Well, try to watch the period films by Rohmer, like “La Marquise d’O…” (1976), “Percevall le Gallois” (1978) and my all time favorite “L’Anglaise et le duc” (2001).
Well, try to watch the period films by Rohmer, like “La Marquise d’O…” (1976), “Percevall le Gallois” (1978) and my all time favorite “L’Anglaise et le duc” (2001).
Love Woody Allen and I’m not sure about it… but my not favorite Allen movie is “Scoop” (2006).
But if you ask for my favorite:
1. “Annie Hall”, “Manhattan”, “Hannah and Her Sisters”, “Crimes and Misdemeanors”, “Husbands and Wives” and “Bullets Over Broadway”
2. “Stardust Memories”, “Zelig”, “The Purple Rose of Cairo”, “Another Woman”, “Alice”, “Manhattan Murder Mistery” and “Match Point”.
3. “Take the Money and Run”, “Bananas”, “Sleeper”, “Love and Death”, “Interiors”, “Broadway Danny Rose”, “Radio Days”, “Shadows and Fog”, “Mighty Aphrodite”, “Deconstructing Harry”, “Celebrity”, “Sweet and Lowdown”, “Melinda and Melinda” and “Cassandra’s Dream”.
4. “Everything You Always….”, “A Midsummer’s…”, “September”, “New York Stories”, “Everyone Says I Love You”, “Small Time Crooks”, “The Curse of Jade Scorpion”, “Hollywood Ending” and “Anything Else”.
Well, Minnelli is one of my favorites autors! I watched all his movies and everyone have something special: the portrait of Emma in “Madame Bovary” is extraordinary; the characters in “Father of the Bride”; what about Van Gogh and Gauguin in “Lust for Life”?; the elegance in “The Reluctant Debutant”; and more and more. “Meet Me in St. Louis” is a masterpiece scene by scene. And “Gigi”? A piece of art, simple like that.
But in the last times nobody cares about Minnelli and his movies… maybe in the future things change. You know, someone could be write something and… A GREAT DISCOVERY!
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth, The Costume of the Country, Etham From, The Reef, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Children, The Buccaneers, A Son at the Front, etc.
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady, The American, The Europeans, Washington Square, The Other House, Daisy Miller, In the Cage, etc.
D.H. Lawrence: Women in Love, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, etc.
Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, A Lost Lady, My Mortal Enemy,
The Brontë Sisters: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villete, The Professor, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Jane Austen: All her books.
Wilkie Collins: No Name, The Moonstone, Man and Wife, etc.
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karénina, War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata, Resurrection.
Jack London: Martin Eden, The Sea Wolf, etc.
Dostoievsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, etc.
E.M. Forster: Maurice, A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Howards End, The Longest Journey.
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables.
Others: Joseph Conrad, Steinbeck, Dorothy Parker, Iris Murdoch, Carson McCullers, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Kafka, Salman Rushdie, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, etc.
Theater by Chéjov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Tennessee Williams… and new plays.
Just to mention my 100 favorites sound american films:
1. Frankenstein (1931), James Whale
2. The Miracle Woman (1931), Frank Capra
3. Love Me Tonight (1932), Rouben Mamoulian
4. Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ernst Lubitsch
5. Queen Christina (1933), Rouben Mamoulian
6. Scarlet Empress (1934), Josef von Sternberg
7. Peter Ibbetson (1935), Henry Hathaway
8. Fury (1936), Fritz Lang
9. These Three (1936), William Wyler
10. Easy Living (1937), Mitchell Leisen
11. Gone With the Wind (1939), Victor Fleming
12. Ninotchka (1939), Ernst Lubitsch
13. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), John Ford
14. The Philadelphia Story (1940), George Cukor
15. Rebecca (1940), Alfred Hitchcock
16. Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles
17. Cat People (1942), Jacques Tourneur
18. Double Indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder
19. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Vincente Minnelli
20. Laura (1944), Otto Preminger
21. Notorious (1946), Alfred Hitchcock
22. Duel in the Sun (1946), King Vidor
23. The Big Sleep (1946), Howard Hawks
24. The Killers (1946), Robert Siodmak
25. Monsieur Verdoux (1946), Charles Chaplin
26. My Darling Clementine (1946), John Ford
27. Brute Force (1947), Jules Dassin
28. The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Orson Welles
29. Out of the Past (1947), Jacques Tourneur
30. Scarlett Street (1947), Fritz Lang
31. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), Max Ophuls
32. Unfaithfully Yours (Infielmente tuya, 1948), Preston Sturges
33. The Fountainhead (1949), King Vidor
34. The Heiress (1949), William Wyler
35. White Heat (1949), Raoul Walsh
36. All About Eve (1950),Joseph L. Mankiewicz
37. Sunset Blvd. (2950), illy Wilder
38. A Place in the Sun (1951), George Stevens
39. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Elia Kazan
40. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Vincente Minnelli
41. Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
42. The Naked Spur (1953), Anthony Mann
43. Johnny Guitar (1954), Nicholas Ray
44. On the Waterfront (1954), Elia Kazan
45. Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock
46. All That Heaven Allows (1955), Douglas Sirk
47. The Night of the Hunter (1955), Charles Laughton
48. The Ten Commandments (1956), Cecil B. De Mille
49. The Searchers (1956), John Ford
50. Forty Guns (1957), Samuel Fuller
51. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), John Huston
52. Les Girls (1957), George Cukor
53. Paths of Glory (1957), Stanley Kubrick
54. Gigi (1958), Vincente Minnelli
55. Touch of Evil (1958), Orson Welles
56. Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
57. North by Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock
58. The Nun’s Story (1959), Fred Zinnemann
59. The Apartment (1960), Billy Wilder
60. Spartacus (1960), Stanley Kubrick
61. Breakfast in Tiffany’s (1961), Blake Edwards
62. The Cid (1961), Anthony Mann
63. West Side Story (1961), Robert Wise y Jerome Robbins
64. The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock
65. Doctor Zhivago (1965), David Lean
66. Seven Women (1965), John Ford
67. Bonnie & Clyde (1967), Arthur Penn
68. Planet of the Apes (1967), Franklin J. Schaffner
69. Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Roman Polanski
70. The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah
71. Deliverance (1972), John Boorman
72. The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola
73. The Exorcist (1973), William Friedkin
74. Badlands (1974), Terrence Malick
75. The Godfather, Part II (1974), Francis Ford Coppola
76. Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg
77. Carrie (1976), Brian De Palma
78. The Deer Hunter (1978), Michael Cimino
79. All That Jazz (1979), Bob Fosse
80. Manhattan (1979), Woody Allen
81. Raging Bull (1980), Martin Scorsese
82. Amadeus (1984), Milos Forman
83. Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Sergio Leone
84. Pale Rider (1985), Clint Eastwood
85. Hannah and her Sisters 1986), Woody Allen
86. Bird (1988), Clint Eastwood
87. Dead Ringers (1988), David Cronenberg
88. Goodfellas (1990), Martin Scorsese
89. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme
90. Barton Fink (1991), Joel Coen
91. The Age of Innocence (1993), Martin Scorsese
92. Short Cuts (1993), Robert Altman
93. Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino
94. The Ice Storm (1997), Ang Lee
95. Happiness (1998), Todd Solondz
96. The Insider (1999), Michael Mann
97. Magnolia (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson
98. Mulholland Dr. (2001), David Lynch
99. 25th Hour (2002), Spike Lee
100. There Will Be Blood (2007), Paul Thomas Anderson
I enjoy a good movie. A lot of times sex are parte of them… But sometimes sex scenes are absolutly unnecesary. Is not disturbing for me, but some people don´t agree with me. What about you?
Argetinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel: “La ciénaga” (The Swamp, 2001), “La niña santa” (The Holy Girl, 2004) o “La mujer sin cabeza” (The Headless Woman, 2008). The best cinema in spanish since Buñuel.
When I was a teenager the strong personality of Scarlett O’Hara was very important to me. She change my life in some way.
But years later, when I was a law student I watched SENSO, by Luchino Visconti. In that moment I understand my real desires about life, career, future. So I am here… bachelor in law and political sciences just by the name.
I am a great fan of film noir and can’t control my enthusiasm about it.
So, here a few titles in not order:
The Killers, Robert Siodmak
Phantom Lady, Robert Siodmak
Criss Cross, Robert Siodmak
Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder
On Dangerous Ground, Nicholas Ray
In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray
The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles
Laura, Otto Preminger
Where the Sidewalks End, Otto Preminger
Road House, Jean Negulesco
Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur
The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston
Murder My Sweet, Edward Dmytryck
They Live by Night, Anthony Mann
Side Street, Anthony Mann
Crossfire, Edward Dmytryck
Born to Kill, Robert Wise
The Narrow Margin, Richard Fleischer
Lady in the Lake, Robert Montgomery
No Way Out, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Scarlett Street, Fritz Lang
The Woman in the Window, Fritz Lang
The Big Heat, Fritz Lang
Sudden Fear, David Miller
Brute Force, Jules Dassin
The Naked City, Jules Dassin
The Big Sleep, Howard Hawks
White Heat, Raoul Walsh
This Gun for Hire, Frank Tuttle
The Blue Dahlia, George Marshall
and others
And my favorite pre-noir: High Sierra, Raoul Walsh.
And I agree: the perfect example of film noir is “Out of the Past”.
Melville is one of my favorite directors. I consider “Le Samurai” his masterwork but admire very much “Army of Shadows” (watched for the first time at Film Forum NYC). The Criterion edition is amazing. The film looks perfect! And go for the other Melvilles in Criterion. Everyone is a great experience!
