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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    One silver cloud from enduring the painful Killing of a Sacred Deer was that I was reminded to rewatch Groundhog Day which I had been meaning to do for ages.

    I remembered it as a funny movie from the 90s and wondered if it had aged well.

    I think it has more than aged well. I think it has matured into a classic movie that not only has genuinely fresh humour but resonates with timeless philosophical themes.

    It is February 2nd this Friday so if you are staying in then watch punxatawney Phil strut his stuff in his 25th anniversary year...

    Agreed. GD has become and under-rated classic and is timeless.

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    Many really great films mentioned in these posts. Reaching way back, I'd put in a mention for Hitchcock's "The Thirty-nine Steps," as it broke ground in so many ways.

    But almost all of my friends in the film business--I was in the business for years as a screenwriter--will list "The Godfather" as possibly the greatest film of all time. Have to agree it's a masterpiece.

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    Lawrence of Arabia - scope !

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    Did I mention a few classics from my formative years?

    The Dambusters
    633 Squadron
    In Which we Serve
    The Battle of Britain

    How I ended up in green baggy skin, and not the RAF or the Navy is beyond me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoiNongbua View Post
    Agreed. GD has become and under-rated classic and is timeless.
    For just a supposed comedian, Bill Murray has been in some great films over his career.

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    Casablanca - script !

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    Citizen Kane - technique !

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    Too many to mention...

    Rear Window
    Vertigo
    Psycho
    The Birds
    North by Northwest
    Rope
    The 39 Steps
    The Man Who Knew Too Much

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    For just a supposed comedian, Bill Murray has been in some great films over his career.
    He made a mistake doing "Lost In Translation".
    He's too "expectantly non-commital" as I put it. Like, he says something blank-faced and expects it to be appreciated, but really the humour is only in is mind.

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    Too many to mention...

    The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    Coogan's Bluff
    Dirty Harry
    The Beguiled
    Charlie Varrick
    The Shootist
    Escape From Alcatraz

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    He's too "expectantly non-commital" as I put it. Like, he says something blank-faced and expects it to be appreciated, but really the humour is only in is mind.
    Loved him in Caddy Shack and Royal Tennenbaums

    Had some great lines in Tootsie

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    Having just re-watched it AGAIN, I'll throw in "Zulu".....and, to a lesser degree, "Zulu Dawn".

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3grk-slP0LU

    classic Howard Stern

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    Having just re-watched it AGAIN, I'll throw in "Zulu".....and, to a lesser degree, "Zulu Dawn".
    Too Welsh

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    Bob le Flambeur

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    After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

    French language with English subtitles.

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    Tallyho chaps and chocks away for the 80th anniversary viewing of The Battle Of Britain



    The expansive footage for the 1969 movie uses scores of real spitfires, hurricanes, Me109s, stukas and He111s and was filmed from a converted B-25 before the days of CGI


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    My top ten classic movies in no particular order are...

    Fistful of Dynamite
    The Great Escape
    Von Ryan's Express
    Kelly's Hero's
    Quadraphenia
    Trainspotting
    Matrix
    Italian Job
    Zulu
    Apocalypse Now

    Must have watched them all multiple times.

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    Once Upon A Time In The West is pretty iconic.

    As is 2001 : A Space Odyssey

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    In the Heat of the Night

    Sidney Poitier passed away so I dusted off a download of this classic.

    So many quotable lines from this move and such sharply drawn characters.

    It is decades since I have seen it but I could quote half the lines in sync with the actors.

    Glad to discover that it has aged so well.

    A merciful relief to watch an old school racial-righteousness movie that is not creaking under the self-conscious weight of woke politics.

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    I think I will go and see if Mississippi Burning has fared well with the passing of time or not.

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    Another Late Sidney Poitier outing tonight, but one which I had never seen before

    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - also from 1967

    Good fun to watch an old fashioned take on what has become a radioactive minefield of a subject for any but the wokest or bravest of film directors

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    It has an odd rhythm and meter, veering from bubbly and comedic to righteous to soppy and earnest, but given the 2022 temperature of the topic it cannot fail to entertain

    Interesting to note that Poitier's mum in the movie is the abortion doctor he talks to just before the denouement of In the Heat of the Night

    The closing shot of ITHOTN is a masterpiece for its time. I had not noticed when I was younger but the camera tracking his departure through the train window leaving Sparta Alabama is in a helicopter which rises up to take in an aerial view of the town as his train snakes off to the North. An easy shot today but more difficult in 1967

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Another Late Sidney Poitier outing tonight, but one which I had never seen before
    I grew up on movies like this as a kid. Seen them all once twice three times, they are great.

    That is why I am shy to post what I think is a classic, simply because the movie changed the way most special effects had to become more realistic.

    Here goes.
    Alien (1979)



    And Sigourney Weaver was the alpha.

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    Amadeus 1984

    Have not watched this for many a long year. Defo has the feel of a classic now. F. Murray Abraham easily steals that Oscar.



    I had never seen the Directors Cut before which adds 20 minutes to make it a 3 hour movie.

    Getting to see Constanze's knockers (or any lady's knockers in a movie) feels strangely exciting and pervy now - thankyou #metoo!

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    Got a new 60s mod-style slim-fit Ben Sherman shirt

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    So I thought I would christen it with a viewing of Quadrophenia - 1979.

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    Never seen it before.

    Quite good fun and a minor who's who of TV faces in youthful early roles.

    I just need a Joe90 pork-pie hat and I will be pukka innit

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