There can be only one:
The Exorcist
VERY powerful!!!!
During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like.
please suggest films you feel are worth, actually very worthy, of watching now? Looking for very good and intelligent films. As far as ones that simply pass the time, that will be for another day. I may have the most interest in any classics I may have missed.....you know, films like 'Howdy Doody, Man or Myth"...and "Sex and the Single Dentist".
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I like old movies, grew up on them as television reruns on the local NYC stations like WPIX in the fifties. King Kong (the original) Babes in Toyland, later reissued as March of the Wooden Soldiers, (with Laurel and Hardy. It’s got real boogie men in it and is a memorable film in a Wizard of Oz kind of way) Treasure of the Sierra Madre (with Humphrey Bogart) Anything by WC Fields, particularly his later films The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin) The Crawling Eye Both the original Frankenstein and Dracula movies Those old Fred Astaire flicks, and I don’t even like musicals |
Real good one @r_f_sayles. Wings Of Desire is, amongst other things, one of the most beautiful looking films ever made, breathtakingly so. The Black & White cinematography in the Coen Brothers The Man Who Wasn't There (starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, and Scarlett Johansson) is the best I've ever seen: deep, deep black, and shimmering, almost iridescently-silver white. |
True Romance Out of Time A Boy and His Dog A Beautiful Mind Bad Teacher Jarhead II No Way Out Phase IV Bugs My Dinner With Andre David and Lisa Queen of Outer Space The Heartbreak Kid Forbidden Planet (seed for Star Trek) The Other Guys The Naked Prey Year One Panic in The Year Zero Bedazzled (original) The Road Creation of the Humanoids |
The Favourite, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Inglourious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino Hannibal, Ridley Scott Dark City (blu ray version), Alex Proyas Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher Seven, David Fincher The Revenant, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu The Drop, Michaël R. Roskam Taboo - the series - Michaël R. Roskam, Kristoffer Nyholm The Night Of - HBO miniseries - Steven Zaillian, Richard Price |
Thanks to all for your thoughts/feelings. Both of my sons work in "film", both have taught on the subject at state universities......seems taking them to great films at various theaters in their youth did sink in. The town I lived in had 2, and sometimes 3, independent "art" theaters and offered the chance to take my sons to films that were beyond special effects and explosions. |
Not everyone’s cup of tea....but just watched Jasper Mall documentary on prime....very very analogous to what’s happening to audio high end. Highly recommend for those who like a bit of humanity in their movies... Again some will not get it....no explosions or people being accidentally hit in the groin (which can admittedly be funny at times. ; ) ...one of the very best of 2020 ....imo. |