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I think this was my introduction to Fritz Lang. It's fantastic. Volver was really good! It's messy and all over the place but it somehow keeps it all hanging together, which works really well considering the themes of fraying family threads. Also, it successfully shifts tone multiple times in the early going from family drama to Hitchcockian thriller to almost screwball comedy. It's really something and it almost teeters into self destruction. Almost, but not quite. This shaky nature of the narrative pays off in the end. And any time I see a movie I immediately want to re-watch, I know it's good. So far, Almodovar is two for two. I wish I hadn't put him off for so long. LIST O SHAME 1)Walkabout - Another from the outback. I know next to nothing about it, but cover art intrigued me. 2) Code Unknown - More Haneke. I love Juliette Binoche, too. Know nothing about it, but bought it blind when Criterion released it. 3) Day For Night - I need to watch more Truffaut. 4) Cobra Verde - This Herzog/Kinski box set won't watch itself! 5) Beauty and the Beast - The Cocteau version. I've only ever seen the Disney movie. This is supposed to be great, right? 6) State of Siege - I loved Z and really liked Missing. What else has Costa Gavras got to offer? 7) Song of the Sea - Irish animation I've wanted to see since it was released. Just got added to Netflix! 8) Tangerine - Been on a number of best of 2015 lists. 9) The Verdict - Paul Newman as a lawyer...it's all I know...it's all I need to know. 10) La Silence de La Mer - Jean Pierre Melville is excellent. I've liked everything I've seen. 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, Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, Safety Last!, King Kong, Anatomy of a Murder, In a Lonely Place, Safe, Bad Day at Black Rock, The General, The Magnificent Ambersons, Five Easy Pieces, Porco Rosso, Mystery Train, Rififi, The King of Comedy, The Straight Story, The Kid, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carlos, Onibaba, It Happened One Night, Sherlock Jr., Lone Star, Foreign Correspondent, The Last Detail, Young Mr. Lincoln, Rope, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, The Man Who Laughs, Husbands and Wives, Reds, Sweet Smell of Success, Shadow of a Doubt, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The African Queen, The Lower Depths, Frankenstein, Broadcast News, La Strada, The Last Laugh, Stagecoach, Alexander Nevsky, Don't Look Now, Fish Tank, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Days of Heaven, The Killer, Nosferatu, The Naked Kiss, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Jules et Jim, Mon Oncle, Howl's Moving Castle, Y Tu Mama Tambien, A Night at the Opera, Berberian Sound Studio, The Natural, Kwaidan, The Color of Money, Fanny and Alexander, Repo Man, The Breakfast Club, The Passenger, The King of Marvin Gardens, The Goonies, Z, Ashes and Diamonds, L'Atalante, All Quiet on the Western Front, L'Age D'Or, The Earrings of Madame De..., La Notte, Europa, World on a Wire, Andrei Rublev, Dersu Uzala, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Brewster McCloud, Blast of Silence, Ordet, Bringing Up Baby, Pather Panchali, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bride of Frankenstein, Three Colors: White, Three Colors: Red, Kuroneko, A Hard Day's Night, Marketa Lazarova, Tootsie, George Washington, Marnie,Amour,Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Duke of Burgundy, Volver(TOTAL: 182)
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Ratedargh posted:3) Day For Night - I need to watch more Truffaut. Another film about film and the only one of your ten that I've seen. Inside Out - Pete Docter follows up Up (2009) with this equally impressive one. It starts with a good premise as we look inside the mind of a child. The brain world with its memory balls (reminiscent of those found in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter) and its island outposts were interesting enough that I think they could've told all kind of stories and still ended up with something special. Just a very good setting. Some of the brain creatures matched up easily with some of the Winnie-the-Pooh characters: Piglet (Fear), Tigger (Joy), Eeyore (Sadness). You need all your emotions in working order to be well-adjusted and grow. Perhaps the ending was wrapped up a little too nicely but I guess it's mainly for kids and after Bing Bong was obliterated maybe they thought that was enough sadness for one film. I also liked that they showed the brains of the parents and other characters at the end. It was another sign that this story really couldn't go wrong. Procrastination (204 completed): #199 Pumpkinhead - I may never look at pumpkins the same way again. 10/9/15 #202 Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 - This one keeps jumping on and off the IMDb 250. 11/5/15 #204 Manila in the Claws of Light - Heard this was good. 12/8/15 #208 Queen - IMDb CCL. 1/14/16 #209 The Hour of the Furnaces AKA La hora de los hornos - There are around a dozen films I've recommended ITT to someone that I haven't seen. This is one of them. 2/4/16 new #210 Woman in the Dunes - One I've heard about over the years. 2/6/16 James Bond versus Godzilla: The Spy Who Loved Me - I've heard this was shot well. I must be really sick of Bond. 12/22/15 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (23/37 completed): 1993 Indecent Proposal - A rich man offers your wife $1,000,000 American dollars for a one night tryst. What do you do? 10/9/15 1992 Shining Through - Something about WWII. 11/30/15 1991 Hudson Hawk - Run-of-the-mill box office bomb? 1/20/16
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Zogo posted:La hora de los hornos small text and bad kerning made me read this as "La hora de los homos" and I did a serious double take (I am not making you watch this, I have no list, proceed without me)
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Zogo posted:1991 Hudson Hawk - Run-of-the-mill box office bomb? 1/20/16 I'm pretty sure the goal of Das Boot was to show the dreariness and isolation of being aboard a U-Boat crew. It definitely was effective as I felt like I was in there with them experiencing all the trials they had to go through. I couldn't help but pull for them the entire way also because this movie goes beyond Allies vs Nazi and Good Ideals vs Bad Ideals, it's just about a group of Germans who are doing their service in a substandard situation. Great characters all around led by the cynical yet determined Captain. The Lt who is basically our vessel since he's really an outsider doing this mission for propaganda purposes is perfect at being our emotional conduit throughout the movie. It's cliche in submarine films to have the underwater scene where everyone's in silence, but you can cut the tension with a knife in those scenes here. The sub itself is basically another character. It's just another crew member that might be beaten up a bit, but it's still pulling through when it has to. This was really good, and I really enjoyed it even with the long run time (watched the director's cut). It's something I can bet will be one of my favorite films period. I rented it off Amazon, and I'm already thinking about grabbing the Blu Ray for it. New List: 1. Casino - 9 Jan 2016 - I loved Goodfellas and liked everything I've seen from Scorsese. 2. Papillon - 15 Oct 2015 - Hoffman and McQueen, what's not to like. 3. The Magnificent Seven - 3 Nov 2015 - We're getting a remake here soon, so might as well watch the original (well not really original). 4. 8 1/2 - 28 Jan 2016 - La Dolce Vita's companion piece. 5. Once Upon a Time in America - 8 Feb 2016 - Highest rated imdb movie I've yet to see. 6. Citizenfour - 7 Oct 2015 - Chili just watched it, and I've heard great things about it. I also work at Fort Meade so expect a bit of bias going into it. 7. Requiem for a Dream - 2 Jan 2016 - Drugs are bad. Best Picture Bonanza (62/88) 8. Out of Africa - 10 Dec 2015 - I'm just so tired of all this traffic, I just can't wait until I can get Out of Africa 9. The English Patient - 6 Jan 2016 - The most recent best picture I haven't seen. Insert Seinfeld joke here. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - 3 Feb 2016 - 12 of the 26 BPs I haven't seen are from pre 1950, so I'll just reserve this slot for that era. Watched Count 141: Last 5 - Shakespeare in Love, Hotel Rwanda, La Dolce Vita, West Side Story, Das Boot
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marioinblack, I've been thinking about rewatching it recently, so I'm giving you Papillon I was given The Descent. A scary, intense, claustrophobic horror, The Descent is incredibly good, even if it does have a couple issues. The early strengths of the movie rely on the bonding between the main characters. You get a very quick introduction to the group and the way they interact, and if this wasn't good, the rest of the movie would have suffered greatly. Between the acting and the screenplay, the friendship feels incredibly strong, and you can tell these women all have pasts together, and you know why they're here and what they're doing. For the most part, the script is really good, setting up these early friendships and gradually ramping up the danger and terror of the scenarios to great heights. The tension is also helped along by some great direction. The camera work is great, and uses the geography and minimal lighting of the cave to create beautiful, disorienting, and claustrophobic scenes when it needs to. The only gripes I have with the film have to do with the themes, and how they end up a little bit jumbled. The film trades in some standard horror themes, like dealing with loss and strife bringing out the worst in humanity, but in the final act it drops the ball, and ends up a little bit confused over how to resolve these thematic issues. Still, the film's an exciting, tense, beautiful horror movie, and I highly recommend it to horror fans. My list (sorted by time on my list, with longest at the top): 1) El Topo - Let's keep this Western train a-rollin with a Jodorowsky flick. That still counts, right? 2) The Game - I really like David Fincher's stuff, let's see how his follow-up to Se7en is 3) A Zed & Two Noughts - The only Greenaway I've seen is the excellent The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, and this one comes highly recommended 4) Under The Skin - ScarJo is something something sci-fi/horror? CineD raves about it, so I might as well watch it. 5) Adaptation - Kaufman and Jonze sounds interesting, and it's highly recommended NEW 6) Tremors - the horror comedy classic, with a side of Bacon Unshamed: Royal Tenenbaums, 8 1/2, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Pan's Labyrinth, Schindler's List, The Holy Mountain, Boogie Nights, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Exorcist, Days of Heaven, Inland Empire, The Hidden Fortress, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Naked Lunch, The Seventh Seal, Manhunter, Lolita, The Last Temptation of Christ, Sunset Boulevard, Once Upon a Time in the West, Suspiria, North by Northwest, Alien3, Badlands, Stagecoach, The Manchurian Candidate, L.A. Confidential, My Darling Clementine, Bringing Out the Dead, Starman, The Rules of the Game, Frankenstein, Malcolm X, Zardoz, Antichrist, The Sound of Music, Thief, Prisoners, Paris Texas, The Descent
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marioinblack posted:Das Boot My favorite character was the engine room dude who has a nervous breakdown and then pulls it together to do his duty and save the sub. It's terrifically tough to imagine the stress that U-boat crews (and all submariners, sailors, soldiers, marines and airmen) must have gone through at their most difficult moments, and Das Boot makes it so clear and easy to feel, it really shakes you up.
