[ClearCase_guy]

"The Shooting Party" which was, I believe the last film James Mason made. It's about a group of the English upper class gathering on an estate just before WWI. There is strong sense that their world is changing and their time is passing. I think it relates to today in many ways.

I also like "Blow Up" by Antonioni. It's pretty well known, but it was made 45 years ago and I suspect many have not seen it. Interesting look at London in the 1960s before the real drug and hippy aspects kicked in. It looks at art and our awareness of what is around us, and our tendency to be bored no matter what is going on. An amusing scene has The Yardbirds playing in a nightclub, both Jimmie Page and Jeff Beck playing guitar, and Beck smashing his guitar This, in 1966, was not common behavior. But everyone in the audience is bored to death. Just a statement on how humans tend to want whatever they don't have, and to be bored by what they do have.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I recall a line from “The Shooting Party”, James Mason was writing in his diary and a child asked he why he did it. His answer was something like “I’m putting my thoughts down so I’m not tempted to burden others with them.”

[Aliska]

I happened to see both of those, too. I read so voraciously and went through a binge of renting foreign and films I didn't get to see when they were in the theaters, if they were even in our theaters, but I sometimes don't remember much about them.

I liked Lady Chatterly's Lover, Hanover Street, and many foreign films. One I remember quite a bit was about Victor Hugo's daughter but can't remember the title without looking it up, think it was her first name.

[Paisan]

Thanks Man. I’ve seen that movie twice but could never remember the title. James Mason at his finest...

off to NetFlix...