List 10 flicks you "should have seen by now, but haven't." Print it up. Put it in your wallet, and next time you're at the video store reaching for "Shanghai Knights," remember the list and pull it out. Anyway, here are ten I've been meaning to catch for a while now: Yojimbo (1961) Kurosawa Sunset Blvd. (1950) Wilder Bande a part (1964) Godard Paths of Glory (1957) Kubrick 8 1/2 (1963) Fellini Decalog (1987) Kieslowski North by Northwest (1959) Hitchcock Birth of a Nation (1915) Griffith Some Like it Hot (1959) Grande Illusion (1937) Renoir
That's the beauty of Netflix though, you get 7 or 8 quality movies a month and then you don't feel bad about getting Shanghai Knights. I will post my list of 10 "need to sees" soon.
off the top of my head, all pretty recent flirting with disaster (david o russell) the waterdance (neal jimenez) watch it (thomas flynn) lock, stock and two smoking barrels (guy ritchie) kicking and screaming (naaoh baumbach) suicide kings (peter o'fallon) the commitments (alan parker) the world according to garp (george roy hill) lone star (john sayles) the sweet hereafter (atom egoyan)
That's what I love about the good Dr. Jones: this could be anyone's top 10 of all time list. Each director is a great one and has a film I haven't seen. So I'll make a must see list from the same directors: Sanjuro (Kurosawa) One, Two, Three (Wilder) Les Carabiniers (Godard) The Killer's Kiss (Kubrick) Fellini's Casanova (Fellini) No End (Kieslowski) Sabotage (Hitchcock) Orphans of the Storm (Griffith) Griffith is to the cinema what Mark Twain is to the novel - it's a shame we can't worship him. The Diary of a Chambermaid (Renoir)
1. I am Cuba - If you're into B/W photography, this commie flick will blow you away. 2. Bad Guy - Probably the weirdest and most sado-masochistic love story I've ever seen. 3. Jerry Maguire - Life lessons for all guys 4. La Haine(Hate) - France's version of Scorsese's Mean Streets with a more tragic, but more overblown ending. 5. The Celebration(Festen) - Effed up little dogme95 movie about a family gathering gone horribly wrong. 6. The Big Lebowski - Funniest movie ever made 7. The Ice Storm - Perceptive observation and a slight slant on the Norman Rockwell-like American family. 8. Five Easy Pieces - Another life lesson for all guys. 9. Buffalo 66 - Hilarious character study 10. Amarcord - A nostalgia-piece from Fellini that has undertones of him taking shots at his own country's government and country during that time in Italy. Pretty funny flick.
This is a good question, and I'm goign to spend a minute thinking about it...since if I could remember them, I would have FREAKIN' seen em by now. Right? Lots of people have told me Titanic and Fight Club I gotta see, but I ain't buyin' it, at least with Titanic. "A Mighty Wind" I'll definitely pick up on my next trip to the video store. The Bob Dylan movie which came out a few months ago I'll wind up watching eventually, but because I'm a bob dylan freak, not because I'm expecting anything of it. The new Cohen bros movie. American Splendor. God, I know there are some classics i've been meaning to see, but I'm drawing a blank. Ah, Raging Bull. Oh, and I just read a bio of Charlie Chaplin, three of his will fill up the list.
I was going to go see Titanic when it first came out but then one of my idiot friends ruined the ending for me. C14
Yeah, I can't believe the ship sank! I thought it was supposed to be unsinkable! Well, the ending was so silly, I'm not sure if there was much to ruin.
You poseurs don't know what the *#*#*#*# you are talking about. Magnificent Ambersons. Original cut. End of story.
Roma 8 1/2 The Gospel According to St. Matthew Balthazer The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Through the Olive Trees Secrets and Lies Lethal Weapon I, II, III, IV, and V The Casa de Los Babies Shane (the Director's cut where the kid gets it at the end) The Magnificent Seven
This doesn't exist. And it's Welles' fault for walking out to go to Rio before the editing was done. But he was great at never finishing what he started and then blaming the rest of the world.
Mystic River Under The Tuscan Sun Lord of the Rings The Two Towers One Hour Photo In The Cut Kill Bill Lawrence of Arabia Das Boot The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Finding Nemo