__________________ All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
Lot of good movies mentioned including
All the President's Men
Lawrence of Arabia
Raging Bull
Glory
Schindler's Listand Amistad (despite what someone said in an earlier post, it is a really good movie. Some great scenes, particularly the Middle Passage and the scenes of the Slave Fort in Africa.)
I also liked : A Man for All Seasons
Judgement at Nuremburg
The Battle of Algiers
Reds
Young Mr. Lincoln
Patton
Hoosiers
Gettysburg
One movie that I am beginning to appreciate more and more is
Malcolm X.
Denzel, Spike Lee and Angelas Bassett were great in it. I think Spike was looking at the history of blacks in America from Reconstruction till now in this movie.
Malcolm Little days represented the time when blacks were supposed to keep to themselves and not mix with whites.
The Detroit Red scenes were the time when black people emulated whites and tried to be like them. The "seperate but equal" times of the 1930's and 1940's.
The Malcolm X years represented the rebellious times when blacks formed their identities as Afro-Americans and began to fight for their rights.
The el-Shabazz years represent the time since about 1980 when blacks have become comfortable in an integrated society (and society has become comfortable with them).
An interesting, hopeful look at race relations in America.
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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."- Groucho Marx
Ucon nailed a lot of good titles down. I also really liked Lynch's The Straight Story.
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"It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream." - D. Lynch
Missing
A Cry in the Dark
Coal Minor's Daughter
Frances
Heart Like A Wheel
Norma Rae
Silkwood
Stand and Deliver
Lean on Me
LaBamba
All the President's Men . . . and so on.
"I'm not sure I agree a hundred percent on your Police
work there, Lou."
You do know that Fargo isn't based on a true story, yes? It was just Joel and Ethan putting people on, seeing how much more willing an audience is to go along with such a tale if they believe it is even partially based on a true crime. To be clear, it wasn't.
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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra
Last edited by Holden Pike; 01-02-2007 at 11:26 AM.
"I'm not sure I agree a hundred percent on your Police
work there, Lou.
You do know that Fargo isn't based on a true story, yes? It was just Joel and Ethan putting people on, seeing how much more willing an audience is to go along with such a tale of they believe it is even partially based on a true crime. To be clear, it wasn't.
I just saw the movie Invincible based on the true story of Vince Papale and it was one of the best true story films that I have ever seen.
I just saw Invincible as in in-flight movie, and if I could have left the plane I would have. It was one of the most average paint-by-numbers this-has-all-been-done-before sports stories I have had the displeasure to sit through.
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