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Magic Hate Ball posted:Dabbo, I'm a big meanie who's giving you A Clockwork Orange. I wasn't really ready to watch this movie yet, but I'm still glad I made myself sit through it. It was really intense and I can't say I enjoyed it, but it was still a positive experience. I'm still pretty emotionally shaken by it so I can't really write a good review right now, just that it's a powerful movie that challenged me in a way that a movie never really has. Sorry if I'm sounding like a big dumb baby right now but there you go!!! Ihad never heard of The Cow, but I looked it up and I'll be checking it out myself! So I guess I should pick it.  New Shame list: True Grit Listened to my Dad watch it in the other room once, but barely remember any of it. Not sure if that counts but I should still actually watch it Metropolis We have the poster hanging on our wall but I haven't seen it yet. I like the robot lady's design a lot and thats about all I know about the movie.. The Invisible Man I remember our elementary school library had a book about this movie that was way above any of the students reading levels. I could barely read it but I remember being absolutely fascinated. My parents thought it was too scary and wouldn't let me watch it but I'm 20 now so hey The Fly Another one that's always fascinated the hell out of me, despite never seeing it. I guess I have a thing for weird body horror, maybe I should start looking up more movies with that theme??? The Terminator I uh... I don't really have an excuse for this one. I've seen all the sequels but never the original. wtf Labyrinth I've always wanted to watch this, I just never got the chance. David Bowie is my hero so this is another "no excuse" one. The Hunt For Red October I knw absolutely nothing about it, I put this here so I'd have at least one title where I'm going in completely blind. Planet of the Apes I saw the remake as a kid and had nightmares about loving monkey people years. Hopefully things will go better with the original! One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest I had to read this book in high school and hated it and refused to ever watch the movie based on that, time to get over that grudge and watch it.
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What tripped you up about Clockwork Orange? Also, I'm giving you One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. I hope you continue to pick traumatic movies so I can beat everyone else to the punch and make you watch them. Safety Last! was wonderful. It's rightfully famous for the building/clock sequence, but before that is forty-five-odd minutes of brilliant comedy speckled with romance, and everything in the film is leveraged by tension, which is built as well as in any Hitchcock film. It does show its age from time to time, most notably in the appearance of a really offensively stereotypical Jewish jeweler, but it has an air of timelessness. While I was watching it I was thinking how interesting it would be to see it remade under the wrappings of modern comedy, but I couldn't think of an appropriate actor. The building/clock sequence was totally hair-raising. After the first couple floors I forgot that it was an effect (or stopped puzzling over what the effect was). Lloyd clinging to the clock is a great image but the finale in which he swings by his foot from a flagpole is ten times better. After the film I discovered that the effect was really basic: they built a skyscraper set on top of a skyscraper. It's stunningly simple and couldn't possibly work better. I really can't think of any issues I had with it. It's not as emotionally perfect as a Chaplin film, and it doesn't feel as precise, either, but Lloyd's use of tension is almost unsurpassed. 10/10 this list is as shameful as michael fassbender's penis 1) Faces - I'm afraid, John. 2) The Wild Bunch - More TSPDT, I don't really know anything about this one. 3) L'Atalante - I honestly don't know anything about this but man, number 14 on TSPDT must mean something. 4) I Know Where I'm Going! - gently caress me, I've rented this like four times and for some reason I never watch it, which is retarded because I love Powell and Pressburger. 5) Mommy Dearest - This sounds incredibly entertaining. 6) Vivre sa vie - Replacing a new-wave with a new-wave, this is another meant-to-never-saw. Great that it's on Blu now. I think I skipped this one for A Woman Is A Woman when they were doing a Godard retrospective at SIFF. 7) Once Upon a Time in the West - Are there horses in this? I like horses. Once I lived on a horse ranch and we had horses right behind our backyard. The people who owned them never visited so they just stood there getting fat. Sometimes we'd go out and exercise them by making them walk back and forth for melon rinds. 8) A Band Apart - More Godard. 9) L'Avventura - I've only seen one Antonioni film and I didn't care for it, but here it is on the TSPDT list. 10) The Magic Flute - This has been in my Netflix since I was like 13. I love this opera and I love Ingmar Bergman. Jules et Jim 6/10, Saving Private Ryan 9.5/10, Fitzcarraldo 9/10, The 39 Steps 7/10, Notorious 7/10, Run Lola Run 8/10, Downfall 7.5/10, The Searchers 7.5/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Gone With The Wind 10/10, Touch Of Evil 9.5/10, Ikiru 7.5/10, The Apartment 7/10, Bicycle Thieves 7/10, Moon 7/10, The Color Purple 7.5/10. The French Connection9.5/10, The Leopard 8/10, Yojimbo 8.5/10, Sanjuro 8/10, Das Boot8.5/10, The Conformist 8/10, Breathless 9/10, Where The Wild Things Are7.5/10, Vertigo 9/10, Raging Bull 10/10, Ordet 7/10, City Of God 9/10, The Wages Of Fear 9/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 9/10, The Mirror 9.5/10, Through A Glass Darkly 10/10, On The Waterfront 6/10, The Straight Story 9/10, Lawrence Of Arabia 8.5/10, Dial M For Murder, 8/10 Winter Light 10/10, The Silence 9/10, Badlands 8/10, The Wrong Man 7/10, In The Mood For Love 9.5/10, Secret Honor 10/10, Gosford Park 10/10, Viridiana 7.5/10, The Exterminating Angel 9/10, Seven Samurai 10/10, Rashomon 9/10, The Godfather: Part II 10/10, La Dolce Vita 10/10, The Princess Bride 9/10, Bringing Up Baby 7/10, City Lights 9/10, Baraka 7/10, Au revior les enfants 8/10, Bonnie And Clyde 6.5, Hiroshima mon amour 8/10, Lost In Translation 10/10, The Piano 8/10, La Strada 7/10, Safety Last! 10/10 (total: 58)
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Magic Hate Ball posted:What tripped you up about Clockwork Orange? Without going into detail, I suffer from PTSD so anything with realistic violence(especially towards women) will bring up a lot of unpleasant memories and shake me up pretty bad. I couldn't watch it before because it triggered vivid flashbacks, so I know I'm making progress at least! I'm trying to get to the point where I can watch a movie with intense scenes at the theater and know I can handle it. Like no 'going to the bathroom' or nothing 
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Magic Hate Ball posted:6) Vivre sa vie - Replacing a new-wave with a new-wave, this is another meant-to-never-saw. Great that it's on Blu now. I think I skipped this one for A Woman Is A Woman when they were doing a Godard retrospective at SIFF. I am selfish, as Vivre sa vie is currently sitting unwatched on my shelf. That, and Godard's Breathless was quite good. ::The List of Great Shame:: 1. Inland Empire - I adored David Lynch's Blue Velvet and the Twin Peaks series, yet Lost Highway made me want to rip my eyes out, it was so disjointed and confusing. I've been avoiding his films ever since. 2. Inception - Everyone I know raved about this film to such an extent that I decided against watching it. On occasion, someone prods me in its direction and I become even more of a curmudgeon. 3. Grave of the Fireflies - Nausicaa and Monoke were great, and Studio Ghibli never fails to impress, but holy poo poo, this sounds like it's going to be depressing. I don't want to cry. 4. Brazil - At some point, I saw a clip and noticed some atrocious garb being worn that reminded me of Labyrinth, the '80s, hair metal, and bad memories. 5. Amadeus - Quite long, and I honestly have very little interest in classical music, yet it is the absolute favorite of someone whose tastes I respect. 6. Dune - The novel is a masterpiece, in my opinion, yet I've heard that the adaptation is a disaster. I still feel an obligation to watch it. 7. Lawrence of Arabia - Long and old. The acting style of that era tends to repel me with overdramatization. 8. Pandora's Box - Did I mention old? This is before the time of my grandparents, and it is also silent. I've little experience with such films. 9. Waltz with Bashir - A friend recommended this years ago. He also recommended several others that were boring and overrated. 10. The Boondock Saints - Critics thrashed it, everyone else seemed to love it. I've repeatedly set it aside for films with greater consensus as to their quality.
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Zanato posted:1. Inland Empire - I adored David Lynch's Blue Velvet and the Twin Peaks series, yet Lost Highway made me want to rip my eyes out, it was so disjointed and confusing. I've been avoiding his films ever since. This is the wrong step to take then. I would advise going instead for almost any of his other films. Mulholland Drive is very disjointed and confusing but done in a much more masterful way than Lost Highway so it should instead leave you wanting to watch the film again rather than claw your eyes out. The Elephant Man and The Straight Story are both very straightforward films. They're essentially typical dramas (both were Oscar nominated) with a bit of a Lynch twist to them. But they're things you could watch with your family and both are excellent. Eraserhead is a masterpiece, but it's weird as gently caress. Entirely unnerving. I wouldn't call it disjointed, it is very much a complete piece of work - but you might not understand what's happening. It's a bit of an overwhelming film. Wild At Heart is a safe choice. It's funny, it's got Nic Cage, the Lynch surrealism is there but it's done in an accessible manner. It has a fairly straightforward plot too. So after laying all that out, here's why Inland Empire is the worst choice - The film is a mess. If you thought Lost Highway was distorted, Inland Empire is a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle with the same image inverted on the opposite side of each piece. It was an experiment for him where he wrote the script as filming progressed, with no real plot structure or ending in mind. It's 3 hours long, it's confusing as hell, and I would only recommend it once you've seen most everything else he's done. Oh, by the way. I don't know if you knew this or not, but Dune is also a Lynch film. It's the only feature of his I've never seen, but I've heard that it is indeed a disaster and he didn't have final cut. One cut of the film was so unlike what he intended he had his name stricken from the project and replaced with the Alan Smithee moniker. TrixRabbi fucked around with this message at May 20, 2012 around 17:59 |
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Zanato posted:2. Inception - Everyone I know raved about this film to such an extent that I decided against watching it. On occasion, someone prods me in its direction and I become even more of a curmudgeon. BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNG! Leningrad Cowboys Go America was hilarious. I lost it completely at the first sight of the haircuts of the band, the film gets incredible mileage from what amounts to a stupid hair joke, and things only get sillier and stranger from there on. One thing that stood out to me, was how America is portrayed here. In paper, this is an American Dream sort of film, a bunch of nobodies go on a road trip through America trying to live the dream, fame and fortune and all that, but how America is evoked is quite interesting. Empty fields, industrial and construction dominated landscape, ransacked houses and streets, empty bars, it's almost no different from the Russian(Soviet) landscapes at the beginning of the film, except with less tractors. Gives it a strange satirical edge to it. It was great, I'm already convinced by Aki Kaurismäki. SHAME: The Road goes ever on and on Vivre Sa Vie Haven't been impressed with the little I seen so far from Godard. Close-Up This looks interesting. Fallen Angels A spiritual sequel to Chungking Express, or so I'm told. The Killer More John Woo Bullet Ballet. All About My Mother Another from the pile of dvd's I own for years, but never got around to watch. The Shop Around the Corner 40's romantic comedy or something, with James Stewart! Star Trek III: The Search for Spock I keep meaning to watch these silly films, I really do. Mon Oncle The continuing misadventures of Monsieur Hulot! Jules et Jim More from Truffaut. Have watched so far 99 movies: Barton Fink, Sweet Smell of Success, The 400 Blows, Rocky, Videodrome, Charade, The Double Life of Veronique, Ace in the Hole, Easy Rider, Dark City, Gosford Park, Seven, Hard Boiled, Mystic River, The Magnificent Ambersons, Midnight Cowboy, A Serious Man, A Hard Day's Night, Manhattan, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hamlet, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The New World, Carlos, Blood Simple, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Gangs of New York, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Burn After Reading, Mesrine:Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy nrº1, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Wild Strawberries, Repulsion, The Long Good Friday, Island of Lost Souls, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom, Beauty and the Beast, Zodiac, After Hours, Nights of Cabiria, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Encounters at the End of the World, The Cameraman, Hard Eight, The Purple Rose of Cairo, My Darling Clementine, The Virgin Spring, Dodes'ka-den, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Chimes at Midnight, Miller's Crossing, Wild at Heart, Hausu, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Shame, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, World of Apu, Cobra Verde, Richard III, L'Âge d'or, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Age of Innocence, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Dersu Uzala, Samurai Rebellion, Shoot the Piano Player, The Red Shoes, The Wages of Fear, Rushmore, Short Cuts, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bringing out the Dead, All That Heaven Allows, The Hudsucker Proxy, Day for Night, Match Point, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Madadayo, Smiles of Summer Night, Nosferatu the Vampyre, The Man Who Knew too Much(34), The Man Who Knew too Much(56), Minority Report, Far From Heaven, Last Year at Marienbad, Grindhouse, Heavenly Creatures, The Dead, The Seven Year Itch, Synecdoche, New York, The General, Hour of the Wolf, Europa, Leningrad Cowboys go America.
