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Best Years Of Our Lives is an outstanding movie. I usually try to catch it when it is on TCM.

"Paul McCartney in Red Square" (2005) is a music documentary with some commentary thrown in between songs every now and then. I just received it in the mail and watched it today. I highly recommend it, not only for Paul McCartney's music, but for the interesting commentary as well. You can pick it up on Amazon.com for less than what a six pack of beer costs. (I was tempted to say "For a song.")

I truly think that most of you, who grew up with the Beatles, will love "Paul McCartney in Red Square".

Here's some video from it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o2bvjD6qXU

Here's some more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OqC4KkvQBE

(I think I picked out DANTE in the crowd at approximately 50 seconds into this clip. He's only on camera for a nanosecond. It's a close up shot. See if you can find him. Oh, by the way, DANTE does speak Russian, which is not a joke.)

Oh, what the heck, here's one more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-TnBx-Kng

p.s. If you watch the whole video, I think there are two questions you need to ask yourself. "Are all Russian women really that beautiful?", and "How could anybody ever trust Vladimir Putin?"

p.p.s. I would love to hear your comments about this documentary music film.

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TBYOOL is one of about ten Wyler films that I would rate as required viewing. When I first saw The Bicycle Thief I was around twenty and thought that the acting was incredibly amateurish. I found out years later that De Sica hired all non-actors, including some right on location.
I felt redeemed somehow for being underwhelmed.

What a fool am I...

SPOTES comes up with some great obscure movies, so I searched Google for what I thought was another one of his recommendations. It was a strange title, but I kept looking for it for about 10 or 15 minutes. Suddenly it hit me. "TBYOOL" is not a movie title, it's an abbreviation of "The Best Years of Our Lives". Duh...

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Here is a real stinker of an obscure movie that I am watching now.

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"Truth Like Football. Gets kicked around much, before reaching goal." - Charlie Chan

" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank

I meant to post this earlier, but before it's too late I would like to also say that Jim's recommendation of "The Best Years of Our Lives" is a very good movie. As usual, I'm going to add the theater poster for the movie, and it's trailer.



Here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3EsNKlB7os

(It is perhaps one of the worst trailers ever, and does not do the movie justice.)

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Frank, we all need to see the trailer to the great movie, "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter".

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3xxOg4k5eI

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"Lost Horizon" (1937) directected by Frank Capra (FrankC ???), and staring Ronald Coleman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Evertt Horton, and John Howard is a great movie. I think that it may only considered "obscure", because I doubt many younger people have ever seen it. Whether you are young or old, and have never watched this movie, I strongly recommend that you do. Even though it is in black & white, I think you will really enjoy this movie.

Here's a short clip from the early part of the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hne7jqIzvXM

(I'm not really happy with this clip, but it's the best I could find that didn't show the full movie. The trailer totally sucked.)

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"The Black Room" (1935) starring Boris Karloff (Playing two roles.), is a pretty darn good movie, and I would recommend it for those of you, who have never seen it. It's not a goofy monster movie, the acting is good, and it tells a suspenceful story that will keep you interested as you gobble down a couple bowls of popcorn, while watching it.

Here's some film footage from the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWT2C3waUsc

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"The Red House" (1947) starring Edward G. Robinson, is a psychological thriller worth seeing. Though the movie has a famous star, I doubt many have have ever heard of it, let alone seen it. If you can find it, watch it. I think you will be pleasantly surprised as how a good movie it is.

Couldn't find a trailer, so here's a link to the entire movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6HZnUTPyho

(It starts out a little slowly, but believe me things will pick up.)

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"Being There" (1979) starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine (and some other good actors) is a movie that you must see! Is it a comedy...? Yeah, I guess so, but perhaps it has a message too, that might give you something to think about. I highly recommend this movie to those of you, who have never seen it. "Being there" is on MY 100 best movies of all time list.

Here's some footage from the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_jKW1OUKw

p.s. I didn't know if I should post this movie, because for me it isn't obscure, but I think that many of you have never seen it, let alone heard of it, so I put it up here.

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Forgot how crappy Shivers was and watched it again.
Will I never learn?
Cronenberg is one of those guys whose fame is inversely proportional to the number of quality movies he's made.
And his not directing Xtro may be a mystery humans were never meant to solve...

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For new people reading this thread, a directory to every movie recommended or mentioned here can be found on page 23 , which will tell you what page you can find them on.

I update it to add new movies that people post here on a regular basis.

However, I have a concern. As I keep increasing the size of page 23 bit by bit, I worry that at some point it might grow large enough to start moving movies that come on pages after it to a higher page number than where the directory says you can find them. This problem probably won't occur any time soon, but eventually it will. I'm thinking that there are two possible ways to deal with this. One would be to copy and move the directory to the most recent page. The other would be to have to go back and move effected movies to the next page as needed.

I would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions about this.

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"Play Dirty" (1968/1969) starring Michael Caine and Nigel Davenport, is a DHB recommendation that he asked me to pass along.

I've have never seen it, but from what I've heard and read about it, its plot sounds like a poor man's "Dirty Dozen" rip off. It's a WW-II flick.

Here's some video of the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaPBf7dk8hA

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Colossus: The Forbin Project

The book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_%28novel%29

The movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_ ... in_Project

Skynet is from The Terminator series and currently ranks #1 in its weight class among the geek world as the "go-to" reference for the inevitable overthrow of mankind by the machine hierarchy.
It's readily apparent that the kids don't know the voice of world control when they hear it...

I think FrankC has already mentioned "Colossus: The Forbin Poject", a movie that I really like. However it's too late for me tonight to ask you any cogent questions about the rest of your post. Keep that smart stuff coming, and eventually I might come up with some kind of intelligent reply.

p.s. "I've never made the same mistake once." is a quote that I have given you credit for that has given many people laughter once they hear it. In my book, you are up there with Mark Twain and Will Rogers.

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Surprised that no one has mentioned any of Russ Meyer's movies.

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"Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1965) is an ICEMAN recomendation, which I have never seen, let alone heard of. It might be good, but I've got a feeling that this is probably a movie that you don't want to watch with your kids, grandkids, or anyone elses.

Here's the trailer to the movie (Watch it at your own risk.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3JjyvQzSJI

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EXACTLY!!!

If only he directed midgets!

UP & Common Law Cabin, along with Vixen are other Russ choices.

What are you talking about?
Most of the women in his films are described on the cover as being 44" sex kittens.
Oh, wait...

I may have asked this before, and someone may have answered my question. However, I can't remember.

There was a movie that I saw probably 25 or 30 years ago. It's likely that it was a "made for TV film". The story was about a writer, who lived in the eastern part of the United States, who's novel was being adapted into a movie in Hollywood. He flew out there to help in the filming of it, leaving his family behind for what was only supposed to be a short time. However, he became caught up with the Hollywood life, and stayed there much longer than what was planned. Life in Hollywood was like a narcotic for him, it consumed him, and eventually dragged his life into one of despair.

Does anyone recall the name of this movie?

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Sounds like Fitzgerald's real life. Of course, his wife was in the nut house.

I don't think that's the name of the movie I'm looking for...

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