[Maigret]

OK, which films do you think should be in a Conservative Film Festival?

Anything by Horton Foote - Tender Mercies, Trip to Bountiful, Tomorrow, Courtship, On Valentine's Day, 1918, Habitation of Dragons, Lily Dale. Including the Faulkner stories made into film that Horton helped write the screenplay for - Intruder in the Dust, Old Man

And since Conservative equals intelligence and taste I'd surely add good films based on the classics - Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Hugo.

[Mike the lurker]

Sorry to take so long to get back to you, my keyboard decided to quit on me yesterday :(

About films based on the classics, I think it really does depend on the directors take on the material. In 1944, Olivier (sp?) did Henry the Fifth as a Patriotic call to arms, like Alexander Nevski and in 1989 Branneugh (sp?) did it as almost an anti war film , like Paths of Glory.

[Reverend Bob]

Conan the Barbarian, 1776, The Buccaneer (either version), Bladerunner, Lord of the Rings...