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I watched the 293 minute uncut version of Das Boot and it was pretty great. The tense scenes became so intense that i almost had to stop watching
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Slaapaav posted:I watched the 293 minute uncut version of Das Boot and it was pretty great. The tense scenes became so intense that i almost had to stop watching
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X-Ray Pecs posted:1) El Topo - Let's keep this Western train a-rollin with a Jodorowsky flick. That still counts, right? The Mole. Hudson Hawk - Yet another one of these atonal movies that will rub most people the wrong way and/or confuse them. Generally unique but kind of a hallmark for those bestowed with Golden Raspberry honors. Heavily reminded me of The Princess Bride with a sprinkling of Goldfinger and National Treasure. It has the aesthetic of a kids Nickelodeon film but is rated R. It would've been more familiar with a lighter PG or PG-13. Cartoonish/jokey slapstick followed by gratuitous violence followed by people swearing heavily will alienate most viewers. Then throw in some tepid romance, two singing criminals and obnoxiously persistent candy ads (most of the villains are named after candy bars!) and you have a near coup de grâce. -I couldn't care less about the characters in this one. It's like reading a Spy vs. Spy comic strip. I suppose with a little effort one could revel in the stupidity. -Looks like it was fun to film but not so much to watch. Procrastination (204 completed): #199 Pumpkinhead - I may never look at pumpkins the same way again. 10/9/15 #202 Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 - This one keeps jumping on and off the IMDb 250. 11/5/15 #204 Manila in the Claws of Light - Heard this was good. 12/8/15 #208 Queen - IMDb CCL. 1/14/16 #209 The Hour of the Furnaces AKA La hora de los hornos - There are around a dozen films I've recommended ITT to someone that I haven't seen. This is one of them. 2/4/16 #210 Woman in the Dunes - One I've heard about over the years. 2/6/16 new #211 The Bad Sleep Well - Something about revenge? 2/10/16 James Bond versus Godzilla: The Spy Who Loved Me - I've heard this was shot well. I must be really sick of Bond. 12/22/15 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (24/37 completed): 1993 Indecent Proposal - A rich man offers your wife $1,000,000 American dollars for a one night tryst. What do you do? 10/9/15 1992 Shining Through - Something about WWII. 11/30/15
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Zogo posted:The Spy Who Loved Me - I've heard this was shot well. I must be really sick of Bond. 12/22/15 Steve McQueen is easily the highlight of Papillon; however, it's largely a forgettable movie on the whole. I felt like it dragged a bit too long and outside of a few big highlights, it wasn't practically engaging. The isolation sequence is the highlight of the film, and I think the 2nd act in general was really good. Overall it fell flat a bit, but I do commend McQueen on a fine performance. There's so many films to compare this to also of the prison and breaking out of prison genre (especially with McQueen involved) so I feel like it doesn't stand out after watching something like Shawshank. It's not really fair to the movie, but it is what it is. New List: 1. Casino - 9 Jan 2016 - I loved Goodfellas and liked everything I've seen from Scorsese. 2. Scarface - 12 Feb 2016 - Pacino and his smaller friend. 3. The Magnificent Seven - 3 Nov 2015 - We're getting a remake here soon, so might as well watch the original (well not really original). 4. 8 1/2 - 28 Jan 2016 - La Dolce Vita's companion piece. 5. Once Upon a Time in America - 8 Feb 2016 - Highest rated imdb movie I've yet to see. 6. Citizenfour - 7 Oct 2015 - Chili just watched it, and I've heard great things about it. I also work at Fort Meade so expect a bit of bias going into it. 7. Requiem for a Dream - 2 Jan 2016 - Drugs are bad. Best Picture Bonanza (62/88) 8. Out of Africa - 10 Dec 2015 - I'm just so tired of all this traffic, I just can't wait until I can get Out of Africa 9. The English Patient - 6 Jan 2016 - The most recent best picture I haven't seen. Insert Seinfeld joke here. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - 3 Feb 2016 - 12 of the 26 BPs I haven't seen are from pre 1950, so I'll just reserve this slot for that era. Watched Count 142: Last 5 - Hotel Rwanda, La Dolce Vita, West Side Story, Das Boot, Scarface
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Marionblack, take a wild guess what I'm gonna pick for you. Nice little bonus that it's the oldest on your list. Enjoy and I can't wait to hear your specific take on Citizenfour Event Horizon. Nope. Nothing about this worked for me at all. I didn't enjoy it in the slightest and I doubt it'd be possible for me to understand any arguments for it. I have issues with films where people get punished for essentially no reason. That was my big issue with The Fly. Where that differed from this, however, is that The Fly is incredibly well done, well acted, and the visual effects are impeccable. Event Horizon had none of this. Just characters getting their assess kicked and tortured who are seemingly just trying to do the right thing. The overuse of slow motion is immensely cheesy, the jump scares are all but unforgivably irritating, and the acting is miserable. People rave about this film all the time and hold it up as an overlooked gem. I can't even imagine what they're seeing that I'm not here. At least with your standard slasher fare annoying grating kids get killed and they don't take themselves seriously. Event Horizon takes itself immensely seriously and the injuries and blood are just sickening to look at and there's nothing redeemable about it. Anyway, if you're on of those folks that love it, lemme know what I'm missing. 2/10 1. Blue Ruin - Don't know much about this, heard it's exciting and it's a recent film I missed. 2. Defending Your Life- Heard it's good and it has a pretty good cast. 3. Certified Copy - Heard about this director for the first time from this thread a few pages back. Let's see how it goes! 4. We Need To Talk About Kevin- Chili needs to see a film about Kevin? 5. The Lady And The Tramp - It occurred to me somewhat recently that I have a kinda hole in my old school Disney game. 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I keep seeing Full Metal Jacket on the Netflix list and I know I need to watch it before it goes away but I'm so lazy.
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Chili posted:Event Horizon. Nope. Nothing about this worked for me at all. I didn't enjoy it in the slightest and I doubt it'd be possible for me to understand any arguments for it. I have issues with films where people get punished for essentially no reason. That was my big issue with The Fly. Where that differed from this, however, is that The Fly is incredibly well done, well acted, and the visual effects are impeccable. Event Horizon's best stuff was done better before in Hellraiser, Alien, or Doom, so if you're really jonesin for a fix on some of those things, Event Horizon could scratch that itch. I didn't care for it, but I do love Sam Neill doing horror stuff.
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Zogo, did you think Pumpkinhead was scary at all? My grandmother really liked it and watched it whenever it was on and I was really scared of it, but, also, really young (and had an innate fear of Pumpkinheads from Wizard of Oz 2).
