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Curb_ItCurb_It
edited September 2006 in Other Football and Sports
I watched the Long Good Friday last night for the first time ever? Dont know why i've never seen it, i know i was 11 when it first came out but why ive never seen it over the years i dont know.
Guy Ritchie eat your heart out.

There are plenty classic films that Ive never seen. In fact Im going to make it my duty during the winter months to watch one classic a week. It does help that Film 4 is now free to view.
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    SaladSalad
    Me too! Just posted as much in the Eastenders thread .... also have no idea why I have never seen it. Film4 is great.

    So many younger familiar faces there too - including the rubbish nurse from Cas of course.
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    Curb_ItCurb_It
    yes and Gillian Taylforth albeit briefly... a very young and handsome pierce brosnan also... who didnt say much either! ha ha. Karl Howman too.

    dont see much of bob hoskins these days do you? i saw him once the only time i've been to The Ivy. He was sat at a table with about 6 women... the only man! Bless him.
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    SaladSalad
    edited September 2006
    Pierce held a pistol well though - can't deny he did look handsome ... funny to see a young Helen Mirren too.

    I saw Bob at the theatre about a year ago watching Hedda Gabbler (brilliant)- he is very short and wasn't having much luck afterwards getting a taxi.
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    suzisausagesuzisausage
    there are about a million films i haven't seen that are classics that i should of. if i named them i'd be ridiculed. however I bought butch cassidy and the sundance kid yesterday and on my list of dvd's to buy (that i cant find anywhere) - if people could help me would be appreciated:

    up the junction (1968)
    the l shaped room (1962)
    darling (1965)
    taste of honey (1961)
    cathy come home (1966)
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    LenGloverLenGlover
    [quote][cite]Posted By: suzisausage[/cite]there are about a million films i haven't seen that are classics that i should of. if i named them i'd be ridiculed. however I bought butch cassidy and the sundance kid yesterday and on my list of dvd's to buy (that i cant find anywhere) - if people could help me would be appreciated:

    up the junction (1968)
    the l shaped room (1962)
    darling (1965)
    taste of honey (1961)
    cathy come home (1966)[/quote]

    Suzi, you're making me feel old!

    I watched most of those when they came out!
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    SaladSalad
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite] I watched most of those when they came out!

    Did you take your kids?
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    les_saysles_says
    "I watched the Long Good Friday last night for the first time ever?"

    fookin great film, love that soundtrack an' all. very menacing, very brutal. only gangster no.1 has come near it in recent years.

    bob hoskins in that last scene is superb.
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    AFKABartramAFKABartram
    i think i've seen a lot of films, but when i scratch the surface, i've seen very few that are well respected. Seem to specialise in crappy American college capers !

    Never seen Long Good Friday. Shawshank Redemption is another i've not seen but wanted to.
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    suzisausagesuzisausage
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: suzisausage[/cite]there are about a million films i haven't seen that are classics that i should of. if i named them i'd be ridiculed. however I bought butch cassidy and the sundance kid yesterday and on my list of dvd's to buy (that i cant find anywhere) - if people could help me would be appreciated:

    up the junction (1968)
    the l shaped room (1962)
    darling (1965)
    taste of honey (1961)
    cathy come home (1966)

    Suzi, you're making me feel old!

    I watched most of those when they came out!

    I studied them for my a level media studies, but want to watch them again now i can appreciate them, i liked them then, but want them on dvd now.

    there are millions of other films i haven't seen that should of: scar face, godfather trilogy, shawshank redemption to name a few. the list goes on and on. everytime someone says "you know is suchasuchafilm when soandso does suchandsuch" and i say "haven't seen it" they get the reaction of "noooooooo haven't seen suchandsuch"
    i get that ALL the time. almost daily! i'm not a big film person.
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    MCSMCS
    Films are gash, as is tv. Its all rubbish. Reading and drinking alcohol is the way forward. Fact.
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    kigeliakigelia
    The thing that strikes me is the number of remakes that litter the list of current movies. Of older ones I really liked
    are some of my favorites:

    LA Confidential
    Life is Beautiful
    Cyrano De Bergerac
    also really like the truckers movie 'Convoy' it's crap but in a good way.
    Shawshank redepmtion is a very good film and not overlong which many recent films suffer from.

