49. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!Russ Meyer, 1965POINTS: 128VOTES: 5#1’s: 1
COMMENTS?
― 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
COMMENTS:
“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
34. High and LowAkira Kurosawa, 1963POINTS: 155VOTES: 7
“The scene that sticks most in my memory is of Mifune obsessively mowing his lawn in his sweat-stained silk shirt. One of the best portraits of anguish EVAH. I also like the fat cop.”
--General Doinel
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
33. Point BlankJohn Boorman, 1967POINTS: 158VOTES: 9
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Obsessing over the unobtainable and nonexistant. (Leee), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
32. Le SamouraiJean-Pierre Melville, 1967POINTS: 161VOTES: 161#1’s: 1
“What I love about Alain Delon is his ability to hold the same expression regardless of genre or time period.”
-- Gear!
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
31. Easy RiderDennis Hopper, 1969POINTS: 163VOTES: 9
“Chronically overrated, indulgent, dated, ripped off and tired. So what. It’s a fucking great movie kids. I love the hipster cool look and feel, I love Jack, I love the hideous ending, I love the drugs and free spirit and the counterpoint context of Hopper and Fonda’s egomania. Mythmaking extraordinaire. Envelope pushing for the period. Drenched in the times. Cinema would I dare to suggest, be the less interesting if this movie had never got made.”
--FIVE EIGHT
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, there's an early appearance by that dude from Hill Street Blues.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
30. Branded To KillSeijun Suzuki, 1967POINTS: 165VOTES: 9
"I just watched Branded to Kill last night and, jesus. I mean, hallucinatory. Crazy. I can't think of another movie I've seen recently -- and I've seen a lot of good movies recently -- where past a point I had no earthly idea what was going to happen next, and then what happened next always blew my brain apart. There are so many individual genius sequences in there, and they all kind of pile on top of each other. Goddam. I've heard about him for a while, but I guess I didn't really know wtf he was up to."
-- gypsy mothra
“Branded to Kill is utterly great -- picked it up several years back and Sean from SF (who's doing well, last I checked) and I had a good time watching it and playing 'spot the moments where Tarantino bugged out.'“
-- Ned Raggett
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I love the fat cop. Does he actually serve any purpose on the squad in the film, or is he merely totemic? And if the latter, is the joke sort of meta?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
29. Au Hasard BalthazarRobert Bresson, 1966POINTS: 169VOTES: 7#1’s: 1
“So I finally sat down to watch Au Hasard Balthazar for the first time last night. I had heard about it so much that I managed to get a copy (I missed the theatrical rerelease last year), even though I never really dug late period Bresson. During the film's last five minutes I just broke down. Even after having read about it for years I had no idea how incredibly heartbreaking and at the same time beautiful the ending would be. And this is in a film full of just intense, resonant moments, both beautiful and horrible. I really, in all my years of watching, loving and hating films, don't think I've ever been moved by a film like this one has and I can't stop thinking about it.”
-- Jay Vee
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
28. 8 ½Federico Fellini, 1963POINTS: 183VOTES: 7
“La Dolce Vita will get loads of votes, but I like this movie better. Melancholic, autobiographical, sexy, moody, and it has Claudia Cardinale. Reow. It’s visually arresting, fantasist, dreamlike, seductive and bizarre.”
“8 1/2 is probably my favorite movie ever but i dont really care for anything else he's done (that i've seen)”
-- ryan
“"8 1/2" is the film that made me decide I wanted to be a filmmaker. Enough said.”
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
27. The Great EscapeJohn Sturges, 1963POINTS: 189VOTES: 10
“i saw the restored print of the great escape last night - fantastic. i still can't believe they all die in the end, though! i thought in the restored print maybe they could somehow sneak away...”
-- a spectator bird
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
26. Peeping TomMichael Powell, 1960POINTS: 190VOTES: 10 COMMENTS:
“Magnificent film; the scene that strikes me right now would be of the old 'Gentleman' in the newsagents, with Mark Lewis just in the side of the later shots. Great piece of 'Englishness', showing what is behind the bluff veneer.”
-- Tom May
“Splendid companion piece to Psycho. I saw it circa '88 at American Museum of the Moving Image, with Powell in attendance, and he was visibly moved at the ovation he received. There were also walkouts.’
-- Dr Morbius
“This is one of my favorite films. I'm not sure it works completely as a Hitchcock style psychological thriller, but it's a more conscious attempt to engage and illustrate pyschoanalysis and film theory - even if it's occasionally corny and ham-fisted. The actual creepiness of Karlheinz Böhm really the film and it's points.
“The Criterion DVD has an *Amazing* commentary track from Laura "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema" Mulvey. I very highly recommend it.”
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link