TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck_'s Revised Top 100

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

This list is less ordered than the previous one. With so many new films to add it's been impossible to organise it all, so I've just listed them in a rough order. I've tried to go for a bit of variety so hopefully everybody will find
something here that they love :)

EDIT: I have linked the title of each film to the film trailer for that film, or a scene from the film if there is no trailer, to pique your interest :D

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

100- In The Company of Men (1997) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kvfCm-rVpQ)


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"Never trust anything that can bleed for a week and not die."

Neil LaBute is a master of dialogue. Hopefully someone can tear him away from directing awful remakes and get him making original films again. The premise of this film, his debut, is that two businessmen Chad and Howard (Aaron Eckhart and Matt Malloy) who have recently been dumped by their girlfriends decide to get their own back on women by targeting a vulnerable young woman to wine, dine, bed and dump. They decide upon a deaf co-worker Christine (Stacy Edwards) who falls for Chad. Unfortunately Howard has fallen for her.

LaBute doesn't write characters in the way most filmmakers do. He makes the characters seem like everyday people- until their true nature is revealed. Aaron Eckhart is the psycho in a suit and LaBute portrays the work environment of 90's America as a world where sexism and sadism will get you everywhere and corporate cruelty is run-of-the-mill. His great trick is that he can give you a controversial film without any graphic content and unsettle you with moments of cruel dialogue.

Not everybody will like this film- it is certainly not a rom-com- but there's no denying its boldness and style. It might make you a little more wary of your fellow office-workers though...

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

99- Kiss of The Spider Woman (1985) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FVd6uRrYhM)

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"She's... well, she's something a little strange. That's what she noticed, that she's not a woman like all the others. She seems all wrapped up in herself. Lost in a world she carries deep inside her."

It may sound cynical to say that a straight actor playing a gay character is always a shoo-in for an Oscar but in this case William Hurt's Oscar is entirely deserved. The film is not about a relative of Spiderman as the title suggests, but of two prisoners in a South American prison. Valentin (Raul Julia) is an activist and Molina (William Hurt) is a fantasist, dreaming of romantic movies which Valentin dismisses as Nazi propaganda. Despite being of opposing sexualities and clashing beliefs, the two develop a close bond.

I'd particularly recommend it for fans of Pan's Labyrinth, although the fantasy element is not literal.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

98- Pan's Labyrinth (2006) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkGn7UdSVmU&feature=related)

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"You're getting older, and you'll see that life isn't like your fairy tales. The world is a cruel place. And you'll learn that, even if it hurts."

I don't understand people who don't watch foreign films because they can't be bothered to read the subtitles. Those people are missing out on great films such as this film from Guillemo De Toro, about a girl (Ivana Baquero) living in Franco-era Spain who escapes the harsh reality of her sadistic captain stepfather by entering a dark world of magical fantasy and encountering creatures such as the iconic creature with his eyeballs attached to the palm of his hands. The film works both as literal and metaphorical fantasy, so interpret it how you will.

The title links to the opening scene from the film as trailers for foreign films are inevitably Hollywood-ised to try and cover up the fact that it's foreign.

[nebbit]

Nice start :yup:

I am a big Fan of The Kiss of the Spider Woman :yup:

[TylerDurden99]

Pan's Labyrinth is a wonderful film. :up:

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

97- The Quiet American (2002) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyjmKeL0ER0)

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"You could be forgiven for thinking there was no war; that the gunshots were fireworks; that only pleasure matters."

Set in Vietnam 1952, two men- one an older English journalist (Michael Caine), the second a young American (Brendan Fraser)- fall in love with a Vietnamese girl and become entangled in the country's political turmoil.

I'm generally not that interested in political films or war films but the love triangle provides an interesting plot and actually reflects the political situation. Michael Caine's craggy old journalist has a Madame Butterfly syndrome that is tragically pathetic. Not quite as pathetic as Jeremy Irons' character in M.Butterfly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msnrQXbNFPQ) though...

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

96- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4MwzLzevpw)

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"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."


This is considered by many to be the best of the early Harry Potters and you can see why. All of a sudden things get very dark and Harry is forced to accept that he's a teenager now. As a kid, I didn't really like this one, but as an adult you can appreciate the darkness and Harry's emotional turmoil as he becomes the target of escaped convict Sirius Black (Gary Oldman). We get some insight into the emotional background of Harry's father, which will prove significant in the later films, and are introduced to characters like Sirius and Lupin (David Thewlis).

The film is very interesting in context of the series. It's the only film that doesn't feature Voldemort and the only one in which the Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher is not a baddie. Thewlis really steals the film as Lupin, adding an emotional depth that was perhaps lacking in the previous two films and to be honest, in some of the later films as well. We get the hint of romantic feelings between Ron and Hermione and Snape becomes more ambiguous.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

95- The Rainbow (1989) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhBndujDPpQ)


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"I'd rather be swept off my feet by a half-naked robber than a soldier protecting my honour"

Ken Russell's second DH Lawrence adaptation. This one is actually the sequel to Women in Love although it works as a stand-alone film. Russell only focuses on the Ursula strand of the novel, which spans three generations of Brangwens, so fans of the novel may be disappointed (but can take solace in the BBC 1988 adaptation, which is meant to be very good). Nevertheless, it makes a charming story of an Edwardian girl's sexual awakening and coming-of-age as she fights to reach the rainbow that as a child symbolised her dreams of fulfillment.

There's nudity for all in this production, but this can hardly be avoided with Lawrence, or maybe Russell for that matter. Ursula has experiences with her bisexual gym teacher (Amanda Donoghue) and a dashing soldier (Paul McGann, AKA the eighth Doctor in Doctor Who) but defies mere romantic gratification for something stronger. Sammi Davis' performance might not be the greatest piece of acting but it's believably ordinary and has a nice amount of working-class feistyness to it. Yes, there's one cringy scene (Ursula and the soldier getting it on against a tree with a rushing waterfall behind it) but I think this is an unfairly neglected film.

[honeykid]

It's Russell, therefore it's worth watching for anyone who loves cinema.

[Flimmaker1473]

I have seen none of these movies lol.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

Hang in there, Filmmaker. We have a film in common so far :)

[nebbit]

I haven't seen the Rainbow :nope: must look for it :)

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

Bride and Prejudice unfortunately removed so I can add a new film in, so entry 95 has changed x

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

94- Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U92W2ROXAVg)

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"Have I chosen my name? My femininity? My appearance? Then why should I choose my husband? "

The U.S title is I Have Found It. This is a Kollywood (Tamil version of Bollywood) film based on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and is actually a very good version of the story. Sowmya (Tabu) is the eldest sister who is cursed when it comes to a choice of men. Will aspiring film director Manohar (Ajith Kumar) break her run of bad luck? Meanwhile beautiful younger sister Meenakshi (Aishwarya Rai) admires hot young suitor Srikanth (Abbas) whilst remaining blind to the affections of injured war hero Captain Bala (Mamooty).

