The Fates do not want me to see these films...(in progress)
Submitted by burneyfan on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 02:31
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- Rain (L. Milestone, 1932)
- The Long Voyage Home (Ford, 1940 -- another one I've seen the first or last fifteen minutes of a stupid number of times)
- None But the Lonely Heart (Odets, 1944)
- Paisà (Rossellini, 1946)
- The Long Gray Line (Ford, 1955)
- A King in New York (Chaplin, 1957)
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Reisz, 1960)
- America, America (Kazan, 1963)
- Contempt (Godard, 1963)
- The Ipcress File (Furie, 1965)
Author Comments:
1/17/12: Finally removed The Uninvited, which I saw around last Halloween.
In progress as they cross my mind...
This is a list of films that I keep trying to watch from beginning to end, but for various reasons, I repeatedly fail. Sometimes I catch pieces of it over and over, but I miss the beginning and/or the end. Sometimes I screw up the DVR so that it doesn't record, and sometimes I forget to set the DVR, period. Sometimes I'm most of the way through a recorded disc when my husband records over it. Whatever the reason is, I cannot manage to see these films!
Hilarious list. I've actually had a similar problem with The Pianist. I tried to get the DVD from my library at college, but then didn't watch it because it was the fullscreen version. I then rented it from my video store at home, but the DVD was so scratched up that I could only watch the first hour or so (that had never happened to me before with any other DVD I had rented). Then I bought the DVD from a sale at a used DVD store, got it home, and realized I had accidentally bought the fullscreen version that I hadn't wanted to see in the first place!
I finally bought the widescreen version of the film, but I'm kind of afraid to watch it for fear of how the Fates will prevent me from seeing the film next. Maybe this time the disc will accidentally contain this movie instead.
Ha! Sadly, I have seen Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, so I definitely hope that disc you have hiding in that case really is The Pianist. Your story reminded me of another that keeps me eluding me, and I'll add it in a second: Lewis Milestone's 1932 Rain , with Joan Crawford and Walter Huston. I've screwed up recording it a few times, and I've just plain missed it by coming in too late. When I ordered it from Netflix, the DVD envelope was correct, but inside was some recent Spanish-language B-level crime movie...I think it was made for TV and had some part of the name "Rain" in it. I don't even see it on Netflix any more, or I'd link it.