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Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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The Fatherland


Austrian Gull

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Feb 5, 2009
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Linz, Austria
Bit late, but I you are still looking for some French movie fixes, try also:

Le Diner Du Cons (sp?)...which I THINK saw Canto a's screen debut!

An extremely funny slapstick style film - highly recommended.

Cantona not in it, though - are you thinking of "Le bonheur est dans le pré"?
 






Danny-Boy

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Apr 21, 2009
5,579
The Coast
Ok everyone should watch The Wages of Fear. Holy moley, an immaculate film of deep tensions. It's just the simple tale of men desperate for money transporting an explosive nitroglycerine across the winding and hilly roads of south America. It's so bloody nervewracking despite it just being men sweating in cabs and watching out for the potholes that might end them all.
It kinds of sounds like a combination of Speed and a double-episode of Diagnosis Murder, but it's done by Herni Georges Clouzot, whose work is visually strange and intense at times. Buddy brilliant.

Didn't we turn that into "Hell Drivers" made about 1957, which starred Stanley Baker, a very early Patrick McGoohan as the bad Irishman, Sid James in a serious part, and - I think - Sean Connery? Get's shown occasionally on TV.

A French film I was shown in school about 1965 had a weird theme where someone goes forward in time and sees himself being killed or something. It was really wird, anyone had any idea what it was?

We saw it dounble-headed with a Pirelli promotional film featuring a blond in a sports car, being all about 17 at the time, that rather got more attention. Spencer Davis Group provided the sound-track with "Keep On Running", a number that brings back the image of a blond every time I hear it.
 






Trufflehound

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Aug 5, 2003
14,104
The democratic and free EU
Ok everyone should watch The Wages of Fear. Holy moley, an immaculate film of deep tensions. It's just the simple tale of men desperate for money transporting an explosive nitroglycerine across the winding and hilly roads of south America. It's so bloody nervewracking despite it just being men sweating in cabs and watching out for the potholes that might end them all.
It kinds of sounds like a combination of Speed and a double-episode of Diagnosis Murder, but it's done by Herni Georges Clouzot, whose work is visually strange and intense at times. Buddy brilliant.

Didn't we turn that into "Hell Drivers" made about 1957, which starred Stanley Baker, a very early Patrick McGoohan as the bad Irishman, Sid James in a serious part, and - I think - Sean Connery? Get's shown occasionally on TV.

That's a different truck-driving film.

Wages of Fear was remade as "Violent Road" in the 50s, which I haven't seen, but which is by all accounts pretty piss-poor.

Then it was remade again in the late 70s as "Sorceror" with Roy Scheider, who was then a sizeable star because of Jaws. For a remake that one isn't too shabby, although not in the same class as the original. Tangerine Dream did the soundtrack.
 






Herr Tubthumper

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Saw that at the Dome with Asian Dub Foundation providing a live soundtrack for the festival a few years back. Absolutely amazing.

Ditto at the Hackney Empire.
 




Herr Tubthumper

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Saw that at the Dome with Asian Dub Foundation providing a live soundtrack for the festival a few years back. Absolutely amazing.

I saw Run Lola Run with a live soundtrack by The Bays. Not as good, in fact it was quite dull. The Bays are very over rated in my opinion.
 




Bigtomfu

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Jul 25, 2003
4,416
Harrow
Irreversible - if you can get past the overdone hype of certain aspects of this film it is both shocking and incredible in the same.

La Haine - you've probably seen it but a superb piece of massive cultural significance for the youth culture uprising in late 80's early 90's Paris.


Love me if you dare

MicMacs

Etc....
 


Gwylan

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Jul 5, 2003
31,324
Uffern
I watched I've Loved You So Long last night - can heartily recommend. Wonderfully made film
 
















CHAPPERS

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Jul 5, 2003
44,757
Watched The Beat That My Heaty Skipped the other day. Not sure what to make of it really but it ended with me feeling quite flat.

Paris is my favourite so far.
 


zeemeeuw

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Apr 8, 2006
686
Somerset
That reminds me ... I watched Irreversible based on the recommendations in this thread. Apart from the fact that the camera work was giving me motion sickness ... I really had to turn it off when it got to the fire extinguisher scene. I would avoid, unless you have a strong stomach.
 



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