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The gods must be crazy (probably seen 4 or 5 times)

Ice Age (probably seen a dozen times, cry every time the mother drowns, and at the end

The King and I (seen a few times but long ago)

Have not seen but one very old film in the last few years. It was a black and white film from Jan Prochazka

this film is all with English subtitles: https://youtu.be/K146kVzttpY

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Thanks, Ingrid! I've seen The King and I and The Gods Must Crazy but I've seen very, very few of the somewhat recent animated films. As for the link you included, when I click, I'm told it is private.

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Ice age is at least 15 years old, there was a second one, but I didn't like that.

as for the link, to my surprise, it said private to me, too. I got the link from Jan Prochacka's daughter, so it might be she let me see it just because we got to write about him! So glad I could see it, it was an old black and white film, a Czech woman whose husband has just been executed for stealing some building material for their house, ishe steals his corpse and brings him home on her wagon. Then she's forced by 2 Austrian deserters from the german army, to take them to Vienna (the film is called A couch to Vienna)

One is badly wounded, she tries to drop their weapons while they are not looking and at a split in the road takes the wrong direction. The wounded one realizes it first, the other one sympathizes with her. Then they force her off the wagon and she runs through the woods, finding them back, the wounded has died, and the other is digging his grave. She sneaks on him when he exhausted, falls asleep, beats him, sinks down on the ground calling her late husbands name, and then he gently cuddles her and they fall asleep in each others arms. Partizans find them like this, gang rape the woman and torture the man to death, and the film ends showing her coming back once again with a corpse on her wagon.

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Wow...

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https://blueprintreview.co.uk/2022/03/coach-to-vienna-second-run/

here is a review with a few pics. have not found a working link.

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Thanks, Ingrid!

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I have a terrible recall for movies but there are a few over the years that captivated my attention. Perhaps it is the atmosphere of these films that drew me to them....The Grey Fox with Richard Farnsworth as a former stagecoach robber released from prison in 1901 after a long incarceration, puzzled by the new century. Pow Wow Highway, although I don't remember much about the film except the performance by Gary Farmer, I loved the book by David Seals. I also recall being fascinated at the time, '79 or '80, by a low budget (I think) film The Warriors. Street gangs in NYC! Interesting about Waking Life. I tried to watch it when it was released but something about the animation technique gave me vertigo. Ah well. As a side note, I discussed the film Billy Jack with my husband as he and his older brother were huge fans when they were kids, it made a powerful, positive impact in their lives.

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Hi Claire and thanks for those suggestions. I haven't even heard of the first two films you mentioned so I'll have to eventually track them down. And yes, The Warriors once caused quite the stir. It still has some of that early appeal.

As for Waking Life, I watched it on a small screen so maybe that would help?

And I'm glad to hear Billy Jack still has some dedicated fans!

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That's a good suggestion regarding viewing Waking Life on a small screen. I'll give it a try!

I meant to comment on Harold and Maude. I vividly recall watching it in a little art theater in my former hometown of Portland. I was in my teens and something about the theme of death, grief, finding joy, the dark humor, resonated with where I was in my head at that time.

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Yeah, Harold and Maude is certainly dark humor but I feel Maude's character is one of the greatest in film history!

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Absolutely! ❤️

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❤️

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"Harold & Maude" is a favorite of mine, too, and made an appearance in this piece (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-two-year-stackiversary-lattice). In one of the footnotes, I share a Maude quote my friend Susan reminded me of that remains all too relevant today: "How the world so dearly loves a cage."

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Thank you, MAA! ❤️

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