Brilliant film tonight on Channel 5 at 11.15pm - 'Vacancy'. Never stop at bleak, lonely country hotels, especially when your car breaks down on a rainy night in the middle of nowhere....
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Brilliant film tonight on Channel 5 at 11.15pm - 'Vacancy'. Never stop at bleak, lonely country hotels, especially when your car breaks down on a rainy night in the middle of nowhere....
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British Invasion - Small Faces (Sky Arts on demand)
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Now Dusty Springfield from same series
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Wheeler Dealers - they're restoring an Isetta bubble car
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As for films. I'd like to see Cool Hand Luke again. Still my favourite.
Here's a few goodies from my collection. Electraglide in Blue, Zatoichi, Miami Blues, The Big Lebowski, Ong-Bak, Get Shorty, The Station Agent, Drag Me To Hell, Onibaba, Wise Blood, Nobody's fool, Arlington Road, The Tailor of Panama, The Big Sleep, etc.
And so many more. I only keep films that stand rewatching obviously and like to regard those in my collection as 'Classics' (whatever that means to each of us).
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Excellent films!Originally Posted by walpurgis
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Barry, have you seen Wise Blood? Its one of a kind, rather dark and strange!
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Someone mentioned the music to this film on a thread recently, not generally my kind of music, but from what I remember it is rather outstanding sound quality wise
Into The Wild, one of the best films I have experienced...
Time to see it again, see you all again soon
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Yesterday, on BBC2 (after 'Later'), I watched 'Molière', a wonderful film about the 17th century French playwright.
Essentially based around his comedy of manners: 'Tartuffe ou le posteur', this was an excellent introduction to the world of Molière and his extraordinary observation of the ludicrous, and ridiculous, social etiquette of the middle and upper classes of 17th century France.
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