Posted on 10/12/2013 2:05:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Greatness is Greatness!
Have watched many films multiple times. Two of them made in 1939. Some may have heard of them Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind.
One of my favorite films was, I think a French Film, on Napoleon. 5 hours shown in two sessions in Sacramento. Battle scenes in split screen and Sepia. Started with Napoleon as a child and went all the way thru.
Godfather trilogy near the top of my list. How old is that now, 40 years?
Great is great, no matter the year made.
Napoleon is a silent film.
Oh, I think you’ll like Tracy in “Bad Day At Black Rock.”
One of the funniest movies ever made. And much better than American Graffiti.
That is a cool picture of Yosemite Sam!
Brilliant. They need to pause it for a couple beats before the shadow is revealed as a duck.
“VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-LA_RAY......”
Dazed and Confused is the 70s version of American Graffiti.
Nel blu dipinto di blu
I miss the old movies from the 50s, 60s and some from the 70s. The remakes that they are doing now suck
I am with his kids. I saw it first a few years after its release and found to be ok. It improved for me a bit on further viewings but not enough to elevate it to the status a lot of critics gave it when it came out. It did establish Lucas with enough cred to get Star Wars made so it does have that history built into it. Meanwhile in the latest episode of the Big Bang theory Raiders of the Lost Ark is destroyed by a simple insight from Amy.
Volare, oh oh
E contare, oh oh oh oh
No wonder my happy heart sings
Your love has given me wings
Penso che un sogno cosi non ritorni mai piu Mi dipingevo le mani e la faccia di blu
Poi d'improvviso venivo dal vento rapito
E incominciavo a volare nel cielo infinito
Volare, oh oh
E contare, oh oh oh oh
Nel blu, dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassu
E volavo, volavo felice piu in alto del sole ed ancora piu su
Mentre il mondo pian piano spariva lontano laggiu
Una musica dolce suonava soltanto per me
Volare, oh oh
E cantare, oh oh oh oh
No wonder my happy heart sings
Your love has given me wings
Nel blu, dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassu
Here's a link to locations used in the filming of AG.American Graffiti Filming Locations (June - August, 1972)
In my mind I still separate the "early", 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' Beatles music (5th grade) from the "new" 'Abbey Road' Beatles music (high school). It's weird. A six-year span is like a lifetime at that age.
They’ll like Hitch’s “The Birds.” Trust me on this.
I’ve shown this movie to seniors in high school as a way to use film as text. The plot follows Campbell’s “Journey of the Hero” theory - not surprising, since Lucas was an anthropology student. (So does “Star Wars,” too.) In any case, Mr. O’Reilly’s experience does not reflect my experience with hundreds of teenagers, all of whom enjoyed the film, and some of whom loved it. My guess is that Bill spent a lot of time bloviating to the kids about what a great movie it is, and how that period of time was great to experience, and so forth, eventually sucking the life out of the enjoyment of the film... and as someone who was alive in 1962, there were good things (intact families) and awful things (segregation), and the great music in the film carefully passes over the crap music also produced at the same time.
I think the film is one of the great movies of all time, IMHO. Bill may be spinning his own projection here.
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