The music is by famous Bollywood composer AR Rahmen and it works beautifully, particularly the title tune where Aishwarya Rai's young heroine is chasing the man she is infatuated with round a Scottish castle (if you click on the film's title, I've linked it to this scene). The film doesn't have the camp factor you might associate with Bollywood and so it feels more accessible as a musical. This is my favourite Indian film by far and I would particularly recommend it to Jane Austen fans and romantics.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

93- Blithe Spirit (1945) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIiCtxXtVXY)

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"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

Rex Harrison was born to do Coward, so it's no wonder that he does a great job here in one of Noel Coward's best plays. Harrison plays a man newly married to his second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) who gets a bit of a surprise when at a seance he accidentally summons the ghost of his first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond) shows up.

It's a great play so as long as the actors learn their lines, you'll have a good time, but all three of the main actors have that Coward style nailed down. The film is very much of its time but any fan of Brit wit ought to watch this. The only downside is the horrendous ghost make-up, which makes Elvira look like Frankenstein instead of a ghost, but that's the only downside of the film and is easily corrected by turning your colour to black and white, where it works so much better.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

92- Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nybbP_21wes)


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"I had my picture on the cover of Life magazine! Woo-ha! And at the same time I was... employing my other talent, lovemaking."

Paul Newman is gorgeous as Chance Wayne, the carefree drifter who returns to his hometown, where he abandoned his teen sweetheart Heavenly (Shirley Knight) to try and make it big in the movies. He actually makes his living as a gigolo and is perfectly willing to become the toy of faded movie star Alexandra De Lago (Geraldine Page) in exchange for a shot at the big time. This is based on a Tennessee Williams play so you get all that delicious steamy Southern decadence, despite a little Hollywood bowdlerisation (no castration here). The film still has a little edge to it, mainly given by Geraldine Page, who originated the role on Broadway, and Paul Newman, who gives one of his sexiest performances. There is a pretty dire TV adaptation of the play starring Elizabeth Taylor, whose performance is as ridiculous as Page's is witty.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

91- Sense and Sensibility (1996) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJMnm28vAqQ)

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"Neither of us have anything to tell. I because I conceal nothing and you because you communicate nothing."

Ang Lee's star-filled adaptation of Sense and Sensibility is a delight. Emma Thompson's screenplay, which she won an Oscar for, is deliciously Austen-esque. If you're in the mood for some costume drama, you can't go wrong with this. It's charming old-fashioned fun, with no "sexed-up" bits, no gloomy "modern" interpretations (a la Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice), and as far as I can tell, no major fiddling.
The acting's also pretty good- special mentions to Kate Winslet as the hopelessly romantic younger sister who is blind to the affections of Colonel Brandon (Alan Rickman, cast as a goodie for a change). Hugh Grant is actually perfectly palatable as Edward Ferrars. He's one of my least favourite actors but ironically he's in five of the film's on my top 100.

[nebbit]

Great choices :yup:

[honeykid]

Blithe Spirit and Sense & Sensibility are great choices. :up:

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

90- Clueless (1995) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHDcD_xhwAo)


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"Isn't my house classic? The columns date all the way back to 1972."

Another Austen adaptation. This time Emma gets an updating, relocated to a high school in West Coast of America. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is the spoilt blonde beauty who spends her time shopping and giving new girl Tai (Brittany Murphy) a makeover, whilst remaining oblivious to her ex-stepbrother Josh (Paul Rudd)'s love for her. Despite being dippy and shallow, Cher is still sympathetic because of her naivety. The screenplay is also witty yet romantic.

I have fond memories of the TV series spin-off but it was rather cheesy. The original film is much better and holds up well considering it's seventeen years old now.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

89- Kiss Me Kate (1953) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CYjE9Gv3A4&feature=related)

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"Brush up your Shakespeare,/Start quoting him now./Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow."

It's a shame they can't put the 3D effect back onto this. Yep, they loved gimmicks even in the fifties, so this film of Cole Porter's musical based on Shakespeare's comedy Taming of The Shrew was filmed in 3D, hence why every so often a character will throw something at the screen or there'll be a close-up. Nevertheless, it's still a joy even in 2D.

Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson are the warring actors/ex-partners. I'm not really a fan of Grayson's operatic tone but it works well dramatically, pitting her classically-trained voice against Keel's gorgeous Broadway one. A film musical really isn't a musical unless you have Howard Keel pouting and booming. Special mention should go to Ann Miller playing the actress playing Bianca, and her million-dollar legs. Watching her tap-dance in a hot pink dress on a glass coffee table to saucy jazz number "Too Darn Hot" is something to behold (so I've helpfully linked you to the song. Just click on the review title), as is all the glorious choreography done by Pan Hermes. You can even see Bob Fosse as one of Ann Miller's suitors.

My one moan is that those stuffy old censors went fiddling with Cole Porter's wonderfully bawdy lyrics. The bard is a little bawdy in the film- in "Brush up Your Shakespeare", a gal's going to get a "kick in the Coriol-anus" but she won't get to sample the guy's "Measure for Measure"

[honeykid]

I can't +rep you enough for the inclusion of Clueless. I adore that film and I really liked the tv show, too. :o

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

88- Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooVAo8FIpXw)

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"Don't you see, if only I could live the rest of my life in some new way! If I could only wake some still, bright morning and feel that life had begun again; that the past was forgotten and had vanished like smoke."


I love Chekhov but his plays are hard to film. Essentially they're about a group of people who are all in love with the wrong person and have resigned themselves to the hopelessness of their life. Not an obvious choice for film, but David Mamet's adaptation is very accessible.

This film is really a play within a film. A group of actors meet in a derelict theatre to rehearse a production of Uncle Vanya. There's no feeling of actors trying to act- the film just seamless goes into the rehearsal so you can get caught up in the story. Vanya (Shaun Wallace) is a balding middle-aged man who runs a farm with his plain niece Sonya (Brooke Smith). The arrival of Astrov, a hot doctor (Larry Pine) and object of Sonya's affections; old Professor Serybryakov (George Gaynes) and his beautiful wife Yelena (Julianne Moore), who Vanya loves, interrupts their monotonous life.

What this film gets so right is the relationships between the characters. The actors actually did work on the play for three years, so they inhabit their characters fully. The chemistry between the actors is that of long time friends, perfect for Chekhov, where the characters have spent so much time together.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

87- Hamlet (1948) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxgmsSdPtFc&feature=related)


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"Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt!"

