Terrific films on DVD & video ... Any suggestions?

dear Miso! Setanta's on the highway now - movie night hasn't happened yet. I've never seen the Cheech and Chong, or Dazed and Confused. I'm looking forward to the silliness of both.

Bananas I've seen literally innumerable times - it reduces me to quivering giggles each time.

ehBeth

Ah, the time difference thing! I get confused!
But DO let us know how it goes ... Sounds like a Fun Festival at your place tonight! Enjoy!!

"Flawless" - Robert Deniro and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, 1999
- hilarious and touching about how a cross dressing gay and a tough ex-cop form a friendship

"Sneakers" - Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, 1992 -excellent lighthearted espionage fare

"A Bronx Tale" - Deniro, Chazz Palminteri, 1993- coming of age tale set in tough Bronx neighborhood

rent 'em all, - it's good stuff!

Okiedokie, just rented 3 great movies:

About A Boy, with Hugh Grant
The Banger Sisters, with Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon
Big Trouble, Dave Barry's first novel gone to the big screen

Snood<

Thanks for your list. I'll look for these films at the rental store.

Late to this .Everlasting Piece is a movie about two guys selling toupees in Belfast. Funny as it sounds. And a movie called The Big Tease, which is about a gay Scots hairdresser going to Hollywood for the great hairdressing contest. There's a movie called Feast at Midnight, a sort of coming of age of a young boy at boarding school, and also Ma Vie en Rose, subtitled, about a young boy's desire to dress in girl's clothes.

And then there's Gates of Heaven, about a pet cemetary....... these are all for the days when I want warm and funny. Monsoon Wedding... I do like movies.

"Murder on the Nile" written by Agatha Christie. I read the book before my first visit to Egypt. I visited the Agatha Christie Suite at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan on my trip to Egypt last year in March, and bought "Murder on the Nile" after our trip. It's a 9 on a scale of 10. c.i.

Here are some good ones:

A Walk on the Moon ( Diane Lane, Produced by Dustin Hoffman)
Walking and Talking (Katherine Keneer, Anne Heche)
Party Girl (Parker Posey)
Waiting For Guffman
A Box of Moonlight (John Turturro)
What's up, Tiger Lily (Woody Allen)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (Peter Sellers)
Funny Bones (Oliver Platt)

I've been at it again, folks! A mini video movie festival here over the past few days, as I (try to) recover from a nasty little virus ... (Cough, splutter honk!!!) As I've waded through a couple of boxes of tissues & attempted to wrestle the cat off my chest (he's heavy & it's COLD here! ) I've watched:

Iris
Chocolat
Mulholland Drive
About A Boy
(& am yet to see Amelie)

I was very moved by tonight's viewing of Iris. What a wonderful performance Judi Dench gave as Iris Murdoch, slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's disease. Thoroughly convincing & heart wrenching.

About A Boy ... Light, but pleasant enough & a happy ending, too!
Ditto Chocolat.

Now, I KNOW I'm going to get into strife here, but I was disappointed with Mulholland Drive. I guess I just felt bamboozled by the last half hour or so, after being thoroughly engrossed in the atmosphere, the intrigue & the acting till then .... Loved the film studio scenes, the music (particularly the "girl group's" performance) & the frightening & suspenseful aspects of the film.
But the final section of the film moved at such a different pace to what had preceded it & presented so many confusing possibilities regarding the identity of Betty & Rita that I felt it didn't "work" as well as the rest of the film. Too many possibilities, too quickly!
I then spent some time on the internet to see what the reviewers had made of the film ... All pretty much the same: Praise, praise & more praise for all aspects of the film ... for it's dreamlike quality, the studio sequences, the direction & a suggestion that if a person wanted to make some rational sense of the last half hour that they were wasting their time - that was not the intention.
None of which made my feeling of disappointment less. I was hoping for some resolution of what had gone before (which I had become really involved in) ... some sort of ending as satisfying as the main body of the film.

What did you think of the film?
Did you all agree with the reviewers who declared it a master piece?
Have I missed something here, do you think?

Can I suggest some bollywood movies ?

Oh yes, Please Do!!!!

I don't know if the old ones (which tend to be my favorite) will be available with subtitles - and the new ones tend to be boring (some good comedies, but the effect will be lost in translation).

But I suggest Devdas - it is fairly recent and the movie is absolutely amazing, it is one of my all time favorites...

http://devdas.indiatimes.com/

Gosh, G, that guy looks like an Indian Bogart!
I'd love to see the movie but don't like my chances of tracking it down, here in Oz .... I might try one of those huge places that sell all things Indian.(food, spices, music, videos, etc, etc)

an all time favorite of mine is "Lonely are the Brave" an excellent visual of the american southwest filmed on Sandia Mtn at Albuquerque New Mexico and has the mental/emotional spirit of what the southwest is all about. (keep tissues handy)

This movie was on an internation release, so I am sure that the big rental stores must be having it.

Actually, amazon.co.uk has it !!

That title definitely rings a bell, dyslexia. Will check out the details on one of the movie sites online ...
(Strange, I was thinking about Albuquerque today & the romance with the desert ... Possibly as a result of rereading bits of a Georgia O'Keefe autobiography yesterday.)

Well, in that case Gautam, there's a good chance I might find it! Wish me luck!

good luck !!! LOL

And btw, there are two movies by the same name, take care to get the recent one.

The actor "Shahrukh Khan" is one of the best Bollywood has ever produced. But did you look at the women ??

Gautam

Just took another look. They are quite beautiful! I trust both of them aren't madly in love with the Bogart-like character?

True Romance . . .

"Clarence, you and i park our cars in the same garage . . ."

Bizarre, fast-paced and often hilarious story, classic lines . . .