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I am listing my top 100 and invite comment.


Favorite directors"
Woody Allen 7
Robert Altman 3
Francis Ford Copola- 3
Ingmar Bergman 3

David Lynch- 3
Sidney Lumet- 2

Stanley Kubrik- 2
Terry Gilliam- 2
Claude Berri 2
Christopher Nolan 2
Jim Jarmusch 2
Wim Wenders 2
Giuseppe Tornatore- 2
Orson Welles 2
Fredrico Fellini-2
Alan Parker- 2
Lasse hallstrom 2
Bob Fosse- 2
Monty Python- 2

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100. Star Wars: A New Hope/George Lucas



I know this would be higher on other people's list, but it is on my list primarily because it was a watershed film in terms of production quality and scope.it also was a watershed for the movie business. After the first Star Wars all the studios began shooting for the stars in terms of profits. Lucas's own company, although now it belongs to others, is still the trend setter for special effects.

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I like that you started out with a preliminary program. Looking forward to seeing your list!

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99. I only have two or three documentaries on this list. I enjoy documentaries very much and feel that they are an excellent medium to teach; either through story or presentation of facts. This is an excellent documentary because it introduces you to a way of life that many of use will never see firsthand. Most of the kids in this film are between 11 and 16 with some exceptions. While their peers are in school, they are attending the school of hard knocks on the street.by learning to hustle, con, or prostitute themselves, etc. While the kids are aware they are being filmed, and ham it up sometimes; the film is still a powerful piece of work. One of the young men in the film does something he probably would not do if we were not being filmed. (You have to watch it to see how tragic this young man's life is) There was a follow up documentary several years after this film was made (1985) It is available on you tube. I saw this film for the first time in New York City when I was interning at a city mission in Time Square. We took several of the teens that the church was trying to reach out to in order to to see this movie. A good film for those who enjoy documentary films

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Streetwise

Martin Bell United States, 1984



Seattle, 1983. Taking their camera to the streets of what was supposedly America’s most livable city, filmmaker Martin Bell, photographer Mary Ellen Mark, and journalist Cheryl McCall set out to tell the stories of those society had left behind: homeless and runaway teenagers living on the city’s margins. Born from a Life magazine exposé by Mark and McCall, Streetwise follows an unforgettable group of at-risk children—including iron-willed fourteen-year-old Tiny, who would become the project’s most haunting and enduring face, along with the pugnacious yet resourceful Rat and the affable drifter DeWayne—who, driven from their broken homes, survive by hustling, panhandling, and dumpster diving. Granted remarkable access to their world, the filmmakers craft a devastatingly frank, nonjudgmental portrait of lost youth growing up far too soon in a world that has failed them.


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98. Moonstruck-1987
Director: Norman Jewison
Screenplay:John Patrick Shanley

Principal Actors: Cher, Nicholas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, Julie Bavosso, Louis Guss, and John Mahoney. :


Set in Brooklyn New York



The film was nominated for six Oscars and Cher, Olympia Dukkakis and John Patrick Shanley took home one a-piece. Shanley, who wrote the screenplay is also known for his writing of "Doubt" and "Five Corners".

The film involves at least five couples with a three characters participating n more than one couple. The father is having an affair, Loretta is torn between two brothers, and Olympia Dukakis has an opportunity to start an extra-marital affair.

The writing is quiet good and gets complex at some points in the story.which Shanley handles masterfully. It is a very good story, and like many good stories balances comedy with the more serious aspects of the story. Recommended for fans of Romantic comedy.

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I'm looking forward to following your thread and commenting from time to time. Glad you're doing this:up:

Since George Lucas is not on the list of your favorite directors in your first post, does that mean that he only has one movie on your Top 100 list?

I'm not a fan of Nicholas Cage, but I liked Moonstruck. It's far from my favorite rom-com, but it's a good movie.

Same. Although I like far more, it’s mostly has to do with how well Cher acts in this.

