Castaway On The Moon (Kimssi pyoryugi ) (2009) 8/10
Uniform (Zhifu) (2003) 7.5/10
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
Classic Ealing comedy. My own list of favourites from top downwards would be:
The Man in The White Suit (1951) which manages to combine satire with poignancy. Alec Guiness at his best.
The Ladykillers (the 1955 version) again with Alec Guiness. Katie Johnson - the role of a lifetime.
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) yet again with Alec Guiness, but this time in 8 roles
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and yes, Alec Guiness again. I love the chase down the Eiffel Tower sequence.
And then Passport to Pimlico without Alec Guiness.
Whisky Galore, The Maggie and The Titfield Thunderbolt good, but not outstanding.
To me The Man in The White Suit is in a different league from the others. I don't have a list of my top 10 best films but if I did that would definitely be in my list.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
Classic Ealing comedy. My own list of favourites from top downwards would be:
The Man in The White Suit (1951) which manages to combine satire with poignancy. Alec Guiness at his best.
The Ladykillers (the 1955 version) again with Alec Guiness. Katie Johnson - the role of a lifetime.
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) yet again with Alec Guiness, but this time in 8 roles
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and yes, Alec Guiness again. I love the chase down the Eiffel Tower sequence.
And then Passport to Pimlico without Alec Guiness.
Whisky Galore, The Maggie and The Titfield Thunderbolt good, but not outstanding.
To me The Man in The White Suit is in a different league from the others. I don't have a list of my top 10 best films but if I did that would definitely be in my list.
I have seen The Lady Killers, Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts And Coronets, and Whiskey Galore and all are great
Have yet to see Man In The White Suit
I saw The Naked Spur (1953) a western directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker and Millard Mitchell. That's the complete credited cast though there were Indians for a few minutes. Stewart is a bounty hunter on the trail of Ryan who has been looking after Leigh. He meets Meeker and Mitchell on the way who decide to assist him in capturing Ryan in order to share in the bounty.
The film was shot in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains are very much part of the scenery.
It's one of those films where greed takes over and Ryan's character uses that to try to turn the other men against each other. It's as close a film as Stewart got to playing an anti-hero. If the film was to be made now it's the sort of film that the Coen Brothers might make.
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
I have seen The Lady Killers, Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts And Coronets, and Whiskey Galore and all are great
Have yet to see Man In The White Suit
The Man in the White Suit is directed by Alexander Mackendrick who also directed Whisky Galore and The Ladykillers. It's a seriously good serious comedy. And the material that the Guinness character invented in the film - the idea is still being worked on now by scientists so the film has lost none of its relevancy.
Toki o kakeru shÃījo [2010] *****
Brilliant 
Got to find a 1983 copy now
Watched the 2006 anime and can highly recommend what I have seen so far.
A true joy
I saw The Man Who Knew Too Much (the 1956 remake rather than the 1934 original). Starred James Stewart and Doris Day. Although a good film, I don't rate this as a top Hitchcock film, possibly because Doris Day wasn't a typical Hitchcock heroine.
At the start of the film is a shortened version of Arthur Benjamin's "Storm Cloud Cantata" culminating in the crash of cymbals" and the words "A single crash of cymbals and how it rocked the lives of an American family". Near the end of the film is the assassination sequence in the Royal Albert Hall where Bernard Hermann (Hitchcock's main composer) conducts the cantata which goes on for several minutes culminating in the climatic crash of cymbals and the gun shot. But the events which rocked the American family occurred well before that scene.
The cantata was written for the original film and has s similar sequence in the Royal Abert Hall. But in the original film, there is no equivalent opening scene.
I resaw Sullivan's Travels (1941) starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. Directed by Preston Sturges. He made many good films but this was his best film and is one of the few comedies which can be regarded as a great film,
The scene where the prisoners shuffle along in chains going into the church where the black clergyman leads his congregation in singing "Let My People Go", he welcomes the prisoners telling his congregation that these prisoners shouldn't be regarded as less equal than themselves, they sit down to watch films. The one we see is from the Disney cartoon "Playful Pluto" and everyone starts to laugh. This scene goes far beyond comedy and is one of the great scenes in films. It is also worth remembering that at that time, racism was rife in the States which makes this scene even more remarkable.
The film which the McCrea character had intended to make was called "O Brother where art thou" which of course is the source for the Coen Brothers film.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
I saw The Man Who Knew Too Much (the 1956 remake rather than the 1934 original). Starred James Stewart and Doris Day. Although a good film, I don't rate this as a top Hitchcock film, possibly because Doris Day wasn't a typical Hitchcock heroine.
I prefer his orginal 1930s film
Doris Day annoyed me in the remake keep singing that awful Que Sera Sera song
Grimm (2003) 6/10
Originally Posted by jackassfan:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
I saw The Man Who Knew Too Much (the 1956 remake rather than the 1934 original). Starred James Stewart and Doris Day. Although a good film, I don't rate this as a top Hitchcock film, possibly because Doris Day wasn't a typical Hitchcock heroine.
I prefer his orginal 1930s film
Doris Day annoyed me in the remake keep singing that awful Que Sera Sera song
I know what you mean. It's one of those songs which is so famous that everyone knows it even if they've never seen the film. At first Doris Day refused to record the song for release as she said that it was just a children's song. I think that the second time she sings it in the film she duplicates some of the verses in order to make it longer.
Two films:
I saw The Last Mimzy (2007) which is a family fantasy film, closer to Escape From Witch Mountain rather than ET. Not a bad film.
I also saw Bye Bye Birdie (1963) which was a comedy musical with Dick van Dyke, Janet Leigh and Ann-Margaret sort of based on when Elvis Presley was drafted not that the film had anything to do with Elvis Presley. I thought it was dreadful and as bad a film as I have ever seen. There were bits of the film which were OK but not enough to compensate for the rest of the film.