My wife and I run a monthly movie discussion group and we’re always on the prowl for good, discussable, movies. We’re into our eight year (started in August, 2000) and we’re trying to round out our list.
The general setup is that we select a film a couple of months in advance, everybody watches it in their own time, then we meet to discuss the film.
Our rules are:
- Must be available on DVD.
- Must be available in the Knoxville area (not much a concern for this thread, so don’t worry about it).
- We prefer American films or “well-known” foreign films. So that Malaysian indie flick that’s only available as a bit-torrent is out.
- Must be “discussable”. I.E., the discussion must consist of more than “Yeah, I liked that scene. How about when he…?” or “Were you surprised at the ending?” “Yes, were you?”
Yeah, there are some turkeys in the following list, but that’s group politics - you can’t constantly ignore the person who votes their favorite Disney movie for months, not if you don’t want your already-small group to shrink to “it’s not worth the effort doing this” levels. Feel free to mock some of the movies selected, but what’s done is done. And it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Our barebones website: http://www.geocities.com/knoxfilmforum/
Future films to be discussed in 2008: Jules and Jim, Battleship Potemkin.
The list of previously discussed movies:
[ul]L.A. Confidential (1997)
Election (1999)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Player (1992)
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Graduate (1967)
Henry V (1989) Henry V (1944)
The Conversation (1974)
Amadeus (1984)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Great Escape (1963)
Rear Window (1954)
Chinatown (1974)
JFK (1991)
The Producers (1968)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Searchers (1956)
The French Connection (1971)
The Lion In Winter (1968)
When We Were Kings (1996)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Duck Soup (1933)
The Godfather (1972)
Cape Fear (1962) Cape Fear (1991)
Sunset Boulevard (1956)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) (1982)
Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991)
White Christmas (1954)
Jackie Brown (1997)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Wings (1927)
The Third Man (1949)
Thunder Road (1958)
Dr.Strangelove (1964)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
The Ref (1994)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Manhattan (1979)
The Grey Zone (2001)
Blue (1993)
Dead Again (1991)
8 1/2 (1963)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Contact (1997)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
Hud (1963)
Die Hard (1988)
Roger & Me (1989)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Jaws (1975)
The Mission (1986)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Virgin Suicides (2000)
Nosferatu (1922)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Grifters (1990)
Rebecca (1940)
Unbreakable (2000)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Fog of War: 11 Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Lone Star (1996)
Ed Wood (1994)
Time Bandits (1981)
The African Queen (1951)
Almost Famous (2000)
Carrie (1976)
Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Rocky (1976)
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Nashville (1976)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Kill Bill vol. 1 (2003)
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios/Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Heathers (1989)
Pride of the Yankees (1942)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Becket (1964)
East of Eden (1955) (This months film)
Richard III (1995) (January’s film)[/ul]
Thanks!