Favourite films?

[femaleBertieWooster]

(20-11-2009 03:06 AM)JHyde Wrote:  I did say "marginally older" by which I mean women who were roughly the same age as him

Speaking of Julie Christie, I forgot to mention "Away From Her", which I adored.

I took it as older than most on this forum. "Marginally" did take a bit of the sting out. Me? Paranoid?

I see bertowud has quoted my post before I got a chance to correct my spelling, only one "n" for Tenenbaums. I watched it again last night. I think it's a masterpiece.

A couple of other masterpieces that I've seen too many times are Room With A View (Bonham-Carter version) and Persuasion (Hinds/Root version.) If I ever got a chance to produce a film, I would hire Roger Mitchell and Nick Dear before I had my first cup of coffee.

When I mentioned Dirk Bogarde in my post last night, I hesitated adding The Night Porter to my list of films. It has often been catagorized as porn but is much more than that. Here's a review I just found, http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/66 I'm adding it now because it has a similar theme to the new Lucas episode where one is psychologically bound to one's former captor.

It's a beautiful, meaningful film, hard to watch but worth it. I see it as answering the question "How sick is sick?"