Films you should see

[spoodie]

Lawrence of Arabia

It's one that I have obviously known about since forever and seen bits of it on TV over the years but never sat through it's entire epic length. Last year a bought a special edition DVD on the cheap and was amazed, it's almost the perfect film. If you have a spare 4 hours one Sunday then watch this, lying on the sofa, enjoying your favourite light narcotic.

[mrbobbins]

Lawrence of Arabia

It's one that I have obviously known about since forever and seen bits of it on TV over the years but never sat through it's entire epic length. Last year a bought a special edition DVD on the cheap and was amazed, it's almost the perfect film. If you have a spare 4 hours one Sunday then watch this, lying on the sofa, enjoying your favourite light narcotic.

Or in fact any David Lean epic, with the possible exception of A Passage to India

[Roman Totale]

FACT: The street fight scene in Heat was used by my friends TA instructor to show them how to do the whole move-cover-move thing properly

Fairly standard video clip in training regiments..sadly becoming clichéd. Still, one of the few films that has actually got it 'right'.

That's because Andy McNabb of Bravo Two Zero fame "choreographed" that entire scene. I would also like to point out that other than that fairly brief scene, HEAT is utter shite.

as far as movies you may not have seen, i'd have to say that The Salton Sea, Kafka, Naked Lunch, Buckaroo Banzai, UHF, Cannibal the Musical, Raising Arizona, Real Genius, The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish, Night on Earth and suburbia are worth a try.
NB: some of these have a verrrrry small number of people who can actually watch them, but i like them all.

The film of Naked Lunch is terrible - read the book, it rocks.

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

as far as movies you may not have seen, i'd have to say that The Salton Sea
.........are worth a try.

This

The Salton Sea is one of the best films I've seen in a very long time.
Brilliant stuff, especially if you stick with it till the end, otherwise it wont make sense.