Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: The Full Monty British Film of the Millenium?

The Brits have recently voted "The Full Monty" British film of the
Millenium.
I think such a choice shows how people's perception of history is becoming
increasingly blurred.
Young people's memories (I guess most of the voters were very young)fail to
go back to more than
3 or 4 years before :
"The Full Monty " is a rather funny and witty film, but should I have to
vote for the British film of the millenium
I'd rather go for any of the following :
Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
Kind hearts and Coronets
Hue and Cry
The ladykillers
Have any of you poeple seen any of these films ?
What would your choice be ?
I call for Official Elections
A movie critical
Sal

Henry V
by and with Laurence Olivier
but I guess Dario is the expert here.
cheers,
Peltio
Alternatively,
"Moana goes to England"
Very profound.

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I'm quite embarassed, actually, I haven't seen any...yet. But I promise I
will!
By the way, I think The Full Monty is quite a funny movie, but I would'nt
have voted it as the best one of the Millenium either.
Ciao
CC

 Have any of you poeple seen any of these films ?
Only the "The Ladykillers" and I agree with you, it's a strong candidate.
Giorgio
A mower critic

 by and with Laurence Olivier
  ^^
Are you sure a certain W. Shakespeare didn't have something to do with
it?
Mary
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"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

it?
William WHO ???

 A mower critic
You write reviews of *lawnmowers*??
Mary
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Coup de grace - French for lawnmower?


Well, not really. Sooner or later I will patent a lawnmower too, I guess.
It was only a silly, not working, pun. Have you ever experienced saying to a
child that he is very funny and now he keeps on telling stupid jokes ?
That's me (the child).
Ciao
Giorgio

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Sorry about that!
Don't worry, though - I'm afraid I suffer from the same syndrome.
Mary
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The trouble with most political jokes is they usually get elected.

Millennium CD-ROM ?
I am sick and tired of this millennium hype. Everytime I hear the bloody M
word now, I want to reach for my gun (OK so I don't have a gun but that's
NOT the point...)
Isa
Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching

 Very profound.
La compianta Moana in Inghilterra?
(Something like "Moana does London"?)

NOT the point...)
<So am I !
   It was just a pretext for a movie buff like me to shoot some breeze .

>Piccoli Detectives del 1947 regia di quel sommo genio che corrisponde al
nome di
     Charles Crichton.

You write reviews of *lawnmowers*??
He ?
He's just a lawnmower !
You can tell him by the way he walks .
He knows what he likes (in his wardrobe )
Cryptic
Sal

Oh Madonna, cosa ho detto !!
Guardie... PRENDETELO! Che marcisca nelle segrete del Palazzo, condannato a
subir diuturna lettura del Sommo E.M.F. acciocche' abbia a ravvedersi della
sua blasfemia!
O tempora, o mores
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 nome di Charles Crichton.
Ora lo ricordo chiaramente.
E anche l'episodio di "Spazio 1999" con gli alieni in animazione sospesa...
almost cryin'
Ciao,
Dario.
ITA

O tempora, o mores
Che non mi leggano però "Where Angels fear to tread ".
Potrebbero non riaversi dalla catalessi.
Isolated
Sal

Cryptic
  Sal
You're so perspicuous to me!
Grazie per la dolce brezza del ricordo.
Betty.
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"I think not", said Descartes, and promptly disappeared.

Salvatore Santangelo ha scritto:
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No, you're not alone, I think E.M. Forster's boring as hell, too.
On a par with Henry James, but (to get back to films) not quite as bad as
Tarkovski.
Mary
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I quit drinking, smoking, and sex once. Most boring 15 minutes ever!

Tarkovski.
I love English people.
They are not overawed by "culture " like the Italians.
<Think of the poor students in Italian High Schools who are made to read
excerpts from
    "Washington Square" or "The wings of the Dove".
I tried to watch, last month, the filmed version of the latter on the
satellite but even though I was keeping my eyes open with pegs, I couldn't
help nodding off every now and then.
The truth is that the best films ever made often were taken from "Low
literature".
Truffaut, Kubrick and other made films from novels by James Hadley Chase (a
genius and a pure story-teller)
Jim Thompson, David Goodis and last but not least Sthephen King (but I
thinks that everybody agree by now that King is a WRITER)
Long Live Pulp Fiction and Popular literature!
Enthusiastic
Sal

 I quit drinking, smoking, and sex once. Most boring 15 minutes ever!
Ora si spiega tutto: per far vedere che sono tipi poco noiosi fanno
finta di odiare la buona letteratura inglese. Però fate attenzione: è
ormai passata la moda squisitamente intellettuale di giocare al
massacro con i classici e amare le soap ;-)
Su Tarkovski è meglio che non mi pronunci, arriveremmo altrimenti
ad Eizenstein, all'«occhio della madre» e di conseguenza a Fantozzi.
Ciao,
Dario.
ITA
P.S. Mi meraviglia che neanche Bambi venga a darci manforte
contro gli empî.

 Sal
Direi di piů: "W la fica!".
Ciao,
Dario.
ITA
Scusate, ma non posso anch'io avere le mie giornate "no"?


