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A publication called "TV Times" polled its readers for the top en coolest films of all times. Here they are:"Bullitt"
"Cool Hand Luke"
"Goldfinger"
"The Wild One"
"The Matrix"
""Out of Sight"
""Dirty Harry"
"Pulp Fiction"
"Casablanca"
"The Ipcress File"I don't agree with some of these but here they are. "Bulitt' is the proper choice for number one as it is still current, as the current Ford Mustang ad proves.
Follow Ups:
and...The Usual Suspects
Raging Bull
The Parallax View
Raising Arizona
The Long Good Friday
High Fidelity
12 Angry Men
House of Games
nt
High Plains Drifter
Outlaw Josie Wales
The Grifters
The Maltese Falcon [I love Peter Lorry]
Being There
Brazil
Angel Heart
Siesta
The Big EasyLater
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The Misfits
One Eyed JacksLater
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The ultimate gangster flick.
Repo Man, Withnail and I, Iprcess File, pretty much any Kubrick, Il Sorpaso, Divorce Italian Style, Giant.
The lead male characters in the above define `cool^` for several generations.
Is that the one with George C Scott?'I am the king of kaborka...I am the wrath of the lamb...'
The Mighty Vampire Killers is now out on DVD....Later
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On The Waterfront?
Buffalo 66?
as was On the Waterfront .But, as I said, "cool" is hard to define.
"Rebel Without a Cause" and "On the Waterfront" way cool.(I didn't see the other one.)
Real cool actors.
New guys like Vin Diesel seem to have the potential but there is perhaps too much overproduction and perhaps Hollywood's tendency to make "superstars" now instead. He started out way more cool than he
is now. Now he is more like a cardboard figure. But I think "The
Fast and the Furious" is an excellent film."Being John Malkovich" is kind of a way cool film and this actor seems way cool in this movie. But I really haven't seen his other films.
"Malkovich finds a genre niche that seems relatively untapped, similar to a film like David Lynch's Blue Velvet, that created a world all its own even in the midst of familiar surroundings." (AMG)
That's what I think about "The Fast and the Furious" too. It created its own world and that's why the movie is so fascinating.
For a film about someone troubled, how about the fascinating film, "Kalifornia".
Is it cool or what to be a serial killer when someone in a bar tries to start trouble with you? Is to kill your landlord just because he really gets on your nerves? Is it cool to kill someone for some gas money and a little extra change?
"Serial Mom" is also a way cool film. And surprisingly it is also compared to "Blue Velvet".
"Waters takes a page out of Blue Velvet and adds his own kitchy, gross-out stamp" (AMG)
has that kind of over the top narcissim that Rebel has.
Vincent Gallo's thing but at least he's open about it. With Christina Ricci...
Funnily, although I rate Lynch as one of my favourite directors, I wouldn't label his films as 'cool', too much 'underneath'.
Also thought Mark Ruffalo in 'In The Cut' was very cool, playing & winning Brando at his own game.
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"Blade Runner" is cool. Nothing really phases Harrison Ford. The girl he likes is a robot and the killers he has to hunt are extremely dangerous and lunatical.The killer acts cool too. He gets a little agitated about who Harrison Ford has killed, but he kind of keeps his cool too. :)
A very cool film.
I love most of the films here. Blade Runner was beautiful, profound, dreamlike and cool at the same time.But I'm with Rico. McQueen was cool (and, Lord knows, he was tough and not a poseur )
Bullit may have been his "coolest" movie but in rewatching it several times over the years, this is so much more complex and different from the typical film about "cops and robbers" today (even Heat , which I love) that I think it really belongs where Rico put it.
Thanks for your poat. The list is not mine, it was taken from a poll by TV Times. I only agree with some of the choices but definitely would put "Bullitt" way on top. McQueen had a screen presense, a synergistic way of blending with the camera, like Brando, Monroe, Gabel, and Bogart before him. The way he uses props and the way he just handles himself is way cool.
Yea, I think "cool" in music is a specific term. Like in jazz it refers in my mind to a certain type of understatement.But in film, it may have a broader definition. In my mind, it may refer to various things. Perhaps I'm wrong about that.
It can cover a certain nonplussed type of film style or acting and in that way it would be similar to the way the term is used in music.
I was thinking of the movie "Body Heat" also in terms of cool. The
heat kind of slows everything down in the film. A certain low keyness, even though murder and betrayal are involved.Perhaps in the interesting film "Jackie Brown", Robert De
Niro also acts kind of cool (low-key. nonplussed by some excitable people and things happening around him particularly Samuel Jackson's character).Is that why they refer to "Pulp Fiction" as being cool. Samuel Jackson and John Tavolta have normal conversations while they are in the process of killing people. And another actor acts kind of cool even though he is a bit crazed and he has a electric saw to get others with.
And then the guy they go to to "clean up the mess" acts particularly "cool" after being established as a very dangerous person.
Cool is when very dangerous people don't do something (understatement) or do something very bad in a nonchalant way (like in Natural Born Killers perhaps).
Then you would certainly have to say that there is a real coolness in the movie "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer". One of my favorite films because it had such a great impact on me. They kill people like it's nothing.
But cool also refers I guess to being hip or right in a certain way, or just being real, real, good.
