shellymc

I guess I missed the temporary emoticons disaster. Haven't been posting a lot recently.

Let's see what I found out about your film recommendations (and some random thoughts):

1. The title refers to the concept, mentioned only jokingly in the film, that if an American nuclear plant melts down, it will melt through the Earth until it reaches China. See Wikipedia

2. That must have been the directorial debut of Robert Redford.

3. Great movie. I use it here to refer to another movie (La Pianiste from Michael Haneke where I saw some very angry woman walk out of the movie in London and demanding her money back) and finally a book (on which the movie is based and I think it's worth to read - I was introduced to it by a very funny and sarcastic East-German nurse) called The Piano Teacher (in English).

4. I prefer Four Rooms.

5. I haven't seen a lot of his film work.

6. "It has been claimed that the film fared poorly at the box office, but in fact it grossed almost $54 million in the United States alone, more than Saturday Night Fever (plus a further $24,000,000 in video rentals)." - see Wikipedia

7. "As originally filmed, Carlotta's dog was named Mussolini but due to changing political climate, his name was post-dubbed as Tarzan, even though Marie Dressler's lips are clearly saying the first name." - see IMDB

8. "Two of the actors appeared earlier together in The Unbearable Lightness of Being." - Which ones?

9. "Was a comeback to making films in Hollywood."

10. I would like to see his short "Skaterdater".