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Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: Pastis on August 22, 2007, 07:01:05 PM

Title: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Pastis on August 22, 2007, 07:01:05 PM
I always get hooked by this film  ::)

Brilliant. I then I end up hours out of synch through watching it late, into the small hours.
As per last night  ::)

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Lebel: Excuse me, but it has just occurred to me that we have forty-eight hours in which to find this Jackal
[There is a chorus of "What?" and "How do you know?" from the committee members]
Lebel: Am I right in assuming that the President has no engagements outside the Elysee Palace today, tomorrow and Saturday ?
Minister: None.
Lebel: And what is Sunday, August the twenty-fifth?
Minister: [Slaps forehead] Of course! Liberation Day! We must have been blind.

So many classic moments... Old Spice Aftershave anyone?... to conceal the hair dye  rubschin:
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Nick on August 22, 2007, 07:02:47 PM
I am watching it later. Brill film with 2 time schemes: his and theirs.

Nice travelogue too!
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Pastis on August 22, 2007, 07:11:20 PM
As you say, brilliant travelogue.... I remember most of those places...

Ah, the market in Ventimiglia ...
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Snoopy on August 22, 2007, 07:12:40 PM
They don't make 'em like that anymore.



One of my all time favourites is The Servant ~ Absolute Classic ... I watch it often and always find something else in it.
You can keep your Tom (Short-arse) Cruise & Co. Give me some of the good old movies like The Third Man etc.
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Pastis on August 22, 2007, 07:20:50 PM
Arrrrghhh... The Servant !!! One of my favourites.

Of many curious trivial favourite moments.. Davy Graham the guitarist in the night club!!

Thomas Crapper & Son ... the 'builders' merchants...  eeek:

Then, the lighting, the dialogue, the tension....

Losey & Pinter at their best

How about Accident though ??

Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Snoopy on August 22, 2007, 07:22:39 PM
Do you know I have never seen it ~ which is a bugger. It's one of those "before I die" things that must be done.
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Pastis on August 22, 2007, 07:35:14 PM
You'll enjoy it ... in fact it's a must see ...

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haroldpinter.org%2Ffilms%2Fimages%2Faccident2.jpg&hash=88221e5f380c8403a18419190f00c66e01d93fa7)

I remember (vaguely) being totally mesmerised by Jacqueline Sassard in this one... warm summer, Oxford nights....  rubschin:
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Bar Wench on August 22, 2007, 08:28:38 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on August 22, 2007, 07:22:39 PM
Do you know I have never seen it ~ which is a bugger. It's one of those "before I die" things that must be done.

Neither have I. Actually I tell a lie, I've seen the opening scenes about five times and then I fall asleep.   redface:
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Nick on August 23, 2007, 12:31:28 PM
But has Snoopy got Travels with my Aunt yet?


Audrey Hepburn cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Snoopy on August 23, 2007, 12:37:46 PM
Quote from: Nick on August 23, 2007, 12:31:28 PM
But has Snoopy got Travels with my Aunt yet?


Audrey Hepburn cloud9: cloud9: cloud9:

I have read it ~ but many years ago ~ the public library did not have a copy  Banghead
I am therefore unable to look up the reference you offered.
Of course had a certain person not been camping out in his garden when I called I might have seen it in his library. evil:

Audrey Hepburn ~ Agreed 100%
Title: Re: The Day of the Jackal
Post by: Nick on August 23, 2007, 01:14:08 PM
Well we are agreed then. Mrs Nick#1 was a cross between Hepburn and Jodie Foster cry: