shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Nov 2, 2015 5:24:39 GMT -5
You haven't seen The Searchers. I'm speechless. I bought it two years back and just haven't been in the mindset to watch it yet! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2015 8:54:09 GMT -5
You haven't seen The Searchers. I'm speechless. I bought it two years back and just haven't been in the mindset to watch it yet! Call in sick tomorrow and watch it...class can teach itself!  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 2, 2015 9:31:48 GMT -5
You haven't seen The Searchers. I'm speechless. I'm torn between The Searchers or Red River as my favorite John Wayne movie. If your a fan of Westerns or great epic films then you need to see this. All great performances and the scenery is breathtaking. Top notch John Ford. I love both of these, but lately I have seen Fort Apache a few times, thanks to the Encore Western Channel, and my admiration and affection for it continues to grow. Same with My Darling Clementine. Not that I still don't love Red River and The Searchers. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2015 10:22:53 GMT -5
I'm torn between The Searchers or Red River as my favorite John Wayne movie. If your a fan of Westerns or great epic films then you need to see this. All great performances and the scenery is breathtaking. Top notch John Ford. I love both of these, but lately I have seen Fort Apache a few times, thanks to the Encore Western Channel, and my admiration and affection for it continues to grow. Same with My Darling Clementine. Not that I still don't love Red River and The Searchers. Damn...I would love to have a western tv channel. I wouldn't leave my house. I have Fort Apache on Blu-ray and it looks lovely. Might have to watch it again soon. Wish Henry Fonda and The Duke had made more movies together. Really though you can't go wrong with any John Ford movie especially his westerns. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 2, 2015 10:31:47 GMT -5
I love both of these, but lately I have seen Fort Apache a few times, thanks to the Encore Western Channel, and my admiration and affection for it continues to grow. Same with My Darling Clementine. Not that I still don't love Red River and The Searchers. Damn...I would love to have a western tv channel. I wouldn't leave my house. I have Fort Apache on Blu-ray and it looks lovely. Might have to watch it again soon. Wish Henry Fonda and The Duke had made more movies together. Really though you can't go wrong with any John Ford movie especially his westerns. Agreed. I love the playing against type by Fonda and Wayne in Fort Apache, which makes their characters that much deeper and more complex. Just read the short story on which the film is based, "Massacre," by James Warner Bellah, and it's quite good, but the film breathes life into the characters and thus makes the themes resonate with great poignancy. I recommend it, though. We're lucky because we also have MeTv, Cozi and Grit, which run a good number of Westerns. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2015 10:58:00 GMT -5
Damn...I would love to have a western tv channel. I wouldn't leave my house. I have Fort Apache on Blu-ray and it looks lovely. Might have to watch it again soon. Wish Henry Fonda and The Duke had made more movies together. Really though you can't go wrong with any John Ford movie especially his westerns. Agreed. I love the playing against type by Fonda and Wayne in Fort Apache, which makes their characters that much deeper and more complex. Just read the short story on which the film is based, "Massacre," by James Warner Bellah, and it's quite good, but the film breathes life into the characters and thus makes the themes resonate with great poignancy. I recommend it, though. We're lucky because we also have MeTv, Cozi and Grit, which run a good number of Westerns. Thanks...I will have to check out the short story. I'm jealous that there are all those stations that show westerns. I guess it would help if I had cable though. Hell I've never even owned a computer and have to use internet on my tablet and phone  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 2, 2015 11:58:07 GMT -5
You haven't seen The Searchers. I'm speechless. I'm torn between The Searchers or Red River as my favorite John Wayne movie. If your a fan of Westerns or great epic films then you need to see this. All great performances and the scenery is breathtaking. Top notch John Ford. The Searchers generally vies with Casablanca as my favorite film of all time. I do love Red River as well though. Wayne was at his best when he was playing somewhat against type. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 2, 2015 16:34:00 GMT -5
