Still never seen Airplane. I've seen in quoted so many times I've probably heard most of the movie anyway.
But really the key question is what sorts of political movies would it be expected political anoraks will have watched, and has everyone indeed seen them?
I remember watching The Iron Lady, and thinking it was pretty dull, but then that's generally the case with biopics, even of remarkable people (I also find Meryl Streep overrated - it may be unfair, but I'm always very aware its her in her films, rather than the character she is portraying).
Good Political movies
All the President's men Frost vs Nixon
and of course Don's Party
Nixon (Hopkins/Stone) The Parallax View All The Way (Cranston as LBJ) Path To War (Michael Gambon as LBJ)
Good political film: Darkest Hour.
Especially the Underground scene.
Lol. That is a classic PB Tory trigger warning right there. Right up there with wild swimming, and cashless buses.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
For me, the top ten are:
Goodfellas Godfather I and II The Death of Stalin The Wolf of Wall Street The Last King of Scotland Some Like it Hot From Russia with Love Airplane Ruthless People.
Very good list, but too Anglo.
Fair enough. Among foreign films, I hugely enjoyed La Reine Margot, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Satyricon (a very rare film which does depict a lot of what I think life was like in Ancient Rome) .
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are brilliant. A must-see duo (or whatever the two equivalent of trilogy/quartet is).
I basically saw no “action films” in the 80s because, well, I was a child, and my parents would let me watch them on VHS.
And I never bothered to remedy that in the 90s.
So I haven’t seen:
Die Hard(s) Lethal Weapon(s) Alien(s) Predator(s) Terminator(s) Beverly Hills Cop or Rambos.
I’ll get around to it some day.
I like to think of myself as very unaffected by current 'woke' mores, but I re-watched Lethal Weapon on TV the other day and the way Riggs (Mel Gibson's character) carries on is very 'toxic male' - I felt dirty even as I thought this. Wouldn't stop me watching it mind. That series is 'OK' - hasn't aged brilliantly. Die Hard(s) until recent 'comebacks' are very good. Best of that bunch are the Alien(s).
If you want to see a film that has aged BADLY, try “Manhattan”.
Apparently this was beloved of film critics, until only about 10 years ago. But watching it in 2023, Allen comes across as a spoilt and unpleasant narcissist who seems to be using the entire film to indulge his own, slightly unsavoury sexual fantasies.
Stanley Kubrick is a genius and I will say so to the end of time. But the verbal bullying he put Shelley Duvall thru to get that performance in the Shining does not sit well with me.
Whilst he is an extreme example I'd hope things are better now, as it seems like there's plenty of examples in the industry of horrible bullying and harrassment (even of non sexual kinds) in the name of 'art', which the people themselves may wave off later.
I mean, art can surely be a challenge sometimes, and very impactful on culture, but at the end of the day you're making movies, plays, whatever, calm the f*ck down.
Huw is one of the highest paid, previously most respected, newsreaders on the publicly owned broadcaster
That doesn't just give him celebrity; it brings him authority and power too
He's not just an ordinary guy with kinks
He has abused his position - see the Beeb confirmed stories about his threats - he deserves to lose it
If he has does anything illegal on top of that then he should be punished for it, if not: not
But he shouldn't be forgiven his abuse of power, just because he's gone a bit nuts now
Given his long history of depression “gone a bit nuts now” seems to minimise the reality of his situation a bit.
But, at the same time, depression is not an excuse for bad behaviour of this kind. Especially when the perpetrator is wealthy enough to afford top flight private medical treatment.
I think the Beeb has to sack him. This is gross misconduct & mental illness doesn’t excuse it.
This is all difficult. Suppose it was a brain tumour? Does that excuse it?
Probably? If you could reasonably claim that someone was not in control of their behaviour, then you might be able to plot a path to redemption. But in this case we have an established pattern of behaviour going back at least three years?
Regardless, I’m going to drop this line of discussion as it seems a bit unseemly to keep picking at the scab.
Die Hard is clearly a movie that happens at Christmas & is therefore a Christmas movie if you want it to be.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
For me, the top ten are:
Goodfellas Godfather I and II The Death of Stalin The Wolf of Wall Street The Last King of Scotland Some Like it Hot From Russia with Love Airplane Ruthless People.
Very good list, but too Anglo.
Fair enough. Among foreign films, I hugely enjoyed La Reine Margot, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Satyricon (a very rare film which does depict a lot of what I think life was like in Ancient Rome) .
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are brilliant. A must-see duo (or whatever the two equivalent of trilogy/quartet is).
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
For me, the top ten are:
Goodfellas Godfather I and II The Death of Stalin The Wolf of Wall Street The Last King of Scotland Some Like it Hot From Russia with Love Airplane Ruthless People.
Very good list, but too Anglo.
Fair enough. Among foreign films, I hugely enjoyed La Reine Margot, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Satyricon (a very rare film which does depict a lot of what I think life was like in Ancient Rome) .
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are brilliant. A must-see duo (or whatever the two equivalent of trilogy/quartet is).
Still never seen Airplane. I've seen in quoted so many times I've probably heard most of the movie anyway.
But really the key question is what sorts of political movies would it be expected political anoraks will have watched, and has everyone indeed seen them?
I remember watching The Iron Lady, and thinking it was pretty dull, but then that's generally the case with biopics, even of remarkable people (I also find Meryl Streep overrated - it may be unfair, but I'm always very aware its her in her films, rather than the character she is portraying).
Good Political movies
All the President's men Frost vs Nixon
and of course Don's Party
Nixon (Hopkins/Stone) The Parallax View All The Way (Cranston as LBJ) Path To War (Michael Gambon as LBJ)
A completely obscure, but very good one, is Power Play, with Donald Pleasance as an absolutely vile secret police chief. David Hemmings is the idealistic army officer who is talked into overthrowing a ruthless civilian dictatorship, and Peter O'Toole, the army officer who first supports the coup, then executes his fellow plotters.
I've seen that! I enjoyed it thoroughly! David Hemmings saunters in and prepares to take control until Peter O'Toole quietly reminds him that he is surrounded by men with guns loyal to Peter and how does he propose to leave the room exactly?
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
For me, the top ten are:
Goodfellas Godfather I and II The Death of Stalin The Wolf of Wall Street The Last King of Scotland Some Like it Hot From Russia with Love Airplane Ruthless People.
Very good list, but too Anglo.
Fair enough. Among foreign films, I hugely enjoyed La Reine Margot, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Satyricon (a very rare film which does depict a lot of what I think life was like in Ancient Rome) .
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are brilliant. A must-see duo (or whatever the two equivalent of trilogy/quartet is).
There was a very odd post this morning about the Sun “popping champagne”.
But they’ve fucked this up, haven’t they?
One does hope so.
I can't bear the smug Edwards, but the Sun's vile sting operation has been truly evil.
I cannot help but feel that if these revelations were coming out about Andrew Neil, or Jacob Rees Mogg, or the Duke of York, the PB-ers currently clutching their pearls about 'mental health', 'vile sting operation' etc. would be singing a somewhat different tune.
