in it (hand got spiked in the tree-monster bravery-test thing).
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		Cinema Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes (Rififi) (1955) (1955)	The film most known for the almost silent 30-odd minute bank robbery scene. Nice that, when at the time most films bombarded the spectator with mood-music that "told" the audience how to feel emotionally during the scene or action sequence. They still use this technique today, so thank God for this film, which kept it to a minimum - and was all the more effective for it.
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		Cinema It's A Wonderful Life (1946) (1946)	Oh yeah Trainman - that's why it's on every bloody Xmas! For the record, this the only film that has ever made me cry. Reason: Jimmy Stewart's totally unselfish charater that will help anyone without regard to himself or his own needs. Reminds me of me Mum. And how she did the same, and I could see everybody else take advantage of this help she gave. But she didn't care. She carried on helping regardless.
BiggieTembo 30th May 2015		Cinema The Poseidon Adventure (1972)	Nice, Trainman :) I took an earlier girlfriend to see a re-release of Taxi Driver, but she thought I was going to turn into a non-communicative, wound-up, confused casualty of society and dumped me! I think she became a nun...
BiggieTembo 29th May 2015		Cinema Stripes (1981) (1981)	(Scene: Russel Zisky is teaching an English class to foreigners.) Zisky: Now, does anyone know any English? Foreign guy in class (raising hand in the air): Son of btch! Sht!
BiggieTembo 29th May 2015		Cinema Coming To America (1988) (1988)	Prince Akeem: Good morning America! New York street voice: Fk you!
BiggieTembo 27th May 2015		Cinema Naked (Mike Leigh's Naked) (1993) (1993)	Yep nboldock - don't be afraid to sound pretentious. This film to me is more than art. Coming slap-bang in the middle of the Britpop 5 minutes, here was a film that brought us all back down to earth. All Mike Leigh's films are improvised first with him and the actors in some rehearsal locale, and he forms the scripts from the characters that him and the actors create. That's why the acting is always so good - because he lets the actors be free, with him steering and coaxing the performances forward. For the actor, this is manna from heaven. I saw this at the cinema when it came out, and left the cinema numb but exhilharated. At last a real film! I've thought about this film many times over the years. Why didn't Thewlis get a bloody Oscar? His blistering Johnny is a character just as important in cinema history as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. Did he get inspiration from Mark E Smith? His Johnny is completely on fire, as you say. So desperate and sad and angry and cheated. And yet in possession of such a cutting, ironic, cynical humour. Of course it's up to him, and he pretty much controls his own life and makes the decisions he makes unilaterally - but more than anything it must be getting worse today in the UK after all the austerity cuts. There must be thousands of Johnny's now ;-) Maggie!
BiggieTembo 26th May 2015		Cinema Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) (2008)	I was in Stevenage, You can ask me Mum.
BiggieTembo 26th May 2015		Cinema Rita, Sue And Bob Too! (1987) (1987)	Fancy a jump!

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