Best, Derek
On 2/11/07, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
>
> I was talking on the phone yesterday with my sister who lives in
> Seattle, and we got on the subject of what movies to rent for her
> kids. She says she draws a blank now whenever she is in the video shop
> or DVD section of the public library. They've outgrown and/or gotten
> tired of Disney fare and rented Chitty Chitty Bang Bang too many times
> already. Ditto The Sound of Music (yuck). The boy is eight, likes to
> read. The girl is nearly six (she is still in the Disney phase but
> will probably watch anything her brother watches). Neither of them
> watch TeeVee, so their imaginations are fresh in many ways.
>
> So I am trying to put together a list of titles for my sister to look
> for. As a kid I remembered seeing and enjoying:
>
> * Ring of Bright Water
> * Born Free
> * Wizard of Oz
> * Le Ballon Rouge
>
> and of course silent Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
>
> At some point, my mother (a Canadian with obvious Anglo affinities)
> took us to see some classic Ealing fare:
>
> * Lavender Hill Mob
> * The Ladykillers
>
> but I can't for the life of me remember how old I was. An eight-year
> old might have trouble with Cockney accents but how could he not help
> but fall for Peter Sellers?
>
> She also took us to see A Hard Day's Night in the middle of winter in
> that drafty barn the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square (this will
> surely date me) soon after it came out. Can someone be too young for
> the Beatles? I don't think so.
>
> I never saw anything by Jacques Tati as a kid, but am adding this to
> my list. Obviously the eight-year old will have trouble with
> subtitles, but Tati's humor is largely visual and he will at least get
> used to the idea of subtitles. A little later he can watch Traffaut's
> Wild Child, which I also enjoyed seeing in my youf.
>
> Then there is the British classic "Whistle Down the Wind" with Alan
> Bates, which is about children, but would children also enjoy it?
>
> OK, all you parents and ex-kids: what can you recommend? Any musical
> films (not necessary musicals) à la Hard Days Night.? I would
> especially love some comedy recommendations (Dennis P?)...
>
> --
> Colin Brace
> Amsterdam
>
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