Your feelings don’t count. Show us some evidence.
Well, back when the tabloids were hunting Conservative cabinet ministers (for personal relationships) , I seem to recall anger from one side. I even recall one hilarious incident, when some gay activists were trying to out... Alan Duncan. It seemed to upset them more to be told that he was openly gay, and there was no outing to do. "But he's a Toorrrrrrryyyyyy!?"
When the tabloids went after Labour cabinet ministers, strangely this changed to a Terrible Attack On Human dignity. With the other side doing the It's The Way Public Life Works bit.
Unethical behaviour is not necessarily the same thing as illegal behaviour. I've been talking this over with my wife, who is an HR professional.
Paying a drug addict, who is aged over 18, to provide sexually explict photos, on the part of somebody like a senior local government officer, would be considered an act of gross misconduct. The officer would be suspended, and in all likelihood be dismissed. He might well lose pension rights. He would not be getting away with the argument that "a good chap has the right to a private life." And, if some local rag reported the issue, attempts to blame the local rag would fall flat.
Whether one hates The Sun or not, is immaterial. There is a public interest in reporting this story.
Presumably "drug addict" is doing the work there, rather than making anyone who pays for OnlyFans eligible for loss of pension?
It's the issue of bringing your employer into disrepute, if you're senior enough.
About a decade ago, there was a guy who was Assistant Director of Housing at Hammersmith & Fulham. He had a Nazi fetish, and he liked posting pictures of himself online having sex with other Nazi fetishists. One of the tabloids reported the story to general mirth, but there was no question of the man keeping his job.
Why? Given some of your posts, I’ve long suspected you of quite odd sexual fetishises, but I’d never dream that it ought to cost you your job.
Fortunately, I'm self-employed. If I were a partner in a magic circle law firm, who did what is alleged here, I probably would be on my way out.
Because partners are not employees with rights under law.
Too many of your examples are irrelevant to the assertion that OnlyFans is grounds for summary dismissal. And, no, I wouldn't necessarily trust HR to know the law, especially when it protects the employee.
As a point of fact, is there any evidence this took place on OnlyFans?
I'm inquiring specifically about Sean_F's bare-bones scenario where gross misconduct includes paying for porn in one's own time, to a person who turns out to be an addict. No, I don't know much at all about the details of the current controversy.
You can make the argument that the law goes too far in allowing employers to dismiss people for actions outside of the workplace that they say will bring them into disrepute.
However, it is the case that employment law allows them considerable latitude to do so.
I know a very good and capable 35-year old guy, who had a good career in project management of complex systems integration in the rail industry totally destroyed - forever - because he took cocaine at a party with some friends on a Sunday night, and was randomly drugs tested at 9.30am the next morning (it happens to a random pool once a year) and he got unlucky and it was still in his system.
It's not my cup of tea but I thought that was a bit harsh. The problem with zero tolerance is that it really is zero tolerance.
Agree. Not sure why an employer is drug testing at 9.30 in the morning someone who isn't behaving inappropriately at work unless they have a high level public facing role where disclosure of drug taking would bring their employer into disrepute.
Random testing.
I don't think they should be if they are doing their job properly and if disclosure wouldn't bring their employer into disrepute (ie if it wouldn't be news outside of the employer)
Railway industry. Very sensitive to drugs, like schools are sensitive to any undue interest in underage persons.
But surely commonsense applies. I don't want my train driver under the influence even if the slightest, so tests are fair enough. I don't give a toss if the porter had a session the night before provided he can do his job properly.
Porter?! Where do you live, Buggleskelly?
Organizations don't have time to apply minute distinctions - still less their employers or the employers' insurers. Especially if people find themselves dealing with safety critical functions (which can happen in the office just as much as in the cab).
😁 I had to look up Buggleskelly. And I sort of do. We have a brilliant ticket clerk. The station is magnificent. Flowers everywhere. Puzzle and book exchange. And so much more. He brings in his dog to work and was told he wasn't allowed so decided he had to leave. Uproar in the village and then it hit the national press and TV and finally Grant Shapps intervened and told Network Rail to stop being stupid. They backed down. He (and his dog) are brilliant.
I basically saw no “action films” in the 80s because, well, I was a child, and my parents would let me watch them on VHS.
And I never bothered to remedy that in the 90s.
So I haven’t seen:
Die Hard(s) Lethal Weapon(s) Alien(s) Predator(s) Terminator(s) Beverly Hills Cop or Rambos.
I’ll get around to it some day.
Neither Alien (sci-fi horror) nor Beverly Hills Cop (comedy) fit that category.
Alien is excellent; BHC, amusing.
Alien was late 70's wasn't it?
I have never seen any of the Die Hards, nor Lethal Weapons, nor any Star Wars (apart from the original) nor any Star Trek (apart from the 1960's original), nor LoTR films, nor The Hobbit, nor any "Superhero" films.
Action films are not really my cup of tea. I find special effects boring, and too often a substitute to cover up thin characterisation and plot.
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is worth seeing even if you don’t like sci-fi. The characterisation and revenge plot are first class, and the ultimate space battle (through a plot contrivance) is more like a blind struggle between two WW2 submarines.
When will the Sun be providing proof that Edwards paid for the pics/videos?
The police found no criminality . The Suns pathetic backtracking is vomit inducing and they’re now accusing other media outlets of misconstruing their original reports.
Absolutely desperate stuff from this garbage excuse of a newspaper.
Not sure that any Murdoch rag is much more than a propaganda pamphlet. The "BBC nest of perverts" issues is really shocking until you remember the dirty digger is on his fifth wife... frankly, the day the old b@!&%%£ croaks, I will open a bottle of fine malt.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
For me, the top ten are:
Goodfellas Godfather I and II The Death of Stalin The Wolf of Wall Street The Last King of Scotland Some Like it Hot From Russia with Love Airplane Ruthless People.
Very good list, but too Anglo.
Fair enough. Among foreign films, I hugely enjoyed La Reine Margot, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Satyricon (a very rare film which does depict a lot of what I think life was like in Ancient Rome) .
Babette's Feast (best film about food)
In the Fog and Come and See (brilliant war films)
A Girl Walks Home alone at Night (best Iranian skateboarding vampire western. Indeed possibly the only one...)
Still never seen Airplane. I've seen in quoted so many times I've probably heard most of the movie anyway.
But really the key question is what sorts of political movies would it be expected political anoraks will have watched, and has everyone indeed seen them?
I remember watching The Iron Lady, and thinking it was pretty dull, but then that's generally the case with biopics, even of remarkable people (I also find Meryl Streep overrated - it may be unfair, but I'm always very aware its her in her films, rather than the character she is portraying).
Good Political movies
All the President's men Frost vs Nixon
and of course Don's Party
Nixon (Hopkins/Stone) The Parallax View All The Way (Cranston as LBJ) Path To War (Michael Gambon as LBJ)
A completely obscure, but very good one, is Power Play, with Donald Pleasance as an absolutely vile secret police chief. David Hemmings is the idealistic army officer who is talked into overthrowing a ruthless civilian dictatorship, and Peter O'Toole, the army officer who first supports the coup, then executes his fellow plotters.
