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LawrenceA
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Kingrat, I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one to see THE STORY OF WOMEN and put it on their list. It's another I probably would have been unaware of if it wasn't for the 1001 book.
I have DOMINICK AND EUGENE to watch soon.
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I love this movie very much! I feel at times that only six people in the world have ever watched it as no one ever discusses it and it is never aired.
My opinion of: Christian Slater was considerably changed by his great performance in this movie.
"Teen angst with a body count" indeed!
I clearly remember when this came out on video. We could never keep any copies on the shelf. It was one of the best renting titles that year for us, for sure.
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I'm positively shocked, SHOCKED! that no one else has I'm Gonna Git You Sucka on their list.
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TopBilled, the only ones I haven't seen this time are Bird and Cinema Paradiso, but I have both waiting to be watched on my shelf. I also really enjoyed Beetlejuice, The Accused (is enjoy the right word here?), Biloxi Blues and Torch Song Trilogy.
film lover, I like your words for Heathers, and also really liked Bull Durham.
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THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE - (8/10) - Documentary from British filmmaker Antony James, originally in 2 parts. The first half deals with the rise of evangelical Christianity, televangelists, and the church's entry into secular politics in the 1980's. Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker come in for the most damning scrutiny, and their extravagant construction of Christian theme park/shopping center/residential subdivision Heritage USA. The second half focuses in on the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas. It was one of the first megachurches in the US, and an early proponent of so-called "prosperity theology" that teaches that material wealth is God's reward, and that the sick and poor are being righteously punished for moral transgressions. There's also a lot of uncomfortable racial issues addressed in the second half, with the purposeful segregation of churches, and some commentary from lead pastor W. A. Criswell that would get him quick public condemnation in today's world.
At times uncomfortably funny, at others baffling, saddening, and enraging, this film is fair and impartial in its presentation, and any incendiary remarks come straight from the subject's mouths and not through selective editing. Of course, viewing will be colored by your own personal inclinations, and my only complaint is that I've been painfully aware of most of this for some time (this was filmed and assembled between 86-88). It would make a good triple bill with the later docs HELL HOUSE(2001) and JESUS CAMP(2006). After a recommendation, I found this on YT.
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I think I am a bit out of the loop here.
What are the connecting links making people think this man is really our Mr. Dobbs.
If it is true though, I am very sorry to hear of his passing.
Details he shared in various posts about being a camera operator, the approximate age, the time frame between his last posts and his reported death, the area in which he lived, etc.
I wasn't posting very often during those days, but I was a reader, and enjoyed his posts.
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So Scott cared so much he decided not to care.
Or he was the sorest of sore losers. Whichever.
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Bogie, I haven't seen The Milagro Beanfield War (I have it to watch), Salaam Bombay!, Little Vera,
Spike of Bensonhurst, or La Lectrice.
Swithin, I haven't seen Women on the Verge (I love Almodovar, and have it on DVD to watch soon), or Distant Voices (I know nothing of Davies or his work. Based on your words, an egregious error. PS- I just looked him up, and while I've heard of a couple, I have seen none).
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1988 - 211 films seen
1. The Naked Gun
2. Die Hard
3. Rain Man
4. Coming to America
5. Dangerous Liaisons
6. The Last Temptation of Christ
7. Midnight Run
8. Mississippi Burning
9. They Live
10. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Runner-ups: Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, Scrooged, Colors, The Thin Blue Line, and The Story of Women.
Larry's Choices: Deadbeat at Dawn & Robo Vampire
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Here is the completely arbitrary and totally meaningless list of the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die entries for 1987:
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Babette's Feast**
Broadcast News
A Chinese Ghost Story
The Dead
Fatal Attraction
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning, Vietnam
Housekeeping**
Moonstruck
The Princess Bride
Project A, Part 2
Raising Arizona
Red Sorghum**
Robocop
The Untouchables
Wall Street
Wings of Desire**
Withnail & I**
Yeelen**
**denotes films I have not seen
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I don't know anyone who takes the 1001 seriously. I view it as a guide, not a proclamation. The title is meant tongue-in-cheek. I also know that, despite the fact that I don't really care one or the other about Ferris Bueller's Day Off, it's someone's favorite movie, and I don't begrudge them that. Just because I don't get anything from it, that doesn't mean no one can or should. And I'm sure we all like plenty of films that a lot of other people would view as garbage.
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STUDENT BODIES - (5/10) - Sloppy, dumb slasher spoof from Paramount that seems rather amateurish to be from a big studio. Murders are occurring in and around a high school, and one female student becomes the prime suspect, so she sets out to clear her name and find the real killer. This was rushed through production during a strike, so director Michael Ritchie took his name off of it, and the credited producer is Allen Smithee. Maybe one out of every fifteen jokes got a chuckle. Not at all bloody, despite the slasher premise, but pretty bloody awful. It does earn an extra point for basically doing the opening from SCREAM 15 years earlier.
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I love George C. Scott, and I'll watch anything he's in, but his high-principled refusal of the Oscar for PATTON was fueled by his rage at having lost in '59 for ANATOMY OF A MURDER. He had a massive ego, and was so angered and baffled at losing that he held a grudge the rest of his life. He even admitted as much in his later years, stating that "any process that could make a man feel so low should be rejected."
His is yet another biography I read last year, btw.
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I haven't seen:
84 CHARING CROSS ROAD
BABETTE'S FEAST
BAGDAD CAFE
DARK EYES
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
MAURICE
THE TEN-YEAR LUNCH
THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE (I looked this one up, it only has 13 ratings on imdb, but sounds like my kind of thing.)
WITHNAIL & I
A WORLD APART
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Swithin, I haven't seen BABETTE'S FEAST yet, but I have it in my stack to watch. I haven't seen MAURICE, either. Your words on RADIO DAYS were excellent; they made me want to watch the movie again! It's always been one of my favorite Allen films.
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1987 - 222 films seen
1. Raising Arizona
2. Robocop
3. Predator
4. Evil Dead 2
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Angel Heart
7. Near Dark
8. The Princess Bride
9. The Untouchables
10. Hellraiser
Runner-ups: Radio Days, Lethal Weapon, The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, and Matewan*.
Larry's Choices: Rock N' Roll Nightmare & Hard Ticket to Hawaii
*Full disclosure: I think Matewan is terrific, and it would be on this list regardless, but I must confess that I have family in it.
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Here are the (real) 1001 Movies to See Before You Die entries for 1986:
Aliens
Blue Velvet
Caravaggio**
Children of a Lesser God
The Decline of the American Empire**
Down By Law**
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Fly
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Horse Thief**
Manhunter
Peking Opera Blues**
Platoon
A Room with a View
Salvador
Sherman's March**
She's Gotta Have It
Stand By Me
Tampopo**
Top Gun
**denotes films I have not seen, 7...
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1) Dorothy Dandridge was the first African-American to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, for 1954's Carmen Jones.
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Tommy Kirk was in Moon Pilot with Tom Tryon.
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Carl Brisson was in two silent films, The Ring & The Manxman, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Yolanda and the Thief
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Gallipoli
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Blood and Sand
on svengoolie tonite
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I don't really think Svengoolie is trying to look good or cool. I'm pretty sure he knows he looks silly, maybe even...Sven-goofy?
I agree about the heavily edited and toyed with film presentation, but that's usually the case with these types of shows. Film purists they ain't.
As for Nip, I think he meant the former, because he usually has a coterie or two of hot babes laying about.