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Romford Pele
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I've just come back from seeing a French film just released today. It's called La Rafle, which means The Round-Up. It's about the events of the 16-17th July 1942 when the Vichy police (the collaborating faction of France) rounded up the Jews of Paris and held them in the Vélodrome D'Hiver (the winter cycling stadium). It has come to be known as the Vel d'Hiv - the name alone is one of the greatest sources of shame to the French people.

The film was incredibly true to the facts - there were no invented characters. The boy who played one of the central parts is the only survivor from the round-up - Joseph Weissman. The film did not try in any way to pretend that these policeman did what they did in fear of reprisals against themselves. It was made very clear that they, as well as the politicians Pétain and Laval, collaborated willingly with the Gestapo.

While in some ways, it isn't (in my opinion) such a great work of art as The Pianist or Life is Beautiful, it is nonetheless a very powerful film, which I recommend to you all, if it ever comes to your countries.

PS - I've just seen the post above. The actor who plays Hitler in this is very convincing!

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Watching 'The Graduate' right now. I have no idea how many times I have seen it now but I woulf guess it surpasses the number of times Gem has commented that Stevie G is a waste of oxygen, however I never grow tired of seeing it. It is one of the finest films ever made.

Plastics!

Yesterday I went to see Polanski's Ghost Writer. Somewhat spoiled for me by the fact that it wasn't the original version, but dubbed into French. It was weird to see Tom Wilkinson (an actor I admire enormously) speaking French.

However, there was a Hitchcockian feel to the film, and while I'm not a great fan of Pierce Brosnan's, he did a good job of his "Tony Blair" character (Artificial smiles in inappropriate places) accused of war crimes and association with the CIA. (may explain why the US decided to reopen the case against him)

Ewan McGregor is a ghost writer hired to finish writing the memoirs of the ex PM, because the original ghost writer has died in suspicious circumstances. David Rintoul (Dr Finlay?) gives a very solid and convincing performance as an embittered father whose son has died in Iraq.

Don't want to tell you any more. I want to go and see it again in English sometime!

watched mega shark v giant octopus last night and it was awful, yet good. classic b movie pap. loved it. how could you not enjoy a film where a massive shark leaps out of the water to attack a plane.

watched mega shark v giant octopus last night and it was awful, yet good. classic b movie pap. loved it. how could you not enjoy a film where a massive shark leaps out of the water to attack a plane?

Are you expecting answers to that question? :mellow:

I knew you'd like that one!

4. I like joined-up dialogue in films! :(

so no sharks or explosions in your films then. how very odd...

so no sharks or explosions in your films then. how very odd...

I did like the very first Jaws, because it focussed on the greed of the town shopkeepers and hotel owners, who were prepared to risk more deaths rather than close the beaches.

I did like the very first Jaws, because it focussed on the greed of the town shopkeepers and hotel owners, who were prepared to risk more deaths rather than close the beaches.

dont you bloody dare ruin Jaws by trying to give it a moral back story, it was about sharks killing and blood and boats and guns and drink and stuff....

dont you bloody dare ruin Jaws by trying to give it a moral back story, it was about sharks killing and blood and boats and guns and drink and stuff....

Not the way Peter Benchley wrote it, it wasn't! Nor the way Roy Scheider acted it!

Not the way Peter Benchley wrote it, it wasn't! Nor the way Roy Scheider acted it!

i was about 8 when i first saw it and was terrified, saw it the other day and couldnt believe how laughable the shark was.

Just watched the 2nd Twilight movie "New Moon" and now I'm off to throw up.

I had heard that there was no action, and all boring dialogue... was that the problem with the movie, Moos?

Last night I watched two Neil Jordan films back to back - The Crying Game and The Butcher Boy - both excellent. The young lad - Eamonn Owens, who plays Francie Brady, the dysfunctional/psychotic butcher boy, was superb. I found it a bit difficult to accept Sinead O'Connor in the role of the Virgin Mary, but the fact that it was in his head made it plausible enough. I saw it originally in the cinema in Glasgow when it first came out, and I don't remember noticing then how great the musical score was.

Dickywuh - there's lovely bloody bit in The Crying Game which will please you when Miranda Richardson gets her come-uppance - and peace-loving though I am, I can't watch it without screaming "Yeah, kill the bitch!"

Stephen Rea is excellent, as is Forest Whittaker (he always is).

The Neil Jordan film I've never seen is Interview with a Vampire - mainly because I really don't like Tom Cruise. The only film of his I've ever enjoyed was A Few Good Men, and that was really because of Jack Nicholson. Can anyone who has seen Interview With a Vampire tell me whether it's worth buying?

I had heard that there was no action, and all boring dialogue... was that the problem with the movie, Moos?

Oh it's abysmal. Full of hormonally charged youths. Miss it at all costs.

The third though is directed by the genius behind 30 Days of Night, so I hope he injects some much needed power and fight to rescue the potentially alright saga.

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