I've seen that! I enjoyed it thoroughly! David Hemmings saunters in and prepares to take control until Peter O'Toole quietly reminds him that he is surrounded by men with guns loyal to Peter and how does he propose to leave the room exactly?
Didn't we discuss it recently? Basically the film of not the novel but the how-to book by Edward Luttwak, on how to stage a coup?
The Lives of Others The Secret In Their Eyes the original Argentinian film and not the garbage US remake All About My Mother, Volver directed by Pedro Almodovar , the latter has a quite brilliant performance by Penelope Cruz , even better than her performance in All About My Mother .
Unethical behaviour is not necessarily the same thing as illegal behaviour. I've been talking this over with my wife, who is an HR professional.
Paying a drug addict, who is aged over 18, to provide sexually explict photos, on the part of somebody like a senior local government officer, would be considered an act of gross misconduct. The officer would be suspended, and in all likelihood be dismissed. He might well lose pension rights. He would not be getting away with the argument that "a good chap has the right to a private life." And, if some local rag reported the issue, attempts to blame the local rag would fall flat.
Whether one hates The Sun or not, is immaterial. There is a public interest in reporting this story.
Presumably "drug addict" is doing the work there, rather than making anyone who pays for OnlyFans eligible for loss of pension?
It's the issue of bringing your employer into disrepute, if you're senior enough.
About a decade ago, there was a guy who was Assistant Director of Housing at Hammersmith & Fulham. He had a Nazi fetish, and he liked posting pictures of himself online having sex with other Nazi fetishists. One of the tabloids reported the story to general mirth, but there was no question of the man keeping his job.
Why? Given some of your posts, I’ve long suspected you of quite odd sexual fetishises, but I’d never dream that it ought to cost you your job.
Fortunately, I'm self-employed. If I were a partner in a magic circle law firm, who did what is alleged here, I probably would be on my way out.
Because partners are not employees with rights under law.
Too many of your examples are irrelevant to the assertion that OnlyFans is grounds for summary dismissal. And, no, I wouldn't necessarily trust HR to know the law, especially when it protects the employee.
As a point of fact, is there any evidence this took place on OnlyFans?
I'm inquiring specifically about Sean_F's bare-bones scenario where gross misconduct includes paying for porn in one's own time, to a person who turns out to be an addict. No, I don't know much at all about the details of the current controversy.
You can make the argument that the law goes too far in allowing employers to dismiss people for actions outside of the workplace that they say will bring them into disrepute.
However, it is the case that employment law allows them considerable latitude to do so.
I know a very good and capable 35-year old guy, who had a good career in project management of complex systems integration in the rail industry totally destroyed - forever - because he took cocaine at a party with some friends on a Sunday night, and was randomly drugs tested at 9.30am the next morning (it happens to a random pool once a year) and he got unlucky and it was still in his system.
It's not my cup of tea but I thought that was a bit harsh. The problem with zero tolerance is that it really is zero tolerance.
Agree. Not sure why an employer is drug testing at 9.30 in the morning someone who isn't behaving inappropriately at work unless they have a high level public facing role where disclosure of drug taking would bring their employer into disrepute.
Random testing.
I don't think they should be if they are doing their job properly and if disclosure wouldn't bring their employer into disrepute (ie if it wouldn't be news outside of the employer)
Railway industry. Very sensitive to drugs, like schools are sensitive to any undue interest in underage persons.
But surely commonsense applies. I don't want my train driver under the influence even if the slightest, so tests are fair enough. I don't give a toss if the porter had a session the night before provided he can do his job properly.
Porter?! Where do you live, Buggleskelly?
Organizations don't have time to apply minute distinctions - still less their employers or the employers' insurers. Especially if people find themselves dealing with safety critical functions (which can happen in the office just as much as in the cab).
😁 I had to look up Buggleskelly. And I sort of do. We have a brilliant ticket clerk. The station is magnificent. Flowers everywhere. Puzzle and book exchange. And so much more. He brings in his dog to work and was told he wasn't allowed so decided he had to leave. Uproar in the village and then it hit the national press and TV and finally Grant Shapps intervened and told Network Rail to stop being stupid. They backed down. He (and his dog) are brilliant.
Fair enough - but remmber that even ticket clerks, indeed all rail staff, would have emergency duties.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
Huw is one of the highest paid, previously most respected, newsreaders on the publicly owned broadcaster
That doesn't just give him celebrity; it brings him authority and power too
He's not just an ordinary guy with kinks
He has abused his position - see the Beeb confirmed stories about his threats - he deserves to lose it
If he has does anything illegal on top of that then he should be punished for it, if not: not
But he shouldn't be forgiven his abuse of power, just because he's gone a bit nuts now
Given his long history of depression “gone a bit nuts now” seems to minimise the reality of his situation a bit.
But, at the same time, depression is not an excuse for bad behaviour of this kind. Especially when the perpetrator is wealthy enough to afford top flight private medical treatment.
I think the Beeb has to sack him. This is gross misconduct & mental illness doesn’t excuse it.
This is all difficult. Suppose it was a brain tumour? Does that excuse it?
Probably? If you could reasonably claim that someone was not in control of their behaviour, then you might be able to plot a path to redemption. But in this case we have an established pattern of behaviour going back at least three years?
Regardless, I’m going to drop this line of discussion as it seems a bit unseemly to keep picking at the scab.
Die Hard is clearly a movie that happens at Christmas & is therefore a Christmas movie if you want it to be.
Part of the point of Christmas is that, after about 3.10 pm on Christmas Day, you can do whatever you damn well please. (Within agreed norms of legality and decency, natch.) Watch Die Hard, Shun Die Hard, it doesn't matter.
(Though one top tip: move the Big Feast to the following day- have some sort of rolling buffet that just sits there on Christmas Day itself. Originally picked it up as a clergy household thing, but it does make the days around Christmas flow better.)
No-one for Kurosawa, e.g. Kagemusha, Yojimbo, etc.?
Pather Panchali?
Or Walkabout or Ten Canoes?
I tried to do this some years ago and couldn't do seven films. I couldn't even do seven directors. I had to do top X films from Y directors
As for Kurosawa, well I'll raise you "Ran". Not for its plot but for its brilliant use of colour.
Speaking of colour, nobody said A Matter of Life Or Death, Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes (there are no bad ballet movies), Black Narcissus. We are starved of colour up there...☹️
When will the Sun be providing proof that Edwards paid for the pics/videos?
The police found no criminality . The Suns pathetic backtracking is vomit inducing and they’re now accusing other media outlets of misconstruing their original reports.
Absolutely desperate stuff from this garbage excuse of a newspaper.
Not sure that any Murdoch rag is much more than a propaganda pamphlet. The "BBC nest of perverts" issues is really shocking until you remember the dirty digger is on his fifth wife... frankly, the day the old b@!&%%£ croaks, I will open a bottle of fine malt.
Also it bears repeating that the Sun used to publish photos of topless teenage girls, so the idea that they are acting as the nation's moral arbiter in these matters is faintly nauseating.
