Phew! What a Scorcher… July 19, 2006
Posted by John Hodson in : Film General , trackback10 films to watch in a heatwave:
- The Day The Earth Caught Fire
- Ice Cold in Alex
- Cool Hand Luke
- March or Die!
- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
- 3 Godfathers
- The Four Feathers
- Yellow Sky
- Legend of The Lost
- Chinatown (okay, only Los Angeles is ‘dying of thirst’, but hey, watch it anyway…)
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Or, on the other hand…
Emperor Of The North
Where Eagles Dare
North To Alaska
The Heroes of Telemark
…The Thing
Ice Station Zebra
The Last Hunt
Jeremiah Johnson
…On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
I’ll see your OHMSS and raise it a ‘The Savage Innocents’
In which case I’ll have to put down
The White Dawn
Fold!
A few more for sweating out the hot weather …
Rear Window
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Bribe
Inferno (1953)
Run for the Sun
… and plenty of ice-cold refreshment. Gulp.
The Hot -
Flight of the Phoenix
Lawrence of Arabia (can’t believe nobody’s already put that one)
The Cold -
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
And something with a bit of both -
The Man Who Would Be King
Two more cold classics - “The Brood” and “The Sweet Hereafter”
‘Pathfinder’ is pretty unbeatable on the “cold” front - as is the Icelandic film ‘Cold Fever’…
More heat:
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (all those darn Mexican flies)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (see above)
Beau Geste
Close My Eyes (Best ever evocation of a hot British summer for my money although the plot leaves much to be desired)
The Cement Garden
Night of the Big Heat
I don’t know whether I need a cold beer or a warm overcoat…
Overcoat: ‘The Great Silence’, ‘Fargo’
Beer: ‘The English Patient’, ‘Ben Hur’