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910.1 | | DZIGN::STHILAIRE | Keep on rockin in the free world | Tue Dec 26 1989 14:06 | 39 |
| I *love* going to the movies. :-)
Some of my all-time favorites (most fairly recent):
A Room With A View
When Harry Met Sally
Crossing Delancey
Hope and Glory
Housekeeping
Experience Preferred But Not Essential
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Stardust Memories
Hannah and Her Sisters
Zelig
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Sleeper
Play It Again Sam
Stand By Me
Biloxi Blues
Hairspray
This Is Spinal Tap
My Beautiful Laundrette
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Witches of Eastwick
Moonstruck
The King and I
The Last Unicorn
Bambi
Watership Down
Out of Africa
The Color Purple
Witness
Dr. Zhivago
Fanny and Alexander
.......... to name a few
Lorna
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910.2 | first draft of the list | SA1794::CHARBONND | Mail SPMFG1::CHARBONND | Tue Dec 26 1989 14:09 | 8 |
| E.T.
A Man Called Horse
Cool Hand Luke
The Terminator
Rollerball
all for very different reasons :-)
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910.3 | from then to now | TINCUP::KOLBE | The dilettante debutante | Tue Dec 26 1989 14:35 | 25 |
| From the silent era:
Metropolis
Potempkin (not sure of the spelling)
From the black & white era:
most anything with Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers
Most anything with Mae West especially: I'm No Angel
From my comming of age years:
Easy Rider
Hair (the movie and the play)
The Graduate
More recently:
Steel Magnolias
Star Wars
Anything with Kathleen Turner
the Indiana Jones movies
I haven't seen Dead Poets yet but I'm I'll love it. liesl
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910.4 | Flicks I've liked well enough to buy the tapes | MOSAIC::TARBET | | Tue Dec 26 1989 14:51 | 15 |
| The "Star Wars" trilogy for class-act technology...and Princess Leia
"Indiana Jones and..." for beautifully updating the 30s serial
Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" for the CC, mostly
"Witness" for the evocative portrayal of Amish life
"Bedknobs And Broomsticks" for great fun and dynamite animation
Clint Eastwood's "Any Which Way" duo for its easy-going cliches
"Aliens" for the strong characterisations of women!
"The Frisco Kid" for low-key, kindly humor
"True Grit" for a period recreation and an ending better than the book.
"The Karate Kid" for zen and an upbeat story
"The Russians Are Coming!" for a *beautiful* ending
"Miracle on 34th Street" because I still really want to believe.
"Seven Samurai" for individual characterisation
"Dingaka" for beautiful music...albeit a racist story
"Magic Boy" for being (to my western eyes) superbly japanese.
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910.5 | | TINCUP::KOLBE | The dilettante debutante | Tue Dec 26 1989 15:00 | 2 |
| How could I have forgotten "The Gods must be crazy". Truely a
classic comedy and social commentary. liesl
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910.6 | | DZIGN::STHILAIRE | Keep on rockin in the free world | Tue Dec 26 1989 17:29 | 12 |
| 6 more favorites, I forgot before:
Dangerous Liaisons
Passage to India
Heat and Dust
Swing Shift
Private Benjamin
The Meaning of Life (Monty Python)
Lorna
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910.7 | | GRANPA::TTAYLOR | Straight from the heart | Tue Dec 26 1989 17:30 | 29 |
| Gone with the Wind
The Mortal Storm
It's a Wonderful Life
Life with Father
Wuthering Heights
(Oldies but Goodies!)
Always (new movie by Steven Spielberg - it's GREAT!)
Pretty in Pink (classic and hilarious teenage angst!)
Terms of Endearment
Kramer vs. Kramer
Scarface (anything w/Al Pacino)
The Godfather
Sea of Love
The Color Purple
Out of Africa
ET
don't laugh - Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead (classic
campy horror!)
Mississippi Burning
Platoon
There's a million more I really love, especially classic movies
but these are the first ones that come to mind.
