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Magic Hate Ball posted:Well, it is a NIcholas Ray film starring James Dean. I'm ashamed to admit it, but that essentially means nothing to me. Although upon further research it looks like the relationship was intended to be somewhat romantic. I miss everything.
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Go with Hidden Fortress it's fun and you'll definitely pick up on a lot of the inspiration you're talking about. Well, I’ve finally made it to the 100 club (I don’t care if it’s not club, I’m starting one, dammit). As has been customary I went ahead and plucked out my top and bottom 10. The order here is pretty close to accurate with 1 being the best in the top and the worst in the bottom. Top 10
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When I look at the top ten list, I’m very pleased with it. There’s such a wide array of films that I’ve come to love since I’ve started up with this thread. And to say playing this silly game has changed my life would hardly be an understatement. Singin’ In The Rain, for example, was really the first thing that turned me on to musicals. After which, I decided to go out for one myself… and that’s where I met my fiancee. I’ve always loved movies, and these have been excellent to watch, from the exhibition of loneliness in Synecdoce, New York and Lost In Translation, to the existential questioning in Cool Hand Luke and Crimes and Misdemeanors, and to the utter joy found in Ikiru and The General, this has been a blast, and I can’t wait to hit 200! Sherlock Jr. was good if not a touch more silly than I would have liked. It felt way more Chaplinny than the other Keaton films I've seen. It was definitely short but I can't imagine it having been much longer and not wearing out its welcome. 7.5/10 1. First Blood - Yup, never seen any of them old Rambo flix. 2. The Purple Rose of Cairo - More Woodie! 3. Arsenic and Old Lace - I need some proper Cary Grant exposure. 4. Poolhouse Junkies - Looks like fun. 5.Galaxy Quest - This is succeeding The Last Starfighter, another space movie I should have watched as a kid. 6. The Raid - Have heard countless recommendations to check this one out. 7. *NEW* Spring Breakers *NEW* - I don't know what this is. I've heard.... things. 8. Intolerable Cruelty - Continuing along with my quest to complete the Coens! I'm getting there!  List Veteran As Of 9/30/2013 9. Beasts Of The Southern Wild - All I know is that the kid is supposed to be great. 10. Ashes and Diamonds - There was some kind of list of famous director's favorite movies. A lot of directors I liked listed this and I had never heard of it. Let's go! 100 Total De-Shamed! Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8.5/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singin' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10, The Thing 8.5/10, Lost In Translation 9.5/10, Anchorman 6.5/10, Mulholland Dr. 8.5/10, Rebecca9/10, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans 7/10, Steamboat Bill Jr. 9/10, Double Indemnity 9/10, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 6.5/10, The Man Who Wasn't There 8.10, Synecdoche, NY 10/10 , Leaving Las Vegas 9/10, The Hidden Fortress 8.5/10, Magnificent Seven 8/10, Dear Zachary -/10, The Fly 9/10, Time Bandits 6/10, Before Sunrise 6.5, The Buddy Holly Story 7/10, Pleasantville 7/10, The Rules of the Game 6/10, Senna 7.5/10, Kiki's Delivery Service 8/10, Gojira 9/10, The Blues Brothers 5/10, Notorious 7/10, Little Shop of Horrors 9/10 , The Last Starfighter 7/10, Rebel Without A Cause 8.5/10, Sherlock Jr. 7.5/10 [/sub] Chili fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Chili posted:8. Intolerable Cruelty - Continuing along with my quest to complete the Coens! I'm getting there! I finish a Coen, you finish a Coen. Miller's Crossing was fun. It didn't quite reach the best-of-Coen heights all the way through, but it certainly had its moments (the Danny Boyle scene in particular was loving amazing). Gabriel Byrne put in a solid understated performance, and the supporting cast was also fantastic (Albert Finney motherfuckers! Although I feel remiss not mentioning John Turturro, so shoutout for him too). The camerawork really evoked that '20s gangster feel. Definitely not one of my favorite Coen films, but second-tier Coen is better than a ton of films. Updated list! 1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 2. Shane - I love Westerns and I've heard this is a classic. Also, penismightier's old avatar with the "low-down Yankee liar" quote always made me want to watch it. 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. Bringing Out the Dead - another missing Scorsese, and the premise sounds cool. 5. Battleship Potemkin NEW! - 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 - 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. Stalker - never seen a Tarkovsky film. 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. Mahlertov Cocktail fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Chili, great write up on your first 100 movies. I've watched over 200 for this thread and to say it's changed my viewpoint on film would be an understatement. Maybe one day i will dig through and do a top and bottom 10 list if anyone's interested. For your 101st film, I'm giving you Intolerable Cruelty just to finish off one of your longest tenured movies. I took some time off from this due to work and life business and managed to watch a few of my previous list. In keeping with traditional Hollywood franchise making, I'm giving my list a "reboot". My last assigned movie was The Red Shoes. It's interesting to compare this movie to Whiplash which I also saw recently. Both movies deal with the price and sacrifice of being not just great, but legendary. The Red Shoes was haunting in a way and just a beautiful film. The performance of the actual ballet had almost a dreamlike quality to it and was absolutely mesmerizing. I was completely taken with this movie. I'm curious to revisit it in the future as I'm sure there's a lot of nuance I missed in all the dancing as it was impossible not to get swept up in it. my new list: 1) Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - picked up the Tati boxset and I hear this is one of his best 2) Youth of the Beast- branching deeper into Japanese cinema 3) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life- last of the Python films I haven't seen 4) Bringing Out the Dead- Scorsese completionism 5) Swing Time- holdover from my last list, never seen an Astaire musical 6) Seven Chances- i don't need a reason for more Buster Keaton 7) The Godfather 3- I guess I need to finish the trilogy, this can't possibly top the first two 8) The Naked Spur- finishing up my essential westerns 9) Sunrise, A Tale of Two Humans- this is supposed to be pretty groundbreaking 10) The Third Man- everyone seems to love this movie, it's time I watched it New List of Unshamed: The Red Shoes Mistletoe Donkey fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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Mistletoe Donkey posted:Maybe one day i will dig through and do a top and bottom 10 list if anyone's interested. I'm definitely interested!
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Mistletoe, you should give Mahlertov a film.
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We posted like one right after the other so it got a little jumbled. No rush!
