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nitasee: I'm declaring it International Recommend-A-Movie Day, says trollprincess. This means everyone should go to their LJ right now and tell their friends to watch a really good movie which most of them probably have not seen. And then tell more people to do it. Hopefully, we'll all have lots and lots of recommendations by the end of the day.
The Great Race. The definitive '60s gigantic comedy (Mad World can blow me). An auto race from New York to Paris, featuring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Peter Falk, Natalie Wood, Ross Martin, Larry Storch, that guy with the moustache, that other guy with the moustache, and that one lady. Steampunk-lite before steampunk existed, with cars, cowboys, explosions, swordfights, and pies. Blake Edwards directs, Henry Mancini writes a charming score.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The 1978 version, with Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright. Perfectly catches the mood of a particular time and place (San Francisco yuppieville in the late 70s) before blowing it all to hell. It's also scary as shit, with effects that still look great 25 years later. Watch it as a companion piece with the similarly-set Time After Time starring Malcolm McDowall as H.G. Wells, David Warner as Jack the Ripper, and Mary Steenburgen as...um...the loan officer. Directed by Nicholas Meyer.
nitasee recommends Local Hero, and by God you should listen to her.
I can't recommend The Mouse and His Child, because its only on out-of-print VHS, but check the bit of your Blockbuster with the horrible blue sun-bleached cassette covers and see if it's lurking there.
Duel. Yes, I'm recommending a Spielberg movie. Just released on DVD, with Dennis Weaver as an American motorist having a very, very bad day on the road. Fun, scary, simple, and made for television back when TV-movies weren't all Lifetime women-in-jep-fests. I could rec a bunch of these, but most are sadly unavailable (a happy exception is The Night Stalker and its sequel The Night Strangler, out on a twofer DVD that you need to own) and out of rotation on television, so I can't tell you to watch for The Legend of Lizzie Borden with Elizabeth Montgomery.
nitasee: I'm declaring it International Recommend-A-Movie Day, says trollprincess. This means everyone should go to their LJ right now and tell their friends to watch a really good movie which most of them probably have not seen. And then tell more people to do it. Hopefully, we'll all have lots and lots of recommendations by the end of the day.The Great Race. The definitive '60s gigantic comedy (Mad World can blow me). An auto race from New York to Paris, featuring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Peter Falk, Natalie Wood, Ross Martin, Larry Storch, that guy with the moustache, that other guy with the moustache, and that one lady. Steampunk-lite before steampunk existed, with cars, cowboys, explosions, swordfights, and pies. Blake Edwards directs, Henry Mancini writes a charming score.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The 1978 version, with Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright. Perfectly catches the mood of a particular time and place (San Francisco yuppieville in the late 70s) before blowing it all to hell. It's also scary as shit, with effects that still look great 25 years later. Watch it as a companion piece with the similarly-set Time After Time starring Malcolm McDowall as H.G. Wells, David Warner as Jack the Ripper, and Mary Steenburgen as...um...the loan officer. Directed by Nicholas Meyer.
nitasee recommends Local Hero, and by God you should listen to her. I can't recommend The Mouse and His Child, because its only on out-of-print VHS, but check the bit of your Blockbuster with the horrible blue sun-bleached cassette covers and see if it's lurking there.
Duel. Yes, I'm recommending a Spielberg movie. Just released on DVD, with Dennis Weaver as an American motorist having a very, very bad day on the road. Fun, scary, simple, and made for television back when TV-movies weren't all Lifetime women-in-jep-fests. I could rec a bunch of these, but most are sadly unavailable (a happy exception is The Night Stalker and its sequel The Night Strangler, out on a twofer DVD that you need to own) and out of rotation on television, so I can't tell you to watch for The Legend of Lizzie Borden with Elizabeth Montgomery.