Submitted by Meredith Bell on Sun, 07/06/2003 - 10:00
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I was thinking we need some Forum Games like we have on LABN. Anyway, here is my contribution, the ABC games works like this: we choose a topic say, Movies or Books or Actors, and then each entry runs from A-Z. (For Example: Films - Armageddon to Zoolander.)
So lets start, the first catagory is, funnily enough, Superheroes/Villans (from anywhere, TV, comics, Cinema...)
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There is only one follow up to that...the master:
Cecil B. DeMille
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He's usually thought of more as an actor than a director, but he's directed some very good movies, including 'Unforgiven'...
Clint Eastwood
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Frederico Fellini...but, of course...
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George Lucas
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Howard Hughes
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Ingmar Bergman
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John Waters
The "Trash King" of America Cinema
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Akira Kurosawa
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David Lynch
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M. Night Shyamalan
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Phillip Noyce
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Otto Preminger (who directed "Carmen Jones" and who also played Mr Freeze in the 1960's Batman series)
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Roman Polanski
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Quentin Tarantino
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Ron Howard
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Has to be one of my all time favourite directors...
Stanley Kubrick
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Toshiro Mifune
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Toshiro Mifune is primarily an Actor NOT an director. I can only find one film he's directed ("The Legend of the Five Thousand" (1963)) I guess he qualifies.
.... btw, that was Dave using my login, in case you're wondering...
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Ok, my bad. I somehow remembered him as director, although if he directed at least one movie, as you said, he'd qualify, i'll give you another 'T' :D .
Terry Gillian
(this one is an actor too, and writer, but he's directed a lot of movies as well, some of my favorites among them :), have you seen 'Brazil'? Not to mention 'Twelve Monkeys'.)
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Ron Underwood
...this one was really me, not Dave :)
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Vittorio De Sica
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Walt Disney
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Mitsuo Yanagimachi
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Robert Zemeckis
Oh, wait! Whatever happened to 'X' ? :?
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:oops:
Xavier Villaverde
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Let me see if I understand this...
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZX
or is it...
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZY
or maybe
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUWXYZV
and sometimes...nevermind
the joke's been made.
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We should start from the ending, that way we would be sure to do it right. I can never remember the order of those last damn letters :oops:
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Ok, new one.
I've noticed we mentioned quite a few non-American directors, what about non-American movies? Anything not produced in the US can qualify.
"Antigua vida mía" Spanish
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"Beville, The Triplets of"--French
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City of Lost Children - French (and a bloody awesome movie, to boot)
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"Dragon, Crouching Tiger Hidden"
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"En la Puta vida" Uruguayan
(now, that's a tough one to translate. 'In the shitty life', maybe, although the exact translation for 'puta' is whore)
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The Full Monty - Which is of course a British film shot in Sheffield not far from where I live actually :D
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Gabriela, clavo y canela - Brazilian
(Gabriela, clover and cinnamon)
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Heavenly Creatures - by none other than New Zealand's own Peter Jackson.
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"Italian Job, The" (1969) the UK original, not the lifeless American remake
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"Job, The Italian?" No? :wink:
Ok, this is for real:
"La Jetee" French
("The Jetty", Twelve Monkey's original idea)
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Kind Hearts and Coronets - Another Brit Film :)
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Lantana
Brilliant Aussie movie. :)
Unfortunately, by using 'L' it means I can't put Moulin Rouge for 'M' - one of those movies that just proves that sometimes we non-Hollywood film producing countries can still produce a Hollywood blockbuster. :P Of course, a film like Lantana also deserved to be a Hollywood blockbuster but it so rarely happens...
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"Mon Oncle" French
(My uncle) I watched this movie with my class when I was in elementary school, and some of the scenes are so clear in my mind as if I had seen it yesterday. It's a great comedy
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Ned Kelly
...in many of its different incarnations, but the one they did this year with Heath Ledger has to be the best. :)
And yes, Ally. I, too, love Jacques Tati and Mon Oncle is one of his funniest movies.
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"Un Oso Rojo" Argentina
(A Red Bear)
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"the Potemkin"
The classic Russian silent film that has influenced scenes in films as recently as "The Untouchables"
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Quadrophenia Yep another classic Brit film about the Mods and Rockers in 60's England
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"Romeo and Juliet" Franco Zeffirelli's one, an UK/Italy production.
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Shine
Another great Aussie movie - Shine is about David Helfgott, a brilliant if somewhat mentally disturbed pianist, with Geoffrey Rush in the main role.
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crouching TIGER hidden dragon
I want to say this was made in Taiwan...please correct me if I'm wrong
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Hang on Mike - you already pulled a dodgy on that one by calling it "Dragon, Crouching Tiger Hidden" for 'D'. Now you've mangled the title yet again to slip it into 'T'?
But yes, at least you're correct on the country. I believe it was a joint Taiwan/Hong Kong movie.
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Up Pompeii
A UK film, which wasn't nearly so good as the TV series it was based on, but it's still fun to watch Frankie Howerd. :)
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Vita è bella, La (1997) better known in the US as "Life is Beautiful" which won an Oscar for best film that year. It was an Italian film.