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Mahlertov, take Shane for a spin. Try to ignore the annoying kid and there's good stuff there
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Mistletoe, see The Third Man and go in blind! York_M_Chan encouraged me to watch Days of Heaven. What an amazingly beautiful film - hard to describe how good it looks. I imagine a big part has to do with when the film was shot (during the "magic hour" when the sky is lit but the sun isn't up) which gives everything this beautiful color to it. The performances are good, the story is fine, but the centerpiece is the cinematography. Wow. I also saw Death Proof to finish up my Quentin Tarantino filmography. Entertaining enough, great car sequences, it's not Tarantino's best by a long shot but a bad Tarantino movie is still pretty good. Kurt Russell was excellent as always. I actually watched Grindhouse so I also saw Planet Terror which was kind of meh, though Josh Brolin chewed scenery like that little piece of glass in his mouth and Jeff Fahey  Also someone needs to make the full length version of Don't because I'd pay money to see it.Updated! List! 1. Shane - Another supposed classic off the AFI 100 list 2. The Man with the Golden Arm - Sinatra is said to be incredible here. 3. An American In Paris - Let's try another musical  Gershwin though.4. Casino - Yes, the Scorsese movie. I've seen a few clips but never the whole thing. 5. The Ladykillers (Coen bros version) - I haven't heard good things about this one, but it is a Coen brothers movie and watch it I must. 6. Scarface The Pacino version. 7. The Conformist Another film brought up having amazing cinematography, done by Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, crapload of others.) 8. El Cid - Another historical epic I haven't seen. 9. NEW Birdman I'm going to traverse Best Picture winners too. Also this looks really good. 10. NEW The Guns of Navarone One of those classic WW2 movies with a cavalcade of stars. AFI meter: 69 IMDB 250 meter: 152 Oscar winners: 46 Movies watched: City Lights, Some Like It Hot, Annie Hall, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dollars Trilogy, Bottle Rocket, Bonnie and Clyde, To Kill a Mockingbird, All About Eve, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The French Connection, To Catch a Thief, Infernal Affairs, The Aviator, The Best Years of Our Lives, Midnight Cowboy, The General, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Philadelphia Story, The Lion in Winter, The Duellists, Ben-Hur, Seven Samurai, Rocky, Kill Bill, 8 1/2, La Strada, Kundun, The Exorcist, Dog Day Afternoon, Anatomy of a Murder, Amarcord, Inframan, A Place in the Sun, Assault on Precinct 13, The Wicker Man, Spartacus, Death Proof, Days of Heaven monster on a stick fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Mistletoe Donkey posted:Mahlertov, take Shane for a spin. Try to ignore the annoying kid and there's good stuff there Yessir!
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I was 100% going to pick Guns of Navarone for you, as it's one of my favorites, but as it's new and the timing is interesting, you'll get Ladykillers, as it's the very movie I'm adding now! Intolerable Cruelty was a lot fun, and it earns bonus points for being a perfect movie to watch with a significant other. It was clever, had some really good stand out mounts, namely the baron on the witness stand, and the wheezing hitman. The Coens are just so drat good at taking something that would ordinarily be mundane and adding layers of goofy poo poo to make it work. Clooney is definitely at his best in comedies. He can do a lot of different things, but there's nothing quite like that hurt and shocked look he gets when something ridiculous happens. This also feels like the spiritual predecessor to Burn After Reading, just toned down in a big way. Really good time, maybe in the top five Coen films for me, but definitely not top three. 9/10 1. First Blood - Yup, never seen any of them old Rambo flix. 2. The Purple Rose of Cairo - More Woodie! 3. Arsenic and Old Lace - I need some proper Cary Grant exposure. 4. Poolhouse Junkies - Looks like fun. 5.Galaxy Quest - This is succeeding The Last Starfighter, another space movie I should have watched as a kid. 6. The Raid - Have heard countless recommendations to check this one out. 7.Spring Breakers - I don't know what this is. I've heard.... things. This may end up being a drinking game experience, and I don't even drink. 8. *NEW* The Lady Killers *NEW* -  THE LAST COEN BROTHER'S MOVIE I NEED TO SEE 9. Beasts Of The Southern Wild - All I know is that the kid is supposed to be great. 10. Ashes and Diamonds - There was some kind of list of famous director's favorite movies. A lot of directors I liked listed this and I had never heard of it. Let's go! 101 Total De-Shamed! Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8.5/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singin' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10, The Thing 8.5/10, Lost In Translation 9.5/10, Anchorman 6.5/10, Mulholland Dr. 8.5/10, Rebecca9/10, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans 7/10, Steamboat Bill Jr. 9/10, Double Indemnity 9/10, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 6.5/10, The Man Who Wasn't There 8.10, Synecdoche, NY 10/10 , Leaving Las Vegas 9/10, The Hidden Fortress 8.5/10, Magnificent Seven 8/10, Dear Zachary -/10, The Fly 9/10, Time Bandits 6/10, Before Sunrise 6.5, The Buddy Holly Story 7/10, Pleasantville 7/10, The Rules of the Game 6/10, Senna 7.5/10, Kiki's Delivery Service 8/10, Gojira 9/10, The Blues Brothers 5/10, Notorious 7/10, Little Shop of Horrors 9/10 , The Last Starfighter 7/10, Rebel Without A Cause 8.5/10, Sherlock Jr. 7.5/10, Intolerable Cruelty, 9/10 Chili fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Mar 7, 2015 |
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Chili, you should see The Ladykillers since I just watched it It was good, I wouldn't say great by a long shot, and certainly not as good as other Coen brothers comedies. The older woman was terrific, great music courtesy of T Bone Burnett, there's just some weird stuff in the movie that just didn't work, like J.K. Simmons having IBS which is a plot point but it's kind of stupid and Simmons can't pull it off; Tom Hanks loquaciousness is too much since he does it all the time and it gets old, the woman is smart sometimes and stupid other times depending on when the story requires it, Marlon Wayans isn't all that funny here, etc. The last ~15 minutes or so are pretty good. I've heard the original with Alec Guinness is much better, but if you are trying to watch all the Coen brothers movies... well... Updated! List! 1. Shane - Another supposed classic off the AFI 100 list 2. The Man with the Golden Arm - Sinatra is said to be incredible here. 3. An American In Paris - Let's try another musical Gershwin though.4. Casino - Yes, the Scorsese movie. I've seen a few clips but never the whole thing. 5. Scarface The Pacino version. 6. The Conformist Another film brought up having amazing cinematography, done by Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, crapload of others.) 7. El Cid - Another historical epic I haven't seen. 8. Birdman I'm going to traverse Best Picture winners too. Also this looks really good. 9. The Guns of Navarone One of those classic WW2 movies with a cavalcade of stars. 10. NEW Intolerable Cruelty The only Coen brothers movie I haven't seen! AFI meter: 69 IMDB 250 meter: 152 Oscar winners: 46 Movies watched: City Lights, Some Like It Hot, Annie Hall, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dollars Trilogy, Bottle Rocket, Bonnie and Clyde, To Kill a Mockingbird, All About Eve, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The French Connection, To Catch a Thief, Infernal Affairs, The Aviator, The Best Years of Our Lives, Midnight Cowboy, The General, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Philadelphia Story, The Lion in Winter, The Duellists, Ben-Hur, Seven Samurai, Rocky, Kill Bill, 8 1/2, La Strada, Kundun, The Exorcist, Dog Day Afternoon, Anatomy of a Murder, Amarcord, Inframan, A Place in the Sun, Assault on Precinct 13, The Wicker Man, Spartacus, Death Proof, Days of Heaven, The Ladykillers (2014)
