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63. Ivan The Terrible, Part IISergei M. Eisenstein & M. Filimonova, 1958POINTS: 63VOTES: 2#1s: 0COMMENTS:“well arguably the second "Ivan" film is a critique of Stalin. the whole film is about the paranoia that comes with power, and the death meted out as a result--it makes Ivan into a simultaneously grotesque and tragic figure. anyway the "Ivan" films are the strangest films you will ever see, I'm confident. no way can they be reduced to either Stalinist paen *or* or Stalinist critique.”― amateurist
COMMENTS:
“well arguably the second "Ivan" film is a critique of Stalin. the whole film is about the paranoia that comes with power, and the death meted out as a result--it makes Ivan into a simultaneously grotesque and tragic figure. anyway the "Ivan" films are the strangest films you will ever see, I'm confident. no way can they be reduced to either Stalinist paen *or* or Stalinist critique.”
― amateurist
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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62. Europa ‘51Roberto Rossellini, 1952POINTS: 64VOTES: 2#1s: 0COMMENTS:“WIth Rossellini's Flowers of St. Francis, one of the most serious treatments of Christianity by a great filmmaker.”-Dr. Morbius
“WIth Rossellini's Flowers of St. Francis, one of the most serious treatments of Christianity by a great filmmaker.”
-Dr. Morbius
BONUS FEATURE
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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61. Elevator To The Gallows/ Ascenseur pour l'échafaudLouis Malle, 1958POINTS: 64VOTES: 3#1s: 0“elevator to the gallows is pretty fun. moreau's performance is great, and i love the guy who plays the german tourist.” ― a spectator bird “I would like to put in a mention for Louis Malles "Lift To The Scaffold" - less interesting stylistically than the efforts of many of his peers, but an incredibly vivid and evocative atmosphere. “― Nordicskillz "I saw this by myself in rep and then had dinner w/my dad & sister afterwards. Our conversation was dominated by me recounting the whole film to them blow by blow. I rarely do that, but the thing was so absorbing and well crafted. I also vividly recall many of the male viewers at the screening gasping at the first sight of the tourist's gullwing Mercedes."― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain)
“elevator to the gallows is pretty fun. moreau's performance is great, and i love the guy who plays the german tourist.”
― a spectator bird
“I would like to put in a mention for Louis Malles "Lift To The Scaffold" - less interesting stylistically than the efforts of many of his peers, but an incredibly vivid and evocative atmosphere. “
― Nordicskillz
"I saw this by myself in rep and then had dinner w/my dad & sister afterwards. Our conversation was dominated by me recounting the whole film to them blow by blow. I rarely do that, but the thing was so absorbing and well crafted. I also vividly recall many of the male viewers at the screening gasping at the first sight of the tourist's gullwing Mercedes."
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain)
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoa, slow down, are you going to reveal them all today? I've only seen one of these and would like to read comments.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, Elevator to the Gallows sounds nowhere near as good as Lift to the Scaffold. The UK/US divide hadn't occurred to me before.
― Have Your Sega (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
(x-post)
...and that'll be it for today. I'll be back w/60-46 tomorrow.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
not that it matters, but I think a film that got 64 (2) should be ahead of one that got 64 (3). I think the Village Voice called it the Passion Index.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Grrr. I want them all today!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyhoo, glad to see Joan Crawford make an appearance, prolly her only one here. That exchange you quote is indeed eternal, Morbs. But my fave is:
Emma: I'm going to kill you.Vienna: I know. If I don't kill you first.
It's all in the delivery.
JC didn't like this one, btw: "I should have had my head examined. No excuse for a picture being this bad or for me making it." Roy Newquist, Conversations with Joan Crawford (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 106.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I was a bit harsh calling High Society a snooze. But "skipping around to the musical numbers" really captures the fate of this film as well as soooo many others. The curse of the genre picture.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I was, for the record, one of the two voting for Ivan, Pt. 2, though I'm sort of feeling guilty about it now considering it was filmed in the '40s, et al.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
A lot of the films from 1950 were filmed in the 40s too ;-)
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I rescind my ballot.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
(Figured it wouldn't be a film poll results thread without me saying that.)