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Electronico6 posted:The Road goes ever on and on This is one I would like to eventually see, so I hope it's good. Enjoy! Finished up Some Like it Hot and I quite enjoyed it. The mad-cap world made me laugh and Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis were very funny. I never realized just how big a girl Marilyn Monroe was and man does it show in this movie. Anyhow, the whole thing was delightful. My updated list: 1. Philadelphia Story - Another movie I have no idea about, but it keeps getting recommended in this thread. 2. North by Northwest. Time for another Hitchcock. Hope I enjoy this as much as I did Vertigo, if not more. 3. The 3 Faces of Eve. If I'm not mistaken, this is about a woman with multiple personalities, yes? 4. Tokyo Story. Another I know nothing about but it's been recommended and loved over and over in this thread. 5. Kingpin. Something about Amish bowling? 6. The Kite Runner. I've heard nothing but amazement over this movie, but I really don't like the Middle East wars and I think this would just make me unable to appreciate the movie? I hope I'm wrong. 7. Children of Men. Something about a pregnant woman. 8. Before Sunrise. This is a romance, right? 9. Grey Gardens. I think this is a documentary about some crazy rich ladies who are hoarders? Sounded interesting. 10. Ghost in the Shell. I've tried to watch this 3 times now and have fallen asleep within the first half hour. Finished movies: Die Hard; Dr. Strangelove.; Chinatown; Citizen Kane; There Will Be Blood; Do The Right Thing; The Graduate; Rocky; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; A Streetcar Named Desire; Apocalypse Now; Children of a Lesser God; City of God; The Pianist; The Red Shoes; Eraserhead; Vertigo; Raging Bull; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Tombstone; Seven Samurai; 8 1/2; Dancer in the Dark; Lawrence of Arabia; Metropolis; It Happened One Night; Bonnie and Clyde; The Seventh Seal; Singing in the Rain; Barton Fink; Sunset Boulevard; The Gold Rush; The Deer Hunter; My Neighbor Totoro; The Crying Game; Unforgiven; La Dolce Vita; The Apartment; Rabbit Proof Fence; Duck Soup; Mad Max; Princess Mononoke; Notorious; Platoon; The Lives of Others; The Bicycle Thief; Cape Fear; Some Like it Hot
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Bodnoirbabe posted:
One of my favourites of the last decade. Just watched Key Largo after a bit of a hiatus from the thread. It's a fun little noir with a fantastic set up that kind of unravels in the last act but it's still an enjoyable diversion. I think I was expecting more because of who was involved and its commentary on personal duty and bravery doesn't come across very well. It's kind of clumsy. While it's no Big Sleep, it's still a good watch. LIST O SHAME: 1920s - Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) - Silent flick on witchcraft that looks unlike anything I've seen. 1930s - King Kong (1933) - Say what? How have I never seen this? I cannot adequately answer that question. 1940s - The Lady From Shanghai (1947) - I've liked what I've seen with Orson Welles, let's keep the streak alive. 1950s - Anatomy of Murder (1959) - Great Criterion cover/poster, great cast...must see. 1960s - Onibaba (1964) - Japanese folk horror, I presume. Let's do this! 1970s - Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Continue on with the America Lost and Found Box-Set 1980s - Mystery Train (1989) - Only Jarmusch feature I haven't seen. 1990s - Safe (1995) - No idea about this one other than having been told it's really good. 2000s - Carlos (2010) - Will watch this 5+ hour beast in segments. Bonus/IMDB List - Witness for the Prosecution (1957) SHAME BE GONE:Wild Strawberries, Sunset Blvd., The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Our Man in Havana, Breathless, Phenomena, Withnail & I, 12 Angry Men, The Cranes Are Flying, Fitzcarraldo, Amadeus, Paths of Glory, Blow Out, Cronos, Hausu, City Lights, Easy Rider, The Lives of Others, Salo, In the Bedroom, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Cars, Brand Upon the Brain!, The Great Dictator, Double Indemnity, Point Blank, Cool Hand Luke, 127 Hours, Black Narcissus, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sting, A Woman is a Woman, Life of Brian, Last Picture Show, The Company of Wolves, Tree of Life, Life is Beautiful, Young Frankenstein, Cinema Paradiso, Some Like it Hot, Shotgun Stories, Singin' in the Rain, Precious, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Rules of the Game, Frost/Nixon, All About Eve, Bronson, The Searchers, Bicycle Thieves, American Graffiti, A Christmas Story, The Phantom Carriage, The Changeling, Repulsion, Kagemusha, Irreversible, The Virgin Spring, The Red Shoes, Deconstructing Harry, Metropolis, Che, The Island of Lost Souls, Revanche, Black Moon, Stalker, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Badlands, The Long Goodbye, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Apartment, All About My Mother, Tokyo Story, Chungking Express, This is Spinal Tap, On the Waterfront, Grave of the Fireflies, Rebecca, The Sweet Hereafter, Peeping Tom, Drunken Angel, Duck Soup, Key Largo(TOTAL: 83)
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Ratedargh posted:Bonus/IMDB List - Witness for the Prosecution (1957) This is an extremely well crafted courtroom drama. I loved McCabe & Mrs. Miller. I liked that the setting actually feels like a real town. The cinematography is stunning, and it gets even better when it starts snowing heavily. The two main characters are very interesting, particularly McCabe. He is considered by everyone in town to be the archetypical mysterious badass, but he's actually just kind of a brash idiot who can't quit when he's ahead. He's not a gunslinger, just a bad businessman who can only run and hide when the assassins arrive. The climactic showdown in the snowed-in town is amazingly tense. I'm glad I liked this one, now I'm looking forward to seeing more Altman films. 1920s: The Last Laugh - Murnau won me over with Sunrise, I look forward to seeing more of his movies. 1930s: Scarface - I need to see more Pre-Code movies. 1940s: Black Narcissus - I've loved both P&P movies that I've seen so far. 1950s: Ugetsu - Sansho the Baliff was equally amazing and depressing, I hope I like this one just as much. 1960s: Viridiana - I loved The Exterminating Angel, so I'm looking forward to this. 1970s: 1980s: Fitzcarraldo - I've wanted to see this ever since I watched Aguirre. That was like two years ago. 1990s: Raise the Red Lantern - Sometimes I'll put a movie on here that I know nothing about. This is one of them. 2000s: Let the Right One In - I never watched this for dumb reasons (vampires are lame). I'll probably end up loving it. L'Atalante - Next highest on the They Shoot Pictures list. Just pick this one, it's been here forever. Watched/Score(10): The Seventh Seal 10, Moon 8, Barton Fink 10, The Thin Blue Line 9, Cool Hand Luke 9, Citizen Kane 10, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10, Rear Window 10, North by Northwest 9, Goodfellas 10, Casablanca 10, City Lights 8, Seven Samurai 10, Bicycle Thieves 9, Do the Right Thing 10, The Battle of Algiers 9, On the Waterfront 7, Wild Strawberries 10, The Trial 10, Adaptation 9, Unforgiven 10, Annie Hall 9, The 400 Blows 9, Diabolique 8, Mulholland Dr. 10, Dirty Harry 5, The 39 Steps 8, Aguirre: The Wrath of God 10, 8 1/2 9, Boogie Nights 9, A Streetcar Named Desire 7, Raiders of the Lost Ark 10, The General 9, Pickpocket 7, Pulp Fiction 10, Amadeus 10, Lawrence of Arabia 10, Eraserhead 8, The Lady Vanishes 8, The Wild Bunch 8, A Clockwork Orange 7, Platoon 7, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 9, Ikiru 10, Jules and Jim 10, The Asphalt Jungle 8, M 9, The Thin Red Line 9, Dial M for Murder 9, The Sting 8, Once Upon a Time in the West 9, The Exterminating Angel 9, A Woman Under the Influence 10, Singin' in the Rain 9, Scenes From a Marriage 10, Badlands 8, City of God 10, The Gold Rush 7, The Maltese Falcon 9, The Conformist 9, The Shawshank Redemption 8, High and Low 10, It's a Wonderful Life 7, Days of Heaven 9, Le Samourai 6, The Night of the Hunter 10, Metropolis 10, The New World 10, Persona 8, Manhattan 9, Some Like It Hot 7, The Rules of the Game 10, Nights of Cabiria 7, The Graduate 10, Pather Panchali 10, Punch-Drunk Love 9, Grand Illusion 8, The Hustler 8, The Great Escape 8, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 7, Memento 9, Forbidden Planet 7, Stagecoach 7, The Usual Suspects 6, The Big Sleep 8, Modern Times 7, Tokyo Story 9, Seven 9, The Searchers 6, The Battleship Potemkin 6, Videodrome 8, Léon: The Professional 6, American History X 4, The Grapes of Wrath 7, The Wages of Fear 9, Bonnie and Clyde 6, Mean Streets 8, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 8, American Beauty 6, The Great Dictator 7, Children of Paradise 10, La Dolce Vita 4, The Deer Hunter 8, Ben-Hur 5, Magnolia 9, Rushmore 10, MASH 4, Spirited Away 8, The Cranes Are Flying 9, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7, Sunrise 9, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 6, The Lives of Others 8, Casino 8, Naked 1, Glengarry Glen Ross 9, Rififi 8, It Happened One Night 6, Time of the Gypsies 9, Being John Malkovich 9, Army of Shadows 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 10, Midnight Cowboy 8, Das Boot 10, Cries and Whispers 9, Hannah and Her Sisters 10, The Best Years of Our Lives 7, The Pianist 8, King Kong 7, Cinema Paradiso 6, Gone with the Wind 6, Fantasia 8, The Elephant Man 10, McCabe & Mrs. Miller 9 (Total: 134)
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Atheistdeals.com posted:1980s: Fitzcarraldo - I've wanted to see this ever since I watched Aguirre. That was like two years ago. This one is fantastic. So I'm glad somebody finally chose The Cow for me. It was fantastic. I haven't seen a whole lot, but Iranian film has this incredibly unique aesthetic to it that isn't quite matched by anything else. From the opening shot the movie grabs you. The actors playing Hassan and Eslam are fantastic. It's a very simple story that manages to spin way out of control in a fascinating way. Very underrated. It's also worth noting that Ayatollah Khomeni was a big fan of the movie, and that this film may have been what saved Iranian cinema from being flat out banned after the revolution. My List: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - Got this as a blind buy, mostly because The RZA praised it. It's been sitting around for a few months now. Buffalo '66 - From what I've read about Vincent Gallo he seems like a bit of an rear end. But I've never seen a film by him and maybe he'll impress me. Cul-De-Sac - I can never not be reminded that he's a rapist, but dammit, Polanski knows how to make a film. This one sounds pretty good. Shane - I know this comes highly recommended from a certain someone in this thread. Divorce, Italian Style - I got the Criterion of this new for $5 at a thrift shop about a month ago and I've yet to watch it. Marat/Sade - I've never heard of this until just recently, but it sounds really good and Criticker thinks I'll like it. Bad Timing - Was talking about Roeg's Performance with one of my professors and he suggested checking this out. I've known about it for awhile so I might as well give it a go. Straw Dogs - So how hosed up is this movie anyway? Stop Making Sense - I like the Talking Heads. I'll probably like this movie. Once Upon A Time In America - The last major Leone film I need to see. Watched: Harold and Maude (75); The Third Man (87); Inland Empire (83); Godzilla (79); Big Trouble In Little China (84); Y Tu Mamá También (86); Marathon Man (81); Hunger (89); A Woman Is A Woman (69); Black Narcissus (82); A Hard Day's Night (84); Scarface (71); Le Doulos (84); On The Waterfront (84); Rocky (83); 3 Women (81); Airplane! (77); Duck Soup (77); Clash of the Titans (60); Singin' In The Rain (85); The Cow (86) TrixRabbi fucked around with this message at May 25, 2012 around 18:10 |
