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Old 04-03-2008, 06:33 PM
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Difficult to name just one, but…
Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen (both parts) would be up there for me.
Or Peter Watkins' epic La Commune: Paris 1871.
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Old 04-03-2008, 06:37 PM
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But even here Crowe plays a "Spaniard" strangely devoid of a Spanish accent!
No, because throughout the film, he (and the other characters) are all speaking Latin, which the movie-world Babelfish is translating for us into English. A Latin-speaking Spaniard might have a bit of an accent, but it would probably be something Celto-Iberian, not a modern Spanish accent (as Spanish is a post-Roman, Latin-derived language).

Heston and the other characters in El Cid didn't have Spanish accents, either, because they were all speaking Spanish, and the Babelfish was translating for us again!
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Old 05-03-2008, 01:02 PM
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... and I Know Where I'm Going! and The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus and ...
Are we beginning to see a trend here?

Although all of those are on any "top films" list for me I find it hard to put them in any order apart from having AMOLAD in the number 1 position.

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Steve, what other films stand out for you apart from P&P, do you like the Third Man???
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Old 05-03-2008, 01:29 PM
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Steve, what other films stand out for you apart from P&P, do you like the Third Man???
Yes, I quite like it. But for me it's only in the second or third rank of films that I do like, would see whenever I got the chance, and would even travel some distance to see a decent screening of them. But there are lots of others that I'd put at that same level.

The films I like are probably best shown by the list that I've written IMDb plot summaries for. They impressed me enough for me to write a plot summary.

There are just short of 300 titles in that list, 271 films & 25 TV shows.
That's not an exhaustive list of all the films & TV shows I like, but it should give some idea of the type of thing and the variety. There are even some in that list that were made in the 21st century thus proving that it's not only the old films that I like

There are some where I just couldn't write a plot summary, like for A Matter of Lire and Death, because they're supposed to be dispassionate and I can't be dispassionate about AMOLAD.

Also, there were quite a few where I only wrote a very short summary and they are now listed as Plot Outlines and don't come up on that list.

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Old 05-03-2008, 01:45 PM
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Thanks for that Silverwhistle.
Strangely, I "heard" your reply in a strongly northern accent...


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No, because throughout the film, he (and the other characters) are all speaking Latin, which the movie-world Babelfish is translating for us into English. A Latin-speaking Spaniard might have a bit of an accent, but it would probably be something Celto-Iberian, not a modern Spanish accent (as Spanish is a post-Roman, Latin-derived language).

Heston and the other characters in El Cid didn't have Spanish accents, either, because they were all speaking Spanish, and the Babelfish was translating for us again!
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There are some where I just couldn't write a plot summary, like for A Matter of Lire and Death, because they're supposed to be dispassionate and I can't be dispassionate about AMOLAD.

was that the Italian version ???
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There are some where I just couldn't write a plot summary, like for A Matter of Lire and Death, because they're supposed to be dispassionate and I can't be dispassionate about AMOLAD.

was that the Italian version ???
Very good
It's not often I make a speeling mistook - especially for that title. Maybe it's because I don't write it full very often?

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My all time favourite film is the 1968 musical Oliver!

Great songs, great cast and a wonderful Dickens story!
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It's not often I make a speeling mistook - especially for that title. Maybe it's because I don't write it full very often?

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check the Colin Blakely tthredd,Mr. Crook
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Yes, I quite like it. But for me it's only in the second or third rank of films that I do like, would see whenever I got the chance, and would even travel some distance to see a decent screening of them. But there are lots of others that I'd put at that same level.

The films I like are probably best shown by the list that I've written IMDb plot summaries for. They impressed me enough for me to write a plot summary.

There are just short of 300 titles in that list, 271 films & 25 TV shows.
That's not an exhaustive list of all the films & TV shows I like, but it should give some idea of the type of thing and the variety. There are even some in that list that were made in the 21st century thus proving that it's not only the old films that I like

There are some where I just couldn't write a plot summary, like for A Matter of Lire and Death, because they're supposed to be dispassionate and I can't be dispassionate about AMOLAD.

Also, there were quite a few where I only wrote a very short summary and they are now listed as Plot Outlines and don't come up on that list.

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I will take a week off soon and read the plot summaries, there are some films I have never heard of(hidden gems,cheers)
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Old 05-03-2008, 07:15 PM
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I will take a week off soon and read the plot summaries, there are some films I have never heard of(hidden gems,cheers)
Make sure you check a brilliant short film by the name of The Call (2005)

Still available to view on the Film 4 site.

It was just a little thing that Film 4 included in an empty slot (it's only about 12 minutes) without even including it in the listings. I just happened to be watching at the time and it really impressed me.

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My all time favourite film is the 1968 musical Oliver!

Great songs, great cast and a wonderful Dickens story!
Yes indeed. A rare case of a musical with a rich, complex story and characters - thanks to Dickens. And very well made, thanks to Reed.
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I've kept out of this thread because my favourite movie of all time would probably have to be an American one- namely:

The Last Flight (1931)

(But closely followed by just about any old 1930s Brit-musical, and in particular "That's a Good Girl"
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They've probably been mentioned a hundred times already (I havent read the full thread ) but I'd go with "A Matter Of Life & Death", its as if a magician waved his wand across the celluloid

Either that or "Performance" anyway....this is difficult actually isnt it?!!
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My all time favourite film is the 1968 musical Oliver!

Great songs, great cast and a wonderful Dickens story!
Love that film, especially the "Who will buy?" sequence which I always found quite psychedelic!!
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