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Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 hour ago
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Are we in the weakest period for worldwide fictional film making?
Posted By Robert the List
Are we in the weakest period for worldwide fictional film making?

The 21st century has been fantastic for documentary films. Way better than any part of the 20th century, it's not even close.

But in terms of fictional motion pictures, I think we seem to be going...
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 hours ago
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Robert the List's Top 100 films
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Robert the List's Top 100 films

I hope to get down to 50, but I have a busy few days for a change.
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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Robert the List's Top 100 films
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Robert the List's Top 100 films

The following in my top 100 I have found within the last few weeks:

Strike 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
Seven Chances 1925 USA Buster Keaton
Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 USA Frank...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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Robert the List's Top 100 films
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Robert the List's Top 100 films

My updated top 100:

Strike 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
Seven Chances 1925 USA Buster Keaton
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Man With a Movie Camera...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
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Robert the List's Top 100 films
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Robert the List's Top 100 films

finalising my revised top 100.
down to about 110 atm.


I've got 6 places left, to come from the following, although nothing in this list prior to 1973 is likely to make it:
The Adventures of...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 13
Favorite Movies of 2024
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Favorite Movies of 2024

There's a 2024 movie that's got 411.5 stars out of 415 on Rotten Tomatoes viewer reviews.

Probably the highest ratings I've ever seen on there.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 1 day ago
Replies: 1
Poll: Best movie actor 1990s SEMI-FINAL 2
Posted By Robert the List
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
Replies: 171
Important: MoFo Members' Favourite Films Lists
Posted By Robert the List
Re: MoFo Members' Favourite Films Lists

This is great work!

There are no countdowns for the 2010s or 2000s?
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 7
Jack Nicholson in the 1970s
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Jack Nicholson in the 1970s

You watched The Passenger, Paul?
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 11
Eraserhead (1977) - Analysis
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Eraserhead (1977) - Analysis

I tried watching this yesterday.
I'd never previously made it past the dinner.
This time I got almost up to an hour. The baby had been sick. I can't remember exactly what made me finally decide...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 115
Robert the List's Top 100 films
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Robert the List's Top 100 films

Years since 1924 (to 2024) which do not have an entrant in my top 200:

1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1940
1970
1978
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
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Robert the List's Top 100 films
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Robert the List's Top 100 films

My current top 200, including documentaries ("doc"). "**" are the lowest ranked.

J'Accuse 1919 Abel Gance France
The Great White Silence (doc) 1924 Herbery Ponting UK
The Phantom of the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 201
The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread
Posted By Robert the List
Re: The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread

Just finished it.
At half way or so I thought I was going to have it down as a masterpiece.
And although I don't really understand it, I also found the last I guess 5 or 10 minutes or so to...
Forum: Movie Reviews 2 days ago
Replies: 201
The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread
Posted By Robert the List
Re: The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread

But I'm finding The Suspended Step of the Stork rewarding Captain Quint.
It actually has a Lynch-like or even Cronenbergesque narrative and dialogue (come to think of it, perhaps not unlike the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 230
I have run out of films
Posted By Robert the List
Re: I have run out of films

haha

well that made me laugh anyway. thanks.

imagine calling someone else's approach to movie viewing "lame". like, wtf haha?

I finished what I wanted to finish, and am pleased with what...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 230
I have run out of films
Posted By Robert the List
The stand outs. The ones which made my big list. ...

The stand outs. The ones which made my big list.
I think they are also the ones I finished.


To me the number of perfect films is very small. I'm not that restrictive in what I want to watch.
...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 230
I have run out of films
Posted By Robert the List
Re: I have run out of films

Some good films this week:

1. Little Fugitive (1953) 9.5
2. The 400 Blows (1959) 9*
3. The Straight Story (1999) 8.75
4. Girlfriends (1978) 8.75

Not a new film, but I also finally...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 8
Frances Ha
Posted By Robert the List
Re: Frances Ha

Just watched this. Nice film, and yeah definitely the protype I'd say. That at Stranger than Paradise.
Kind of like a cross between Cassavetes and Woody Allen.
For me personally Ha is the better...
Replies: 9
do you still connect your laptop to your tv using hdmi??
Posted By Robert the List
Re: do you still connect your laptop to your tv using hdmi??

On modern tvs you can get the internet on the television.
Some of them have youtube like apps I guess.
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 201
The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread
Posted By Robert the List
Re: The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread

I think Landscape in the Mist is sensational, and like The Travelling Players too.

Actually, I did check it out for about half an hour when I was trying to work out which Angelopouloses I wanted...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 201
The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread
Posted By Robert the List
Re: The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread

As things stand I have space for 3 of these:

Toto the Hero 1991 Belgium Jaco Van Dormael
The Scent of Green Papaya 1993 Vietnam Tran Anh Hung
Taste of Cherry 1997 Iran Abbas Kiarostami
Donnie...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 201
The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread
Posted By Robert the List
Re: The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread

Nice film. Some really touching moments.

You don't get more emotion in a movie, than actors genuinely taking their final looks back at the whole story.

Poignant.

I don't say this often,...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 1
Poll: Best movie actor 1990s SEMI-FINAL 2
Posted By Robert the List
Best movie actor 1990s SEMI-FINAL 2

Actor who demonstrated the greatest acting prowess in the 1990s.

Please vote for a maximum of 3.
Thank you very much for abiding by this. If you vote for more than 3, your votes will be...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 0
Poll: Best movie actor 1990s SEMI-FINAL 1
Posted By Robert the List
Best movie actor 1990s SEMI-FINAL 1

Actor who demonstrated the greatest acting prowess in the 1990s.

Please vote for a maximum of 3.
Thank you very much for abiding by this. If you vote for more than 3, your votes will be...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 201
The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread
Posted By Robert the List
Re: The MoFo 1990s Countdown pt II - Preliminary Thread

This just got silly by the end. I ran out of steam with 20 to go and abandoned.

It could have been better going down more of the drama and black comedy route than the silly farce route.

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