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"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
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There's not a false note in either one.
I, too, love Sayles' stuff. Anybody see The Brother From Another Planet? The bar fight scene is freakin hilarious. Let's see now, hmmm, Raising Arizona is pretty much note perfect, that count?
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Hmm, Chinatown. That IS a good call, Mike.
Directed by Jonathan Demme, with Melanie Griffitsh, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta, a great soundtrack, and a cameo by John Waters.
...but then what to do about Sunrise, Pandora's Box, The Gold Rush, Citizen Kane, Passion Of Joan Of Arc, Tokyo Story, Rear Window, The Red Shoes, Rashomon, The Searchers et al?
So MANY great movies, so little time.
Favorites is another story.
Love a lot of the other inmate's selections.
But...
My favorite Coppola is The Conversation. My favorite Lean is Great Expectations. My fave Scorsese is Goodfellas. My favorite Lynch is Blue Velvet, although Mulholland Drive is possibly better. My fave Sayles is Lone Star.
Interesting that no one names a Kubrick film, or something by Altman.
...just kidding. How about Casablanca.
Four reasons really ...
1. I could relate to the characters.
2. The soundtrack took the movie to another level.
3. Great storyline.
4. Like all great movies ... it ended well.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb
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Surely one of the best, most beautiful and most moving motion pictures of all time. It has to be in any serious film lover's top three.
I would SO love to see this on a big screen again.
by Terry Gillum's BRAZIL, followed by David Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. I like Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO and REAR WINDOW alot.
"The gift of imagination is a gift of the Gods imparted to a few who receive innumerable kicks in the a$$ their entire life." Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
No Country for Old Men
Blade Runner
The Graduate
Little Big Man
Fast Times at Ridgemont High/40 Year Old Virgin/Something About Mary/Dazed and Confused/The one where Jason Segal plays the guy friend to the guy with no guy friends when the guy is looking for a friend to be his best man?/I liked Mentors and the one with McLovin, too.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Dead Man
Cheats: Guys and Dolls, Hair, Tommy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Purple Rain/Graffiti Bridge
Dirty Dozen/Where Eagles Dare/Magnificent Seven (US and Japanese)/Kelly's Heroes
Predator I and II, Predators (Not so much the Alien combos, but Aliens (movie two) was good.
Trip to Bountiful
Silverado, the new True Grit, Unforgiven, Pale Rider, Outlaw Josey Wales
High Fidelity/About a Boy
Cider House Rules
That Steven Segall one where he's the cook on the battleship and bad guys take it over. Yeah, that's a good one. Die Hard I-IV.
Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, as well.
Princess Bride
Cedar Radipds
The Terminator films....well, the first three.
Silent Running
N/T
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
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So many could be the best ever but for me,Welles' debut film takes
top honors.
Timeless moviemaking, even if it significantly diverged from L Frank Baum's version.
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
the one film, for me, that delivers all film promised. It could take us to another place, be equally loved by kids and parents, beautiful to look at, great music. When I am on my death bed, I will remember watching this film with my kids many times, and watching it as a kid with my parents. It is probably the one film that ties generations together. Really, what is more important?
I have such great memories of watching this movie each year when it was on TV (back in the days of 13 channels!). My kids and I have watched it many times as well. I never read the books as a child, but I read all of the L. Frank Baum books to my kids. It is amazing to see the differences between the movie and the first book. I don't think it takes away from the movie at all! The movie was classic Hollywood extravaganza, with creative sets, costume design, music, comedy, and drama along with an incredibly insightful application of black and white and color cinematography.
I love the movies that others have listed and could probably list a hundred more that I cherish, but this movie is in its own category, reaching out across time and generations with its message of family values and community, including good souls of all types (and species!)
I was tempted, before I submitted W of Oz as my choice, to put Wall*E, which has had a similar effect on me. Perhaps in 70 or 80 years Wall*E might earn its place in Oz!
Best wishes for the holidays!
kSpace
It really is a classic.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
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If I were dying alone on a deserted island, last thing I would want to watch would be Godfather slaughtering his enemies, or listen to Bogart's mumble - give me the lovely Alicia any day!Her, and a good over-sized bottle of Trockenbeerenauslese, and I will happily forget to light the landing bonfires for that last rescue plane.
