― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
tchuss.
― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Mitchum is scary in "Cape Fear", but somehow I still ended up rooting for him - the total corruption used by Peck's character, and the totally natural way in which the police chief agrees to discriminate a man just because he's *suuposedly* got it in for a Respectable Citizen, just made Mitchum seem a lot more sympathetic, which doesn't happen much with child killer/rapist characters. When Mitchum gives that roaring laugh at the end of his late night phone call to Peck's wife, I laughed too.
It struck me as a very right wing movie, tho perhaps this is a shallow judgement and it's reallya *criticism* of right wing authoritarian ideology? I was quite surprised to find out Peck was enough of a leftist to make Nixon's enemy list...
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 3 December 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 4 December 2005 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 4 December 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 4 December 2005 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Monday, 5 December 2005 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 December 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Hell, TONY RANDALL made Nixon's list! They weren't leaving anything to chance.
I didn't know til the TCM doc on Kong creator Merian Cooper that he was also behind Cinerama.
Mitchum is pretty much the only reason to see Cape Fear, a grotty little cheap thriller. His smearing the egg on his chest is indelible.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
85. Through A Glass DarklyIngmar Bergman, 1961POINTS: 71VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
COMMENTS:
“through a glass darkly- bergman is the man, this is one of his greats. cant say much more than that.” -- todd swiss
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
84. Le DoulosJean-Pierre Melville, 1962POINTS: 72VOTES: 3#1’s: 0
COMMENTS?
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
83. Fahrenheit 451Francois Truffaut, 1966POINTS: 72VOTES: 4#1’s: 0
“Fahrenheit 451- With its interconnecting imagery, comic book color scheme, and contemporary-yet-alien atmosphere. I must admit, I've never been a real fan of the novel, but I thought somehow Truffaut might save this one. He comes close, but overall I've always felt disappointed by this one. But, damn, is it fun to look at. The sequence where the old woman martyrs herself is a masterpiece in its own right. There's one overhead shot where the flames literally seem to engulf the camera. Awesome.”--Anthony
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
81 A. MouchetteRobert Bresson, 1967POINTS: 74VOTES: 4#1’s: 0
“"Mouchette" - I'd forgotten about that hand-biting in the fight in the forest, which got quite a yelp in the audience. And those chiming bells come in at precisely the right split-seconds in the last reel.”-- Dr Morbius
“it's liable to send you into a long funk but it is beautiful”-- amateur!st
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
81 B. The Exterminating AngelLuis Bunuel, 1962POINTS: 74VOTES: 4#1’s: 0
“i love the exterminating angel.”-- s1ocki
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link
80. ZCosta-Gavras, 1969POINTS: 74VOTES: 6#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
79. CharadeStanley Donen, 1963POINTS: 75VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
78. The Thomas Crown AffairNorman Jewison, 1968POINTS: 76VOTES: 3#1’s: 0
“The original Thomas Crown Affair is pretty wonderful (haven't seen the Brosnan version), with hot young Yaphet Kotto action! But I think the heists go off pretty smoothly. You know what they say, "Lucky in larceny, unlucky in love."”-- Huk-L
“McQueen looks fucking cool in this picture. And the chess scene is hilarious. Those two elements alone are enough to sell me on this. Faye doesn’t look bad either. The kind of movie you wish you woke up in.”--FIVE-EIGHT
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
77. BedazzledStanley Donen, 1968POINTS: 79VOTES: 4#1’s: 0
“Cook's devil is this cold-eyed, almost-nerdy, covertly-neurotic bastard, and you squirm when he makes you laugh.” -- pete s
“Of course, the 1967 film. Eleanor Bron is pretty sexy, I always thought. ... I like all the little bits tucked away in the orig.: "I didn't go to school, and I'm very, ah, uh, ummm, ah..." "Inarticulate." "Yes...I think so..."”-- eddie hurt
“The scene where Cook is a popstar and all the girls are going insane is hilarious to me no matter the context, I wish I could find that song on a record somewhere.” -- TOMBOT
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
76. Knife In The WaterRoman Polanski, 1962POINTS: 80VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Faye Dunaway: Unlikeliest under-25 insurance investigator evah.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
75. BarbarellaRoger Vadim, 1967POINTS: 85VOTES: 6#1’s: 0
“It may well be soft core porn disguised as sci fi, but it happens to be soft core porn disguised as sci fi I like. I haven't thought about this film in ages, but I never got anything other than joy out of it.”-- Nick
“It is one of the best films ever made. EVER. Yes, it is soft core porn disguised as sci fi, combined with brilliant social parody of the sexual revolution and The Pill. And a little bit of Philosophy In The Boudoir thrown in for good measure.
And Anita Pallenberg...
What more could you WANT in a film?
It is one of my three favourite films of all time along with Performance and erm... I forget what the third one is.
Classic. I will whump the arse of anyone who dares disagree with me.
And oh yes, Duran references up the Ying Yang.