Unethical behaviour is not necessarily the same thing as illegal behaviour. I've been talking this over with my wife, who is an HR professional.
Paying a drug addict, who is aged over 18, to provide sexually explict photos, on the part of somebody like a senior local government officer, would be considered an act of gross misconduct. The officer would be suspended, and in all likelihood be dismissed. He might well lose pension rights. He would not be getting away with the argument that "a good chap has the right to a private life." And, if some local rag reported the issue, attempts to blame the local rag would fall flat.
Whether one hates The Sun or not, is immaterial. There is a public interest in reporting this story.
Presumably "drug addict" is doing the work there, rather than making anyone who pays for OnlyFans eligible for loss of pension?
It's the issue of bringing your employer into disrepute, if you're senior enough.
About a decade ago, there was a guy who was Assistant Director of Housing at Hammersmith & Fulham. He had a Nazi fetish, and he liked posting pictures of himself online having sex with other Nazi fetishists. One of the tabloids reported the story to general mirth, but there was no question of the man keeping his job.
Why? Given some of your posts, I’ve long suspected you of quite odd sexual fetishises, but I’d never dream that it ought to cost you your job.
Fortunately, I'm self-employed. If I were a partner in a magic circle law firm, who did what is alleged here, I probably would be on my way out.
Because partners are not employees with rights under law.
Too many of your examples are irrelevant to the assertion that OnlyFans is grounds for summary dismissal. And, no, I wouldn't necessarily trust HR to know the law, especially when it protects the employee.
As a point of fact, is there any evidence this took place on OnlyFans?
I'm inquiring specifically about Sean_F's bare-bones scenario where gross misconduct includes paying for porn in one's own time, to a person who turns out to be an addict. No, I don't know much at all about the details of the current controversy.
You can make the argument that the law goes too far in allowing employers to dismiss people for actions outside of the workplace that they say will bring them into disrepute.
However, it is the case that employment law allows them considerable latitude to do so.
I know a very good and capable 35-year old guy, who had a good career in project management of complex systems integration in the rail industry totally destroyed - forever - because he took cocaine at a party with some friends on a Sunday night, and was randomly drugs tested at 9.30am the next morning (it happens to a random pool once a year) and he got unlucky and it was still in his system.
It's not my cup of tea but I thought that was a bit harsh. The problem with zero tolerance is that it really is zero tolerance.
That seems completely absurd.
It is, and it's what happens under zero tolerance.
No such thing. The tests will have a clear margin of error *in themselves*. So no, not zero tolerance.
Oh? Not union member? For reasons? Tough shite.
IIRC some countries have a zero tolerance for alcohol/drivers.
Which provided evidence of the existence of people with a traces of alcohol in their bloodstream naturally. Again IIRC, they had to be provided with medical cards explaining the situation.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
For me, the top ten are:
Goodfellas Godfather I and II The Death of Stalin The Wolf of Wall Street The Last King of Scotland Some Like it Hot From Russia with Love Airplane Ruthless People.
Very good list, but too Anglo.
Fair enough. Among foreign films, I hugely enjoyed La Reine Margot, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Satyricon (a very rare film which does depict a lot of what I think life was like in Ancient Rome) .
Babette's Feast (best film about food)
In the Fog and Come and See (brilliant war films)
A Girl Walks Home alone at Night (best Iranian skateboarding vampire western. Indeed possibly the only one...)
"Come and See". Great film. Not a good date film... ☹️
The Lives of Others The Secret In Their Eyes the original Argentinian film and not the garbage US remake All About My Mother, Volver directed by Pedro Almodovar , the latter has a quite brilliant performance by Penelope Cruz , even better than her performance in All About My Mother .
Penelope Cruz in Jamon Jamon made a very strong impression on my teenage mind.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
Good thing too. You can entirely predict every dreary second of it from knowing that 1. it is every dad's fav film and 2. it has got Morgan Freeman in it. You will often read the Amazing Fact that it flopped at the box office. Unamazing to me.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
Goodfellas is the best of those films - very well shot and acted
And while it glamourises parts of the mob life, it also shows how fucked up it is.
No-one for Kurosawa, e.g. Kagemusha, Yojimbo, etc.?
Pather Panchali?
Or Walkabout or Ten Canoes?
I tried to do this some years ago and couldn't do seven films. I couldn't even do seven directors. I had to do top X films from Y directors
As for Kurosawa, well I'll raise you "Ran". Not for its plot but for its brilliant use of colour.
Speaking of colour, nobody said A Matter of Life Or Death, Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes (there are no bad ballet movies), Black Narcissus. We are starved of colour up there...☹️
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I love Goodfellas, and it knocks the overrated Godfathers out of contention.
I basically saw no “action films” in the 80s because, well, I was a child, and my parents would let me watch them on VHS.
And I never bothered to remedy that in the 90s.
So I haven’t seen:
Die Hard(s) Lethal Weapon(s) Alien(s) Predator(s) Terminator(s) Beverly Hills Cop or Rambos.
I’ll get around to it some day.
Neither Alien (sci-fi horror) nor Beverly Hills Cop (comedy) fit that category.
Alien is excellent; BHC, amusing.
Alien was late 70's wasn't it?
I have never seen any of the Die Hards, nor Lethal Weapons, nor any Star Wars (apart from the original) nor any Star Trek (apart from the 1960's original), nor LoTR films, nor The Hobbit, nor any "Superhero" films.
Action films are not really my cup of tea. I find special effects boring, and too often a substitute to cover up thin characterisation and plot.
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is worth seeing even if you don’t like sci-fi. The characterisation and revenge plot are first class, and the ultimate space battle (through a plot contrivance) is more like a blind struggle between two WW2 submarines.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
I basically saw no “action films” in the 80s because, well, I was a child, and my parents would let me watch them on VHS.
And I never bothered to remedy that in the 90s.
So I haven’t seen:
Die Hard(s) Lethal Weapon(s) Alien(s) Predator(s) Terminator(s) Beverly Hills Cop or Rambos.
I’ll get around to it some day.
Neither Alien (sci-fi horror) nor Beverly Hills Cop (comedy) fit that category.
Alien is excellent; BHC, amusing.
Alien was late 70's wasn't it?
I have never seen any of the Die Hards, nor Lethal Weapons, nor any Star Wars (apart from the original) nor any Star Trek (apart from the 1960's original), nor LoTR films, nor The Hobbit, nor any "Superhero" films.
Action films are not really my cup of tea. I find special effects boring, and too often a substitute to cover up thin characterisation and plot.
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is worth seeing even if you don’t like sci-fi. The characterisation and revenge plot are first class, and the ultimate space battle (through a plot contrivance) is more like a blind struggle between two WW2 submarines.
It was basically stolen from Enemy Down Below.
Genius copies
The original is worth watching. Even if to identify where all the sub movie cliches started.
"Many young people in Italy are expressing outrage on social media, after a judge cleared a school caretaker of groping a teenager, because it did not last long enough."
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Unless Garden Walker is just anti-Jane Austen, he might have a passionate predilection for the BBC TV adaptation of the 90's. I prefer it over 2005 too.