Tammi
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910.8 | | WAHOO::LEVESQUE | Can you feel the heat? | Tue Dec 26 1989 17:37 | 22 |
| A few off the top of my head:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
Being There
The King and I
Camelot
Gone With the Wind
Platoon
Dressed to Kill
Halloween
Brian's Song
Risky Business
Accused
The Dead Zone
No Way Out
Dead Ringer
The Big Easy
Now I know I'll think of a few more as soon as I write this one. :-)
The Doctah
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910.9 | | WMOIS::B_REINKE | if you are a dreamer, come in.. | Tue Dec 26 1989 20:31 | 16 |
910.10 | Random | ROLL::GASSAWAY | Insert clever personal name here | Tue Dec 26 1989 20:40 | 33 |
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My list (no particular order):
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Robocop
Anything by Monty Python (including side projects like Brazil, Time
Bandits, A Fish Called Wanda, etc)
The Manchurian Candidate
Blue Velvet
My Beautiful Launderette
Tampopo
Big
PeeWee's Big Adventure
Anything with Arnold in it
Sid and Nancy
Rear Window
Betty Blue
+ others that I can't remember right now.
Lisa
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910.11 | | BSS::BLAZEK | your voice above the maelstrom | Wed Dec 27 1989 14:55 | 16 |
910.12 | just a few | IAMOK::ALFORD | I'd rather be fishing | Wed Dec 27 1989 15:37 | 14 |
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I wondered how long it would be before someone mentioned
"rocky horror"...that's got to be one of best campy movies!
Recently I have enjoyed
Steel Magnolias
The Bear
and others...
but my alltime favorite is still GWTW...
deb
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910.13 | | SONATA::HARMON | | Wed Dec 27 1989 17:44 | 16 |
| Some that I'd watch again, and again, and again....
Field of Dreams
Little Women
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
It's a Wonderful Life
Rear Window
Top Gun
E.T.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Back Street
and probably lots more I can't think of at the moment.
P.
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910.14 | | WARTCK::DUBOIS | Love makes a family | Wed Dec 27 1989 17:59 | 11 |
| Off the top of my head:
WifeMistress
The Color Purple
Gone With the Wind
Dr. Zhivago
Aliens
Star Wars trilogy
Indiana Jones trilogy
Sessions
Desert Hearts
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910.15 | To name a few | USCTR2::CSKERRY | | Wed Dec 27 1989 18:05 | 6 |
| Top Gun
Dr. Zhivago
Sound of Music
Star Wars etc.
The Last Starfighter
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910.16 | random thoughts on random replies | SYSENG::BITTLE | hymn to her | Wed Dec 27 1989 19:56 | 20 |
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Maggie and Lorna, "Witness" also is on my favorite list...
It has arguably one of the most intensely suspenseful
movie scenes I've experienced : the bathroom scene at
the beginning of the movie where the Amish boy Samuel
"witnesses" the murder and how he subsequently evades
being discovered.
Doctah, "No Way Out" impressed me for having a rare
truly-shocker ending and for a well-done (IMHO)
sex scene in the limo after Kevin Costner asked to be
taken on a tour of the monuments :-].
Lisa G., I thought I would be the only person in the world
to get a kick out of that very *weird* video, " Tampopo".
If you're looking for something *very* different to rent, this
is definitely it!
nancy b.
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910.17 | | NRADM::KING | No dog after all..... | Wed Dec 27 1989 23:18 | 13 |
| I thought I was one of the few who really like Heavy Metal Animated!
A really different movie..
Some more that I like..