Laurence Olivier takes Shakespeare's longest, most famous play and streamlines it so it becomes a classy film noir, and the only Shakespeare film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. Gone are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, gone are some of the famous speeches (although not "To be or not to be" of course), and gone is any sense of convolution. Olivier's take on Hamlet is still pretty controversial: he favours the Freudian approach, which has been leapt on by many following productions, not least the Zeferelli one, and so he cast Eileen Herlie as Gertrude, despite the fact that she was twelve years younger than him.

Olivier's famous prologue to the film summarises the play thus: "This is a story of a man who cannot make up his mind". It put the snobs off straight away but it's a pretty accurate description. Although I like Olivier's softly spoken pensive Hamlet, Jean Simmons does a great job with the neglected Ophelia. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is her descent into madness.

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I haven't seen this movie for ages but remember liking it a lot :yup:

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86- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrB9I3DM80)


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"[singing] There's children throwing snowballs / instead of throwing heads / they're busy building toys / and absolutely no one's dead!"

Perhaps one of only two films suitable for both Halloween and Christmas (the other being Gremlins), this is a short masterpiece from Tim Burton (only 76 minutes long). Jack Skellington, who is indeed a skeleton, comes from Halloween Town. One day he stumbles upon Christmas Town and tries to recreate it- with predictably macabre results. And there's songs too, and a love interest in the form of Frankenstein's monster-type Sally, who keeps trying to bump off her creator.

It's a great piece of black comedy that should give festive frights to all the family.

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85- Night of The Iguana (1964) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdFDfQyi_c)
(Click on the link- this is a fabulous trailer!)


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"I defy you! Shannon defies you!"

This is also based on a Tennessee Williams play. Three women- young nubile Charlotte (Sue Lyon), ethreal spinster Hannah (Deborah Kerr), and brash hotellier Maxine (Ava Gardner) all chase drunk and debauched vicar Shannon (Richard Burton) in the steamy climate of a remote Mexican town.

This is a great tragicomedy, a little toned down from the original play but arguably an improvement on it. Great performances, particularly from Richard Burton, and a lot of fun, in the way that only a mystical melodrama from Tennessee Williams can be.

[Flimmaker1473]

I loved The Nightmare before Christmas.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

84- Shakespeare in Love (1996)

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"I would stay asleep my whole life, if I could dream myself into a company of players."

This is a great comedy that balances intellectualism, popular comedy and romance. Tom Stoppard's screenplay is witty, Gwyneth Paltrow's accent is a pleasantly ethreal version of an English accent, and Joseph Fiennes is William Shakespeare, man of the people (Rafe Spall sends up the portrayal in Anonymous).

The plot: William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is having writer's block. He's meant to be writing a comedy, until he falls in love beautiful aristocrat Viola De Jesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and becomes inspired to write one of his most popular plays, Romeo and Juliet.

What really makes this film is the great supporting cast. There is no weak link- each actor is at the top of their game. Special mention must go to Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth, who famously bagged the Oscar for Supporting Actress when she only had seven minutes screen time. Ben Affleck is surprisingly good as a pompous actor who must be pandered to. Indeed, he's unrecognisable.

Colin Firth is one of my favourite actors and he makes for great support as Viola's stuffy suitor Lord Wessex. He makes quite a regular appearance in this list, so look out for more :)

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

83- Spartacus (1960)


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"I'm Spartacus!"

Kirk Douglas plays the titular role- a gladiator born into slavery who organises a revolt against the Romans, falls in love with slave girl Varinia (Jean Simmons) and is persued by tyrannical Crassus (Laurence Olivier). Douglas' portrayal epitomises the noble savage archetype and his rhetoric is heartfelt. Jean Simmons is sensual- those love scenes with Spartacus are pretty sexual in tone for 1960 and yet they're not explicit. Peter Ustinov provides great comic support as greedy Batiatus, who runs the gladiatorial school. Laurence Olivier makes Crassus a three-dimensional villain, as he knows that he will never be the sort of leader that Spartacus is. There's also a hilarious scene cut from the original release but added back to the 1991 restored version where Crassus tells his slave Antoninus (Tony Curtis) of the pleasures of having both oysters and snails, in a wonderfully euphemistic way.

This is an epic film that has obvious parallels with the civil rights movement. The gladiators are humiliated and tortured by the Romans but they rise up and fight to demand their freedom. There's also parallels with the McCarthy era's insistence on informing against left-wingers in that famous scene where Crassus asks the army which one of them is Spartacus. There's even a religious angle as Spartacus is portrayed as a Jesus-like figure. Spartacus has the romance of Cleopatra and some witty lines but it's got real brains to it.

EDIT: Alex North's score for this is beautiful, particularly the love theme which makes your heart soar.

[Flimmaker1473]

I forgot I have seen Prisoner of Azkban. That is a solid Harry Potter film. Just saw Shakespeare in Love today, great film.

[nebbit]

:love: Spartacus :yup:

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

82- As Good As It Gets (1997)

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"Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car."

The first time I watched this was with Polish dubbing on holiday. Luckily I was later able to watch it in English. It's also one of the few films that I came to entirely ignorant so I was able to enjoy the film on its many merits.

Jack Nicholson plays misanthropic Melvin Udall, a pulp romance novelist and obsessive compulsive. The only person he likes is waitress Carol (Helen Hunt), a single mum who pours all her energies into looking after her severely asthmatic son. Melvin's also homophobic and so does not get on with his neighbour, openly gay artist Simon (Greg Kinnear). When Melvin is forced to look after Simon's adorable dog, it sets off a chain of events that make all three characters face up to life.

The film is a funny mix of dark comedy, particularly with non-PC Melvin, and heart-warming romance, with some great lines in between. The three main characters are all obvious types and yet the whole thing works. Nicholson gives the star performance, Hunt gives the heartwarming performance, and Kinnear's performance is very underrated.

[nebbit]

Just :love: as good as it gets, Nicholson was great :yup:

[The Prestige]

90- Clueless (1995) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHDcD_xhwAo)


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"Isn't my house classic? The columns date all the way back to 1972."

Another Austen adaptation. This time Emma gets an updating, relocated to a high school in West Coast of America. Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is the spoilt blonde beauty who spends her time shopping and giving new girl Tai (Brittany Murphy) a makeover, whilst remaining oblivious to her ex-stepbrother Josh (Paul Rudd)'s love for her. Despite being dippy and shallow, Cher is still sympathetic because of her naivety. The screenplay is also witty yet romantic.