Yeah I would've voted for Ivan the Terrible but felt schizy about including it as a 1950s film.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
"Asphalt Jungle" and "Lola Montes" both way too low, I'd say. I don't mind the sentimental stuff in "Asphalt Jungle" - you'll find it in every other Cagney or Robinson flick, I took it as gangster movie convention (though not noir convention, I admit.) Though to be honest I'm not even 100% certain on which parts we're talking about - not the ending, I hope? Or the speech by the police inspector? Cuz that's my all-time fave example of a director using code restrictions to his advantage.
"Lola Montes" could be seen as a bit...overripe, in a way, but I think it's a masterpiece of sorts.
I don't necessairly skip to the songs in "High Society" but I'll admit I watch it more like an old-skool TV special than a movie per se.
Very curious about that Eisenstein!
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"Lift To The Scaffold" probably the most archetypal noir not made in the USA? I don't like all of it cos I can't stand Jeanne Moureau, but it is pretty impressively dark and feverish. Love the scene with the german tourists.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
xp: Yes, the horsey face-licking included! Cagney-Robinson sentiment was pulpy; a lot of Huston's in AJ is artsy-fartsy.
I accuse my parents.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
O no! Now the big break.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 11 November 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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
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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
“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
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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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), 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
Still love that Morbs, one of ILX's two foremost anti-gay marriage advocates, is so in love with Father of the Bride.
― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Monday, 5 September 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
nothing disconnective there -- I love Paris Is Burning and am still pretty dragphobic.
(also, FoB is pretty ambivalent at best about marriage)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
(ie, Vincente Minnelli would've only favored gay marriage to Judy Garland)
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, '50s still a dark period in American history.
― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
We were all in tip-top form here.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Tracy has a nightmare in FoB! you should watch it. xp
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
Kevin thread's late-innings MVP
― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
Kevin was hilarious.
I look for any opportunity to revive my Wilder beef with Morbs.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
Oh look, even he likes that movie that got turned into a Steve Martin Short movie.
33. Father of The Bride – Along with Minnelli’s even more frightening The Long, Long Trailer (which I forgot to nominate), this film is the reason why we cannot determine genre by audience reaction alone.
― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
I still can't sit through Shane, On the Beach, Rebel Without a Cause.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
Peck is a case study for the effects of exposure to nuclear radiation.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:49 PM
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
3 Kurosawas in the top 20 seems to me the poll's biggest overreaction. On the whole, these film poll results were ILX's best.
― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
I still can't sit through Rebel Without a Cause.
^not gay
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Well, no, I commit homosexual acts.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
Wish I'd been posting regularly then. My top 5 would be Sweet Smell of Success, On the Waterfront, The 400 Blows, The Apu Trilogy, and Paths of Glory; after that, Rear Window, Night of the Hunter, The Killing, maybe The Ten Commandments (absurd, I know), and something else--A Face in the Crowd and The Harder They Fall come to mind. Mostly predictable stuff.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
I missed the first 20 minutes or so, but watched most of The Browning Version (Asquith, 1951) last night...surprisingly intense! Redgrave was great, and I really wanted to push Crocker-Harris' wife into traffic. Sort of an English Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Monday, 14 May 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
Wish I'd been posting regularly then. My top 5 would be Sweet Smell of Success, On the Waterfront, The 400 Blows, The Apu Trilogy, and Paths of Glory; after that, Rear Window, Night of the Hunter, The Killing, maybe The Ten Commandments (absurd, I know), and something else--A Face in the Crowd and The Harder They Fall come to mind. Mostly predictable stuff.― clemenza, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 9:48 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post
― clemenza, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 9:48 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post
You didn't vote? I thought you had, but the email records are long gone so I have no proof. I do know you came out for the 60s one (and IIRC posted on the thread too).
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 May 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't start posting regularly till April 2009, so I missed this by a few months. Depending upon how it was scored, I might have moved Night of the Hunter into first.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 May 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
A call to re-evaluate Stanley Kramer and On the Beach
http://filmint.nu/?p=5264
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2012 14:53 (eleven 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