Withnail & I was decent, won't make my list though.
Redcafe Top 100 Movies Discussion and Prep
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Fair play. I do wonder though - if that's truly the case - why a director would allow his film to be effectively sabotaged with such easily-criticised overacting? Unless there was a point to it...
Many people don't see it that way, including the director perhaps. I absolutely hated Pacino's performance in Scarface though many people like it.
they showed a whole bunch of French films from the 30st last night on TCM.
was very good but did not have the time to sit through.
was very good but did not have the time to sit through.
He probably thought it was a virtuoso performance as did most US film critics. I should read 'Oil' by Upton Sinclair, on which it's based but apparently misrepresents.
Bit late now.
9:30 am - Le Jour se lève (1939)
8:00 pm - Pépé le Moko (1937)
12:00 am - La Bête humaine (1938)
all very good.
will see if my library has them in the foreign film section
French New Wave is what matters.
They'd tip le chapeau to Renoir, Carné et al.
Watch La Bête humaine and then Fritz's Lang's 1955 version Human Desire, both sensational.
I study film in college and feck me there's some right snooty feckers in here, there's two sides of the coin, not being analytical enough and being too analytical. A film, first and foremost, should be judged on the most basic of criteria, how much did you enjoy watching it.
Some of the stuff written here is pompous and ridiculously over the top.
Some of the stuff written here is pompous and ridiculously over the top.
Like what?
This about There Will Be Blood.
To be fair, no one is as qualified as you, United87, I mean a poxy college course.....
Hehe exactly the type of snooty reply I was expecting.
To be fair, you're first post was very snooty too, beginning with "I study film in college" and then proceed to taking a dig at the posters in this thread.
I was highlighting the fact that even though I'm surrounded by film students and lecturers I have yet to come across such pompous attitudes towards film. Hence my suprise.
PT Anderson dropped out of film class in NYU because he thought it was comical how basic it really was. True story.
PT anderson's film is the the one getting ridiculed for being too basic, true story.
Well overacting. Still none of the best modern directors bothered to show up at a film class, QT learned more from working in a rental shop.
fecking hell I never said studying film means anything, I was implying that I knew alot of people that liked watching and discussing film and none were so pompous. Christ. Also your first point was retarded considering.
I agree, watching that fecking silly overacting cnut was the among the most excruciating couple of hours I've ever spent in a cinema.
What was my first point?
I though Peter was being rather generous about it.
It really was painful to watch wasn't it. I despised it and I like DDL at his best.
Which is why it won't be making it into my 100, it bored the shit out of me.
Here's a an early draft version of my list. I still want to tweak it quite a bit. There's films from 70 to 100 (and then a few more) which are completely misplaced at the moment (The Matrix better than Schindlers List???). So if anyone has any criticisms bear that in mind! Otherwise let me know what you think. Is The Mirror the best film ever made? Is Werckmeister Harmonies the second? I go by United87's aforementioned criteria really, rating films based on my enjoyment, so I guess for me they are.