You people take yourself way too seriously... at least that Old Goat Patrick is being honest - he most definitely does not remember that day... heck, these days he hardly remember much at all!
Bring back Rod and his XXXX!!! I wonder what HIS favorite movie would be! I am sure not some of that artsy crap!
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Dan Hedaya is always great!
I have enjoyed Clueless many times as well...
Just a day to two ago my daughter was watching some move staring Alicia Silverstone and I had to simply stop and stare at her talking. Perky personality, hardcore blonde hair, and no one is prettier. Many girls I find sexier, but none prettier.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
Kubrick's greatest and features brilliant performances, throughout. Before all that, though, there's the luscious Sue Lyon (grrrrrrrrrrr...). Shelley Winters, James Mason, and, of course, the incredible Peter Sellers make this a film I can watch an unlimited number of times.
I couldn't read the book, though I tried more than once. Nabokov was a diseased man, brazenly expressing a desperate fondness for pre-pubescent girls; Lolita was, for obvious reasons, aged into a curvaceous teen for the film. Kubrick took a dirty little salacious tale and made it high art.
Somehow Lolita never resonated in me... maybe I need to be 85 year old... :)
But for now Alicia is young enough for me. :)
Anyway... never liked all those "Best..." discussions. Too many good ones out there. Some say L'Atalante is the best film ever made.
great films. And "Breathless." And.... and.... and.
And that's just from France. How to compare Tarkovsky to Eisenstein, much less Stevens or Wilder? And Chaplin to Tati? It's impossible to say who's the greatest director much less the greatest film. So many films were revolutionary for their day, but years later, after many of their "groundbreaking" ideas became commonplace, what then?
There are more than a few films that I can recognize as "great," but that I don't like. That's another discussion....
Sometimes you just want a movie to enjoy, like free massage at the Venetian.
And don't underestimate the staying power of the gems like Dirty Harry and Die Hard! Great films? Fornicate, yeah! :)
Greatness should be defined as excellence at achieving the intended goal, not being able to subtly tickle some Cambridge pseudo-intellectual's ego. Ali was a great fighter, Feynman a great scientist, however different intellectually their respected pursuit might had been.
Waiting for my third DVD of Satantango, rediscovering the joy of watching the paint dry! :)
has shown me a different something, made me ponder something new. Tarr's "Damnation" is one of my very favorite films--- the lead character just seems to embody "modern man," perfectly.
I wish Netflix had a hardcopy of his "The Man from London." It was available streaming, and I streamed it, but I dropped my streaming account and now I'm shit-out-of-luck. Tarr's latest, and he has said his last, isn't available yet at Net at all.
There are, to be sure, some stunning images in Satantango, but I think they are more piercing in TMfL. Also, due to its "normal' length the film is more "together", more poignant, focused.
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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...most critics agree that would be Citizen Kane.
Funny you post this, we just watched it on Sunday. I've done it six times but this was the best. Last time it didn't grab me. Damnnn is it riviting.
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I'm curious. What does "fds" mean? Fuque dat s***?
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dfs
...fds stands for a feminine hygeine product brand and a number of other things.
CK is a joke. A few nice camera shots but a bore overall.
Rosebud.
CK is brilliant the first viewing or so, but it really has become quite hokey to me over the years and last time I watched it seemed like a parody of itself.
How the hell can THAT be?!?
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
...as smart as you to know what the best film of all time is.
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It may be an unsurprising choice...but it has universally excellent acting, a great story, and a director who created a masterpiece despite enormous pressure and obstacles from an uncooperative studio.
Baba-Booey to you all!
sda
I have some inside information on that.
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-Wendell
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
But too difficult to narrow it down to one film.
I MIGHT be able to do a 20 best.
But today Godfather II is it.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
It's really a coin flip but the outrageous settling of all scores at the end of "one" puts it over the top. That, and the Luca Brazzi garroting scene and Michael shooting the cop scene, and.......
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Is genius. Just beautifully done.
and probably I switch between the two as "favorite" every five years or so now, instead of every decade.
The Baptism sequence IS extraordinary.
The Godfather may still be the best example of a mediocre book made into a great film.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
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'The desert is full of nothing, and no man needs nothing'.
"Lock up when you're done and don't touch the piano."
-Greg House
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