Merry Christmas to all and have a great Lemmy birthday!
I would (try) if I only I knew what a lemmy birthday was.
This year too I wish you all a very happy Christmas!
Like last.caress mentioned; the 24th is Lemmyās (from Motƶrhead) birthday, an occasion for celebration! ;D
Couldnāt really think where to post this, so what the hellā¦
Ten Best Films Seen for the First Time This Year (donāt you just love new ways to list films?):
- Heavenās Gate
- The Deer Hunter
- Betty Blue
- The Big Gundown
- Runaway Train
- The Secret in Their Eyes
- Casino
- Tenebrae
- In Harmās Way
- West Side Story
To you it was a good year, film wise
Yes, it has beenā¦ The big surprise was how good Premingerās In Harmās Way was, which doesnāt usually get rated very high in the overall context of his filmography. Have you seen/what did you think of Betty Blue?
Just found this petition for releasing of several westerns from MGM. Anyone else interested?
Nice effort, Iāll sign, but I donāt think itāll get very far, considering the lack of professionalism and quality of the petition. I also donāt believe petitions do very much in the way of getting things released, only guaranteed profits do that 
[quote=āJohn Welles, post:3725, topic:370ā]Couldnāt really think where to post this, so what the hellā¦
Ten Best Films Seen for the First Time This Year (donāt you just love new ways to list films?):
- Heavenās Gate
- The Deer Hunter
- Betty Blue
- The Big Gundown
- Runaway Train
- The Secret in Their Eyes
- Casino
- Tenebrae
- In Harmās Way
- West Side Story[/quote]
This is actually one of the more interesting lists, maybe it deserves its own topic.
But for now here is Ten Best Films Seen for the First Time This Year (and not from this year) aka donāt you just love new ways to list films?, in no particular order:
- Ride Lonesome (1959)
- Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
- The Innocents (1961)
- Quadrophenia (1979)
- The Wild Angels (1966)
- Wake in Fright (1971)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
- SvanuÄe (1964)
- Amores Perros (2000)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
Top 3 would be Paths, Quadro and SvanuÄe. You probably havenāt heard of the later (27 user ratings on imdb), I havenāt either until I caught it on TV as a part of Forgotten Croatian Cinema cycle. It is a movie from Nikola Tanhofer, rescpected author from golden age of Croatian cinema (that would be the 50s), most famous for H8ā¦
SvanuÄe is part love-triangle psychological drama, part thriller, part action movie, that uses experimental narrative and that amazed me like very few of Croatian movies from any period. I highly recommend that you seek it to more ambitious among you movie buffsā¦
@John: which Runaway train are you referring to?
Just found this petition for releasing of several westerns from MGM. Anyone else interested? http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/spag9mgm/?e
They all seem to have had good releases apart from The Silent Stranger and Los Amigos
[quote=ātitoli, post:3730, topic:370ā]Top 3 would be Paths, Quadro and SvanuÄe. You probably havenāt heard of the later (27 user ratings on imdb), I havenāt either until I caught it on TV as a part of Forgotten Croatian Cinema cycle. It is a movie from Nikola Tanhofer, rescpected author from golden age of Croatian cinema (that would be the 50s), most famous for H8ā¦
SvanuÄe is part love-triangle psychological drama, part thriller, part action movie, that uses experimental narrative and that amazed me like very few of Croatian movies from any period. I highly recommend that you seek it to more ambitious among you movie buffsā¦
@John: which Runaway train are you referring to?[/quote]
It would be the 1985 Andrei Konchalovsky film, which genuinely blew me away. Jon Voight and Eric Roberts are fantastic in it and I think itās the kind of film people on this forum would enjoy. Not familiar with Eastern European cinema, but I can endorse both Ride Lonesome and Paths of Glory, the latter of which is the finest WWI film ever made.
I re-watched Runaway Train last year. it was disappointing. It wasnāt good in the cinema, it isnāt good now. 5/10
8.5/10
The sacrĆfices we do for our Kids
Spendig Money on a Violetta Gig, yeah. But the girl was happy and thatās all it matters.
Just booked our flights for Almeria in April. Last time I went it was with a few desperadoes from around these parts. This time Iām taking the wife. Sheās a lucky woman.
Indeed she is!
Iām pleased to see youāre finally over the trauma of seeing Tigger go nekkid on āBlindman Beachā and feel ready for a revisitā¦ have a great time 
Nothing will get me over that trauma.
Except maybe another drinkā¦Iāll give it a try
Iāve just returned from Morriconeās concert in Krakowā¦ great night, great composerā¦ 
Great cast to a western that will probably be never made: