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Reading Room:  Movies we love..old and new!  |
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LisaBee
True Blue Farmgirl
149 Posts
Lisa
Sparta
TN
USA
149 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 20 2005 : 09:50:39 AM
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I love "Pretty Woman" with Julia Roberts, "Steel Magnolias" (adore Dolly Parton), "Working Girl" with Melanie Griffith and whenever I am feeling a little down, I turn on the last ten minutes of "Dirty Dancing". Watching Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in that dance scene just brings me back to life every time.
Don't feel totally, personally and irrevocably responsible for everything. That's MY job. Signed, GOD |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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Posted - Sep 20 2005 : 10:02:14 AM
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| Steel Magnolias is great! Lots of quotable lines in that one. I also love Return to Me. And the 1st hour or so of Barefoot in the Park with Robert Redford. 2nd half of the movie gets odd. |
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2005 : 2:59:46 PM
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Hey MeadowLark I have seen "The Gleaners". I never knew about this such thing until I saw the movie. Very interesting thing.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com www.sisterhood.sqrlbee.com
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The Pinup Cowgirl
Farmgirl in Training
36 Posts
Holly
Tacoma
WA
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2005 : 9:46:55 PM
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Goalie boy,
All I have to say about Mystery, Alaska is "I have a toy pony, he takes big sh*ts."
"We can do no great things; only small things with great love."
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goalieboy
True Blue Farmgirl
69 Posts
erik
moscow
id
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2005 : 1:22:58 PM
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| Oh geeze, Ms Pinup, i love that line. |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
2206 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2005 : 1:34:31 PM
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Sqrl, I had not heard of gleaners either. There is a famous painting called The Gleaners. I don't know the artist, but it was painted in the 1800's in France and depicts whole families in a farmer's field with baskets picking up left over produce. It is to bad gleaning is kind of taboo in our country. There would not be the huge landfills and waste problems. Speaking of gleaning...I drove by a neighbor who is remodeling and there was a cute old end table sitting by the road ready to be taken to the dump. I really wanted to pick it up but DH said "no"... I don't understand his mentality. If I lived on my own in a large urban center I would be a nocturnal bin diver. I hate waste!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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Fabulous Farm Femmes
True Blue Farmgirl
792 Posts
Diane
Lakebay, Tacoma
WA
792 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2005 : 2:28:02 PM
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Holy Geeze Miss PinUp, can't believe you said that...I am telling your mother...oh yeah I AM your mother.....
Maybe it was Fargo I am thinking where they say Holy Geeze all the time? |
Edited by - Fabulous Farm Femmes on Sep 21 2005 2:29:52 PM |
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goalieboy
True Blue Farmgirl
69 Posts
erik
moscow
id
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2005 : 3:00:00 PM
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| Yeh, i think it was Fargo. Good one, Mrs Femme. I think that movie actually influences how peoples talk all over the place. Ya. It would be fun to make a future based SF movie where they all talk like Fargo, even the aliens and pets (who can now talk). That would be a heckofa deal, doncha know. |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
402 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2005 : 4:53:12 PM
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| In the Bible, Ruth and Naomi were gleaners - a couple of months ago, I saw a bookshelf out with the trash at my neighbors - I asked my husband to get it, if it looked OK, and he went and picked it up. I spray painted it and it is by the kitchen table, holding books and looks great!! |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
402 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2005 : 4:54:26 PM
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| In the Bible, Ruth and Naomi were gleaners - a couple of months ago, I saw a bookshelf out with the trash at my neighbors - I asked my husband to get it, if it looked OK, and he went and picked it up. I spray painted it and it is by the kitchen table, holding books and looks great!! |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Sep 21 2005 : 5:09:23 PM
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That's great KJD!!! Next time I won't tell DH and I will just pick it up. I found a picture of a bridge in a ditch near our house when I was with DH and he got it. If stuff is in front of someones house he doesn't want to take it. Go figure, it is going to be trashed anyway. Did not know Ruth and Naomi were gleaners!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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Posted - Sep 21 2005 : 6:29:59 PM
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Yes - Ruth 2:2 - Ruth said to Naomi, Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain...Naomi said to her, "Go ahead my daughter". So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters...