Yes. I included the first STar WArs movie because it was a watershed moment in film history.

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97. Shakespeare in Love

Dir John Madden
featured cast:
Gweneth Pawltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Tom Wilkenson, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Martin Clunes,



Previously reviewed.

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Me and you might be the only two Mofos who actually like Shakespeare in Love. I enjoyed it but I don't recall many fans of it. Reps for having in your list:up:

I love Shakespeare in Love! Love it, I say!

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96. The Player


Dir Robert Altman
Featured Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacci, Peter Gallaghar, Fred Ward, Whoopie Goldberg,and a couple dozen cameos from the Hollywood big hitters.
If you devoted a movie to explaining what makes a good movie and then demonstrating what that good movie might look like, you get the "Player". You also get a good look as Altman sort of teases the Hollywood establishment throughout. He demonstrates how silly movie pitches can be like (Its like the Gods must be crazy meets so and so). There is also a running joke about everybody wanting to cast Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts in every movie pitch. (Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts must have a good sense of humor because they appear in the movie after they have been roasted repeatedly.)

The movie follows the life of a big shot Hollywood producer as he moves through his day-to-day routine. There are numerous cameo's in the movie. (Altman called in a lot of favors). In many cases Altman gave the actors an opportunity to say what they would like to have said to some of their producers. See the scene where Malcom McDowell says exactly what he wants to Griffin (Tim Robbins character). There is a plot that involves a murder and its coverup, but it was fun to see the stars coming out of the woodwork. This is the first Altman film I have included, I will review two others by him. The film is not for everybody (thus the 4 rating), but for those who enjoy Comedy/Drama there is a lot to like about this one. Recommended for those who would like a good laugh at the Hollywood while enjoying a good drama as well.

it was not at the top of my list, but I have always appreciated how accessible the movie communicated the poetry to Shakespeare's works

Shakespeare in Love is a great one within the rom-com genre! Mentioned it in the The Most Romantic Movie of All Time thread; https://www.movieforums.com/communit...78#post2116378.

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95. The Shawshank Redemption

I find that this film has had a strange reception among movie fans. When it was first released it did not break even; however, since it’s video release it has achieved cult like status. I remember when it was rated number one on the IMDB site. Although I enjoyed the movie very much (It is on my top 100 after all), I did not think it was worthy of a number 1 ranking, although it did win seven Oscar nominations including best picture.
What I did like was the fact that a movie that took it’s time to develop characters, and allowed the story to unfold from Reds (Morgan Freeman’s character) perspective instead of Andy’s own. This allowed Andy’s character to sort of remain, if not hidden, guarded. We don’t know a lot about Andy’s character. We do not even know for sure if he committed the murders that he was accused of. It is not Andy’s redemption that we are witnessing throughout the movie, it is Red’s and perhaps others who have been close to Andy. It is Andy who tells Red to get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’. That is the message the movie sends to its audience.

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Dir. Lucy Walker


This is an excellent documentary on a little known facet of Amish life known as rumspringa. When teens in the Amish community reach the age of 16 they are allowed to live as "english" (non Amish). They can return to the church, but once they return they are bound by the Amish way of life. If they break that code they are shunned from the church for life.

The film follows four or five teens who are going trough the Rumspringa ritual. Among these teens is the ministers son, who just happens to be as wild as they come. He is involved in a sexual relationship outside of marriage, he does drugs (not just pot, but methamphetamine among others.) Some of these kids get a little taste of freedom and go of the deep end. In fact, almost everybody I have shown the film to thinks the whole idea of Rumspringa is crazy. In the state where the film was filmed it is widely believed that the Amish parties are the wildest. Amazingly the Amish claim that they do not lose as many kids as you would think through Rumsringa. The movie mainly focuses on the kids with some interviews with a few adults

There are a lot of fascinating tidbits in this documentary that I do not to reveal (watch the film). I only have three documentaries on this list and I believe all three stand out as good examples of what documentaries can do. Reccommended for those who like good documentaries, or interested in religion, especially the Amish way of life.