Agreed. I love the playing against type by Fonda and Wayne in Fort Apache, which makes their characters that much deeper and more complex. Just read the short story on which the film is based, "Massacre," by James Warner Bellah, and it's quite good, but the film breathes life into the characters and thus makes the themes resonate with great poignancy. I recommend it, though. We're lucky because we also have MeTv, Cozi and Grit, which run a good number of Westerns. Thanks...I will have to check out the short story. I'm jealous that there are all those stations that show westerns. I guess it would help if I had cable though. Hell I've never even owned a computer and have to use internet on my tablet and phone I'm sure you can find lots of those old Westerns (movies and TV) on youtube, too. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 2, 2015 16:39:08 GMT -5
I'm torn between The Searchers or Red River as my favorite John Wayne movie. If your a fan of Westerns or great epic films then you need to see this. All great performances and the scenery is breathtaking. Top notch John Ford. The Searchers generally vies with Casablanca as my favorite film of all time. I do love Red River as well though. Wayne was at his best when he was playing somewhat against type. So true. Which is why so many of us love his work in The Quiet Man, for instance. I go back and forth depending on what I've seen lately. Casablanca is perfection. Can't turn it off if it's on. I love it and admire it. I don't have quite that emotional attraction to every movie I respect/admire/ recognize as extraordinary. The Searchers I love and admire, but its flaws are more obvious than those in Casablanca. (I know that sounds like a contradiction, since I just said it was perfect. So sue me.) Sometimes Ford can't help himself when it came to comedy... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2015 16:49:31 GMT -5
Thanks...I will have to check out the short story. I'm jealous that there are all those stations that show westerns. I guess it would help if I had cable though. Hell I've never even owned a computer and have to use internet on my tablet and phone I'm sure you can find lots of those old Westerns (movies and TV) on youtube, too. I could but like I said I don't have internet and watching a movie on my tablet or phone would eat away ALOT of my data usage. Don't have much access to wi-fi either. Oh well |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 2, 2015 17:18:48 GMT -5
On a side note about westerns : I watched Bone Tomahawk yesterday, a recent "western" with a pretty good cast. Quite difficulte to discribe as it kinda crosses over with different styles. That being said, hte movie had a very unique sense of humor and pretty great dialogue. Highly recommended for you western heads, especially if you can stomach a couple of very graphic scenes (not on the sexual side, mind you). Maybe do yourself a favor and don't read anything about it beforehand. It features Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Mahew Fox and a bunch of other rather good actors.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 2, 2015 18:05:00 GMT -5
Hmmm... I'll try to partake this monh, even though I already have a long list of stuff on the pile - movies and TV series - I'll just try to move up the line the ones I haven't seen yet or dearly want to watch again. I've seen for sure 396 of the listed movies, but I've already identified the ones that should run this month.
I'll start with entry 998, Memories of Murder, which I've watched again yesterday after seing it when it was released in the theatres 12 years ago.
Bong Joon-Ho now is famous for his first US film Snowpiercer, a somewhat stunning if not a little boring of an old french SciFi comic. He gained critical and public acclaim with his second movie The Host, a spectacular mpnster movie wit deep social implications. I much prefered his consecutive movie Mother, one of the very best movies ever if you ask me, but alas, it is not yet 10 years old, so MoM it is.
MoM starts out in the south corean countryside, where a series of murders have been commited with the local police having not the begining of a clue on what has happened. They call in a detective from the big city to help them out, and soon enough, clues appear, a suspect is identified, but... many shortcuts are taken, and as people need an answer, the police finaly finds one. But is it the real one? I won't spoil it to you, but the cinematography is amongst the best you can hope for in those modern days, the actors all deliver haunting performances, but the real treat there is the epilogue, one which elevates this simple crime movie to this list. I dare you to find any ending in the past 25 years as chilling as that one, without even being graphic. On a side note, after watching this a second time, it seems pretty obvious that David Fincher was massively inspired by the dynamics of this movie to produce his Zodiac monster. I say monster since I absolutely hated that movie for it cowardice/lack of point of view. Then again, I keep thinking Fincher is the pro of chosing to film stories not at the point when they are/were interesting....