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TrixRabbi posted:
When I first saw this at 13 I thought it was really hosed up. It was unlike anything else I had seen at the time. Love Peckinpah. I enjoyed Witness for the Prosecution for Charles Laughton. He was a delightful old bastard. His delivery of dialog and his interactions with the characters from his nurse to his colleagues to everyone else was constantly entertaining. The problems more lie with Leonard Vole and his "wife." Their story is less interesting than Laughton's sly maneuvering. This made the reveal at the end even more effective. It surprised the hell out of me...did not see Dietrich's switch coming. I honestly believed Vole was innocent...that was very well executed.. Funny, I've seen many of Wilder's movies through this thread and while I've enjoyed them I haven't fallen in love with any (except maybe The Apartment...Sunset Blvd. was close too). LIST O SHAME: 1920s - Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) - Silent flick on witchcraft that looks unlike anything I've seen. 1930s - King Kong (1933) - Say what? How have I never seen this? I cannot adequately answer that question. 1940s - The Lady From Shanghai (1947) - I've liked what I've seen with Orson Welles, let's keep the streak alive. 1950s - Anatomy of Murder (1959) - Great Criterion cover/poster, great cast...must see. 1960s - Onibaba (1964) - Japanese folk horror, I presume. Let's do this! 1970s - Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Continue on with the America Lost and Found Box-Set 1980s - Mystery Train (1989) - Only Jarmusch feature I haven't seen. 1990s - Safe (1995) - No idea about this one other than having been told it's really good. 2000s - Carlos (2010) - Will watch this 5+ hour beast in segments. Bonus/IMDB List - The General (1926) SHAME BE GONE:Wild Strawberries, Sunset Blvd., The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Our Man in Havana, Breathless, Phenomena, Withnail & I, 12 Angry Men, The Cranes Are Flying, Fitzcarraldo, Amadeus, Paths of Glory, Blow Out, Cronos, Hausu, City Lights, Easy Rider, The Lives of Others, Salo, In the Bedroom, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Cars, Brand Upon the Brain!, The Great Dictator, Double Indemnity, Point Blank, Cool Hand Luke, 127 Hours, Black Narcissus, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sting, A Woman is a Woman, Life of Brian, Last Picture Show, The Company of Wolves, Tree of Life, Life is Beautiful, Young Frankenstein, Cinema Paradiso, Some Like it Hot, Shotgun Stories, Singin' in the Rain, Precious, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Rules of the Game, Frost/Nixon, All About Eve, Bronson, The Searchers, Bicycle Thieves, American Graffiti, A Christmas Story, The Phantom Carriage, The Changeling, Repulsion, Kagemusha, Irreversible, The Virgin Spring, The Red Shoes, Deconstructing Harry, Metropolis, Che, The Island of Lost Souls, Revanche, Black Moon, Stalker, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Badlands, The Long Goodbye, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Apartment, All About My Mother, Tokyo Story, Chungking Express, This is Spinal Tap, On the Waterfront, Grave of the Fireflies, Rebecca, The Sweet Hereafter, Peeping Tom, Drunken Angel, Duck Soup, Key Largo, Witness for the Prosecution(TOTAL: 84) Ratedargh fucked around with this message at May 24, 2012 around 02:48 |
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The Lady from Shanghai is pretty great, and apparently the studio butchered it, so when you watch it, just try to imagine how much more amazing it could've been. I'd also mention the accent but... you'll hear it yourself. Schindler's List was a laugh riot! Except replace the laughing with crying. I'm emotionally extremely stable/unexcitable, but for some bizarre reason movies are really good at making me scared (can't really watch horror movies) or cry-y. So basically I spent the last 1/3rd of this movie crying. Other than that it was pretty great. Good performances, some unforgettable scenes in the ghetto, and a refreshing lack of music. Slightly schmaltzy in some places, but for Spielberg that counts as super duper restrained compared to his modus operandi. I just watched A Serious Man the other day so I'm feeling some real connections to my Jewish heritage. I'm about ready to emigrate to Israel now. 1) Union Station (1950) - It has William Holden, right? So I should probably also check it out. 2) Seven Samurai (1954) - One of the many Kurosawa films I haven't seen, and one of the ones that everyone talks about. 3) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - How can anyone know too much?! That's ridiculous. 4) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - A classic. All I know about it is that it has a Mickey Rooney doing a racist portrayal of an Asian person. 5) The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Bunuel! All I've seen of his is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeouise, and that was a lot of fun. 6) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - I understand that it's between this and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly when it comes to "best Spaghetti western." I enjoyed For a Few Dollars More the most out of the Man With No Name trilogy, so it would be nice to see if it can hold onto the title. 7) Badlands (1973) - I've seen two Malick films and they have both been wonderful. I think this one is set in a desert? Or maybe it was a dessert. This is maybe a movie about cake. 8) Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Until I finally watched Apocalypse Now, I don't think I had seen any of the iconic 'Nam films. This one's next on the list. 9) Slacker (1991) - I think someone posted somewhere here that Slacker is much better than American Graffiti. I'm having trouble imagining how a movie could be better than American Graffiti but Linklater's no dope, which makes Slacker one of those movies I've always wanted to get aroudn to watching. 10) High Fidelity (2000) - I think it's about records and I think John Cusack is in it. Is it sort of like a sequel to Say Anything? Deshamed: The Seventh Seal (97), 99 River Street (87), In a Lonely Place (98), City Lights (82), Goodfellas (87), M (86), Schindler's List (91) TychoCelchuuu fucked around with this message at May 24, 2012 around 06:12 |
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Schindler's List
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TychoCelchuuu posted:2) Seven Samurai (1954) - One of the many Kurosawa films I haven't seen, and one of the ones that everyone talks about. It's the best film he made.(Other opinions are available) The Road is alright I guess. Think it all comes down to the editing and the ending. The tone for most of the film is total hopelessness, with scary horrible, death of humanity bits here and there, but then the ending is of the happy kind, with a loving dog included, all framed around with some really smarmy music. I'm just not feeling it. Sort of amazing that if you basically cut to what amounts to two second of runtime, the overall tone of the entire ending(and film) change.(Though the music would also have to go) The entire film has a peculiar feel to it, but not the bleak one intended. The post-apocalyptic world doesn't seem to have room to exist here beyond the initial montage(with a silly narration over it), it certainly looks bleak, but doesn't feel like it. It's kinda just a backdrop, it's there and looks gloom and doom, but what of it? Someone like Werner Herzog would be all over the landscape, mystifying and demonizing for all it's horrible crushing bleakness and beauty. (Which is what Cormac McCarthy does in a sense, with his expressive use of language.) John Hillcoat and his DP, don't seem to really go for it, and the way the film was cut doesn't give room to "breathe". Which is not really bad, but such an imagined setting deserved better, than just looking dark&grittytm. Also what's up with the missing thumbs in the last two survivors? Just not to be overly negative, Viggo and the kid actor, are pretty good, and the small enjoyment I got out of the film, was mostly due to their work. Anyway, another 100 films.  This makes 200 overall since I got into the thread, March of last year. The best films I discovered because of this thread and stuck with me the most, are Vertigo, Hausu and Singin' in the Rain. The worst is still Werner Herzog's Woyzeck. Here's to another happy 100.SHAME: Vivre Sa Vie Haven't been impressed with the little I seen so far from Godard. Close-Up This looks interesting. Fallen Angels A spiritual sequel to Chungking Express, or so I'm told. The Killer More John Woo Bullet Ballet. All About My Mother Another from the pile of dvd's I own for years, but never got around to watch. The Shop Around the Corner 40's romantic comedy or something, with James Stewart! Star Trek III: The Search for Spock I keep meaning to watch these silly films, I really do. Mon Oncle The continuing misadventures of Monsieur Hulot! Jules et Jim More from Truffaut. La Strada va sempre avanti. Have watched so far 100 movies: Barton Fink, Sweet Smell of Success, The 400 Blows, Rocky, Videodrome, Charade, The Double Life of Veronique, Ace in the Hole, Easy Rider, Dark City, Gosford Park, Seven, Hard Boiled, Mystic River, The Magnificent Ambersons, Midnight Cowboy, A Serious Man, A Hard Day's Night, Manhattan, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Hamlet, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The New World, Carlos, Blood Simple, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Gangs of New York, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Burn After Reading, Mesrine:Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy nrº1, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Wild Strawberries, Repulsion, The Long Good Friday, Island of Lost Souls, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom, Beauty and the Beast, Zodiac, After Hours, Nights of Cabiria, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Encounters at the End of the World, The Cameraman, Hard Eight, The Purple Rose of Cairo, My Darling Clementine, The Virgin Spring, Dodes'ka-den, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Chimes at Midnight, Miller's Crossing, Wild at Heart, Hausu, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Shame, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, World of Apu, Cobra Verde, Richard III, L'Âge d'or, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Age of Innocence, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Dersu Uzala, Samurai Rebellion, Shoot the Piano Player, The Red Shoes, The Wages of Fear, Rushmore, Short Cuts, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bringing out the Dead, All That Heaven Allows, The Hudsucker Proxy, Day for Night, Match Point, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Madadayo, Smiles of Summer Night, Nosferatu the Vampyre, The Man Who Knew too Much(34), The Man Who Knew too Much(56), Minority Report, Far From Heaven, Last Year at Marienbad, Grindhouse, Heavenly Creatures, The Dead, The Seven Year Itch, Synecdoche, New York, The General, Hour of the Wolf, Europa, Leningrad Cowboys go America, The Road Electronico6 fucked around with this message at May 25, 2012 around 02:15 |
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Currently sitting through the intermission to Seven Samurai. This is a long intermission.