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I nearly choked on my water when I read Ebert's review of this film. He described this film as a cross between the Marx Brothers and Tarantino if, "Groucho had been into chopping off fingers" That seems about right given that this group of kids in their twenties are flirting with life on the fringe of crime, save for the chef, who prides himself that his money is clean. One is a professional card player (Eddy), one runs whatever hustle's he can , and the other is something of an entrepreneur in crime, selling a little of this and that of whatever he can lay his hands on.

The first sign of trouble comes when they pool their life savings for a high-stakes poker game organized by Hatchet Harry (a mid level organizer of illegal gambling and operator of porn shops.) Harry cheats, the group looses all of their money and then some, and Harry demands that they hand over the Eddy's fathers bar in place of payment. They are given a short time to raise the money before Hatchet harry take the fathers bar.

In phase two of the movie the kids try to figure out what they can do to raise money fast. They eavesdrop on their criminal neighbors who are going to steal a load of Ganja from a group of seemingly innocuous horticulturalist, who are really backed by another hard hitting criminal. So group one steals from the horticulturalist and Eddy and his group steal from the next door neighbors. They have pre-arranged to sell the ganja through an intermediary. What they don't know is they are selling the pot back to the original owner. The last two sentences are a little confusing as at this point everybody is gunning for everybody else.

The movie has violent moments, and their is some language, but overall it is an amusing movie. Sting plays eddie's father, and this was an early movie for Jason straitham.

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Dir Errol Morris
1988
My highest rating doc. The movie was made to help reverse a death row sentence of a convicted cop killer. Erroll Morris spent 30 months researching the case against Adams. The documentary was originally going to look at a state psychiatrist named James Grigson (Dr. Death) who almost always found his patients capable and most likely to murder again. It was during this process that he came upon Adams case. It was not so much that Adams convinced Morris that he was innocent, but rather that another young man (Harris) who was involved, was guilty.

In the course of Morris's interviews he asks Harris if Adams is innocent? Harris replies I am sure he is. Morris asks, How can you be sure? to which Harris says because I am the one who knows. When the dust cleared Adams was released.

many who do not usually enjoy documentaries might enjoy this one. Morris blends official police transcripts and evidence with his own interviews with many of the significant witnesses in the case. The result makes the film seem more like a drama than a documentary. By the time the film is over he has, in my opinion, humiliated the Dallas police force and Grigson. He shows how the police likely targeted Adams because he was the right age for a death sentence, while Harris is still a juvenile; how Grigson based his testimony on minimal interaction with Adams; and how most of the evidence that convicted Adams came directly from Harris mouth. Good doc. Recommended for those who enjoy documentaries, true crime movies, or those who would like to give documentaries one last shot.


That is my last documentary on my top 100. I am not a documentary nut, but there also two others I recommend even though they are not in my top 100. "Jesus Camp" and "One Day in September".

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91. Ace in the Hole (1951)
Dir Billy Wilder
Featured Cast: Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling,



A newspaper man who finds himself fired from several large newspapers for Slander, boozing and adultery, cons his way into a job at a local paper in New Mexico. He slips off a local assignment, to cover a rattlesnake competition, in order to cover a man who has been trapped in an abandoned silver mine. This movie's media circus was based on a true story in Kentucky, where a man was trapped in a mine. He bullies his way into control of the story by pure nerve, ordering around the local police and making sure he has the scoop to himself. He tries to milk the story as long as he can by convincing the rescue team that they cannot just clear the mine shaft for a rescue (that would have taken two days) and convinces them that they must drill down to the inured man from the surface which could take weeks or to accomplish.

The local general store owner gets in on the con by charging 25 cents for admission for travelers to watch the rescue efforts. His intention is to blow the story up to a bigger crisis than it really is, to draw the interests of some of the big newspapers so he might land back at one of the papers he was fired from. In the end the man dies when he is a mere couple of yards from being rescued.

