My favourite movie is or all things film

[Robbie]

How surprising Walter  .

There was a documentary about the life of Mary Millington on London Live a while ago. I hadn't heard of her until then. At the end it was very, very sad indeed.

I looked up 'Keep it Up Downstairs' and Mary Millington is way down on the cast list. More mainstream actors took the leading roles. I noted Jack Wild, who played Artful Dodger in the 'Oliver' film, was in it.

[Nearly Sane]

And Jack Wild is another with a sad story.

[Robbie]

Yes, terribly sad.

(Do we have a television section on this forum? I've looked and can't see one. Watched 'Serengeti' last night - am-a-zing)

[Nearly Sane]

Yes, terribly sad.

(Do we have a television section on this forum? I've looked and can't see one. Watched 'Serengeti' last night - am-a-zing)

No, just individual threads on this part of the board.

[Nearly Sane]

Was on a course and the presenter said they were really looking to one film next year, the update of Top Gun. There were various different reactions but the one that made me feel old were the 2 person who not only hadn't seen it but had never watched it, and when we discussed when it had been released, 1986, said 'Oh, I don't like black and white films.'

[jeremyp]

Was on a course and the presenter said they were really looking to one film next year, the update of Top Gun. There were various different reactions but the one that made me feel old were the 2 person who not only hadn't seen it but had never watched it, and when we discussed when it had been released, 1986, said 'Oh, I don't like black and white films.'

To be fair, it’s actually not a very good film.

[Nearly Sane]

To be fair, it’s actually not a very good film.

It's part of a set of films in the 80s where the distinction between music video and film blurs. Given that I would suggest iconic rather than good. I hadn't watched it for 30blah years but took the chance after the discussion. As blarney, it works. It is extraordinarily homoerotic. Ian Hislop said 'all great American films are a love story between two men' - this just ups the ante.

[Nearly Sane]

Watching the marvel  that is Paddington again

[Walter]

Watching the marvel  that is Paddington again

i think your tongue is firmly stuck in your cheek 😐

[Nearly Sane]

i think your tongue is firmly stuck in your cheek 😐

Not at all, it's a brilliant film. And Paddington 2 is even better.

[jeremyp]

i think your tongue is firmly stuck in your cheek 😐

I haven't seen it but I remember it getting extremely good reviews as well as taking a lot of money at the box office.

[Walter]

Not at all, it's a brilliant film. And Paddington 2 is even better.

London centric middle class family shite !

[Walter]

.....and he's back in the room 😜

[Nearly Sane]

London centric middle class family shite !

The channel 4 announcer stated it was about a Peruvian immigrant that ended up living with a family in their multi million pound house. It's still brilliant
 

[Nearly Sane]

Watched Blinded by the Light last night. It's a lovely little old fashioned film.

[Walter]

The channel 4 announcer stated it was about a Peruvian immigrant that ended up living with a family in their multi million pound house. It's still brilliant

you can't fool me , there ain't no sanity clause !

And to be fair , I've never seen  the films so I've NO IDEA what I'm talking about ! 😘😘😘

[Nearly Sane]

Went to see Les Parapluies de Cherbourg yesterday for the first time on a big(gish) screen. Stands up really well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Umbrellas_of_Cherbourg

[Nearly Sane]

Watching A Hard Day's Night on BBC4 and struggling with odea that Richard Vernon is 15 years younger in this than I am now, and Wilfred Brambell is 3 years younger than I am now.

[Gordon]

I quite liked this series from The Guardian in which the contributors are having a first look at well-known films they avoided at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/the-classic-film-ive-never-seen

[flower girl]

I quite liked this series from The Guardian in which the contributors are having a first look at well-known films they avoided at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/the-classic-film-ive-never-seen

Seen most of them, but none would be on my list of favorites.  My top twelve would be:

Gone With the Wind
The African Queen
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close and John Malkovich)
A Christmas Carol (1951 Alastair Sim)
Jeremiah Johnson
Rocky
Sophie's Choice
Pan's Labyrinth
Shakespeare in Love
Strictly Ballroom
Avatar

The most recent film I really enjoyed was Yesterday.  I was surprised to see Danny Boyle had directed him.  (A lot of his films have been a fun favorite of my youngest son and me.)

[Nearly Sane]

Seen most of them, but none would be on my list of favorites.  My top twelve would be:

Gone With the Wind
The African Queen
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close and John Malkovich)
A Christmas Carol (1951 Alastair Sim)
Jeremiah Johnson
Rocky
Sophie's Choice
Pan's Labyrinth
Shakespeare in Love
Strictly Ballroom
Avatar

The most recent film I really enjoyed was Yesterday.  I was surprised to see Danny Boyle had directed him.  (A lot of his films have been a fun favorite of my youngest son and me.)

have you tried Blinded by the Light?

[flower girl]

have you tried Blinded by the Light?

No.  I remember seeing previews and thinking I should.  Will do now. 

[flower girl]

I quite liked this series from The Guardian in which the contributors are having a first look at well-known films they avoided at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/the-classic-film-ive-never-seen

From this list, my favorites:

Sleepless in Seattle
Notting Hill
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Dr Zhivago
Titanic
Back to the Future
Chinatown
Shawshank Redemption (!)

The last made me think of another -- completely unrelated -- narrated film based on a novella Stephen King wrote under a pseudonym before he was, well, Stephen King:

Stand By Me

Oh, there's one more:

A Christmas Story 1983  (this one is quintessentially mid-20th Century American.)

[Nearly Sane]

 A Christmas Story is brilliant

[Nearly Sane]

No.  I remember seeing previews and thinking I should.  Will do now.

Hope you like it