iukaslim
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Spider,
I understand your suspicion, appreciate your film suggestion, and can only offer some additional info by way of explanation, clarification and apology.
First, as for HUNGER. Sounds like a worthy film, one I have not seen but I ought and will, but not as part of this project under discussion because, based on my reading of the film synopsis, it does not deal directly (enough) with The World pre-1966.
As for the low post count. I recently found myself in a rut. I vaguely wished to expand my horizons. While thinking about films and books, I happened to stumble across an online image of a RISK board game map. I thought “what if I threw a dart at the world map, and then made a point to view a film or read a book about that territory my dart strikes”…”But,” I thought, “no one film or book could give a real sense of a place. Make it a dozen!” … and something about the idea tickled me…and then OCD kicked in and I made a numbered alphabetized list of the RISK territories (there are 42 on the edition of the game map I have at hand)…I used an online random number generator which spit me the number 13…checked that against #13 on my alphabetized list: Great Britain & Ireland; and I then thought “oh, shit.”
I suppose I’d been assuming I’d draw Western Australia or Greenland or Kamchatka or some such and the challenge would be simply finding a dozen applicable movies available to me here in the US. I wouldn’t have to fuss much with winnowing my selections. But the British Isles! Oh shit man. This presented a problem of the opposite extreme. I almost gave up on the idea entirely right then, but last night I stumbled across this EMPIRE site forum, a site tied to that corner of the world, frequented by film aficionados and list makers. I figured this was my last best shot and so I signed up and posted my plea.
This is no homework assignment. I did not intend to put anybody out or make work. I had hoped maybe there might already be a list under discussion in this forum that would (near enough) chart my course for me. Or failing that, that some obvious suggestions might come easily to your (collective) mind.
I’m no great student of film. I just like movies, like a ‘normal’ person.
As points of reference, here are 4 movies I love more than others think I should:
Reckless (a lost 80’s classic starring Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah)
Secret of Santa Vittoria (Stanley Donen directing a different Quinn)
Professor, Beware! (a Harold Lloyd talkie)
Big Trouble in Little China
I am also a suckker for a Preston Sturges movie
As for my introduction to cinema of the British Isles…It must have been when I was about 6 or 7 years old…in a cinderblock theater in West Virginia..laughing at ‘Digby: The Biggest Dog in the World’ up on the big screen.
So that’s me.
I’ve no affection for BRAVEHEART but why would that be a bad choice, because it is a flawed film or because it is flawed history? Flawed history can be telling in its own way. It is certainly a film of note by an outsider looking in...if nothing else it offers a look at the scenery. Another film might provide a counterpoint or corrective (That said, yes no BRAVEHEART, please!)’
So, how to approach the 12. I’d start with 3 films about events that shook the world, 3 films about enduring (or recurring conflict/grudges, etc.), 3 films that offer intimate portrait of the people and life lived daily. and 3 films that are just the best goddamn films. Then I’d look the list over and if Wales, Scotland, England and all of Ireland (and each of the 4 epochs) have not all been seen and heard from in some way, I’d figure out the way to address those omissions with the fewest tweaks.
So, any hope, Obi-wan?
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