One reason I liked the movie as much as I did, is because the issues it raises are still with us. Journalism today is reverting back to the days of yellow journalism, where headlines are designed to get clicks for advertisement rather than report the news objectively, and there is no shortage of people who will line up and pay admission for a good story. A good movie with a good message.

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I'm a big fan of Ace in the Hole. It's a perfect film for Kirk Douglas' style of intense acting. My favorite though is Jan Sterling. I've seen her in a number of films and when given the right role she really shines.

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90. All the President's men
Dir Alan Pakula


This movie is about Bob Woodard's and Carl Bernstein's investigative reporting into the Watergate burglaries in the early seventies. The two reporters, referred to as Woodstein, by their superiors at the Washington Post, did a lot of first rate investigative journalism into the burglaries; often making discoveries that the police were unable to uncover on their own. It also offers a glimpse on the contributions of "Deep Throat", the now famous informant who helped Woodard and Bernstein trace the break in back to the White House.

The movie has a stellar cast, including: Jason Robards, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, and Martin Balsam.

Some have faulted the movie for focusing too much on the investigative process and not enough on the story. The problem is that there are two halves to the Watergate investigation. One is the investigation portrayed in this movie conducted by Woodstein; the other investigation conducted by the Justice Department was independent of Woodstein, but they used each other as sources of information. Alan Pakula, the director, made a movie that was bogged down in the investigative details, into an exciting piece of work through his use of timing, and the more technical aspects of the film. The movie is best, if you do not already know a lot about Watergate. A good companion documentary to watch in conjunction with this movie would be the Discovery Channel's "Watergate" a multi-episode film that is available on You Tube.

I think Ace in the Hole is a great movie, but I don't consider it a favorite movie for me.

It's been a long time since I watched All the President's Men, but I remember liking it a lot. It's on my watchlist of movies to rewatch for the upcoming All-Time Countdown.

If you haven't seen it, there's a follow-up documentary by Robert Redford on the impact of Watergate 40 years later. It's called All the President's Men, Revisited (2013), and it's on YouTube.

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89. Down by Law

Principle Actors: Tom Waites, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni


I'll be the first to admit that Jarmusch is an acquired taste. Many of his movies seem to be slice of life stories (not even the most exciting slice) that may seem boring to most movie audiences. However, if you are patient, he usually has some subtle humor that makes it all worthwhile.
In Down By Law we see two of the principle characters framed for crimes they did not commit. They are Jack and Zack, one is framed for a murder he did not commit, and the other for prostituting a minor which he did not do. The third character is an Italian tourist who did commit the murder he was accused of,you'll have to see the movie to see how that happens.

The three escape and go on the lamb, but once they escape the personality conflicts that were a mere tempest in a teapot, compared to the conflict they experience when they have to make decisions as a group, as they try to escape from the Louisiana swampland that surrounds the prison. Waites and Lurie nail there parts, but Benigni shines in this film. He must have been given a lot of freedom to improvise, because his character is off the rails funny.
I meant it when I said that Jarmusch is an acquired taste, but that did not prevent this film from being included in the Criterion collection. Somebody thought this movie ad a lot to offer, and I agree with that assessment. This is a good introduction to Jarmusch if you have not seen any of his work up to this point.

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88. Educating Rita


The movie has a lousy synthesized soundtrack, and the cinematography looks like it was filmed on a video camera, but I do like the two main characters played by Michael Caine and Julie Walters. The movie has bee compared to Pygmalion. An educated man takes a cockney woman under his tutelage and gives her an education (everything she thought she wanted) and she holds a mirror to his face and inspires him to (hopefully) clean up and stop drinking and start over in Australia. I have watched this several times, mainly because of Caine's and Walters' performances. It is in my top 100 for the above reasons. If the plot had been tighter and the cinematography and the soundtrack had been better it would have moved up the list. But despite its shortcomings I do like this movie a lot.

