Don't remember anything about Othello; do remember "Yes, you're next/You're so next" from "Rabbit of Seville."
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gtbtwWl6L._SS500_.jpg
60. Smiles of A Summer NightIngmar Bergman, 1955POINTS: 65VOTES: 3#1s: 0COMMENTS:“Smiles of a Summer Night is one of the best sex comedies.”― Dr Morbius“I don't get the "humorlessness" complaint either. While not a laff riot, Smiles of A Summer Night is a great Lubitsch-style comedy.”― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
COMMENTS:
“Smiles of a Summer Night is one of the best sex comedies.”
― Dr Morbius
“I don't get the "humorlessness" complaint either. While not a laff riot, Smiles of A Summer Night is a great Lubitsch-style comedy.”
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
BONUS FEATURE
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JV0EF5N8L._SS500_.jpg
59. Le Amiche/The GirlfriendsMichelangelo Antonioni, 1955POINTS: 67VOTES: 2#1s: 0COMMENTS:“A female spin on "I Vitelloni" (or better still, Sex and the City relocated to 50s Turin), Le Amiche is one of those movies that probably would be better regarded if it had been made by someone else. Not quite addressing the darker impulses that would fuel his most famous work (although he was getting there—remember, Il Grido has just 3 years away, and closer thematically to this film than you would think), the film is a terrifically bittersweet melodrama, easily the equal (or the better) to anything else the genre had to offer at the time.”― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain)
“A female spin on "I Vitelloni" (or better still, Sex and the City relocated to 50s Turin), Le Amiche is one of those movies that probably would be better regarded if it had been made by someone else. Not quite addressing the darker impulses that would fuel his most famous work (although he was getting there—remember, Il Grido has just 3 years away, and closer thematically to this film than you would think), the film is a terrifically bittersweet melodrama, easily the equal (or the better) to anything else the genre had to offer at the time.”
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain)
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
blaming Alfred for low Smiles position
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
word. thx for this.
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510EtyUFECL._SS500_.jpg
58. Imitation of LifeDouglas Sirk, 1959POINTS: 67VOTES: 2#1s: 1COMMENTS:“My point is that there is no way audiences could mistake "Imitation of Life" for anything but a film about race (among other things). The current film studies cant about Sirk being subversive has never convinced me. His best films are sincere, beautifully-crafted liberal melodramas. If I knew how to italicize "liberal" I would. And I'm not using it as an epithet.”― Amateurist “As perfect a capitalist product as has ever been created in the USA, delivering contradictory pleasures sometimes within a single shot. Classical Hollywood never topped it.”― Kevin John Bozelka“wow, that moment when Susan Kohner sassily talks all Butterfly McQueen to Lana Turner in Imitation really rules. But God, any scenes w/ John Gavin or Sandra Dee...”― Dr Morbius“last time i watched imitation of life i had like three glasses of whiskey and could barely see the screen at the end through the TEARZ :(“― impudent harlot
“My point is that there is no way audiences could mistake "Imitation of Life" for anything but a film about race (among other things). The current film studies cant about Sirk being subversive has never convinced me. His best films are sincere, beautifully-crafted liberal melodramas. If I knew how to italicize "liberal" I would. And I'm not using it as an epithet.”
― Amateurist
“As perfect a capitalist product as has ever been created in the USA, delivering contradictory pleasures sometimes within a single shot. Classical Hollywood never topped it.”
― Kevin John Bozelka
“wow, that moment when Susan Kohner sassily talks all Butterfly McQueen to Lana Turner in Imitation really rules. But God, any scenes w/ John Gavin or Sandra Dee...”
“last time i watched imitation of life i had like three glasses of whiskey and could barely see the screen at the end through the TEARZ :(“
― impudent harlot
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518EPG6E91L._SS500_.jpg
57. Roman HolidayWilliam Wyler, 1953POINTS: 68VOTES: 2#1s: 0COMMENTS:“I don't really get Audrey Hepburn either and I've seen lots of her films, but she is super-charming in Roman Holiday. it's the only movie I've really liked her in.”― horseshoe
“I don't really get Audrey Hepburn either and I've seen lots of her films, but she is super-charming in Roman Holiday. it's the only movie I've really liked her in.”
― horseshoe
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ick
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41srYQdoQhL._SS500_.jpg
56. DiaboliqueHenri-Georges Clouzot, 1955POINTS: 68VOTES: 3#1s: 0COMMENTS:“do it, paul meurisse. just fucking do it, you bad-ass.”― poortheatre
“do it, paul meurisse. just fucking do it, you bad-ass.”
