| Author | Message | ||
     Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1193 Registered: 03-2006 |
Too many great films to mention, but I of course have to give props to Nashville and MASH, which I saw at a tender age and which probably f-ed me up for life, but in a good way! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 485 Registered: 08-2004 |
Sorry LK. I didn't see your post. I was 15 mins late with the news. Spence & your good self were like lightning. The first thing I thought was Go-b's O/T for those who appreciate great art. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 133 Registered: 08-2006 |
Here, here, LK. A guy with a lot of moxie - not to mention a portfolio of films most directors would give their eye teeth for. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1195 Registered: 03-2006 |
My Dad was a retired Army Colonel, so my brother and I were subjected to his conception of "military discipline" growing up. He tried to get us to do the "yes sir, sir" thing, which didn't take at all - I think it just cracked us up too much to take seriously. But, I think it was "MASH" that really put paid to my ever respecting authority again... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 927 Registered: 04-2005 |
Your dad wasn't as bad as the Great Santini, was he? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1197 Registered: 03-2006 |
Probably somewhere between the Great Santini and Sgt. Carter, from Gomer Pyle. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 94 Registered: 09-2006 |
R.I.P. indeed...even his failures had something interesting about them, a sense of excited experimentation and walking on a wire. My all-time favorite is McCabe & Mrs. Miller, with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie at their most unHollywood, Leonard Cohen providing ongoing musical commentary and one of the most beautifully melancholy endings in cinema. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1199 Registered: 03-2006 |
Oh yeah, with Julie (Jesus Christ, was she lovely) smoking dope in an opium den, certainly with knowledge of Brutha Warren's fate at the hands of the bounty hunters...I don't think they even have endings like that anymore. Wasn't some kind of law passed to prevent them? I remember, that when I saw that, I wasn't the savvy music nerd I am now. I thought those songs were purpose-made for the movie. I had no idea until I heard "Songs of Leonard Cohen" that I realized they had had a life of their own. They fit that movie so perfectly. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 772 Registered: 03-2005 |
Whereas the Altman film that always sticks in my mind is this little ensemble item shot on one set called "Streamers." Great film. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 33 Registered: 07-2006 |
i will always come back to 3 women. i thought i had a firm graspy of the concept of "dreamy" until i saw that. here's hoping for a mid-price dvd reissue of some of his finest moments! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 96 Registered: 09-2006 |
One very good one I never got to see until just a few years back when it hit DVD was "Images." Something of an anomaly stylistically, it's a tightly plotted suspense story about a woman slowly losing her mind...it's like the better episodes of "Night Gallery," except much better than that. Actually scared the crap out of me a few times. Plus some quintessential 70s cinematography by Vilmos Szigmond. Yeah, LK, sad to say I think our generation was the only one who ever grew up being wildly uncertain whether the movie we were watching would have a happy ending. |