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 2, 2015 18:16:29 GMT -5
Damn... I was set to watch Miklós Jancsó's The Round-Up right now, but can't seem to find the DVD... Never saw it yet, but had this for yers! :/ Hope it didn't get lostin my latest move.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 2, 2015 19:20:21 GMT -5
I'm sure you can find lots of those old Westerns (movies and TV) on youtube, too. I could but like I said I don't have internet and watching a movie on my tablet or phone would eat away ALOT of my data usage. Don't have much access to wi-fi either. Oh well A problem, but there's always the library! |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 3, 2015 11:47:31 GMT -5
So as Shaxper :
1 1 Citizen Kane Welles, Orson 1941 USA 119
2 2 Vertigo Hitchcock, Alfred 1958 USA 128
3 3 2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick, Stanley 1968 UK 139
4 4 Tokyo Story Ozu, Yasujiro 1953 Japan 134
5 5 Rules of the Game, The Renoir, Jean 1939 France 113
6 6 8 1/2 Fellini, Federico 1963 Italy 135
7 7 Godfather, The Coppola, Francis Ford 1972 USA 175
8 8 Sunrise Murnau, F.W. 1927 USA 110
9 10 Seven Samurai Kurosawa, Akira 1954 Japan 200
10 9 Searchers, The Ford, John 1956 USA 119
11 11 Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein, Sergei 1925 USSR 71
12 12 Apocalypse Now Coppola, Francis Ford 1979 USA 150
13 13 Bicycle Thieves De Sica, Vittorio 1948 Italy 90
14 14 Breathless Godard, Jean-Luc 1960 France 89
15 15 Passion of Joan of Arc, The Dreyer, Carl Theodor 1928 France 110
16 16 Singin' in the Rain Donen & Kelly 1952 USA 102
17 17 Atalante, L' Vigo, Jean 1934 France 89
18 27 Man with a Movie Camera, The Vertov, Dziga 1929 USSR 80
19 19 Taxi Driver Scorsese, Martin 1976 USA 113
20 18 Rashomon Kurosawa, Akira 1950 Japan 88
21 20 Godfather Part II, The Coppola, Francis Ford 1974 USA 200
22 21 Raging Bull Scorsese, Martin 1980 USA 128
23 24 Persona Bergman, Ingmar 1966 Sweden 81
24 22 Lawrence of Arabia Lean, David 1962 UK 216
25 23 400 Blows, The Truffaut, Francois 1959 France 99
26 25 Andrei Rublev Tarkovsky, Andrei 1966 USSR 185
27 26 Mirror, The Tarkovsky, Andrei 1974 USSR 108
28 29 City Lights Chaplin, Charles 1931 USA 86
29 30 Psycho Hitchcock, Alfred 1960 USA 109
30 31 Dolce vita, La Fellini, Federico 1960 Italy 175
31 28 Avventura, L' Antonioni, Michelangelo 1960 Italy 145
32 32 Some Like it Hot Wilder, Billy 1959 USA 119
33 33 Ordet Dreyer, Carl Theodor 1955 Denmark 125
34 34 Touch of Evil Welles, Orson 1958 USA 108
35 36 General, The Keaton & Bruckman 1926 USA 74
36 35 Au hasard Balthazar Bresson, Robert 1966 France 95
37 45 Blade Runner Scott, Ridley 1982 USA 118
38 38 Contempt Godard, Jean-Luc 1963 France 103
39 37 Casablanca Curtiz, Michael 1942 USA 102
40 40 Sunset Blvd. Wilder, Billy 1950 USA 110
41 41 Metropolis Lang, Fritz 1927 Germany 153
42 39 Grande illusion, La Renoir, Jean 1937 France 117
43 44 Night of the Hunter, The Laughton, Charles 1955 USA 93
44 42 Modern Times Chaplin, Charles 1936 USA 89
45 46 Rear Window Hitchcock, Alfred 1954 USA 112
46 47 Playtime Tati, Jacques 1967 France 108
47 43 Third Man, The Reed, Carol 1949 UK 104
48 49 M Lang, Fritz 1931 Germany 99
49 64 Shoah Lanzmann, Claude 1985 France 566
50 53 Barry Lyndon Kubrick, Stanley 1975 UK 183
51 56 Fanny and Alexander Bergman, Ingmar 1982 Sweden 189
52 52 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Kubrick, Stanley 1964 UK 93