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Rick posted:Zogo, did you think Pumpkinhead was scary at all? My grandmother really liked it and watched it whenever it was on and I was really scared of it, but, also, really young (and had an innate fear of Pumpkinheads from Wizard of Oz 2). I haven't watched that one yet. It has three sequels so I'll probably get around to those eventually if I like the first one. Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1993) Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006) Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007)
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I think nostalgia is a big reason for people's Event Horizon fondness, I know it scared the poo poo out of me when I seen it on VHS when it was first released and I remember the freaky visuals but little or nothing of the rest of the film. I'd also like to say thanks to my good buddy Chili for mentioning Tony Zhou's 'Every Frame A Painting' Youtube Channel - which has loads of really cool and interesting videos on it about filmmaking (this video on Satoshi Kon's editing is brilliant). _____________________________ Chili, I've actually seen only one of your films and I don't remember it well enough to recommend it (Lady & the Tramp) - so I'll select your List Veteran again (hopefully this turns out to be better than the last time I picked one...) - go with Ashes and Diamonds. Looking forward to hearing about this, certainly seems interesting from reading a little about it there now. _____________________________ Way back last year, marioinblack gave me La Dolce Vita. Which was really good. The film is a series of vignettes focusing on a journalist/gossip columnist with ambitions to be a more serious writer as he encounters various celebrities/society types and other news stories in 1960s Rome. The film starts off interesting but I personally tuned out a bit during one of the earlier sequences (which I'm sure is the longest and most famous) featuring a Swedish/American Actress and unattached celebrity antics (and a cameo from a young Adriano Celentano). But the film picks up when it focuses more on the antics of it's lead character in the rest of the segments and while never narrow in it's attentions, the film does draw you in (over its near 3 hour runtime - as usual, this is why it's taken me so long to sit down and watch this) and leaves you thinking of the life of its main character and who he has become. I know this is a film that will stick with me for a while and I'll likely come back to it again after reading up more on it - I usually do these posts very shortly after watching the film so it's not the best write up but it's a film that I wasn't overly into until it grabbed me and afterwards can unstand its classic status. My List of Shame: (oldest to newest) 1 - Achilles and the Tortoise - final film of Kitano's 'surrealist autobiographical trilogy'... [Catching up with Kitano 2/4] (over a year on this list) 2 - Silence - Long intrigued by this film, now I need to catch it before the Scorsese version comes out next year... 3 - In America - It was talked about a lot on its release but not heard much about this since, word was it was good. [Irish Film Slot] 4 - The Great Yokai War - Takeshi Miike does a kids film, one I've long intended to catch. 5 - Rope - Think the only Hitchcock film I've seen is Pyscho, which was my film unshamed film, long overdue for more. 6 - Scarface - Never felt the urge to watch Al Pacino in Cuban blackface. Rappers like it & the OST was a radio station in GTA3. 7 - Gone Girl - Recent film that been talked of very highly and Fincher is always interesting anyway. 8 - Starman - Another notable John Carpenter film, yet to see one of his early films I didn't really like. 9 - Citizenfour - An interesting subject and Chili spoke highly of it earlier in the thread. [Documentary Slot] 10- Taken - new - One of those fairly recent films that absolutely everyone seems to have seen except me. Shame No More: [74] [top ten] Psycho | The Third Man | The Long Goodbye | Harakiri | The Silence of the Lambs | Pi | Jaws | Panic Room | Black Swan | Star Trek II | The Brothers Bloom | Hugo | Badlands | Shame | LA Confidential | The Right Stuff | The Evil Dead | Hanna | The Master | The Untouchables | Glengarry Glen Ross | The Seventh Seal | The Apartment | The Player | Ronin | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Glory to the Filmmaker! | Frank | Dreams | Paths of Glory | Assault on Precinct 13 | Haywire | Escape From New York | 13 Assassins | A Prophet | Stand By Me | Blackfish | Pumping Iron | The Thin Blue Line | It's A Wonderful Life | What Richard Did | The Bicycle Thieves | Youth of the Beast | Once Upon A Time In The West | The Raid: Redemption | The Babadook | Calvary | The Host | Samurai Rebellion | Poltergeist | Days of Heaven | The Room | Nightcrawler | Cars 2 | Enter the Dragon | Stalker | Casablanca | M | The Maltese Falcon | The Secret World of Arrietty | Bad Lieutenant | Blazing Saddles | Mad Max: Fury Road | From Up On Poppy Hill | In The Heat Of The Night | Noah | The Wind Rises | The Exorcist | An American Werewolf in London | The Fog | The Graduate | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | The Killing | La Dolce Vita
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You know what they say, Chewy Bitems, Scarface is one big pussy just waiting to get hosed. I was given El Topo. I'm not entirely sure what I think about it. I liked it, but I didn't love it. It starts off a little weird and then goes off the deep end about halfway through. It's never really manic or wild, instead it uses choppy editing, weird production design, and bizarre scenarios to never really let the audience in all the way in. I'm okay with enigmatic cinema, but El Topo doesn't feel consistent in its themes. The different segments of the film never coalesced into a whole, which did alienate me from some of the more straightforward moments that went for raw emotional power. It's still bizarre and the production design and cinematography are wonderful, so I still liked it, but it has some issues. My list (sorted by time on my list, with longest at the top): 1) The Game - I really like David Fincher's stuff, let's see how his follow-up to Se7en is 2) A Zed & Two Noughts - The only Greenaway I've seen is the excellent The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, and this one comes highly recommended 3) Under The Skin - ScarJo is something something sci-fi/horror? CineD raves about it, so I might as well watch it. 4) Adaptation - Kaufman and Jonze sounds interesting, and it's highly recommended 5) Tremors - the horror comedy classic, with a side of Bacon NEW 6) High Plains Drifter - More westerns, with the first Eastwood directed. Just jealous it's the Beastie Boys. Unshamed: Royal Tenenbaums, 8 1/2, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Pan's Labyrinth, Schindler's List, The Holy Mountain, Boogie Nights, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Exorcist, Days of Heaven, Inland Empire, The Hidden Fortress, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Naked Lunch, The Seventh Seal, Manhunter, Lolita, The Last Temptation of Christ, Sunset Boulevard, Once Upon a Time in the West, Suspiria, North by Northwest, Alien3, Badlands, Stagecoach, The Manchurian Candidate, L.A. Confidential, My Darling Clementine, Bringing Out the Dead, Starman, The Rules of the Game, Frankenstein, Malcolm X, Zardoz, Antichrist, The Sound of Music, Thief, Prisoners, Paris Texas, The Descent, El Topo
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X-Ray Pecs you get Adaptation. Not to everyones taste but probably worth seeing.Cakebaker posted:The List: This was my list 2 years ago when I last posted. I've managed to see all but La Dolce Vita since then, ticking off Stagecoach at a local theater a few days ago actually. Anyway I'm having a hard time picking movies to watch so I figured I'd turn to this thread again. The Wild Bunch - I'll keep this as a western slot. La Dolce Vita - Saw 8½ and I can't say I really enjoyed it, but I should probably give Fellini another chance. 2046 - Might as well follow up In the Mood for Love with this one. Cries and Whispers - Haven't seen a bad Bergman yet. Tetsuo: The Iron Man - I have a note on my desk saying I should see this. Is the note correct? Contempt - Loved Breathless. The Conformist - Looks beautiful from what I've seen. Andrei Rublev - Maybe I should watch som Tarkovsky? Rocky I - I've only seen the 2006 one. Probably shouldn't judge them all based on that. Tokyo Story - Only one in TSPDT top 10 I haven't seen. Cakebaker fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Feb 16, 2016 09:41