― poortheatre
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
lol "dry yr palms"
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SZNGCX1PL._SS500_.jpg
55. Pickup On South StreetSamuel Fuller, 1953POINTS: 70VOTES: 4#1s: 0COMMENTS:“only seen pickup on south street but he [Richard Widmark] was pretty amazing in that ... RIP”― n/a“I've seen Pickup on South Street a few times, a few weeks ago most recently, one of those films who's charms grow on you, and you like it more the more you think about it. I was underwhelmed the first time I saw it, perhaps expecting more intensity after seeing the Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor. The scene where the spy beats the girl is still one of the more brutal things on film...”― Dan Selzer “Poor Thelma Ritter.”― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain)
“only seen pickup on south street but he [Richard Widmark] was pretty amazing in that ... RIP”
― n/a
“I've seen Pickup on South Street a few times, a few weeks ago most recently, one of those films who's charms grow on you, and you like it more the more you think about it. I was underwhelmed the first time I saw it, perhaps expecting more intensity after seeing the Naked Kiss and Shock Corridor. The scene where the spy beats the girl is still one of the more brutal things on film...”
― Dan Selzer
“Poor Thelma Ritter.”
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5184JYCKAEL._SS500_.jpg
54. Invasion of The Body SnatchersDon Siegel, 1956POINTS: 71VOTES: 3#1s: 0COMMENTS:"There's a reason the original keeps getting remade every ten years, with endlessly compelling results no matter how trashy (the latest) orbrilliant (the '70s one): This is our most potent-ever allegory of soulless conformism, might-makes-right complacency, and defensive contentment fending off the genuine pursuit of happiness. Communists and anti-communists, corporate men and drug heads--everyone should take a second look at this and make sure they aren't identifying with the wrong side. I still meet pod people in real life, and still worry I'm becoming one."― Pete ScholtesInvasion of the Body Snatchers
"There's a reason the original keeps getting remade every ten years, with endlessly compelling results no matter how trashy (the latest) orbrilliant (the '70s one): This is our most potent-ever allegory of soulless conformism, might-makes-right complacency, and defensive contentment fending off the genuine pursuit of happiness. Communists and anti-communists, corporate men and drug heads--everyone should take a second look at this and make sure they aren't identifying with the wrong side. I still meet pod people in real life, and still worry I'm becoming one."
― Pete Scholtes
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Be back in a bit. Hunting for comments.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
3 out of 15? what do you ppl like?
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41O3ZInVp8L._SS500_.jpg
53. Un Chant D’AmourJean Genet, 1950POINTS: 72VOTES: 2#1s: 0COMMENTS:“Tosses the bouquet and swings the dick with the best of them.”― Dr Morbius“Are any even as satisfying as gay movies of porny qualities? I mean, sure, there's Un Chant d'amour and Pink Narcissus, but what else?”― Eric H.
“Tosses the bouquet and swings the dick with the best of them.”
“Are any even as satisfying as gay movies of porny qualities? I mean, sure, there's Un Chant d'amour and Pink Narcissus, but what else?”
― Eric H.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EP2Q3QFDL._SS500_.jpg
52. Some Like It HotBilly Wilder, 1959POINTS: 72VOTES: 5#1s: 0COMMENTS:Some Like It Hot: Classic, Dud or Something Inbetween?
Some Like It Hot: Classic, Dud or Something Inbetween?
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JRHBFHKDL._SS500_.jpg
51. The African QueenJohn Huston, 1951POINTS: 73VOTES: 3#1s: 0COMMENTS:"Romancing the Stone was an acknowledgement of what Raiders of the Lost Ark was missing: a credible or compelling romantic relationship at its center. Compared to Raiders, this adventure of whites in Africa pitting missionary and entrepreneur against Nazis seems mild as action and questionable as history, but somehow far more richly entertaining just by being a love story that gets Katherine Hepburn in wet clothes."― Pete Scholtes
"Romancing the Stone was an acknowledgement of what Raiders of the Lost Ark was missing: a credible or compelling romantic relationship at its center. Compared to Raiders, this adventure of whites in Africa pitting missionary and entrepreneur against Nazis seems mild as action and questionable as history, but somehow far more richly entertaining just by being a love story that gets Katherine Hepburn in wet clothes."
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I kinda thought Some Like It Hot wd be the only pure comedy on the list, just bcz of disposable comedy-adventures like The African Queen.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
and see Eric, you are not the anti-barometer re Genet erotica or Rossellini.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C77E643VL._SS500_.jpg
50. ShaneGeorge Stevens, 1953POINTS: 75VOTES: 3#1s: 0COMMENTS:“Jack Palance is so fucking awesome in Shane.”― Alex in SF “I was just now explaining Shane to someone who only knew him for City Slickers.”― Ned Raggett “Yeah, "Pick up the gun" is my favourite Palance quote too (anyone see Bill Hicks' "Revelations" when he compares that moment in Shane to the U.S. arming little nations, then attacking them because "See! He had a gun!"?)”― shorty
“Jack Palance is so fucking awesome in Shane.”
― Alex in SF
“I was just now explaining Shane to someone who only knew him for City Slickers.”
― Ned Raggett
“Yeah, "Pick up the gun" is my favourite Palance quote too (anyone see Bill Hicks' "Revelations" when he compares that moment in Shane to the U.S. arming little nations, then attacking them because "See! He had a gun!"?)”