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monster on a stick posted:8. Birdman I'm going to traverse Best Picture winners too. Also this looks really good. Been too long since I've seen Casino or Scarface, so Birdman is the only one I can truly recommend. I saw this before all the Oscar hype and loved it, so hopefully it isn't hyped too high for you. Charulata My 2nd Ray film and another great experience. I skipped ahead to watch this to keep up with Filmspotting's Satyajit Ray marathon that's currently ongoing. I actually liked this more than The Music Room, which I respected a great deal, but this was much more relatable or maybe easier to connect to. Great performances all around and absolutely beautiful cinematography. You could pause a frame at any time and hang it up on the wall. The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp This was given to me to watch 3 months ago, and FINALLY I forced myself to watch all 163 minutes of it. You could argue it was doomed from the start, but a British romantic war-time film is just not something I'm interested in. I had it on the list of shame for this very reason that I wouldn't watch it otherwise but felt I should see it eventually. Scorsese heaps praise onto it and it's on countless 'Best Of' lists.... It's just not for me - plain and simple. Although it was drat beautiful to watch.... gotta love that Technicolor. LIST Ace in the Hole (2014.10.13) - I'm a huge Wilder fan and having now blind-bought the blu-ray, I can finally watch it. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (2014.06.29) - This has had enough praise and appeared on enough lists that I feel I need to see it. I know nothing about it. Band of Outsiders (2014.12.03) - I've heard this compared to Jules & Jim which I loved. The Innocents (2014.06.16) - with Criterion announcing it's release today, it's about time I get the dust off my DVD copy and finally watch it. Jack Goes Boating (2014.02.17) **oldest** - it took Philip Seymour Hoffman's passing to make his only directorial effort a higher priority.. for me, pretty drat shameful. Millennium Actress (2014.10.20) - I was able to pick this up from a local video store today for $2.50.. time to finally watch a Satoshi Kon film! Still Life (2015.03.08) **NEW** - director Jia Zhangke has been a blind spot for so long now, and luckily I found this back when Blockbusters were still around. It's long overdue. Syndromes and a Century (2015.03.08) **NEW** - another director who is a blindspot, and I believe it was FitFortDanga who had praised this film long ago & stuck with me. Tape (2014.10.13) - I shall continue my quest to finish the Linklater filmography. The Wind Will Carry Us (2014.09.23) - more Kiarostami, please! De-shamed: Aliens (4.5/5), The Bridge on the River Kwai (5/5), La Dolce Vita (4/5), The Hustler (5/5), Blue Velvet (4.5/5), Close-Up (4.5/5), The Lady Vanishes (4.5/5), Grave of the Fireflies (5/5), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (3.5/5), Oldboy (4.5/5), Gattaca (3.5/5), Children of Men (5/5), The Great Dictator (4.5/5), Diabolique (4.5/5), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (3.5/5), Rashomon (4.5/5), Singin' in the Rain (5/5), Le Samourai (5/5), Hiroshima, Mon Amour (5/5), Battleship Potemkin (4/5), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (3.5/5), Network (5/5), Once Upon A Time In The West (5/5), Sleeper (2.5/5), Y Tu Mama Tambien (4.5/5), Lawrence of Arabia (3.5/5), Amadeus (4/5), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (4.5/5), The Postman Always Rings Twice (3.5/5), Ben-Hur (4.5/5), Bug (4/5), All The President's Men (4.5/5), Through a Glass Darkly (4/5), The Leopard (2/5), The Aviator (4.5/5), Duck Soup (4/5), The Good The Bad & The Ugly (5/5), Werckmeister Harmonies (4/5), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (4.5/5), To Kill A Mockingbird (2.5/5), Brazil (2.5/5), M (5/5), The Sweet Hereafter (4/5), Princess Mononoke (5/5), High and Low (5/5), The Sting (5/5), The King of Comedy (4.5/5), Stand By Me (4.5/5), The Wages of Fear (4/5), Amores Perros (3.5/5), The Music Room (4/5), The Spirit of the Beehive (4/5), Cape Fear (3.5/5), The Passion of Joan of Arc (4/5), The Magnificent Ambersons (3/5), Tokyo Story (5/5), Quiz Show (3/5), Witness For The Prosecution (4/5), The Last Picture Show (4.5/5), Robocop (2.5/5), Grand Illusion (2.5/5), Ikiru (5/5), The Bride of Frankenstein (4/5), The Taste of Cherry (4/5), Eastern Promises (3.5/5), What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (4/5), Le Doulos (4.5/5), Million Dollar Baby (3/5), Akira (5/5), Lone Star (3/5), Barry Lyndon (2.5/5), Dr. Strangelove (5/5), Leon the Professional (3/5), Arsenic and Old Lace (4/5), The Searchers (2/5), Playtime (4/5), Star Wars: Episode III (3.5/5), The Player (3.5/5), A Few Good Men (3.5/5), Murder on the Orient Express (3/5), The Deer Hunter (4.5/5), Amour (4.5/5), School of Rock (3.5/5), Holiday (5/5), Harakiri (4.5/5), Charulata (4/5), The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (2/5), [Total:87]
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Have you seen any other Powell and Pressburger? If not, Colonel Blimp probably wasn't the best place to start.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Have you seen any other Powell and Pressburger? If not, Colonel Blimp probably wasn't the best place to start. I've seen both Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes which I loved, especially Red Shoes.
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Oh, ok, good. Tbh I'm not a big fan of Blimp either. Red Shoes and Peeping Tom is where it's at.
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Yea I just found it this chore to get through. But that goes for any dramatic wartime / period-piece film - there's nothing for me to relate or latch onto. I continue to try and see what others see but it never changes. Red Shoes was obviously a much different film with plenty of style and internal struggles going on. I still need to see Peeping Tom.
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Peeping Tom is so amazingly good.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Peeping Tom is so amazingly good. I'll make that a priority yea I've got the Criterion DVD sitting on my shelf unwatched along with many others. What didn't work for you with Colonel Blimp?
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It's been forever since I saw it last but I think it was just the subject matter in general, which is very wartime British in a weird, foreign way that seemed totally alien.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's been forever since I saw it last but I think it was just the subject matter in general, which is very wartime British in a weird, foreign way that seemed totally alien. You said it better than I could.