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Cakebaker, as much as I want to give you Tetsuo, it can wait for now, go watch Rocky. _____________________________ X-Ray Pecs gave me a film that's one big pussy just waiting to get hosed, Scarface. Which was not good. I've never felt the desire to watch this as it always seemed cheesy from the bits I had been exposed to over the years and, other than Godfather Parts I & II and Dog Day Afternoon, I really think Al Pacino is a terrible actor. And he's terrible here as Tony Montana, a criminal immigrant, in even worse than I was expecting Cuban Blackface - his accent frequently reappears at the start of scenes and drifts away. He behaves like he's got a mental disability when he's acting drunk in one scene in particular which is shockingly terrible. Though Pacino's accent is not much worse than many of the others to be (occasionally, when they remember) heard in this film. The plot is a standard rise of a inal film, which might well be harder to watch now so many years later as much of the plot might seem more cliched than it did at the time, though as this is a remake of a film from 50 years previous to that, I'm sure there's not that much lost. In fact the film skips over huge portions of Tony Montana's rise to power - he meets someone from an organisation, who he insults and gets given an important job for some reason, then get accepted into it and is soon in place as basically No.3 in the organisation without much in between. When Montana kills his former boss and rises to the top of the local drug world (with no backlash from the other gangs needless pointed out early in the film) - at least then there's a time passing montage of success with cheesy 80s music. Why does his drug connection in Bolivia need their drug kingpin, who's already in trouble with the law, to be involved in an assassination? no reason other than to bring on the end of this overlong daft film. What's with the incest overtones. Michelle Pfeiffer is actually good in her brief role, even if her character's actions don't make a lot of sense, but not much in this silly film does. Was the original plan to make this a standard Italian American immigrant crime story, and they cast an almost exclusively Italian American cast for this purpose and then just painted them brown and told them to talk like Speedy Gonzales? Cause apparently there were virtually no Cuban or even Latin American actors working at the time (ok at least Pacino's pal is actually Cuban). See how all rappers seem to like this film, do any of them remake that awkward Mr Potato head assassination attempt scene? as a music video? Cause I'd like to see that. There's only 2 good things to come out of this film: GTA VIce City (which basically remakes this film but with a sense of humour) and in a related note: Push it to the Limit... Limit! List of Shame: 1 - Achilles and the Tortoise - final film of Kitano's 'surrealist autobiographical trilogy'... [Catching up with Kitano 2/4] (over a year on this list) 2 - Silence - Long intrigued by this film, now I need to catch it before the Scorsese version comes out 3 - In America - It was talked about a lot on its release but not heard much about this since, word was it was good. [Irish Film Slot] 4 - The Great Yokai War - Takeshi Miike does a kids film, one I've long intended to catch. 5 - Rope - Think the only Hitchcock film I've seen is Pyscho, which was my first unshamed film, long overdue for more. 6 - Gone Girl - Recent film that been talked of very highly and Fincher is always interesting anyway. 7 - Starman - Another notable John Carpenter film, yet to see one of his early films I didn't really like. 8 - Citizenfour - An interesting subject and Chili spoke highly of it earlier in the thread. [Documentary Slot] 9 - Taken - One of those fairly recent films that absolutely everyone seems to have seen except me. 10- The Sting - new - Another apparent classic that I know very little about but keen to go into this blind. Shame No More: [75] [top ten] Psycho | The Third Man | The Long Goodbye | Harakiri | The Silence of the Lambs | Pi | Jaws | Panic Room | Black Swan | Star Trek II | The Brothers Bloom | Hugo | Badlands | Shame | LA Confidential | The Right Stuff | The Evil Dead | Hanna | The Master | The Untouchables | Glengarry Glen Ross | The Seventh Seal | The Apartment | The Player | Ronin | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Glory to the Filmmaker! | Frank | Dreams | Paths of Glory | Assault on Precinct 13 | Haywire | Escape From New York | 13 Assassins | A Prophet | Stand By Me | Blackfish | Pumping Iron | The Thin Blue Line | It's A Wonderful Life | What Richard Did | The Bicycle Thieves | Youth of the Beast | Once Upon A Time In The West | The Raid: Redemption | The Babadook | Calvary | The Host | Samurai Rebellion | Poltergeist | Days of Heaven | The Room | Nightcrawler | Cars 2 | Enter the Dragon | Stalker | Casablanca | M | The Maltese Falcon | The Secret World of Arrietty | Bad Lieutenant | Blazing Saddles | Mad Max: Fury Road | From Up On Poppy Hill | In The Heat Of The Night | Noah | The Wind Rises | The Exorcist | An American Werewolf in London | The Fog | The Graduate | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | The Killing | La Dolce Vita | Scarface
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Chewy Bitems, I'm giving you Gone Girl because it's dope. It took over a year, but I finally watched Sunset Boulevard. This is a movie that I appreciate, but don't like a whole lot. I think I had gotten a lot of it through cultural osmosis and that one Twilight Zone episode. The acting was great, especially Swanson. I also liked the beginning with Holden as a struggling hack writer. But I didn't really like the pacing. The List: 1. City Lights: I've never seen a Chaplin movie, or even a silent movie. 2. Stalker: Never seen a Tarkovsky, so I might as well start now. 3. Throne of Blood: Kurosawa doing MacBeth sounds dope 4. Stagecoach: I should watch more John Ford 5. Barry Lyndon: This is my Kubrick slot now 6. The Life Aquatic: I have never seen a Wes Anderson movie. 7. North Dallas Forty: I've been told that this is the best football movie ever made. I like football and movies. 8. The King's Speech: I borrowed this from the library a few weeks ago but the DVD was scratched and gave out halfway through. I liked what I did see, though. 9. The Hudsucker Proxy: This is my Coen slot now 10. The Artist: I saw 10 minutes of this once and rolled my eyes pretty hard at it but I should probably give it another chance. Watched (55): Goodfellas, Rear Window, Rashomon, The Searchers, Lawrence of Arabia, American Psycho, The Usual Suspects, L.A. Confidential, Unforgiven, Once Upon a Time in America, Blue Velvet, Schindler's List, Vertigo, First Blood, The Sting, Annie Hall, Twelve Monkeys, The Deer Hunter, Rain Man, Chinatown, Glengarry Glen Ross, Patton, Brazil, Casino, Scanners, Black Swan, Superman, Spartacus, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Seven Samurai, Double Indemnity, The Thing, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Badlands, Planet of the Apes, Shane, Léon: The Professional, Trainspotting, The Conversation, Miller's Crossing, A Fish Called Wanda, City of God, Psycho, Singin' in the Rain, Witness for the Prosecution, Se7en, The Wild Bunch, Oklahoma!, Cool Hand Luke, Paths of Glory, The Night of the Hunter, Blood Simple, Eyes Wide Shut, Memories of Murder, Sunset Boulevard Alfred P. Pseudonym fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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Feb 17, 2016 04:55
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:1. City Lights: I've never seen a Chaplin movie, or even a silent movie. I'm not really sure how to comment on Citizenfour. The documentary is really well done, and it does a really good job showing Snowden having to deal with the ramifications for himself as these disclosures unfold. There is a lot of things I learned that I did not know. I'm fairly neutral on Snowden himself and this didn't really change it other than give him more human qualities that it's easy to look over. My biggest issue on the subject matter is that I do have inherent biases due to my occupation that I can't really get out of the way of how I interpret this ordeal. I will say he's almost a necessary evil because he gives the NSA perspective that they likely didn't have beforehand. Like I said though, if I were on a 9 person Supreme Court judging this movie, I would have to withdraw myself from the process. I hope this isn't really a cop out. Obviously I'm not delving into details about things. New List: 1. Casino - 9 Jan 2016 - I loved Goodfellas and liked everything I've seen from Scorsese. 2. Scarface - 12 Feb 2016 - Pacino and his smaller friend. 3. The Magnificent Seven - 3 Nov 2015 - We're getting a remake here soon, so might as well watch the original (well not really original). 4. 8 1/2 - 28 Jan 2016 - La Dolce Vita's companion piece. 5. Once Upon a Time in America - 8 Feb 2016 - Highest rated imdb movie I've yet to see. 6. Children of Men - 18 Feb 2016 - Only heard fantastic things, not sure why I haven't sought it out. 7. Requiem for a Dream - 2 Jan 2016 - Drugs are bad. Best Picture Bonanza (62/88) 8. Out of Africa - 10 Dec 2015 - I'm just so tired of all this traffic, I just can't wait until I can get Out of Africa 9. The English Patient - 6 Jan 2016 - The most recent best picture I haven't seen. Insert Seinfeld joke here. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - 3 Feb 2016 - 12 of the 26 BPs I haven't seen are from pre 1950, so I'll just reserve this slot for that era. Watched Count 143: Last 5 - La Dolce Vita, West Side Story, Das Boot, Papillon, Citizenfour
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Feb 18, 2016 16:28
