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To: Ilaine who wrote (2711)	11/9/2002 3:24:09 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6901

Local Hero A Walk on the Moon Cinema Paradiso My Life as a Dog Hannah and Her Sisters Jou Dou Just a few, mostly obscure gems.

To: Ilaine who wrote (2711)	11/9/2002 4:32:30 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Chariots of Fire Phar Lap My Big Fat Greek Wedding Moonstruck Going to Bountiful (think that was the title) Forest Gump Doctor Zhivago The River Runs Thru It Out of Africa

To: Ilaine who wrote (2711)	11/9/2002 5:00:05 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Favorite movies A quickly assembled, personal top 10, in alphabetical order: us.imdb.com Amadeus Mozart biography seen from an unusual angle. us.imdb.com Apollo 13 Houston... us.imdb.com Blade Runner Hypnotizing atmosphere. us.imdb.com Chocolate A literally sweet story from France. us.imdb.com Das Boot The fate of submarine U-96 similar to the story of Captain Prien which PearlyButton and epsteinbd discussed this week, see #reply-18210543 us.imdb.com Gandhi us.imdb.com In the Line of Fire I like Clint Eastwood... us.imdb.com Name of the Rose ... and Sean Connery ... us.imdb.com Rain Man ... and Dustin Hoffman. us.imdb.com Schindler's List An extra - my all-time favorite is Metropolis: persocom.com.br It was released in 1927 - not really in the competition of the last 25 years' movies though an extended version has been published recently. Metropolis is part of the "Memory of the World" register: unesco.org unesco.org

To: Ilaine who wrote (2711)	11/9/2002 6:20:28 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6901

I think my movie list says that I am interested in the process of transformation.

To: Ilaine who wrote (2711)	11/10/2002 12:10:10 AM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Favorite movies... Over 25 years ago were "To Kill a Mockingbird", West Side Story (My first date, first kiss, and a great flick), and "On the Beach" Also any Disney classic when my granddaughter is sitting next to me with her head on my lap. Modern movie Can't think of one, although ET was damn good. Hidden Pleasure: Cherry 2000, especially when I'm about to get lip from my wife.

To: Ilaine who wrote (2711)	11/10/2002 4:46:20 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Oh man, that's too hard! How can you pick? Good list by the way CB. :) My tentative list: Apocalypse Now Blade Runner Godfather I Dr. Zhivago True Romance Flash Gordon (the one with the Queen soundtrack - you know you love it) The English Patient Once Upon a Time in the West Taxi Driver The Three Musketeers (the one with Michael York, Oliver Reed, and Richard Chamberlain - very fun)

To: Ilaine who wrote (2711)	11/10/2002 10:17:20 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6901

Pulp Fiction Annie Hall Being There The English Patient Raging Bull The Road Warrior Jaws One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Purple Rose of Cairo Blade Runner Schindler's List Chinatown The Year of Living Dangerously Dances With Wolves Raiders of the Lost Ark Elephant Man Gallipoli The Deer Hunter Manhattan Terms of Endearment Rain Man The Silence of the Lambs Chocolate Body Heat [I'm making myself stop]

To: Ilaine who wrote (2711)	11/11/2002 8:24:01 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Favourite movies - CB - Thanks for taking up the idea. And this certainly is a far better place to discuss favourite movies than FADG :) Here is a list by myself, by no means exhaustive and in no particular order: Until the End of the World - Wim Wenders Great road movie covering many cities and quite a few subjects, such as obsession with dreams towards the end. eXistenZ - David Cronenberg Idea: What if the masses get engrossed with the idea of game playing where you can no longer differentiate between the game and real life? Dead Ringers - David Cronenberg Two identical twin brothers (played by Jeremy Irons) who are gynecologists fall for the same woman. Spectacular descent into madness follows. Strange Days - Kathryn Bigelow The only female action movie director's take on a near future when we will be able to record, replay, and even sell our memories. Murder, intrigue, and the story of a broken heart (Ralph Fiennes) still in love with the former girlfriend (who was that girl in "Natural Born Killers"). Quite interesting. Goes into discussions of how memory is made to fade, and that's how we can live with past pains. Dark City - Alex Proyas Another original idea. I am not going to ruin the surprise for those of you who have not seen it, but just let me say that it is very interesting and artistically is it very well done. Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky Young and beautiful people who go into recreational drugs, have great fun in the first half of the film, and then lose all and end up in horrifying conditions in the end. Sounds unimportant when summarized like this, but I doubt if you have seen anything like this film lately. PI - Darren Aronofsky Black and white, this movie revolves around a mathematician with a horrible headache (important part of the story!)searching for an order in the stock market with his computer system. He is approached by Kabbalah people who ask him to look for the name of God in the Torah, which is a number set because letters also represent numbers in Hebrew. Discussions on Fibonacci numbers, free will, Go (the game), etc are part of this film. Quite interesting. Baraka This is a documentary. Difficult to explain - you will be looking into the sad eyes of a grey monkey in a lake one moment, and then at the patterns of New York traffic rush hour the next. Beautiful music. filmcritic.com Before the Rain This is a film made by a Macedonian director, talking about the wars that wrecked this area. The story has three parts and the third ties into the first so there is the illusion of a circle. The soundtrack is brilliant. .... and the films you all know, so not much to say there: American Beauty True Romance