I have fond memories of the TV series spin-off but it was rather cheesy. The original film is much better and holds up well considering it's seventeen years old now.

Classic. Like HK, quite a fan of the film. Had a massive crush on Silverstone when this came out too, despite barely hitting puberty. Great dialogue, sexy cast and some surprisingly touching moments make Clueless one of your best entries.

[The Prestige]

Also, this is the type of stuff I wanna see from these lists. People own opinion on the film and why they like it and stuff. I don't need to read a synopsis.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

81- A Matter of Life and Death (1946)


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"I've fallen in love with her. Her accent is foreign, but it sounds sweet to me. We were born thousands of miles apart, but we were made for each other."

Wim Wenders nicked his cinematography for Wings of Desire from this film. There's not many fantasy/war films, and A Matter of Life and Death remains quirkly original, even over sixty years later.

David Niven stars as Peter Carter, British air pilot who miraculously survives a plane crash. Marius Goring is the camp French angel who has come to Earth to take Niven back where he belongs. Unfortunately he's fallen in love with American June (Kim Hunter), so Peter is taken up to Heaven in order to plea for his life.

Powell and Pressburger were one of the best British filmmaking team, crafting beautifully colourful films with a hint of fantasy and a British spirit (despite Pressburger not being a Brit). Put them with cinematographer Jack Cardiff and you have a team of master craftsmen creating a lovely war film/comedy/romance/fantasy. This is the first of three Powell-Pressburgers on my list.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

80- Intimate Relations (1995)


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"A lady's reputation is all she has."

This is a very dark disturbing film. Most people won't want to watch it, but if you do, you'll be rewarded by a clever provocative film that is sorely underrated.

Based on a true event in the fifties, Harold (Rupert Graves) is the sexy lodger who moves into the cosy quaint household of Marjorie (Julie Walters). Frustrated by her invalid husband, she takes Harold as a lover and a son, asking him to call her Mum. Unfortunately her daughter, thirteen-year-old Joyce (Laura Sadler) fancies Harold as well, leading to a tragic conculsion.

Except this is a black comedy. If the subject didn't put you off, the style might. A shame because this is a brilliant film, unique in its depiction of a horrific murder as a black comedy, parodying the stuffy ways of nineteen-fifties Britain. Julie Walters is perfect as Marjorie, a tragic victim of fifties repression but also a sinisterly kinky figure. Rupert Graves has taken on many challenging roles and this is one of his best, as the lodger both attracted to mum and daughter yet creeped out by their lifestyle. Laura Sadler is believable as the daughter with a crush, and the title is just perfect for the film.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

79- Mulan (1999)

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"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

The Disney Renaissance (a period during the nineties of critical acclaim for Disney) ended with this film, set in imperial China. Mulan takes the place of her elderly father when he is called up to fight against the Huns, so disguises herself as a son. Whilst in the army, she falls in love with Captain Shang (one of the hottest Disney princes, if you can look past the fact that Donny Osmond did the singing).

There are some great songs, a great sidekick in the form of Mushu (played by Eddie Murphy), and a positive message to girls, showing that there are many ways to prove yourself and that you can succeed in a man's world.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

78- Legally Blonde (2001)

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"Oh, I like your outfit too, except when I dress up as a frigid bitch, I try not to look so constipated."

I'm a bit of a snob with films- I normally avoid chick flicks. However, this is a great one. Reese Witherspoon is brilliant as airhead Elle, who decides to win back her boyfriend Warner (Matthew Davis) by attending the same college as him: Harvard. So Elle takes on the stuffy world of law school in her own fluffy carefree style. But will anybody accept her?

The film may be just a bit of fluff, but it's a feel-good film, driven by Reese Witherspoon's performance. She makes Elle superficial but ultimately sweet-hearted.

[honeykid]

I've never gotten around to watching Legally Blonde, even though I've absolutely nothing against it. I may even have a copy somewhere. I think I'd like it.

[Flimmaker1473]

Reese Witherspoon is my favorite actress so I watch anything she is in. And was is the only reason Legally Blonde was good. She took the roe by the horns and just totally embraced that character, made her likeable, and more than meets the eye. Not her best film but a solid one.

And Mulan may not go up with The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Tarzan and The Hunched Back of Notre Dame as far as renassiance films. But it was a great movie.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

77- The Railway Children (1970)

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"Apple pie for breakfast - we can't be poor after all!"

Totally charming film based on the children's novel. In Victorian England three children and their mother are forced to move from their London house to a cottage in the country when their father is taken away on a false charge. They become 'the railway children' when they save a train from crashing and make various friends along the way, including a helpful old gentleman.

This film is very much an old-fashioned type of children's film. As much as I like the adult jokes and degree of cynicism in children's films nowadays, it's hard to beat this innocent look at a bygone era. Also, the thought of having apple pie for breakfast was very exciting to me as a child. And of course, it is impossible not to shed tears at the final scene, or be moved by Jenny Agutter's performance as eldest sibling Bobby. Note that the actress who played Phillis was actually in her twenties.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

76- Summer Interlude (1951)

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"She used to sit there and I was playing while watching her face and I wondered whether it was real or not. If that setting, this piano, this wooden floor really existed. The moon light, the music... Was it the only real thing, the only tangible thing?"

One of the best ballet films and an underrated film in Ingmar Bergman's canon, this is similar to The Red Shoes in the depiction of a woman who devotes her life to ballet. The ballerina looks back on her first love, which ended tragically, and her lecherous uncle. There's some lovely shots of Sweden, an idyllic Enid Blyton type world, and an insight into the world of ballet, where there can only be one focus. There are some surreal moments but this bittersweet tale is far more real and preferable to The Hour of The Wolf.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

75- Chicago (2002)

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"In this town, murder's a form of entertainment."

Chicago was the musical that showed everybody that the musical genre was certainly not dead, and it bagged 6 Oscars to prove it.

The composers of the musical John Kander and Fred Ebb also wrote Cabaret, and Chicago is similar in tone. Director Rob Marshall takes his lead from Bob Fosse by setting all the musical numbers either on stage or in the mind of aspiring showgirl performer Roxie Hart (Renee Zellwegger).

It's the 1930's and Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta Jones), star performer, has been arrested for killing her hubby. Roxie is also eventually arrested for murdering her lover, and what follows is the showbiz razzle dazzle of the media. Celebrity trumps all.

Richard Gere's performance may be a little weak but Zellwegger does a good job considering her lack of musical experience. After all, Roxie's meant to be an aspiring showgirl, not necessarily a good one.

The cynical tone of the film and fabulously jazzy score means that it should convert even the most ardent of musical-haters.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

74- Black Swan (2010)

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"I got a little homework assignment for you. Go home and touch yourself. Live a little."

