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I've seen a few of these. Woman of Paris is one of Chaplin's weakest and not particularly interesting. Max Linder is a decent comedian of the time who is unfortunately overshadowed by the Vaudevillian "classics" and of course Lloyd, Keaton too. Robin Hood is one of Fairbanks' best but not as good as his Three Musketeers. Better yet is still Thief of Bagdad is his greatest. The sets, effects, acting, etc. are so intricate and high quality (including a flying carpet done with the use of an 80 foot crane). The Mongol Prince is also one of my favorite silent film villains. Also a film with a good ethical message at the end.

I think Sean Connery looks like the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Yeah or movies about national independence from other nations. Mikhail Romm's Lenin in 1918 is quite good.

A very good film but the science in it is a bit odd. "Only half of the moon has an atmosphere and it's also the half facing away from the sun."

Myra Breckinridge is disgusting. Smut that would make even Judith Butler vomit. Poor Laurel and Hardy to have their film clips degraded after their death by incorporating them in that film.

I remember that a few years ago (5 or more?) they would still occasionally play things like Shirley Temple films but now not even that.

Dana Ashbrook/ Bobby

Frostbite - This Swedish Horror-Comedy was directed by Anders Banke. During WWII, a group of Swedish SS volunteers comes across a seemingly abandoned cabin in Ukraine where they are attacked by vampires. After being bitten, a soldier returns home now intent on creating a vampire master race. Decades later, his plans begin unfolding which spells doom for the Swedish village. This film has some very funny scenes with a talking dog and handles both humor and horror very well. It is really more of a comedy though it does have some jump scares and gore so beware if you're put off by that kind of thing. Recommended.

I doubt either AMC or TCM have tried to claim to be the first channels to show golden era Hollywood films. I remember reading that many more channels (like TNT for example, off the top of my head) used to show those and also programming like classical music, history docs and theater before revamping their channels to today's fare.

I saw Grease on the TV as a kid and I remember my mom getting upset at the lyrics twice in the film ("did she put up a fight?" and the "f__k you" line in "Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee").

I think I remember you saying you (and your siblings or friends I think?) saw some Three Stooges shorts at the theater and then kept repeating the jokes in the car afterwards. Right?

When I was a kid, I saw the Fly syndicated on TV and the scene where the spider bites the fly/ professor's head off scared me a lot.

I saw this in the theater as a newborn. I didn't cry or make any trouble the entire film, my mother said. The first foreign language film I saw was the war film, the Star (Zvezda) when it first came out with my family.

A good actress that hasn't been mentioned yet is Linda Lovelace.

I really like 1776 and Yankee Doodle Dandy. I don't mind.

The guy on the coffin is Ray Wise if that is who you are referring to. He played Leland Palmer.

Houellebecq is a very fine writer and the film version of his novel Whatever is very good and moving.

The most important and influential Canadian film of all time is probably Nanook of the North.

From the foreign editions- A Soap, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish edition

1. Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, Spain 2. The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany 3. Frostbiten, Anders Banke, Sweden 4. Letters From Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood, USA 5. Mainline, Mohsen Abdolvahab, Rakhshan Banietemad, Iran 6. Volver, Pedro Almodovar, Spain 7. The Host, Bong Joon-ho, South Korea 8. Curse of the Golden Flower, Zhang Yimou, China 9. Krrish, Rakesh Roshan, India 10. Apocalypto, Mel Gibson, USA/Mexico Colossal Youth, Pedro Costa, Portugal Still Life, Zhangke Jia, China

I was just watching Nosferatu again, a few nights ago. She was great in that film. "JONAZZZTAAAAN!!!"

Britt Ekland