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Dabbo posted:Akira is a pretty good anime movie check it out Yeah, uh... wow. Akira was something else. Transcendent, really. The plot synopsis really doesn't do it justice. I don't know what else to say other than I'm very glad to have seen it now. --- Electronico6 posted:Star Trek III: The Search for Spock I keep meaning to watch these silly films, I really do. Well, put on your silly hat and drink some silly juice with your silly straw! You're about to get beamed up to the U.S. Sillyprise. --- List of Shame *NEW* The Wild Bunch I've been meaning to see more westerns, and this seems to rank highly on most people's lists. I've yet to see any of Peckinpah's films all the way through (not that I don't want to to). Could this be the one? Usual Suspects There's some sort of red herring that I'm not supposed to know about... and I don't know about it! Really, I know next to nothing about this movie, other than there's a police lineup. Maybe? Or was that just the poster art... City Lights After watching Singin' in the Rain, I remembered how fun a well-made silent film can be. This one is supposed to be one of the greatest, although I strangely never saw it in film school. The Bridge Over River Kwai I remember there were these YouTube videos called "Unforgivable" with an angry man in the forest talking about the movies he was going to watch and this was one of them. Then my friends would tell me, "Oh man, it's so great!" I have absolutely no idea what this is about. Perhaps a bridge? Over a river? A river by the name of Kwai? The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King I saw the first two in theaters and actually re-watched the first one years later, but I never got around to seeing what seems to be the best of the three. I'm debating if I should watch them all in a marathon or just read a synopsis of the first two to refresh my memory/fill in the gaps because I don't think I followed half of what was going on in the second one. If the latter, can you recommend a good synopsis? Wikipedia? Ben-Hur (1959) My problem with epics is that, while I love them as a concept, 3 hours or more is a lot of time to spend. I suppose I'm willing to bite the bullet with Ben-Hur, though, since I'm fascinated by religious history and myths (incidentally, I had no idea this movie was about Jesus until I looked it up very recently). Triumph of the Will Studied this a fair amount in college, but only saw excerpts. Full Metal Jacket Even though some of the most intense scenes have been ruined for me, I still want to experience this one from start to finish. Plus, it's one of the Kubrick films I've yet to see. The Thin Blue Line Whenever I heard this film come up, I thought it was related to Thin Red Line. But no, it turns out it's a documentary, and a highly acclaimed one at that. I read a bit about the social implications of this film and would be interested to read more when I actually see it. Ivan the Terrible, Parts One and Two I gave Part One a shot a few months back but couldn't get into it and stopped after thirty minutes or so. I want to give the film another shot, maybe with some preparation beforehand (anyone recommend any good essays?). Shame No More (5): Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sunset Boulevard, Singin' in the Rain, Some Like It Hot, Akira
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is one of my all time favorite movies. Enjoy! Seven Samurai also has the privilege of joining that list. What a fantastic movie. The performances blew me away, and that's just the beginning of it. Not a boring second in all 3 hours except for the intermission. What a wonderful contrast to 13 Assassins, which I watched a while back and did not an enjoy at all. Now I can tell how badly that movie just wanted to be Seven Samurai. This is only the third Kurosawa film I've seen and they've all been grand slams. 1) Union Station (1950) - It has William Holden, right? So I should probably also check it out. 2) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - How can anyone know too much?! That's ridiculous. 3) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - A classic. All I know about it is that it has a Mickey Rooney doing a racist portrayal of an Asian person. 4) The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Bunuel! All I've seen of his is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeouise, and that was a lot of fun. 5) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - I understand that it's between this and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly when it comes to "best Spaghetti western." I enjoyed For a Few Dollars More the most out of the Man With No Name trilogy, so it would be nice to see if it can hold onto the title. 6) Badlands (1973) - I've seen two Malick films and they have both been wonderful. I think this one is set in a desert? Or maybe it was a dessert. This is maybe a movie about cake. 7) Videodrome (1983) - I've stayed away from Cronenberg because horror movies gently caress me up, but after watching, surviving, and positively enjoying The Thing and The Fly I've decided body horror or whatever this genre is doesn't scare me. It's the Japanese stuff that fucks me up. Anyways, all I know about this movie is that it has a TV boob and I'm not even sure if I'm right about that. 8) Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Until I finally watched Apocalypse Now, I don't think I had seen any of the iconic 'Nam films. This one's next on the list. 9) Slacker (1991) - I think someone posted somewhere here that Slacker is much better than American Graffiti. I'm having trouble imagining how a movie could be better than American Graffiti but Linklater's no dope, which makes Slacker one of those movies I've always wanted to get aroudn to watching. 10) High Fidelity (2000) - I think it's about records and I think John Cusack is in it. Is it sort of like a sequel to Say Anything? Deshamed: The Seventh Seal (97), 99 River Street (87), In a Lonely Place (98), City Lights (82), Goodfellas (87), M (86), Schindler's List (91), Seven Samurai (95)
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Tycho, don't go into Slacker expecting anything like American Graffiti. Linklater's is better, but there's not much it can really be compared to. Dawn of the Dead is the most consistently fun and entertaining zombie movie I've seen (not counting comedies like Shaun of the Dead). I think it comes down to two things: a great storyline, and the enjoyment that the survivors get out of killing the zombies. They are not in a constant state of misery, like most zombie movies, and they manage to make the best of their situation. No time is wasted on exposition, the threat is immediately real from the very first scene. The commentary on consumerism is way too heavy handed, but still manages to bring some laughs (the biker gang that steals the jewelry off the zombies instead of killing them). 4.5/5 Cookie's Fortune Another hidden Altman gem? Raise The Red Lantern I haven't seen too much Chinese cinema. Greed Next on TSPDT. The Son's Room Next Palme d'Or winner. A nos amours The back of this DVD described Pialat as the French Cassavetes, which is okay with me. My Neighbor Totoro On the most iCM lists. I'm pretty sure I saw this when I was a little kid. Russian Ark Next on TSPDT's 21st Century list. Roman Holiday A regular in the top 250. A Short Film About Love I'm going to finish the Dekalog eventually, I swear. The Haunting Another horror I've been meaning to watch for a while. Not ashamed anymore: Lawrence of Arabia 4.5/5, The Battle of Algiers 2/5, Toy Story 2 3.5/5, Sherman's March 3.5/5, His Girl Friday 4/5, Last Year at Marienbad 3/5, M 4/5, Stolen Kisses 3/5, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 4/5, Lost Highway 4/5, Gates of Heaven 3/5, Downfall 4/5, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 4/5, Grizzly Man 4/5, Wings of Desire 2/5, Z 3/5, A Shot in the Dark 2.5/5, Toy Story 3 4.5/5, The Fountain 4/5, Inland Empire 2/5, The Wild Bunch 4/5, Hunger 4.5/5, The Green Mile 3.5/5, The Ballad of Cable Hogue 4/5, A Woman Under the Influence 5/5, La Dolce Vita 4/5, Das Boot 4.5/5, Camera Buff 4.5/5, The Red Shoes 4.5/5, The Rules of the Game 3.5/5, Persona 4.5/5, Black Narcissus 2.5/5, The Battleship Potemkin 3.5/5, Departures 4/5, The Wages of Fear 4.5/5, Werckmeister Harmonies, 4/5, Blazing Saddles 1.5/5, Pickpocket 4/5, McCabe and Mrs. Miller 5/5, Le Cercle Rouge 4/5, Night and Fog ?/5, Opening Night 5/5, Notorious 4.5/5, Night of the Living Dead 3.5/5, Seven Chances 4/5, Faces 4/5, Europa 3/5, A Day at the Races 4/5, Three Colors: White 4.5/5, Vernon, Florida 4.5/5, Hud 3.5/5, Slacker 4.5/5, The Thing 4/5, Code Unknown 3.5/5, The Double Life of Veronique 4/5, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4/5, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 4.5/5, Sullivan's Travels 3.5/5, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 4/5, Ben-Hur 2.5/5, Mona Lisa 3/5, Brief Encounter 4/5, Laura 4/5, Beauty and the Beast 4/5, Solaris 3/5, Alphaville 4/5, Nights of Cabiria 3.5/5, Gun Crazy 4/5, Tokyo Story 3.5/5, The Piano Teacher 3.5/5, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 3.5/5, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 4/5, The Best Years of Our Lives 4.5/5, A Bittersweet Life 4.5/5, Rebecca 3.5/5, Sleuth 4.5/5, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 4/5, Hearts and Minds 3/5, L'Atalante 2.5/5, The Passion of Joan of Arc 4.5/5, Far From Heaven 4/5, Children of Paradise 3.5/5, Shock Corridor 3/5, Heaven Can Wait 4/5, That Obscure Object of Desire 4.5/5, Before Sunrise 4/5, Before Sunset 5/5, When We Were Kings 4.5/5, Rio Bravo 4.5/5, Ordet 3.5/5, Bed and Board 2.5/5, Alice 3.5/5, Idioterne 4.5/5, L'avventura 2/5, Au Revoir Les Enfants 4.5/5 Amarcord 3.5/5, A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2.5/5, Princess Mononoke 2/5, Tender Mercies 4/5, Ran 5/5, Witness for the Prosecution 4.5/5, Winchester '73 4/5, Local Hero 3.5/5, Fanny and Alexander 5/5, Diabolique 3/5, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 3.5/5, Ugetsu 4/5, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1.5/5, Syndromes and a Century 4/5, Smiles of a Summer Night 4/5, Shadows 2.5/5, Umberto D. 3.5/5, Naked 5/5, Andrei Rublev 2/5, A Matter of Life and Death 4.5/5, I Am Cuba 4/5, A Zed and Two Noughts 5/5, The Belly of an Architect 3/5, Videodrome 4/5, Picnic at Hanging Rock 3/5, 2046 4.5/5, Fallen Angels 4/5, Schizopolis 4/5, Blind Chance 2.5/5, The Grapes of Wrath 4/5, Ace in the Hole 4.5/5, Safe 4/5, Woman in the Dunes 5/5, Scarface 4.5/5, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance 4/5, Ghost World 3.5/5, Contempt 3.5/5, The Magnificent Ambersons 4/5, Fantastic Planet 3.5/5, The Kid 3.5/5, Santa Sangre 4/5, Pather Panchali 4/5, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 4.5/5, Aparajito 4.5/5, Tout Va Bien 3.5/5, A Face in the Crowd 4.5/5, The Class 5/5, Intolerance 3/5, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance 2.5/5, The Holy Mountain 4/5, Nosferatu 3.5/5, Sweet Smell of Success 4/5, Stalker 4/5, Days of Heaven 4.5/5, The Apostle 3.5/5, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 3.5/5, Shane 3.5/5, The World of Apu 4.5/5, 3 Women 5/5, Do The Right Thing 5/5, A Short Film About Killing 3/5, Au Hasard Balthazar 4.5/5, Withnail & I 3.5/5, Le Trou 4.5/5, The Conformist 3.5/5, West Side Story 2.5/5, Titanic 3/5, Taste of Cherry 4/5, Underground 5/5, Life of Brian 2/5, La Haine 4.5/5, L'age d'Or 2.5/5, Kes 4.5/5, Cabaret 3/5, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 4.5/5, The Mirror 4/5, Swing Time 2.5/5, A Man Escaped 4.5/5, Gandhi 3/5, The Wind That Shakes the Barley 4/5, The Freshman 3/5, All That Heaven Allows 4/5, Still Life 4/5, Sophie's Choice 4/5, Husbands 4/5, Killer of Sheep 3.5/5, Dawn of the Dead 4.5/5
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TenSpadesBeTrump, Raise the Red Lantern is one of those movies that will be added to my list someday. You get to see it first. The Public Enemy. Very good movie. James Cagney was amazing in it. Nice cinematography. I also enjoyed the glimpse into the Prohibition era. My List: A Christmas Carol(1951) - This is the 1951 version with Alistair Sim as Scrooge. I've heard it is as good as the George C. Scott version, which I liked. Adaptation - Heard alot about this movie. City Lights - Continuing the Chaplin movies. Time Bandits - Another Terry Gilliam film. The Producers - All I now about it is it is a comedy and there is something called Springtime for Hitler. Sounds like fun. Spirited Away - Never saw a Miyazaki film. Throne of Blood - My next Kurosawa film. My Fair Lady - I'm going to stick with musicals in this spot. The Phantom of the Opera - Next in my monster movie queue. Little Caesar - Sticking with Pre-Code gangster films. Movies Seen: Seven Samurai, Dune, Singin' in the Rain, Animal Crackers, Once Upon a Time in the West, Amadeus, Double Indemnity, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 12 Angry Men, Ed Wood, Sunset Boulevard, The Dark Knight, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Brazil, Rashomon, Yojimbo, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, M, Duck Soup, The Princess and the Frog, Sanjuro, The Hidden Fortress, Dracula, It's a Wonderful Life, Lawrence of Arabia, Ikiru, High and Low, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Kagemusha, Best In Show, Modern Times, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Red Beard, Monty Python's The Life of Brian, Cars, Cool Hand Luke, The Public Enemy
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Vivre sa vie was pretty wonderful. As in Breathless, Godard catches a spectacular quality of light, just as airy but a little glummer and once again there's a sort of anything-goes playfulness. Characters occasionally repeat phrases or actions or act as if being directed, which stands in really sharp contrast to the photo-documentary sequences, most notably in which the life of a prostitute is outlined over carefully framed images that are very strongly in the style of the photos of the book this film is based off of. That Godard can switch so effortlessly between the two styles, between photo-docu and reflexive fiction, is a credit to his abilities. What's even more interesting, though, is how the photo-docu sections feel far more cinematic than the reflexive sections, where the "curtain" of filmmaking is very deliberately pulled away. It's a fascinating reversal. Anna Karina is totally and utterly charming. How can you not love her? Her character here, Nana, is typically flawed, selfish and girly and it says a lot that Karina is totally willing to go in the weird ways Godard sent her. 9/10 this list is as shameful as michael fassbender's penis 1) Faces - I'm afraid, John. 2) The Wild Bunch - More TSPDT, I don't really know anything about this one. 3) L'Atalante - I honestly don't know anything about this but man, number 14 on TSPDT must mean something. 4) I Know Where I'm Going! - gently caress me, I've rented this like four times and for some reason I never watch it, which is retarded because I love Powell and Pressburger. 5) Mommy Dearest - This sounds incredibly entertaining. 6) Diary Of A Country Priest - Whenever I hear about this I always think "gosh, that sounds interesting". I love films about life, about living and being. It fascinates me. 7) Once Upon a Time in the West - Are there horses in this? I like horses. Once I lived on a horse ranch and we had horses right behind our backyard. The people who owned them never visited so they just stood there getting fat. Sometimes we'd go out and exercise them by making them walk back and forth for melon rinds. 8) A Band Apart - More Godard. 9) L'Avventura - I've only seen one Antonioni film and I didn't care for it, but here it is on the TSPDT list. 10) The Magic Flute - This has been in my Netflix since I was like 13. I love this opera and I love Ingmar Bergman. Jules et Jim 6/10, Saving Private Ryan 9.5/10, Fitzcarraldo 9/10, The 39 Steps 7/10, Notorious 7/10, Run Lola Run 8/10, Downfall 7.5/10, The Searchers 7.5/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Gone With The Wind 10/10, Touch Of Evil 9.5/10, Ikiru 7.5/10, The Apartment 7/10, Bicycle Thieves 7/10, Moon 7/10, The Color Purple 7.5/10. The French Connection9.5/10, The Leopard 8/10, Yojimbo 8.5/10, Sanjuro 8/10, Das Boot8.5/10, The Conformist 8/10, Breathless 9/10, Where The Wild Things Are7.5/10, Vertigo 9/10, Raging Bull 10/10, Ordet 7/10, City Of God 9/10, The Wages Of Fear 9/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 9/10, The Mirror 9.5/10, Through A Glass Darkly 10/10, On The Waterfront 6/10, The Straight Story 9/10, Lawrence Of Arabia 8.5/10, Dial M For Murder, 8/10 Winter Light 10/10, The Silence 9/10, Badlands 8/10, The Wrong Man 7/10, In The Mood For Love 9.5/10, Secret Honor 10/10, Gosford Park 10/10, Viridiana 7.5/10, The Exterminating Angel 9/10, Seven Samurai 10/10, Rashomon 9/10, The Godfather: Part II 10/10, La Dolce Vita 10/10, The Princess Bride 9/10, Bringing Up Baby 7/10, City Lights 9/10, Baraka 7/10, Au revior les enfants 8/10, Bonnie And Clyde 6.5, Hiroshima mon amour 8/10, Lost In Translation 10/10, The Piano 8/10, La Strada 7/10, Safety Last! 10/10 Vivre sa vie 9/10 (total: 59) Do Russkies like history? I hope they do, because there's a lot in Time Bandits.
