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Okay, I'll start it.Dinner Rush is (I've read somewhere) the last real NY movie mad before 9-11. It's a fun ride. Totally NYC.Brokeback Mountain. Saw it on TV (was visiting Mom, what can I say?) and it's a gripping tale. Lotta sheep, lotta emotion - in a good way.Truman - a good story - very cold, in a good way.Okay. Yours?

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North by Northwest
To Catch a Thief
The Fountain
The Day the Earth Stood Still (A remake is in the works I believe, with Keanu Reeves)
The Last Starfighter

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[nq:1]Okay, I'll start it. Dinner Rush is (I've read somewhere) the last real NY movie mad before 9-11. It's a ... emotion - in a good way. Truman - a good story - very cold, in a good way. Okay. Yours?[/nq]
Grown-up movies?
For just pure excitement, I love the "Bourne" trilogy. Not too many films where the two sequels are as good as the original. And while I loved the books as a kid, I haven't re-read them and I suspect they're pretty average as spy books go.
Also on the adult list for great cinematography, "Fight Club", "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels", "******" and "Run Lola Run".

"Clay Pigeons" great acting, crazy/weird psycho plot.

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Oh wait, do you mean "grown-up"?, like with meaningful emotions 'n all that? Oddly, there aren't many English-language films that take me there.

Wender's "Wings of Desire", "Under the Sand", "La Belle Noiseuse" (which I think I finally watched on Ron M's recommendation??), "Closer", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Another really great French film, "Ridicule".
Also, you know how people say that "Citizen Kane" is great, but nobody ever watches it and if they do they have to be reading the latest People Magazine at the same time just to stay awake? That's how it is for me, except I usually save up a stack of Autoweeks. It's a rich guy who can't get over his *** sled, and it doesn't make me feel anything. But a classic series that's just as slow but which I can watch over and over is Satyajit Ray's "Apu" series ("Pather Panchali", "Aparajito" and "The World of Apu"). The films are beautiful, the stories simple, deep and true, and it gives you a sense of how close we skate to a world where fate rules everything.

And finally, a truly great French/Belgian/Japanese mash-up, "Fear and Trembling". Brilliant.
Alan Brooks

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Shyamalan's " In A Ditch"
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[nq:1]Also, you know how people say that "Citizen Kane" is great, but nobody ever watches it and if they do they have to be reading the latest People Magazine at the same time just to stay awake?[/nq]
Amen.
[nq:1]But a classic series that's just as slow but which I can watch over and over is Satyajit Ray's "Apu" ... and true, and it gives you a sense of how close we skate to a world where fate rules everything.[/nq]
Much more into the last movie. The first two are like a sick joke He has three females in his life. When he's a kid, his sister dies. When he's a student, his mother dies. When he's an adult, his wife dies. But he's left with a little version of him, and it's something like a punchline.

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[nq:1] Shyamalan's " In A Ditch"[/nq]
That's Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman.

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[nq:1]That's Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman.[/nq]
Maybe I was thinking of his "Fool in a Pool"?
Alan Brooks

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in a Rut?
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[nq:1]North by Northwest To Catch a Thief The Fountain The Day the Earth Stood Still (A remake is in the works I believe, with Keanu Reeves) The Last Starfighter[/nq]
Who's directing the Stood Still remake?
W : )

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[nq:1]Okay, I'll start it. Dinner Rush is (I've read somewhere) the last real NY movie mad before 9-11. It's a ... emotion - in a good way. Truman - a good story - very cold, in a good way. Okay. Yours?[/nq]
And the Cradle Will Rock (the Orson Welles movie, not the horror flick). It's really great HBO or something. REALLY GREAT!!

Also Max (John Cusack).
Also Afterglow
Will think of more, no doubt.
Mysti

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[nq:1]Also Max (John Cusack).[/nq]
This was a really interesting concept destitute ex-serviceman Adolf Hitler tries to sell his paintings to wealthy Jewish art dealer Max completely ruined by the performance of the actor who played Hitler. He had no energy, no magnetism, and was a shockingly bad public speaker. No way could he have become Der Fuhrer.

Martin

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[nq:1]"Mysti Berry"[/nq]
[nq:2]Also Max (John Cusack).[/nq]
[nq:1]This was a really interesting concept destitute ex-serviceman Adolf Hitler tries to sell his paintings to wealthy Jewish art ... energy, no magnetism, and was a shockingly bad public speaker. No way could he have become Der Fuhrer. Martin[/nq]
I thought he was quite affecting especially considering it was a cameo, more or less. My friend who got some **** degree or other in issues related to the holocaust bought him, but she'd never seen a black and white film 'til I showed her one in 90s. So who know?!

Mysti

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[nq:2]This was a really interesting concept destitute ex-serviceman Adolf ... No way could he have become Der Fuhrer. Martin[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought he was quite affecting especially considering it was a cameo, more or less. My friend who got some **** ... him, but she'd never seen a black and white film 'til I showed her one in 90s. So who know?![/nq]
Hitler's mother was attended by a Jewish doctor in her final illness (breast cancer) and as I recall reading the account he treated her very well and gave the family a break on the bill and was spared the fate of other Jews when Hitler came to power.

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Ned Beatty

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