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Originally posted by BadwaterDouble-dog dare ya.
Yes - a short, Jewish kid from Kansas wins .... wait, if I continue I'll get modded for sure....
Originally posted by avalanchethecatI liked it too, but it's certainly not overrated - it won the Oscar for best Foreign Film (over Amelie no less).
I really enjoyed "No Man's Land", a 2001 European film directed by some guy called Danis Tanović.
Originally posted by sonhouseSilent Running ... great film! Used to be shown on British tv almost once a year (always at some daft time like 23:50) but haven't seen it for years. Shame!
Then there was 'Silent Running', Bruce Dern. It foresaw R2D2, had one of the most beautiful soundtracks I ever heard (Joan Baez) And I think was the inspiration for the Joni Mitchell song 'Big Yellow Taxi' ( Took all the trees, put em in a tree museum, charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em, don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got till it's gone, paved paradise, put up a parking lot).
Originally posted by wolfgang59A very convoluted story with the basic premise: man sucks but trees are elevated beings that must be protected at all costs. Someone was waaaay too much into weed.
[b]Silent Running ... great film! Used to be shown on British tv almost once a year (always at some daft time like 23:50) but haven't seen it for years. Shame![/b]
Originally posted by StarrmanAttention, schmattention. Dead Man is a cult film, what else do you want?
Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch film with Johnny Depp. I'd never heard of it until last year or so, but it immediately enterred my top 10, possible even my top 2 films. I honestly cannot fathom why films like this are virtually unheard of, but films like The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus get so much attention. Maybe it's just me, but that seems seriously wrong.
...[text shortened]... (I'm sure Palynka will be along shortly to tell me off for having an elitist view of film 😉)