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A Band Apart was my first Godard, and you can double up on the abrupt tonal shifts and quirky Anna Karina character you describe digging in Vivre sa vie. Since my last recommendation I saw three movies on my list. I'm really bad at not doing that, I guess. My recommendation: Gone with the Wind - I was blown away by this, especially with the expectations I had going in. The intro credit of an actual character named "Mammy" and Scarlett's conversation with the two brothers terrified me, but as soon as Rhett comes into the picture and they start showing their depths of sociopathy, everything really takes off. The war parts in Part 1 were insane for the time period and held up perfectly now, and I found the spiral the Scarlett/Rhett relationship goes through in Part 2 equally as compelling. I was concerned about what I'd heard about racism, but I thought there would be like minstrel-show level stuff. In comparison, I'd rather have the super sanitized version of slavery they used. 10/10 The Graduate's lone rough spot for me was the development of the relationship between Ben and Elaine, which just didn't resonate with the rest of Ben's character arc for me. That's really weird since Ben/Mrs. Robinson one-on-one interactions, Ben's ennui through the middle, and the desperate grabs at saving the relationship with Elaine all seemed super-realistic. I've seen a lot of references and allusions to the plot, and Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft were iconic enough to warrant it. I got the feeling that the Harold and Maude soundtrack was kind of an alternate take on the soundtrack to this, and if that's the case it really rules. 9/10 Bottle Rocket was very okay, and I think if it was the first Wes Anderson movie I saw instead of the sixth I'd be a lot more impressed. The style's there, both Wilson brothers do a really great job, and for a first film it's really impressive, but it just seems like a lot of the secondary characters are static and everything's just sort of underdeveloped. I get that the simplicity was intentional, at least with the main romance, but I still went away underwhelmed. 7/10 1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - I'm aware of the basic plot outline and feel like I already know R.P. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched despite never seeing a minute of the actual film. I guess because of that passing familiarity I never was motivated to actually watch it. 2. Raging Bull - Until I saw Taxi Driver, for some reason I got the two movies mixed up whenever one was referenced, like I thought Jake LaMotta would be saying "You talking to me?" into the mirror. 3. Bringing Up Baby - After Charade (plus Arsenic and Old Lace before my first list) I want to remedy the fact that I really haven't seen that many non-Hitchcock Cary Grant movies. 4. Three Colors: Red - I can't believe I forgot this for my first list, I absolutely loved Blue and enjoyed White. I've heard that this is generally regarded as the best in the trilogy, and it has a lot to live up to with Blue. 5. Repulsion - I haven't seen very much Polanski, and I really enjoyed a bunch of things that I've heard have drawn heavily from this, like Sisters and Black Swan. 6. Nashville - My lists haven't had any musicals yet, and I think this is the most glaring omission from the musical catalogue I've got. I'm a sucker for big ensemble casts too. Sidenote: You can also substitute in Singing in the Rain because that's the real "most glaring omission" among musicals for me, I just forgot that when I put this on the list. 7. The Magnificent Ambersons - My Ambersons are thoroughly lacking in magnificence. All About Eve left me wanting to see more Anne Baxter, and something with a recognizable title and directed by Orson Welles seems like a great follow-up. 8. Pan's Labyrinth - I missed out on this while it was out and lied about understanding a reference to a scene in it a while ago for some silly reason. I've felt really guilty about it since then. 9. Alien: Resurrection - I've seen every other movie in the Jean-Pierre Jeunet catalogue (including shorts) and have just continually put this off because I think it's going to ruin his perfect record of movies I really really enjoy. I can't hide behind that forever. 10. Adam's Rib - I've seen practically nothing with either Katharine Hepburn or Spencer Tracy, two birds with one stone and everything. De-shamed (10): Charade, Persona, The Sting, Double Indemnity, All About Eve, Inland Empire, Celine and Julie Go Boating, The Graduate, Bottle Rocket, Gone with the Wind
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Power of Pecota, you get Red, as the closer together you watch the three films, the better. I just finished Dead Man and it pleases me to say that, giving it a fair chance, I really liked it. I have to confess to finding it inscrutable from a verbal, left-brain perspective, but once the movie got underway I really got into it. I still keep trying to make sense of it. I can't tell if the film comments on religion, like I thought in the trading post scene and when Cole stepped on the head of the "goddamn religious icon." It seemed like nearly all the characters shared a certain myopia and provincial look at the world. Each seemed cognizant only of the world around him. Nobody thought of the sea as a water bridge, Dickinson misinterpreted the events that led to his bounty, The Kid and Cole didn't see their deaths coming at all… Speaking of things shared by most of the characters, I thought Jim Jarmusch made ingenious use of Johnny Depp's distinctive appearance. I always thought Depp's greatest asset and liability lay in his inability to fully blend in with the scenery. He never looks "right" to me in any movie. That works very well here. In his distinctive checked suit and hat, even as he takes on furs similar to trappers in the beginning of the film and face paint similar to the Native Americans, he still maintains a very distinctive, readily identifiable appearance. Of all things, the film reminded me a lot of Paris, Texas, probably in the feeling of solitude both movies share. Like Ry Cooder, Neal Young's score consists of him doing a lot with a little. I also felt a strong sense of a parallel between Crispin Glover's fireman and Bernhard Wicki's doctor. Both talk exactly like rednecks despite each having a decidedly non-redneck appearance. I can't stop wondering what significance, if any, that has. In any case, I watched Ghost Dog before this and I think I made the right choice, as I found Ghost Dog much more accessible and a good way to understand Jarmusch before I took on an artsier work such as this. Bull Durham: I find Kevin Costner strangely charming in his inept douchebaggery, but I've only seen a few of his films. The Color of Pomegranates: The only Soviet films I've seen are Solaris, Man with a Movie Camera, and The Battleship Potemkin. Although I believe this film's still fairly well known, I feel like I should see something at least a little more esoteric than those three. Delicatessen: This replaces Dead Man in the "films I didn't give a legitimate chance" category. I liked City of Lost Children all right but some aspects of it annoyed the gently caress out of me. I loved Amélie. So I have no idea what I'll think of this. The Ice Storm: Somehow, I don't think this movie has much in common with The Ice Harvest. Kiss of the Spider Woman: Julia Carpenter's such a badass! I'm so excited about seeing this movie where Spider-Woman takes on such foes as Doc Ock and… This isn't what I think it is, is it? Marty: It's been on my DVR for a dog's age, and I feel a bit weird that I haven't seen it, since I have seen I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, which served as both a loose remake and a parody of sorts. Moonstruck: It's been too long since the last time I saw Nicolas Cage act the gently caress out of something new. One-Eyed Jacks: I have absolutely no idea what I'd think of a Marlon Brando-directed Western. Raise the Red Lantern: Randomly-picked movie that coincides with my interest in Chinese cinema. Uzak:  I've never seen a Turkish film.