Ruth Ch. 1 mentions Orpah, whom Oprah was named for. Oprah said her mother spelled the biblical name wrong...Has anyone discussed Oprah anywhere on the list? I admire her - |
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goalieboy
True Blue Farmgirl
69 Posts
erik
moscow
id
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2005 : 7:19:49 PM
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| i watched Return To Me--nary a drink, either--and lived. Sorry, but i don't get it. My chickness must be broken. Minnie Driver sure is kissable, though. She could have my heart any day. |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
402 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2005 : 7:25:52 PM
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| Well, obviously, Goalieboy, you must watch it again, this time, WITH drink... |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2005 : 7:39:32 PM
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Well, don't feel bad gb, I rented it sometime back and couldn't make a go of it...and I am a chick... well I thought i was!  It was just too much for me. Another rental fee wasted. geeeezzz.
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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Fabulous Farm Femmes
True Blue Farmgirl
792 Posts
Diane
Lakebay, Tacoma
WA
792 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 12:50:06 AM
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| The entertaining part of Return to Me is the social interaction between Granpa & his card buddies,Bonni Hunt and Jim Belushi's parenting of their kids, let alone the silly bowling nights. Come on, for a fluff movie it was funny.Maybe you had to have funny old relatives like them, as I do, to enjoy them as much as I did. |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
2044 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 07:24:55 AM
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We had someone loan us a copy of The Clearing with Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, etc... All I can say is INTENSE is an understatement. Don't watch this movie with children or when you are looking for something to lift your spirits. It is one of those movies that leaves you with the feeling you've been punched in the stomach and are going to be thinking about it a long time. Not the effect I usually want from a movie( or my life...) but oh so thought provoking! Let me know what you think.
with a happy heart |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 08:16:12 AM
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Bramble, I agree with you totally on The Clearing. I made it through that only because it was Robert Redford. I just don't do violent movies of any kind usually... intense is a very good word for it.
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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goalieboy
True Blue Farmgirl
69 Posts
erik
moscow
id
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 12:03:10 PM
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You're right, Diane. I probably picked the wrong time to watch it, that's all. There are too many worries going on at the moment and i watched it to forget. So my perception of it is off-key and overly critical. Time for a hike and a book.
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Eileen
True Blue Farmgirl
1199 Posts
Eileen
USA
1199 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 12:04:39 PM
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Oiii,
I have finally had the chance to look over this topic and found so many of you love the same movies I love. Lately I have been on a documentary binge.
Also our library has just been collecting a lot of old silent movies that I have loved as well as some really old TV series that my husband and I have found to be quit amusing. Some have been amusing because they were so far fetched and inacurate and some just because they are so slow.
I have loved all the old Katherine Hepburn movies and Jimmy Stewart is another of my favorites. One of my more recent but still quite old movie favorites that I pull out on cold lonely winter evenings when my husband is not home is "Murphys Romance" Silly I know but I love James Garner and his being paired with Sally Feilds is just o fun.
As for foreign movies I have really enjoyed "Shall We Dance" in the original Japanese version. The american version does not make as much sense as we do not have the social Mores of the Japanese that make this so compelling. I did not like the american version even though it had two actors I admire.
I loved "Nell" and pull out "Grumpy old Men" and "Grumpier old Men" when I want a laugh out loud night. I love all movies Irish and so enjoy watching "Circle of Friends" while doing hand work or ironing. I usually watch old movies while ironing.
"The Notebook" is another one I love.