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87 Mystery Train
dir Jim Jarmusch
Principal actors: Nicolatta Braschi, Tom Noonan, Elizabeth Bracco, Joe Strummer, Steve Aviles, Steve Buscemi


My second Jarmusch film on this list. Mystery Train takes three stories and weaves them like a tapestry into one story. The characters from all three stories are staying in the same run down dive of a hotel in Memphis

The first story us a young Japanese couple who are on a rock n' roll pilgrimage through the US (First Memphis (Elvis and Sun Stidios) and then new Orleans for Fats Domino. They check into the hotel for the night and hear a gunshot.
The second story features Niccolatta Braschi and Elizabeth Bracco. Braschi's character has come to memphis to transport her husbands body back home. Braschi and Bracco are both in the hotel accidentally and decide to share a room for convenience sake.
The third story features Joe Strummer (from the music group the Clash) and Steve Buschimmi. Buschemmi has to go to a bar where Strummer has produced a gun and caused an i9ncident. They get a couple of bottles and eventually land in the same hotel.
In the lobby of the hotel are two desk clerks. One old and wise (Screamin Jay Hawkins) and te other young and relaticely speaking naive.

The three stories meet when you hear a gunshot. I will let you watch the film for yourself from that point. Suffice it tao say that everything I said about Jarmusch in my review of Down by Law, is true of this film. Jarmusch takes his time to develop his stories. he does not rush things, and i don't think he cares if you think his films are slow. I believe at the end of his films you are well rewarded for patiently sticking wi the story. Others, I am sure, will disagree. This is the perfect Jarmusch film, i give it four stars because Jarmusch is an acquired taste.

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86. To Kill a Mockingbird


The famous novel by Harper Lee brought to the big screen by Robert Mulligan. The film was made the year before Kennedy was shot. Some believe that it allowed the director, Mulligan, to infuse the movie with almost naive views about race in America during the time period of the movie. The fact that Atticus and his family were unharmed and that Aticus does not seem to understand that the black man he defended was killed while 'attempting to escape". Gregory Peck has always been one of my favorites and he is in large part why I placed this film here on my list. Also the first film appearance of Robert Duvall, another of my favorites.

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85. Touch of Evil
Dir Orson Welles
Featured Cast: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich,


The film begins with the the most famous tracking shots in Hollywood, 3 minutes and 20 seconds long. Once again, Welles shows of his directorial skills at the expense of the plot. There are other clever uses of the camera, such as an extended interrogation in a cramped room, and a shot that follows its characters from the street into the elevator in a hotel.

The story takes place in Los Robles, a Mexican- American border town. Heston and Janet Leigh play a newly married couple. Heston is Mexican and works for drug enforcement on the Mexican side. It might have been to daunting a prospect to find a Mexican or Mexican-American actor to play this part , but I have to believe that this is one of the most obvious examples of white-washing a part for American audiences ever. This film reminds me a lot of Citizen Kane in that the story is enough to support a film that highlights many technical achievements of the film, but could have been improved.

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84. Glory
Dir Edward Zwick
Featured cast: Mathew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman


Glory tells the story of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts volunteer infantry, made up of black soldiers, led by white officers. The story is told from the perspective of Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the regiment. Some argue that the film should have been told from the perspective of the black soldiers. That would have been great, but I doubt that any first hand accounts from any of the black soldiers remain. Regardless their are some scenes that are from the black perspective. One would be when Denzel Washington's character is talking trash about the white soldiers. Morgan Freeman's character points out that the Whites had been fighting the war for some time, and had been dying, only in part, to buy the blacks freedom. Another is the night before the big battle, when they know thyt will almost certainly die the next day. I thought the latter scene was the best scene in the movie. Reccomended for civil war buffs, and those who like a dramatic action film

I first saw To Kill a Mockingbird many years ago when I was in school, and I loved it back then. I've seen it several times since then, and I think it just gets better every time I see it.

