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― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's 70s there matey. Now i'll have to bash your face in and have a pint afterwards. ;)

― Omar, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

sorry . please forgive me. I can recommend Boys Boarding School pics

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Thinking of 'If?' there?

― Omar, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Spies Like Us (I've always wondered whether this gave Pynchon the idea for Mason & Dixon?!?), Lock-Up, Over the Top, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (w/ Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, and a dance contest!), Dead Man on Campus, Fletch.

― Kris, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Save The Tiger. RIP JL.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Killer Klownes From Outer Space

― JC, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Iron Giant!

― 1 1 2 3 5, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Gridlock'd

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Sonatine' - mid-80s French-Canadian flick about isolated, depressive schoolgirls. Shall I spoil it for everyone by revealing the final scene?

Girls board subway train with placards proclaiming something like 'We will take our lives in protest at the indifference of the world', and swallow a bunch of pills. No-one takes a blind bit of notice, they fall unconscious, the placard slips down out-of-view, the train pulls into its destination and the crew (who've just heard that their union have voted for immediate industrial action) leave the girls in their deserted carriage. To die, presumably.

To call it a screwball comedy would be a mistake.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tracer - I second 'Gridlock'd'. 'Gang Related' and 'Juice' were good too. Tupac was actually a fine, underrated actor (kicked Tim Roth's ass) - it's a shame he instead elected to become the worst rapper in history and get wasted in the Death Row wars.

― dave q, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Spaceballs... the arse end of Mel Brooks career. And I like arse ends. Unlikely to see schoolgirls swallowing pills, but are likely to see characters such as Pizza the Hut, Dark Helmet and Yogurt. It's so much more than just a parody of Star Wars... well actually that is all it is and that's good enough for me.

'Sonatine' - mid-80s French-Canadian flick about isolated, depressive schoolgirls. Shall I spoil it for everyone by revealing the final scene? Girls board subway train with placards proclaiming something like 'We will take our lives in protest at the indifference of the world', and swallow a bunch of pills. No-one takes a blind bit of notice, they fall unconscious, the placard slips down out-of-view, the train pulls into its destination and the crew (who've just heard that their union have voted for immediate industrial action) leave the girls in their deserted carriage. To die, presumably.

To call it a screwball comedy would be a mistake.

― Martin, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Arse... I was supposed to paste that into my Jonesy scrapbook not my post. Stalking obsessions are not as easy as they look...

― Martin, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Watcher. But they should take all copies of said movie and destroy it. Rushmore was a major dud.
Classic movie: Crazy Love based on Bukowski's life.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six months pass...

i hate Kevin Branagh!

― BB, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nobody ever talks about jurassic park but we should.

― ethan, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

jurassic park is a godawful movie ethan.

― jess, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the last picture show , in fact most of brogdanovch's(sp) work has not got alot of press and its unfortunate.

― anthony, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

GHOSTBUSTERS II!!!

― ethan, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

in fact most of brogdanovch's(sp) work has not got alot of press and its unfortunate.

Are you counting the legendary 'live recording by nonsingers' musical flop At Long Last Love? Always wanted to see that to see if it really is that bad (and I'm sure it is).

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ginger Snaps should have received a bit more attention. It was quite good.

― Kim, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I second Ginger Snaps. That's an excellent movie.

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'd never heard anyone talk about "The Collector" before I saw it, and I was really impressed by it.

― Simon, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"After Midnight"

― MarkH, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'The Pallbearer' (1996) starring David Schwimmer and Gwyneth Paltrow.

― N., Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

I just saw "Juice" last night. Weird movie: it starts like Boyz in Da Hood but ends up like Scream! And, uh, what happened about the DJ competition?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

I second the emotion re: Peter's Friends. The perfect movie for an Anglophile who's also a fan of British humor. Plus, it's a wonderful excuse for a reunion of some of the people involved with the Cambridge Footlights in the early '80s (Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, and Tony Slattery), which I feel rocks the casbah.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

the cher vehicle "Mask"

― james (james), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

Tis pure Bollywood, amen, but I just saw a film called Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Big-Hearted Shall Win The Bride) on the US version of TCM. Pure fun, since it was shot in various parts of Europe and India. The heroine wasn't some wilting flower, and her guy was a bit of a goof. Both fought their attraction for most of the film, and had to work hard to be together.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 9 June 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.automatedculture.com/sam_elliott/images/moviepix/mask06.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

You Can Count on Me, and not-that-obscure Irish film I Went Down.

Also Brotherhood of the Wolf, but that's just because y'all are hataz.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

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― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

I have the soundtrack for 'Gas, Food, Lodging' which is mostly J. Mascis noodling instrumentally with a random Renegade Soundwave track thrown in!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

Deep End. I've a feeling there may be more than one film called that, but I mean the Jerzy Skolimowski from 1970 starring Jane Asher. JS's The Shout is really good too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

"Zardoz"

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

Coldblooded!!!

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 9 June 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

Nobody ever talks about the dark, dark, dark 1977 animated feature The Mouse and his Child, apapted from a Russell Hoban book and used to be all over the cable networks but now appears not to be on VHS.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 June 2003 20:58 (twenty years ago) link

A good synopsis of the movie -- Sanrio was involved?!?!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

What about Eat the Peach? Did it ever even make it onto the boat to Liverpool?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

Fantastic Planet

― gery forbes (gery), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't read the 'but are really good' bit...

My vote: The Land Before Time.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

Nichole, I just read a book about Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. It's a good movie! And I think the highest-grossing Indian movie of the last 40 years.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

I'm a huge proponent of Joe Vs. The Volcano. Inspired sets by the guy who does Tim Burton's work, and inspired casting in the form of Dan Hedaya as the insufferable boss, Lloyd Bridges as a giant pair of wacky eyebrows masquerading as a millionaire, Robert Stack as the doctor who tells Joe he's dying, and Abe Vigoda as the chief of the human-sacrificing tribe that's going to throw Joe into the volcano. Oh, and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are pretty charming, too. Written by the guy who wrote Moonstruck. A bizarre overlooked gem, to be sure.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

Also: anything starring Warren Oates.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

You know, when I went to see Joe Vs. the Volcano in the theaters when it was first released, I thought it was a great movie (not great great, rather entertaining great), but then soon after I saw it I read nothing but scathing reviews of the movie. Therefore, I thought it would be a mark on me to mention how much I enjoyed that movie, and I've shut up about my feelings on the film ever since.

Thanks to your post, though, now I can say that someone whose opinions could be taken seriously did like it. Sorry if this sounds a bit like a case of "follow the leader", but I already have enough things that distinguish me from the crowd -- any crowd. I don't need another one. :)

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

The Intruder - Roger Corman, starring William Shatner, the only movie Corman lost money on.

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

Spellbound.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

What gery said, and Les maitres du temps.
(There seems to be a third Rene Laloux animation feature called Gandahar, co-directed by... Harvey Weinstein. Has anyone seen it?)

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

Near Dark

The Big Chill

Colonel Redl

Fierce Creatures

Gods And Monsters

Paperhouse

The Pillow Book

The Servant

Sisters

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 9 June 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 9 June 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

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