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Gonna take an obvious pick and go with a perennial goon favorite, Children of Men. Ashes and Diamonds is quite a neat little picture. I'm not sure how much of it I was really able to process and enjoy on its face though. The movie really does require you to have a good sense of context for its story to make sense. Context which, sadly, I didn't have. Granted, I've studied a bunch of WWII stuff but I couldn't really sort out what was going on until I read a little bit, had to pause the film in fact, so I could try and wrap my head around what exactly was going on. What's abundantly cool about this film, however, is just how obvious of an influence it is on some really prolific directors. I put this film on the list as it has been cited by famous directors as one of the best of all time. And it's quite a statement to make about a film that without its existence, you don't have Tarantino. From the cinematography, to the dialogue, and even the subtle appearances of characters Ashes and Diamonds certainly contributed to the look and feel of some of the greats. On its own? A little tough for me, there's a lot of good stuff here, but the plot itself is rather tertiary and there's not much else that managed to hold my interest. 8/10 I also polished off Defending Your Life. What a gem! It's an original comedy, set in an original universe, with fresh ideas, and a crazy good cast including Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep , and Rip Torn... How did I miss this? This is an overlooked film, I personally don't know a single person who's actually seen it. I'm not quite sure how this fell through the cracks, but if you're looking for a nice little comedy, you can do a lot worse. The ending may be somewhat predictable, but there's a lot of really novel stuff going here. 9/10 1. Blue Ruin - Don't know much about this, heard it's exciting and it's a recent film I missed. 2. *NEW* Memories of Murder*NEW* - An Every Frame a Painting pick. Looks really gripping and well done. 3. Certified Copy - Heard about this director for the first time from this thread a few pages back. Let's see how it goes! 4. We Need To Talk About Kevin- Chili needs to see a film about Kevin? 5. The Lady And The Tramp - It occurred to me somewhat recently that I have a kinda hole in my old school Disney game. Let's get that fixed. 6. The Informant! - My brother insists I'll love this, he's rarely wrong with his guesses for me. 7. Ordinary People - I'm keeping the number 7 slot open for movies that my mom picks for me. After I talked with her about how much I liked Kramer vs. Kramer, this was her next pick for me. 8. Deconstructing Harry - More Woody please! 9. Beasts Of The Southern Wild - All I know is that the kid is supposed to be great. 10. *NEW* Good Morning, Vietnam *NEW* - My understanding is that this is somewhat overrated but it's never boring watching Robin Williams. 124 Total De-Shamed! 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Chili, having recently rewatched it as part of a Disney Animation Studios marathon I've been doing with a friend of mine, both of us felt that Lady and the Tramp holds up quite well (barring some racist overtones in one particular musical number). Hopefully you feel the same way on a fresh viewing. After having a not-so-great start to last week UHF (and Deadpool), turned out to be exactly what I needed. I went in wanting and more or less expecting something akin to a collection of Weird Al sketches loosely tied together via a light plot, and pretty much exactly what I got (albeit with maybe a bit less music than I expected). Not every gag landed equally, but those that really landed did so well, and they're delivered at such a breakneck pace that it was hard to go more than a few minutes without finding something to laugh at. I don't have too much too say otherwise, it's just a fun, if not particularly groundbreaking or highbrow film, delivered with an infectious energy that is just a joy to watch. 1. Good Morning Vietnam - Continuing my Robin Williams film spree with one of the films that really put him on the map. 2. A Hard Day's Night - I love The Beatles but have only seen Yellow Submarine as far as their films are concerned. This one in particular seems especially well regarded. 3. Requiem for a Dream - A fun-filled romp for the whole family! 4. Plan 9 From Outer Space - The B-movie to define all B-movies? 5. Whiplash - One of my best friends considers this his favourite film of 2014, and J.K. Simmons generally hasn't steered me wrong in the past. 6. A Nightmare on Elm Street - Man, he sure says bitch a lot. 7. Porco Rosso - Starting to get into the Miyazaki material that I really don't know a whole lot about going in. 8. Mad Max: Fury Road - Meant to see this when it was in theatres over the summer but never got around to it. Alternatively, I haven't watched any of the earlier Mad Max films either, so if you think Fury Road is better appreciated having watched any of those first, feel free to recommend one of those instead. 9. No Country for Old Men - The only Coen Brothers film I've actually seen is The Big Lebowski, which although one of my favourite comedies of all time, as I understand it is by no means representative of their greater body of work. This seems like as good a point as any to change that. 10. Goodfellas - Saw a bit of the middle chunk while a friend of mine had it on at his place, and barely remember what little I did watch taken out of context. Deshamed (53): Monty Python's Life of Brian, My Neighbor Totoro, Alien, Back to the Future, Star Wars: A New Hope, Aliens, Hot Fuzz, Ghostbusters, The Fisher King, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Good Will Hunting, Wayne's World, One Hour Photo, This is the End, Inglourious Basterds, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Social Network, The Blair Witch Project, The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Fantasia, Kill Bill, The Iron Giant, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Avengers, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Zombieland, Grave of the Fireflies, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, 21 Jump Street, The Godfather, Jackie Brown, Citizen Kane, Pink Floyd - The Wall, Birdman, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Back to the Future: Part II, Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Zodiac, Princess Mononoke, The Godfather Part II, Halloween, Spirited Away, Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, UHF Trash Boat fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Feb 21, 2016 |
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Trash Boat, a few good ones on your list, but I'll go with what I'd say is the most important and influential, go with Goodfellas. _____________________________ Alfred P. Pseudonym, because it is dope, gave me Gone Girl. Which was really brilliant. An extremely enjoyable film that hooks you with some regularly tiny nuggets of the truth that's the centre of the plot and then just loving drowns you in layer upon layer of truth until the credits roll and you've a big mad smile on your face cause you watched an superbly well made, gripping, fun film. Well I had a big mad smile on my face anyway. And you can't drown in layers of something can you? I'm shite at metaphors or analogies or whatever crap I'm talking about. A film about a woman's disappearance and apparent kidnapping and the increasingly negative public opinion of her husband at the centre of the police investigation, the film starts quickly and fills you in with backstory delivered from the eponymous victim. The backstory of the marriage and its difficulties could be rather by-the-numbers drama but the pace and tone of the film quickly brings the audience in that there's more going on and brilliantly so. The film takes plenty of highly enjoyable turns (I actually can't remember the last time I laughed at a film this much, in a very good way (nealy each revelation was brilliantly delivered in perfect punchline fashion, there's no dramatic build to an unveilng, it's pure setup and bang! beautiful). The film isn't short - 2hrs30mins - but it really flies, there's nothing wasted and it's constantly progressing. The acting in fantastic and everyone is great (I was typing them out but it was looking like a cast list) but Rosamund Pike, as the girl who is gone, is absolutely spectacular. I'm baffled how she hasn't been massively successful since but like the gently caress do I know about hollywood like. I'm not going to go into detail as I went into this with it being vaguely spoiled (I knew the kidnapping wasn't what is seemed and the suggestion of who was behind what had happened, it certainly didn't ruin it but I imagine the impact would've been so much better if those moments came with much more shock). There is just one element of the film that I'm rather uncomfortable with - that suggestion of a woman lying about such events, the main plot is over the top enough that it doesn't both me at all but - the apparent lie about rape, as detailed in one scene, leaves me uncomfortable, I don't like the idea of a massively successful mainstream film (or any film obviously) furthering that bullshit about how a woman would ever lie about rape. I know it's an important element in establishing her behaviour (and I know the film is written by a woman adapted from her book, and I'm a bloke querying it on the fecking internet) and a character in a film can do anything. it's just a big horrible thing that I hate the idea of the risk that anyone could see this and ever think that a real woman would ever do such a thing. [/rant] blah blah blah, anyway it's just the one small negative thing in a film that I otherwise loved. My List of Shame: (from oldest to newest) 1 - Achilles and the Tortoise - final film of Kitano's 'surrealist autobiographical trilogy'... [Catching up with Kitano 2/4] (over a year on this list) 2 - Silence - Long intrigued by this film, now I need to catch it before the Scorsese version comes out 3 - In America - It was talked about a lot on its release but not heard much about this since, word was it was good. [Irish Film Slot] 4 - The Great Yokai War - Takeshi Miike does a kids film, one I've long intended to catch. 