For being hip or right, the young kind of goofy kid in 'House Party" is kind of cool and gets really cool when the music and party starts.
Something real, real good might be cool as the Fellini scene I mentioned. A "spectacular" type of scene that just establishes film as art.
Alot of films seem to have a certain coolness about them. I guess especially Tarantino films. Perhaps it is really an important style.
"Kill Bill" is cool too. The woman is cool in being very straighforward in what she feels she has to do regardless. She gets her revenge in a matter of fact cool way.
I'll try, in no particular order, off the top of my head:
(1) Fistfull of Dollars - Clint Eastwood killing lots of people without breaking a sweat, defined the current concept of the western, and set the tables for most of the westerns that followed.(2) Goldfinger - Bond + geat gadgets + Pussy Galore + one of the best bad guys = cool movie
(3) To Catch a Thief - while there may have been better Hitchcock movies, Cary Grant + Grace Kelly + exotic location = very cool movie
(4) Casablanca - Enough has been said
(5) The Maltese Falcon - Bogart + Bacall (clearly his equal) + crime = cool movie. Helped begin film noir.
(6) Pulp Fiction - whatever anyone thinks of this film, it clearly helped bring back film noir, and has been widely imitated since. Plus the dialog is priceless. Lots of guns and killing, and great music. Cool.
(7) The Hustler - Young Newman, seedy joints, pool, crime. Cool.
(8) The Matrix - Loud, action, original special effects, very little wasted dialog, great looking sets/clothes/people. Cool.
(9) The Driver - Little known film with Ryan O'Neill and Bruce Dern. O'Neill playing a professional driver. Remember that O'Neill was an up and coming star at one time.
(10) Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels - British crime film in the shadow of Pulp Fiction. Great looking sets. Seedy underworld. Dark Humor. From Guy Ritchie, a.k.a. Mr. Madonna. Cool.
Brain cramp - Bacall was in The Big Sleep, not The Maltese Falcon. I'll amend 5. to be The Maltese Falcon/The Big Sleep.
Wages of Fear
Pulp Fiction
French Connection
Shrek
This is Spinal Tap
A Clockwork Orange
Raising Arizona
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (still funny as F&%@#!)
Brother from another planet
HeatAll worth multiple viewings.
All worth owning.Russ
"Raising Arizona" did cross my mind."Shrek" is cool particularly the rock thing after the movie.
"French Connection" is cool especially the way he got that chick on the bike. "Popeye Doyle" if that was his name was cool.
That is the name of the Hackman character. His boss was played by the real Doyle.
Agree. I have nine of these.
1) "From Dusk to Dawn"Is it cool to be a killer when there are vampires around?
2) "Blue Velvet"
Even the song is cool. Welcome to a little perversion.
3) "Johnny Guitar"
Show me another movie where they stop the western action to do some musical numbers in which everyone: good guys and bad guys wholeheartedly join in.
4) "Night of the Humter"
I forget what was cool about this. But I remember it being cool.
5) "The Big Lebowski"
California cool.
6)"8 1/2"
7) "White Nights" ("Le Notti Bianche" (1957)).
The bar scene, in which Marcelo Mastroianni is piqued in a certain way and then dances, could be the coolest single scene in cinema. But then again
8)
What is that Fellini movie in which people run into a black trumpet player on an empty night city street? A scene can put a movie on this list.
9) "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
10) Johnny Stecchino
For taking someone with Down's Syndrome and making him an integral star in the movie. Great film.
1) "House Party"It's cool to be a little goofy but to pull it together at the right moments. The party/dance scene is awesome.
2) "Friday" (and the rest of them)
Ice Cube is always the coolest dude in town. How does he do it?
3) "She's Gotta Have It"
Just a cool film the way it is all pulled off.
1) From Dusk to Dawn2) Blue Velvet
3) Johnny Guitar (a must see film! The coolest of all)
If people saw this film, it would be at the top of the list.
4) And the film with the most naturally evil acting man in the history of cinema. In this film, I believe he has the word "good" inscribed on the back of the fingers of one hand, and evil on the fingers of the other hand.
What's the name of that film and that actor. Robert something I believe.
and anti-cool
Woody Allen playing a little spermazoa. That is really uncool to want to be a little sperm.
"Night of the Hunter" directed by Charles Laughton (his only directorial effort) and starring Robert Mitchum and Lilian Gish.
I could never pick a top ten coolest as it really depends on my mood. I do however think a few are good choices, others not so much so. Just my opinions:
"Bullitt" - Cool. Top 10, dunno, been too long.
"Cool Hand Luke" - Very cool. Top 10, yeah, I think so.
"Goldfinger" - I'm a Bond fan (Connery as Bond for the most part), and this one is one of the better. Sure.
"The Wild One" - Never seen it.
"The Matrix" - Sorry, disagree. Neat film, pretty cool effects. No more.
""Out of Sight" - Never seen it.
""Dirty Harry" - Really like Clint and this is one of his better. Yep.
"Pulp Fiction" - One of the most over-rated films to my mind. Didn't like this film at all.
"Casablanca" - (blushing) never seen this one either.
"The Ipcress File" - Never seen it nor barely heard of it.
I'd replace one of the not-so-good with The Great Escape.
The brand new two disc "Casablanca" is stunning. See if you can give it a watch. You won't regret it.
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