A little sillier than Summer Interlude, this is a great psycho-sexual melodramatic thriller. Nina (Natalie Portman, who deservedly won the Oscar) is a neurotic ballerina, desperate for the lead role in Swan Lake. Whilst she can play the White Swan, she also has to play the Black Swan, which she cannot do. Under the spell of pervy ballet coach Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassell) and rival ballerina Lily (Mila Kunis), she becomes hallucinatory and violent, consumed by the role of the Black Swan.

The film gives a great insight into the punishing world of ballet. The sexual repression subplot wasn't strictly necessary but it provides a bit of excitement for the male members of the audience and adds an element of humour. Cassell is a charicature of your typical drama/dance teacher, suitably sleazy, and Kunis is alluring as rebellious Lily. But it's Portman's brave performance that shines through, and that wonderful swan make-up. It's criminal that the film didn't win an Oscar for Best Make-Up.

[Flimmaker1473]

I love Chicago and Black Swan. Two great films.

[Skepsis93]

Two great choices. :up:

[The Prestige]

Last few choices have been unimpressive. But then, you're a lass so I guess I should expect a few misses ;)

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

Last few choices have been unimpressive. But then, you're a lass so I guess I should expect a few misses ;)

Here's hoping I can score some hits then ;)

[The Prestige]

Oh i'm sure you will. I meant to say that with the exception of Black Swan, the films you listed didn't do much for me, but the rest of the entries are solid. Looking forward to the next batch.:)

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

73- Anastasia (1956)

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"I don't care what she is! The important thing is that she fits!"

This was Ingrid Bergman's Oscar-winning comeback after the scandal of her affair with Roberto Rosellini. The myth of Anastasia, the long-lost Romanov daughter, was firmly debunked in 2009, and yet this is a timeless film.

It's a Pygmalion story: General Bounine (Yul Brynner) hates the aristocracy but loves money, so when he chances upon homeless Anna (Ingrid Bergman), who has a startling resemblance to the lost duchess, he decides that he will pass Anna off as Anastasia. But can Anna convince Grand Duchess Maria (Helen Hayes), Anastasia's grandmother, that she is indeed her long-lost grandaughter?

Bergman and Brynner have electric chemistry but the film does not allow a sentimental romance to get in the way of the real story of identity and family. The film keeps the identity of Anna ambiguous, meaning that there are no pat conclusions.

The Romanov story is a fascinating one. Other films have tackled it, such as Rasputin (1996) and the animated Fox version of Anastasia (1997), but this remains the best.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

72- The Great Gatsby (1974)

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"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together!"

It may not be a perfect adaptation but how can a perfect novel hope to achieve a perfect adaptation? The costumes and sense of period is exquisite. It is very much 1920's but 1920's as seen through the eyes of the 1970's. Mia Farrow's performance is suitably neurotic as faded belle Daisy and Robert Redford pulls off the empty charm of Gatsby, pining for the woman that will always be out of his reach. However the best performances are given by the supporting actors: Lois Chiles is a husky Jordan Baker, Karen Black is a slatternly Myrtle and Scott Wilson is brilliant as Myrtle's jealous husband. A wonderful tale of regret and a look at a bygone era.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

71- Brighton Rock (1947)

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"You wanted a recording of my voice, well here it is. What you want me to say is, 'I love you'. Well I don't. I hate you, you little slut..."

Why they remade this classic film, the gods themselves are ignorant. This is the British version of film noir- seaside noir. Pinkie (Richard Attenborough) is a young gangster who kills off a rival, then marries waitress Rose (Carol Marsh) who starts putting the pieces of the crime together in order to shut her up. And William Hartnell (AKA the original Doctor Who) is a fellow gang member of Pinkie's, whose support for Pinkie is starting to wain.

There's a helpful disclaimer at the start of the film telling us that Brighton was a jolly place really and this is a look at the Brighton of the past, just in case you thought that Brighton was full of gangsters and crime. Despite the fact that he's a sadistic young gangster, I do have a soft spot for Pinkie. Attenborough shows us how Pinkie is both repulsive and yet has a sort of twisted charisma. I love how the film doesn't show us a soft and cuddly side to Pinky- he's a bad-'un through and through.

Back in these days, one couldn't have an entirely bleak ending, so Greene altered his ending for the film, producing one of the greatest ironic endings in film history- ironically much better than his original idea.

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I :love: the Great Gatsby :yup:

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70- Caravaggio (1986)


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"The process of painting is my knife!"

Derek Jarman's films are normally the sort of stuff I'd avoid. I'm not a big fan of art house and I'm certainly not a fan of the aggressive politics present in his adaptation of Edward II. Caravaggio however is an exception, retaining Jarman's provocative style but removing the elements that might deter the majority. No explicit male nudity here,(sorry, girls), but still homoerotic and all the better for it.

This is an abstract study of the painter Caravaggio (Nigel Terry), who looks back on his life and love for his two low-born muses, violent virile Ranucchio (Sean Bean, looking ravishingly gorgeous) and Renaissance beauty Lena (Tilda Swinton, looking ravishingly authentic). The narrative is quite thin but it does exist so the film is not the incomprehensible mess one might associate with art house films.

Caravaggio achieves what Girl With A Pearl Earring attempted- the eroticisation of art. Nigel Terry does actually look like he's painting, whereas Colin Firth looked like he was doing painting by numbers.

The cinematography is lushly Renaissance but the Renaissance atmosphere is slyly undercut by modern anachronisms, my favourite being a priest playing on his calculator at dinner. Strangely the anachronisms work, creating a strange blend of two worlds that adds up to a glorious Renaissance.

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Haven't seen this :blush:

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Haven't seen this :blush:

You must, even if it's just for Sean Bean ;)

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69- Gigi (1958)

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"Good afternoon! As you see, this lovely city all around us is Paris, and this lovely park is of course the Bois de Boulogne. Who am I? Well, allow me to introduce myself: I am Honore Lachaille. Born: Paris. When...not lately."

This sparkling musical is from the songwriting team of Lerner and Loewe, who also wrote My Fair Lady. Based on Colette's novel, this musical is actually thematically similar to My Fair Lady. In turn-of-the-century France, fifteen-year-old Gigi (Leslie Caron) trains to be a courtesan and catches the eye of her playboy friend Gaston (Louis Jordan), who is filled with ennui by Parisian high society. There's also Gaston's Uncle Honore (Maurice Chevalier), an elderly roue. This may not seem like material for an MGM musical and yet it is strangely charming, even with songs that come across today as a little dodgy (such as Chevalier singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls"). Caron may not look fifteen but she makes an adorable heroine, sneakily drinking champagne and clumsily trying to learn how to be sophisticated. Jordan is full of French charm and Maurice Chevalier is a smooth old Frenchman. Highlights include "The Night They Invented Champagne", "It's A Bore" and "Gigi", where Jordan runs round Paris singing of his realisation that he loves Gigi.

