so how about it?
i'll start with one of my all time favourites:
Midnight Cowboy
I have seen that movie i don't know how many times (40 - 50????) and it
still tears me apart every single time.
alpha
more to come
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Is it really good? I have the DVD and I was going to watch it this evening.
I don't know anything about the film.
Bri
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_Citizen Kane_--Still the most innovative motion picture ever, IMVHO.
_The Thin Blue Line_--The most important U.S. movie made in my lifetime.
_Der blaue Engel_--Where that great screen tragedian Emil Jannings,
playing Professor Rath, who is forced to stand on stage in a clown
costume and imitate a chicken in front of his jeering former students
while his wife cuckolds him backstage, "holds his body like one enormous
clubfoot" (in Greil Marcus's description) "and utters a squawk that
could shrivel the soul."
_Fury_--The first U.S. picture to deal with the subject of lynch mobs;
still packs a wollop after 66 years.
_Ladri di biciclette_--A man's search for a stolen bicycle rendered as
high tragedy; remade as _Pee-wee's Big Adventure_, if you stop to think
about it.
_Ikiru_--In which a dying man spends his final six months turning his
previous 60-odd years from a waste into a triumph.
_The King of Comedy_--Not a comedy, but a mordant, ferocious commentary
on contemporary celebrity lust; quoting Greil Marcus again, "...*this*
was a horror film. As played by Robert De Niro, Rupert Pupkin was the
creepiest character ever to carry a film, and he held the screen like Garbo."
_The Dead_--The only movie to do cinematic justice to James Joyce's words.
_Trollflöjten_--My favorite screen musical of all time.
_La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc_--The apotheosis of the silent era.
At the moment, I'm into watching the classics that never made it's way to
Croatia.
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Hugz,
Connie=^..^=
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Alpha Girl wrote:
The Maltese Falcon - Bogart works with Huston. Huston takes the script
directly from the pages of Hammit's novel, something more screenplay
adaptors should do these days. The casting of Sydney Greenstreet as
casper Gutman is flawless. Mary Astor is very nice to look at.
Cops - My favorite Buster Keaton short. Buster is chased by every cop in
the world. Still leaves me gasping for air.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Flying women with swords gets my
attention all the time.
I enjoyed it but it was very, very strange!
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> The Maltese Falcon - Bogart works with Huston. Huston takes the script
> directly from the pages of Hammit's novel, something more screenplay
> adaptors should do these days. The casting of Sydney Greenstreet as
> casper Gutman is flawless. Mary Astor is very nice to look at.
I love this movie. Absolutely one of my favorites.
One of my best memories in childhood was my mom taking me with her to
see old movies in a church basement across the river. A small film club
got together and showed musicals projected on a big, white screen. We'd
sit in uncomfortable folding chairs, and there would be an intermission
for juice, coffee, and snacks. That was the first time I ever tasted
banana bread. I put it in my mouth and could not figure out what this
heavenly treat was. It tasted so familiar, but rich and tender. I licked
the soft crumbs off of the white napkin.
The first movie I ever saw in that basement was either Meet Me in St.
Louis or Easter Parade.
I have fallen horribly behind my movie going since I moved away from San
Francisco. There was this wonderful place not too far from my old
neighborhood that would show double feature matinees for something like
five dollars. I saw quite a few movies that grabbed me there.
I have a huge list of movies I WANT to see! But here's some that have
grabbed me.
RED. I don't remember all of the movie anymore. The relationship between
an old man who is eavesdropping on his neighbors, and the beautiful
young woman who finds out he is doing this, drew me in. I hope I'm
remembering this right, but I believe the woman is dealing with a death
too. That always pulls me in, of course. Visually it's a very, very
beautiful movie.
WHEN NIGHT IS FALLING. A love affair between two women, one a professor
involved at first with a man, and another a woman who performs with the
circus. Unbelievably erotic, and about love, and the lips on this one
woman, holy shit. Beautifully filmed, and sad, and lovely.
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN. Visually stunning. Scary and grotesque and a
sense of fear and fairy tales.
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON VON MUNCHAUSEN. Oh I loved this movie so much
when I first saw it on cable. I must have watched in like 10 times. It's
a Terry Gilliam film, I believe. Full of grand tales, told by a tragic
comic figure. And Uma Thurman as Venus is, well, gulp.
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. I could watch anything with Morgan Freeman and
Tim Robbins. They are two of my favorite actors in the whole world. But
this story is such a wonderful one. I am a complete, utter, adoring
Stephen King fan, and I really liked the story this movie is based on.
But this movie just expands it gloriously, moves it to a perfect
storytelling place, just like Stand By Me did for King's "The Body."
It's about friendship, despair, redemption--oh shit, it's about
everything.
THE PLAYER. While I'm thinking about Tim Robbins, anyone remember this
gem? What a fucking great, wicked film this was! I have no idea how it's
held up over time, I saw it so long ago, but it was a hilarious take on
amorality, LA, Hollywood, the whole whoredom and insecurity.
PI. I saw this movie when I was in the worst mental breakdown of my
life. It's a kinetic, intense, hard to explain movie about a young,
Jewish man's search for the truth of pi. There is conspiracy, madness,
Jewish mysticism, computers, mathematics....I loved it. I really, really
loved it.
JACOB'S LADDER. This movie, I won't say a lot about, but it grabbed me
alright. The way it's filmed alone gave me nightmares. It frightened me,
because some of the things filemed were just like pieces of nightmares
I've had. I don't know if it's deep, but it hit me deep. The images.