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Having not seen any films on your list, CloseFriend, I plugged them all into Criticker and the highest predicted score for me is for Raise the Red Lantern so I guess try that out. Not really sure what to say about Slacker. I enjoyed it a lot. One thing that I think may be something that I enjoyed for idiosyncratic or at least uncommon reasons was how sometimes I wasn't sure whether the movie was going to start following someone. I also very much liked the guy near the very end in the car with the speakers. Also, this little gem. 1) Union Station (1950) - It has William Holden, right? So I should probably also check it out. 2) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - How can anyone know too much?! That's ridiculous. 3) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - A classic. All I know about it is that it has a Mickey Rooney doing a racist portrayal of an Asian person. 4) The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Bunuel! All I've seen of his is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeouise, and that was a lot of fun. 5) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - I understand that it's between this and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly when it comes to "best Spaghetti western." I enjoyed For a Few Dollars More the most out of the Man With No Name trilogy, so it would be nice to see if it can hold onto the title. 6) Badlands (1973) - I've seen two Malick films and they have both been wonderful. I think this one is set in a desert? Or maybe it was a dessert. This is maybe a movie about cake. 7) Videodrome (1983) - I've stayed away from Cronenberg because horror movies gently caress me up, but after watching, surviving, and positively enjoying The Thing and The Fly I've decided body horror or whatever this genre is doesn't scare me. It's the Japanese stuff that fucks me up. Anyways, all I know about this movie is that it has a TV boob and I'm not even sure if I'm right about that. 8) Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Until I finally watched Apocalypse Now, I don't think I had seen any of the iconic 'Nam films. This one's next on the list. 9) Boyz N the Hood (1991) - All I know is that Ice Cube is in this movie. Presumably in a hood. 10) High Fidelity (2000) - I think it's about records and I think John Cusack is in it. Is it sort of like a sequel to Say Anything? Deshamed: The Seventh Seal (97), 99 River Street (87), In a Lonely Place (98), City Lights (82), Goodfellas (87), M (86), Schindler's List (91), Seven Samurai (95), Slacker (82) TychoCelchuuu fucked around with this message at May 26, 2012 around 07:31 |
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The Wikipedia page for Band Of Outsiders is telling me that this is generally seen as Godard's most accessible film, and I guess I can understand that because it's not as crazy inventive as pretty much every other film of his that I've seen. But it's that crazy inventiveness that endears Godard to me, that sort of indulgent abandon that dives into reflexivity and genre shifts and all that stuff that Arthur Penn totally failed to capture in Bonnie and Clyde. In a way this is a bit of a departure for Godard, in that the main character doesn't die horribly at the end* (also, the narrator promising "tropical adventures" over a shot of a lovely-looking globe is really, really funny), but it felt like toned-down Godard. I liked it but it wasn't as adventurous as I like. 8/10 *Something I failed to mention in my review of Vivre sa vie is how much I love how Godard handles Nana's death, like it was the only take he had, like they ran out of film or something. It looks like a gently caress-up, and that ties in so, so beautifully to the basic concept of her dying - and that the camera pans down to the pavement, cutting out the sky, which offers even more fun theorizing. Is Nana going to hell? Or is she just another victim of Paris/society? 9/10 this list is as shameful as michael fassbender's penis 1) Faces - I'm afraid, John. 2) The Wild Bunch - More TSPDT, I don't really know anything about this one. 3) L'Atalante - I honestly don't know anything about this but man, number 14 on TSPDT must mean something. 4) I Know Where I'm Going! - gently caress me, I've rented this like four times and for some reason I never watch it, which is retarded because I love Powell and Pressburger. 5) Mommy Dearest - This sounds incredibly entertaining. 6) Diary Of A Country Priest - Whenever I hear about this I always think "gosh, that sounds interesting". I love films about life, about living and being. It fascinates me. 7) Once Upon a Time in the West - Are there horses in this? I like horses. Once I lived on a horse ranch and we had horses right behind our backyard. The people who owned them never visited so they just stood there getting fat. Sometimes we'd go out and exercise them by making them walk back and forth for melon rinds. 8) Shoot The Piano Player - Apparently this is "fun". 9) L'Avventura - I've only seen one Antonioni film and I didn't care for it, but here it is on the TSPDT list. 10) The Magic Flute - This has been in my Netflix since I was like 13. I love this opera and I love Ingmar Bergman. Jules et Jim 6/10, Saving Private Ryan 9.5/10, Fitzcarraldo 9/10, The 39 Steps 7/10, Notorious 7/10, Run Lola Run 8/10, Downfall 7.5/10, The Searchers 7.5/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Gone With The Wind 10/10, Touch Of Evil 9.5/10, Ikiru 7.5/10, The Apartment 7/10, Bicycle Thieves 7/10, Moon 7/10, The Color Purple 7.5/10. The French Connection9.5/10, The Leopard 8/10, Yojimbo 8.5/10, Sanjuro 8/10, Das Boot8.5/10, The Conformist 8/10, Breathless 9/10, Where The Wild Things Are7.5/10, Vertigo 9/10, Raging Bull 10/10, Ordet 7/10, City Of God 9/10, The Wages Of Fear 9/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 9/10, The Mirror 9.5/10, Through A Glass Darkly 10/10, On The Waterfront 6/10, The Straight Story 9/10, Lawrence Of Arabia 8.5/10, Dial M For Murder, 8/10 Winter Light 10/10, The Silence 9/10, Badlands 8/10, The Wrong Man 7/10, In The Mood For Love 9.5/10, Secret Honor 10/10, Gosford Park 10/10, Viridiana 7.5/10, The Exterminating Angel 9/10, Seven Samurai 10/10, Rashomon 9/10, The Godfather: Part II 10/10, La Dolce Vita 10/10, The Princess Bride 9/10, Bringing Up Baby 7/10, City Lights 9/10, Baraka 7/10, Au revior les enfants 8/10, Bonnie And Clyde 6.5, Hiroshima mon amour 8/10, Lost In Translation 10/10, The Piano 8/10, La Strada 7/10, Safety Last! 10/10 Vivre sa vie 9/10, Band Of Outsiders 8/10 (total: 60!) Tycho gets Videodrome. edit: I've been in this thread for two years and I've only watched 60 movies? That's like one film every two weeks! I need to pick up the pace. Magic Hate Ball fucked around with this message at May 26, 2012 around 20:37 |
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Pope JP2 says "it is as it was," but he's not a very good movie critic because if it did happen, it didn't have slow motion, fancy color grading, punchy sound effects, or droning music. The Passion of the Christ an uncanny ability to reveal hypocrisies in a lot of very diverse people. Many Christians recoiled from it because they felt it highlights uncomfortable truths about their rituals and traditions and the nature of faith for some. Others, mostly fanatical, embraced it for the same reason. But this chronicle of pain IS a major aspect of Christianity, and as much as one tries to refocus on the lighter aspects of the religion, this darkness is at its core forever. Many non-Christians recoiled from it because they felt it takes at face value the Christ myth. Any many film buffs recoiled from it because of the talent behind it. It doesn't take the Bible story at face value, because that's not possible - it takes it through the ethical, political, and personal compass of its creators. And greatness can come from straight adaptations of religion myths - just look at Spenser Williams or Carl Dreyer's work. And if loving Roberto Rossellini made this exact film during his history period, most of the film buffs who scoff would canonize it. It'd be sitting in the Criterion Collection alongside The Taking of Power by Louis XIV. People have said the story doesn't work if you're non-Christian, but personally I find the idea even more captivating with the assumption that Christ was just a really well-meaning delusional man who was brutalized and killed in the worst way possible. I'm not exempt either - this long catalogue of physical abuse coming from Gibson is like a direct accusation against my borderline creepy love of violent action and horror movies. Christ scourged prone and shirtless on that table is like a repudiation - or maybe a celebration? at least an evocation - of Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs getting fashionably electrocuted in Lethal Weapon 1 and William Wallace getting eviscerated. That's amazing to me- that one film can kick up so many different debates. Like The Last Temptation of Christ, this thing is a shitstorm of controversy, but unlike that well-meaning and basically innocuous film, this angry raving testimonial still hasn't been resolved. As a film, it's impeccably well-made. Gibson's camera is self-assured as expressive. Characters are given a lot of meat in well-placed close-ups and looks. Simon and Pontius Pilate are particularly captivating (though it should be said that the one scene appearance of Pilate in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is still the best depiction of him). It's also racist as gently caress, the "civilized whiteness" of the Romans butted against the rabble of the angry Jews is like throwback 1920s racism. Old school racism, as Tracy Jordan put it. At times its one of the best horror movies of the era. The Satan stuff, and that weird little Don't Look Now dwarf bugged me out hard. Prof. Clumsy once pointed out the way Inside uses blood as set dressing - this does the same. Blood pours across the screen, and dried blood cakes Christ's face for much of the film, and by film's end just about everyone around him too. It's a really powerful motif, best expressed at the end when Longinus is baptized in Christ's blood. It's a hell of a powerhouse - just a hammer of pure Id. It's got the best and worst of Gibson inherent in its DNA. A complicated, beautiful mess. Magic Hate Ball, get yourself some old time religion too, and try Diary of a Country Priest. New list: The Whole Shootin' Match This is another one of those ones that I'm really intrigued by but somehow am never in the mood for. Antarctic Journal When I watch this Bong Joon-Ho scripted film, I will have seen everything he's made. new: Who'll Stop the Rain? I hear this is basically a better version of Cutter's Way? Senso Always up for a melodrama. Man's Castle Borzage crazy. My Brother's Wedding So there's a director's cut that's like a half hour shorter? Which should I see? Ils or The Strangers Hear good stuff about these two, but French extremism turns me off. Rumble Fish I liked The Outsiders, I guess? Montenegro or Sweet Movie I loved WR and the Eclipse set, but I've avoided Sweet Movie because I heard it sucks and Montenegro because the poster is crap. Szerelem This looks fantastic, but somehow I can't get myself to sit down for it. Finished from this thread: Au Hasard Balthazar (8/10), In the Mood for Love (8.5/10), La Dolce Vita (6.5/10), Anatomy of Murder (9/10), The Grand Illusion (9/10), Ben-Hur (8.5/10), Gone with the Wind (9/10), Black Orpheus (8/10), The Departed (4/10), Midnight Cowboy (5/10), The Red Shoes (9.5/10), Harvey (8.5/10), M. Hulot's Holiday (7.5/10), Trouble in Paradise (8/10), Ugetsu Monogatari (8/10), All That Heaven Allows (9.5/10), Blow-Up (8/10), If... (8/10), The Bad & The Beautiful (7.5/10). Autumn Sonata (9/10), Harold and Maude (3.5/10), L'Atalante (8/10), Anticipation of the Night (8.5/10), Cleo from 5 to 7 (8/10), Wavelength (7/10), Saddle the Wind (7/10), Partie de campagne (7.5/10), My Neighbor Totoro (7/10), Shadows (8/10), Odd Man Out (8/10), Don't Look Now (8/10), Dead Ringers (7.5/10), Written on the Wind (8.5/10), My Winnipeg (8/10), On Dangerous Ground (8.5/10), The King of Comedy (8.5/10), Berlin Express (7/10), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (8.5/10), 3 Women (8.5/10). Harakiri (9.5/10), Zelig (7.5/10), Veronika Voss (7.5/10), Late Spring (8/10), Soldier of Orange (7/10), Vivre Sa Vie (8.5/10), The American Friend (7.5/10), The Endless Sumer (7.5/10), Yesterday Girl (7.5/10), Battleground (8/10), Two-Lane Blacktop (8/10), Chimes at Midnight (9/10), Trash Humpers (6/10), The Docks of New York (9/10), The Fallen Idol (9/10), Fires on the Plain (9/10), Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (7.5/10), The Americanization of Emily (8.5/10), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (8/10), The Mirror (8.5/10), The Thin Man (8.5/10), Danger: Diabolik (7.5/10), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (7.5/10), Black God White Devil (8/10), Little Fugitive (8/10), Drunken Angel (7.5/10), Funeral Parade of Roses (9/10), How to Train Your Dragon (8/10), Across 110th Street (7.5/10), The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (8/10), The Wind (8.5), Portrait of Jennie (7/10), Primer (8/10), To Catch a Thief (8/10), The Fantastic Mr. Fox (4/10), Getrud (8.5/10), Our Hospitality (9/10), Les Diaboliques (8/10), The Awful Truth (8/10), Duel in the Sun (6.5/10), A Guy Named Joe (6/10), Quiet City (5/10), People on Sunday (8.5/10), Nothing but a Man (8.5/10), Spring Summer Winter Fall and Spring (8/10), Comradship (7.5/10), Too Early, Too Late (4/10), Wooden Crosses (7.5/10), White Zombie (8.5/10), No Highway in the Sky (8/10), The Wanderers (8.5/10), My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (7/10), Our Town (9/10), The Winning of Barbara Worth (8/10), Red Riding 1974 (7/10), Grand Hotel (8/10), Rapt (8/10), The Champ (7/10), Red Beard (8.5/10), Rendez-vous d'Anna (8/10), Two Thousand Maniacs! (7/10), The Old Dark House (7.5/10), The Tarnished Angels (8/10), Ordet (9/10), Pigs and Battleships (8/10), The Naked City (8/10), The Ninth Configuration (4/10), Sling Blade (8.5/10), Le Trou (8.5/10), I Know Where I'm Going! (7.5/10), The Hangover (7.5/10), Body Heat (7.5/10), Night Moves (8.5/10), The Earrings of Madame De... (8/10), Toto, Peppino, e la Malafemmina (7/10), Short Cuts (9/10), The Mystery of Picasso (8/10), The Wisdom of Crocodiles (6.5/10), To Be or Not to Be (9/10), Barfly (5.5/10), Billy Liar (8/10), Hana-bi (7.5/10), The Fighter (8/10), Cop Land (8/10), Cairo Station (8.5/10), Beware of a Holy Whore (8/10) That Obscure Object of Desire (8.5/10), The Structure of Crystals (8.5/10), Farewell, My Lovely (8/10), The Blue Angel (7.5.10), Amadeus (8/10), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (8.5/10), Mike's Murder (8/10), I Saw the Devil (7/10), Advise and Consent (8/10), Little Man, What Now? (8.5/10), Outrage (7.5/10), Electra Glide in Blue (8/10), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (8/10), The Man from Nowhere (7/10), Apocalypto (8/10), Deep Red (8/10), The Darjeeling Limited (7/10), The Last Emperor (7.5/10), The Dead (8.5/10), Black Narcissus (8/10), The Passion of the Christ (8/10) Total: 146 Best: All That Heaven Allows Worst: Harold and Maude penismightier fucked around with this message at May 26, 2012 around 20:52 |
