― Chris L, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link
You know, I still get nervous about getting off a train that I'm due to travel on, before it departs, in case it leaves without me and Julie Christie is on it.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Folks who complain about Stewart's and Wayne's 50something age in the main narrative of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance are from the "Vertigo is implausible" school. Often lawyers, I find. Perhaps the best 'career summation' by a major filmmaker.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
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55. ContemptJean-Luc Godard, 1963POINTS: 120VOTES: 7#1’s: 0
COMMENTS:
“Excellent. The argument in the living room is gripping. The third act is -- somewhat incomprehensible, but good.”-- Remy
“Contempt: Sex, sun, sea and twisted automobiles. We've got Brigitte Bardot, Odysseus, Fritz Lang, Jack Palance, and the Casa Malaparte. Cinematic heroin.”-- -8-(*_*)-8-
“Don't ever watch Contempt with a significant other, this is a bad mistake myself and others I know have made.”-- slutsky
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
54. The Pink PantherBlake Edwards, 1963POINTS: 120VOTES: 8#1’s: 0
COMMENTS?
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
53. Shoot The Piano PlayerFrancois Truffaut, 1960POINTS: 121VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
“I personally love Tirez Sur La Pianiste.”-- Nordicskillz
“Truffaut’s finest, funniest, and perhaps even saddest film. Charlie’s fight with his boss in the alley is one of the best scenes in all of the new wave.”--General Doinel
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chino (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
52. Cool Hand LukeStuart Rosenberg, 1967POINTS: 123VOTES: 6#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
51. Help!Richard Lester, 1965POINTS: 123VOTES: 7#1’s: 1
“For "Ticket to Ride" and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," two of the greatest videos ever made.”-- Phil Dellio
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
50. Breakfast At Tiffany’sBlake Edwards, 1961POINTS: 124VOTES: 7#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Eleanor Bron's 2nd appearance! (The Yo La Tengo line quoted by Ken is about Help!)
Luke is good star heroism, too much Christ imagery.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
I like first-rate Franz Planer/Philip Lathrop, Martin Balsam, Henry Mancini and 171 E. 71st St.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― youn, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:09 (eighteen years ago) link
49. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!Russ Meyer, 1965POINTS: 128VOTES: 5#1’s: 1
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
48. GoldfingerGuy Hamilton, 1964POINTS: 132VOTES: 6#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
47. BullittPeter Yates, 1968POINTS: 133VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
46. AlphavilleJean-Luc Godard, 1965POINTS: 134VOTES: 7#1’s: 0
“Alphaville--put that in the "search" column for me. It's the only kind of sci-fi i can stand!”-- jay blanchard
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
45. PlaytimeJacques Tati, 1967POINTS: 136VOTES: 6#1?s: 0
Jacques Tati/Play Time
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
-- jones (hobartarm...), August 25th, 2004.
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
44. Carnival of SoulsHerk Harvey, 1962POINTS: 140VOTES: 6#1’s: 1
“one of the few films where the wooden, characterless acting actually adds to the sense of unease and sheer wrongness. While the central plot twist has been overused (and misused) in many subsequent films, Carnival Of Souls still has a strange, eerie power unlike anything much else I can think of before or since. Director Herk Harvey was apparently influenced by Cocteau. This is apparent in the scenario and atmosphere, but it’s the pulpy horror elements that really lift the film into something more than the sum of its parts. A more experienced director would have maybe given us a competent horror film with “artistic” flourishes – as it is, it’s a bizarre, probably unrepeatable one-off.”--Matt T.
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
43. La Dolce VitaFederico Fellini, 1960POINTS: 140VOTES: 8#1’s: 0
“"La Dolce Vita" is incredible, a wonderful study of decadence and celebrity, the charms and lures, the shallowness and excess, etc. Far before it's time in the exploration of "paparazzi" (the term paparazzi actually got it's name from a character in La Dolce Vita).”-- jay blanchard
“I remember the first time I saw it with several friends and we convinced one friend that the word "dolce" meant "crazy" in Italian. Eventually he found out it meant "sweet", but whenever we hang out with him someone will invariably begin talking about some wild event, i.e. a fight at a show, as being "so fucking dolce...you know, crazy." He gets really pissed, so we keep doing it.
Anyway, a wonderful film.”--Gear!
“Anouk Aimee is truly the most beautiful woman who ever lived.”
-- Spencer Chow
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
42. Don’t Look BackD.A. Pennebaker, 1967POINTS: 141VOTES: 6#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
41. The BirdsAlfred Hitchcock, 1963POINTS: 141VOTES: 9#1’s: 0
― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
40. RepulsionRoman Polanski, 1965POINTS: 143VOTES: 7#1’s: 2 COMMENTS?
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 01:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― steve ketchup, Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm not feeling very articulate today. Perhaps a more articulate person will appear and say it better.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Fellini thought it might be AH's best film (as does Camille Paglia).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Its a very oddly shaped film, but that sort of adds to its appeal.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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39. The Umbrellas of CherbourgJacques Demy, 1964POINTS: 146VOTES: 10
“The most heart breaking film because it shows how ordinary love is. We expect a confection, and its center is not cherries but dust .”
-- anthony
“fucking brilliant. One of my five favourite films.”
-- Ian Riese-Moraine
“my favorite moment is when Catherine Deneuve pouts at her mother that she's getting heavy and her mother says (sings) "but all pregnant women are beautiful" and Catherine Deneuve looks in the mirror, smiles, and says "yes, that's true"
“a hiphop versh has been rattling around my head for years now. Usher plays the diamond dealer.”
-- Tracer Hand
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link