95. The Magic ChristianJoseph McGrath, 1969POINTS: 54VOTES: 2#1’s: 0
COMMENTS:
When I was at primary school, there was an ad for this film on the school's "religious notices" board. Basically, a picture of Ringo in a tramps sack.
Quite a few years later, saw the film, and thought "Ah they obviously thought it was a Religious film..."
Yul was good.
-- mark grout
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
94. Falstaff/Chimes At MidnightOrson Welles, 1965POINTS: 54VOTES: 2#1’s: 1
“Chimes at Midnight -- Welles at his fattest and also his best. This movie is filled with more solidly great moments than, I think, Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil combined."
-- Eric H
“Possibly the hardest movie to see on any of theseballots, Chimes At Midnight (also called Falstaff, forsome reason: the movie credits use both titles) is inbad need of a Criterion release, which would surelyconsolidate its growing reputation as Welles' greatestfilm, and (by a light-year or two) the bestShakespeare film ever. Centering on the doomedfriendship between young delinquent Prince Hal and olddelinquent Sir John Falstaff, the film can be read asa subtle critique of all leadership everywhere (afterSept. 11, comparisons between Hal/Henry V and GeorgeW. Bush were common), a reverie for a lost Englandthat may have never existed, or simply a meditation onfriendship and betrayal. The terrifyingly vivid battlescene is the high point for some, but the film'sclimax - when the newly crowned Henry coldly dismissesFalstaff, much to the chagrin of both - is even moreshocking. What makes the film unforgettable is itsbeautiful, understated naturalism; the cast is sosuccessful in making Shakespeare's text seem naturalthat it's easy to forget that you're watching a filmbased on a couple of 300-year-old plays. Shot on anall but nonexistent budget, the film puts the lie tothe never-shaken myth of Welles' post-Hollywooddecline; 25 years after his debut, he still had it.”
--Justyn Dillingham
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
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93. The LeopardLuchino Visconti, 1963POINTS: 57VOTES: 3#1’s: 0
"The Leopard is amazing! Burt Lancaster's is one of the classic performance.s It is, however, very long and even more difficult to follow than The Big Sleep."
-- Chuck Tatum
"can i just say that The Leopard is fucking awesome. thanks."
-- ryan
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
92. On Her Majesty’s Secret ServicePeter R. Hunt, 1969POINTS: 59VOTES: 2#1’s: 0
COMMENTS REMOVED [email Matt DC if you want an explanation]
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
91. The Cincinnati KidNorman Jewison, 1965POINTS: 62VOTES: 3#1’s: 1
COMMENTS?
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
90. Cape FearJ. Lee Thompson, 1962POINTS: 62VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
“I pity anyone who thinks DeNiro did a better job then Mitchum Cape Fear-wise.”
-- Anthony Miccio
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
89. A Woman Is A WomanJean-Luc Godard, 1961POINTS: 64VOTES: 4#1’s: 0
“It's not my favorite Godard film, but it's a good one nonetheless. A brilliant homage/critique of the "musical" genre, and some the finest soundtrack experimentation I have ever seen/heard in a film. It studies how music is often used to manipulate the audience emotionally, and does so by altering expectations.
The scene where the couple has a silent battle of words using only book titles is enough to justify watching the film.”
-- jay blanchard
“Wow. By far, my favorite Godard film. Then again, I tend to prefer his stuff with more personality - Pierrot, Vivre Sa Vie ...”
-- dean?
“It's great. Very fun, and (perhaps this is what people hate about it) very cute as well. Mind you, cute in the good way, like Anna Karina (swoon & sigh).The scene were she's cooking her breakfast and answering the phone is priceless, IMHO. I've read that "A.W.I.A.W" was a homage to Lubitsch (evident in the surname of Belmondo's character in the film), and perhaps by extension to his #1 acolyte Billy Wilder (I'm not so sure about that). "A.W.I.A.W" was what Wilder's later "Irma La Douce" should have been.”
--General Doinel
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
88. Cleo From 5-7Agnes Varda, 1962POINTS: 67VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
“"Cleo" struck me in college, and when I saw it again about 2 years ago, as anything but light. I prefer it to most '60s Godard features.”
-- Dr Morbius
“i am a sucker for the french new wave, and cleo from 5 to 7 is in my top 10 favorites of all time. i just loved it.”
