General Chat

Hello Pam & all,

did anyone else see Chocolat on tv last night? It was LOVELY. Never seen if before although I'd heard of it as it was nominated for / won a fair share of awards.

Maria xx

Yes Gwen I had it given to me by a friend and it came free in a paper, so must have been The News of The World.

Classic kitchen sink drama.

'Happy New Year.'

yes pam a taste of honey,i still have this film it was free in the news of the world,Brilliant film.
"Happy New Year Every-one"

I'll say it now in case I'm not about later on-~☺ HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! ☺~

~nudge~

I don't mind lightweight either!

One thoroughly enjoyable film is "Hellfighters" starring John Wayne, which was about a group of men who fought oil well fires; I think it was dedicated to Red Adair.

I also have a very soft spot for The Italian Job - if anyone at my previous job went totally over the top in fixing a problem, we'd always shout "You're only supposed to blow the bl***y doors off!" as a rebuke to their heavy-handedness.

Another goody...The Odessa File. I could watch classics like this quite often.

Right that's my lot for the night...hope I've given this little thread a kick up the wotsit and they'll be loads more posts tomorrow evening.

Thanks to all who have contributed thus far.

A taste of Honey...Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin as her gay friend.
Quite a ground breaking film as well as having a good vein of humour running through it, a 'kitchen sink' drama i think they were called.
The part of the mum was played brilliantly by Dora Bryan and Rita Tushingham was good as the daughter who has a baby by her black sailor boyfriend.
I've got a thing about sailors tonight!!

I remember watching a film with Alain Delon in it, he was wearing a trilby and very easy on the eye in this film, drove one of those lovely Citreons...can't remember the name of it though.

I'm lost for words...and that doesn't happen very often with me...you are far to knowledgable Edd!!! lol

Just thought of a good one, but it sounds rather light weight after reading all that...Al Capone, starring Rod Steiger.

If we're going back then how about some of Sergei Eisenstein's films - Alexander Nevsky, which featured the Battle of Lake Peipus and was made as a big propoganda film in the 1930s to warn the Russian people about the dangers of Nazi Germany. There's also a great score written by Prokofiev.

The other one that springs to mind is Battleship Potemkin, based on an uprising that occurred on a Russian ship in the early 1900s when the crew rebelled against their opressive officers. One of the most famous scenes is the Odessa Steps sequence where the Czar's cossacks massacre a group of civillians whilst marching down a wide stone staircase. There is one particular scene where a baby carriage goes down the staircase asthe mother is shot and the scene was reused in the 1987 film The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner.

Letter to Brezhnev...starring Peter Firth (in Spooks) Margi Clarke, Alfred Molina and another actress who's name escapes me.
Very down to earth film...very funny at times. Basically about two factory girls in Liverpool I think, who meet up with two Russian sailors. Anyway, one of them falls hook line and sinker for one of them and ends up writing to Brezhnev (as you do) to see if she can join her sailor in Russia. Good film.
Directed by Frank Clarke, Margi's brother.

Sounds a good one, another one I'm adding to my list. I love films like that.

This is an old one and I mean old...BOLERO Carole Lombard and George Raft...very risque for the 1930's, George Raft was a very good dancer, Carole Lombard wasn't bad either. I first saw it on telly when I was about 8 or 9, totally fell for the Bolero's haunting melody and have loved it ever since. Have got it on an audio tape, the full lengh version and used to play it in the car (pre CD's) not a good idea...made me go quite peculiar. They say that Ravel was quite mad by the end of composing it! I can see why...you wouldn't have wanted to be a passenger when I was driving to that!!

Great film about two men from totally different backgrounds who meet as they are terminally ill in hospital.

Together they compile a list of all the things they want to do before they "kick the bucket" and then set about doing them - hence the name of the film.

My life is quite sheltered too - I don't have any wild nights out anymore, which is how I can watch all these films! Along with reading, my great love is films - I just can't resist a good yarn whether it is committed to paper or celluloid!

Not seen that one Edd, compared with you lot on here I've lead a very sheltered film life!! lol

Not seen that one but one that kind of touched me in a sad but humourous way was The Bucket List with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.

Yes I've heard it's a weepy...don't know anything about the story line...just know that Clint Eastwoods in it and Meryle Streep.

hello Pam.
was in flood's of tear's watching it,

gwen x

Hi Gwen,
loads of people mostly women friends have said that it's a good film, haven't seen it myself...but it's one I'm going to make a point of watching.