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penismightier posted:Rumble Fish I liked The Outsiders, I guess? I guess. Star Trek III: The Search of Spock was not silly at all! Apart from maybe the stealing of the enterprise and watching a bunch of middle aged men sporting leather jackets, the whole film is deadly serious. Nimoy's direction has a very somber tone to it, that I don't really find that all that appealing, especially considering the film preceding this one, has a villain quoting Moby Dick unironically. It's not really bad, but hardly special or very exciting. Some good acting by the main cast kinda makes it all worthwhile. Also these films are getting progressively gayer. Mindmelding in front of fireplaces in a romantic lighting, "get in the closet", fruity looking captain chairs , the klingon captain murders his wife so he can go on a science trip with his buddies, Kirk leaves Uhura behind so he can be with just the boys, and so on. I hope this is all being taken to some kind of logical conclusion. SHAME: Vivre Sa Vie Haven't been impressed with the little I seen so far from Godard. Close-Up This looks interesting. Fallen Angels A spiritual sequel to Chungking Express, or so I'm told. The Killer More John Woo Bullet Ballet. All About My Mother Another from the pile of dvd's I own for years, but never got around to watch. The Shop Around the Corner 40's romantic comedy or something, with James Stewart! Mon Oncle The continuing misadventures of Monsieur Hulot! Jules et Jim More from Truffaut. La Strada va sempre avanti. Steamboat Bill, Jr. Quickly becoming a Buster Keaton convert. Have watched so far 1 movies: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
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Electronico6 posted:Fallen Angels A spiritual sequel to Chungking Express, or so I'm told. I have no idea what you're talking about! Yay! Gone with the Wind… where do I start? Scarlett O’Hara may be the least likeable main character in cinema history. The woman is constantly manipulating everyone and very rarely thinks about what anyone else wants. On the other hand, the movie does show how she gets to that place as the result of her desperate situation. Still, I thought she would have grown out of her childish crush on Ashley after the reality of war and starvation set in. Rhett, on the other hand, is incredibly charming in his cynical way. The movie was a technical marvel- the massive scene of soldiers lying in the street dying was breathtaking, and the burning of Atlanta still looks great today. And then there’s the historical content, and here’s where it gets difficult. It didn’t entirely glorify the South- it showed that they got into the war out of foolish pride and that’s what unmade them. On the other hand, it exemplified the myth of the family slaves, the vicious union army, and the “carpetbaggers.” The O’Hara slaves stay with the family to take care of them, but they’d have been more likely to defect to Sherman’s army than run from it. Prissy was particularly grating- she was perfectly accepting of her role even with threats of whipping and being sold south, plus her ridiculous dialect drove me mad. I try to separate the movie as a movie from its historical failings, but that’s hard to do given that many people think they know about the Civil War because of this movie. On its own, though, I’d say it was a good movie that showed how to tell an epic story. It had failings in some of its silly or unlikeable characters, but it works as a whole. Rating: 3/4 28. Sophie's Choice- I really have no idea what this is, but I've seen it referenced a lot lately. I'm not sure why, but I figure there must be a reason. 42. The Pink Panther- Based on Dr. Strangelove alone I feel safe saying Peter Sellers is a genius. Yet somehow I've never gotten around to watching any of these. 48. On the Waterfront- Someone earlier said either this or Streetcar Named Desire is essential to understanding Brando. Since I know at least some of Streetcar's plot, I'll choose the one I can go into blind- all I know about this movie is seeing DeNiro quote Brando's "coulda been a contender" speech in Raging Bull. 49. Born on the Fourth of July- More for the "Vietnam slot." Like Vanilla Sky (which I liked), Cruise can't rely on his good looks here and has to act. I think he can pull it off. 50. Wings of Desire- I saw City of Angels, does that count?  No, I didn't think so.51. Dirty Harry- Now this one I'm worried about. Unlike Lethal Weapon, I expect this one will glorify violence against criminals and ignoring civil liberties. Still, I think I kind of need to see at least one of these. 54. The Bicycle Thief- Hitchcock's favorite movie. My brother says he watched this in school and hated it. Everyone else seems to love it. Let's give it a try. 55. Jaws- I've seen bits of it on TV, but not the whole thing. 56. Children of Men- Another modern sci-fi dystopia. The premise sounds fascinating. 57. Lawrence of Arabia- More sweeping historical epics. This time in WWI, my favorite historical period. Okay, tell me what I’m watching! Shame relieved: The Godfather: 3.5/4, The Godfather Part II: 4/4, Taxi Driver: 4/4, Casablanca: 4/4, Duck Soup: 2/4, Pulp Fiction: 4/4, Barton Fink: 3.5/4, Annie Hall:3/4, Rashomon: 4/4, Blade Runner: 3.5/4, Chinatown: 4/4, Nashville: 3.5/4, Goodfellas: 4/4, The Seven Samurai: 4/4, Superman: 2/4, The Exorcist: 3/4, A Face in the Crowd: 3.5/4, The Seventh Seal: 2.5/4, Treasure of the Sierra Madre: 3.5/4, Apocalypse Now: 4/4, 2001: A Space Odyssey: 2.5/4, The Deer Hunter: 3/4, Schindler's List: 4/4, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: 3/4, Young Frankenstein: 3.5/4, Yojimbo: 3.5/4, Brazil: 3.5/4, Hamlet: 4/4, The Aviator: 4/4, Rocky: 3.5/4, Gandhi: 3.5/4, City Lights: 4/4, Battleship Potemkin: 3.5/4, Predator: 3/4, Easy Rider: 1.5/4, Platoon: 3.5/4, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: 4/4, Get Carter: 3.5/4, Full Metal Jacket: 4/4, My Dinner with Andre: 4/4, Lethal Weapon: 3/4, 3 Women: 4/4, Ikiru: 4/4, The Maltese Falcon: 2.5/4, Midnight Cowboy: 3/4, Gattaca: 4/4, Gone with the Wind: 3/4
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Jurgan, you can watch Jaws, my favorite Spielberg movie if you don't count Raiders of the Lost Ark. After you watch that you can watch this video. Videodrome was wonderful. Near the end things started to get a little obscure, I think, but otherwise I was riveted. It gives you a lot to think about. 1) Union Station (1950) - It has William Holden, right? So I should probably also check it out. 2) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - How can anyone know too much?! That's ridiculous. 3) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - A classic. All I know about it is that it has a Mickey Rooney doing a racist portrayal of an Asian person. 4) The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Bunuel! All I've seen of his is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeouise, and that was a lot of fun. 5) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - I understand that it's between this and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly when it comes to "best Spaghetti western." I enjoyed For a Few Dollars More the most out of the Man With No Name trilogy, so it would be nice to see if it can hold onto the title. 6) Badlands (1973) - I've seen two Malick films and they have both been wonderful. I think this one is set in a desert? Or maybe it was a dessert. This is maybe a movie about cake. 7) Nostalghia (1983) - Let's get some Tarkovsky up in this list. 8) Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Until I finally watched Apocalypse Now, I don't think I had seen any of the iconic 'Nam films. This one's next on the list. 9) Boyz N the Hood (1991) - All I know is that Ice Cube is in this movie. Presumably in a hood. 10) High Fidelity (2000) - I think it's about records and I think John Cusack is in it. Is it sort of like a sequel to Say Anything? Deshamed: The Seventh Seal (97), 99 River Street (87), In a Lonely Place (98), City Lights (82), Goodfellas (87), M (86), Schindler's List (91), Seven Samurai (95), Slacker (82), Videodrome (88)
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Videodrome was wonderful. Near the end things started to get a little obscure, I think, but otherwise I was riveted. It gives you a lot to think about. I want to give this review to people who have never heard of the film before they watch it.
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TrixRabbi posted:I want to give this review to people who have never heard of the film before they watch it. Also, on reflection, "obscure" is not the most specific word. To clarify, I think the message got a little muddled, or whatever the message was didn't come through very clearly, or to put it in the most accurate way possible, I couldn't find as much meaning in the movie as it came to the end, although that final scene was amazing. TychoCelchuuu fucked around with this message at May 28, 2012 around 02:00 |
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TychoCelchuuu posted:
This is a movie I've found that if you like it, you love it. Hopefully you are in this group. Cusack's best movie, imo. The Lady of Shanghai is a mess. It's not as interesting a mess as Arkadin but it's still a decent enough flick. It's maddening to know that the film was butchered by producers. What's worse is none of those cut scenes are available. At least with Arkadin, there is a complete-ish cut. The line delivery by pretty much everyone was really off-putting...so much so that it must have been intentional. George Grisby's odd intonation "So long kiddies." Welles accent is hilarious. They say he's Irish and I can see an imitation in there somewhere but wow, that was awkward. The movie is a disappointment, but mostly because I know this is nowhere close to the full cut. Shameful, indeed. LIST O SHAME: 1920s - Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) - Silent flick on witchcraft that looks unlike anything I've seen. 1930s - King Kong (1933) - Say what? How have I never seen this? I cannot adequately answer that question. 1940s - The Magnificent Ambersons - One Welles debacle deserves another. 1950s - Anatomy of Murder (1959) - Great Criterion cover/poster, great cast...must see. 1960s - Onibaba (1964) - Japanese folk horror, I presume. Let's do this! 1970s - Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Continue on with the America Lost and Found Box-Set 1980s - Mystery Train (1989) - Only Jarmusch feature I haven't seen. 1990s - Safe (1995) - No idea about this one other than having been told it's really good. 2000s - Carlos (2010) - Will watch this 5+ hour beast in segments. Bonus/IMDB List - The General (1926) SHAME BE GONE:Wild Strawberries, Sunset Blvd., The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Our Man in Havana, Breathless, Phenomena, Withnail & I, 12 Angry Men, The Cranes Are Flying, Fitzcarraldo, Amadeus, Paths of Glory, Blow Out, Cronos, Hausu, City Lights, Easy Rider, The Lives of Others, Salo, In the Bedroom, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Cars, Brand Upon the Brain!, The Great Dictator, Double Indemnity, Point Blank, Cool Hand Luke, 127 Hours, Black Narcissus, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sting, A Woman is a Woman, Life of Brian, Last Picture Show, The Company of Wolves, Tree of Life, Life is Beautiful, Young Frankenstein, Cinema Paradiso, Some Like it Hot, Shotgun Stories, Singin' in the Rain, Precious, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Rules of the Game, Frost/Nixon, All About Eve, Bronson, The Searchers, Bicycle Thieves, American Graffiti, A Christmas Story, The Phantom Carriage, The Changeling, Repulsion, Kagemusha, Irreversible, The Virgin Spring, The Red Shoes, Deconstructing Harry, Metropolis, Che, The Island of Lost Souls, Revanche, Black Moon, Stalker, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Badlands, The Long Goodbye, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Apartment, All About My Mother, Tokyo Story, Chungking Express, This is Spinal Tap, On the Waterfront, Grave of the Fireflies, Rebecca, The Sweet Hereafter, Peeping Tom, Drunken Angel, Duck Soup, Key Largo, Witness for the Prosecution, The Lady From Shanghai(TOTAL: 85)
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Ratedargh posted:The Lady of Shanghai is a mess. It's not as interesting a mess as Arkadin but it's still a decent enough flick. It's maddening to know that the film was butchered by producers. What's worse is none of those cut scenes are available. At least with Arkadin, there is a complete-ish cut. The line delivery by pretty much everyone was really off-putting...so much so that it must have been intentional. George Grisby's odd intonation "So long kiddies." Welles accent is hilarious. They say he's Irish and I can see an imitation in there somewhere but wow, that was awkward. The movie is a disappointment, but mostly because I know this is nowhere close to the full cut. Shameful, indeed. Look me in the eye and tell me you don't think that ending monologue is fantastic.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Look me in the eye and tell me you don't think that ending monologue is fantastic. The ending monologue is fantastic. My beef with the movie is that it's got wonderful segments but isn't great as a whole, though it presumably could have been without the absurd amount of interference from the studio (Columbia, I believe). The whole section in the funhouse is terrific, actually and so was the story earlier about sharks that comes back into play in the end. I'd certainly watch the movie again, there was enough there to intrigue and engage me. It's especially fascinating as a piece of film history, but on the whole it doesn't entirely work for me.