The Friends of Eddie Coye
Planet of the Apes all of them
Clockwork Orange
9 1/2 weeks
Reefer madness
2001
2010
REK
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910.18 | flix pix | DECWET::JWHITE | ohio sons of the revolution | Thu Dec 28 1989 06:15 | 41 |
| movies that others have mentioned that are favorites:
Housekeeping
Stardust Memories
This Is Spinal Tap
Being There
Risky Business
The Dead Zone
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Blue Velvet
Clockwork Orange
movies not mentioned yet that are favorites:
5 easy pieces
a man for all seasons
king of hearts
bladerunner
bull durham
local hero
bedazzled
a thousand clowns
my favorite year
do the right thing
silent partner
chariots of fire
the deer hunter
m. hulot's holiday
quadrophenia
and in the 'guilty pleasures' department:
valley girl
grease 2
flashdance
summer lovers
revenge of the nerds
stripes
the great escape
anything with marilyn chambers...
no doubt there are more...
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910.19 | I haven't changed my top three in years | RCA::PURMAL | Rhymes with thermal, and thats cool! | Thu Dec 28 1989 14:24 | 21 |
| My definitive top three:
Zardoz
A Clockwork Orange
Mary Poppins
Others:
Silver Streak
Into The Night
My Dinner With Andre
Swimming to Cambodia
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Foul Play
What's Up Doc?
Paper Moon
Something Wild
...
Tony
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910.20 | I would stop almost anything to watch... | GEMVAX::CICCOLINI | | Thu Dec 28 1989 14:28 | 30 |
| The Boys in the Band - the most wonderful, sensitive and genuine
portrayal of male homosexualilty I have ever seen. Have seen it
about 12 times and would change my plans to see it again.
Rain Man - only twice, two days in a row.
Easy Rider - 15 times over the years.
Windwalker - a hauntingly beautiful film.
Desperately Seeking Susan - Madonna can't sing, but she's charismatic.
A Man Called Horse - only twice. Pity.
Little Big Man - 5,6 times. A masterpiece. ("You want to eat?")
Man in the Wilderness - 3 times
Jeremiah Johnson - 3 times
Midnight Cowboy - 3,4 times ("You're the only one, Joe")
Cat People - 3 times. Decadence and a good blood and guts scene.
Cuckoo's Nest - the movie, the book, the play - it's brilliant.
The Hunger - classic, beautifully photographed decadence; it stars two
of the most photogenic people in the world - Catherine
Deneuve and David Bowie. Yeow! ("Are you making a
pass at me, Mrs Blaylock?")
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910.21 | | DZIGN::STHILAIRE | Keep on rockin in the free world | Thu Dec 28 1989 15:55 | 17 |
| Re .18, Joe, *you* like "anything with Marilyn Chambers"!!! I'm
shocked! :-) Maybe "all men are scum" :-)! (That's what you told
me, right?) :-) I fell asleep during one of her movies at a party
once.
Re Nancy & "Witness," I think it also has one of the most romantic
scenes of all time, when Harrison Ford and Kelly McGinnis (?) start
dancing in the barn. *sigh* (I loved it)
I also like "Desert Hearts" and "Something Wild," both mentioned
by others.
Two others I enjoyed a lot were "Desert Bloom" and "My American
Cousin."
Lorna
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910.22 | tee hee | DECWET::JWHITE | ohio sons of the revolution | Thu Dec 28 1989 17:45 | 9 |
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dang, i knew i'd forgotten an important one!
another vote for 'my dinner with andre'.
also
'after hours'
'raising arizona'
dear lorna, have you never seen 'rabid'? ms. chambers is an *artist*.
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910.23 | | NRADM::KING | No dog after all..... | Thu Dec 28 1989 23:38 | 3 |
| After hours!! I forgot about that one...