5 - Rope - Think the only Hitchcock film I've seen is Pyscho, which was my first unshamed film, long overdue for more. 6 - Starman - Another notable John Carpenter film, yet to see one of his early films I didn't really like. 7 - Citizenfour - An interesting subject and Chili spoke highly of it earlier in the thread. [Documentary Slot] 8 - Taken - One of those fairly recent films that absolutely everyone seems to have seen except me. 9 - The Sting - Another apparent classic that I know very little about but keen to go into this blind. 10- Dancer in the Dark - new - I started watching this years back but the rented DVD was broke, apparently a tough watch so haven't rushed back. 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Chewy Bitems posted:9 - The Sting - Another apparent classic that I know very little about but keen to go into this blind. I don't think I really have anything to add to Children of Men that hasn't already been reiterated a million times. It's beautiful in its bleakness. The long shots are the highlights, but I love the way they keep that carrot of hope just out of reach, but within sights at almost all times. The performances are pretty much overshadowed by the visuals, but it is Cuaron and Lubezki so it's kind of expected. Those visuals are top notch stuff though and do more plot explanation than any amount of dialog could. It's just a solid movie all around with a few moments that bring it to another level. New List: 1. Casino - 9 Jan 2016 - I loved Goodfellas and liked everything I've seen from Scorsese. 2. Scarface - 12 Feb 2016 - Pacino and his smaller friend. 3. The Magnificent Seven - 3 Nov 2015 - We're getting a remake here soon, so might as well watch the original (well not really original). 4. 8 1/2 - 28 Jan 2016 - La Dolce Vita's companion piece. 5. Once Upon a Time in America - 8 Feb 2016 - Highest rated imdb movie I've yet to see. 6. Anatomy of a Murder - 23 Feb 2016 - Always been a fan of Mr. Stewart. 7. Requiem for a Dream - 2 Jan 2016 - Drugs are bad. Best Picture Bonanza (62/88) 8. Out of Africa - 10 Dec 2015 - I'm just so tired of all this traffic, I just can't wait until I can get Out of Africa 9. The English Patient - 6 Jan 2016 - The most recent best picture I haven't seen. Insert Seinfeld joke here. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - 3 Feb 2016 - 12 of the 26 BPs I haven't seen are from pre 1950, so I'll just reserve this slot for that era. Watched Count 144: Last 5 - West Side Story, Das Boot, Papillon, Citizenfour, Children of Men
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marioinblack posted:2. Scarface - 12 Feb 2016 - Pacino and his smaller friend. Next one for you. The Spy Who Loved Me - Satisfactory despite how predictable and repetitive this series has become. Sharks, nukes, sex, sleeping with the enemy. I've seen all this before! The submarine car is probably the #1 Bond gadget I'd want up to this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeBqf6bYZak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JySRf9aTPA  I liked the Jaws character because he appears invincible just as Bond is (even against a shark). The battle featuring a ton of machine guns and grenades was ... explosive. Procrastination (204 completed): #199 Pumpkinhead - I may never look at pumpkins the same way again. 10/9/15 #202 Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 - This one keeps jumping on and off the IMDb 250. 11/5/15 #204 Manila in the Claws of Light - Heard this was good. 12/8/15 #208 Queen - IMDb CCL. 1/14/16 #209 The Hour of the Furnaces AKA La hora de los hornos - There are around a dozen films I've recommended ITT to someone that I haven't seen. This is one of them. 2/4/16 #210 Woman in the Dunes - One I've heard about over the years. 2/6/16 #211 The Bad Sleep Well - Something about revenge? 2/10/16 James Bond versus Godzilla: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (24/37 completed): 1993 Indecent Proposal - A rich man offers your wife $1,000,000 American dollars for a one night tryst. What do you do? 10/9/15 1992 Shining Through - Something about WWII. 11/30/15 new 1990 Ghosts Can't Do It - Can't do what? 2/24/16
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Zogo watch Pumpkinhead. Everyone needs more trashy 80s movies in their life.X-Ray Pecs posted:Ultimo Dragon Quest, I've been trying to get more into Westerns myself, so I'm giving you Stagecoach and I hope you enjoy it like I did! A La Dolce Vita - It's long and I didn't love La Strada. L'Age d'Or - I've skipped all the French Bunuels. Wild Strawberries - I loved The Seventh Seal but never followed up on it. Wings of Desire - This movie shares blame for that Goo Goo Dolls song. The Killing - I haven't seen much Kubrick. The Passion of Joan of Arc - I need to see more silent films that aren't from Germany. Chinatown - Haven't seen any Polanksi but Knife In The Water. Aguirre, the Wrath of God - I need to see a scripted Herzog film. Diabolique - People allege it is better than Diabolik. City of God - Highest unseen movie on the IMDB 250 I have lying around. Psycho A, Raging Bull C, Brazil D, Nosferatu B, Leaving Las Vegas C, Rashomon C, Onibaba C, The Tree of Life A, Casablanca B, Castle In The Sky C, Goodfellas B, Nashville B, Stagecoach A
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Wild Strawberries - I loved The Seventh Seal but never followed up on it. Try this one next. Pumpkinhead - A pretty straightfoward revenge story that didn't feel like it had much to say. Pumpkinhead is some kind of supernatural/pumpkin/demon creature summoned by an old evil witch. The rest of the cast is mostly filled with the typical teenagers looking to have fun...until one accidentally runs over a kid on his dirt bike. Shares some things with Pet Sematary (1989) and has a lot of the common tropes for the genre: -Rural vs. city conflicts. -Revenge Procrastination (205 completed): #202 Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 - This one keeps jumping on and off the IMDb 250. 11/5/15 #204 Manila in the Claws of Light - Heard this was good. 12/8/15 #208 Queen - IMDb CCL. 1/14/16 #209 The Hour of the Furnaces AKA La hora de los hornos - There are around a dozen films I've recommended ITT to someone that I haven't seen. This is one of them. 2/4/16 #210 Woman in the Dunes - One I've heard about over the years. 2/6/16 #211 The Bad Sleep Well - Something about revenge? 2/10/16 James Bond versus Godzilla: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (24/39 completed): new 2015 Fantastic Four - I don't believe this has many fans. 3/2/16 1993 Indecent Proposal - A rich man offers your wife $1,000,000 American dollars for a one night tryst. What do you do? 10/9/15 1992 Shining Through - Something about WWII. 11/30/15 1990 Ghosts Can't Do It - Can't do what? 2/24/16 Rick posted:Zogo, did you think Pumpkinhead was scary at all? My grandmother really liked it and watched it whenever it was on and I was really scared of it, but, also, really young (and had an innate fear of Pumpkinheads from Wizard of Oz 2). No, not really. If I was younger and hadn't seen hundreds like it already I'm sure I would feel differently. The Pumpkinhead creature itself was really well done.
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Zogo, go watch The Bad Sleep Well. Mainly because I thought it was the Kurosawa crime movie where they kidnap the wrong boy, which is excellent. Haven't seen these one, so let's see what you have to say about it. I've been out of the movie game for some time, so let's try to catch up with some of the greats: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)- Haven't seen a Hitchcock in a long time Through a Glass Darkly- Same with Bergman, I've even had time to actually learn swedish since I last saw one of his films Witness for the Prosecution- Can this be as good as the rest of Wilder's films? Life is beautiful- Seems like I'm the only one I haven't seen this film. Missing this one, Intouchables and The Green Mile for the IMDB Top 50. So it will probably remain unfinished for a long time, but may as well watch one of them. Wages of fear- One of the greats apparently? Ordet-Sounds good I guess. Dersu Uzala-The best Kurosawa I've yet to see. Based on amount of lists it is on in Icheckmovies, not the best metric I know. House-I think I bought this DVD a few years ago because of all the CineD buzz. Make me watch it. Brave- Let's see if Pixar has really gone downhill in the last few years. Thinking of 10 movies is hard, 9 will have to do. Hope to get many good recommendations from this thread. Although depending on which one I get first it may take me a while to get around watching it. A 2 and a half hour Kurosawa movie about Russia? I love the guy, but that doesn't exactly make me want to rush to watch it. (This was not reverse psychology. Really)
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Mr. Nemo posted:Life is beautiful- Seems like I'm the only one I haven't seen this film. Missing this one, Intouchables and The Green Mile for the IMDB Top 50. So it will probably remain unfinished for a long time, but may as well watch one of them. Scarface is solid, albeit nothing really jumps out at me since pop culture has already exploited this movie for all its worth. I find it a bit silly to say in this era of whitewashing, but I did enjoy Pacino a lot here. There are very few who's presence gives off such intensity. It's really his movie all the way with a couple of set pieces thrown in. New List: 1. Casino - 9 Jan 2016 - I loved Goodfellas and liked everything I've seen from Scorsese. 2. Notorious - 3 Mar 2016 - I have yet to dislike a Hitchcock. 3. The Magnificent Seven - 3 Nov 2015 - We're getting a remake here soon, so might as well watch the original (well not really original). 4. 8 1/2 - 28 Jan 2016 - La Dolce Vita's companion piece. 5. Once Upon a Time in America - 8 Feb 2016 - Highest rated imdb movie I've yet to see. 6. Anatomy of a Murder - 23 Feb 2016 - Always been a fan of Mr. Stewart. 7. Requiem for a Dream - 2 Jan 2016 - Drugs are bad. Best Picture Bonanza (63/89) 8. Out of Africa - 10 Dec 2015 - I'm just so tired of all this traffic, I just can't wait until I can get Out of Africa 9. The English Patient - 6 Jan 2016 - The most recent best picture I haven't seen. Insert Seinfeld joke here. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - 3 Feb 2016 - 12 of the 26 BPs I haven't seen are from pre 1950, so I'll just reserve this slot for that era. Watched Count 145: Last 5 - Das Boot, Papillon, Citizenfour, Children of Men, Scarface