Mrs P. prefers the BBC version, I prefer the 2005 film. We watch them both once a year or so.
There's a book too, apparently ;-)
Read it last year, it's pretty good - turns out it had some of my favourite lines from the miniseries in it, who could have predicted?
Lady Susan was an interesting read too, no idea if they've ever adapted it.
Miyazaki stuff too. Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke. Animation which can be appreciated by parents and kids on different levels isn't easy. On which point. How about Wallace and Gromit?
No-one for Kurosawa, e.g. Kagemusha, Yojimbo, etc.?
Pather Panchali?
Or Walkabout or Ten Canoes?
I tried to do this some years ago and couldn't do seven films. I couldn't even do seven directors. I had to do top X films from Y directors
As for Kurosawa, well I'll raise you "Ran". Not for its plot but for its brilliant use of colour.
Speaking of colour, nobody said A Matter of Life Or Death, Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes (there are no bad ballet movies), Black Narcissus. We are starved of colour up there...☹️
No Terrence Malick. No Badlands, no Thin Red Line, no Tree of Life. No Coppola. No Apocalypse Now, no Godfathers. Scorsese apparently never existed, nor did Hitchcock. No Hitchcock blondes, no Cary Grant in a powder blue suit. Eastwood is unforgiven and Unforgiven is lost. Nobody made our day. Tarantino still works in a video store. You could fill seven great films just by his or Kubrick's filmography. No Villeneuve: Rachael is still alive with no incept date and Dune is the month between May and July. Nolan is noman: no Dunkirk, no Tenet. All these moments have been lost, like tears in...and we're back to Scott: no Alien,no Blade Runner. Ah, we are poor in the midst of plenty.
Good thing too. You can entirely predict every dreary second of it from knowing that 1. it is every dad's fav film and 2. it has got Morgan Freeman in it. You will often read the Amazing Fact that it flopped at the box office. Unamazing to me.
I like it, but that brings up a more interesting potential list - things everyone seems to think are great, but you just don't get (like the Withnail and I example earlier).
I've said it before, but I wasn't joking, Marlon Brando is shit in The Godfather. That stupid voice alone makes it impossible to take seriously, with his ridiculous expressions not helping.
I basically saw no “action films” in the 80s because, well, I was a child, and my parents would let me watch them on VHS.
And I never bothered to remedy that in the 90s.
So I haven’t seen:
Die Hard(s) Lethal Weapon(s) Alien(s) Predator(s) Terminator(s) Beverly Hills Cop or Rambos.
I’ll get around to it some day.
Neither Alien (sci-fi horror) nor Beverly Hills Cop (comedy) fit that category.
Alien is excellent; BHC, amusing.
Alien was late 70's wasn't it?
I have never seen any of the Die Hards, nor Lethal Weapons, nor any Star Wars (apart from the original) nor any Star Trek (apart from the 1960's original), nor LoTR films, nor The Hobbit, nor any "Superhero" films.
Action films are not really my cup of tea. I find special effects boring, and too often a substitute to cover up thin characterisation and plot.
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is worth seeing even if you don’t like sci-fi. The characterisation and revenge plot are first class, and the ultimate space battle (through a plot contrivance) is more like a blind struggle between two WW2 submarines.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I adore Titanic. I think it's one of the few modern films that feels like a movie from the golden age of Hollywood, with charismatic stars, glamour and adventure. It is a romantic film, an adventure, a historical movie, a disaster movie, a summer blockbuster, all rolled into one. The two leads are brilliant actors with a genuine chemistry. The special effects are incredible and haven't dated. Even the really corny bits that should be terrible somehow work - that last scene where they are reunited in a kind of Titanic heaven should be completely absurd but leaves me a blubbering wreck every time. Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
No-one for Kurosawa, e.g. Kagemusha, Yojimbo, etc.?
Pather Panchali?
Or Walkabout or Ten Canoes?
I tried to do this some years ago and couldn't do seven films. I couldn't even do seven directors. I had to do top X films from Y directors
As for Kurosawa, well I'll raise you "Ran". Not for its plot but for its brilliant use of colour.
Speaking of colour, nobody said A Matter of Life Or Death, Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes (there are no bad ballet movies), Black Narcissus. We are starved of colour up there...☹️
No Terrence Malick. No Badlands, no Thin Red Line, no Tree of Life. No Coppola. No Apocalypse Now, no Godfathers. Scorsese apparently never existed, nor did Hitchcock. No Hitchcock blondes, no Cary Grant in a powder blue suit. Eastwood is unforgiven and Unforgiven is lost. Nobody made our day. Tarantino still works in a video store. You could fill seven great films just by his or Kubrick's filmography. No Villeneuve: Rachael is still alive with no incept date and Dune is the month between May and July. Nolan is noman: no Dunkirk, no Tenet. All these moments have been lost, like tears in...and we're back to Scott: no Alien,no Blade Runner. Ah, we are poor in the midst of plenty.
About two dozen Hitchcock movies have made an impact on me upon watching. Sometimes I will still think suddenly about, say, that scene with Doris Day near the end of The Man Who Knew Too Much, or the two fellows chatting at the start of Strangers on a Train. The only problem is that the thrill the first time was really visceral and you know you are only recreating it in part as an intellectual thrill.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
No-one for Kurosawa, e.g. Kagemusha, Yojimbo, etc.?
Pather Panchali?
Or Walkabout or Ten Canoes?
I tried to do this some years ago and couldn't do seven films. I couldn't even do seven directors. I had to do top X films from Y directors
As for Kurosawa, well I'll raise you "Ran". Not for its plot but for its brilliant use of colour.
Speaking of colour, nobody said A Matter of Life Or Death, Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes (there are no bad ballet movies), Black Narcissus. We are starved of colour up there...☹️
No Terrence Malick. No Badlands, no Thin Red Line, no Tree of Life. No Coppola. No Apocalypse Now, no Godfathers. Scorsese apparently never existed, nor did Hitchcock. No Hitchcock blondes, no Cary Grant in a powder blue suit. Eastwood is unforgiven and Unforgiven is lost. Nobody made our day. Tarantino still works in a video store. You could fill seven great films just by his or Kubrick's filmography. No Villeneuve: Rachael is still alive with no incept date and Dune is the month between May and July. Nolan is noman: no Dunkirk, no Tenet. All these moments have been lost, like tears in...and we're back to Scott: no Alien,no Blade Runner. Ah, we are poor in the midst of plenty.
And no "Lifeforce". We are Bad People.
Are you ok?
That is perhaps a question you should not ask, and certainly one I should not answer.
How did I forget Wall-E?! I only saw it again at the cinema earlier this year. Such a bold direction taken for a children's film, visually stunning, emotional as hell, and uplifting to boot.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
As, in a different way, did all those Confessions of a Door to Door Cucumber Salesman type movies.