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83. Orpheus Descending
Dir Peter Hall

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82. The Conversation

Dir Francis Ford Copola

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81. 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet

These are both great movies. One of these is definitely going to make my top 25 list, and the other one will probably just miss it.

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80. Through a Glass Darkly- 1961
Dir Ingmar Berman
Principal Actors: Harriet Andersson, Max Von Sydow, Lars Passgard, and Gunmar Bjornstrand.


This is the first of Bergmans Trilogy concerning the "Silence of God". In this film Bergman tells the story of a father, his daughter and son, and the daughter's husband, isolated on a remote island for a summer vacation. We are told about the sickness of the daughter. This sickness is a severe mental disorder, most likely schizophrenia. She has been treated, but is going through a period of recovery. The husband loves and feels powerless to help her. ?Her father is an author, highly regarded, who has just returned from travels to Switzerland.

The daughter almost immediately starts having problems wit mental episodes. She goes upstairs at night claiming that voices had called to her, that the wallpaper opened a door where she met a group of people waiting for something... God. Later she says she saw God, and he was a spider.

Bergman followed up this movie with two others 'Winter's Light" and "The Silence". These three films make up his silence of God trilogy. I will review "Winter's Light" later on this list. I watched the silence once several years ago. I watched it late at night and found it difficult to follow. I need to go back and watch it again. I highly recommend This film and Winter's Light to Bergman Fans.

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79. Choice of Arms- Alain Corneau

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78. The Seventh Seal

Dir Ingmar Begman
Cast: Max von sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Maude Hanson,



In some ways The Seventh Seal is a film from a different time. A time when it was more appropriate for a film to ask existential questions such as "Why does God Remain silent" or at least seems to. Bergman followed this sort of theme in most of his mature movies (his comedies were an an exception).

In this film he takes a more direct approach than say his "silence of God" Trilogy: Through a Glass Darkly, Winter's Light, and The Silence". A knight returning from the crusades is approached by death and is informed that Death has been traveling by his side for some time now. The knight (Max Von Sydow) challenges death to a game of chess for his soul.

Death has other souls on the menu, and the Knight loses the game on purpose to distract death from claiming the lives of a small family traveling through the country side.So he sacrifices his life for the lives of the travelers. Bergman is not for everybody. some would say his films are to heavy or boring. I enjoy Bergman for his willingness to explore life issues in his films.

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A couple of my favorites have made this list already. Good selection so far! I'll be sure to follow this thread.

The Seventh Seal is one of those movies that I've heard about, and it sounds interesting, but I'm not sure if I'll like it, so I haven't watched it yet. I even bought the DVD at a garage sale recently, but I haven't decided whether or not to watch it yet.

It is a good Bergman film, and if you have not already checked him out I think it would be a good introduction. Bergman is definitely not for everyone, but I like him.

I think I watched a few Bergman films in some early HoFs here, but the only one that I remember liking is Wild Strawberries (1957).

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77. Midnight Cowboy


Looking back on this film, What I liked was primarily the acting of Voight and Hoffman. I would still consider a top 100, but maybe not this high.

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76. Blue Velvet

Dir David Lynch
Kyle Mclachlan, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, and others


Lynch seeks to show that even in the Mayberry like town of Lumberton, that there is something dark lurking under the thin veneer surface that we see. In this case its name is Frank Booth. For me Frank booth is the ultimate villain, bad guy, or whatever you want to call him. (I've said so in some of my posts to threads on the subject). A young man (Mcchachlan) returns home to Lumberton when his father suffers a severe stroke. While he is there he meets a young women (Laura Dern) who he starts dating. While cutting through a field on his way home from visiting his father, he comes across a human ear. He takes it to a detective down the street (Laura Dern's father ) and Kyle starts to be drawn into a dark mystery that he finds irresistible. He also gets Dern's character involved against her father's wishes. the young man gets himself in over his head with Frank and finds that it just might cost him his life.