REK
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910.24 | More additions... | JURAN::TEASDALE | | Fri Dec 29 1989 11:37 | 15 |
| In addition to most of those listed previously:
Tron
La Cage Aux Folles (all)
Tall Blond Man with One Red Shoe (French version)
Just about anything by Mel Brooks (except Spaceballs)
1984
Sound of Music
Laurel and Hardy anything
Charlie Chaplin anything
The Devils (sex and religion in the Middle Ages)
The Omen (esp. the first)
Nancy
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910.25 | In no particular order | RAMPNT::HALVORSON | | Fri Dec 29 1989 11:49 | 25 |
| Some of my favorites:
Witness
The Man Who Would Be King
The African Queen
The King of Hearts
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Slaughterhouse Five (best adaptation of a book I've ever seen)
Tale of Two Cities (with Ronald Coleman)
Gone With the Wind
The Harder They Come
The Stunt Man
Scrooge (the musical with Albert Finney, not "Scrooged" with
Bill Murray. Unfortunately, this has been badly edited for TV.)
Tom Jones
Mary Poppins
The Black Stallion (different from the book, but beautiful)
Rear Window
The Road Warrior
Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring
The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers
-- Jane
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910.26 | Random favorites | CADSYS::PSMITH | foop-shootin', flip city! | Fri Dec 29 1989 13:45 | 20 |
| Ordinary People
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Aliens
Desperately Seeking Susan
sex, lies, and videotape
Star Wars
Life of Brian
Iceman
Gigi
Jean de Florette
The Elephant Man
The Godfather
Missing
Say Anything
Philadelphia Story
Seasonal:
A Christmas Story
It's a Wonderful Life
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (a.k.a. Ted Turner)
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910.27 | | SYSENG::BITTLE | a pawn for the prince of darkness | Fri Dec 29 1989 14:55 | 13 |
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Pam, I also liked "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" for it's portrayal
of slightly unconventional morality.
One on my all time favorite list that no one has mentioned :
"The Breakfast Club " - because it reminds me of my high school
experience that included having friends
from widely varying ethnic groups and
socioeconomic class.
nancy b.
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910.28 | | MANIC::THIBAULT | While I breathe, I hope | Fri Dec 29 1989 15:10 | 23 |
| egdaz...
Anything with Harrison Ford in it..
Anything with Sam Elliot in it..
Mask
Dirty Dancing
The Big Easy
The Breakfast Club
Star Trek II and IV
Romanancing the Stone
Mystic Pizza
Karate Kid
Back to the Future
Against All Odds
Ruthless People
Twins
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Big Business
War Games
The Bear
etc etc
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910.29 | | LYRIC::QUIRIY | Christine | Fri Dec 29 1989 15:13 | 9 |
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The Year of Living Dangerously
A Little Romance
Breaking Away
My Bodyguard
I liked Tron, too, for the animation.
CQ
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910.30 | SF and Screwball Comedies | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Fri Dec 29 1989 15:21 | 13 |
| Things to Come (The last reel, from the coming of Wings Over the
World to The Speech)
The Long, Hot Summer
The Court Jester
A Hard Day's Night
Don't Just Stand There!
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
What's Up, Doc?
Star Wars, Chapter Four: A New Hope (Let's get that title right!)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Back to the Future
Ann B.
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910.31 | | LYRIC::QUIRIY | Christine | Fri Dec 29 1989 15:27 | 5 |
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Two more that just came to mind:
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearn
Koyanisqaatsi
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910.32 | this is fun! | DECWET::JWHITE | ohio sons of the revolution | Fri Dec 29 1989 15:46 | 5 |
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two more:
the return of martin guerre
the ruling class
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910.33 | | SYSENG::BITTLE | a pawn for the prince of darkness | Fri Dec 29 1989 17:05 | 16 |
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re: "Aliens"
Over Christmas vacation at a party, a pregnant women let me
feel her baby kick. I was kind of weirded out by that, and
said, "Hey, have you ever seen the movie Aliens?"
My sister gave me a look like "I can't believe you said that".
The woman said "Ohhh, gross!"
Ever since then when I see a pregnant woman I think of that
movie with the strange beings crawling out of people's
stomachs.
nancy b.
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910.34 | Aliens is about right :-) | STAR::BARTH | | Fri Dec 29 1989 17:21 | 9 |
| re: "Aliens" and pregnant women...