53 50 Chinatown Polanski, Roman 1974 USA 131
54 55 Stalker Tarkovsky, Andrei 1979 USSR 160
55 58 In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai 2000 Hong Kong 97
56 54 Enfants du paradis, Les Carne, Marcel 1945 France 195
57 61 Apartment, The Wilder, Billy 1960 USA 125
58 48 Ugetsu monogatari Mizoguchi, Kenji 1953 Japan 96
59 51 Pather Panchali Ray, Satyajit 1955 India 112
60 57 Battle of Algiers, The Pontecorvo, Gillo 1965 Algeria 123
61 60 Once Upon a Time in the West Leone, Sergio 1968 Italy 165
62 59 Late Spring Ozu, Yasujiro 1949 Japan 108
63 62 North by Northwest Hitchcock, Alfred 1959 USA 136
64 65 Leopard, The Visconti, Luchino 1963 Italy 205
65 68 Wild Strawberries Bergman, Ingmar 1957 Sweden 90
66 73 Mulholland Dr. Lynch, David 2001 France 147
67 66 Strada, La Fellini, Federico 1954 Italy 115
68 63 Gold Rush, The Chaplin, Charles 1925 USA 82
69 74 Rio Bravo Hawks, Howard 1959 USA 141
70 69 Pierrot le fou Godard, Jean-Luc 1965 France 110
71 67 Wild Bunch, The Peckinpah, Sam 1969 USA 144
72 70 Seventh Seal, The Bergman, Ingmar 1957 Sweden 96
73 72 Gertrud Dreyer, Carl Theodor 1964 Denmark 116
74 76 Viridiana Bunuel, Luis 1961 Spain 90
75 71 Pickpocket Bresson, Robert 1959 France 75
76 77 Amarcord Fellini, Federico 1973 Italy 127
77 75 Voyage in Italy Rossellini, Roberto 1953 Italy 97
78 80 Blue Velvet Lynch, David 1986 USA 120
79 79 Conformist, The Bertolucci, Bernardo 1970 Italy 107
80 82 Jules et Jim Truffaut, Francois 1961 France 104
81 78 Close-Up Kiarostami, Abbas 1990 Iran 98
82 81 Nashville Altman, Robert 1975 USA 159
83 96 Last Year at Marienbad Resnais, Alain 1961 France 94
84 91 GoodFellas Scorsese, Martin 1990 USA 146
85 113 Sans soleil Marker, Chris 1983 France 100
86 84 Magnificent Ambersons, The Welles, Orson 1942 USA 88
87 89 It's a Wonderful Life Capra, Frank 1946 USA 129
88 85 Man Escaped, A Bresson, Robert 1956 France 102
89 101 Brighter Summer Day, A Yang, Edward 1991 Taiwan 237
90 83 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Akerman, Chantal 1975 Belgium 201
91 90 Satantango Tarr, Bela 1994 Hungary 450
92 93 Clockwork Orange, A Kubrick, Stanley 1971 UK 137
93 86 Sansho the Bailiff Mizoguchi, Kenji 1954 Japan 125
94 87 Aguirre: The Wrath of God Herzog, Werner 1972 West Germany 94
95 103 Pulp Fiction Tarantino, Quentin 1994 USA 154
96 88 Intolerance Griffith, D.W. 1916 USA 178
97 100 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Ford, John 1962 USA 119
98 99 Jetee, La Marker, Chris 1962 France 27
99 92 Annie Hall Allen, Woody 1977 USA 94
100 94 Greed von Stroheim, Erich 1924 USA 140
Ans as of yesterday night I watched entry #665, The Man Who Would Be King.
John Huston is my favorite director, or at least his body of work is, one of the most versatile director. My fave from him (Night Of The Iguana) is missing from this list, but this Rudyard Kipling adaptaion is one of his most universal work.
Caine and Connery really shine in this all-age drama, the cinematorgraphy seems classic but actually is quite modern if innovating at times, but really, the balance between plot and character is very good, and you build lots of empathy towards the characters. It is also nice to get to see some unusal scenery, and Huston manage to build an epic feeling to a what psobably technically was just a little movie.
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