If you love France, particularly Paris and a good MGM musical, this film is a must-see. It shows how old Hollywood could make a classic family musical out of rather unsavoury fare and the audience never batted an eye.

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68- Children of A Lesser God (1986)

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"I can't ever get close enough. Say my name, just once, say my name."

I've been interested in sign language for a long time and this film beautifully explores what it is to be profoundly deaf and mute. The film never tries to portray the deaf characters as poor victims- they are very much real people with their own problems. James (William Hurt) is a speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls in love with the caretaker Sarah (Marlee Matlin, still the youngest actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress), who is a former pupil, but their relationship is complicated by inability to communicate literally and emotionally. It also explores how society tries to normalise those who are different, and the pitfalls of doing so. Hurt and Matlin actually had an off-screen romance and the chemistry really shows.

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Saw this at the movies and really liked it :yup:

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67- Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

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"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They are the ground, the books, the academes, from whence doth spring the true Promethean fire."

Kenneth Branagh's take on one of Shakespeare's obscurest comedies is to fashion it as a thirties-style MGM musical. Surprisingly, it works, showing that U-certificate material need not be just for kids.

The King of Navarre (Alessandro Nivola) and three of his fellow scholars (Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Lester and Matthew Lillard) vow to give up women for three years so that they can focus on their studies. But when a princess (Alicia Silverstone) and her two gal pals turn up, the men find themselves more than a bit distracted from their work...

Featuring classic old tunes from the thirties, gorgeous costumes, and the sight of Kenneth Branagh trying to do the charleston, this is a fluffy delight.

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I haven't seen this one :blush: must do it :yup:

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66- Cleopatra (1964)

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"Well versed in the natural sciences and mathematics. She speaks seven languages proficiently. Were she not a woman one would consider her to be an intellectual."

One of the most famous flops of all time, Cleopatra is actually a very entertaining film. All the delicious campery you'd expect from an epic set in Rome: scantily clad girls, debauchery, and extravagant sets. This is the film where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton began their torrid affair and it's all up on screen for you to see. Elizabeth Taylor in a variety of revealing outfits is Cleopatra, in the clutches of Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison, looking ancient) but falling in love with Marc Antony (Richard Burton, booming so much that you think the set might topple over). There's some great dramatic dialogue (I *asked* it of Julius Caesar. I *demand* it of you!) some melodramatic dialogue ("The dying of such a man, must be shouted, screamed! It must echo back from the corners of the universe"), and some cringy dialogue ("My breasts are full of love and life. My hips are round and well apart. Such women, they say, have sons."). All in all, this is a four-hour extravaganza you will not want to miss.

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I quite like this movie :yup:

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Interesting list of movies. Although most of these films aren't my cup of tea.

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Interesting list of movies. Although most of these films aren't my cup of tea.

Hang in there. We have a favourite film in common :)

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65- Evita (1996)

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"Oh, what a circus, oh, what a show! Argentina has gone to town/ over the death of an actress called Eva Peron./ We've all gone crazy,/ mourning all day and mourning all night,/ falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right."


This is Alan Parker's film of the classic Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical about the brief life of Eva Peron, who jumps from her impoverished life into the bed of
Argentinian Colonel Peron and aids his rise to power. Some disagreed with the choice of Madonna as Eva Peron but I think she was perfectly cast. Eva was a star with an almost godlike status- how many singers could fit that description? Madonna's not got a Broadway voice but then Broadway singing isn't appropriate for a film musical like this.

Unusually, the whole film is sung. Once you adjust yourself to that, it adds a whole new dimension to what might have just been a standard biopic. Antonio Banderas adds a bit of Spanish charm as Che, a critical commentator of Evita, who pops up throughout her life. Jonathan Pryce is touching as Colonel Juan Peron and unlike in the musical, Eva and Peron really seem to love each other.

The songs are just brilliant. The hits keep on coming. My two favourites have to be Buenos Aires and I'd Be Suprisingly Good for You, which is a seductive waltz between Peron and Eva. The film's a real emotional journey so be prepared to get teary at the end.

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64- Pygmalion (1938)

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"Walk? Not bloody likely. I'm going in a taxi."

This film of George Bernard Shaw's classic play is a delightful exploration of class, the sexes and the pros and cons of "education". Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard), a professor of linguistics, is a confirmed bachelor. Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) is a flower girl wanting to be a lady in a flower shop. Higgins makes a better with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can turn Eliza into a duchess. But can he turn this girl from the gutters into an aristocrat, and if he does, what happens then?

This is a great comedy, filmed and edited with a bit more inventiveness than the static approach of old cinematographers. Leslie Howard is wonderful in the title role. He has a boyish geekiness that seems very modern and his complete lack of awareness for anything outside of linguistics is hilarious. Wendy Hiller may not be beautiful but her transformation is lovely and she is a spirited Eliza. And I love David Tree as Freddy, Eliza's dimwitted suitor. Yes, George Bernard Shaw didn't like the subtle romantic tone of the film, but he was a didactic Higginsy type himself who couldn't see that the filmmakers had extracted gold.

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63- Pretty in Pink (1986)

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"If you give off signals that you don't want to belong, people will make sure that you don't."

Forget The Breakfast Club, this is a Brat Pack classic which time has been kind to, despite it being very eighties. Molly Ringwald plays Andie, a misfit from the wrong side of the tracks who falls for preppy rich kid Blane (Andrew McCarthy). But the couple have a hard battle ahead of them with social pressure and the fact that Andie's best mate Ducky (Jon Cryer) harbours a crush on her.

The theme of misfit girl/popular heartthrob has been done a lot in teen films but Pretty in Pink looks at the social implications of it. The class divide and peer pressure are still very prominent in today's society and director John Hughes takes a genuinely interesting look at the highs and lows of being an outsider. Plus it has a banging alternative eighties soundtrack!

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62- Clue (1985)


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"Colonel Mustard (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611898/): Why is J. Edgar Hoover on your phone?
Wadsworth (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/): I don't know, he's on everybody else's, why shouldn't he be on mine?"

This is a camp cult classic based on crime-solving board game Clue (Cluedo in the UK). It's 1955 and the Cluedo characters turn up to a creepy old mansion. All have been invited to a party there and all of them have a lot of skeletons in the closet, which makes it a bit awkward when butler Wadsworth's (Tim Curry) employer Mr Black is murdered. Then those skeletons start piling up and we have to work out who done it.

