<p>For a romantic movie selection based on a book ( published in 1953), I liked
The Go-Between ( or The Summer of '00) 
with Alan Bates & Julie Christie.
[Alan</a> Bates Film Archive:“The Go-Between”](<a href=“http://alanbates.com/abarchive/film/gobetwee.html]Alan”>http://alanbates.com/abarchive/film/gobetwee.html)</p>
<p>For the movie club:</p>
<p>*Sense and Sensibility *made me understand the attractiveness of the ditzy sister. I liked it better than the book, and went back and read the book with new understanding.</p>
<p>The Lives of Others wonderful movie about love and betrayal and redemption with the Stasi in East Germany.</p>
<p>Sliding Doors with a very young Gwyneth Paltrow. A really fun romantic romp through what-if territory. And if you want a comparison try Groundhog Day.</p>
<p>Almost Famous - You could have a pretty amusing conversation about this movie about a teen who somehow gets to write an article for* Rolling Stone* magazine and experience sex, drugs and rock and roll and survives. Cameron Crowe directs this semi-autobiographical tale.</p>
<p>Fun interview with Crowe re Almost Famous.
[Almost</a> Famous SF Chronicle The Uncool - The Official Site for Everything Cameron Crowe](<a href=“http://www.theuncool.com/press/almost-famous-sf-chronicle/]Almost”>Almost Famous – SF Chronicle – The Uncool - The Official Site for Everything Cameron Crowe)</p>
<p>Saw this preview tonight. Very good ! [Silver</a> Linings Playbook (2012) - IMDb](<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045658/]Silver”>Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - IMDb)</p>
<p>emerald – I love Julie Christie and Alan Bates and am quite excited about The Go Between.</p>
<p>Almost Famous is regarded with almost religious reverence in my family. It was my daughter’s very favorite movie for years – and she watches a LOT of movies. Maybe still is.</p>
<p>The Go-Between: I spent most of 1974-1976 trying to look like Alan Bates in The Go-Between. Which was also, I’ll admit, something like Eric Clapton.</p>
<p>The Go-Between: I spent most of 1974-1976 trying to look like Alan Bates in The Go-Between. Which was also, I’ll admit, something like Eric Clapton.</p>
<p>Swoon
One of my ( younger) friends looks like that now- + he plays lead guitar!
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<p>“Groundhog Day” is OK. But many others with Andy Mc…(I cannot spell) are much much better.<br>
If we go back in time, I also love all Molly Ringwal (spell?) movies and Meg Ryan’s, Mean Girls and few others with Lindsay and many with “Miss Congeniality” and some with Reese (can watch “Legally Blond” and “Walking the line” over and over). Like even more Grease, Dirty Dancing and Flash Dance and Jesus Christ Super Star (with original Broadway cast), Moonstruck. One of my all time favorites is The Notebook.
I am usually called “bad taste”. Sorry, cannot change what I like and will not watch what I do not like. “Avatar” was too boring for me, I had hard time keeping my eyes open. So, do not watch what I like, will fall asleep.</p>
<p>I love Grease and JCSS and actually can sing along when I hear the songs. I like Sense and Sensibility too. I like Matrix, Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 12 (because I couldn’t get hold of 12 Angry Men), Princess Bride, Fiddler on the Roof, and Wall-E.</p>
<p>I enjoyed Avatar probably because I saw it in IMAX 3D. So, it’ll be awhile before I can watch Argo because my H and I prefer to watch @ home and reserve the movie theater experience to movies that must be seen in IMAX.</p>
<p>Ah, MiamiDAP Andie McDowell is not my favorite, nor Bill Murray for that matter. I suggested Groundhog day in tandem with *Sliding Doors *because I was thinking more of movies that play with the small moves that can have big consequences and that show the alternate time lines that come from those small moves.</p>
<p>There are a few movie starts that will send me to the movies, but I’m more interested in directors and plots than the actors.</p>
<p>Andie McDowell is a tremendous model, though. Ridiculously gorgeous. I liked her in Tarzan.</p>
<p>^In Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Andie McDowell’s voice was dubbed by Glenn Close.</p>
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<p>Three consonants, three vowels: Run Lola Run</p>
<p>I would never list Andie McDowell as one of my favorite actresses, either, but she has been in some terrific movies. Groundhog Day, certainly, but also Sex, Lies, And Videotape, Short Cuts, and Four Weddings And A Funeral.</p>
<p>One of my favorite movies is The Joy Luck Club. Every woman must see this movie.</p>
<p>Montegut, that is one of my favorite movies, too.</p>
<p>Saw Looper recently and liked it. One of the better time travel movies, IMO.</p>
<p>Read Joy, Luck, etc and saw it and don’t get it. At all. </p>
<p>It just flew past me and I know I missed something. </p>
<p>Wanted the story to be in the past and always felt so angry when it jerked me forward. I think maybe the author could of trusted us more to go with the richness in the past. But i have friends who would slap me for that sentence!</p>
<p>I love Run, Lola, Run. Franka Potente had a good story arc on House MD in 09.</p>
<p>I don’t mind Andie McDowell, I can overlook a lot for a comedy, and she is usually paired up with strong actors, like Gerard Depardieu in Green Card, or John Malkovich in *Object of Beauty. *
I also liked *Greystoke- *I was in a romantic phase & I had a crush on Christophe Lambert when I read he was blind as a bat without his glasses. I also saw *Highlander- *also with Lambert, many times.
It’s a fun movie!</p>
<p>I can’t watch 3-D so have not seen *Avatar. * Generally like musicals, & I’m not embarrassed to say I was one of the ten people who wrote to keep *Cop Rock *on the air, but I can’t stand *Grease, in any form.
( So glad that wasnt the musical Ds senior year- they did it the year before. Her sr yr the musical was * A Little Night Music which I hadn’t been over exposed to)</p>
<p>Films I love but many people would say “i want those 2 hours of my life back”. I can still be friends with you if you hated these.
The Swimmer<br>
An absolutely astonishing performance by Burt Lancaster but a very disturbing film.
Being John Malkovich
John Cusack in a mind bending film.
Living in Oblivion
The original Steve Buscemi film directed by Tom Decillo. Please stay with this movie beyond the first 10 minutes,
A Serious Man
A true masterpiece by the Coen brothers. Schrodinger’s cat, the story of Job, and a rabbi who digs Jefferson Airplane.
Rocket Science
Yes they green-lighted a movie where the lead character is a severe stutterer. You have to wait till the final father/son scene to find out where the title comes from.
Finally if you never saw Robert Aldrich’s 1950’s noir film Kiss Me Deadly you are in for a real treat: Mike Hammer: Okay, how much did they give you? I’ll top it.
Eddie Yeager: You can’t top this. They said they’d let me breathe.</p>
<p>Rocket Science was pretty good, but I’d have liked it more if it wasn’t so slow and the dialogue was lacking. The girl was pretty good though.</p>
<p>EK-
“The Sessions” (the movie we chatted about last week) is getting Oscar buzz. DO go see it!! I also liked this week’s preview, but not quite as much. It dragged a little bit in spots. However, DeNiro was great!</p>