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Film Night 19:44 - Apr 28 with 22417 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Ok, knowledgeable people...give me one film that never disappoints.

Title
Genre
Actors/Directors
Why you should watch it...

Edit - I added a 'Why you should watch it... ' line
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Film Night on 19:46 - Apr 28 with 9002 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Title: The Big Sleep
Genre: Whodunnit/Comedy
Actors/Directors: Bogart and Bacall, Howard Hawks Dir.
Hugely comic, darkly noir, great lines from Raymond Chandler and others.
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Film Night on 19:53 - Apr 28 with 8984 viewsEsox_Lucius

Pulp Fiction
Drama/ thriller
Quentin Tarantino
You don't really want me to name any of them do you? :-)

The grass is always greener.

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Film Night on 20:03 - Apr 28 with 8949 viewsTripleR

The Departed
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg.

Great acting/story/edge of the seat stuff.
Watched it a few times and never disappoints.
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Film Night on 20:06 - Apr 28 with 8936 viewsBrianMcCarthy

No, you're good!

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Film Night on 20:08 - Apr 28 with 8923 viewsBrianMcCarthy

The BIg Lebowski
Comedy
Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and many more.
Hilarious, lovable characters, quotable script, great soundtrack.
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Film Night on 20:18 - Apr 28 with 8885 viewsted_hendrix

"In The Heat of the Night"

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger's acting is second to none and without doubt the best acting I've ever seen, talk about two actors bouncing of each other.

As an added bonus you get to hear Ray Charles doing what he does best, singing.

Or

If you can't be arsed with that Brian try "No Country For Old Men" the baddest MOFO of all baddest MOFO'S steals the show

Llewelyn Moss: " If I don't come back, tell mother I love her. "

Carla Jean Moss: "Your mother's dead, Llewelyn".

Llewelyn Moss: "Well then I'll tell her myself."

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

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Film Night on 20:23 - Apr 28 with 8873 viewsCroydonCaptJack

I really like Midnight Cowboy starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight. Great acting and a great soundtrack.
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Film Night on 20:24 - Apr 28 with 8878 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Two brilliant nailed-on classics, Ted.

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Film Night on 20:27 - Apr 28 with 8866 viewsMrSheen

Midnight Run
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: No idea
Stars: Robert DeNiro
Why: It should be corny rubbish, but the plotting and dialogue are great, loads of entertaining characters and genuinely funny.

Honourable mention - 48HRS, Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte.
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Film Night on 20:35 - Apr 28 with 8848 viewsBlackCrowe

The French Connection
Dir, William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Sheider
Gritty, edge of your seat, NY 70s scene at it's best (worst).


All The Presidents Men
Dir. Alan Paluka
Redford, Hoffman
The best suspense-filled political thriller of all time


LA Confidential
Dir. Curtis Hanson
Crowe, Space, Pearce, DeVito, Basinger
Brutal LA vice/drug cop film, with subtlety, twists and brilliant brilliant characters.

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Film Night on 20:37 - Apr 28 with 8830 viewsDiscodroids

'Dead Mans shoes'
'2001 a space odyssey'
'VideoDrome'
'Meantime' by mike leigh
'intersteller'
'Tony(london serial killer)'
'morvern callar'
'sideways'

i can watch all of these films in infinite combinations in infinite computations as they symbolise the elements that create truth and beauty . they wont let you down bri.
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"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."

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(No subject) (n/t) on 20:42 - Apr 28 with 8821 viewsCliff_Schitzinabag

(Try again).
I'll go for Spinal Tap.

Am I the only person on earth who falls into giggle fits when they hear the word "perspective"? Probably not.
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Film Night on 20:43 - Apr 28 with 8819 viewsisawqpratwcity

"Life of Brian"
Monty Python/Terry Jones
Brian is a minor Everyman Jesus-type who dies for his revelations because everybody around him is hilariously self-centred, stupid and useless.

Edit: No, it's another Brian, different, not you.
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Film Night on 20:44 - Apr 28 with 8812 viewsBlackCrowe

Film Night on 20:37 - Apr 28 by Discodroids

'Dead Mans shoes'
'2001 a space odyssey'
'VideoDrome'
'Meantime' by mike leigh
'intersteller'
'Tony(london serial killer)'
'morvern callar'
'sideways'

i can watch all of these films in infinite combinations in infinite computations as they symbolise the elements that create truth and beauty . they wont let you down bri.
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Big shout for 2001 Sp Odd of course but also for massively unsung Sideways - blissful roadtrip stag do film funny, tender, with a great soundtrack. Spent a few days in Sonoma wine country as a result of it (already had the Saab 900 classic!).