This is a great farce/pastiche of the 1950's and the only example of a decent adaptation of a game. It's an ensemble piece and the characters work brilliantly together but I do have a soft spot for the quips of Tim Curry.

It's even more delicious on DVD because the film was shot with three alternate endings. When it was released in cinemas, audience were shown an ending at random but on DVD you can either do that or pick the option which lets you watch all three.

[nebbit]

Wow haven't seen Clue in ages :blush: quite liked it :yup:

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

61- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)


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"I looked at you tonight and you weren't there... And I'm gonna howl it out, and I'm not gonna give a damn what I do and I'm gonna make the biggest god-damn explosion you've ever heard."

Richard Burton gives what is probably his best performance in this film as History professor George, whose wife Martha (Elizabeth Taylor, uglied up) despairs at his lack of ambition. But this is not simply a drama/comedy about a bickering couple. It's a tragicomic drama about a middle-aged couple who lure a new teacher (George Segal) and his young wife Honey (Sandy Dennis) into their games of torturing each other and turning their problems onto the young couple. Everybody has dark secrets as well, which are revealed over the course of the night.

The dialogue is sharp and witty (this is based on an Edward Albee play), pushing the boundaries of what a film could be about and asserting the right to create films intended for adults that weren't horror or porn.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

60- Black Narcissus (1947)

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"You are objectionable when sober, and abominable when drunk!"

Sexually repressed nuns go mad in the Himalayas- what's not to like? This is classic Powell and Pressburger, where British stiffness collapses under seething sexual tension and we get gorgeous cinematography from Jack Cardiff. No one at that time was doing what they did with colour. Colour was reserved for musicals and epics; black and white was meant for serious drama. Here, we get dark feelings portrayed in colour.

Deborah Kerr is Sister Clodagh, an inexperienced nun who heads up a bunch of nuns who are doing missionary work in the Himilayas. However, the building they are staying in was once a brothel, and its atmosphere soon gets to the nuns, particularly rogue nun sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron). Add to this a louche beefcake Englishman (David Farrar) who has the hots for Clodagh and you've got one hell of a mix. Plus, there's a scene that looks like it came straight out of a horror film.

[Tyler1]

Quite honestly I've never watched a movie that is as emotionally exhausting or should I say emotionally annihilating as Virginia Woolf, other than A Woman Under the Influence.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

59- Peeping Tom (1960)

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"Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? It's fear."

If you thought colour was inappropriate for the themes of Black Narcissus, wait until you see this, the film that killed Michael Powell's career.

It's the tale of Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm), whose hobby is to make snuff movies and then watch them in his little cinema. There's possible redemption for him when he meets nice young woman Helen (Anna Massey), but the tortures his scientist father (Michael Powell, seen in home footage) performed on him as a child are buried deep within him. All of this is shot in seedy garish colour.

Forget Norman Bates- Mark Lewis is the best psychopath. With Boehm's accent, he's even more of an outsider. Mark is just the most loveable psychopath ever. We know he should be locked up and yet we don't want him to be- not because he's evil and witty but because he's just so sweet. In some respects, this is a love story about a man who finds a girl that might cure him of his perversity. There's a moment when you think he's about to show Helen one of his snuff films and you're literally shouting "No!" at the screen. Then he puts on another film, which is much worse.

The critics were all horribly outraged, claiming that the film was complete filth and that Powell had lowered himself. However, this film links back to the other Powell and Pressburger films nicely, being most similar to Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. Powell just takes the darkness from those and makes it even bigger here, whilst still transposing the wit of the earlier films.

Oh, and Moira Shearer does a little dance number.

[Tyler1]

And again, another fantastic film. The film that sealed Michael Powell's career. ;)

*Oh btw, I'm sure you've seen A Matter of Life and Death. Thats my favourite Powell film.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

And again, another fantastic film. The film that sealed Michael Powell's career. ;)

*Oh btw, I'm sure you've seen A Matter of Life and Death. Thats my favourite Powell film.

Yep, I do love that one. Actually, that one's due next so I might switch the numbers round a bit, as out of the ones so far in this list, it is lower down.

[honeykid]

"Virginia" and "Tom" are wonderful choices. :)

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

58- A Matter of Life and Death (1946)


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"Don't be upset about the parachute, I'll have my wings soon anyway, big white ones. I hope it hasn't gone all modern, I'd hate to have a prop instead of wings!"

This one is higher up the list by accident- I prefer Peeping Tom and Black Narcissus- but it still has a worthy place on my list. It's the most quintessential Powell and Pressburger film for sure.

This is a fantasy/war/romance film and the combination is irresistable. A British aviator (David Niven) falls in love with an American girl (Kim Hunter) over the radio as he tells her the plane is crashing. However miraculously he remains alive when he ought to be dead. He is forced to go on trial in Heaven in a bid to save his life- but the American prosecuter has always had a thing against Brits. Oh, and there's an eccentric doctor (Roger Livesey) and a camp French angel (Marius Goring). In a neat twist, Earth is shot in colour whilst Heaven is black and white. It's also pretty funny as well as wacky, surreal and completely original.

Forget Hugh Grant rom-coms- Powell and Pressburger's films are quintessential British cinema.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

57- Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (2002)


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"My father did say this; it's been fifty years since the chamber has been opened. He wouldn't tell me who opened it, only that they were expelled. The last time the Chamber of Secrets was opened, a mudblood died. So it's only a matter of time before one of them is killed this time. As for me, I hope it's Granger."

This is my favourite Harry Potter film- a glorious mix of boarding school romp and horror film. It provides genuine frights as well as genuine laughs, courtesy of Kenneth Branagh's brilliant performance as narcissistic Professor of The Dark Arts/heartthrob author Gilderoy Lockheart. Although I enjoy the later films and Prisoner of Azkaban is probably the most accomplished of the films, I think it's the childhood innocence combined with darkness and the foreshadowing of the racial themes that gives this one the edge for me.

[honeykid]

I like A Matter Of Life & Death. A little bit too Powell and Pressburger for me, but not enough to put me off.

The Chamber of Secrets is the only Potter film I've seen that I actually engaged with.

[nebbit]

David Niven is one of my favourite actors :randy:

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

56- A Star is Born (1954)

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"Ever since this world began/There is nothing sadder than/A one-man woman looking for/The man that got away"

Judy Garland and James Mason are wonderful together in an unbearably tragic film. Judy Garland plays Esther Blodgett, a pretty actress whose star rises when she is discovered by fading matinee idol James Mason. Remodelled as Vicki Lester, her star just keeps on rising whilst Mason's falls.

