Daniel M's Top 100 - 2014

Looks like Daniel is putting up the skills to be a potential 60s list presenter!

I second this. Great looking graphics.

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Well this set looks a lot more like what I was expecting to find in this thread. I've only seen The Graduate, which was okay but I wasn't crazy about it.

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Big for Bicycle Thieves and even more so The Graduate. Also great work on the graphics they're great.

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The Graduate is great and would probably make my Top 100 as well. Haven't seen the others but I really ought to, some real classics there.

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Con Air is an example of a big dumb action movie done right. So many memorable scenes and quotes with a talented cast having fun with the material. One of my favorite action movies.

The Bridge on the River Kwai would make my top 100, too. One of the most impressive movies I've seen.

Bicycle Thieves and The Graduate are all-time classics that I admire and enjoy, but don't necessarily consider personal favorites. Haven't seen La Grande Illusion or Ordet.

Really looking forward to the rest of your list. Although I'm still relatively new, I've already come to admire and respect your taste in movies more than most on here.

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Wow, you included Ordet! One of my favorite Dreyer movies. I completely agree with your writeup!

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Thanks for all the kind words so far guys, glad to see the majority like a film or two so far, and quite a lot share my love for Con Air!

Regarding doing a list: I have always considered it but been unsure for a few reasons, but I might put myself forward for the 60s, we'll see.

Honeykid: Ssssh, I think I knew that you weren't big on even Bridge and Graduate.

Thanks, I also enjoy The Passion of Joan of Arc but don't absolutely love it like you do, for some reason the ending of Ordet hit me more powerfully. From a direction viewpoint both are absolutely brilliantly crafted, so I definitely need to explore more Dreyer.

We want more!

Peter Greenaway's experimental film won't be for everyone, but I love his attempt in challenging the formal construction of a film as he creates fascinating images as he mixes the various elements within the frame, focusing - as the title suggests - on numbers and patterns.
The first horror film to appear on my list, and it definitely won't be the last. Like many great horrors, Polanski focusses on suspense and the unseen in order to build up atmosphere and make the ending truly frightening. Fantastic performances by a paranoid Mia Farrow and a slightly insane and very creepy Ruth Gordon make Rosemary's struggle seem all the more terrifying.
Taking aim at Hollywood, the film looks at a fading silent film star, Gloria Swanson, who gives a towering performance as a desperate and intimidating character. Mixed in with usual noir conventions with the story starting with our dead narrator, Wilder pulls no punches in getting his acerbic message across.
"Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money - and a woman - and I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?"

Unlike Sunset Boulevard, this is pure film noir, focusing on a complex plot to gain money, with a scheming femme fatale at the centre of it all. Fred MacMurray is great as the salesmen who tragically falls into the plot. The film has everything you could ever want from a noir, with another delicious Wilder script. It is very similar to Sunset Boulevard in terms of narrative, starting at the end in order for us to develop more sympathy for the main character that succumbs to something greater than him.

Good stuff, Rosemary's Baby is the best of those although I haven't seen Drowning by Numbers.

Rosemary's Baby: the only movie to scare the crap out of me after the age of 12.

Never seen Drowning by Numbers, but the other three are phenomenal films. Rosemary's Baby is one of my favorite horrors, and Billy Wilder is one of my favorite directors, so of course I love Sunset Blvd. and Double Indemnity.

Con Air is very good, Bicycle Thieves is excellent and The Graduate is a classic. Really like Rosemary's Baby & Double Indemnity and Drowning By Numbers is good but not one of my favourite Greenaway films. Sunset Boulevard is the only one I'm not a big fan of but I need to rewatch it.

Nice list so far

Great list so far, although i was certain you would have Double Indemnity much higher.

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I like Rosemary's Baby, Con Air, Bridge on the River Kwai and The Graduate. I haven't seen any of the others. The list has started 50/50 for me, still plenty of films to go, and judging from the choices so far there's defiantly some erotic potential here.

Well, Ordet is basically porn, so...

Big thumbs up for Rosemary's Baby, Double Indemnity, and Sunset Boulevard. Even though Sunset Boulevard didn't grab me as I had hoped, it's still a high quality movie.

I don't think the other one is for me.

Yeah, Ordet is really erotic, that scene with the bucket is so steamy. It's also the best movie on this list so far by a long shot (or that's just my own recency effect talking ).

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Rosemary's Baby, Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard are all on my own list. The latter one still has to appear, so I think that's the best one of those three. I've only seen CTWL from Greenaway so far and really liked that one (it even made my '80s list), so I'll definitely check more of his stuff out.

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