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What movie do you like that most people never seen?
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Posted on 06/26/2011 2:32:31 PM PDT by Yorlik803

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Smile, 1975 directed by Michael Ritchie with Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon and Michael Kidd. Some view it as a satire of middle class values but I disagree, I think it's just a slice of life.

Also second Serial. Just to think that all that stuff from back then is still around today.

41 posted on 06/26/2011 3:04:02 PM PDT by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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To: DwFry

In the West Virginia vein, has anyone seen “Header”?


42 posted on 06/26/2011 3:04:23 PM PDT by printhead
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To: Yorlik803

Rocket Man!


43 posted on 06/26/2011 3:05:19 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!)
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To: DwFry

The Whites give new meaning to the phrase “dysfunctional family.”


44 posted on 06/26/2011 3:06:11 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: Yorlik803

The Dirty Dozen and Oh brother where art thou. I’ve watched both a hundred times.


45 posted on 06/26/2011 3:07:03 PM PDT by MaxMax
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One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen, and a damned fine war picture is “Farewell to the King” which bears echoes of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim—with a lot of filmmaker John Milius’ own Hemingwayesque slant thrown in. During World War II, American POW Learoyd (Nick Nolte) escapes a Japanese firing squad. Hiding himself in the wilds of Borneo, Learoyd is adopted by a head-hunting tribe of Nyaks, who consider him “divine” because of his elaborate tattoos. Before long, Learoyd is the reigning king of the Nyaks. When British soldiers approach him to rejoin the war against the Japanese, Learoyd resists (in language so flowery that it could have been written by Sir Walter Scott). But when his own tribe is threatened by the invaders, the “king” deigns to fight for their rights. Farewell to the King is breathtakingly photographed and quite exciting at times.


46 posted on 06/26/2011 3:07:15 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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Bookmarking


47 posted on 06/26/2011 3:07:24 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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To: Yorlik803
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) starring Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss. It's a bizarre film telling the story of Hamlet from the point of view of two minor characters.

I've never seen it offered on DVD.

48 posted on 06/26/2011 3:07:29 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Skooz

Everything is Illuminated was on one of the Cable movie channels today. I will have to look for it.”Master and Commander was a great movie but it too slow paced for most people who want slam bang action flicks. I have that on DVD as well.


49 posted on 06/26/2011 3:09:25 PM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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Think I’ll go with a current movie, Terence Malik’s “The Tree of Life”. It’ll be too slow and artsy for many people but I found it extremely powerful and emotionally rich.


50 posted on 06/26/2011 3:10:11 PM PDT by RedRover
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To: Gena Bukin

Two excellent movies. And both are little known but really well crafted films.
Another movie is called “the Hill” with Sean connery.It is set in a British penal camp durning WW2. Check that out.


51 posted on 06/26/2011 3:11:14 PM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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Miracle Mile: A few people in Los Angeles learn of the Soviets launch against the US. Movie shows the chaos as they try to leave LA before the nukes hit.
Almost no one has seen this movie, but I enjoyed it.


52 posted on 06/26/2011 3:11:55 PM PDT by Imnidiot (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: Yorlik803

The Railway Children


53 posted on 06/26/2011 3:12:09 PM PDT by HChampagne (I am not an AARP member and never will be.)
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To: Yorlik803
Payday w/ Rip Torn as C&W singer Maury Dann. Daryl Duke dir.

The Cockfighter w/ Warren Oates. Monte Hellman dir.

Apropos. Yesterday, I was googling "underrated rock artists", hoping to find somebody new, but found lists which included Johnny Winter, Procol Harum, Fleetwood Mac and such. I guess "underrated" means what I HEART and think that millions others who buy it is not enough! How about, say, Andy Kim, and Emmitt Rhodes?

54 posted on 06/26/2011 3:12:18 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Yorlik803

Dragonwyck. Lovely B&W film, great atmospheric ghost story, starring the incomparable Vincent Price. Price is often thought to be a British horror star like Peter Cushing or Boris Karloff-nope, he was born and raised in St Louis, MO. Apparently his distinctive accent was the common upper class accent of that time and place. Anyhow, this film was the last attempt of his studio to make the young, handsome Price a matinee idol/sex symbol a la Clark Gable-it’s a transitional role and film, combining the supernatural and romance. It deals with an unusual historical fact : There really was an attempt on the part of the Dutch aristocracy to preserve something very like serfdom or at least sharecropperdom in post revolutionary war upstate New York. And it’s even an early look at drug addiction (opium) ! The film didn’t do too well , and that ended the studio’s attempt to make Price a conventional leading man-from this film he went into the horror genre and pretty much stayed there. But the film is very worth watching, especially for the eerie harpsicord scenes.


55 posted on 06/26/2011 3:13:08 PM PDT by kaylar (It's MARTIAL law. Not marshal(l) or marital! This has been a spelling PSA. PS Secede not succeed)
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To: Alberta's Child

You could be walking around lucky and not even know it.


56 posted on 06/26/2011 3:13:23 PM PDT by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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To: Yorlik803
Here are a few:
57 posted on 06/26/2011 3:13:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Salton Sea, truly underrated.


58 posted on 06/26/2011 3:13:58 PM PDT by ConservativeChris
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Red Cliff, directed by John Woo. The most expensive movie ever made in China. There's a 2 1/2 hour theatrical version available on Netflix. Then there's the 5 hour international version available in Blu-Ray. Fantastic film! My wife, who usually doesn't care much for subtitled foreign movies, was completely mesmerized.

Also, if you like samurai movies, Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins. Available on DVD sometime in July. Uncut version was on Amazon.

59 posted on 06/26/2011 3:14:13 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: Proud_texan
"I know I feel safer, sleeping on top of 100 gallons of gasoline!"

Love that film-especially the shot of "Major Weenie" !

60 posted on 06/26/2011 3:14:30 PM PDT by kaylar (It's MARTIAL law. Not marshal(l) or marital! This has been a spelling PSA. PS Secede not succeed)
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