Well THAT was stoopit: I cut and pasted “Emperor of the North” into the “Title” box by mistake, then hit “return,” and posted that incomplete list accidentally.
Anyway, to continue:
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Salo
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Ace in the Hole
Gabriel Over the White House
The Iron Horse
Street of Shame
Killer of Sheep
To Sleep with Anger
Christmas in July
The Crowd
Distant Voices Still Lives
Emperor of the North
The Fugitive (John Ford)
Europa 51*
–and that’s all I have time to think of right now.
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Island of Lost Souls (what is the law?)
Intruders (TV movie from the 90’s about alien abductions that was quite creepy for a TV flick)
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Wow. I consider myself somewhat film-knowledgable. But with the exception of **The Incredible Shrinking Man ** and Chimes at Midnight, I had never heard of any of these film titles. It’s like I’m on a mirror-earth where all the great films are the same but have different titles. Well, I’m off to watch Thorson Pelles’ Resident Blane.
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Well, 2 are Japanese, 1 Greek, 2 Polish, 1 Indian, 1 Mexican, 2 French, 1 Russian, 1 Danish, 1 Italian, 1 German and 3 silent (including 2 more French).
Of the American films, one’s a four-hour documentary, two are William Faulkner adaptations, one’s a Randolph Scott western, one’s a seminal work in black cinema, one has perhaps Bernard Herrmann’s best score, and two are among the greatest love stories ever put on screen.
And if they were on DVD, I’d tell you to put them on your NetFlix queue ASAP (though some are still available on VHS). Here’s hoping…
1963 war movie I saw as a kid and remember as being pretty good. I’d like to see it again.
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I second that. But I was unable to find that on VHS when I checked extensively years ago, so it may be a long wait.
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The animated series Duckman.
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Ditto. I’ve been checking for this frequently.
And speaking of ducks, I bought a copy of The Duck Factory, an early Jim Carrey TV show, thru Amazon’s used dealers and it (VHS) arrived blank. I got my money back, but I would have preferred the video.
Duck Factory used to air on Comedy Central back in the early days of the channel. Jim Carrey is the straight man. The only fun thing is seeing voice actors on screen. “Ohhhh so that’s what that guy looked like.”
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And then there’s the flip side. A Midwinter’s Tale (known in some markets as In the Bleak Midwinter) is Branagh’s loving tribute to the fearless thespians who give it their all for the sheer love of the theater. Filmed as a warm-up for his massive, epic, big-budget, seventy-milimeter widescreen treatment of Hamlet, (with some of the same cast) it’s the hilarious story of a bizarrely ecclectic theater troupe mounting a no-holds-barred, zero-budget, seven person rendition of the same play. It’s the only movie in my “must watch once a month” collection that has yet to find its way onto DVD.
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I’ll be damned. Never even heard of that. But will have to keep an eye open for it. Thanks!
Becket, the story of King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) and his wenching partner-turned-Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket (Richard Burton). With John Gielgud as the French King Louis VII.
[QUOTE=Skammer] Becket, the story of King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) and his wenching partner-turned-Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket (Richard Burton). With John Gielgud as the French King Louis VII.
[/QUOTE] This might cheer you up (though you’ll still have to be patient).