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friendo, you get Band of Outsiders Well, The Third Man certainly lived up to the hype. It's an almost perfect thriller with some pretty funny one liners in it as well. It also uses shadows and angles as well as I've seen since M. Just a fun ride throughout. It's hard to say more without spoiling it, so I will just leave it as deserving of all the acclaim it gets. my new list: 1) Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - picked up the Tati boxset and I hear this is one of his best 2) Youth of the Beast- branching deeper into Japanese cinema 3) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life- last of the Python films I haven't seen 4) Bringing Out the Dead- Scorsese completionism 5) Swing Time- holdover from my last list, never seen an Astaire musical 6) Seven Chances- i don't need a reason for more Buster Keaton 7) The Godfather 3- I guess I need to finish the trilogy, this can't possibly top the first two 8) The Naked Spur- finishing up my essential westerns 9) Sunrise, A Tale of Two Humans- this is supposed to be pretty groundbreaking 10) Jules and Jim- more Truffaut and supposedly influential on the New Hollywood movement New List of Unshamed: The Red Shoes, The Third Man
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Mistletoe, I won't say that it is Scorsese's greatest film (that's Goodfellas of course), but Bringing Out the Dead has some incredible energy to it and is one great looking movie. So... Birdman. I'm still thinking about whether I liked the movie or not. The "looks like one take" thing - ok, background, I love tracking shots, whether it's in Touch of Evil or Children of Men or my personal favorite Goodfellas, plain ol' sucker for them. This kind of went over the top, at some point my inner  started trying to spot the cuts, like when the camera focused on a stationary object or something. It distracted me. Michael Keaton was terrific, I've always liked him playing a dramatic role (he did a great job in The Company miniseries playing James Jesus Angleton), everyone else was decent but didn't stand out. I think the story on it's face was really saying "low art=regular movies" and "high art='film" and thus Oscar bait, especially with the critic bit. That also drew me out of the film. I don't like it when movies draw me out of the film, I want to watch it for however long it is and be engrossed. Even movies about movies can be this way, I enjoyed Hugo a lot and that certainly qualified. Perhaps my complaints are structural rather than anything else but that is important to me. Of the nominees I've seen, I'd rather have had The Grand Budapest Hotel get the win, what a fantastic movie.FYI work + job hunting + Coursera will mean slower updates. Updated! List! 1. Shane - Another supposed classic off the AFI 100 list 2. The Man with the Golden Arm - Sinatra is said to be incredible here. 3. An American In Paris - Let's try another musical Gershwin though.4. Casino - Yes, the Scorsese movie. I've seen a few clips but never the whole thing. 5. Scarface The Pacino version. 6. The Conformist Another film brought up having amazing cinematography, done by Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, crapload of others.) 7. El Cid - Another historical epic I haven't seen. 8. The Guns of Navarone One of those classic WW2 movies with a cavalcade of stars. 9. Intolerable Cruelty The only Coen brothers movie I haven't seen! 10. NEW A Man for All Seasons Man-crushes on Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, and Orson Welles. AFI meter: 69 IMDB 250 meter: 152 Oscar winners: 47 Movies watched: City Lights, Some Like It Hot, Annie Hall, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dollars Trilogy, Bottle Rocket, Bonnie and Clyde, To Kill a Mockingbird, All About Eve, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The French Connection, To Catch a Thief, Infernal Affairs, The Aviator, The Best Years of Our Lives, Midnight Cowboy, The General, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Philadelphia Story, The Lion in Winter, The Duellists, Ben-Hur, Seven Samurai, Rocky, Kill Bill, 8 1/2, La Strada, Kundun, The Exorcist, Dog Day Afternoon, Anatomy of a Murder, Amarcord, Inframan, A Place in the Sun, Assault on Precinct 13, The Wicker Man, Spartacus, Death Proof, Days of Heaven, The Ladykillers (2014), Birdman
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monster on a stick posted:9. Intolerable Cruelty The only Coen brothers movie I haven't seen! Time to finish the Coen's filmography! Do you have a top 3 or top 5 Coen films? Band Of Outsiders I forgot that I already watched this too a couple months back. I wish I had more to say as it's been a little while now - I just remember the exuberance and life-affirmation which reminded me of films like Jules & Jim, Breathless, and the relatively recent Y Tu Mama Tambien. I remember the cafe dance and the run through the Louvre, and 3 main characters attempting a home-robbery that consistently had such charm and captivation. I think I need to see this again as I know I'm forgetting so many little instances or moments that won me over in the first place. LIST Ace in the Hole (2014.10.13) - I'm a huge Wilder fan and having now blind-bought the blu-ray, I can finally watch it. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (2014.06.29) - This has had enough praise and appeared on enough lists that I feel I need to see it. I know nothing about it. The Innocents (2014.06.16) - with Criterion announcing it's release today, it's about time I get the dust off my DVD copy and finally watch it. Jack Goes Boating (2014.02.17) **oldest** - it took Philip Seymour Hoffman's passing to make his only directorial effort a higher priority.. for me, pretty drat shameful. Killer of Sheep (2015.03.11) **NEW** - another unwatched film on the DVD shelf I've been reminded of thanks to Filmspotting's 10th Anniversary Show's "blindspots" discussion. Millennium Actress (2014.10.20) - I was able to pick this up from a local video store today for $2.50.. time to finally watch a Satoshi Kon film! Still Life (2015.03.08) - director Jia Zhangke has been a blind spot for so long now, and luckily I found this back when Blockbusters were still around. It's long overdue. Syndromes and a Century (2015.03.08) - another director who is a blindspot, and I believe it was FitFortDanga who had praised this film long ago & stuck with me. Tape (2014.10.13) - I shall continue my quest to finish the Linklater filmography. The Wind Will Carry Us (2014.09.23) - more Kiarostami, please! De-shamed: Aliens (4.5/5), The Bridge on the River Kwai (5/5), La Dolce Vita (4/5), The Hustler (5/5), Blue Velvet (4.5/5), Close-Up (4.5/5), The Lady Vanishes (4.5/5), Grave of the Fireflies (5/5), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (3.5/5), Oldboy (4.5/5), Gattaca (3.5/5), Children of Men (5/5), The Great Dictator (4.5/5), Diabolique (4.5/5), Aguirre, the Wrath of God (3.5/5), Rashomon (4.5/5), Singin' in the Rain (5/5), Le Samourai (5/5), Hiroshima, Mon Amour (5/5), Battleship Potemkin (4/5), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (3.5/5), Network (5/5), Once Upon A Time In The West (5/5), Sleeper (2.5/5), Y Tu Mama Tambien (4.5/5), Lawrence of Arabia (3.5/5), Amadeus (4/5), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (4.5/5), The Postman Always Rings Twice (3.5/5), Ben-Hur (4.5/5), Bug (4/5), All The President's Men (4.5/5), Through a Glass Darkly (4/5), The Leopard (2/5), The Aviator (4.5/5), Duck Soup (4/5), The Good The Bad & The Ugly (5/5), Werckmeister Harmonies (4/5), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (4.5/5), To Kill A Mockingbird (2.5/5), Brazil (2.5/5), M (5/5), The Sweet Hereafter (4/5), Princess Mononoke (5/5), High and Low (5/5), The Sting (5/5), The King of Comedy (4.5/5), Stand By Me (4.5/5), The Wages of Fear (4/5), Amores Perros (3.5/5), The Music Room (4/5), The Spirit of the Beehive (4/5), Cape Fear (3.5/5), The Passion of Joan of Arc (4/5), The Magnificent Ambersons (3/5), Tokyo Story (5/5), Quiz Show (3/5), Witness For The Prosecution (4/5), The Last Picture Show (4.5/5), Robocop (2.5/5), Grand Illusion (2.5/5), Ikiru (5/5), The Bride of Frankenstein (4/5), The Taste of Cherry (4/5), Eastern Promises (3.5/5), What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (4/5), Le Doulos (4.5/5), Million Dollar Baby (3/5), Akira (5/5), Lone Star (3/5), Barry Lyndon (2.5/5), Dr. Strangelove (5/5), Leon the Professional (3/5), Arsenic and Old Lace (4/5), The Searchers (2/5), Playtime (4/5), Star Wars: Episode III (3.5/5), The Player (3.5/5), A Few Good Men (3.5/5), Murder on the Orient Express (3/5), The Deer Hunter (4.5/5), Amour (4.5/5), School of Rock (3.5/5), Holiday (5/5), Harakiri (4.5/5), Band of Outsiders (4/5), Charulata (4/5), The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (2/5), [Total:88]