1 The Mirror
2 Werckmeister Harmonies
3 8½
4 The Seventh Seal
5 Cinema Paradiso
6 Solaris
7 Seven Samurai
8 Stalker
9 The Godfather
10 Wild Strawberries
11 Nostalghia
12 The Godfather: Part II
13 Umberto D.
14 La Dolce Vita
15 Casablanca
16 Red Beard
17 Persona
18 2001: A Space Odyssey
19 Das Boot
20 Ikiru
21 Network
22 La Strada
23 Once Upon a Time in the West
24 Day For Night
25 Nights of Cabiria
26 That Obscure Object of Desire
27 The Sacrifice
28 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
29 There Will Be Blood
30 Dersu Uzala
31 Scenes from a Marriage
32 Grave of the Fireflies
33 Ivan's Childhood
34 Belle de Jour
35 The Man Who Loved Women
36 Ordet
37 Bicycle Thieves
38 Magnolia
39 Days of Wine and Roses
40 Andrei Rublev
41 The Exterminating Angel
42 High and Low
43 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisi
44 Odd Man Out
45 Monika
46 A Prophet
47 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
48 Small Change
49 The Bad Sleep Well
50 All Quiet on the Western Front
51 Life Is Beautiful
52 Stray Dog
53 The Shining
54 I Vitelloni
55 The Young and the Damned
56 The Fall
57 The Silence
58 The Wages of Fear
59 Rififi
60 Jules and Jim
61 Sanjuro
62 City of God
63 Viridiana
64 The Hidden Fortress
65 Smiles of a Summer Night
66 Throne of Blood
67 Shame
68 Metropolis
69 The Battle of Algiers
70 Day of Wrath
71 Rope
72 Viva Zapata!
73 The Big Sleep
74 A Face in the Crowd
75 5 Centimeters Per Second
76 Drunken Angel
77 Boogie Nights
78 Lilya 4-Ever
79 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
80 Bed & Board
81 Pulp Fiction
82 Kagemusha
83 Judgment at Nuremberg
84 The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
85 The Passion of Joan of Arc
86 Glengarry Glen Ross
87 Harvey
88 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
89 The Matrix
90 The Dark Knight
91 His Girl Friday
92 Radio Days
93 Waltz with Bashir
94 Casino
95 The Shawshank Redemption
96 Blade Runner
97 Laura
98 Fight Club
99 Goodfellas
100 Schindler's List
Requiem for a Dream
Apocalypse Now
Spirited Away
True Romance
12 Angry Men
Oldboy
North by Northwest
Amélie
Yojimbo
Notorious
The Sea Inside
Nosferatu
1 The Mirror
2 Werckmeister Harmonies
3 8½
4 The Seventh Seal
5 Cinema Paradiso
6 Solaris
7 Seven Samurai
8 Stalker
9 The Godfather
10 Wild Strawberries
11 Nostalghia
12 The Godfather: Part II
13 Umberto D.
14 La Dolce Vita
15 Casablanca
16 Red Beard
17 Persona
18 2001: A Space Odyssey
19 Das Boot
20 Ikiru
21 Network
22 La Strada
23 Once Upon a Time in the West
24 Day For Night
25 Nights of Cabiria
26 That Obscure Object of Desire
27 The Sacrifice
28 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
29 There Will Be Blood
30 Dersu Uzala
31 Scenes from a Marriage
32 Grave of the Fireflies
33 Ivan's Childhood
34 Belle de Jour
35 The Man Who Loved Women
36 Ordet
37 Bicycle Thieves
38 Magnolia
39 Days of Wine and Roses
40 Andrei Rublev
41 The Exterminating Angel
42 High and Low
43 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisi
44 Odd Man Out
45 Monika
46 A Prophet
47 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
48 Small Change
49 The Bad Sleep Well
50 All Quiet on the Western Front
51 Life Is Beautiful
52 Stray Dog
53 The Shining
54 I Vitelloni
55 The Young and the Damned
56 The Fall
57 The Silence
58 The Wages of Fear
59 Rififi
60 Jules and Jim
61 Sanjuro
62 City of God
63 Viridiana
64 The Hidden Fortress
65 Smiles of a Summer Night
66 Throne of Blood
67 Shame
68 Metropolis
69 The Battle of Algiers
70 Day of Wrath
71 Rope
72 Viva Zapata!
73 The Big Sleep
74 A Face in the Crowd
75 5 Centimeters Per Second
76 Drunken Angel
77 Boogie Nights
78 Lilya 4-Ever
79 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
80 Bed & Board
81 Pulp Fiction
82 Kagemusha
83 Judgment at Nuremberg
84 The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
85 The Passion of Joan of Arc
86 Glengarry Glen Ross
87 Harvey
88 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
89 The Matrix
90 The Dark Knight
91 His Girl Friday
92 Radio Days
93 Waltz with Bashir
94 Casino
95 The Shawshank Redemption
96 Blade Runner
97 Laura
98 Fight Club
99 Goodfellas
100 Schindler's List
Requiem for a Dream
Apocalypse Now
Spirited Away
True Romance
12 Angry Men
Oldboy
North by Northwest
Amélie
Yojimbo
Notorious
The Sea Inside
Nosferatu
Good list.
I just finished my first complete viewing of The Thin Red Line. What a fabulous movie !! Loved it, loved it. Every scene was gorgeous. Its so different from the typical war movie. Was this the most star studded cast ever assembled? Definite to be in my top 100.
This is going to be a lot harder than I thought. Have watched three of my favourites in the past three days to decide which order they should be in. And still can't decide. I have a feeling that ordering everything past my top 20 is going to be rather random.
Check out other films by Malick. theres not many, he makes Kubrick look over productive.
I saw Badlands the other day, good film. He didn't go wild with the editing on that one which was nice. The New World was sort of hampered by some strange editing.
I'd strongly recommend Days Of Heaven if you need another good Malick film, I wouldn't however recommend Badlands so strongly as it doesn't really work for me but possibly worth a watch before you make up your mind about it.
It looks fantastic on a big screen. I really want to see The Tree of Life.
Me too although I do expect to be a little conflicted about it for much the same reasons as I was about The Thin Red Line(I didn't like the semi poetic voice over in TTRL).
Are you doing this BamBam?
To be honest i'd love to volunteer but the next couple of months are quite busy for me so I won't be on the internet/caf often enough to be of any real value.
Do please keep me in mind for the next one though if it happens as i'd love to do it if only because I appear to have quite different views on alot of good movies to other people.
I will however from time to time drop in to mention movies which perhaps deserve consideration if that help.
Fair enough.
I've only seen Badlands (which I thought was rather good) and Thin Red Line (which I now really rate). Days of heaven is next. I cant seem to find a copy of Tree of Life though. Is New World good? I've heard mixed reviews of that one.
That will probably be next on my list so i'll post a review in the movie reviews thread ASAP.