Worth Watching Twice

I would take it from you edgar if i own a dvd player ..i think it is a great movie..

Sheeeeze, line man. I had to look that up again. Baraka seems rather avant gardeish to me.

Well, edgar. I have watched Shawshank several times, but not interested in "once more"..

It's well made, but not any more cutting edge than the average run of prison films.

Letty,

I too enjoyed The Legend of the Falls, though the critics did not agree with us- I find that with most films actually.

Joefromchicago great list

Did I mention Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier?

Oh, that's right, Letty called me a "hopeless romantic".

I watched A Lion in Winter for the third time last week. And although I love Anthony Hopkins, it was Peter O'Toole and Hepburn that impressed me in that one.

I, too, enjoyed Legends of the Fall, Letty. Beautiful scenery and just the right amount of passion. (lol)

I watch Friendly Persuasion and All About Eve everytime they are on TV.

I'd like to see Far From the Madding Crowd and Jose Ferrer's Cyrano de Bergerac again. Just to see if I would be as impressed the second time around.

Lion in Winter is a great flick...even nigel terry's overdone acting as John....hepburn and o'toole command the screen...i thought dalton looked foppish...llooll

I used to be a horror flick fan, especially the variety that J.Arthur Rank did. The British made the unbelievable believable. I noticed that Christopher Lee was in Lord of the Rings. I think that he has always been an unsung actor. Hitchcock was good, too, but he massacred the story line of The Birds.

Yes, dear Raggedy. To be frank, I too am a hopeless romantic.

Hiama, The critics dissect a film, and I just watch 'em. I don't care much for Matt Damon, but I got caught up in the irony of the theme.

I'll need to look for A Lion in Winter. I will say that Mr. Wizard has made me more aware of the finer details of motion pictures.

Retraction:

Do believe that it was Brad Pitt who was in Legends of the Fall. Them hunks all look alike to me.

The camera loooooved Brad Pitt in "Legends..." He was more beautiful than the female lead.

Wannawatchagain Movies
I'm amazed that nobody has listed their wannawatchagain
movies for the last SIX months.

And I'm even more amazed that no one mentioned the most
repeatable movie of the last few years...SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.

I don't keep DVD's or tapes of movies like some folks but I
hade an exception and now have REDEMTION on my shelf.
Actually it is out on loan right now but as soon as it is returned
I'll watch TIM ROBBINS in his best role ever !

King Solomon's Mines is also rewatchable and DORIAN GRAY a must.

"Identity" I loved that movie!

Well, my word, ronmac. Where have you been? There are a couple of threads going at the moment on this same topic.

I would love to watch The Picture of Dorian Gray again, but I never see it advertised in the video stores or on AMC.

I think I've finally seen enough of Shawshank Redemption, although I still watch O Brother Where art thou, and I think that's because the music fascinates me along with the parallel to The Odyssey. I just read that the Cohen Bros. hadn't ever READ the Odyssey. Good Grief!

thanks for the nice words Letty!!! :wink:

Well, husker, honey. You must be feeling really good. Glad to know it. Want to play catch?

Sure but be easy on me - still on the mend

Dorian Gray
Yes, Letty, like all old golfers, we never die, we merely lose
our balls.

Luckily I saw DORIAN GRAY on the Bravo network and taped it.
Someday they will invent a way of tansferring VHS tapes to our
hard drive as a file and then we can send these files to friends
like you.

There is ONE computer program that downloads movies (costs
you about $1.66 per month) and they list thousands of movies,
doubtless Dorian Gray being one of them.

You can take a peek at their program at :

www.downloadshield.com/movies2.html


I liked Dorian Gray because dear Angela Lansbury was only 20
when she appeared in it as Sybil Vane and sang that quaint song,
"I'm only a bird in a gilded cage". So nostalgic of England in the
late 19th century music hall days.

And of course the great George Sanders (all 6ft 3½ inches of him)
with his quintessential posh accent. Did you know he was born in
Russia in 1906? Later he told David Niven that he would commit
suicide when he got bored with life and he did just that at the age
of 66 in Barcelona (20 nembutal pills). Sad, huh?

George Sanders played the character " The Saint " before Roger Moore didn't he.

He had a voice like velvet-great loss

The Saint
Yes, Hiama, Sanders portrayal of Simon Templar (2 initials ST as the
synonym of "Saint") preceeded Roger Moore's by 22 years (1940)

Other successors were Ian Ogilvy and in 1989 Simon Dutton who did
a dozen episodes. Later of course Val Kilner re-created the role and
even wrote the verses for the poems. I agree with you..a great series.

This thread has some action but the only reason it's not featured is the similarity to Movies You Can See Again and Again. Just didn't want Letty to think I wasn't taking notice.

A recent movie I could see again is "Spartan," even knowing the twist ending. It's just fascinating to observe how Mamet plans out the clues and takes his cinematography, editing and dialogue seriously with the twist and turns. He doesn't just try to trick you like a certain other movie maker that I needn't mention on these boards.

Mr. Wizard. No problem. Say anything you want to here. Never did care about sticking to the original thesis, and I ain't gradin' this manuscript, sooooooo. Gotta get off. Wrecker service may be calling.