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friendo55 posted:Time to finish the Coen's filmography! Do you have a top 3 or top 5 Coen films? In no particular order: - Raising Arizona - Fargo - No Country for Old Men - A Serious Man "The goy? Who cares?" - O Brother, Where Art Thou? (or maybe The Man Who Wasn't There, that's a tough one)
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monster on a stick posted:In no particular order: Yea I love A Serious Man more and more with each revisit. I'd go No Country, Fargo, Miller's Crossing, The Man Who Wasn't There, A Serious Man [although Inside Llewyn Davis could sneak in too]
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I really really hate picking a new selection, but I've seen Killer of Sheep and it's a very good film. Give it a whirl, and after you're done, check out Roger Ebert's review on it. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-killer-of-sheep-1977 I gotta tell you all, I was waiting for The Ladykillers to get bad… it never did. I really enjoyed this one. I may have had more fun watching Tom Hanks here, than I ever have. It was just a good story, told very well, with fun characters. There’s not much else to say really, it was enjoyable. 9/10 And with that, I have completed the Coen Brothers’ feature filmography! What seems to really sell me hard on their films are their sense of humor. If they’re going for a laugh, it nearly always resonates with me. My favorite film of theirs, by far, is A Serious Man. It’s stuck with me ever since I’ve seen it, and I think about it all the time. Even though the story is somber and morose, the comedic elements of it have helped give it a very digestible and palatable tone. I love the Coens, I’ve loved watching all of their films, even the ones that didn’t really do it for me, because you can just tell they have such a sense of purpose about them. 1. First Blood - Yup, never seen any of them old Rambo flix. 2. The Purple Rose of Cairo - More Woodie! 3. Arsenic and Old Lace - I need some proper Cary Grant exposure. 4. Poolhouse Junkies - Looks like fun. 5.Galaxy Quest - This is succeeding The Last Starfighter, another space movie I should have watched as a kid. 6. The Raid - Have heard countless recommendations to check this one out. 7.Spring Breakers - I don't know what this is. I've heard.... things. This may end up being a drinking game experience, and I don't even drink. 8. *NEW* The Squid and the Whale *NEW* - I like Eisenberg, but his performances have all felt somewhat similar. I've heard he's really good/different here. 9. Beasts Of The Southern Wild - All I know is that the kid is supposed to be great. 10. Ashes and Diamonds - There was some kind of list of famous director's favorite movies. A lot of directors I liked listed this and I had never heard of it. Let's go! 102 Total De-Shamed! Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8.5/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singin' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10, The Thing 8.5/10, Lost In Translation 9.5/10, Anchorman 6.5/10, Mulholland Dr. 8.5/10, Rebecca9/10, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans 7/10, Steamboat Bill Jr. 9/10, Double Indemnity 9/10, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 6.5/10, The Man Who Wasn't There 8.10, Synecdoche, NY 10/10 , Leaving Las Vegas 9/10, The Hidden Fortress 8.5/10, Magnificent Seven 8/10, Dear Zachary -/10, The Fly 9/10, Time Bandits 6/10, Before Sunrise 6.5, The Buddy Holly Story 7/10, Pleasantville 7/10, The Rules of the Game 6/10, Senna 7.5/10, Kiki's Delivery Service 8/10, Gojira 9/10, The Blues Brothers 5/10, Notorious 7/10, Little Shop of Horrors 9/10 , The Last Starfighter 7/10, Rebel Without A Cause 8.5/10, Sherlock Jr. 7.5/10, Intolerable Cruelty, 9/10, The Ladykillers 9/10
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Chili posted:I gotta tell you all, I was waiting for The Ladykillers to get bad… it never did. I really enjoyed this one. I may have had more fun watching Tom Hanks here, than I ever have. It was just a good story, told very well, with fun characters. There’s not much else to say really, it was enjoyable. I actually just watched this the other day as well. I had heard people say it was pretty sub-par for the Coens but it never really got bad for me either. It's not at the top of my list of their movies, but I had a lot of fun with it. Chili posted:7.Spring Breakers - I don't know what this is. I've heard.... things. This may end up being a drinking game experience, and I don't even drink. Also, you get this. Spring Breakers is loving great and after watching it you should skim through some user reviews somewhere, because the reactions surrounding the movie are part of what I love about it. --- Rebecca was great! I don't have a ton to say about it, but I'm really glad I finally watched it. Super twisty little plot, awesome atmosphere, and a fantastic ending. Also, I was in the right mood one night so I ended up watching Holy Motors on my own. So good! Based on the way I had heard other people talking about it, I went in expecting it to be more abstract and impossible to understand than it really was. Fantastic visuals, excellent performances, and it was just a lot of fun putting together what was going on as the movie progressed. To that end I'm glad I didn't know much about it going in. Highly recommended. 1. Sansho the Bailiff: Bought this a while back in a Criterion sale but haven't watched it yet. Heard great things. 2. Burden of Dreams: Another Criterion pickup. I loved Fitzcarraldo, so it's probably a crime I haven't watched this yet. 3. *NEW* Come And See: I've heard this is a really powerful war movie, I love the cover, and I don't know anything else about it. 4. The Limits of Control: I really love Jarmusch and this is one of the few films of his I still haven't seen. I've heard it's not one of his best, but I'm still interested. 5. Nostalghia: Tarkovsky! I'm always impressed by his films, but they can be daunting to tuck into. 6. A Separation: Highest ranking film on the IMDB top 250 I haven't watched. 7. The Piano Teacher: Haven't seen much Haneke and I've heard this is one of his best. 8. Days of Being Wild: Slowly working through Kar Wai Wong's filmography. 9. *NEW* Shadow of a Doubt: More Hitchcock I know nothing about! 10. Three Colors: Blue: Big gap in my viewing. I don't know anything about the series. Watched: Rebecca | Holy Motors
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blood_dot_biz posted:3. *NEW* Come And See: I've heard this is a really powerful war movie, I love the cover, and I don't know anything else about it. Tough choice. I flipped a coin so go with Three Colors: Blue. The Last Airbender - The story of the chosen one who must unite the four elements together. There's some basic allegory and Buddhist/religious concepts here. The Airbender is kind of like the Dalai Lama. As the Airbender was captured and escaped at least three times things became a little repetitive. I get that it's geared for kids but the dialogue and narration at many points is so facile you'd swear you'd accidentally turned on the descriptive video service DVD feature OR a learn English feature. The main battle felt impotent (PG rating doesn't help) and the ending was a little abrupt. Also watched three others: Hachi: A Dog's Tale - I was concerned this would be a vacuous dog/animal lovers commercial but it was a little more than that. There's been so many films to focus on dogs and cats: The Adventures of Milo and Otis Beethoven series Benji series Homeward Bound series Lassie series Rin Tin Tin series You get the picture. It's a really simple story about a man (Richard Gere) who finds a dog and has the typical arguments over keeping it with his wife etc. The dog predictably keeps escaping and causing trouble. The twist is that Gere's character has a heart attack and dies and the dog ends up waiting at the train station for nearly a decade. It gets sad at this point and by the end he looks sick and mangy and really is a beat up old dog. Youtube is rife with reaction videos of people crying at the end. Animals don't understand death and I've seen it firsthand. They won't stop looking for their owner and it can't be explained to them obviously. PS based on a true story. Diary of the Dead - At some point I got really tired of zombie/apocalyptic/alien invasion films. The Walking Dead TV series is something I might've liked as a teenager but I have resisted tuning in. Anyway, this was a lot more funny and silly than scary but I still liked it. There are a lot of references to Myspace.com. Time really flies as that site has dwindled a lot in popularity. The camerawork at many points is amateurish (to simulate a bunch of college students panicking when zombies show up during their lame mummy movie). At points I was reminded of that Cloverfield film. There is some commentary on the mainstream media and on the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. The characters were actually memorable which is a big accomplishment for this kind of story: old sardonic professor, Texas belle, the cynical Tony, old deaf Amish man etc. Movie 43 - Dennis Quaid plays a psycho desperately trying to pitch his insane movie script. Eventually he resorts to threatening an executive with guns and grenades to get his movie made. Most of these skits are crass, coarse and gross and poke some fun at movie cliches and human nature. It had some novelty as you feel like you're watching a film from another planet at times with all these big names doing absurd sketches. Procrastination (169 completed): #156 Land Tax AKA Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India - The Wrath of (Aamir) Khan continues on the IMDb top 250. 