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  1. This explanation might not be good enough for you but I think they recoil from the "war lover" that they have seen take aim at the men below.  He does kill an English prisoner of war after all.

    In any event its source comes from Shears' earlier criticism of Warden and his mission drive even after he is wounded.  Shears thinks Warden is dead inside.  The girls represent life.

    I have to admit, it doesn't fit like a glove but the symbolism is still strong.  

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  2. I had the good fortune to be dining in a restaurant one table over from Claudia Cardinale in Montreal about 1983.  The most beautiful woman I have ever seen.  I think she may have been there to pick up a lifetime achievement award at the festival.  Around that same time in Montreal I saw a film shoot of Once Upon a Time In America.  I wondered later if he might have been at the table with his back to me.

    A close second would be Jacqueline Bisset who I saw in Mexico about six months later.  That was just for a minute or so.

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  3. 1989

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    Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Japan

    Shin’ya was smoking some weird **** when he made this film.  A young man gradually turns into a steam punk pile of metal junk.  Outrageous, funny, violent and one-of-a-kind.  It becomes a tad one-note but thankfully it is only just 67 minutes long.

     

    1992

    and I’ve also seen …

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    Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Japan.

    Perhaps if I had not seen the first instalment I would not have been so bored by this effort.  It made me wonder why I gave the first film a benefit of the doubt as this too is very much like an incoherent student movie.

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  4. Hi Bob and welcome.  Just a suggestion but maybe you could post this topic again  in General Discussions where it will get more readers.  

    You're not really supposed to post the same thing in different spots but in this case I think more people might like to read what you wrote and the place for that is in General Discussions which is more about films.

    I have Whelan relatives in Scotland - though they came from Dublin!!

  5. 1978

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    Firebird Daybreak Chapter (1978) Kon Ichikawa, Japan

    This is a very weird film.  It takes place in Japan circa 180 A.D.  It begins as a rather violent One Million Years B.C. but then becomes The Never-ending Story with Batman like cartoons now and then and a really cheesy 70’s American tv movie score.  Try reading the film summary on the imdb and you will quickly get the idea. But it does star Tomisaburo Wakayama of Lone Wolf and Cub fame along with Tatsuya Nakadai and Mike Takamine.  For the curious.

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  6. On 5/5/2020 at 10:39 AM, Sepiatone said:

    Sorry BOGIE---

    See no resemblace to Scott and your Cec Linder guy.  'Cept holding a phone to their left ears.   

    Linder reminds me more of THIS guy....

    Sepiatone

    That was the best shot I could locate of Cec.  But I just finished watching an entire movie that he was in and thought the resemblance was so so.

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  7. Wednesday, May 20/21

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    1:15 a.m.  The Sand Pebbles (1966).  Cool Steve McQueen film in China by Robert Wise.  Great cast throughout.  Richard Crenna and Mako are stand outs.

    I was at a Q&A screening of a film with Richard Attenborough and he spoke of his friendship with Steve McQueen.  He recalled that McQueen called him up with the offer of a part in The Sand Pebbles.  He laughed because the character was called "Frenchy."

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