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Drugs may be bad marioinblack, but Requiem for a dream is very good, go watch it. Life is beautiful is a very funny movie. Also very cruel. I never thought I'd say that, I've made several Holocaust jokes in my life, not something to brag about I know, but this just felt TOO cruel at times. The part where the german doctor says he must talk to him and it ends up being just a riddle for instance (the answer is a female duck, of course). I mean, I liked the scene, it perfectly showed the disconnect between the jew's realities and that guy perception of it, but still. The kid actor wasn't terrible, which is a plus. The first half is terrific. Benigni nails the comedy parts, and also the dramatic ones when they arrive. "Benito, Adolfo, stop!" ha. There is a feeling of dread in the first hour though, you know what's coming. The time skip where the child is born just made me feel even worse. I liked it, wasn't blown away by it. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)- Haven't seen a Hitchcock in a long time Through a Glass Darkly- Same with Bergman, I've even had time to actually learn swedish since I last saw one of his films Witness for the Prosecution- Can this be as good as the rest of Wilder's films? Donnie Darko- I should probably watch this one at some point. Wages of fear- One of the greats apparently? Ordet-Sounds good I guess. Dersu Uzala-The best Kurosawa I've yet to see. Based on amount of lists it is on in Icheckmovies, not the best metric I know. House-I think I bought this DVD a few years ago because of all the CineD buzz. Make me watch it. Brave- Let's see if Pixar has really gone downhill in the last few years. Watched: La vitta e bella
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Mr. Nemo, Pixar definitely hasn't gone downhill lately (Inside Out is up there with the studio's best) so go with the enjoyable Brave. (also is House on your list the 1977 Japanese film... or the 1986 American one?) _____________________________ marioinblack gave me The Sting. Which really is great fun, as marioinblack had said it was. I went into this not knowing much about it other than its stars (Robert Redford & Paul Newman) and that it was some kind of crime film. The particular type of crime is about con artistry in 1920's Chicago with the film building up to an elaborately set up 'big time con', being the eponymous Sting. The film moves along at a great pace, with the audience given the knowledge fairly early on about the plan and therefore it is pretty satisfying seeing the various parts come together, whether coming off perfectly as planned or watching the talented crew figuring it out. The film deliberately trys to evoke a pseudo-1920s feel with introductory clips of the actors and title cards for the various sections of the grand plan ('the setup' etc.). The acting is great and easygoing with Redford front and centre brilliant as a grifter carrying himself as non quite as confident as he appears when at his work and Newman as his mentor. A highly enjoyable film and well worth the watch, my only small problem is, as is common with films playing lots of tricks on characters, that you start to guess ahead a little and you might jump ahead to the enjoyable minor twists the plot takes, although: ok it's probably really obvious to see how it works out at the end but I guess that's just par for the course with this type of film. It doesn't ovely give away what's happening with twists but the assumption that it probably run that way took the tension and drama out of the end of the film, which didn't really harm a certainly enjoyable film. List of Shame: 1 - Achilles and the Tortoise - final film of Kitano's 'surrealist autobiographical trilogy'... [Catching up with Kitano 2/4] (over a year on this list) 2 - Silence - Long intrigued by this film, now I need to catch it before the Scorsese version comes out 3 - In America - It was talked about a lot on its release but not heard much about this since, word was it was good. [Irish Film Slot] 4 - The Great Yokai War - Takeshi Miike does a kids film, one I've long intended to catch. 5 - Rope - Think the only Hitchcock film I've seen is Pyscho, which was my first unshamed film, long overdue for more. 6 - Starman - Another notable John Carpenter film, yet to see one of his early films I didn't really like. 7 - Citizenfour - An interesting subject and Chili spoke highly of it earlier in the thread. [Documentary Slot] 8 - Taken - One of those fairly recent films that absolutely everyone seems to have seen except me. 9 - Dancer in the Dark - I started watching this years back but the rented DVD was broke, apparently a tough watch so haven't rushed back. 10- Mad Max 2 - new - Assumed I'd watched this when young but its good reviews in this thread suggest it's worth seeing for definite. Shame No More: [77] [top ten] Psycho | The Third Man | The Long Goodbye | Harakiri | The Silence of the Lambs | Pi | Jaws | Panic Room | Black Swan | Star Trek II | The Brothers Bloom | Hugo | Badlands | Shame | LA Confidential | The Right Stuff | The Evil Dead | Hanna | The Master | The Untouchables | Glengarry Glen Ross | The Seventh Seal | The Apartment | The Player | Ronin | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Glory to the Filmmaker! | Frank | Dreams | Paths of Glory | Assault on Precinct 13 | Haywire | Escape From New York | 13 Assassins | A Prophet | Stand By Me | Blackfish | Pumping Iron | The Thin Blue Line | It's A Wonderful Life | What Richard Did | The Bicycle Thieves | Youth of the Beast | Once Upon A Time In The West | The Raid: Redemption | The Babadook | Calvary | The Host | Samurai Rebellion | Poltergeist | Days of Heaven | The Room | Nightcrawler | Cars 2 | Enter the Dragon | Stalker | Casablanca | M | The Maltese Falcon | The Secret World of Arrietty | Bad Lieutenant | Blazing Saddles | Mad Max: Fury Road | From Up On Poppy Hill | In The Heat Of The Night | Noah | The Wind Rises | The Exorcist | An American Werewolf in London | The Fog | The Graduate | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | The Killing | La Dolce Vita | Scarface | Gone Girl | The Sting
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This thread is less active than I hoped for, anyway Chewy Bitems, Rope isn't mindblowing, but it's quite good. Try to spot the Hitchcock cameo, it isn't that easy in this one. Brave: I have to disagree with you here Chewy, this certainly isn't on par with Pixar early works. Amazing animation, okay story. From what I've seen online this is the common opinion, so I don't have much to add. Seems like a lovely film to watch between mother and daughter. Funny scenes. The biggest laugh from me was right at the end, when we see the incredibly muscly warrior flirting with the maid. It's short, so I don't regret seeing it, but I wouldn't recommend it over any other Pixar film. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)- Haven't seen a Hitchcock in a long time Through a Glass Darkly- Same with Bergman, I've even had time to actually learn swedish since I last saw one of his films Witness for the Prosecution- Can this be as good as the rest of Wilder's films? Donnie Darko- I should probably watch this one at some point. Wages of fear- One of the greats apparently? Ordet-Sounds good I guess. Dersu Uzala-The best Kurosawa I've yet to see. Based on amount of lists it is on in Icheckmovies, not the best metric I know. House-I think I bought this DVD a few years ago because of all the CineD buzz. Make me watch it. Cars-Let's keep the Pixar train (car??) going. Maybe this is the worst Pixar movie? (4 to go) Seen so far: Life is beautiful, Brave
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Mr. Nemo posted:Witness for the Prosecution- Can this be as good as the rest of Wilder's films? So Requiem for a Dream. Yup. I guess the main thing I look for in a movie is if I get some sort of emotional tug from it. I was white knuckling the last 15 minutes of this movie. I've luckily never had any sort of hard addiction, but I've heard and read that many people try to replicate that first high. Obviously this is the parallel the movie was following with the characters trying to reach that prior high. The speech Ellen Burstyn gives about finding reasons to live kind of drive the whole thing home. The descent this movie takes is one of a kind. It's like the old allegory of someone digging themselves into a hole they can't get out of and trying to solve it by continuing to dig. Great movie that hits hard as it should. Even Keith David's sultry voice couldn't keep me off the edge of my seat. New List: 1. Casino - 9 Jan 2016 - I loved Goodfellas and liked everything I've seen from Scorsese. 2. Notorious - 3 Mar 2016 - I have yet to dislike a Hitchcock. 3. The Magnificent Seven - 3 Nov 2015 - We're getting a remake here soon, so might as well watch the original (well not really original). 4. 8 1/2 - 28 Jan 2016 - La Dolce Vita's companion piece. 5. Once Upon a Time in America - 8 Feb 2016 - Highest rated imdb movie I've yet to see. 6. Anatomy of a Murder - 23 Feb 2016 - Always been a fan of Mr. Stewart. 7. Gosford Park - 7 Mar 2016 - I'm keeping this slot a 97-03 slot since I seem to be lacking in this area. Only Altman I've seen is Nashville which I enjoyed. Best Picture Bonanza (63/89) 8. Out of Africa - 10 Dec 2015 - I'm just so tired of all this traffic, I just can't wait until I can get Out of Africa 9. The English Patient - 6 Jan 2016 - The most recent best picture I haven't seen. Insert Seinfeld joke here. 10. The Best Years of Our Lives - 3 Feb 2016 - 12 of the 26 BPs I haven't seen are from pre 1950, so I'll just reserve this slot for that era. Watched Count 146: Last 5 - Papillon, Citizenfour, Children of Men, Scarface, Requiem for a Dream