Tee hee. I did the same thing to my sister in-law. Although with
her, she was so thin you could *see* the baby kicking and moving
around, which grossed me out. All I could think of was the scene
when the alien burst out. When I said she looked like something
out of "Aliens" everyone had to agree with me. :-)
Karen.
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910.35 | :-} | CSC32::DUBOIS | Love makes a family | Fri Dec 29 1989 18:44 | 3 |
| You people are sick.
Carol :-P
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910.36 | oh, and don't let me forget 'A New Leaf' | SCARY::M_DAVIS | Marge Davis Hallyburton | Sat Dec 30 1989 22:18 | 6 |
| Favorite movie role was Ruth Gordon in "Harold and Maude", but my
favorite movies are "Kiss of the Spider Woman" with Raul Julia and
William Hurt followed by "Brazil", "The Conversation", "Platoon", and
"The Odd Couple".
Marge
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910.37 | | LEZAH::QUIRIY | Christine | Sun Dec 31 1989 03:35 | 6 |
|
Mention of Ruth Gordon made me remember another favorite: The Trip to
Bountiful. Who played the part of the woman going back to her
childhood home? I think she's dead now.
CQ
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910.38 | | BSS::BLAZEK | a white house in a red square | Sun Dec 31 1989 14:54 | 8 |
|
Geraldine Page?
What a wonderful actress that woman was. And she had the most
expressive eyes.
Carla
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910.39 | 3 serious, 1 silly | DECWET::JWHITE | ohio sons of the revolution | Wed Jan 03 1990 00:53 | 9 |
|
diva
heathers
sex, lies and videotape
and
perils of gwendoline
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910.40 | % minutes to Wopner | WMOIS::M_KOWALEWICZ | Definitely! 246 | Wed Jan 03 1990 12:14 | 12 |
| Most recent - Rainman
Ditto for - 2001, Clockwork Orange (It was half way through the movie before
I realized they weren't always speaking
English)
All time fave - One flew over a Cuckoo's nest.
( I think I am the only one who thought it had a happy ending!! ;-)
Kbear
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910.41 | | OPERA::LEE | Eat cheese or die. | Thu Jan 04 1990 01:41 | 17 |
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In no particular order:
Local Hero
Blues Brothers
Young Frankenstein
Alien
Deathtrap
Untouchables
Bull Durham
The Road Warrior
Raiders of the Lost Ark
>>AL<<
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910.42 | Movies? Did someone say "Movies"? | RUBY::BOYAJIAN | Secretary of the Stratosphere | Sat Jan 06 1990 11:21 | 29 |
| Favorites? Cheese Louise, I could come up with over three dozen
"favorites" without half trying. Let's see...
A Clockwork Orange The Day the Earth Stood Still
2001 Raiders of the Lost Ark
Brazil The Wizard of Speed and Time
Blade Runner The Wizard of Oz
King Kong Forbidden Planet
The Road Warrior The Princess Bride
Alien/Aliens Somewhere in Time
Resurrection Field of Dreams
The Last Wave It's a Wonderful Life
And for non-sf/fantasy:
Citizen Kane Lawrence of Arabia
Casablanca The Three/Four Musketeers
Gallipoli Picnic at Hanging Rock
Local Hero The Year of Living Dangerously
Breaking Away Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Tampopo The Philadelphia Story
Marty Bringing Up Baby
Annie Hall The Purple Rose of Cairo
Chinatown The Lavender Hill Mob
Sleuth Kind Hearts and Coronets
and many, many more
--- jerry
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910.43 | | SYSENG::BITTLE | to be psychically milked | Sun Jan 07 1990 05:00 | 14 |
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re: .42 (Jerry Boyajian) -< Movies? Did someone say "Movies"? >-
> Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" was the first Australian movie to
achieve international acclaim. The unique imagery and mounting
suspense surrounding the mysterious disappearance during a picnic
of 3 girls from a French boarding school make this movie one of
my all-time favorites.
nancy b.