10/13/14 #165 Black Cat, White Cat - A cat film that's been lurking around the IMDb 250. 12/13/14 #170 The Bandit - Another newcomer to the IMDb top 250. 1/16/15 #172 I Remember AKA Amarcord - A selection from the TSPDT top 100. 1/24/15 #174 Jade - Basic Instinct 1.5? 2/13/15 James Bond versus Godzilla: new The Man with the Golden Gun - Seems like the coolest title of the whole series. 3/13/15 new Mothra vs. Godzilla - Gorilla-Whale vs. giant pesky moth. 3/13/15 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (6/37 completed) 2011 Jack and Jill - Adam Sandler and Al Pacino = star power. 2/25/15 new 2008 The Love Guru - Mike Myers converts to Hinduism. 3/13/15 new 2007 I Know Who Killed Me - I've never seen a Lindsay Lohan movie. 3/13/15
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Zogo posted:
Wow, you certainly do have a murderer's row of terrible movies on your list. I was watching a chunk of this the other night because a buddy of mine is working his way through all the Bond movies in order. I forgot how bad parts of this was. Sorry to do this to you. On the flip side, Pather Panchali is pretty fantastic. I won't go into too much detail, but I will instead point to one particular moment. In the midst of a monsoon, Durga grabs her brother Apu and the two find shelter. While sitting there, storm all around, they laugh and smile. What follows may not reflect this moment of happiness, in fact it is quite at odds with it, but that doesn't matter because that moment is indicative of one of the biggest, overarching themes. No matter how bad it gets, we still find the ability to see beauty or joy in the in between. The film, which has tragedy dripping all over it, is never oppressively dour. What I mean is that as dark as it gets, and it's pretty rough as the mother deals with the uncertainty of her husband's aloof behaviour and her place in the world, there is enough levity and humanity to prevent it from beating us over the head with suffering. Great score, great performances, and a striking balance of all story elements show me why it's been so celebrated. It was certainly deserving of a spot on my shame list. I'm listening to the Filmspotting review and they mentioned the train. Oh God, the train. It's so subtly integrated as a reference to the unknown possibilities outside their village, outside their poverty. Very well done. LIST O SHAME: 1920s - Pandora's Box (1928) - Know next to nothing about it except a former co-worker was fascinated by it. 1930s - Bride of Frankenstein (1935)- One of the first sequels better than the original? 1940s - Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Later Chaplin, I've heard mixed things. 1950s - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - "Can't you hear me yell-a? You're putting me through hell-a. Stell-a. STELLA!!!" 1960s - Kuroneko (1968) - Japanese ghost stories are right up my alley. 1970s - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - Picked it up as part of last summer's B&N Criterion sale. Heard good to great things. 1980s - Cobra Verde (1987) - Time to watch more of my Herzog/Kinski box set I bought ages ago. 1990s - Topsy-Turvy (1999) - Saw a trailer for this when I was in high school. Thought it looked lame. I've since grown up a tad and have liked what I've seen from Mike Leigh (Happy Go-Lucky and Naked) 2000 and up - George Washington (2000) - The only film by David Gordon Green I have seen is Pineapple Express. Apparently his early films are nothing like that. Slight edit...I've since seen Prince Avalanche and liked it a ton. Bonus/Random - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) - Will my having not seen this as a child hurt my chances of loving it as an adult? 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 (TOTAL: 166)
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Go with Willy Wonka, the answer to your question is, unfortunately, yes. But hey, you ain't getting any younger! Well, Spring Breakers was a fever dream. Honestly, it was hard to keep focus throughout the whole thing, it's just a bit... well... much. I will say that the film absolutely felt like it was purposeful. On top of that, all of the performances were pretty good and the visual style of the film was fantastic. Not exactly something I would say I "enjoyed" but I'm happy to have seen it, I guess. 7.5/10 1. First Blood - Yup, never seen any of them old Rambo flix. 2. The Purple Rose of Cairo - More Woodie! 3. Arsenic and Old Lace - I need some proper Cary Grant exposure. 4. Poolhouse Junkies - Looks like fun. 5. Galaxy Quest - This is succeeding The Last Starfighter, another space movie I should have watched as a kid. 6. The Raid - Have heard countless recommendations to check this one out. 7. *NEW* Touch of Evil *NEW* - This'll be my third OW film. 8. The Squid and the Whale *NEW* - I like Eisenberg, but his performances have all felt somewhat similar. I've heard he's really good/different here. 9. Beasts Of The Southern Wild - All I know is that the kid is supposed to be great. 10. Ashes and Diamonds - There was some kind of list of famous director's favorite movies. A lot of directors I liked listed this and I had never heard of it. Let's go! 103 Total De-Shamed! Yojimbo 7.5/10, Aliens 6.5/10, Brazil 8/10, Cool Hand Luke 9.5/10, 28 Days Later 6/10, Predator 8.5/10, Blade Runner 7.5/10,Crimes and Misdemeanors 9/10, Vertigo 7/10, Being There 7.5/10, Psycho 10/10, Apocalypse Now 7.5/10, Citizen Kane 8.5/10, Dr. Strangelove 7/10, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 8.5/10, The Bicycle Thief 7/10, Raging Bull 8/10, Ikiru 10/10, Terminator 2: Judgement Day 7/10, The Night of the Hunter 8.5/10 How to Train Your Dragon 6.5/10, There Will Be Blood 8/10, Manhattan 7/10, Rashomon 8.5/10, Unforgiven 8.5/10 The Third Man 9.5/10, Requiem For A Dream 4/10, Charade 5.5/10, Sunset Blvd. 8/10 , Badlands 6.5/10, Dead Man 8.5/10, On The Waterfront 9/10, Mad Max 6/10, Singin' In The Rain 9.5/10, Sleeper 7.5/10, Enter The Dragon 6.5/10, The Hustler 8/10 , The Town 9/10, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5.5/10, Boogie Nights 7.5/10, Hanna 8.5/10, The Conversation 7.5/10, Serpico 8/10, Hoop Dreams 9/10, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 8/10, Blood Simple 7.5/10, Roman Holiday 8.5/10, Miller's Crossing 8/10, M 7.5/10, Moonrise Kingdom 6.5/10, Rope 7/10, Tiny Furniture 1/10, On The Town 5.5/10, Gosford Park 5.5/10, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, 8.5/10, City Lights 8.5/10, The Exorcist 6.5/10, California Split 7/10, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God 8/10, Following 8/10, The General 10/10, Barton Fink 8.5/10, Tombstone 8/10, The Hudsucker Proxy 9/10, Love Actually 6.5, La Dolce Vita 7/10, Chop Shop 9.5/10, Duck Soup 6/10, When Harry Met Sally 8/10, Tokyo Story 7/10, Kelly's Heroes 8/10, The Thing 8.5/10, Lost In Translation 9.5/10, Anchorman 6.5/10, Mulholland Dr. 8.5/10, Rebecca9/10, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans 7/10, Steamboat Bill Jr. 9/10, Double Indemnity 9/10, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 6.5/10, The Man Who Wasn't There 8.10, Synecdoche, NY 10/10 , Leaving Las Vegas 9/10, The Hidden Fortress 8.5/10, Magnificent Seven 8/10, Dear Zachary -/10, The Fly 9/10, Time Bandits 6/10, Before Sunrise 6.5, The Buddy Holly Story 7/10, Pleasantville 7/10, The Rules of the Game 6/10, Senna 7.5/10, Kiki's Delivery Service 8/10, Gojira 9/10, The Blues Brothers 5/10, Notorious 7/10, Little Shop of Horrors 9/10 , The Last Starfighter 7/10, Rebel Without A Cause 8.5/10, Sherlock Jr. 7.5/10, Intolerable Cruelty, 9/10, The Ladykillers 9/10, Spring Breakers 7.5/10