This theme of the dark forces living just under the surface of the seemingly good veneer has become a common theme in Lynch's movies and tv projects. You see it clearest in Twin Peaks, but it is also there in Lost Highway and other Lynch films. He also is big on mystery. Not so much stories about a mystery, but creating a mystery with his film. Anyone who has seen Lost Highway knows what I am talking about.

I wouldn't recommend this film to everyone. This film is meant to offend you, and I would worry about you if you are not on some level offended. Frank is pure id, and thus becomes the ultimate in uncontrollable rage. David Lynch tells the story of writing the part and having Dennis Hopper call him saying that he was Frank Booth and wanted the part. Lynch just said he was silent for just a moment with a chill, an gave Dennis the part. I would give the film a higher score, but it is going to turn to many people off to earn a five.

I almost ended up watching that one this year, but never got around to it for some reason. I'll have to consider it for November after my October horror binge is up.

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75. Night of the Iguana- Tennessee Williams





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74. 8 1/2 by Frederico Fellinni

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72. Mullholland Drive Lynch




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71. Live and Die in LA Friedkin

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70. The French Connection




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69. The Verdict

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Love To Live And Die In LA. Not watched it in a very long time though.

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68. Badlands Terrance Malick 1973
4/5

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67 A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrik 1971 4/5

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66. Days of Heaven Terrance Malick 1978 4/5

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65. All That Jazz Bob Fosse 1979 4/5

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64 Silver Linings Playbook David O Russell 2012 4/5

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63. Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail

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62. Michael Collins

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61. Play it Again Sam- Woody Allen

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60. Pink Floyd: The Wall

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59. A Mid Summer Sex Comedy- Woody Allenhttps://bloggeraditi.files.wordpress...pg?w=337&h=167

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58. American Hustle

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57. Angel Heart

I watched this years ago and didn’t find it entertaining. Which is odd, considering I’m a big fan of Allen’s early films circa 70’s-80’s

Watched this for the Noir HOF earlier this year and was surprised by how good it was.

I remember that the ending blind sided me.

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56. Monty Pythons Life of Brian

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55. Sideways

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54. Cookies fortune Altman

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53. Wizard of Oz

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52. Schindlers list

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51. Fargo- Coen Brothers

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50. The Awful Truth

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49. His Girl Friday - Hawkes

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48. Mash Altman

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47. Chocalot Hallstrom

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46. Mighty Aphrodite - Woody Allen

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45. Count of Monte Cristo- Depardieu

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44. A Steetcar Named Desire

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42. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday Tati

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41. Rear Window- Hitchcock

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40. Fisher King Gilliam

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39. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Wizard of Oz is one of the best movies ever made, but the flying monkeys still scare the he!! out of me every time I watch it. :eek:

Schindler's List is an amazing movie, but it's a very tough movie to watch. I bought the DVD, but I'll probably never watch it again.

These are two of my favorite Cary Grant movies. :up:

I love the TV show "MASH", but for some reason, I just didn't really care much for the movie. Maybe it's because I saw the TV show first, and then I watched the movie later.

Rear Window is not my favorite of Hitchcock's movies, but it's definitely one of his best movies. :up:

Why is that, out of curiosity? I mean, I didn't love it either, but I did at least enjoy it for what it was; an episodic series of hijinks with a group of misfit doctors during the Korean War (almost exactly like the show, only feature-length, with different actors, and without the laugh track come to think of it, heh).

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Wow, so nice thank you for these shares.

I'm not really sure why, but my guess is that I've seen the TV show so many times that I just couldn't see other actors playing some of the roles. Most notably, Alan Alda will always be Benjamin Franklin"Hawkeye" Pierce to me, and nobody else can fill his shoes.

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38 Cabaret

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37. The General- Buster Keaton

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36. City Lights- Charlie Chaplin

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35. Midnight in Paris- Woody Allen

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34. Ordet- Carl Theodore Dreyer

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33. It's a Wonderful Life- Capra

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32. Lawrence of Arabia- Lean