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What genre would you like to "see": Cops, guys-next-door, military - I'm sure I can help out...

...from our city-slicky perspective Julia, the cowboy thing is pretty sexy.

But, you see it all-the-time. I guess if you eat chocolate everyday, you begin not to appreciate chocolate.

Yeah, maybe that's a guy thing

Anyway, Big Eden is a "western gay romantic" themed movie I found much more enjoyable than Brokeback, but maybe too romantic and not enough bump and grind for some ranters

If you enter the way-back machine and go back to 1949, you may enjoy Kind Hearts and Coronets (B&W) with Alec Guinness. It's one of my favorite movies, although it has that English black-humour. I think that maybe perhaps you might enjoy it. But maybe not.

Joe

This brings back memories of four of my favorite movies with Alex Guinness from my childhood: The Lavender Hill Mob (1951),
Oliver Twist (1948, the best Fagin ever)
and The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Lady Killers (1955)

Of course he is one of the greats. The Star Wars generation may only know him as Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi.

We also should not forget three other great movies he was in in, must sees if anyone missed them, The Bridge on the River Kwai (Col. Nicholson) and Dr. Zhivago (Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago) and Lawrence of Arabia (Prince Feisel).

Hal,

Guinness was definitely one of the greats. Lawrence of Arabia is one of my favorite movies and he was brillant as Prince Feisel. It's funny how many people, including boomers, don't realize that Guinness played Prince Feisel and only know him as Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, which I also thoroughly enjoyed.

Joe

I can easily hear Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, another great) shouting ACABA! ACABA! So many great scenes in that movie. And of course the hinted at homosexuality of Lawrence himself was quite daring for the time.

This is definitely one of those movies worth seeing again in a theater on a big screen with remastered video and sound. Many forget that Anthony Quinn as Auda abu Tayi, and Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali were also in the movie.

quote > T.E. Lawrence: The Law says the man must die... If he dies, would that content the Howitat?
Auda abu Tayi: Yes.
T.E. Lawrence: Sherif Ali. If none of lord Auda's men harms any of yours, will that content the Harith?
Sherif Ali: Yes.
T.E. Lawrence: Then I will execute the Law. I have no tribe and no one is offended.


Dr. Zhivago (1965)would be another. (A friend of mine's parents were friends with Omar Sharif and she used to watch them playing bridge together in their summer house in the Hamptons.)

Other greats of that era I had a more direct, if fleeting and irrelevant touch I with fame: when I was 15 and spent the summer of 1959 in Hawaii living with my aunt, I went surfing on Waikiki early one morning and nobody was out there but me and David Niven and a friend of his. They were actually watching me - a total amateur - for surfing technique. At least I could get up on the board and ride a wave, but nothing fancy.

I also saw James Garner by himself early one morning wearing cut off jeans wading in the surf all by himself.

I love Peter O'Toole, and I love Lawrence of Arabia (although "Lion in Winter" may always be my favorite.)

I saw an O'Toole interview where he explained that in the scene where the two actors are (?racing? catching?) a train - it's been too long since I've seen it - both actors were so drunk they had to be tied to the camels in order to film the shot!

He was great in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy... but the cold war tension seems like a fantsy now

We recently saw "Strangers in Good Company" and I LOVED it! I will order it up again before long probably and watch it again.

"When a bus filled with eight elderly women breaks down in the wilderness, the group of strangers is stranded at a deserted farmhouse with only their wits, their memories and eventually some roasted frogs' legs to sustain them. For several days, the women share their life stories and intimate thoughts. Director Cynthia Scott directs these nonprofessional actors delivering largely improvised dialogue to heartwarming effect."

For those of us getting a little age on us, this was delightful and it makes me wonder how I will handle old age. As dignified and gutsy I certainly hope.
It was all impromptu....no formal screenplay at all.
This might be more of a woman movie but my husband enjoyed it very much too.

Mellow gets credit for this one. She saw it first and suggested it to me.

Olyve