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marioinblack posted:1. Casino - 9 Jan 2016 - I loved Goodfellas and liked everything I've seen from Scorsese. Get another Scorsese in your eyeballs. I finally, finally watched Stalker! Aaand I loved it. The long shots take a little getting used to since most modern movies don't use that shooting style unless it's a lot flashier (e.g., Children of Men, that one episode of True Detective), but I appreciated how it gave the characters' movements more room to breathe. Also, the switches between black-and-white and color are so impactful: when the color hits going into the Zone, it's almost shocking; everything seems so muted afterwards; and I only realized after the movie ended that the scene with the daughter at the end was also in color. Great characters and dialogue, too. Oh poo poo I forgot I had Eyes Wide Shut on here! I watched that a while ago and loved it just as much as Stalker in a totally different way. It has a wonderfully creepy/paranoid vibe, even and especially after the masked orgy (though some of those masks are definitely masterworks of horror props). My favorite low-key theme was new vs. old money, delivered via little slights like pointing out that Cruise's character arrived in a cab when the rest arrive in limos and by the fact that Cruise is always giving out cash tips everywhere whereas the old money people would never stoop to such petty exchanges. Also Kidman's delivery of the simple final line of the film is really funny. "There's just one thing left to do." "What's that?" "gently caress." Updated list after like a year and a half! 1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 2. Lolita -  NEW! replacing Eyes Wide Shut with another missing Kubrick!3. La Grande Bellezza - more Italian cinema, this one obviously more recent. I meant to see it when it was out in Germany last year but never managed to. 4. Aguirre, The Wrath of God I love what Herzog I've seen (just Grizzly Man and Rescue Dawn so far) but I know I'm missing essential poo poo. This is one example. 5. Battleship Potemkin - I'm a trash person who hasn't seen this. 6. Come and See - HUNDU THE BEAST GOD told me to. 7. The Maltese Falcon - missing classic, not much of an anecdote here. 8. Akira - I've heard good things, was always interested but just haven't seen it yet. 9. City Lights - I've only seen scattered bits of Chaplin. 10. Wag the Dog - NEW! my girlfriend recommended this to me so let's get to it!Already watched: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Upstream Color, The King of Comedy, Ikiru, Grease, Barton Fink, La Strada, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, Hard Eight, The Night of the Hunter, Miller's Crossing, Shane, Bringing Out the Dead, Eyes Wide Shut, Stalker. Mahlertov Cocktail fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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Mahlertov Cocktail, welcome back to the thread, go with Akira, one I'm always keen to see what people think of. _____________________________ Mr. Nemo, gave me Rope. Which was really good fun. A film which starts with a murder and you immediately know who did it and how, quickly find our why, and then watch as they try to get away with it right under everyone's noses. The film is done in a series of long takes pieced together with some sleight of hand cutting (well, not so sleight of hand, big obvious someone stands in front of the camera for a second but it still works ok) which adds to the fun of watching the two culprits alternately delight in and freak out over the situation they've created. The film doesn't have the tension you might expect, partly because the murderous duo are very much in control for most of the film but also as the film is very naturalistic along with its almost like a play setup so there's no dramatic effects, edits, or music cues to artificially evoke suspense in the audience. When the moments of suspense finally come late on. they're very well earned and all the more enjoyable for everything that's gone before. A highly enjoyable, brilliantly made film and I realise that I really need to watch more Hitchcock films. List of Shame: 1 - Achilles and the Tortoise - final film of Kitano's 'surrealist autobiographical trilogy'... [Catching up with Kitano 2/4] (over a year on this list) 2 - Silence - Long intrigued by this film, now I need to catch it before the Scorsese version comes out 3 - In America - It was talked about a lot on its release but not heard much about this since, word was it was good. [Irish Film Slot] 4 - The Great Yokai War - Takeshi Miike does a kids film, one I've long intended to catch. 5 - Starman - Another notable John Carpenter film, yet to see one of his early films I didn't really like. 6 - Citizenfour - An interesting subject and Chili spoke highly of it earlier in the thread. [Documentary Slot] 7 - Taken - One of those fairly recent films that absolutely everyone seems to have seen except me. 8 - Dancer in the Dark - I started watching this years back but the rented DVD was broke, apparently a tough watch so haven't rushed back. 9 - Mad Max 2 - Assumed I'd watched this when young but its good reviews in this thread suggest it's worth seeing for definite. 10- Annie Hall - new - I don't think I've ever seen a Woody Allen film... Shame No More: [78] [top ten] Psycho | The Third Man | The Long Goodbye | Harakiri | The Silence of the Lambs | Pi | Jaws | Panic Room | Black Swan | Star Trek II | The Brothers Bloom | Hugo | Badlands | Shame | LA Confidential | The Right Stuff | The Evil Dead | Hanna | The Master | The Untouchables | Glengarry Glen Ross | The Seventh Seal | The Apartment | The Player | Ronin | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Glory to the Filmmaker! | Frank | Dreams | Paths of Glory | Assault on Precinct 13 | Haywire | Escape From New York | 13 Assassins | A Prophet | Stand By Me | Blackfish | Pumping Iron | The Thin Blue Line | It's A Wonderful Life | What Richard Did | The Bicycle Thieves | Youth of the Beast | Once Upon A Time In The West | The Raid: Redemption | The Babadook | Calvary | The Host | Samurai Rebellion | Poltergeist | Days of Heaven | The Room | Nightcrawler | Cars 2 | Enter the Dragon | Stalker | Casablanca | M | The Maltese Falcon | The Secret World of Arrietty | Bad Lieutenant | Blazing Saddles | Mad Max: Fury Road | From Up On Poppy Hill | In The Heat Of The Night | Noah | The Wind Rises | The Exorcist | An American Werewolf in London | The Fog | The Graduate | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | The Killing | La Dolce Vita | Scarface | Gone Girl | The Sting | Rope
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Chewy Bitems, Haven't seen any movies on your list. I will pick Taken Just saw one of Alfred Hitchcock's best. Vertigo. It was a very suspenseful movie. Jimmy Stewart was great as always. This movie was very disturbing in a lot of ways, and went into places I didn't expect to see. My List: Wall Street - Greed is good, I hear. Avatar - I heard this is like Dances with Wolves. Faust - Looking forward to another Murnau film. Reds - Don't know much about this movie. A Day at the Races - More Marx Brothers madness, please. The Cat Returns - Need to see some more Studio Ghibli. Sequel to Whisper of the Heart Dodesukaden - Starting to run out of Kurosawa films. What a great director. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - This is one of my grandmothers favorite movies. I haven't seen it yet. House of Wax - I've never seen a Vincent Price picture (except for Edward Scissorhands) Dial M For Murder - More Hitchcock here. 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, Time Bandits, Adaptation, The Producers, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gone With The Wind, My Fair Lady, City Lights, A Christmas Carol(1951), Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, West Side Story, Caddyshack, My Neighbor Totoro, Throne of Blood, The Phantom of the Opera, Yellow Submarine, Little Caesar, The Third Man, The Godfather, Persepolis, The Godfather Part II, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Invisible Man, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Bridge on the River Kwai, A Beautiful Mind, The Kid, Fiddler on the Roof, The Gold Rush, Metropolis, Rear Window, Enter the Dragon, Horse Feathers, The Great Dictator, Despicable Me, The Bad Sleep Well, The Wolf Man, Nosferatu, Patton, Howl's Moving Castle, The King and I, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Kiki's Delivery Service, The King's Speech, Grave of the Fireflies, Porco Rosso, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, The Graduate, Whisper of the Heart, The 39 Steps, Ran, Notorious, True Grit, North By Northwest, Rope, Dersu Uzala, Vertigo
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