The musical numbers in Cabaret work, and do a lot of driving the story forward. But the bits in-between much less so. What musicals managed to avoid that- start big and just keep going even in the words between the songs? There must be something before Moulin Rouge, but it's the first one I can think of.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I adore Titanic. I think it's one of the few modern films that feels like a movie from the golden age of Hollywood, with charismatic stars, glamour and adventure. It is a romantic film, an adventure, a historical movie, a disaster movie, a summer blockbuster, all rolled into one. The two leads are brilliant actors with a genuine chemistry. The special effects are incredible and haven't dated. Even the really corny bits that should be terrible somehow work - that last scene where they are reunited in a kind of Titanic heaven should be completely absurd but leaves me a blubbering wreck every time. Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
I have never been interested enough to watch either film. Regarding Titanic, I have a strong prejudice against films where I know the outcome. Especially if that outcome is most people get drownded.
With Frozen, I've only heard the 'main song' (which I think is very poor - don't think a song that poor would have even made soundtrack on The Little Mermaid.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
I prefer films that are long and slow and totally engrossing like Andrei Rublev. I saw it at the old Academy cinema in Oxford Street and when I came out there were three inches of snow on the ground. For avoidance of doubt it is not a Christmas movie, although it features a certain amount of bell-ringing.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I adore Titanic. I think it's one of the few modern films that feels like a movie from the golden age of Hollywood, with charismatic stars, glamour and adventure. It is a romantic film, an adventure, a historical movie, a disaster movie, a summer blockbuster, all rolled into one. The two leads are brilliant actors with a genuine chemistry. The special effects are incredible and haven't dated. Even the really corny bits that should be terrible somehow work - that last scene where they are reunited in a kind of Titanic heaven should be completely absurd but leaves me a blubbering wreck every time. Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
I have never been interested enough to watch either film. Regarding Titanic, I have a strong prejudice against films where I know the outcome. Especially if that outcome is most people get drownded.
With Frozen, I've only heard the 'main song' (which I think is very poor - don't think a song that poor would have even made soundtrack on The Little Mermaid.
Yes, spoiler alert, the ship sinks. On Let it Go, sorry, you are simply wrong. This is a song that is so good that it forced them to rewrite the entire film.
No-one for Kurosawa, e.g. Kagemusha, Yojimbo, etc.?
Pather Panchali?
Or Walkabout or Ten Canoes?
I tried to do this some years ago and couldn't do seven films. I couldn't even do seven directors. I had to do top X films from Y directors
As for Kurosawa, well I'll raise you "Ran". Not for its plot but for its brilliant use of colour.
Speaking of colour, nobody said A Matter of Life Or Death, Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes (there are no bad ballet movies), Black Narcissus. We are starved of colour up there...☹️
No Terrence Malick. No Badlands, no Thin Red Line, no Tree of Life. No Coppola. No Apocalypse Now, no Godfathers. Scorsese apparently never existed, nor did Hitchcock. No Hitchcock blondes, no Cary Grant in a powder blue suit. Eastwood is unforgiven and Unforgiven is lost. Nobody made our day. Tarantino still works in a video store. You could fill seven great films just by his or Kubrick's filmography. No Villeneuve: Rachael is still alive with no incept date and Dune is the month between May and July. Nolan is noman: no Dunkirk, no Tenet. All these moments have been lost, like tears in...and we're back to Scott: no Alien,no Blade Runner. Ah, we are poor in the midst of plenty.
And no "Lifeforce". We are Bad People.
Been watching lots of Hitchcock on archive.org, and not as impressed as I expected to be. N by NW is outdated and superseded by good Daniel Craig JB films (and btw Layer Cake is superb), Rear Window is creepy voyeurism, Vertigo a bit ho hum.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
For me, the top ten are:
Goodfellas Godfather I and II The Death of Stalin The Wolf of Wall Street The Last King of Scotland Some Like it Hot From Russia with Love Airplane Ruthless People.
Very good list, but too Anglo.
Fair enough. Among foreign films, I hugely enjoyed La Reine Margot, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources, Satyricon (a very rare film which does depict a lot of what I think life was like in Ancient Rome) .
Babette's Feast (best film about food)
In the Fog and Come and See (brilliant war films)
A Girl Walks Home alone at Night (best Iranian skateboarding vampire western. Indeed possibly the only one...)
Babette's Feast and La Reine Margot are two of my all time favourites!
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
A man who is tired of the RHPS is tired of life.
My aunt is in it! It is a weird film though.
May I ask?
She is one of the dancers. I don't want to dox myself so I won't say anymore. She was the only cool member of my family.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
A man who is tired of the RHPS is tired of life.
My aunt is in it! It is a weird film though.
That makes you the coolest person I have ever interacted with. I am serious.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
A man who is tired of the RHPS is tired of life.
Not tired of it and there are some great songs and performances in it, but the sexual politics is really a bit dodgy. Dr Frank n Furter murders his ex (Meatloaf as Eddie) and abuses his sex slave Rocky, and commits rape by deception on both Brad and Janet. Tim Curry is great in the role, bit it is a role depicting narcisstic psychopathy.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I adore Titanic. I think it's one of the few modern films that feels like a movie from the golden age of Hollywood, with charismatic stars, glamour and adventure. It is a romantic film, an adventure, a historical movie, a disaster movie, a summer blockbuster, all rolled into one. The two leads are brilliant actors with a genuine chemistry. The special effects are incredible and haven't dated. Even the really corny bits that should be terrible somehow work - that last scene where they are reunited in a kind of Titanic heaven should be completely absurd but leaves me a blubbering wreck every time. Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
I have never been interested enough to watch either film. Regarding Titanic, I have a strong prejudice against films where I know the outcome. Especially if that outcome is most people get drownded.
With Frozen, I've only heard the 'main song' (which I think is very poor - don't think a song that poor would have even made soundtrack on The Little Mermaid.
Yes, spoiler alert, the ship sinks. On Let it Go, sorry, you are simply wrong. This is a song that is so good that it forced them to rewrite the entire film.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
A man who is tired of the RHPS is tired of life.
Not tired of it and there are some great songs and performances in it, but the sexual politics is really a bit dodgy. Dr Frank n Furter murders his ex (Meatloaf as Eddie) and abuses his sex slave Rocky, and commits rape by deception on both Brad and Janet. Tim Curry is great in the role, bit it is a role depicting narcisstic psychopathy.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
A man who is tired of the RHPS is tired of life.
Not tired of it and there are some great songs and performances in it, but the sexual politics is really a bit dodgy. Dr Frank n Furter murders his ex (Meatloaf as Eddie) and abuses his sex slave Rocky, and commits rape by deception on both Brad and Janet. Tim Curry is great in the role, bit it is a role depicting narcisstic psychopathy.
People can enjoy sleazy subject matter, perhaps the dodgyness is the point? (I've only seen it once, didn't like it or get why it became a cult hit).
Some other good movies that left me transfixed upon first watching: Laura (1944), Jackie Brown. Taxi Driver came close.
