slim jenkins
El Hombre Invisible
it is a lovely film. dunno bout best western ever though....
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it is a lovely film. dunno bout best western ever though....
Yeah, the bit at the end is amazing in the funhouse.
Night of the Generals - Peter O'Toole as madly fucked up alcoholic stiff-necked Nazi general with a secret Ripper side. (Omar Sharif, improbably, as the German officer who tracks him down).
That sounds amazing!
Baader Meinhof Complex - politically debatable, cinematically wonderful.
I saw an advert for this film today - the strapline is something about "the most notorious terrorist group of our times". O RLY? Are they more notorious than Osama and Co.? Or those Shining Path gentlemen? Or even our own dear IRA?
If 'our times' is taken to mean the period when the film is set, then you could certainly make a case for that. Unlike the IRA/ETA/PLO which grew out of longstanding (or new, but dramatic) nationalist issues, the Baader-Meinhof's terrorism was borne of rather vague, abstract ideals. they didn't like the war in Vietnam (which Germany wasn't involved in), they didn't like the Israeli 6 day war land-grab (which Germany wasn't involved in), and they didn't like capitalism in general, or the feeling that their parents' generation should feel a lot more conspicuous guilt for Nazism than they evinced. Rebels without a cause, but with guns and bombs.