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           marlowe
             from Antarctica on 2004-12-23 17:58 [#01435452]
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 Brief Encounter, directed by David Lean and written by Noel  Coward, is a beautiful and elegaic film. I highly recommend  you watch it if you ever have the chance! I have it on DVD! 
 
  
         
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           r40f
             from qrters tea party on 2004-12-23 18:03 [#01435453]
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elegiac is a great word.
  a romance/drama from 1945?  it's not boring?  i've yet to  see an american film from the 40's that i've really enjoyed.   they're usually propaganda films or racist or just  badly-made.  so what did you like most about it? 
 
  
         
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           r40f
             from qrters tea party on 2004-12-23 18:05 [#01435454]
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actually, i take part of that back, because there are some  really good hitchcock films from that period.
 
  but lately, i've been watching a lot of american films from  that decade, and they have all been really really  disappointing. 
 
  
         
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           marlowe
             from Antarctica on 2004-12-23 18:10 [#01435455]
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Don't forget, Hitchcock was British. And so is Brief  Encounter. And it's from 1946 ;) 
 
  
         
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           r40f
             from qrters tea party on 2004-12-23 18:22 [#01435457]
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ah!  now here we go.  i made a couple errors by not looking  closely enough at the imdb page.
 
  i know hitchcock was british, but didn't he make a lot of  films in hollywood?
 
  i will try and check this "picture" out...
 
  
         
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           X-tomatic
             from ze war room on 2004-12-23 18:28 [#01435458]
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Why, "Dr. Strangelove - or: how I learned to stop worrying  and love the bomb" of course, it's simply the best movie  ever made. 
 
  
         
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           tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2004-12-23 18:30 [#01435459]
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i think i agre on that...my favourite film as well.
  also, every b&w jarmusch film!!
 
  
         
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           r40f
             from qrters tea party on 2004-12-23 18:36 [#01435461]
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i recommend the films of ingmar bergman
 
  
         
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           tolstoyed
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agree on that as well :)
  the seventh seal is another on top of my all time movie  chart. 
 
  
         
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           coco
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There are many. It's a whole many years of black and white  films. The only I own are Even Dwarfs Started Small and  Night of the Hunter, both of those are very good. 
 
  
         
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           rogu rarebit
             from beggin' for leggings on 2004-12-23 18:52 [#01435467]
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Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes)
 
  
         
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           rogu rarebit
             from beggin' for leggings on 2004-12-23 18:53 [#01435468]
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Even Dwarfs Started Small is great!
 
  
         
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           X-tomatic
             from ze war room on 2004-12-24 12:16 [#01435949]
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Plus don't Akira Kurosawa's B&W films Yojimbo, Shichinin no  samurai etc. etc. 
 
  
         
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           SPD
             from United States on 2004-12-24 13:23 [#01435996]
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Clerks.
 
  
         
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           qrter
             from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-12-24 13:39 [#01436004]
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one of my favourites is "the sweet smell of success".
 
  
         
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           DJ Xammax
             from not America on 2004-12-24 13:54 [#01436013]
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Man Bites Dog!
 
  
         
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           dog_belch
             from Netherlands, The on 2004-12-24 13:56 [#01436014]
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Onibaba Eraserhead Stromboli The Seventh Seal Wings of Desire (a third or so colour) Rumblefish (a fish sized amount of colour)
 
 
  
         
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           danbrusca
             from Derbyshire (United Kingdom) on 2004-12-24 14:06 [#01436016]
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           oyvinto
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           deepspace9mm
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It's A Wonderful Life.
  Fucking hell, this is like the best film in the world.
 
  
         
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           pantalaimon
             from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-12-24 16:15 [#01436079]
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thanks, another film to add to my 'to buy' list :)
 
  
         
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           pantalaimon
             from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-12-24 16:17 [#01436083]
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I reccomend the films of Robert Bresson, Au Hassard  Balthazar, Mouchette.
 
  Also Breathless by Jean Luc Goddard
 
  
         
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           welkinrancher
             from Guelph (Canada) on 2004-12-24 16:23 [#01436096]
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           mimi
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woman of the year, a philadelphia story, schindler's list 
 
  
         
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           dave_g
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Its gotta be  Citizen Kane  and    The Third Man and I still haven't seen dr.strangelove :( grrr
 
  
         
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           qrter
             from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-12-28 12:10 [#01438229]
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           dave_g
             from United Kingdom on 2004-12-28 12:32 [#01438248]
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well its never on the telly, and it doenst seem to be  available in blockbuster. although they have the girl next  door, so maybe I could comprimise. 
 
  
         
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           clint
             from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2004-12-28 12:39 [#01438254]
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Manhatten! FUcking excellent film! It seems to have aged  less than other Woody Allen films and I think the B&W has  got something to do with it. 
 
  
         
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           marlowe
             from Antarctica on 2004-12-28 13:26 [#01438309]
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It is amazing the amount of people around who still refuse  to watch Black & White films. As many of the films herein  mentioned testify, these Ignorami are missing out on so much  greatness. 
 
  
         
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           brokephones
             from Londontario on 2004-12-28 13:26 [#01438310]
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I thought this topic was "Great BBW Films", in which case I  was prepared to post some links. 
 
  
         
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           Morton
             from out (Netherlands, The) on 2004-12-28 13:58 [#01438371]
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Nuit et Brouillard ('Night and Fog')
  in about 35 minutes this film/documentary learns you more  about the holocaust than all other documentaries about this  subject
 
  not exactly 'great' the way like it is probably meant in  this thread, yet i'd recommend it to everyone 
 
  
         
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           carrot
             from United Kingdom on 2004-12-28 14:07 [#01438388]
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12 Angry Men's a great B&W flick. Think it's 1950's, it  pretty much all takes place in one room the shooting, about  a jury attempting to decide whether to condemn a young man  to the death sentance. Brilliant stuff. 
 
  
         
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           cie jiks mawp
             from motion to descend (Australia) on 2004-12-28 14:47 [#01438429]
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           pomme de terre
             from obscure body in the SK System on 2004-12-28 14:49 [#01438430]
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78% of them
 
  
         
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