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59. Grave of Fireflies
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Right on I had The General at #10 the third from my list to make it. Buster Keaton is a genius. This is one of my favourites of his (although they're all pretty damn good). And of course this is a war film.
9. Shoah (1985)
10. The General (1926)
23. Three Kings (1999)
25. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003)
Tora! Tora! Tora! is good. Passing grade from me. Sure the multi-perspective is interesting but on a whole not a film to be listed as next level at least for me. Still definitely fine with it being here.
First Blood is a war film eh? Alright then. When I was a kid every car trip from Edmonton to Vancouver, and back, passing Hope BC, it never failed, my dad would say "This is where they filmed Rambo, kids. Right here." We were probably too young to have even watched the Rambo movies but you know, parenting. We needed the context for every time we drove past the town and we were told this was where part of it was filmed.
Kanal is another great film from Polish director Andrzej Wajda that's been way too long since I last watched it and I don't have any connecting stories of driving by any Polish film locations for my dad to point that this was where the movie was filmed so that is all.
9. Shoah (1985)
10. The General (1926)
23. Three Kings (1999)
25. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003)
Tora! Tora! Tora! is good. Passing grade from me. Sure the multi-perspective is interesting but on a whole not a film to be listed as next level at least for me. Still definitely fine with it being here.
First Blood is a war film eh? Alright then. When I was a kid every car trip from Edmonton to Vancouver, and back, passing Hope BC, it never failed, my dad would say "This is where they filmed Rambo, kids. Right here." We were probably too young to have even watched the Rambo movies but you know, parenting. We needed the context for every time we drove past the town and we were told this was where part of it was filmed.
Kanal is another great film from Polish director Andrzej Wajda that's been way too long since I last watched it and I don't have any connecting stories of driving by any Polish film locations for my dad to point that this was where the movie was filmed so that is all.
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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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The General is the first film that I genuinely missed that probably deserved a spot on my ballot
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#60
#60
Clint Eastwood, 2006
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
80 points, 7 lists
Letters from Iwo Jima
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Clint Eastwood, 2006
Starring
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
#59
#59
Kon Ichikawa, 1959
Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Mantar? Ushio
80 points, 7 lists
Fires on the Plain
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Kon Ichikawa, 1959
Starring
Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis, Mantar? Ushio
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