-- todd swiss
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
87. The Loneliness of The Long Distance RunnerTony Richardson, 1962POINTS: 68VOTES: 3#1’s: 0
“I suppose what I like about "Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" the film is what some might regard as overtly simplistic analogies; the crushing defeat at the end of the race and drudgery of the final scene as metaphor for the class system, etc, etc. I just like the atmosphere of the film, the smell of defeat, the *hopelessness* (and, from the historical perspective, the sheer contrast to the explosion of working-class self-confidence we associate with 1963 onwards, which effectively killed off the kitchen-sink genre in its original form - This Sporting Life coincides with the first flush of Beatlemania, after which such films would be out of favour until the new uncertainties of the early 70s). The spot-on period feel ("take death off the road" says one of the characters when he sees an old banger, echoing that uber-1960 Halas & Bachelor public information film). The mockery of the lie that *everyone* had elevated themselves to a consumer lifestyle (that accelerated sequence mocking TV ads with the Rediffusion star appearing on screen about every four seconds). Ultimately, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner makes me feel as though I'm *there*, and fills in parts of a past discovered through friendships 40 years later. It's a bitter film, the best expression of my (and probably many other people's) nihilist side. It is on the side of humanity, but not on the side of the society in which they had to live at the time; certainly it makes me glad I was born when I was. What was that about "the ability to rage correctly"? This film has it.”
-- robin carmody
“I like it when the pound notes come down the drainpipe.”
-- PJ Miller
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
86. Planet of The ApesFranklin J. Schaffner, 1968POINTS: 68VOTES: 5#1’s: 0
“the essentially brilliant thing about the original film is how stoner-y it is... all the odd camera angles and OH-MI-GOD-ness of it all. They don't make films like that anymore.”
-- DV
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
“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
― 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
I've never seen Lolita or Barry Lyndon, but the only Kubrick movie I could see an argument for not being entertaining is 2001.
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
PETER SELLERS/GEORGE C. SCOTT/PETER SELLERS/KEENAN WYNN/PETER SELLERS/STERLING HAYDEN/and who could forget...SLIM PICKENS
Yet I did not vote for it.
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Great flick, but maybe the problem in this case is that it was released in America by AIP in modified form as "The Conquer Worm" and has gotten spotty reissue since. MGM needs to get off their ass and put it out along with the Leone remasters.
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
A Taste of HoneyIrma La DouceIn Cold BloodSatryiconWest Side StoryLast Year in Marienbad
James Blount completely on the money!
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
100. The Fireman’s Ball99. The Odd Couple97 A. A Shot In The Dark97 B. Shock Corridor96. My Fair Lady95. The Magic Christian94. Falstaff/Chimes At Midnight*93. The Leopard92. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service91. The Cincinnati Kid*90. Cape Fear89. A Woman Is A Woman88. Cleo From 5-787. The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner86. Planet of The Apes85. Through A Glass Darkly84. Le Doulos83. Fahrenheit 45181 A. Mouchette81 B. The Exterminating Angel80. Z79. Charade78. The Thomas Crown Affair77. Bedazzled76. Knife In The Water75. Barbarella74. A Fistful of Dollars73. If….72. Pierrot Le Fou*70 A. Billy Liar70 B. Spartacus69. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?68. The Trial*67. Andrei Rublev*66. L’Avventura65. Masculin Feminin*64. For A Few Dollars More63. One, Two, Three*62. Tokyo Drifter61. To Kill A Mockingbird*60. Woman In The Dunes59. Blow-Up58. Yellow Submarine57. Le Jetee56. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance55. Contempt54. The Pink Panther53. Shoot The Piano Player52. Cool Hand Luke51. Help!*50. Breakfast At Tiffany’s49. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!*48. Goldfinger47. Bullitt46. Alphaville45. Playtime44. Carnival of Souls*43. La Dolce Vita42. Don’t Look Back41. The Birds40. Repulsion**39. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg38. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid37. Weekend*36. Mary Poppins35. Lolita34. High and Low33. Point Blank32. Le Samourai*31. Easy Rider30. Branded To Kill29. Au Hasard Balthazar*28. 8 ½27. The Great Escape26. Peeping Tom25. The Battle of Algiers24. Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live**23. The Hustler*22. Persona*21. Night of The Living Dead20. The Wild Bunch19. Belle De Jour18. The Producers17. Jules and Jim16. Yojimbo*15. Once Upon A Time In The West***14. Lawrence of Arabia13. A Hard Day’s Night12. The Apartment11. Bonnie and Clyde10. Midnight Cowboy*9. Rosemary’s Baby*8. The Graduate7. Band of Outsiders/Bande A Part*6. The Manchurian Candidate*5. Breathless4. 2001: A Space Odyssey*3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly2. Psycho1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb**
Sometime soon i'll post a similar list of 101-228
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
i may be mistaken here but as far as i know the word "psycho" was not commonly used as an abbreviation for "psychopath" until hitchcock's film (it literally means "mind") it came into common currency, as an abbreviation, after that. also i'm not sure that that "psycho" as a title is referring to hopkins' charater.
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
This reminds me of a comment on one of the Kubrick threads I didn't use:
"AB and I rewatch 2001 earlier this year at a cinema: at the bit where the space-hostess walks upside down in non-gravity, AB looks at her butt and whispers: "I see in the future they can fly to Jupiter but they still haven't cured VPL." We giggle so much we risk being a. chucked out of cinema b. being lynched by humourless kubricoids around us."
-- mark s
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:17 (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
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
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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 (eleven 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