        What is ypur point, mate ?
<<<I'm afraid I don't understand.
       Leaving out Villaggio obscene jokes, Potemkin is a masterpiece.
       "Most " of our pitied Tarkovsky's films would have induced  Mary
Poppins
to take her own life and as Chris Carter said "The truth is out there".

 massacro con i classici e amare le soap ;-)
LOL.
No, I don't like soaps either.
And you should know that no good Englishman/woman would ever admit to being an
intellectual.
But it isn't a pose, actually. It's just that I've got to the age where I don't
feel I have to say I like things just because people expect you to. I really do
think all the things I mentioned are boring. (AND Shakespeare, quite often.
There. I've said it. I feel better now.)
I'm afraid my taste in literature runs more to down-to-earth authors like the
Brontes, Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, Dickens and Hardy.
(Don't forget to tune in for next week's argument: English poetry. Dunne vs.
Bukowski)
Mary
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.  -- Matthew Arnold

 Scusate, ma non posso anch'io avere le mie giornate "no"?
No.
:-))
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 >It depends on one's sexual tastes, dusn't it?
Perdona e dimentica, ho specificato che è una giornata "no".
Ciao,
Dario.
ITA
Ora che ci penso cambio idea, un film degli ultimi anni che mi è
molto piaciuto è "Orlando", con la meravigliosa Tilda Swinton.

 to take her own life and as Chris Carter said "The truth is out there".
Ciň dimostra ancora una volta che č una pessima giornata.
Era una b-a-t-t-u-t-a.
Ciao,
Dario.
ITA

 molto piaciuto è "Orlando", con la meravigliosa Tilda Swinton.
[...]

Brontes, Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, Dickens and Hardy.
There you go. I'm reading Sense and Sensibility right now and it's a beauty.
And I love Hardy, too.
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Good taste. And what about Samuel Butler, do you like his novels? I love
"The way of all flash"...
Antonio

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Good heavens, you Italians do read some weird stuff.
No, I must admit I've never read anything by Samuel Butler; he isn't even
taught in schools nowadays.
(Sorry, I'm not criticising, it's just that the literature taught in Italian
schools is quite different from the things we learn.)
The title is "The Way of all Flesh", by the way.
Flash = lampo, flasher = esibizionista.
Mary
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O! that this too too solid flesh would melt/ thaw, and resolve itself into a
dew! (Hamlet)


Certo, chiedo scusa;   se continuo a leggere in inglese e ad ascoltare
l'inglese quasi senza parlare e senza scrivere (come riuscivo a fare anni
fa), finiro' per confondere l'orso con la birra! :))
Di "flasher" non sapevo. E' il termine corrente per "esibizionista"?
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Yes (the modern slang word).
The legal term for flashing is "indecent exposure".
Mary
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It was so cold the flashers just described themselves.

 vs. Bukowski)
Celebrity Death Match
Fuori i secondi.
Ciao,
Dario.
ITA


<<More than 10 years ago  my Sociologia dela letteratura exam at the
University was postponed.
It was a relief to me because I hadn't succeeded in reading one of the books
I was upposed to read for the exam.
It was "The Monk":
The exam was only  3 days away and I thought I wasn't going to make it.
I began reading all the same and I became so engrossed in the book i
finished reading it in 2 days.
Sal
The Witness

Isabella) would have to be 'Plan 9 from Outer Space
<Try and watch "Night of the Ghouls".
It's even better.
Oh God, how Queenish and superior you are !
Sal
The Nightmare before Xmas

molto piaciuto č "Orlando", con la meravigliosa Tilda Swinton.
<I don't agree but
  Even though some, in this Oasis , might say "it's a copout I'm giving up.
I think I'll go to Epping Forest and like Harold Demure from Art
Literature:jump up the nearest tree.
Besides I think I hear the cavalry coming.
Sal
The Reverend

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Mary, ricomponiti,
ti è calato lo smile!
Ciao,
Dario.
ITA


<<<<The way of all flesh is not weird .
          It is an astonishing account of it was like to grow up in England
during the Victorian Era.
          You must read it .
Do you want me to send it to you ?

Dear Salvatore,
An insult or a compliment?
I prefer to think the latter.
I have not seen the film you mention but shall make a mental note to
do so at the first available opportunity.  That it is better than
'Plan 9
From Outer Space...remains to be seen.
Streuth! You're right, I also hear the cavalry approaching!
I remain, as always, ecc
Bambi
dtb
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And I thought I was the only person left alive who'd ever read it.
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967 edition) has this to say about
it:
"The mixture of the supernatural, the horrible and the indecent makes the book
unreadable today."
30 years on, I should think the reverse is true!
(I bet Stephen King read it, too.)
Mary
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The Zen monk says to the hotdog vender, "Make me One with everything!"

 Do you want me to send it to you ?
Sure - if you and Antonio like it so much, I suppose I should try it.
I could do with a good insomnia cure... :-)
Have you actually got it on file, or should I send you my address by e-mail?
Mary
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There's feline flesh all over the road, Tom said categorically.


Would I dare insult my Queen ?
It was a compliment to the irony and cheerfulness of the Anglosaxon educted
mind (any race and creed
included , Mary ).
Watch  Ed Wood's Night of the Ghouls.
It's the works !!!!
Sal
Turkeys Lover

Have you actually got it on file, or should I send you my address by
e-mail?
I haven't got on file.
I can send it by post and you can give it back at the next raduno
Sal
Your no spam fortress is impenetrable so I have to post this in the NG

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 Your no spam fortress is impenetrable so I have to post this in the NG
No it isn't; if you ever actually read my signature, you'll see it says
'remove "nospam" to reply'.
I'm afraid I can't mail you yet, because my e-mail hasn't been working
since Saturday for some reason.
I'll send you my address when it's back in commission again.
What can I send you in return?
Does Graham Greene interest you?
Thanks,
Mary
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Don't judge a book by its movie

What can I send you in return?
Don't send anything. My only pleasure is spreading  The gospel of
affabulazione
Sal
The Reverend