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    Treasure Island- your adventure awaits!

    Sorry, i've hung round long enough to see if anyone turned up. Treasure now gone. It was at Ogi-Ike "fan pond" beach on Minamijima island (one of the Bonin islands, East of Taiwan and South of Japan). Check out the spot on the net; beautiful place to spend some time, even without the treasure.
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    Treasure Island- your adventure awaits!

    o.k. Can't let this fizzle out. You should have headed East from Taiwan. On the Waterfront director Kazan's next film was East of Eden. To just East of 140, and North of (Miller's book) Tropic of Cancer. And it's not the Volcano islands (aka Kazan Retto), with its main island Iwo Jima (Wayne...
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    Treasure Island- your adventure awaits!

    Sorry for the delay; had Xmas visitors. If you've understood the "on the waterfront.. next direction" clue properly to start you off from Taiwan (further clue; Steinbeck, book of Genesis), you'll have plenty of open ocean to yourself for quite a distance- 1,000 miles about. Keep the writer Henry...
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    Treasure Island- your adventure awaits!

    Quite right. Well done, both. Taiwan is the place to set sail from! Let me know if you fancy the voyage, anyone. If you know about the Oscar winner for 1954 and its director it will help.
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    Treasure Island- your adventure awaits!

    O.k. here are some alternative clues. 1. One of Monty's throws sci- fi Marker for Bruce, mad Brad and simian dozen. 2. Kelly must love this city in the Springtime. 3. Takashi Miike's blood-splattered assassin. 4. Roeg directs Agutter on Aussie stroll. 5. The WWI guns have stopped...
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    Treasure Island- your adventure awaits!

    Sorry, when you know the answers, the clues seem a lot easier! Hope i've not misjudged it. But it has been done elsewhere. Then again, the guy was really clever.
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    Treasure Island- your adventure awaits!

    Now i put a bit of work into this one; anyone actually trying to find it?
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    Treasure Island- your adventure awaits!

    With my faithful sea dog Bryn, we've buried a priceless treasure chest somewhere in the world- hardly known but very specific! Armed with film knowledge, a good atlas or maps and a little scouting/surfing for further info, one of you will hit the jackpot! The first set of clues' 1st letters...
  9. J

    Treasure Hunt!!

    Well, i'm glad someone enjoyed it. But are you up to the next, more interesting "Treasure Island" adventure i'm about to do a new thread on?
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    Treasure Hunt!!

    Kevin found the gold in private. Well done. The answer was Eureka, which is about 200 miles North North West of San Francisco. The answers were; S ansho the Bailiff (wonderful film) A laddin N osferatu F itzcarraldo R ushmore A melie N otorious C yrano de Bergerac I f S e7en C ity...
  11. J

    Treasure Hunt!!

    Sorry, just been out. Yeah well done, you got it first time round- you might as well shout it out here!
  12. J

    Treasure Hunt!!

    By all means work as a group; seems like everyone's either stuck or too cagey. When you've enough answers for the point of departure, an atlas or map, and a little science may help find the gold.
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    Treasure Hunt!!

    Alternative clues. 1. Mother and son's beach reunion in Mizoguchi masterpiece. 2. Magic lamp gets Jafar animated. 3. Silent Vampire horror based on Stoker 4. Herzog and Kinski at it again in Brazil. 5. What's the hurry, Murray? 6. Tautou's a selfless waitress 7. Ingrid...
  14. J

    Treasure Hunt!!

    Sounds like a good idea. I'm sure that should entitle you to a share, as noone else has got it yet.
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    Treasure Hunt!!

    I've prepared 2 Christmas treasure hunts for you. Here's the easier one. First letter of each answer gives the place of departure, for the buried gold. 1. Kenji's cruel slave-driver splits mother and children. 2. Williams' genie out of Disney's bottle 3. Ship rats and silent Max sound...
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    Directors EUROPEAN Film Tournament

    The Passion of Arc.
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    Directors The Great Films HTF Scorecard Vote

    Belle de jour - 8 48 Hrs. - 5 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - 6 Days of Heaven - 7 The Manchurian Candidate - 5 Il Postino - 7 Rain Man - 5 In the Line of Fire -6 Fast Times at Ridgemont High - 6 The Third Man - 9 The Graduate -9 High Plains Drifter - 8 The Howling - 4...
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    Directors EUROPEAN Film Tournament

    Nevsky Joan (very close) L'Atalante
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    Directors EUROPEAN Film Tournament

    Nevsky (just) Children of Paradise Grand Illusion Nosferatu Ordet (just) L'Atalante
  20. J

    Abraham Valley- Portuguese masterpiece

    I should have changed the thread title to SEX to attract interest. 10 viewings really isn't good enough! Abraham Valley may well leave some viewers wondering what i see in it. It's quite slow and talkative, with regular voice-over that may irritate, though for me this acts as an interesting...
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    Directors EUROPEAN Film Tournament

    Aguirre Alexander Stalker Belle Rules 400 8 1/2 Ordet (great Dane gnashes Swede) Joan
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    Abraham Valley- Portuguese masterpiece

    I've just seen for the 3rd time this loose, referential 1993 transposition of Madame Bovary to Portugal's lovely Douro valley, by the now nonagenarian (and still amazingly prolific) director Manoel de Oliveira. Though the initial magical relish of finding unexpected treasure can never be...
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    Directors Your 100 favorite English Language films of all time.

    In chronological order. Asterisks denote favourites 1919 Broken Blossoms 1924 Sherlock jnr 1925 The Gold Rush 1926 The General 1927 Sunrise** 1933 King Kong Duck Soup 1934 It Happened one Night The Scarlet Empress 1935 Top Hat* The 39 Steps David Copperfield The Devil...
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    Directors EUROPEAN Film Tournament

    Oops, i missed Metropolis (Lang's best, beating Solaris, Tarkovsky's worst feature).
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    Directors EUROPEAN Film Tournament

    Kaspar Hauser Breathless - no Chloe (on my rental list- just being released here) Discreet Charm Once Upon a Time Suspiria Children of Paradise
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    Directors Your 100 favourite films?

    1.Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954) 2.Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1969) 3.2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) 4.Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984) 5.Sunrise (Murnau, 1927) 6.North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959) 7.Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974) 8.Alice in the Cities (Wenders...
  27. J

    Transsexual Bond Girl?

    It was Caroline Cossey (aka Tula, born Barry Cossey); just as well for Roger Moore's image she wasn't his main love interest. It shows how inaccuracies spread and can do damage, e.g to Carole Bouquet. Actually i read Cossey's book in the 80's; in those days sex changes were less common. The guys...
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    Directors QuickPoll #2: Your Favorite Film

    Sansho the Bailiff (by the great Mizoguchi, and scripted by..Yoda!)
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    Directors The Ultimate ASIAN Film Tournament

    2 great masterpieces which i love. Seven Samurai just.
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    Directors EUROPEAN Film Tournament

    Grand Illusion (very close but i'll go with the director more than the film.) - no Cercle Rouge (i'd be very surprsied if it was better than PLF) - NO 4th Man M.Hulot's holiday Three Colours Blue (just pips all the red in CAW) Shop on the High Street (both are overrated) Nosferatu Double...
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