Some other good movies, mostly not mentioned: La belle et la bete (Cocteau), La grande illusion, Dreyer's Joan of Arc, Cria cuervos, Battle Royale, Branded to Kill, Funeral Parade of Roses, most of Tarantino, There Will Be Blood, High Noon, Anatomy of a Murder (with Duke Ellington!), Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Touch of Evil and most of Welles, plus The Third Man in that connection.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I adore Titanic. I think it's one of the few modern films that feels like a movie from the golden age of Hollywood, with charismatic stars, glamour and adventure. It is a romantic film, an adventure, a historical movie, a disaster movie, a summer blockbuster, all rolled into one. The two leads are brilliant actors with a genuine chemistry. The special effects are incredible and haven't dated. Even the really corny bits that should be terrible somehow work - that last scene where they are reunited in a kind of Titanic heaven should be completely absurd but leaves me a blubbering wreck every time. Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
I have never been interested enough to watch either film. Regarding Titanic, I have a strong prejudice against films where I know the outcome. Especially if that outcome is most people get drownded.
With Frozen, I've only heard the 'main song' (which I think is very poor - don't think a song that poor would have even made soundtrack on The Little Mermaid.
Yes, spoiler alert, the ship sinks. On Let it Go, sorry, you are simply wrong. This is a song that is so good that it forced them to rewrite the entire film.
The kids don't lie. Frozen is the movie that took over their childhood.
Whereas in the 1970s, we had The Aristocats, Robin Hood with the fox, and Pete's blooming Dragon.
If you weren't there, you don't know how bad it was.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I adore Titanic. I think it's one of the few modern films that feels like a movie from the golden age of Hollywood, with charismatic stars, glamour and adventure. It is a romantic film, an adventure, a historical movie, a disaster movie, a summer blockbuster, all rolled into one. The two leads are brilliant actors with a genuine chemistry. The special effects are incredible and haven't dated. Even the really corny bits that should be terrible somehow work - that last scene where they are reunited in a kind of Titanic heaven should be completely absurd but leaves me a blubbering wreck every time. Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
I have never been interested enough to watch either film. Regarding Titanic, I have a strong prejudice against films where I know the outcome. Especially if that outcome is most people get drownded.
With Frozen, I've only heard the 'main song' (which I think is very poor - don't think a song that poor would have even made soundtrack on The Little Mermaid.
Yes, spoiler alert, the ship sinks. On Let it Go, sorry, you are simply wrong. This is a song that is so good that it forced them to rewrite the entire film.
Naah, just had a listen. Standard issue musical filler. Elaine Paige (Page?) on Sunday stuff.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I adore Titanic. I think it's one of the few modern films that feels like a movie from the golden age of Hollywood, with charismatic stars, glamour and adventure. It is a romantic film, an adventure, a historical movie, a disaster movie, a summer blockbuster, all rolled into one. The two leads are brilliant actors with a genuine chemistry. The special effects are incredible and haven't dated. Even the really corny bits that should be terrible somehow work - that last scene where they are reunited in a kind of Titanic heaven should be completely absurd but leaves me a blubbering wreck every time. Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
I have never been interested enough to watch either film. Regarding Titanic, I have a strong prejudice against films where I know the outcome. Especially if that outcome is most people get drownded.
With Frozen, I've only heard the 'main song' (which I think is very poor - don't think a song that poor would have even made soundtrack on The Little Mermaid.
Yes, spoiler alert, the ship sinks. On Let it Go, sorry, you are simply wrong. This is a song that is so good that it forced them to rewrite the entire film.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
Casablanca It's a Wonderful Life The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Toy Story 3 Titanic Frozen Manon des Sources.
Casablanca is a stone cold classic which doesn’t pall however many times you watch it.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
I adore Titanic. I think it's one of the few modern films that feels like a movie from the golden age of Hollywood, with charismatic stars, glamour and adventure. It is a romantic film, an adventure, a historical movie, a disaster movie, a summer blockbuster, all rolled into one. The two leads are brilliant actors with a genuine chemistry. The special effects are incredible and haven't dated. Even the really corny bits that should be terrible somehow work - that last scene where they are reunited in a kind of Titanic heaven should be completely absurd but leaves me a blubbering wreck every time. Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
I have never been interested enough to watch either film. Regarding Titanic, I have a strong prejudice against films where I know the outcome. Especially if that outcome is most people get drownded.
With Frozen, I've only heard the 'main song' (which I think is very poor - don't think a song that poor would have even made soundtrack on The Little Mermaid.
Yes, spoiler alert, the ship sinks. On Let it Go, sorry, you are simply wrong. This is a song that is so good that it forced them to rewrite the entire film.
The kids don't lie. Frozen is the movie that took over their childhood.
Whereas in the 1970s, we had The Aristocats, Robin Hood with the fox, and Pete's blooming Dragon.
If you weren't there, you don't know how bad it was.
My kids it was Toy Story, Shrek, Chicken Run. Which mase it a pretty good time to have kids.
The Railway Children Goldeneye Chariots of Fire Silence of the Lambs Rear Window The Third Man Ghostbusters The Fifth Element Gosford Park
Oh the Railway Children... Daddy my daddy... Kills me every time. Rear Window is probably my favourite Hitchcock too. James Stewart and Grace Kelly, what's not to like? Ghostbusters, though? I feel like that is the poster child of films you enjoyed as a child that are actually fucking terrible.
White Men Can't Jump Goodfellas Withnail And I The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Commitments Dazed And Confused
I think these are my favourite seven movies
I know there are better made films with much better acting, but those are the ones I have enjoyed again and again as an adult
Oh, and all the Monty Python films
My favourites mostly seem to be romcoms, but there it is:
Four Weddings and a Funeral Amelie Shakespeare in Love Pride & Prejudice (2005) Master and Commander Gravity Airplane
How depressingly middle-brow.
The only good ones there are M&C, Gravity and Airplane, while Amelie and P&P(05) are downright shite.
Thank you for your kind comments ;-)
Amelie is the pineapple-on-pizza of film. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
Fortunately you don't.
Anyhow, I'll take 'depressingly middle-brow' from the man who chose The Sound of Music in his list, lol.
A great film. Something for everyone.
Cabaret knocks the pants off it. Come to think of it, why wasn't Cabaret in my list?
I actually tried to watch Cabaret recently. It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
The problem with Cabaret and A Taste of Honey or Sweet Charity is that the sexuality depicted is no longer shocking.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
A man who is tired of the RHPS is tired of life.
Not tired of it and there are some great songs and performances in it, but the sexual politics is really a bit dodgy. Dr Frank n Furter murders his ex (Meatloaf as Eddie) and abuses his sex slave Rocky, and commits rape by deception on both Brad and Janet. Tim Curry is great in the role, bit it is a role depicting narcisstic psychopathy.
Yes of course it is. So is Macbeth.
The difference is that RHPS is often seen as sexually liberating, and Dr Frank n Furter as a role model. It really is much darker. I didn't even mention the cannibalism scene.
Some other good movies that left me transfixed upon first watching: Laura (1944), Jackie Brown. Taxi Driver came close.
Some other good movies, mostly not mentioned: La belle et la bete (Cocteau), La grande illusion, Dreyer's Joan of Arc, Cria cuervos, Battle Royale, Branded to Kill, Funeral Parade of Roses, most of Tarantino, There Will Be Blood, High Noon, Anatomy of a Murder (with Duke Ellington!), Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Touch of Evil and most of Welles, plus The Third Man in that connection.
