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
COMMENTS:
“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
38. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance KidGeorge Roy Hill, 1969POINTS: 149VOTES: 10
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link
37. WeekendJean-Luc Godard, 1967POINTS: 151VOTES: 8#1’s: 1
“The only Godard that I've enjoyed has been Weekend, which was a lot of fun.”
-- polyphonic
Week End has many strange, wonderful, and disturbing moments. It's probably best known for the long scene with the traffic jam. So many ideas in this movie. Poor Emily Bronte gets set on fire. Then there's the egg monologue, the pianist, the political essay set to a man eating a sandwich, etc.
-- Ernest P.
“Probably the most frustrating great film I've ever seen, it shifts back and forth between being brilliant and unwatchable so violently that sometimes it's hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. Godard's great scenes come on like the apocalyptictrumpet blasts of a Beethoven symphony, but 10-minute chunks of this movie go by that might be more excruciating than 10 minutes spent listening to your roommate's Grateful Dead bootleg collection. I know I'll never forget it, but genius rarely comes in such annoying fits and starts.”
--Justyn Dillingham
“I was at a point in my life where I was about to give up on narrative cinema altogether (as a viewer), and Weekend turned me around. Of course, now that I think of it, that was exactly the OPPOSITE of Godard's intention...but i digress.”
-- jay blanchard
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Brilliant. "Ro-land Cas-sard".
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
36. Mary PoppinsRobert Stevenson, 1964POINTS: 153VOTES: 6
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
35. LolitaStanley Kubrick, 1962POINTS: 154VOTES: 9
“lolita is more or less unfilmable, but the kubrick version works brilliantly as a black comedy. it's my favorite of his films.”
-- J.D.
“"Lolita" is a good example of what goes wrong with Kubrick. He couldn't film it in America, or wouldn't, so it loses all the tanginess of Nabokov. However, on the plus side, the early set pieces are nice, and it's well-cast. So, an interesting failure--he was just too damned cold to make a real go of that novel, and it's a shame.”
-- eddie hurt
“A very funny film, largely because everyone in the cast plays it completely straight. Shelley Winters might seem like a caricature, but she's also the only real innocent in the story; James Mason is as tormented and perpetually aghast as the book's Humbert, even if he doesn't have as much space to rant about it; Sue Lyon ("a face amusingly reminiscent of the young Elvis Presley" - Pauline Kael) is convincingly vulgar and smirky. But the film's real triumph is Peter Sellers' brilliant performance asClare Quilty, who seems almost to belong to some other, greater movie, taking place just out of sight, with the tragedy of Humbert and Lo a mere side attraction.”
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link