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Film Night on 20:48 - Apr 28 with 8790 viewsBlackCrowe

Ps. For those with kids aged from about 8+, try and find the ghost story 'The Amazing Mr Blunden' (Dir. Lionel Jeffries. Diana Dors, Lionel Naismith, Lynne Frederick). Wonderful eerie stuff.

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Film Night on 20:48 - Apr 28 with 8780 viewsDiscodroids

Film Night on 20:44 - Apr 28 by BlackCrowe

Big shout for 2001 Sp Odd of course but also for massively unsung Sideways - blissful roadtrip stag do film funny, tender, with a great soundtrack. Spent a few days in Sonoma wine country as a result of it (already had the Saab 900 classic!).


i also saw the stage play of 'sideways'. Magic!. ;-)

me and the mrs can watch it over and over. Paul Giamatti is fantastical.

edit. i think '2010' is the most under rated movie of all l time .. this scene as 'bowman' changes from his normal physical self to a higher being and then to an embryo is breathtaking.



another edit must add 'cruising' a 1980 crime film written and directed by William Friedkin' on the seedy hedonistic gay nightlife of new york and an unhinged serial killer . al pacino stars
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"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."

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Film Night on 20:49 - Apr 28 with 8784 viewsBlackCrowe

I fell slightly in love with Mia.

And i've seen it probably about 5 or 6 times.
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Film Night on 21:11 - Apr 28 with 8727 viewsWren67

Something Wild
Action Comedy
Melanie Griffiths, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta
Dir: Jonathan Demme

It's WICKED!!
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Film Night on 21:12 - Apr 28 with 8720 viewsisawqpratwcity

"Triumph of the Will"
Propaganda/Documentary
Hitler and Nazis/Leni Riefenstahl
The call to Germany to embrace Hitler and National Socialism; an as-it-happened, crystallised moment of time in 1934 before Hitler revealed his true agenda: continental war and mass subjugation.

(No, I'm not a nazi. "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!" Oh, that reminds me of another one...)

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Film Night on 21:16 - Apr 28 with 8702 viewsDiscodroids

Film Night on 20:35 - Apr 28 by BlackCrowe

The French Connection
Dir, William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Sheider
Gritty, edge of your seat, NY 70s scene at it's best (worst).


All The Presidents Men
Dir. Alan Paluka
Redford, Hoffman
The best suspense-filled political thriller of all time


LA Confidential
Dir. Curtis Hanson
Crowe, Space, Pearce, DeVito, Basinger
Brutal LA vice/drug cop film, with subtlety, twists and brilliant brilliant characters.


'all the presidents men' and the ''parallax view ' both by Alan J. Pakula. increible films.

'soylent green' ain't too shabby either.

"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."

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Film Night on 21:19 - Apr 28 with 8708 viewschris1969

True Romance
Very underrated film with some great cameos, especially Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper.
Great soundtrack and fall in love with Patricia Arquette everytime I see it.

Other go to movies are
The Searchers, if its on I watch it. Favourite line 'that'll be the day'

Withnail and I.......'are you the farmer?'
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Film Night on 21:34 - Apr 28 with 8667 viewsKerryE

Downfall

Just for the bit where Hitler loses the plot after our great comeback v Liverpool 😁
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Film Night on 21:41 - Apr 28 with 8654 viewseasthertsr

Goodfellas
Just a simply stunning piece of cinema. Just plain wow, multiple viewings never disappoint. Genius!
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Film Night on 21:45 - Apr 28 with 8643 viewsswisscottage

One of my favs--
Grosse Pointe Blank
Action, light black quirky comedy, satirical
John and Joan Cusack, Minny Driver, Dan Ackroyd, Alan Arkin

Good Chemistry between John Cusack and Minnie Driver.
Joan Cusack at her oddball best.
Quirky and different.
God one liners and witty lines
Makes you think twice about going to school reunions.
Excellent 80s nostalgia soundtrack.

I usually can't stand Dan Ackroyd, which is kind of perfect for this movie, because his character is supposed to be annoying :).
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Film Night on 21:50 - Apr 28 with 8636 viewssmegma

Escape To Victory


Victoire! Victoire!
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