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Just about Crash I hadn't seen it in a long time, forgotten just how insane it is. I really need to see more Lynch because what I have seen, this, Twin Peaks, The Elephant Man and especially Blue Velvet I've loved. Any recommendations?
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Thanks. I have Fire Walk With Me to watch soon. Got a bit of series 2 of my Twin Peaks rewatch left first. I'm gonna order Wild at heart Posts: 4057 | From: uk | Registered: May 2007 | Site Updates: 0
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Helen, my favorite Lynch films, in order of preference (and I have no clue where Eraserhead fits into my list), are Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Dr., The Straight Story, Fire Walk with Me, The Elephant Man, and Lost Highway. About the only Lynch film that I'm not nuts about is Dune. And I confess that I have not yet seen Inland Empire.
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Cool, another nod for Wild at heart. I noticed a 3 pack of Mulholland Drive, Elephant Man and Inland Empire. Think I'll get that soon.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Jonathan Adams, Meatloaf, Little Nell (Campbell), Charles Gray and Patricia Quinn. A just engaged couple who experience car trouble on a rainy night seek help in a castle, where they run across a group of Transylvanians. Taken from the classic namesake stage musical.
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All that Jazz (1979) starring Roy Sheider. I had forgotten how bizarre this movie was. I saw an abbreviated version about 20 years ago on television. I remember telling my father how I didn't like the ending then!
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Kes (1969) a young boy trains a kestrel while dealing with school and family life
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972). Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Paul Bertram and Peter Cook. Barry McKenzie, an uncouth Australian who swills beer, speaks Australian slang and detests the British, goes with his aunt Dame Edna Everage to England, where he has a series of comically absurd adventures. Posts: 1756 | From: Australia. | Registered: Mar 2009 | Site Updates: 203
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Jaws 2 (1978). Alright, so it wasn't directed by Steven Spielberg, and there's no explanation for the disappearance of Matt Hooper, but it's still an above-average sequel. The last 40 or so minutes with Jaws pursuing the teenagers and Chief Brody's attempt to rescue them was just as suspenseful and on-the-edge-of-your-seat as the original Jaws, IMHO.
Look at the bright side: it's miles ahead of Jaws: The Revenge, which is possibly the worst sequel to a popular movie I've ever seen.
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IMO all the Jaws sequels sucked, but yeah I agree the revenge was terrible.
I have not seen 2 in a while, but did I miss something. The disappearance of Hooper?
Jaws though is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I am probably one of the few who thinks that the shark in the original JAWS still looks quite real.
I personally think that when people say the shark looks fake as they are probably remembering one of the sequels in which the sharks get progressively worse.
Which one looks more fake, the one in 3 or the one in 4. Mmmmm that's a tough one. I'll go 4 I guess.
I am just about to watch Targets (1968).
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You two know it: The Big Heat is fantastic, one of my faves.
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I love Targets, just love it! I remember reading about it in one of the really early books on horror films when I was a kid, and then I had to wait for years to see it because Paramount pulled it in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. A few observations: It is one of Peter Bogdanovich's best films, it has one of Boris Karloff's best performances, it has perhaps the best use of parallel plots of any screenplay that I've ever seen, and it speaks volumes and is still on the mark about how we view violence in films and our society today. It's quiet and thoughtful and really, really well done. And to think that it came about because Bogdanovich had the presence of Karloff (I think under one of those goofy AIP contracts) for a few days and decided to make a film around him. Genius.
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A nouvelle vague masterpiece. It doesn't get more euro cool, than Alain Delon as hitman, Jef Costello!
L'ARMEE DES OMBRES aka ARMY OF SHADOWS 1969
Melville's extremely somber and dark WW2 thriller about the inner workings of the french resistance. Great movie, but borders on depressing.
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I love Targets, just love it! I remember reading about it in one of the really early books on horror films when I was a kid, and then I had to wait for years to see it because Paramount pulled it in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. A few observations: It is one of Peter Bogdanovich's best films, it has one of Boris Karloff's best performances, it has perhaps the best use of parallel plots of any screenplay that I've ever seen, and it speaks volumes and is still on the mark about how we view violence in films and our society today. It's quiet and thoughtful and really, really well done. And to think that it came about because Bogdanovich had the presence of Karloff (I think under one of those goofy AIP contracts) for a few days and decided to make a film around him. Genius.
Such insight. Thanks Crash. The only reason I even heard of this is because I watched a doco about the decline and subsequent rise of Hollywood during the late 60's and 70's. It was talking about all the new emerging directors and actors that were to have the most profound impact in films. Their classics and their flops. Their lives and deaths. It was really good. Yeah and they did mention that it was yanked from theatres because of the assassinations.
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