Favourite films?

[femaleBertieWooster]

(20-11-2009 01:17 AM)JHyde Wrote:  You know, I nearly added Equus to my list, but I've never been crazy about Richard Burton. The play was one of my favourites at school.

I'm curious as to how many of the marginally older women on this forum who love Harry and Peter Firth started loving him after that movie. Which is troubling on like, 5 different levels.

Putting aside for the moment your term "older women," yes I started admiring Peter Firth with Equus. It took me forever to make myself watch it though because of the subject matter. I gave in because everyone said it was excellent, which it was, but so painful at the same time.

I always wanted to know if Richard Burton ever said to Peter Firth that it was an honour to work with someone so talented. Burton had done so many awful films and Equus came at a time when he must have given up on ever seeing another decent script. To have Firth cast opposite him to take on an equal part of the responsibility of setting the mood and delivering the meaning must have given Burton some joy.

Speaking of Burton, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is excellent. I just watched Darling again with two of my other favorites Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie.

I have too many to list now, but some good ones that I've re-watched recently are The Royal Tennenbaums, Hero, The Bourne Identity (best of the three imho), Immortal Beloved, About a Boy and Waltz of the Toreadors (Peter Sellars at his best.) Almost forgot Zoolander and Bedazzled, the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore version which I think I might watch tonight.