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The Red Balloon

 

French short (35 minutes) about a boy who finds a balloon that seems to have free will. It won shit loads of awards in 1956 and has just come out on DVD to lots of fanfare. It is a hugely impressive film, with no exposition. It flew by and I hate to say it, but the way the balloon is brought to life without your modern CGI is amazing. It's a bit saccharine, even though I was in bits when the catapults came out, I still felt manipulated. A friend of mine told me they'd seen it when they were five or something and have loved it ever since, and I can see why it would appeal most to kids like that.

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The Red Balloon

 

French short (35 minutes) about a boy who finds a balloon that seems to have free will. It won shit loads of awards in 1956 and has just come out on DVD to lots of fanfare. It is a hugely impressive film, with no exposition. It flew by and I hate to say it, but the way the balloon is brought to life without your modern CGI is amazing. It's a bit saccharine, even though I was in bits when the catapults came out, I still felt manipulated. A friend of mine told me they'd seen it when they were five or something and have loved it ever since, and I can see why it would appeal most to kids like that.

I saw that when I was a bairn.

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The Red Balloon

 

French short (35 minutes) about a boy who finds a balloon that seems to have free will. It won shit loads of awards in 1956 and has just come out on DVD to lots of fanfare. It is a hugely impressive film, with no exposition. It flew by and I hate to say it, but the way the balloon is brought to life without your modern CGI is amazing. It's a bit saccharine, even though I was in bits when the catapults came out, I still felt manipulated. A friend of mine told me they'd seen it when they were five or something and have loved it ever since, and I can see why it would appeal most to kids like that.

I saw that when I was a bairn.

 

Original cinema release?

 

<_<

 

The whole film is viewable online and anyone with a spare half hour should enjoy it...

 

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=red+...emb=0&aq=f#

 

(2nd video down)

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The Red Balloon

 

French short (35 minutes) about a boy who finds a balloon that seems to have free will. It won shit loads of awards in 1956 and has just come out on DVD to lots of fanfare. It is a hugely impressive film, with no exposition. It flew by and I hate to say it, but the way the balloon is brought to life without your modern CGI is amazing. It's a bit saccharine, even though I was in bits when the catapults came out, I still felt manipulated. A friend of mine told me they'd seen it when they were five or something and have loved it ever since, and I can see why it would appeal most to kids like that.

I saw that when I was a bairn.

 

Original cinema release?

 

<_<

 

The whole film is viewable online and anyone with a spare half hour should enjoy it...

 

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=red+...emb=0&aq=f#

 

(2nd video down)

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Crossfire - Good Film Noir with Robert Young and Robert Ryan but the under used Robert Mitchum steels every scene he's in.

Battleship Potemkin - Best silent movie I've seen so far. Excellent use of music and that Odessa steps scene is a fantastic achievement.

Croupier - Excellent. Didn't really know what to expect from it but I thoroughly enjoyed it and didn't see the twists coming at all. Alex Kingston has got class body too.

The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp. Classic. Roger Livsey's preformance is amazing.

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Life on Mars (US.SE01EP01)

 

It was nice to see an American take on things but it isn't half as good as the original.

 

For a start it is clearly filmed for American's so it is very low brow and it tries to make everything as obvious as possible - such as a flashback when a flashback isn't really required.

 

Still I may watch the next one.

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