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I have a new movie guru who is helping me to work my way through this list. :) We watched TWBB first, and its LONG but honestly i enjoyed it far more than i had expected.. Its a VERY good movie even if it was a little over-acted.

Duck soup, is something that made me feel like ‘why hadn’t i seen this?’. I loved it! Its a little dated and there are a few old school racist quip in there someplace that made a little spinechill happen… but i want to show it to my neices/nephews anyway because it holds up. Still funny.

I have to find out where to rent video’s in this town.
I think there’s a blockbuster not too far from my transfer point on the bus… I’d like to try and watch a few movies a week instead of getting home and watching coronation street (You know i love you corrie, but you’re just not helping my fulfill my goals).

on the plane..
pretty damn great, although i was sure afterwards that i had already seen it it was a long time ago.
Christian bale could be my baby daddy any day.

i figured since i watched the other python might as well get this one over with too…
I guess its fair to say that the strange repetative nature of the humor did grow on me… ‘RUN AWAY!!! RUN AWAY!!!’ was something i actually found myself saying out loud in a context a few days later.

Caligari is something unexpected, but delectable.
I love the strange constructavist sets and the very ‘acid jazz before acid jazz existed’ music that supports this silent.
Entirely interesting!

Only 126 left to go!

I liked raging bull and its cinematic use of contrast in sound volume and filmspeed to advance the drama of the story.

I stomached life of brian and it was less trudging than i had worried it would be.
I was actually getting into it just as it was ending.

I just don’t find ‘big nose’ funny.

I also don’t think men playing women is especially hilarious.
It might be me, or my generational lag. I feel like that kind of humor is really about cutting people up into stereotypes and playing on insecurities.

I understand that it has its place in the progression of popular culture and whatever, but i’m over monty-python in general.
Maybe i’ll watch the holy grail with my mom and see if she can give me some insight on whats funny about it.

I loved, The diving bell and the butterfly!
Its terrifying and awe inspiring and beautiful and conceited and strange and optimistic.

:)

I love this goal.
It will take me a while, but there is stuff in here that i ‘m glad to have seen and never would have otherwise.

Pretty great.

This works SO MUCH BETTER as a film than as a stage play… unless the stage is rotating…

Big fan of henry fonda

SHOULD TOTALLY BE ON THIS LIST!

Its my favourite new-old dance movie.

So good.

So quaint.

So indicative of the bygone era of film making that blows ‘chicago’ out of the water.

I think i’m going to buy and keep this one.

And get some tap shoes.

And take more dance classes so i can tap dance on the street to a crowd of adoring french children!

Um.

I sort of gave up on this film.
I read the biography of ‘GHANDI’ a year or so ago and have a pretty good general knowledge of him so it was a little slow and a LOT redundant.
If you know nothing about the india/pakistan division, or about this pretty amazing dude whom i personally think was the origin of the character ‘Yoda’, watch it, and you’ll learn stuff.