"An angel cannot make love... an angel IS love!"”-- kate
“I fancy Jane. I went out with a girl who looked like her when I was 16. I dumped her. Don’t ask me why. This film has meant something peculiar to me ever since. What else do you wanna know?”--FIVE EIGHT
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
74. A Fistful of DollarsSergio Leone, 1964POINTS: 87VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Charade is undeniably a watchable showcase for the charms of its stars, but the silly villains/plot totally defangs the genre mixing. Hitchcock (of whom this is an obv parody, if less juvenile and literal than High Anxiety) could do both in his sleep better.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
73. If?.Lindsay Anderson, 1968POINTS: 88VOTES: 3#1?s: 0
If....
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
72. Pierrot Le Fou Jean-Luc Godard, 1965POINTS: 91VOTES: 4#1’s:1
“pierrot le fou is hilarious if you're a misanthrope like me’-- dean!
“Pierrot le Fou: So wonderful. A Jules Verne fantasyland.”-- -8-(*_*)-8-
“The ultimate Belmondo movie. The ultimate Karina movie. The ultimate Godard movie. The ultimate Coutard movie. The ultimate midget-who-gets-stabbed-in-the-back-with-a-pair-of-scissors movie. Not of all of this is true.”--General Doinel
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
The guy who plays The Husband is also excellent in some other Polish movies- The Saragossa Manuscript being one of them.
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005EBSB.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
70 A. Billy LiarJohn Schlesinger, 1963POINTS: 92VOTES: 4#1’s: 0
“The sequence in Billy Liar of Julie Christie walking through the middle of Bradford is one of the most glorious in film history.”-- Tim
“I still can't watch Billy Liar without getting all misty eyed and wistful.”-- chris
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
70 B. SpartacusStanley Kubrick, 1960POINTS: 92VOTES: 4#1’s: 0
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
"Fistful Of Dollars" does do away with two of "Yojimbo"'s biggest points of sillyness: one, the whole GUN VS SWORD OMG WHO WILL WIN? thing, and the cheerleading "way to go for destroying what's left of our village!" attitude amongst the bartender and the undertaker (well, the latter is at least toned down a bit.) Dunno if that improves or diminishes the thing.
I really wanna see "Charade" and "Bedazzled".
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Really, the hokey bits show why he exiled himself and initiated all his projects henceforth.
His cinematographer was an old-school guy who essentially refused to follow Kubrick's direction, so SK basically did his work too. And the DP won an Oscar.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
101 Head102 The bed-sitting room alfie104 Irma La douce105 Last Year At Marienbad106 The Dirty Dozen107 The Magnificent seven108 Fail-safe109 In the heat of the night110 take the money and run111 The President's analyst112 The sorrow & the pity*113 The Shop On Main Street Faces115 wavelength Marnie Winter light118 Lola carry on up the khyber Red Beard oliver122 Kwaidan123 the nutty professor124 Stolen Kisses125 Hud confession of an opium eater From russia with love Viva las vegas129 Salesman130 ton ton/mousieur gangster* An Actor's Revenge* The Flicker*133 Gertrud A taste of honey seppaku/harakiri136 chronicle of summer the sound of music138 Juliet of the spirits139 high school The swimmer141 black girl the sand pebbles scattered clouds144 Guess who's coming to dinner145 The Pawnbroker Ride the high country147 To Sir With Love Ruined map149 West Side Story150 The Spy Who Came In I'll never forget the italian job153 the chelsea girls The Servant Simon of the desert Blast of silence what's up tiger lily samurai rebellion159 paris belongs to us Il Posto Burn!162 the gospel according to St. Mathew the knack...and how to get it164 Targets165 shame the sundowners the sword in the stone the battle of britain169 A Thousand Clowns In Cold Blood Quatermass and the pit172 skidoo173 the silence174 whatever happened to aunt alice? Last summer176 Tokyo olyimpiad177 it's a mad mad world Life upside down dr. zhivago Psych-out the disorderly orderly182 les bonnes Sanjuro the face of another The One-armed Swordsman The young girls of rochefort187 shadow army Bad girls go to hell Barefoot in the park A Man and A Woman191 Wait until dark192 Pigs & Battleships193 the trip194 Inherit the wind How I Won The War196 Seconds El dorado198 the party Mothlight heaven and earth magic201 Saturday night and Sunday the jungle book onibaba204 Two For The Road Medium Cool206 sword of doom when a woman ascends the stairs signs of life209 Witchfinder General210 The naked kiss211 Mudhoney212 Petulia213 Closely observed trains214 reflections in a golden eye215 flaming creatures216 The Wild angels217 Putney Swope218 The longest day modesty blaise220 ocean's 11 A touch of zen the masque of red death bob & carol & ted & alice224 fantastic voyage the war game Satyricon the russians are coming...228 The virgin spring Blue movie Kes
And Daniel Rf has won the drawing for the card. Big thanks to everyone who voted.
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 16 December 2005 06:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Sometime soon i'll post a similar list of 101-228
Hmm...did my ballot get there? I think it would have come from "ian".