As for musicals I have "Moulin Rouge" The music sends me singing through anything I am doing. "Phantom of the Opera"
"De-Lovely" "Fiddler on the Roof" I saw this live on stage in London in 1969 with the original cast and it is still a favorite of mine.At the same time in my life I also went to see a lot of open air stage presentations of shakespeare plays. I still love Shakespeare and enjoy watchin movie versions of all of them. One that I watch over and over again is " A Midsummer Nights Dream" with Michelle Pfeiffer Rupert Everett. Calista Flockheart Kevin Kline and Stanley Tucci.I enjoyed Shakespeare in Love too. It puts him in a more human light and makes me laugh.
One my son recommended was "Cosi" which I now own and watch while ironing too.
O couple of movies I got on sale at our video outlet are "Unconditional Love" and "Hope Springs". I am a sucker for Romantic Comedy.
Titanic ahh titanic. Then there is my husbands favorite old movie "The Rocketeer"
Did anybody see the movie "Iris" with Judi Dench and Kate Winslet? It is a very moving film about Alsheimers Disease that came out a couple years before "The Notebook"
Another one about mental disorder that was excellent is "A Beautiful Mind" I would have had a really hard time with this one if I had seen it in the theater but on DVD with all the commentaries and interviews with the real person it is about made it possible for me to understand.
Just a few of my picks.
Eileen
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Julie
MaryJane's Farmgirl
60 Posts
Julie
Moscow
ID
USA
60 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 12:13:44 PM
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Clare and Erik,to bad you guys where disappointed with Return to Me. I agree that the death of Bob’s wife was emotional,and the fact that the girl he falls in love with has his late wife’s heart in a transplant operation. This does sound unbelievable, but some how the movie pulls it of in a heart-warming way. Real life humor with Jim Belushi (Joe). I love the scene where Joe, Grace, and Meg are in the kitchen, and Joe is dancing around with no shirt, large belly, talking about how irresistible he is. I was laughing out loud. There is a sense of magic when Bob and Grace meet for the first time and a gentleness of handholding and bike riding. Maybe it is just the hopeful romantic in me again….And you just have to fall in love with Carroll O’Connor and his buddies playing cards, drinking a beer, and listening to the greatest music ever. I recommend the sound track totally and I will watch this one again.
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 12:35:58 PM
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Julie, you are right. I couldn't get myself past the sad parts to get to the funny parts. Maybe if I hadn't been watching it alone it would have made a difference. I'll put it back on my list as a re-try. 
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 1:34:55 PM
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BlueEggBabe,
It sounds like we like the same kinds of movies. I love the Secret of Roan Inish. I own it and Waking Ned Devine, but want to buy the others. Have you seen "Matchmaker"? I watche "The Quiet Man" every year around St. Patrick's Day too.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
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Fabulous Farm Femmes
True Blue Farmgirl
792 Posts
Diane
Lakebay, Tacoma
WA
792 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 1:54:52 PM
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| A really inspriring but little seen movie by Katherine Hepburn is The Corn is Green. Anyone else seen and loved it? She portrays a turn of the century schoolteacher trying to give an education to Welsh children forced into coal mining at an early age. Wonderful scenes of her in vintage clothing riding her bike, wonderful scenery,some small comic character actor roles, and a theme that one person CAN make a difference makes this one of my fav's! |
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BlueEggBabe
True Blue Farmgirl
417 Posts
Susan
PA
417 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2005 : 2:30:24 PM
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Yes Debbie,
I DID see " Matchmaker" !! I completely forgot about that one!
I liked Jannine(?)Garofolo's character...such a cynical cutie.
(Come to think of it, I liked her in "About Cats and Dogs", too.)
Yup, I am an Irish film junkie....that I am.
Especially when I'm under the weather or feeling out of sorts. There is something about Ireland that says "home" to me.
Big sigh,favorite old quilt,boiling hot cup of Irish tea with cream and honey and an Irish flick.......
one of my favorite cures.
"If more of us valued good food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world place."
J.J.R.Tolkien |
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Movies we love..old and new!
