As far as I know my first movie in the Cinema was a re-release from the 1977 Disney movie The Rescuers It must have been somewhere in 1984 or so, I was 5 years old then.

that was the first film my little brother went to see, too, the Rescuers (i had to take him) which dates you totally, Eraser. ah Bernard and Bianca, i so wanted them to die.

@Taw: I'll do my best to locate them - I know a place where they have a lot of old movies, but even if I get hold of them, they'd probably be
a) in VHS only (PAL)
b)w/out any translation
c)copies.
If these conditions don't bother you, I'll start the search right away.
P.S. Ilocated a used copy of "Idi i smotri" here . Geez, what a price!

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin

Edited by - zlo on 1/13/2004 9:31:44 AM

cool cheers zlo. its ever so nice when someone does things for me (for a f****** change )

I'm a cinema purist. I dont need translations, I get screenplays. dubbing is for dolts.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 1/13/2004 10:55:50 AM

the first film I can remember seeing in the theater was Empire Strikes Back. The first film I can ever remember seeing was before that, on TV, an old flick called The Sullivan Brothers.

Now thats reminded me of something that I've been meaning to ask....when I was about 2 or 3 I was plonked down in front of the tv to keep me quiet. I remember very clearly watching a film about toys coming to life - there was an army of toy soldiers and a shelf in a toy shop where all the toys lived. I think a couple of them go off on an adventure - and I've got a sneaky feeling that Tommy Steele was in this movie, if he wasn't it was definitely from that kind of era.

I know this must sound balmy because of my age at the time, but I'm one of those people that can remember events from as young as about 15 months. Does anybody know what this film might have been? I've been trying to find out for over 20 years!!??!!

man, i know this film , i can see it.. not the Magic Toyshop. i gotta find out. back soon.

well the first film that I REMEMBER seeing was the little mermaid - I was taken by my mum with my sister. I was TERRIFIED when the evil thingy turned into that big black octopus! I don't know how old I was... 4? 5? certainly no older but I know I'd been to films before that because my mum says she had to take me out of Snow White because the Dwarfs scared me too much Apparently the same thing happened to her when she was little!

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@Taw (movies for a f***ing change ):
I wasn't able to find these movies - looks like everybody just got rid of any films with any political traces after the re-establishment of the independence. There might be some left in private collections, but I just don't know the righ people. There's another chance - i'll try to contact a friend of mine in Ukraine - maybe he can find sth...)

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin

I saw Probeda on BBC2 15 years ago or more, I've never seen it since.

another film I want and will prob never get is Veit Harlan's "Kolberg" (UFA 1945) which was sort of a Nazi "Gone with the Wind" and actually a dam fine spectacular film despite its political overtones of romantic German nationalism. I think I possibly droned on about on TLR:OT once before and everyone thought I was a Nazi or something nah I just appreciate interesting cinema no matter where it comes from, I have enough brain to separate the propaganda from the cinematic quality.

Probeda (Victory) is a very interesting and novel piece of cinema that takes a totally different view on the end of the war, Of course its tilted propaganda, Stalin is an jocular uncle type, while Harry Truman is depicted like some sort of Machiavellian demon. Great line from the Dulles character to Truman which I'll never forget, delivered with incredible malice, each word dropping like poison - "Mr. President, we.. have the Bomb..." and they both very eveil grin and cackle like silent era villains. crackin' great cinematography and compositions, beautiful colour stock.

As I said, I'll be on the look-out for these movies. On the other hand, I have sth from the opposite side, e.g. Triumph des Willens, a colored (!) movie called "Das Dritte Reich 1937-1945" (quite impartial, I should say), and a 2-CD documentary on the Olympic Games 1936 (black-and-white). Only on CDs and only dvx, tho.
You see, I've had enough of Soviet propaganda, and I want to look at the opposite side instead (not to go to extremes, but to compare). BTW, speaking of movies on WWII, I think nothing compares to "Das Boot" (unfortunately, I only saw it in English, and I believe that's the only version available - prob 'cause it's the original version - takes the spirit away from the movie though)
P.S. It was funny to find out that most of German marches (apart from the clearly ideologist ones) were about chicks and drinking Wonder why they were forbidden - make excellent drinking songs!

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin

i have the directors cut of Das Boot in German with english subtitles, you should have no prob getting hold of it.

Leni Riefenstahls work has undergone something of a reassessment in recent years, as time passes you can view it as art and not propaganda. And she certainly invented a lot of film techniques that are still in use today.