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 16 December 2005 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 16 December 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Playtime finishing at only #45 is even more scandalous than the nonsupport for Chelsea Girls, the Masque of the Red Death and Kes; yet like 2001 it should be seen in a theater if at all possible.
I wonder what poster art Doinel would've used for Wavelength.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Dude, you numbered it that way. (checks ballot) Oh of course, you were ranking by points, and I read it as positions. My bad. Luckily, your's was the only ballot done that way, so I can do a recount fairly easily. It will be up next week(and it'll be just a list-no pix). There'll be some definite changes in the results, altough the top 3 will stand. (maybe even the top 5.)
Sorry about the screw-up.
BTW Hobart, I got your ballot, but in the rush to finalize things I forgot to note the #1 on my rankings document. The film did get the 33 points it had coming though.
Once again I'm sorry about the screw-up.
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link
interesting list, overall.
― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jibé (Jibé), Sunday, 18 December 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Two films have been removed from the Top 100 in exchange for two others.
2. Two films have fallen out of the top ten.
3. The positions of several other films have changed.
I'll be back in a little bit with entries for two new members of the Top 100 and a list of new rankings.
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 19 December 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004RF9H.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
93.The Dirty DozenRobert Aldrich, 1967POINTS: 54VOTES: 6
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Not an especially interesting Aldrich film.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
92. The SilenceIngmar Bergman, 1963POINTS: 55VOTES: 3#1's: 1
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Dr. Strangelove**2. Psycho3. The Good The Bad & The Ugly4. 2001: A Space Odyssey*5. Breathless6. The Manchurian Candidate*7. Band of Outsiders/Bande A Part*8. Bonnie and Clyde9. Midnight Cowboy*10. The Apartment11. a hard day's night12. The Graduate13. Rosemary's Baby*14. Lawrence of Arabia15. Once Upon A Time In The West***16. Yojimbo*17. Jules and Jim18. The Producers19. Belle de jour20. Night of The Living Dead21. The Wild Bunch22. Persona23. The hustler*24. Vivre Se Vie/My Life to Live**25. Battle of Algiers26. Peeping Tom27. Le Samourai*28. 8 1/229. Point blank30. Au hasard Balthazar*31. Butch Cassidy and the sundance kid The Great Escape33. Branded To Kill34. Easy Rider35. Repulsion**36. High and Low37. Lolita38. Mary poppins*39. weekend*40. Help!*41. Don't Look Back42. La Dolce Vita43. Playtime44. Alphaville45. Bullitt46. Goldfinger47. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg48. Faster pussycat! Kill! Kill!*49. Breakfast At Tiffany's50. The Birds51. Cool Hand Luke52. The pink panther53. Contempt54. Carnival of souls*55. The Man Who Shot Liberty Val56. le jetee57. Yellow submarine58. Blow-up59. Woman in the dunes60. To Kill A Mockingbird*61. One, two, three*62. Tokyo drifter63. Masculin feminin*64. L'Aventura65. Andrei rublev*66. Z67. The trial*68. Billy Liar69. Shoot The Piano Player70. Pierrot Le Fou*71. For a few dollars more72. If…73. a fist full of dollars74. Barbarella75. Knife in the water76. Who's afraid of virginia woolf? Charade78. Bedazzled79. the thomas crown affair80. The exterminating angel Mouchette82. fahr 45183. Les Doulos84. Through a glass darkly85. Spartacus86. Planet of The Apes87. The Loneliness of the long distance runner88. Cleo From 5-789. A Woman Is A Woman90. Cape fear91. On her majesty's secret service92. the silence*93. The Dirty Dozen94. Falstaff/chimes at midnight*95. The magic chistian96. My Fair lady 97 A Shot in the dark Shock Corridor99. The Odd couple100. the fireman's ball
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 19 December 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Still, it's one of the better ones in which you can see Charles Bronson punch out John Cassavettes.
― Chris L, Monday, 19 December 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
http://citypages.com/movies/detail.asp?MID=4257
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Where Daddy takes Tuesday Weld clothes shopping
Yes, this is a great/disturbing/wacko scene in Lord Love a Duck... which has a good first half-hour then becomes another desperate would-be-hip Hollywood comedy of the era. Not as painful or interesting as Skidoo, admittedly.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 March 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
is it better than "Angel, Angel, We're Going Down"?
― corey, Friday, 11 March 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
never heard of this -- let's stick to the 'A' pictures!
http://www.idyllopuspress.com/meanwhile/1447/blogging-angel-angel-down-we-go-aka-cult-of-the-damned/
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 March 2011 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Watched the CC edition of Medium Cool over the weekend -- the Chicago police riot footage, with Verna Bloom wandering thru in her yellow dress, is a mindblower still, tho I'm mixed on the overtly scripted stuff. Nice single-scene role for Peter Boyle. Also adroit use of that Mothers song about "psychedelic dungeons" and fake hippies.
I guess it might do better than tie for 204th now. Even tho "Look out, Haskell, it's real!" was dubbed in later.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
Shirley Clarke's The Connection out on Blu-ray next week
http://www.milestonefilms.com/products/the-connection
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link