The last time I even heard ' Brigadoon ' mentioned was in The Waterbiys song ' The Whole of the Moon ' : " I saw the rain drenched valley / You saw Brigadoon "
I logged in to post this, but you beat me to it. I want to watch this again, I haven’t seen it since VHS. It isn’t easy to find unless you’re willing to spend $40 to get it from Australia, I’m not.
Seen it in the cinema 1993. Recall liking the story I’ve been looking for a dvd since. James Spader is very good, along with Charles Durning.
One movie that I never hear being mentioned is the 1973 version of Walking Tall. It's always the 2004 version with The Rock that is always played on movie channels. The original with Jo Don Baker as Buford Pusser is far superior to the 2004 remake as I recall though I haven't seen the original since the seventies.
I don’t know if there’s anything similar in the United States, but here in the U.K. the BBC Genome Project is a useful resource: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/
Is one of the songs called ‘I’m a Healer?’ I swear the female lead in that TV show says that 20 times an episode.
“Grifter” has been coming into use again lately, I’ve noticed it on Twitter - usually meaning “someone I don’t like politically.”
Wow that's a great question. Most of the 'original' movies I have seen on Netflix remind me of the DTV crap that Cinemax used to pump out by the carload but no new Shannon Tweed or Anna Nicole type after hours fare. Maybe because so many young women are so eager to bare all on their Instagram accounts (I think they call them 'Influencers'). Who needs to sit through all that exposition when you can cut straight to the boobies, I guess... Ah well, we'll always have Skyscraper!
Not that it was frequently ever mentioned, but in the early 2000s you could hardly turn on a premium cable channel without seeing it: "The Contender" - political drama starring Jeff Bridges as president. I saw it several times back in the day and then one day it just disappeared. I don't think it's streamed anywhere recently (you can pay for a view on Prime) and I don't believe it's out on Blu Ray.
There are films about Jesus (Scorsese’s “Last Temptation of Christ” and Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”) that have people talking about when they are released. A year later, all talk is gone.
American Beauty. Hailed as a masterpiece twenty years ago, people have now woken up to the fact that it’s the filmic equivalent of an empty airship, though the disgrace of one its stars hasn’t helped, either. It also boats the most pretentious opening line in cinema history.
I remember my friends and I saw A Fish Called Wanda so much we could quote the dialogue ad infinitum ad nauseum. I think of Quick Change as a nineties version of The Man With One Red Shoe----a comedy that came up ever so short, it needed just a little something more to make you bust up laughing out loud throughout the film, the way Wanda did.
It's also one of the last films of legendary cinematographer Conrad Hall. I haven't watched it in a while but I still remember some of the important bits quite clearly especially the Thomas Newman score, the plastic bag scene, and the ending. It's definitely a film of the late 90s with it's cynical and also somewhat nostalgic look on life. It's the same idea as Fight Club but more oscar friendly.