AMERICAN MOVIE. This is a documentary about an amateur horror movie
director (extremely amateur) and his friends and family in Wisconsin.
One of my best friends, her husband's family recommended it, saying it
was "hilarious." They must be the kind of people to laugh uncomfortably
at a car crash. This is the kind of movie where yes, okay, it's very
funny in places, but it's fucking the saddest thing I had seen in a
long, long time. A terrible pity, and laughter getting stuck in your
throat, and you want to learn about certain parts of America without
having to travel its length back and forth like I have? Watch this.
SINGING IN THE RAIN. Man, this is just the greatest. "Make 'Em Laugh" is
one of the best comedy dance numbers ever, and Jean Hagen--well, ask cp,
I used to do a dead on impression of her. What a great movie, every
minute.
Shit, I'm still missing a bunch of movies, but it's late, no one's
reading, and Carver needs to be put to bed :)
minx
and then i remembered The Cube
it wasn't released in many countries, so i have no idea if anyone here knows
it. But it's Canadian.
Scary, but a BRILLIANT story about these people who are stuck inside this
cube madeup of all of these rooms. They have to go trough manyof them to
find their way out. But some rooms kill. So they los people, and they go
crazy, and everythign becaomes gruesome. But the twists in the sorty are so
brilliant, and so is the acting. Great movie.
And I loved The Matrix.
And am looking forward to seeing Pi some day.
and want to see Dancer in the Dark
minxvox wrote:
the ending of this was astonishing. it tied togethor a trilogy of movies
- the others being blue and white.
>
> WHEN NIGHT IS FALLING. A love affair between two women, one a professor
> involved at first with a man, and another a woman who performs with the
> circus. Unbelievably erotic, and about love, and the lips on this one
> woman, holy shit. Beautifully filmed, and sad, and lovely.
>
> THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN. Visually stunning. Scary and grotesque and a
> sense of fear and fairy tales.
from the same people who brought us delicatessen and amelie - which i
have raved about, and will continue to do so.
>
> THE ADVENTURES OF BARON VON MUNCHAUSEN. Oh I loved this movie so much
> when I first saw it on cable. I must have watched in like 10 times. It's
> a Terry Gilliam film, I believe. Full of grand tales, told by a tragic
> comic figure. And Uma Thurman as Venus is, well, gulp.
uma has one of the best screen entrances, ever.
>
> THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. I could watch anything with Morgan Freeman and
> Tim Robbins. They are two of my favorite actors in the whole world. But
> this story is such a wonderful one. I am a complete, utter, adoring
> Stephen King fan, and I really liked the story this movie is based on.
> But this movie just expands it gloriously, moves it to a perfect
> storytelling place, just like Stand By Me did for King's "The Body."
> It's about friendship, despair, redemption--oh shit, it's about
> everything.
another example of when the writer doesn't really change much from the
original source. filmed in mansfield, ohio.
>
> THE PLAYER. While I'm thinking about Tim Robbins, anyone remember this
> gem? What a fucking great, wicked film this was! I have no idea how it's
> held up over time, I saw it so long ago, but it was a hilarious take on
> amorality, LA, Hollywood, the whole whoredom and insecurity.
it's been some time since i've seen this. i remembe a great, one take,
opening shot that paid homage to 'a touch of evil' lots of stars,
including greta scacchi.
>
> PI. I saw this movie when I was in the worst mental breakdown of my
> life. It's a kinetic, intense, hard to explain movie about a young,
> Jewish man's search for the truth of pi. There is conspiracy, madness,
> Jewish mysticism, computers, mathematics....I loved it. I really, really
> loved it.
>
> JACOB'S LADDER. This movie, I won't say a lot about, but it grabbed me
> alright. The way it's filmed alone gave me nightmares. It frightened me,
> because some of the things filemed were just like pieces of nightmares
> I've had. I don't know if it's deep, but it hit me deep. The images.
>
> AMERICAN MOVIE. This is a documentary about an amateur horror movie
> director (extremely amateur) and his friends and family in Wisconsin.
> One of my best friends, her husband's family recommended it, saying it
> was "hilarious." They must be the kind of people to laugh uncomfortably
> at a car crash. This is the kind of movie where yes, okay, it's very
> funny in places, but it's fucking the saddest thing I had seen in a
> long, long time. A terrible pity, and laughter getting stuck in your
> throat, and you want to learn about certain parts of America without
> having to travel its length back and forth like I have? Watch this.
>
> SINGING IN THE RAIN. Man, this is just the greatest. "Make 'Em Laugh" is
> one of the best comedy dance numbers ever, and Jean Hagen--well, ask cp,
> I used to do a dead on impression of her. What a great movie, every
> minute.
>
i would like to hear that impression some time. can you stand to do it
for me?
ed
sure, i know it, eh! incredible.....
<plot snippage>
> And I loved The Matrix.
Oh man, so did i! I love how it made a lot of people actually think
about being and nothingness.... (apologies to M. Sartre) and all of the
ideas that come out of "free your mind"....
and on a good old "wow, COOOOOOOOL" level, the fight scenes were awesome
and actually believeable because of the context in which they occurred.
alpha
Blade Runner
Yellow Submarine
Buckaroo Bonzai and the *mumblemumble*
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Fuck you.
contact
(double whammy - carl sagan and jodie foster, love them both)
but that's what i was getting at, movies that did something to you
emotionally in a big way, positive or negative, not necessarily a
favorite