UKRM Film Club - The Counterfeiters

German, subtitled.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0813547/synopsis
www.lawrencemalkin.com/kruegers-men-the-story.html

a fascinating dramatisation of Operation Bernhard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard
and the mass production of GBP and USD

The follow up history after the war sounds almost as interesting.

I could probably Shrink a copy for anyone really interested who can't find
it.

I've also acquired a Blu-Ray copy of Riding the Giants which I'm looking
forward to in 50" plasma splendour

 

Do you mean Riding Giants - the surf movie, or some dubious non-dwarf
porn?

 

The Surf movie. Disappointingly. For Darsy. And Ogden.

 

Yeah I had it in non HD but thought it was something that deserved
revisiting for the bigger screen.

I shall watch it tonight in fact.

 

Am I the only one who remembers the Private Schulz series that covered
this story a couple of decades ago? Starred Michael; Elphick of 'Boon'
fame/notoriety.

 

Nope

 

(The Older Gentleman) banged this out

Nah, I remember it, too.

 

In the same surf movie vein I can heartily recommend The Endless Summer.
A tale of the very earliest jet-set surf tour documentary style. Many
deeply bizzare locations get surfed around the world. Also the other
classic surf flick "Big Wednesday"

 

I was sure I already mentioned it a while back.

 

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/222e52a38380f1dc

 

Indeed, I have the DVD. Not as good as the opening sequence to the
Billabong Odyssey. Actually, the opening shot on Endless Summer 2 is
pretty fucking amazing too.

 

It's hard to imagine out of the three of you, which has the most deviant
collection.

 

ta - so I wasn't the first to mention it, but I knew that this thread
wasn't the first time it was mentioned.

 

It was probably what made me think of getting it.

 

T.E.S. wasn't the very earliest, by a long shot. (And Brown, Hynson,
and August were hardly jet-setters in the classic sense.) TES was just
an extension of the classic surf movie style that began in the late
40's and 50's, where a filmmaker would travel around to surf spots
with his camera, then travel around to communities and show his film
in school auditoriums, narrating it in person. When my friends and I
watched TES in the 60's, we saw it as a typical surf movie with much
higher production values.

"Big Wednesday" may big the classic big budget surf movie, but it's
still a crappy movie and a crappy depiction of surfers. (It's even
more insipid than "Point Break.") A far more realistic depiction of
surfers and surfing is "Blue Crush," about girl surfers on the North
Shore. The opening sequence of Billabong Odyssey really is a mind-
blower; and a different take on surfing is the wonderful "Surfing For
Life" about geriatric surfers.

 

OK we can admit Big Wednesday was a bit insipid. I don't think it was
ever intended as a document of surfers or representative there of, but
more of a way to capitalise on the phenomenon. In a similar manner that
Easy Rider wasn't really about bikers. I can however personally identify
with the scene in the cemetary. <checks no archive flag is set>
Big Wednesday had some things going for it though. Not sure what though, so
insipid must be a good description. I'll have to fire up the media player
and watch it again. I did rate it as a keeper.

Blue Crush was great but I have only seen it the once as I recall. I
believe this may have been in a certain residence known as the Bear Cave
this inevitably means I was probably a two, if not three or four, sheets
to the wind at the time. A common phenomenon, yet enjoyable.
8 sheets and beyond was not unheard of. They would always try and keep up.
They never learned.

Point Break, of course, had Gary Busey in it, as the non surfing half of
the duo, no less, which for me added to the overall giggle factor of watching
it after his role in Big Wednesday. And of course it had
"Lori (I just so would) Petty". ------------------------------ Which was nice.

I may go in search of Blue Crush but since the demise of Pirate Bay
videos are very difficult to get hold of around here. Brand new best
sellers only down at the shops and only until they sell out. They never
have a big stash of classics.

This is about the best there is.
http://www.dr.com.tr/

I shall certainly make an effort to have a look for/at the other
recommendations. But the self filmed and presented numbers are made of that very
fine material known in these parts as unobtainium. If you happen to spot any
<cough> torrents <cough>......

 

FWIW, "Surfing for Life" is a documentary. Dunno 'bout torrents, but
there are DVDs available of some of the early stuff. My friend Joe
Tabler runs surfbooks.com, a valuable resource for printed
memorabilia, and he may have links to video sources. The thing about
those early flicks is they were all done in the longboard era, and the
cinematography was pretty basic on crappy cameras, so they can be a
challenge to watch. I'm not sure how many of the narrated ones are
still around, but some of the early films with soundtracks are: Gun
Ho!, Locked In!, and Cavalcade of Surf by Bud Browne. John Severson
was a pioneer of surf films and started Surfer magazine. Surf Fever
and Going My Wave are a couple of his. And Bruce Brown made a few
movies before TES, among them, Surfing Hollow Days, Barefoot
Adventure, and Slippery When Wet. Slippery is notable because the
soundtrack is by the great jazz musician, Bud Shank.

 

<note to self: don't ever watch Slippery>

 

You mean there could be a danger of getting some bizzare German
watersports movie instead of a surf flick?

 

No, that would be a good thing. I mean I cannot begin to tell you how
much I hate jazz. I'd rather listen to The Crazy Frog on loop for ten
hours than suffer ten minutes of jazz.