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Chili, I'm going to give you Touch of Evil, because Orson Welles is a king. I was given The Hidden Fortress, which I liked overall, but definitely had some problems with. When the movie's good, is great. There are some really cool fight scenes, the movie looks outstanding, Toshiro Mifune is badass, as always. My major problems are the two characters the movie focuses on, and the runtime. The film is mostly told from the perspective of two clueless greedy peasants, and they mostly act as comic relief. They are the least interesting characters in the movie, and a lot of their jokes don't land very well. Because of the movie's heavy focus on these two characters who affect the story way less than other characters, it begins to show its runtime. I'm glad I watched it, but it definitely is flawed. My list (sorted by time on my list, with longest at the top): 1) The Seventh Seal - I liked Ian McKellen's cameo as Death in Last Action Hero 2) Once Upon A Time In The West - I need to see more westerns, I loved the Man With No Name trilogy, and I've had the DVD sitting around forever. I have no excuses. 3) Naked Lunch - I can think of at least two things wrong with that title. 4) Badlands - Gotta finish going back through Malick's filmography 5) Suspiria - Been exploring some of the classics of horror recently, and I've never watched an Argento NEW 6) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - I like what I've seen from Gilliam, and I somehow managed to not watch this one in college. 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
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Ooh! Fear and Loathing! Do that one! It owns! So there isn't much to say about The Warriors. It was exactly perfect, and completely stylish, and I can't believe anyone even considered remaking something so representative of the times. Talk about a film that accomplishes everything it sets out to do. I got a kick out of noticing the parts that obviously influenced later stuff. I watched it with a friend who picked up all the greek stuff and didn't need no stupid cartoons to spell it out. I wanna watch Streets of Fire now. Updated list 1 - American History X poo poo just seemed too raw for me as a teen. It seems like what you call a "feel bad" movie. I've always been interested in seeing it, but usually talk myself out of it. 2 - Mr. Smith goes to Washington I haven't been putting this one off for any good reason. It's always "Eh, I'll watch it later." I know I'd probably love it. 3 - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher version) This is basically a bad idea because it's really looking like it'll never get a sequel, but I still hear nothing but good things about it. 4 - Léon: The Professional Some idiot posted a stupid anime-ised picture of Mathilda on facebook and it reminded me I never saw this film. 5 - Commando If I've seen this, I was way too young to form memories. I love 80s action shlock so much. 6 - American Graffiti All right George, let's get this over with. 7 - Scarface It's Scarface. 8 -Top Secret This is probably the only big comedy from Abrahams and Zucker I've never seen. 9 - Escape from New York The only Carpenter film I haven't seen, along with the sequel. 10 - UHF I got into Weird Al way too late in life and never got around to seeing what many consider his best work.
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Scream turned out to be really, really entertaining. Craven does an excellent job of blending snotty self-awareness with actual suspense, lacing the knowing dialogue about movie tropes with real paranoia, and hauling the viewer along with popcorn-munching revelations and clever kill scenes. It's also a great nostalgia piece. For one thing, the distance between Scream and Carrie (one of the oldest movies referenced in the movie) and Scream and the new Carrie remake is almost the same, and our culture is inundated with the kind of thing Scream ushered in. It seems almost rare that a horror movie is made now that isn't a throwback or ironic or half-comedy, which makes Scream seem almost adorably innocent, but it's kind of endearing how over-the-top all the discussions about movies are. Also endearing is the 90s culture, which swamps the film, becoming almost a joke in itself. A major plot point is the use of "cellular telephones, people talk about "the millennium", and in one scene a character desperately instant-messages 911 because her lavender trimline phone is out of service. Gore and violence-wise, it's surprisingly tame. I was in, like, first grade when this movie came out but I remember everyone's older siblings seeing it, and for a while it was the gory movie to sneak in on. Wikipedia tells me there was a big battle with MPAA to get this movie out without an NCAA-17 rating, which seems almost absurd (though so does the Night Trap controversy, and that was only four years previous). The most gruesome image in the film comes about thirteen minutes in:  I mean, we've got Hannibal airing benignly on NBC now. But that's not necessarily a knock against the film, and even if the opening Drew Barrymore slasher scene (which is the film's most straight-up thriller material, and also the scene Bob Weinstein had to go hat-in-hand to the MPAA about) is about as overtly bloody as the most gruesome Twin Peaks episode, it's still gripping. The way Craven builds the tension is like a tiny masterclass in film writing, getting right into the core of the horror and building the "game". Her boyfriend is introduced five and a half minutes in, and by eight minutes in he's a casserole. Craven holds off on the physical chase until as late as he can - it's not until nine minutes in that she's actually bolting in fear, and their first contact isn't until ten minutes thirty. And that's not even mentioning the gutwrenching ending where she's gurgling into the phone while her parents, who just missed her, listen in panic. It's great stuff, and the rest of the film is built with a similar skillful ease, using the audience's knowledge of movies and genre to further the tension. Craven frequently telegraphs kills, like in the garage sequence - Rose McGowan goes to the garage for more beer (while wearing this rear end vortex skirt). It's dark, so she turns on the light:  The light also turns on the garage door motor:  Which gets stuck partway up:  Already the audience is primed for this: the killer's going to come in, she's going to try to get out through the garage door, but it's going to gently caress up and trap her. But then, while getting beer, the cat knocks over a bunch of poo poo, scares her, and runs out through the cat flap:  So now it's a variable. We've been explicitly walked through the set, shown the means of escape, and the faultiness of the door, and it's hard to tell exactly what's going to happen, but we know it's going to involve the door, which it does but not in the way the film had shown us it might - she gets trapped in the cat flap, the killer presses the door switch, and the door, which previously couldn't lift its own weight, carries her all the way up and breaks her neck against the frame. The way the killer steps out of the garage is pure comedy and I can see why Craven wanted that mask in particular - it's just silly enough to be funny when the killers get punched and go "oof" or "ow", but eerie enough to be functionally creepy). It's that quality of technique that makes Scream hold up as more than a novelty semi-spoof. When it's funny, it's funny, when it's clever, it's clever, when it's scary, it's scary. It's an indulgent movie, and I can see why everyone's older brother was taking everyone else's older sister to see it way back when. It's just good. A+ Also, it's either a great joke or a hilarious irony that they cast Courtney Cox and then made her wear the Rachel:  shame dome 1) Weekend - traffic jams 2) The River - Inspired Satyajit Ray? Something about India? i have no idea 3) The Naked City - i'm gonna go get me a new york slice 4) Stray Dog - arf 5) Macbeth (1971) - NUDES NUDES NUDES 6) Dogtooth - black comedy best comedy 7) Wake In Fright - This is the sequel to The Rescuers, right? 8) The Sacrifice - tarkovsky is my spirit husband 9) Ali: Fear Eats The Soul - because it didn't spend all night slaving over a hot stove for you to turn your nose up, young man 10) Night And Fog - uh oh 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. 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I should revisit Scream. I just remember that opening blowing me out of the water and then being disappointed that the rest of the movie failed to live up to it.
