Just watched My Diner With Andre .

[blues90]

I have seen it years ago and understood it but watching it now it becomes even clearer how we got here and why .

The other side for me was just how I have come to this point in my life where I am questioning everything I have thought ,done , worked for and who I am and why .

I can only say at this point that I really don't know . This is due for the most part to the situation we are in as far as bush and wars and the economy and todays joke of politics and all the systems of belief .

It is one scarey place to be right now .

[cyclezealot]

1. What a great movie.

I saw it at a film festival in Montpelier, Vt in the 80's. It really struck a cord with me. Such questioning. Such insight.
My disappointment. We recently moved. It was lost in the move. I am so disappointed. I get back to the states in Oct.I will have to buy that film. I hope I can.
Other films we lost I very much miss. "Herald and Maude," and 'Network.' How could we loose such important films.

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. Harold and Maude! One of my all time favs. As is Network. ....n/t

[QuestionAll...]

11. o yes, Harold and Maude!

my gosh I loved that movie. Brilliant.

Network, Andre and Maude.
think I'll rent them again. it's been sooooo long.

thanks for the reminder, OP!

[Lautremont]

2. Is that a more accessible version of "My Dinner with Andre"?

Pie and coffee instead of cornish game hen?

Sounds a little like "My Breakfast With Blassie," wherein Andy Kaufman breakfasts with wrestler Fred Blassie at an L.A. greasy spoon.

[Schema Thing]

3. I own the entire Action Figure collectable set

[sleipnir]

15. But do you have the "Remains of the Day" lunchbox?

Harumph!

[blues90]

4. the movie is on direct tv this month on flix 24th 11am 27th 2.30 pm est

it may be one cable as well or dish network

[LoZoccolo]

5. Now you have to see /My Breakfast With Blassie/.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085979

[cyclezealot]

6. As I said, I must replace this lost movie

any suggestions as to the best site to buy old movies.

[hyphenate]

8. Ebay

is usually good. If you want DVDs, try deepdiscountdvd.com--this is where I go most of the time.

[buddhamama]

9. a great movie

very thought provoking. I love the scene in the movie where Andre speaks and "gardeners" and giant vegetables...
i can't say why exactly, the underlying message for me i think was the power of love/positive thinking.

[cyclezealot]

10. It's been years since I last watched this movie.

I liked Wallace's point about now snide New York conversations get and such nastineess is cause to stay away from New York Dinner parties.

[blues90]

12. This movie really brought it home for me

There are so many parts of the conversation that relate to today .
The talk about the orwellian aspect , NY being a prison built by the residents however they don't see it as a prison that they made and guard and are also a prisoner . The way people are asleep , how Andre expressed that the last geneation of the real life and time was the 60's and since that time it has developed into an illusion . How the media and entertainment has put us a transe.

The entire state of this country and even the world is close to a disaster . When you consider how politics seem to be one illusion and then the hidden realities are the loss of certain rights all to do with free speech and privacy . The two defined sides of the media . THe talk about nuclear deployment or WW III . The 600 detainment camps setup across the US . Voting fraud , Katrina as an example of disreguard to americas life . new laws against feeding homeless . The economy with little in the way of jobs and low pay no product manufacture and mass outsourcing , no benefits and the bursting of the housion bubble . Wars that have no chance of resolution , ones that have gone way too far and the hate now directed at america as the terrorists . There is the huge Bio lab being built in Maryland to be done in 2008 . Global warming , depleted uranium . All the money and power now in the hands of a few also mutant politicians have the most financial backing.

There is much more than this but where does it seem to be going and who is behind the curtain .

It appears if you are not well off and belong to a certain group you are on the same road to the same end as everyone else , all that you may have is a bit more time .

It has been said we have made it through worse than this before , this is true but not in this magnatude or this manner , people seem to think they are not included and will find they are on the winning side in the end but what makes anyone feel secure in this . Many people died in the past when things were not even close to this bad so where do you or I fit in ?

[cyclezealot]

14. In recent times, writers express the'end of history.'

Tidpids of the movie come back. Recall how Gregory stated intelligence is being taken out by modern media and the only remaining aspect of intelligence will be flickers of light scattered about the country. roughly paraphrased.
I need this movie for our collection, but checked out Amazon, historical movies are like anywhere from $30 to $80. Why, because they are almost collector items. Maybe ebail is more reasonable.

[enigmatic]

13. My favorite film of all-time

And it's not even close. Brilliant, brillant film; Andre Gregory is a spellbinding storyteller, and Wally is Everyman.

Everybody should see this film at least once..

[cyclezealot]

16. I found it's dialogue so insightful-

I'd like to review it at least annually to see how my life's changes effect the movie's impact upon me.