[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
oops. for "The Big Sleep" read "The Maltese Falcon"

[identity profile] widgetfox.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The Big Sleep is also good.

Apart from that, nothing I've seen here, although one that I've been intending to see since 1990.

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You've not seen "Butch Cassidy"? Oh my.

Nor "Get Carter"? (Music by, I think, Francis Monkman...)

And "Diva" is excellent. Actually, for the first time ever, I feel better educated than you!

And there is a great bit in "Subway" where he has to find the right music before he enter the chase... Neat.

[identity profile] widgetfox.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Diva is the one that I would like to see. But this is not my medium, remember.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
That's why I like Amazon's rental scheme for DVD's - I don't mind renting old movies for less than 2 quid.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Roy Budd, I think - and the theme was covered by the Human League on "Dare" strangely enough.

Diva and Subway were the two great art house movies of my Univerity days (followed swiftly by Betty Blue).

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2006-02-14 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Also, I am completely wrong about the soundtrack of Get Carter - Monkman did The Long Good Friday, I think. The score for Get Carter is excellent - a lot of double bass - but IMDB doesn't say who wrote it.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-14 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Roy Budd - I bought it a few years back and it really is excellent (the odd snippet of dialogue, too).

[identity profile] rparvaaz.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I really liked Get Carter. And Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is an old favourite [because of my two maternal uncles, I grew up on a steady diet of war movies, westerns, kung fu movies, and spy movies]. I was quite old [17 or so] when I found out that Hollywood made romances too! Legally blonde has its moments too.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Legally blonde always makes me cry. No, really.

[identity profile] rparvaaz.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It is but I think of the Bogey/Bacall flicks I like "To Have and Have Not" best.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the conjunction of the actors and the book for me. Weirdly enough, I came to the book first, and didn't see the film for years afterwards. I always saw Marlowe as taller and slower, as Robert Mitchum, I think, and Bogart just redefined the character for me instantly.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
the Big sleep was in my first twelve. Whic one has been slipping your mind for a decade and a half?

[identity profile] unblinkered.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh....Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid! I love that movie...and the bicycle scene always shows me up for the hopeless romantic that I am. But don't tell anyone, 'k?

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I fell for Katherine Ross when I was little, because of that movie...

[identity profile] unblinkered.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Not so sure about Ms Ross, but I wouldn't say no to 1960s Paul Newman. Yum.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I always felt there was more chemistry between Newman and Redford than between Redford and Ross - but in a manly sort of way.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
She really was beautiful. William Goldman's recollections of her on set (in "Adventures in the Screen Trade", go buy it) are that she was just as beautiful in the flesh, too.

[identity profile] unblinkered.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, and now I have "Raindrops keep falling on my head" stuck in my head. Grrrr....

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
... and me.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it drowning out the roadworks?

[identity profile] unblinkered.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The road works decided to call it a day about an hour ago. Innocent lives were spared. Thank god.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-02-13 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
My lips are sealed. It really is the perfect buddy movie too.