Wednesday, March 16, 2011

MAR 22nd 2011

The Train

In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059825/

Trailer


7 comments:

  1. Good movie. All that steel glory inspired me to do a little investigation into my ancestry + the rails... besides the fact that my great-grandpa worked in train scheduling for the Nazis in WWII (bad guy!), I found out that a more ancient relative of mine, Sergei Witte (the dude who engineered the trans-siberian railroad) was played by Lawrence Olivier in Nicholas and Alexandra!

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  2. Very interesting stuff Witte . . . as Yahnker and I were discussing before the film, the true story behind this film is much less action packed. The French actually held up the German attempt to take this art by creating an avalanche of red tape - getting them caught up in endless beaureacratic conundrums.

    The film - Awesome. I love the tangible quality of sweat and steel and weight, crafted by brutal real time action and jarring, extreme photography. Couldn't have worked in color - great, crisp B & W. I love films about skilled people doing difficult jobs. This film reminded me of Army of Shadows and Wages of Fear, also Wadja's Kanal.

    Palpable, strong and intense - with the attention to detail Frankenheimer is great at. Wow, a good movie can really cleanse the brain palette.

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  3. I'm glad you said Wages of Fear, I was going to but I was too shy (because I'm sure I don't know what I'm talking about). I kept thinking throughout the film that The Train was more awesome than Wages of Fear. More like Sorcerer, I guess.

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  4. If you were gonna say it but didn't and I did say it, and you don't know what your talking about, THAN I don't know what I"M talking about . . . and I can't accept that. Therefore, you know what you're talking about too.

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  5. i was super impressed by the train stunts. makes me want to watch the general again. scary stuff!

    also we should have a movie night month called men at work. most would be movies weve already seen though... still a chance to see some of the best. (also doesnt have to be men)

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  6. Depending on how you are defining it, I already did a similar movie night month "Men on a Mission."

    I did "Final Flight of the Phoenix," "Where Eagles Dare," "Guns of Navarone" and "Magnificent Seven." Maybe another one was in there . . . but again, slight variation.

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