― shorty
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
a western for ppl who don't like westerns.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518K6ES5SZL._SS500_.jpg
49. Plan 9 From Outer SpaceEdward D. Wood Jr., 1959POINTS: 78VOTES: 3#1s: 0COMMENTS:ALL OF YOU ON EARTH ARE IDIOTS!
ALL OF YOU ON EARTH ARE IDIOTS!
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost OK, this list is starting to get really bad.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
How is Imitation of Life THAT low?!
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
+ I think Un Chant D’Amour was something like #2 on my list.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416XPQPV3VL._SS500_.jpg
48. Rebel Without A CauseNicholas Ray, 1955POINTS: 78VOTES: 5#1s: 0COMMENTS:“belle and sebastien are sal mineo in rebel w/o a cause”― Fritz Wollner From If bands were characters from movies
“belle and sebastien are sal mineo in rebel w/o a cause”
― Fritz Wollner From If bands were characters from movies
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
luv me some Diabolique (damn I shoulda voted in this thing)
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Plan 9 < Glen or Glenda?
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to vote but never got around to ordering my list, but I specifically excluded Plan 9 because I felt it didn't belogn on the list. Certainly not above Some like it Hot
― Nomi Malone and Her Bloodstains (Stevie D), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cSZ3MAcuL._SS500_.jpg
47. La StradaFederico Fellini, 1954POINTS: 80VOTES: 3#1s: 0COMMENTS:“There are films that quietly tell a story (La Strada, for instance) without feeling the need to 'show us what were really are,' or to lampoon the hypocrisy of modern life. Those are the ones I prefer.”― andy --“La Strada - I want to go back in time and impregnate Giulietta Masina.”― Jeff-PTTL
“There are films that quietly tell a story (La Strada, for instance) without feeling the need to 'show us what were really are,' or to lampoon the hypocrisy of modern life. Those are the ones I prefer.”
― andy --
“La Strada - I want to go back in time and impregnate Giulietta Masina.”
― Jeff-PTTL
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a strain of Right Directors/Wrong Films goin on...
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VV8FGF7QL._SS500_.jpg
46. Night and The CityJules Dassin, 1950POINTS: 81VOTES: 3#1s: 0COMMENTS:RIP Jules DassinRIP Richard Widmark
RIP Jules Dassin
RIP Richard Widmark
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
...and that's it for today. Stay tuned for 45-31 tomorrow.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank God there are still 45 slots left!
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, where will Bridge on the River Kwai turn up?
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
You'd be surprised...
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
oh I hope so.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
#1. Seven Samurai
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.homevideos.com/freezeframes3/bridge8.jpeg
"Madness!"
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
My takes:
I hated La Strada, but that was 18 years ago. I felt trapped in the movie, and couldn't figure out why anyone (the characters, the audience) wouldn't want to get out. Anyone want to rhapsodize?
Shane felt a little canned, its vision of the kid a little cute ("Shane! Shane!"), but I know Western fans love it, and it has some exciting fights and romantic tension. I'd probably watch it again.
Rebel Without a Cause is Beautiful, and I'll keep going back to it (Invasion didn't make my Top 20 either), but its overt sociology is silly. I don't know when the first realistic depiction of American parents and teens hit a screen (maybe the American Family doc on PBS in the '70s?), but this one is laughable enough to throw me out of the film, no matter how good Dead is.
Imitation of Life is great, but it's all sacrifice, tragedy, and pain, where All That Heaven Allows involves a rebellion, which is so much more poignant. I think that's why the combination in Far from Heaven.
I loved Night and the City, but didn't remember it well enough. The first wrestling noir?
I also loved Ed Wood, but couldn't sit through Plan 9.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, I meant Dean, not Dead.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Shane ... I know Western fans love it
hmmm, not cineaste western fans. It's by GEORGE STEVENS, for God's sake. Big fans of it should get an enforced Boetticher/ Mann oater marathon.
(not only are those 2 not gonna show up on this list, we're gonna get High Noon too, right?)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Rebel Without a Cause is a melodrama; what's silly about it is just as silly in Imitation of Life.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Sal Mineo in Rebel is rather proto-Emo. Its kind of odd that Emo kids never picked up on the mismatched socks.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that's why the combination in Far from Heaven.
The rest of this unfinished sentence sure as hell better not be something along the lines of "works better than either."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
(x-post)
On the same tip, was there ever a confirmation that Natalie Wood lost her virginity to Nick Ray?
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
if i had voted i likely would have gone with 'on dangerous ground' for #1, but i didn't
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw that recently. I liked it, but felt it came off like two halves of better movies that got glued together.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard rumor that Ray had Dean, Wood, Mineo.
I watched Ray's Bitter Victory again last night. Like a lot, but Curt Jurgens' character is too transparently craven, and Burton baldly enunciates the theme several times.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
without the divide it would never have worked
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
(i've never seen more than a few minutes of it btw)
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
anyone ever seen this novelization?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet#Novelization
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link