FWIW, I really really love The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Put it on the short list of accessible French films. That is, if you like the melody that is played with considerable variety all through the movie, where every line of dialogue is sung, including details of car repair....

Oh, I wasn't dissing The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (although I prefer the Les Demoiselles de Rochefort). Since I teach French film, there are a lot of French films in my queue, and it is not a bizarre recommendation in and of itself. It was just the "if you're interested in this, you might like this" non-sequitor that threw me.

Ah! I see -- and totally forgot your dayjob, too.

Somewhat related: the only French movie I've ever seen was Danton. I should probably fix that.

Somewhat related: the only French movie I've ever seen was Danton.

Try EYES WITHOUT A FACE. It was the feel good movie of whatever year it came out.

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Because the title is really what makes that reccomendation.

Try EYES WITHOUT A FACE. It was the feel good movie of whatever year it came out.

It's the feelgood movie of every year! We watch it every Christmas and Arbor Day.

Danton

Good movie. Worst dubbing job ever.

It really was! I think I wrote a five-page letter during the film.

Not quite movies, but I spent the morning minding the babby whilst JZ slept and poking around on the Avengers Forever website.

It's one of the coolest and most comprehensive show sites ever, and explains all the backstory on how/why Linda Thorson got cast, the great producer putsch of the last season, who Elizabeth Shepard was and with a lot of cool analysis and tidbits.

Sort of like the Buffy guide once was. But more comprehensive.

Damn. The Buffyguide was sooo good at one point.

Still also missing The Eleventh Hour.

Watched some of The Protector. Admittedly, it was the Thai version with no dubbing or subtitles, but you have a long road to hoe to convince me that understanding what they're saying makes the movie significantly better.

I've been told I should have started with disk 2 of the VCD set, but this was from the same guy who didn't see fit to tell us we'd not understand 2/3 of the conversations.

It also features some painfully bad phonetic English which makes you realise how well Jackie Chan and Jet Li were doing.