I remember reading about Au Revoir, Les Enfants - never did see it.
A friend liked La Ronde - I never did see it.
Like most Kurasawa movies.
Bicycle Thief not one of my favorite italian films.
Oh Osso - Au Revoir, Les Enfants was very very good. And I didn't like the bicycle thief, either - another hideous one one starring Peter Falk is Wings of Desire ...
I did like:
Diva
Jean de Florette (Part I)
Manon des Sources (Part II)
My Mother's Castle
My Father's Glory
Babette's Feast
The Shiralee (Aussie)
Mame wrote:
I did like:
The Shiralee (Aussie)
Did you ever get hold of the DVD? If so,where from? :wink:
Something by Bergman, I think. I forget which one (saw quite a few later), but it was very anguished and tortured. I
loved it!
Was it "Through a glass darkly" msolga?
Could well have been, malek. I had a big run on Bergman & I'm not sure in which order I saw them. Somewhere in there was Cries & Whispers, too.
barrythemod wrote:Mame wrote:
I did like:
The Shiralee (Aussie)
Did you ever get hold of the DVD? If so,where from? :wink:
No, barry, I didn't
But I did buy the 1968 version of Oliver (Twist) and watched that again. Not quite the way I remembered it the first time :wink:
Mame wrote:barrythemod wrote:Mame wrote:
I did like:
The Shiralee (Aussie)
Did you ever get hold of the DVD? If so,where from? :wink:
No, barry, I didn't
But I did buy the 1968 version of Oliver (Twist)
A 1968 version? That's not on
MY LIST 
Amazon.co.uk: Oliver [1968]: Video: Ron Moody,Shani Wallis,Oliver Reed,Harry Secombe,Mark Lester,Jack Wild,Hugh Griffith,Joseph O'Conor,Leonard Rossiter ...
www.amazon.co.uk/Oliver-Ron-Moody/dp/B00004CJO3 - 71k - Cached - Similar pages
It was called Oliver!, that's why
It was the best one produced.
Mame wrote:Amazon.co.uk: Oliver [1968]: Video: Ron Moody,Shani Wallis,Oliver Reed,Harry Secombe,Mark Lester,Jack Wild,Hugh Griffith,Joseph O'Conor,Leonard Rossiter ...
www.amazon.co.uk/Oliver-Ron-Moody/dp/B00004CJO3 - 71k - Cached - Similar pages
It was called Oliver!, that's why
It was the best one produced.
Oliver The Musical.......Of course....!
But IMHO ,I'll stick with the 1948 version with Alec Guinness as Fagin and the great Robert Newton as Bill Sykes
.
"Les Enfants du Paradis".
When I was in Nice, we went to the theatre to see a ballet. I insisted on buying the cheapest tickets. They are way on top, under the ceiling. We took the elevator up four floors and sat way up, looking down onto the stage.
I said to my friend: "we are sitting in the 'paradis', like 'les enfants' (the poor) in the movie.
The film is a great b/w melodrama; unforgettable. I have seen it at least a dozen times.
I've seen it once, remember liking it, but not the content. Will go look it up.
There it is (no wonder I didn't remember the story) -
Children of Paradise
This was not my first foreign film or first loved foreign film, but the mention of Children of Paradise reminds me of it -
Moliere, directed by Ariane Mnouchkine
That was stupendous.
Under the noses of the Nazi occupiers the French managed to make a great film that was, in a way, anti-nazi. It took courage to mock the Gestapo with this masterpiece.
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http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=29006
