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From: Steve Novak (Cinefrog@comcast.net)
Date: 31 Aug 2009

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    ³you may not be able to describe it, but you know it when you read it²

    ... Mon dieu...what does that mean...?...

    ...inability to analize/interpret maybe...or just simply inability to denote/connote...i.e. explicit/represent...

    I havenıt heard this anywhere but in sports columns mand fan comments and I faith-fully read most soccer ones in The Guardian UK...

    ...and I do believe that there is such a line in the Cantona movie made by Ken Loach...please somebody who has seen it confirm...???

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    On a complete different note, the above mentioned Guardian UK has a thing called: The Best British Films of the last 25 years²
    (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2009/aug/30/best-british-films-25-ye ars)

    ...and it goes like this:

    1) Trainspotting (1996), directed by Danny Boyle...........brilliant and noir at times (Montois comment)... 2) Withnail & I (1987), directed by Bruce Robinson...........brilliant and noir at times (Montois comment)... 3) Secrets & Lies (1996), directed by Mike Leigh.............very good
    (Montois comment)... 4) Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), directed by Terence Davie........not seen...welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 5) My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), directed by Stephen Frear...........brilliant and noir a few times (Montois comment)... 6) Nil By Mouth (1997), directed by Gary Oldman........not seen...welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 7) Sexy Beast (2000), directed by Jonathan Glazer.....read many great reviews........not seen...welcome comments from Rara-Avians...described as a revival of the great British mob movies of the past...asnd this Montois reveres The Long Good Friday...just like he reveres The Wild Bunch... 8) Ratcatcher (1999), directed by Lynne Ramsay.....read many great reviews......not seen...welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 9) Slumdog Millionaire (2008), directed by Danny Boyle...not seen...not tempted...??? 10) Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), directed by Mike Newell...not seen...not tempted...??? 11) Touching the Void (2003), directed by Kevin Macdonald...not seen...not tempted...??? 12) Hope and Glory (1987), directed by John Boorman...not seen...????.... 13) Control (2007), directed by Anton Corbijn...not seen...very much want to see...probable noir content...comments welcome...(great admirer of Antonıs photography in NME in 89ıs-90ıs) 4) Naked (1993), directed by Mike Leigh...seen many times...noir content...superb...a rare gem for this avian...way up there... 15) Under the Skin (1997), directed by Carine Adler...not seen...????.... 16) Hunger (2008), directed by Steve McQueen... read many great reviews......not seen...welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 17) This Is England (2006), directed by Shane Meadows. Grimsby...positive want-to-see/ read many great reviews...probable noir content... not seen...welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 18) Shaun of the Dead (2004), directed by Edgar Wrigh...not seen...????.... 19) Dead Manıs Shoes (2004), directed by Shane Meadows... positive want-to-see/read many great reviews...not seen/probable noir content...welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 20) Red Road (2006), directed by Andrea Arnold...read good reviews...probable noir content not seen...welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 21) Riff-Raff (1981), directed by Ken Loach...not seen...????.... 22) Man On Wire (2008), directed by James Marsh...did not impress me...solid but Petitıs pettiness ruins the whole thing...yet, the film itself is solid...not more... 23) My Summer of Love (2004), directed by Pawel Pawlikowski...positive want-to-see/ read many great reviews......welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 24) 24 Hour Party People (2002), directed by Michael Winterbottom...positive want-to-see/ read many great reviews...welcome comments from Rara-Avians... 25) The English Patient (1996), directed by Anthony Minghella...fine...nice...who cares...?

    some of those are right up the rara-avis flight....and inside its claws...

    Montois...
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