During this isolation, I would be interested in suggestions of great movies you like.
"Sideways," great way to see some wine country in California, before they were destroyed in the present fires. ......."Hard Times ",Depression era film about fights in the 30s in New Oleans...."The Man who would be King" set in India in 1890s....."The Last Detail" set in early 70s Jack Nicholson goes Navy. |
With so many to choose from, how about 2 lists? A and B Sunrise : A Song of Two Humans The General Wuthering Heights (1939) Citizen Kane Love is a Many-Splendored Thing Rebecca (1940) Shane Vertigo Three Coins in the Fountain The Last Picture Show Gone With the Wind The Day the Earth Stood Still A Touch of Evil 2001 A Space Odyssey Saturday Night Fever Manhattan Mad Max 2 (the Road Warrior) American Graffiti Once Upon a Time in America The Damned United (2009) There’s also Apocalypse Now (any cut), Enter the Dragon, Summertime /Summer Madness (1955), The Dark Knight (2008) etc Damn it, somehow I forgot Casablanca! |
The Coen Brothers: The Man Who Wasn’t There. A Serious Man. No Country For Old Men. David Lynch: Eraserhead. Lost Highway. Mulholland Dr. Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove. Full Metal Jacket. Jim Jarmusch: Down By Law. Mystery Train. Coffee And Cigarettes. Billy Wilder: Sunset Blvd. The Apartment. Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets. Taxi Driver. Christopher Guest: Best In Show. Waiting For Guffman. A Mighty Wind. Mel Brooks: The Producers (original). Young Frankenstein. Carl Reiner: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation. Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show. Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo. The Three Faces Of Eve. Sybil. The American. Crazy Heart. Freaks. The Ghost And Mr. Chicken. Ghost World. Kingpin. The Machinist. Rivers Edge. Rubin & Ed. Tender Mercies. |
jond reminds me: Tarantino. All of em. As good as they all were back in the day, its shocking how well they stand up to viewing decades later. Tarantino is the Master of Meta and if you don't know what that means watch them again you will see. If you're into long movies nothing beats Peter Jackson's Directors Cuts of The Lord of the Rings. The only movies ever made where the additional time truly adds to and moves the story along. Also the only ones where instead of adding stock music they went back and re-recorded with a live symphony orchestra, same as the original theatrical version. Then for fun to see how much he's evolved and for the sheer fun of watching what must be the most exuberantly over the top zombie move of all time, Dead Alive (Braindead) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/ Then for easily the wittiest, most intelligent zombie movie of all time, Fido https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 |
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The Best Science Fiction You Never Saw: Dark City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWfC_Bcb0BA The Cinema of Michael Mann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPKXvHjor1g Classics: Casablanca, An Affair to Remember, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King Westerns: Tombstone, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, Silverado, Hell or High Water |