janie48 Â Â 96 #61 Posted July 23, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csrQgWBgfo8Â canvas /imogen heap, this doesn't really come into the the best black and white film category, but its one of the best black and white music vids I've seen,great song aswell Yes the music is nice, but I prefer your Billy Liar choice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
peterdo   10 #62 Posted July 24, 2013 Saturday night and Sunday morning. Albert Finny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
dacrlit   18 #63 Posted July 24, 2013 Carry on Regardless or Casablanca. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Eccentric   10 #64 Posted July 25, 2013 Saturday night and Sunday morning. Albert Finny.  Very good book, that.  ---------- Post added 25-07-2013 at 23:45 ----------  Haven’t seen Brief Encounter yet. Probably the next film I shall watch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
johncocker   10 #65 Posted July 27, 2013 Yes the music is nice, but I prefer your Billy Liar choice.  so do I ,plus it had a special meaning for me as unlike billy I did get on the train. only problem was I didn't' meet julie christie and I've spent most of my life in ambrosia:hihi:   keith waterhouse wrote it in 1953 a great book if you ever get the chance to read it, I'm just glad schlesinger caught that world of 50's britain changeing into 60's britain, working-class characters, sad cafés, suffocating expectations and sexual ignorance,all on film just before it vanished forever.     stand-out moments for me are Julie Christie's portrayal of beauty ,innocence and freedom and Billy at the station letting himself down, accepting his passivity, giving in to mediocrity, a sad and tragic self-defeat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Eccentric   10 #66 Posted July 27, 2013 Update. Brief Encounter is a wonderful sentimental talkie which belongs in the pantheon of great cinema. It is a constant reminder that love is synonymous with misery, despair and death and should be eschewed at all cost. Brief Encounter is marvellous. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
janie48   96 #67 Posted July 28, 2013 so do I ,plus it had a special meaning for me as unlike billy I did get on the train. only problem was I didn't' meet julie christie and I've spent most of my life in ambrosia:hihi:   keith waterhouse wrote it in 1953 a great book if you ever get the chance to read it, I'm just glad schlesinger caught that world of 50's britain changeing into 60's britain, working-class characters, sad cafés, suffocating expectations and sexual ignorance,all on film just before it vanished forever.     stand-out moments for me are Julie Christie's portrayal of beauty ,innocence and freedom and Billy at the station letting himself down, accepting his passivity, giving in to mediocrity, a sad and tragic self-defeat. It sounds as if you were having a few nostalgic moments when you typed that. Very finely expressed!  Update. Brief Encounter is a wonderful sentimental talkie which belongs in the pantheon of great cinema. It is a constant reminder that love is synonymous with misery, despair and death and should be eschewed at all cost. Brief Encounter is marvellous.A newspaper article about "Brief Encounter" http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/16/brief-encounter-romance Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
denlin   12 #68 Posted July 28, 2013 Me and my gal, inherit the wind and whistle down the wind are 3 that spring to mind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
kopblue   10 #69 Posted July 28, 2013 Woody Allen's "Manhattan", "The Last Picture Show", "The Innocents", "The Elephant Man", "Out Of The Past" and "Young Frankenstein" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
poppet2 Â Â 13 #70 Posted July 28, 2013 This Happy Breed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Tradescanthia   10 #71 Posted July 28, 2013 Great film, Adolf was so peeved that he banned all of Chaplin's movies in Germany and wanted him dead.  Charlie also did 'Modern Times', comic genius, but again, rather unpopular with the right wing. Top Bloke. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
General8 Â Â 10 #72 Posted July 30, 2013 Obvious successes like Raging Bull. Â But for me "Night of the hunter" with Robert Michum. Â Some of the imagery in this film is beautiful. Â I was really scared of him as a kid watching that. Seem to remember scene where he was whistling and even that scared me, suspenceful. Charles Laughton never directed another film because it got slated when it first came out but looking at it now there were so many things in there ahead of it's time. Some of the shots. Â Might have to watch it again been a while ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...