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Mar 18, 2015 21:28
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It's fun, and I'd love to see it with an audience sometime. Also: 
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Magic Hate Ball, watch the fantastic Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Black Jesus is not a literal title. It's a harrowing prison film inspired the life of Patrice Lumumba, a Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected leader of the Congo. Woody Strode plays a similar styled African independence leader who is captured by imperialists and subjected to torture after he refuses to sign a document. In prison he gains an apostle in a white prisoner who has similarly been brutalized for supposedly selling a vehicle to the rebels (he claims it was stolen). Quick, somber, painful, it's a tight film, although apparently one of the director's weaker works according to Criticker predicted scores. I liked it well enough, might revisit it if it were to get a Blu Ray release at some point. My List: Damnation (1988) - I've never seen a Béla Tarr film. I know Werckmeister Harmonies is the favorite, but something about this one is calling me. (Added 12/21/2013) Fort Apache (1948) - The first in John Ford's Cavalry trilogy. (Added 1/2/2014) Playtime (1967) - Is this an alright jumping in point for Tati? (Added 3/11/2014) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - The only Elia Kazan movie I've seen is On the Waterfront, which I watched for this thread. And the only Tennessee Williams I've seen is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. So I owe both of them a deeper look. (Added 8/4/2014) Napoleon (1927) - An old silent on Napoleon? How long could it possibly be? Oh... OH! Oh no. (Added 10/8/2014) TSPDT Top 1000 The Mirror (1975) - Another Tarkovsky. I don't know if I can handle one again so soon, although this is a much more manageable length. (Added 2/3/2015) Academy Award for Best Picture The Hurt Locker (2009) - I think Zero Dark Thirty might be one of the greatest films of the 21st century thus far, so I feel like I'll enjoy Bigelow's other Iraq movie. (Added 2/15/2015) Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Films The Avenging Conscience (1914) - Griffith's last film before The Birth of a Nation. (Added 2/15/2015) TSPDT 21st Century Yi Yi (2000) - This consistently ranks high on lists but nobody ever seems to talk about it and I have no idea what it's about. (Added 2/24/2015) My Criticker Remembered Films An Angel At My Table (1990) - I loved The Piano when I saw it for a film class but haven't watched any other Campion films since. (Added 3/19/2014) Watched: Harold and Maude; The Third Man; Inland Empire; Godzilla; Big Trouble In Little China; Y Tu Mamá También; Marathon Man; Hunger; A Woman Is A Woman; Black Narcissus; A Hard Day's Night; Scarface; Le Doulos; On The Waterfront; Rocky; 3 Women; Airplane!; Duck Soup; Clash of the Titans; Singin' In The Rain; The Cow; Straw Dogs; Stop Making Sense; Bad Timing; Once Upon A Time In America; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Robocop; Shane; WALL·E; The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin; The Man Who Fell To Earth; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington; Divorce Italian Style; Some Like It Hot; To Kill A Mockingbird; An American Werewolf In London; Buffalo '66; Lawrence Of Arabia; Manhattan; Cul-De-Sac; The Birth of a Nation; Braveheart; Sex, Lies, and Videotape; Malcolm X; Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; The Passion of Joan of Arc; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; Le Samouraï; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Marat/Sade; His Girl Friday; A Woman Under the Influence; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Rio Bravo; Triumph of the Will; Titanic; Strike; The General; Jules et Jim; Tokyo Story; Once Upon A Time In Anatolia; L'Âge d'Or; Stroszek; Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky; Faust; Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom; Frankenstein; Rebel Without a Cause; Gone with the Wind; Barry Lyndon; The Grapes of Wrath; Midnight Cowboy; My Darling Clementine; Hoop Dreams; Close-Up; Begotten; The Goddess; The Apartment; Hell's Angels; All About Eve; Night and Fog; Grey Gardens; Zardoz; King Boxer - Five Fingers of Death; The Lady Eve; Akira; The Beaver Trilogy; Day of Wrath; Andrei Rublev; Showgirls; Chelsea Girls; Band of Outsiders; In the Mood for Love; Black Jesus (TOTAL: 94)
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TrixRabbi posted:Playtime (1967) - Is this an alright jumping in point for Tati? (Added 3/11/2014) I think so. The Man with the Golden Gun - Taking place mainly in Hong Kong and Thailand this was a really basic story with few surprises (the characters constantly tell each other what we'll see next). I suppose the biggest one was J.W. Pepper returning as the obnoxious fat Sheriff. The opening is reminiscent of the one found in From Russia with Love and there's a little bit of influence from Enter the Dragon I think as well. The plot mainly concerns a priceless solar power device. It was a timely topic as this film was released in the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis. Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) was more memorable than forgettable at least. Being an assassin obsessed with dueling in his island fortress fun house. Hervé Villechaize is the familiar villainous midget (if you've seen that Fantasy Island TV show). PS I liked the score and the locales. Procrastination (169 completed): #156 Land Tax AKA Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India - The Wrath of (Aamir) Khan continues on the IMDb top 250. 10/13/14 #165 Black Cat, White Cat - A cat film that's been lurking around the IMDb 250. 12/13/14 #170 The Bandit - Another newcomer to the IMDb top 250. 1/16/15 #172 I Remember AKA Amarcord - A selection from the TSPDT top 100. 1/24/15 #174 Jade - Basic Instinct 1.5? 2/13/15 James Bond versus Godzilla: Mothra vs. Godzilla - Gorilla-Whale vs. giant pesky moth. 3/13/15 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (6/37 completed) 2011 Jack and Jill - Adam Sandler and Al Pacino = star power. 2/25/15 2008 The Love Guru - Mike Myers converts to Hinduism. 3/13/15 2007 I Know Who Killed Me - I've never seen a Lindsay Lohan movie. 3/13/15 new 2006 Basic Instinct 2 - I saw the first one many years ago. 3/20/15
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Zogo, Never seen any of the movies on your list, but I recommend Mothra vs. Godzilla because ... well Godzilla. Porco Rosso was a fun movie. You get a real sense of time and place with that movie. The sky pirates were a lot of fun. Very enjoyable and the perfect light-hearted movie to watch after Grave of the Fireflies. My List: The Graduate - Only things I know about this movie is Mrs Robinson is seducing someone and Plastics. Avatar - I heard this is like Dances with Wolves. Faust - Looking forward to another Murnau film. True Grit - The original version. Been a while since a western was on my list. A Day at the Races - More Marx Brothers madness, please. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Need to see some more Studio Ghibli Ran - Heard this is one of Kurosawa'a best, so I am really looking forward to seeing it. 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) The 39 Steps - 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
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Dmitri Russkie posted:Porco Rosso was a fun movie. You get a real sense of time and place with that movie. The sky pirates were a lot of fun. Very enjoyable and the perfect light-hearted movie to watch after Grave of the Fireflies. Funny you should say that- in its original run in Japan, Grave of the Fireflies was run in a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro. There were a lot of traumatized children that day.
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