    I saw Snakes on a plane last night (dragged to it by the wife who really hates snakes) it was actually very funny.
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    les_saysles_says
    edited September 2006
    be interesting to see if the black dahlia tranfers to film as well as la confidential did, with brian de palma directing you'd certainly hope so. with material as good as ellroy's there should be no excuse.
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    Off_itOff_it
    Harold Shand: "Mafia? I shit em. I'm getting into bed with the Germans, yeah - the Germans"!

    Love that film!

    "Colin's been blown up. He went to church to pray, not to get blown up"

    Oh no, I've started now!!!
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    Charlton DanCharlton Dan
    [cite]Posted By: 04_MCS[/cite]Films are gash, as is tv. Its all rubbish. Reading and drinking alcohol is the way forward. Fact.

    Difficult to do at the same time in quantity as I find the words get blurred and I have to close one eye
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    MCSMCS
    Dan, i find this is half the fun lol!
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    Charlton DanCharlton Dan
    Best way. FACT!!

    Just get really pissed, smoke a "thingy" and then put your head back and make up your own stories!! Although it does sometimes get a little too Irvine Welsh for my liking ;-)
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    mascot88mascot88
    Goodfellas, casino, carlitos way, the hustler, mean streets, the big lebowski, the bicycle thieves, theres a few.... youll love 'em.....
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    MCSMCS
    Ere dan, i am giving that thingy smoking habbit up next week. There is a bloody drought and its ard to get it! Better to just give up eh! But after i smoke Dam dry first!
    I am gonna be mangle-werzled!
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    suzisausagesuzisausage
    i'm giving up next week too! thats weird! I can't get up in the mornings!
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    StoneStone
    Most cinema complex's have 8 or more screens. Why don't they reserve one for 'classics'. Most of these films just aren't the same on your TV at home are they?

    I've missed a bundle of classics over the years. A few that spring to mind.... Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and The Shining.
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    StanmoreAddickStanmoreAddick
    "Once upon a time in America" is the complete and utter daddy of all gangster fims-

    Panned when it was released- not for the faint hearted- 4hrs 20 mins but it will seem like an hour -Awesome!
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    OaksterOakster
    In recent weeks i have watched several classics that i highly recommend

    Taxi Driver (of course everyone knows this is a bona fide gem)
    Two Lane Blacktop
    The Wicker Man (the original, not the shit remake)
    Vanishing Point

    All brilliant in their own ways.
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    InspectorSandsInspectorSands
    A month back I saw Zulu at the Curzon on Shaftesbury Avenue (along with a performance by Richard Hawley - he introduced the film as part of a season of well-known people presenting their favourite films).

    Anyhow, it was bloody great - I'll never listen to Welshmen singing in the same way again.
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    BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    "Once upon a time in America" is the complete and utter daddy of all gangster fims-

    I've just bought the DVD for 6 Euros.
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    BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    As an alternative to Amazon check out www.play.com, good prices & free delivery no matter what the order size.
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    BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    edited September 2006
    Cheapest DVD for Cathy Come Home that I could find is...

    http://films.kelkoo.co.uk/ctl/do/compare?catId=149201&pid=6275470&genreId=15483491&catPath=uk/film&title=Cathy+Come+Home&DVD=ok&imgProduct=ok

    Up the Junction via e-bay...
    http://wantitnow.ebay.co.uk/up-the-junction-dvd-vhs_W0QQadidZ300024938585

    L shaped room...
    http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/Darling_L_Shaped_Room_DVD__5944642

    Taste of Honey for £9.00...
    http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/A_Taste_Of_Honey_DVD__5937169

    Darling...if this is the film you mean:
    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/darling/dvd.php
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    BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    I watched the Long Good Friday

    I vaguely know Paul Moriarty who played 'Razors', Bob Hoskin's minder in the film, around a decade or so I ran into him at London Bridge Station one evening, and he told me he'd just finished making a film with Vinnie Jones...which was Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. Before he got into acting he was a porter at Smithfields and is blind in one eye, someone slung a meat hook into his face in a fight.
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    _MrDick_MrDick
    I can't believe that no one's mentioned Midnight Express. An Alan Parker film released in 1978, it's the true story of a man who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into a barbaric prison. It's one of my favourite films of all time.
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    charltonkestoncharltonkeston
    Midnight Express, fantastic film. Absolutely ruined the Turkish tourist industry for years.
    The film was loosely based on a true story but obviously got dressed up bit for the big screen.

    The original "All Quiet on the Western Front" is one of must see films but sadly it rarely gets an airing nowdays.
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    SaladSalad
    Clockwork Orange is on late on Film4 tonight.
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