Key Largo. The bit where Bogart gets pissed off and starts shooting people is up there with the bit in the Odyssey where Od starts doing the same.
There was a very odd post this morning about the Sun “popping champagne”.
But they’ve fucked this up, haven’t they?
One does hope so.
I can't bear the smug Edwards, but the Sun's vile sting operation has been truly evil.
I cannot help but feel that if these revelations were coming out about Andrew Neil, or Jacob Rees Mogg, or the Duke of York, the PB-ers currently clutching their pearls about 'mental health', 'vile sting operation' etc. would be singing a somewhat different tune.
Well I wouldn't. I would say exactly the same thing if this were Sadiq Khan, Nicola Sturgeon or James O'Brien, all of whom I fucking detest.
No one who has not committed a crime deserves to have their private lives turned upside down like this just to sell a few newspapers or launch a thinly veiled ideological attack on the state broadcasting service. And again I say that as someone who would gladly see the BBC privatised.
This has been a despicable act by the Sun and by all those other commentators who jumped on the band wagon. It shows our media and our country at its very worst and is something to be ashamed of.
Comments
Take cover!
I mean, art can surely be a challenge sometimes, and very impactful on culture, but at the end of the day you're making movies, plays, whatever, calm the f*ck down.
Regardless, I’m going to drop this line of discussion as it seems a bit unseemly to keep picking at the scab.
Die Hard is clearly a movie that happens at Christmas & is therefore a Christmas movie if you want it to be.
Brace
?
Pather Panchali?
Or Walkabout or Ten Canoes?
When the tabloids went after Labour cabinet ministers, strangely this changed to a Terrible Attack On Human dignity. With the other side doing the It's The Way Public Life Works bit.
In the Fog and Come and See (brilliant war films)
A Girl Walks Home alone at Night (best Iranian skateboarding vampire western. Indeed possibly the only one...)
You’ve just reminded me there is a Eustache retrospective at Lincoln Center which I need to get back to New York for.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66165001
The dog eat my
homeworkphone.....The Bridge
Spiral
The Killing
Best foreign films
The Lives of Others
The Secret In Their Eyes the original Argentinian film and not the garbage US remake
All About My Mother, Volver directed by Pedro Almodovar , the latter has a quite brilliant performance by Penelope Cruz , even better than her performance in All About My Mother .
It’s kind of not-very-good, apart obviously from the choreography and the very famous scene in the beer garden.
I don’t think Fosse was very good with narrative and editing.
(Though one top tip: move the Big Feast to the following day- have some sort of rolling buffet that just sits there on Christmas Day itself. Originally picked it up as a clergy household thing, but it does make the days around Christmas flow better.)
As for Kurosawa, well I'll raise you "Ran". Not for its plot but for its brilliant use of colour.
Speaking of colour, nobody said A Matter of Life Or Death, Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes (there are no bad ballet movies), Black Narcissus. We are starved of colour up there...☹️
Eat drink man woman.
Ang Lee. And his 4 character metaphor movies.
Which provided evidence of the existence of people with a traces of alcohol in their bloodstream naturally. Again IIRC, they had to be provided with medical cards explaining the situation.
Titanic leaves me cold. Frozen has a nice soundtrack.
I don’t understand the appeal of Goodfellas (or indeed any of those interminable mafia movies where Joe Pesci seems to be playing the same role he did in the last one, or the one before that).
But I don't talk about it.
Goldeneye
Chariots of Fire
Silence of the Lambs
Rear Window
The Third Man
Ghostbusters
The Fifth Element
Gosford Park
Surprised that
Black Book (Verhoeven)
and
In The Heat of the Night
rarely make these lists.
The Great Race is an epic comedy.
Misery is almost unwatchably excellent
And while it glamourises parts of the mob life, it also shows how fucked up it is.
A brilliant film by Luc Besson.
Carice van Houten was also in Valkyrie, briefly.
On the other hand, the sexuality of Last Tango in Paris, Christiana F or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, tells a lot about what went wrong with attitudes to sex in the 1970's.
(From what I've seen, American journalists have shown very little interest in this story. Guild loyalty may be one of the reasons why.)
Right now I'd say:
Donnie Darko
Kes
The Rock
Distant Voices Still Lives
Four Lions
War Requiem
Prodigal Son/Warriors Two
The Warriors
The Long Day Closes
Black Hawk Down
Plenty more, that said.
Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke.
Animation which can be appreciated by parents and kids on different levels isn't easy.
On which point.
How about Wallace and Gromit?
And no "Lifeforce". We are Bad People.
I've said it before, but I wasn't joking, Marlon Brando is shit in The Godfather. That stupid voice alone makes it impossible to take seriously, with his ridiculous expressions not helping.
Frozen is more than the brilliant soundtrack - I find the relationship between the sisters very affecting. Perhaps because I have an older sibling who was a bit troubled and had a difficult childhood and adolescence, it has a lot of resonance for me. It feels emotionally real, which is very hard to get right in art. And it's gorgeous to look at. And it has one of the best songs ever written.
The musical numbers in Cabaret work, and do a lot of driving the story forward. But the bits in-between much less so. What musicals managed to avoid that- start big and just keep going even in the words between the songs? There must be something before Moulin Rouge, but it's the first one I can think of.
With Frozen, I've only heard the 'main song' (which I think is very poor - don't think a song that poor would have even made soundtrack on The Little Mermaid.
Though a greater Japanese film for me is Spirited Away.
And that's it from me - night all.
On Let it Go, sorry, you are simply wrong. This is a song that is so good that it forced them to rewrite the entire film.
The Third Man, definitely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0T8Cd4UhA&list=FLg5SdxeHca5JpoZ1j9-RpJg&index=85
Some other good movies, mostly not mentioned: La belle et la bete (Cocteau), La grande illusion, Dreyer's Joan of Arc, Cria cuervos, Battle Royale, Branded to Kill, Funeral Parade of Roses, most of Tarantino, There Will Be Blood, High Noon, Anatomy of a Murder (with Duke Ellington!), Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Touch of Evil and most of Welles, plus The Third Man in that connection.
Whereas in the 1970s, we had The Aristocats, Robin Hood with the fox, and Pete's blooming Dragon.
If you weren't there, you don't know how bad it was.
Rear Window is probably my favourite Hitchcock too. James Stewart and Grace Kelly, what's not to like?
Ghostbusters, though? I feel like that is the poster child of films you enjoyed as a child that are actually fucking terrible.
No one who has not committed a crime deserves to have their private lives turned upside down like this just to sell a few newspapers or launch a thinly veiled ideological attack on the state broadcasting service. And again I say that as someone who would gladly see the BBC privatised.
This has been a despicable act by the Sun and by all those other commentators who jumped on the band wagon. It shows our media and our country at its very worst and is something to be ashamed of.
Clear some of the Conservative candidates selected under Rishi Sunak are somewhat different to those mostly picked under Boris Johnson in 2019. Even if Bromley and Greenwich both voted Remain
https://twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1679130911864938496?s=20
https://twitter.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1679238091700158468?s=20