Harry Lime's List

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Registered User

10-05-10

Great list Harry. I too am particularly fond of:

Night of the Hunter
No Country For Old Men
The Maltese Falcon
High And Low (sometimes I think it's my favourite Kurosawa film)
Double Indemnity
Traffic
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Rear Window
Mulholland Drive
The General
Raging Bull (as a boxing fan, I go ballistic every time I see this)
There Will Be Blood
Psycho
The Empire Strikes Back
Apocalypse Now
The Battle of Algiers
A Clockwork Orange
The Wild Bunch
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Casablanca
Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Quite a few of these will most certainly appear on my Best of the Year list.

Also loving the inclusion of 2 Melville classics. Though I prefer a few others of him over Bob Le Flambeur, it is certainly a terrific film. Le Samourai is a masterpiece, as are Le Cercle Rouge and Army of Shadows.

I will definitely try to watch Wages of Fear from Clouzot. I've only seen Le Corbeau so far, so I have to watch Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques asap.

Once again, great list. Lovely mixture of old films, modern classics and some very personal choices here and there.

linespalsy

style over substance

03-16-11

Cool lists. I've seen 76/100. I'll have to queue up City of God.

I'm also happy to see Lawrence of Arabia crept its way into your top 10.

Harry Lime

BANNED FROM VIENNA

03-16-11

That main list would be a lot different were I to make it today. Many new films added plus a whole lot of rewatching has altered my opinions, one way or another. Plus, I would like to think I've matured in the last couple of years...yeah right. I'll post a new list in about a year or so.

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Tyler1

Unreliable Narrator

03-17-11

Very, very nice. I have seen that your top 10 favourite films on your profile has changed. I wouldnt rank City of God too high.

^^^ I prefer Clouzot's Les Diaboliques to Wages of Fear. I think the first hour is pretty boring but afterwards its fascinating.

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