We also watched The Counterfeiters the other night. Great, touching movie.

Wow, that's the first positive review of this movie I've seen. I didn't care for it much either... I found it to be dry and mediocre, at best.

We also watched The Counterfeiters the other night. Great, touching movie.

Wow, that's the first positive review of this movie I've seen. I didn't care for it much either... I found it to be dry and mediocre, at best.

I know what you're saying. I haven't heard positive reviews of it either. People say that the main character, Sally, is unlovable and they can't connect with him. I kind of feel that's the point--not every single Jew who received despicable treatment from the Nazis was a saint--they were regular people, just like you and me. You don't have to fall in love with a character to understand that they didn't deserve the treatment inflicted upon them. I think that's why I liked it so much. It felt real. The character felt real, and we weren't asked to pity him, because he didn't pity himself. He did what he had to do, and he was unapologetic. It felt real to me.

SB, let me know what you think of Au Revoir, Les Enfants. I saw it in French a looong time ago. I must find it again.

I love, love love In the Heat of the Night. Please tell me its the original with Poitier. If they make a remake of that I will just plotz.

"They call me MISTAH TIBBS."

I watched West Side Story last night.  I'll go look up what my next 25 are in my netflix quere

SB, let me know what you think of Au Revoir, Les Enfants. I saw it in French a looong time ago. I must find it again.

I love, love love In the Heat of the Night. Please tell me its the original with Poitier. If they make a remake of that I will just plotz.

"They call me MISTAH TIBBS."

I'll post a review of it once I view it. It's the original (French), and I haven't seen it anywhere on dvd aside from netflix.

and In The Heat of the Night is also the original with Poitier. I think you should know by now that I'm a stickler for classic cinema. Remakes are never as good :(

After reading sb's classy movies, here goes.... :)

Last night we watched The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, a collection of 4 seasons of the special. I LOVE the Halloween special, and I had seen each of the episodes on the DVD, but it was still awesome. Good memories!

Which ones did you watch? I'm the biggest Simpsons fan you'll ever meet. My fav is the one with The Shinning, the one where the teachers are cooking/eating the students and the one where Homer goes back in time by getting his hand stuck in the toaster (which, coincidentally, are all on the same episode!)

1. Sullivan's Travels
2. La Collectioneuse
3. North by Northwest
4. On the waterfront
5. Read my lips
6. The Cove
7.The best years of our lives
8. The Birds
9.A Chorus Line
10.Harper
11. Overnight
12. Out of Africa
13.Mr. Smith goes to washington
14.Three Days of the condor
15.The unbearable lightness of being
16. Gentlemen prefer blondes
17. The hurt locker
18. The strangle love of Martha Ivers
19. Rent
20. The Sea inside
21. This film is not yet rated
22.Maria full of grace
23.Bella
24.Seraphine
25. Mash

highlighted the ones I've seen.

sb: It had that episode--the teachers eating the students is also my favorite. Let me go look what else there was...

5: The Shinning, Time and Punishment, and Nightmare Cafeteria
6: Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores, Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace, and Homer3
7: The Thing and I, The Genesis Tub (one of my favorites--South Park copied it), Citizen Kang

all of those are fantastic.

"Flanders stole your donut. Yeah. Go kill him"

andddd "YOU INTERGALACTIC HUSSIE!"

Just finished Au Revoir Les Enfants. What a touching, beautiful film!

So did your copy have subtitles? Or do you speak French?
I've got to see this,now. I searched IMDB and it looks interesting. I had it confused with another French film about a boy who runs away from his fancy-schmanzy boardingschool because a Jewish boy is rejected. But that one's set in the 19th century.

Here are a few I will recommend:

"Netherbeast, Incorporated" - Great comedy about a corporation staffed by vampires and what happens when the boss (who's developed a case of vampire alzheimers) starts hiring humans. Very funny, oddly sweet.

"9" - Computer animated, post-apocalyptic fantasy about rag dolls with voices you'll recognize. This one was a bit dark, but a lot of fun. And very pretty to look at.

"Stuck" - Remember the story about the lady who hit a bum a while back? How she left him to die in her garage while he was still stuck to the windshield? Someone made a movie out of it. That somebody was Stuart Gordon... so you know his take will be full of gore and some twisted humor. Honestly, this one was a lot better than I thought it would be. I'll go so far as to say that it was really darn good.

Just finished Au Revoir Les Enfants. What a touching, beautiful film!

So did your copy have subtitles? Or do you speak French?
I've got to see this,now. I searched IMDB and it looks interesting. I had it confused with another French film about a boy who runs away from his fancy-schmanzy boardingschool because a Jewish boy is rejected. But that one's set in the 19th century.

I got it from Netflix and it had subtitles. I'm an ignorant American who only speaks one language. The only other movie I can think of is called 400 Blows (it's the English name, I don't know the French name. Is it that one you had it confused with?

It's called "Les 400 coups" ;)