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Haven't seen any on your list, Ratedargh, so I plugged them into Criticker and the best bet looks like Haxan. Enjoy! I really liked High Fidelity. At first it was fun and cute, then as it became apparent that Cusack's character is a massive rear end in a top hat who's one step away from being unbearable, the movie got even better, then the ending was great: not happy, not sad, not some silly resolution, just the same fidelity to life that the rest of the movie has. Great sense of humor too. I imagine some people would get really turned off by Cusack talking to the camera, but if that doesn't piss you off then I can't see how anyone could fail to love this. Cusack's best movie, though? Sorry, I think maybe Grosse Pointe Blank wins for me, at least. 1) Union Station (1950) - It has William Holden, right? So I should probably also check it out. 2) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - How can anyone know too much?! That's ridiculous. 3) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - A classic. All I know about it is that it has a Mickey Rooney doing a racist portrayal of an Asian person. 4) The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Bunuel! All I've seen of his is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeouise, and that was a lot of fun. 5) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - I understand that it's between this and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly when it comes to "best Spaghetti western." I enjoyed For a Few Dollars More the most out of the Man With No Name trilogy, so it would be nice to see if it can hold onto the title. 6) Badlands (1973) - I've seen two Malick films and they have both been wonderful. I think this one is set in a desert? Or maybe it was a dessert. This is maybe a movie about cake. 7) Nostalghia (1983) - Let's get some Tarkovsky up in this list. 8) Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Until I finally watched Apocalypse Now, I don't think I had seen any of the iconic 'Nam films. This one's next on the list. 9) Boyz N the Hood (1991) - All I know is that Ice Cube is in this movie. Presumably in a hood. 10) City of God (2003) - This is set in Rio de Janiero, si? That's all I know. Deshamed: In a Lonely Place (98), The Seventh Seal (97), Seven Samurai (95), Schindler's List (91), Videodrome (88), 99 River Street (87), Goodfellas (87), M (86), High Fidelity (86), City Lights (82), Slacker (82) TychoCelchuuu fucked around with this message at May 29, 2012 around 03:33 |
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TychoCelchuuu posted:I think the message got a little muddled, or whatever the message was didn't come through very clearly The medium is the message.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:10) City of God (2003) - This is set in Rio de Janiero, si? That's all I know. Gone with the Wind lives up to it's status as a classic Hollywood film of that golden era. The happy slaves are fairly easy to ignore since it's intrinsically important to the film's themes to portray an idealized version of the south. While the Confederate soldiers thought themselves gallant and Scarlett thought herself a southern belle the film slowly turns those facts on their head to reveal it was mostly a facade, one that comes crashing down around them when Union soldiers invade. Despite how hard Scarlett tries to hold onto that old vision of the south and her love of Ashley she finally realizes that none of it was real, though a bit too late, and finally heads down the path towards redemption. It seemed to me that while it wasn't a true vision of the south it was true to the eyes of a naive young girl like Scarlett since she was far removed from the realities of slavery. I won't say much else about this film because everything has already been said, I almost wish I could've seen it on the big screen. On a final note, Clark Gable, though he reportedly hated working on it, easily pull off the most nuanced performance and pretty much steals every scene he's in for the film. What a guy! LIST OF SHAME: 1.*NEW*Schindler's List: Not the biggest Spielberg fan and I've seen a lot of holocaust films but I can't really skip on this one much longer. 2.Melancholia: Interested in Lars von Trier's latest 3.Faraway, So Close! Wing's of Desire really left it's mark on me, time to see it's sequel. 4.*OLDEST*Cul-de-sac: Wasn't the biggest fan of Repulsion, hoping to get a better feel for early Polanski. 5.Mother: Continuing with South Korean films. 6.Ugetsu More classic Japanese cinema! 7.Three Outlaw Samurai: 60s Samurai films...just something about them. 8.The Goddess: More Satyajit Ray. 9.Les Cousins: Claude Chabrol's next film after Le Beau Serge. 10.Letter Never Sent: Criterion Bluray: Check. Kalatozov: Check. What more do I need to know? 27 Watched: Masculin Feminin, Les Diaboliques, The World of Apu, Stalag 17, Wings of Desire, Island of Lost Souls, Dogville, Wages of Fear, The Phantom Carriage, I am Cuba, Twilight Samurai, Andrei Rublev, Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Orpheus, Blue, Mean Streets, Fanny and Alexander, White, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Conversation, Le Beau Serge, Memories of a Murder, Tokyo Twilight, Red, 3 Women, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Gone with the Wind Desiato fucked around with this message at May 29, 2012 around 07:31 |
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thegloaming posted:The medium is the message.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWUc8BZgWE
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Desiato watch Schindler's List. Fitzcarraldo is brilliant. It lacks the aura of insanity that made Aguirre so memorable, but the film clearly establishes early on that Fitzcarraldo isn't crazy or evil. I was actually surprised at how positive and subdued he was, culminating in an ending that is downright sweet. It's an excellent and unexpected contrast to Aguirre. As for the visuals, the outdoor scenes are just gorgeous. I love jungle settings, and Herzog really brings out the beauty of the Amazon here. 1920s: The Last Laugh - Murnau won me over with Sunrise, I look forward to seeing more of his movies. 1930s: Scarface - I need to see more Pre-Code movies. 1940s: Black Narcissus - I've loved both P&P movies that I've seen so far. 1950s: Ugetsu - Sansho the Baliff was equally amazing and depressing, I hope I like this one just as much. 1960s: Viridiana - I loved The Exterminating Angel, so I'm looking forward to this. 1970s: The Wicker Man - Just typing the title puts the image of Nicolas Cage yelling about bees into my mind. It's been six years since the remake came out, find something else to make me laugh you dumb idiot brain. 1980s: 1990s: Raise the Red Lantern - Sometimes I'll put a movie on here that I know nothing about. This is one of them. 2000s: Let the Right One In - I never watched this for dumb reasons (vampires are lame). I'll probably end up loving it. L'Atalante - Next highest on the They Shoot Pictures list. Just pick this one, it's been here forever. Watched/Score(10): The Seventh Seal 10, Moon 8, Barton Fink 10, The Thin Blue Line 9, Cool Hand Luke 9, Citizen Kane 10, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10, Rear Window 10, North by Northwest 9, Goodfellas 10, Casablanca 10, City Lights 8, Seven Samurai 10, Bicycle Thieves 9, Do the Right Thing 10, The Battle of Algiers 9, On the Waterfront 7, Wild Strawberries 10, The Trial 10, Adaptation 9, Unforgiven 10, Annie Hall 9, The 400 Blows 9, Diabolique 8, Mulholland Dr. 10, Dirty Harry 5, The 39 Steps 8, Aguirre: The Wrath of God 10, 8 1/2 9, Boogie Nights 9, A Streetcar Named Desire 7, Raiders of the Lost Ark 10, The General 9, Pickpocket 7, Pulp Fiction 10, Amadeus 10, Lawrence of Arabia 10, Eraserhead 8, The Lady Vanishes 8, The Wild Bunch 8, A Clockwork Orange 7, Platoon 7, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 9, Ikiru 10, Jules and Jim 10, The Asphalt Jungle 8, M 9, The Thin Red Line 9, Dial M for Murder 9, The Sting 8, Once Upon a Time in the West 9, The Exterminating Angel 9, A Woman Under the Influence 10, Singin' in the Rain 9, Scenes From a Marriage 10, Badlands 8, City of God 10, The Gold Rush 7, The Maltese Falcon 9, The Conformist 9, The Shawshank Redemption 8, High and Low 10, It's a Wonderful Life 7, Days of Heaven 9, Le Samourai 6, The Night of the Hunter 10, Metropolis 10, The New World 10, Persona 8, Manhattan 9, Some Like It Hot 7, The Rules of the Game 10, Nights of Cabiria 7, The Graduate 10, Pather Panchali 10, Punch-Drunk Love 9, Grand Illusion 8, The Hustler 8, The Great Escape 8, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 7, Memento 9, Forbidden Planet 7, Stagecoach 7, The Usual Suspects 6, The Big Sleep 8, Modern Times 7, Tokyo Story 9, Seven 9, The Searchers 6, The Battleship Potemkin 6, Videodrome 8, Léon: The Professional 6, American History X 4, The Grapes of Wrath 7, The Wages of Fear 9, Bonnie and Clyde 6, Mean Streets 8, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 8, American Beauty 6, The Great Dictator 7, Children of Paradise 10, La Dolce Vita 4, The Deer Hunter 8, Ben-Hur 5, Magnolia 9, Rushmore 10, MASH 4, Spirited Away 8, The Cranes Are Flying 9, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 7, Sunrise 9, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 6, The Lives of Others 8, Casino 8, Naked 1, Glengarry Glen Ross 9, Rififi 8, It Happened One Night 6, Time of the Gypsies 9, Being John Malkovich 9, Army of Shadows 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 10, Midnight Cowboy 8, Das Boot 10, Cries and Whispers 9, Hannah and Her Sisters 10, The Best Years of Our Lives 7, The Pianist 8, King Kong 7, Cinema Paradiso 6, Gone with the Wind 6, Fantasia 8, The Elephant Man 10, McCabe & Mrs. Miller 9, Fitzcarraldo 9 (Total: 135)
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Then the medium was unclear. You don't know anything about Brian Oblivion!
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I have seen none of the movies from your list, Atheistdeals, but try out Raise the Red Lantern. It looks pretty awesome. City of God was really really good. Beautifully shot with a wonderful story and a really horrifying ending. It struck a few false notes, and I'm not 100% sure I'm in love with the whole nonlinearity thing it had going, but otherwise it was flawless. If nothing else, it's shakycam done right. 1) Union Station (1950) - It has William Holden, right? So I should probably also check it out. 2) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - How can anyone know too much?! That's ridiculous. 3) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - A classic. All I know about it is that it has a Mickey Rooney doing a racist portrayal of an Asian person. 4) The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Bunuel! All I've seen of his is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeouise, and that was a lot of fun. 5) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - I understand that it's between this and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly when it comes to "best Spaghetti western." I enjoyed For a Few Dollars More the most out of the Man With No Name trilogy, so it would be nice to see if it can hold onto the title. 6) Badlands (1973) - I've seen two Malick films and they have both been wonderful. I think this one is set in a desert? Or maybe it was a dessert. This is maybe a movie about cake. 7) Nostalghia (1983) - Let's get some Tarkovsky up in this list. 8) Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Until I finally watched Apocalypse Now, I don't think I had seen any of the iconic 'Nam films. This one's next on the list. 9) Boyz N the Hood (1991) - All I know is that Ice Cube is in this movie. Presumably in a hood. 10) The Social Network (2010) - Facebook went public so I guess I should watch this now. Everyone keeps picking my newer movies so I think once this one gets picked I might limit this list to stuff released earlier than the 21st century for a while. Deshamed: In a Lonely Place (98), The Seventh Seal (97), Seven Samurai (95), Schindler's List (91), City of God (89), Videodrome (88), 99 River Street (87), Goodfellas (87), M (86), High Fidelity (86), City Lights (82), Slacker (82)
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