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RIP As far as I'm aware, that now leaves Olivia de Havilland (also 103) as the last remaining 'Golden Age' movie star.

The United Kingdom of Great Bhangra and Northern Ireland. Sounds good to me - I'd be up for that.

My all-time favourite guitarist. Played guitar on Entertainment, my all-time favourite album. Played guitar at the two best gigs I ever went to: Gang of Four at the Hammersmith Palais, 1981, and Gang of Four at the Melkweg, Amsterdam 2004. Sad times...

Salty, squishy, slimy, and a bit chewy?

Strange coincidence you posting about Val Guest just as I was contemplating posting about The Day the Earth Caught Fire. OK, so it's probably his best-known film and hardly "forgotten", but I watched it the other day and was struck by how spookily some his portrayals of extreme climate disaster...

My Harold and Maude DVD gets watched nearly as often as Butch Cassidy or Dinner For One at the Trufflehound kennels.

I think you mean Matt Dillon, not Matt Damon...

Talking of forgotten gems, the best "late period" Don Ameche film by far is David Mamet's wonderful Things Change.

It can easily be Googled. Took me less than a minute to find the answers in here (disclaimer: don't look unless you enjoy cheating like me)...

It did seem rude not to.

The best Australian movie that few people in Europe have ever heard of is The Dish, in my opinion.

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I'd agree with this. Restless Natives is the Bill Forsyth classic that Bill Forsyth didn't make. And a great soundtrack...

And lest we forget, Soylent Green is set in the year 2022, which is now only 2 years away. A pretty accurate prediction of the future considering it was made almost 50 years ago.

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A lot of love for Let England Shake here, which is fine because it's a great album. But in my opinion not even the best PJ Harvey album of the decade - The Hope Six Demolition Project totally eclipses it.

Another part of the soundtrack of my youth gone. He made the best introduction to any song ever in my opinion, when he quipped at The Secret Policeman's Ball: "I've suffered for my music... And now it's your turn." Genius.

Or just far away?

We used to sing the 'Sausage roll, hey! Sausage roll' lyric to that at my primary school when it first came out in 1972 (we were blissfully innocent and ignorant of what was to come...). Has it really taken nearly half a century for the adult world to catch up with the kids?

Many, many great opening songs, including several of those mentioned above, but whenever this subject comes up I keep coming back to this: szZZBQFhAn0