If you're a fan of Garland, you'll love this. Even if you're not, you'll appreciate that she did have something special and surprisingly, a gift for comedy. 'The Man That Got Away' is a haunting song, showing Garland's powerful voice, dripping with regret. Mason's performance is out of necessity less showy but it's no less powerful as a man constantly overshadowed by his wife, who ironically he turned into the star.

Get a large box of tissues at the ready for the ending- particularly THAT final line.

[Gabrielle947]

I checked the whole thread and you have a very interesting taste in films and there lots of which I haven't even heard of.At least we share the same love for Harry Potter. :D

[ash_is_the_gal]

so i watched Blythe Spirit the other night. it was pretty good. Rex Harrison was really cute when he was younger. i've only seen him in movies as an old man.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

so i watched Blythe Spirit the other night. it was pretty good.

Private Lives is also really good. I think they've done a film version of that.

[ash_is_the_gal]

i watched Brighton Rock last night. what a great film that is. you were right about Pinkie being this sadistic killer but you can't help but like him anyway. for some reason when you said that, i was picturing a James Cagney/White Heat type character but he's way more loveable than Pinkie, and you're right, there's no cuddly, boyish side to him at all. still, though. you can see why she was so crazy over him.

the ending made me laugh.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

i watched Brighton Rock last night. what a great film that is. you were right about Pinkie being this sadistic killer but you can't help but like him anyway. for some reason when you said that, i was picturing a James Cagney/White Heat type character but he's way more loveable than Pinkie, and you're right, there's no cuddly, boyish side to him at all. still, though. you can see why she was so crazy over him.

the ending made me laugh.

I love the ending. I can't remember what the intended ending was but it got changed due to censorship. Personally I think this ending works great.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

Honarary Mention- Anna Karenina (1935)


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"I'm not inquiring into your feelings Anna. I've no right to ferret into your soul."

I think Vivien Leigh is probably the best Anna Karenina but I love Garbo's portrayal of a smouldering passionate woman in an adaptation of one of my favourite novels, Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece of love and adultery.

Although they miss out the Kitty/Levin subplot, it's a nice streamlined melodrama. Basil Rathbone is brilliant as Karenin, the husband who just won't man up. You just want to shake him and tell him to pay more attention to his beautiful wife but he remains a cold fish, much to the heartbreak of the audience. Anna finds solace in dashing Count Vronsky (Frederic March) who fulfills her sexual needs but doesn't fulfil much else.

The poor woman is doomed to tragedy. It is at the train station that we first get a glimpse of her, emerging from the steam of the engine. But the train ain't a lucky symbol for Anna...

Special mention should go to Anna Karenina (1948), which very nearly took this spot were it not for the poor performance from Keiron Moore and the dashing portrayal of Vronsky from Frederic March. The definitive Vronsky would have to be Christopher Reeve in Anna Karenina (1985). Though it is a less impressive film overall, Reeve captures some of Vronsky's self-absorbedness and makes him seem like a natural partner for the equally neurotic Anna.

[ash_is_the_gal]

I love the ending. I can't remember what the intended ending was but it got changed due to censorship. Personally I think this ending works great.
i didn't read the book, but i looked it up today and apparently in the book Rose hears the actual phonograph in its entirety (or it's implied she does, or something) and the studio wanted a more "cheerful" ending so they changed it. personally, i think the ending that they made was equally bleak because Rose continues to live in delusions about the man she thought loved her, and it implies she'll forever be caught in her naivety. either way, though, i liked the ending a lot too. the whole movie was fascinating but a lot of times, in older films like this, the ending is often a neat, tucked in happily ever after and i didn't see it like that at all.

[honeykid]

God, I love Garbo.

[ash_is_the_gal]

i watched another one of your movies on this list last night. :D can you guess which? don't worry, i'll be back later.

[ash_is_the_gal]

okay, i watched Intimate Relations last night and it sure wasn't what i expected! it reminded me strongly of Heavenly Creatures in style and story, and the way it got really, really disturbing at the end. the whole movie was actually really disturbing, but it's filmed in a way where it's hard not to laugh a little here and there. when you said it'd be hard to watch, i didn't really know what you meant, or i assumed you just meant it was going to be emotionally draining, and it is, similar to the way The Doors is. also, the character development was really great. i really regret having read so much about the film before i watched it because i already knew something tragic was coming, but i was pretty shocked at the quick deterioration of the three main characters.

also, did you know that the girl who plays Joyce, the daughter (played by Laura Sadler) died in 2003? apparently this was her only feature film. quite sad.

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

That is the strange thing about Intimate Relations- it's deeply sad and yet it's also really funny, such as Julie Walters' insistence on Harold calling her 'Mum', despite them having an affair.

[cricket]

I wish I could comment more on your list but somehow I've only seen 4 so far. And I'm 41 and have watched a lot of movies.

In the Company of Men 7/10
Black Swan 7/10
Pretty in Pink 7/10
As Good as it Gets 10/10

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

I wish I could comment more on your list but somehow I've only seen 4 so far. And I'm 41 and have watched a lot of movies.

In the Company of Men 7/10
Black Swan 7/10
Pretty in Pink 7/10
As Good as it Gets 10/10

They'll get more mainstream as list goes on :)

[TheGirlWhoHadAllTheLuck x]

55- Carmen Jones (1954)
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"You go for me and I'm taboo/ But if you're hard to get I go for you/ And if I do/ then you are through/Boy/ Dat's de end of you!"

I decided to leave Anna Karenina there as an honorary mention but took it out of my official list because I forgot this brilliant spin on George Bizet's opera Carmen.

Carmen Jones is dreadfully underrated. Like Porgy and Bess, it's an all-black cast, yet this film's not a downer. Instead of being about the historical misery of being black, it's a sexy sassy film with some banging tunes thanks to Bizet and some fabulous African-American vernacular thanks to Oscar Hammerstein II.

The setting is contemporary, on an army base. Carmen (Dorothy Dandridge), who works at a parachute factory, is a helpless flirt. She takes a fancy to army pilot Joe (Harry Belafonte). Although he's already got a gal, he becomes ensnared by Carmen and is driven to his doom.

It may seem like a gimmick to have an all-black cast but with countless films that had an all-white cast, why not have an all-black one? Dandridge is the standout, fiery and sensational as destructive Carmen. Yes, she was dubbed but she gives a great acting performance. Historically the film is important not just for the all-black cast- Dorothy Dandridge was the first black actress to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

Dandridge and Belafonte have great chemistry and the destructive passion between them is as steamy as you can get in a 1950's musical. Coupled with lyrics that are actually surprisingly true to the opera, it's a great musical and a bloody good film.