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910.44 | | BSS::BLAZEK | enchant me, entrance me | Mon Jan 08 1990 15:17 | 9 |
|
I've had two women praise a movie that I just cannot remember the
title to. It's something about "swimming with mermaids" and both
women claimed this was one of the greatest films ever.
Does anyone know the correct title?
Carla
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910.45 | answer to .44 | CADSYS::PSMITH | foop-shootin', flip city! | Mon Jan 08 1990 15:25 | 5 |
| Maybe "I Heard the Mermaid Singing"? I've never seen it, but I've
thought about renting it a couple of times -- the cover blurbs say it's
great. :-) It's about a quirky, original woman.
Pam
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910.46 | If you like Reggae | WMOIS::M_KOWALEWICZ | When cherry ripe, preacher man pluck cherry | Mon Jan 08 1990 15:27 | 6 |
|
A movie that had fantastic music, magnificent scenery, and
a heart stopping ending ...... The Harder They Come.
As I remember the only places this movie showed any length of
time was in Cambridge, Mass & SanFran. Kbear
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910.47 | More... | CSC32::DUBOIS | Love makes a family | Mon Jan 08 1990 16:04 | 3 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mary Poppins
Black Widow
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910.48 | Just one more... | JURAN::TEASDALE | | Mon Jan 08 1990 20:08 | 7 |
| re: .44,.46
Or was it "I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing"?
How could I have forgotten "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? The worst best
movie ever made.
Nancy
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910.49 | | NRADM::KING | No dog after all..... | Mon Jan 08 1990 23:10 | 3 |
| Re:44 Splash! With Tom Hanks and Daryll Hannah!! :-}
REK
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910.50 | | TPEDIT::FARINA | World gone crazy keeps woman in chains | Fri Feb 09 1990 23:41 | 31 |
| The Red Shoes
Philadelphia Story
North by Northwest
Spellbound (anything Hitchcock, I guess!)
It's a Wonderful Life
Blossoms in the Dust
Random Harvest
Young Frankenstein
The Wizard of Oz
The Harvey Girls
The Angel and the Badman
The Cowboys
The Quiet Man (I like John Wayne, too, I guess!)
I guess I like old movies best. There are a lot of newer movies I
like a lot, too, though (is Young Frankenstein new enough?):
Fright Night
Dirty Dancing
Lucas
DARYL
Witness
Suspect
Criminal Law
No Way Out
A Room with a View
The Year of Living Dangerously
Star Wars trilogy
Indiana Jones trilogy
ET
Back to the Future (first one)
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910.51 | | DZIGN::STHILAIRE | Food, Shelter & Diamonds | Mon Feb 26 1990 15:16 | 13 |
| I just saw a movie this past weekend that I'd add to my list of
All Time Favorite Movies:
"My Left Foot" starring Daniel Day Lewis. A wonderful movie!
Other recent movies I especially liked:
"Driving Miss Daisy"
"Born on the 4th of July"
"Glory" (one of saddest movies I've ever seen in my life)
Lorna
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910.52 | oh well | DECWET::JWHITE | keep on rockin', girl | Fri Mar 16 1990 20:46 | 16 |
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more faves.
serious:
liquid sky
the name of the rose
tempest
the hunger (already mentioned)
silly:
brewster's millions
the in-laws
americathon
and there was this weird/funny movie on cable the other night filmed
in seattle that i can't remember the name of...i'm losing my mind...
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910.53 | where'd that come from?? | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Diakonia | Fri Mar 16 1990 21:32 | 5 |
| My Dinner With Andre
I can't believe it, but it was the first movie to pop into my head.
Richard
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910.54 | follow-up | DECWET::JWHITE | keep on rockin', girl | Mon Mar 19 1990 15:02 | 5 |
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the film is called 'plain clothes'.
(our apartment can be seen in the distance during the ice cream truck
scene!)
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