I'd forgotten how good a film Witness (1985) was

[pokerfan]

Now I need to pick up the DVD...

Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Original Screenplay. Nominations for Best Actor, Art Direction, Cinematography, Director, Score and Best Picture.

[frogmarch]

1. And Viggo Mortensen was in it!

When I watched it the other day, I noticed him at the picnic table during the barn-raising.

Yes, Witness is a good movie. :thumbsup:

[pokerfan]

2. Yes he was. Godunov's brother?

Alexander Godunov ... Daniel Hochleitner
Viggo Mortensen ... Moses Hochleitner

[Haole Girl]

3. I love, love, LOVE this scene....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_tvjqSrBk

Melts my heart, every single time I see it. (sigh)

[pokerfan]

4. Many great scenes

The barn raising is one of my favorites. Also a bunch of excellent small scenes such as when the boy is wandering around the train station in Philly and looks up hopefully at a familiar looking bearded man dressed in black who is actually a Hasidic Jew. And the scene where he sees the picture of the killer in a display case in the police station.

It's really a fish-out-of-water story in both directions. The mother and her son in Philly and the big city homicide detective in Amish country.

Rachel: You know carpentry. Can you do anything else?
Book: Whacking. I'm hell at whacking.

[harmonicon]

5. yeah, that's a great movie

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear pokerfan!

Oh, I loved that movie!

Absolutely star-studded cast!

And a very compelling story, too...

*sigh*

:hi:

[pokerfan]

8. and the hero doesn't get the girl in the end

which was intelligent writing or at least realistic.

[Critters2]

7. Great score, too. Always sounds "Copeland-esque" to me. nt

[pokerfan]

9. Maurice Jarre

A reasonably successful film composer. (He won Oscars for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India.)