ROHMER over 3 years ago
Well, try to watch the period films by Rohmer, like “La Marquise d’O…” (1976), “Percevall le Gallois” (1978) and my all time favorite “L’Anglaise et le duc” (2001).
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ROHMER over 3 years ago
Well, try to watch the period films by Rohmer, like “La Marquise d’O…” (1976), “Percevall le Gallois” (1978) and my all time favorite “L’Anglaise et le duc” (2001).
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Good Bad Films over 3 years ago
Bad movie to love: “Mommie Dearest”. I am waiting for a musical remake!
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Your favorite Woody Allen's film? over 3 years ago
Love Woody Allen and I’m not sure about it… but my not favorite Allen movie is “Scoop” (2006).
But if you ask for my favorite:
1. “Annie Hall”, “Manhattan”, “Hannah and Her Sisters”, “Crimes and Misdemeanors”, “Husbands and Wives” and “Bullets Over Broadway”
2. “Stardust Memories”, “Zelig”, “The Purple Rose of Cairo”, “Another Woman”, “Alice”, “Manhattan Murder Mistery” and “Match Point”.
3. “Take the Money and Run”, “Bananas”, “Sleeper”, “Love and Death”, “Interiors”, “Broadway Danny Rose”, “Radio Days”, “Shadows and Fog”, “Mighty Aphrodite”, “Deconstructing Harry”, “Celebrity”, “Sweet and Lowdown”, “Melinda and Melinda” and “Cassandra’s Dream”.
4. “Everything You Always….”, “A Midsummer’s…”, “September”, “New York Stories”, “Everyone Says I Love You”, “Small Time Crooks”, “The Curse of Jade Scorpion”, “Hollywood Ending” and “Anything Else”.
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What was the first Criterion movie you watched? over 3 years ago
David Lean’s Great Expectations. Probably the best adaptation from Dickens to the screen!
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Movies with subtitles over 3 years ago
I support this! Criterion are the most expensive DVD collection and not included languages subtitles! And sometime not subtitles for deaf people!!!
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Vincente Minnelli over 3 years ago
Well, Minnelli is one of my favorites autors! I watched all his movies and everyone have something special: the portrait of Emma in “Madame Bovary” is extraordinary; the characters in “Father of the Bride”; what about Van Gogh and Gauguin in “Lust for Life”?; the elegance in “The Reluctant Debutant”; and more and more. “Meet Me in St. Louis” is a masterpiece scene by scene. And “Gigi”? A piece of art, simple like that.
But in the last times nobody cares about Minnelli and his movies… maybe in the future things change. You know, someone could be write something and… A GREAT DISCOVERY!
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If you had to pick ONE film as your favorite... over 3 years ago
Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”
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Worst Criterion DVDs over 3 years ago
The Rock and Armageddon, not doubt. But tecnically the transfer of the wonderful “I Know Where I’m Going” is very bad!
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Most Memorable "Open" Endings in Cinema over 3 years ago
What about “Gone With the Wind”? A real shock for the 1939 standards!
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Most Memorable "Open" Endings in Cinema over 3 years ago
What about “Gone With the Wind”? A real shock for the 1939 standards!
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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago
Shame of me… Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein!
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Who do you read? over 3 years ago
My favorites (no order):
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth, The Costume of the Country, Etham From, The Reef, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Children, The Buccaneers, A Son at the Front, etc.
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady, The American, The Europeans, Washington Square, The Other House, Daisy Miller, In the Cage, etc.
D.H. Lawrence: Women in Love, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, etc.
Willa Cather: O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, A Lost Lady, My Mortal Enemy,
The Brontë Sisters: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villete, The Professor, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Jane Austen: All her books.
Wilkie Collins: No Name, The Moonstone, Man and Wife, etc.
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karénina, War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata, Resurrection.
Jack London: Martin Eden, The Sea Wolf, etc.
Dostoievsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, etc.
E.M. Forster: Maurice, A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Howards End, The Longest Journey.
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables.
Others: Joseph Conrad, Steinbeck, Dorothy Parker, Iris Murdoch, Carson McCullers, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Kafka, Salman Rushdie, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, etc.
Theater by Chéjov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Tennessee Williams… and new plays.
And, of course, Shakesperare. The inmortal!
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Most Traumatic or Dramatic Film Endings over 3 years ago
Vertigo for drama… and The Palm Beach Story for comedy!
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
Henry Hathaway’s “Peter Ibbetson”.
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Madame De. . . over 3 years ago
The film is a masterpiece! Awesome every scene… what an artist was Max Ophüls! I’m speechless every time I watch “Madame de…”
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favorite films? over 3 years ago
Just to mention my 100 favorites sound american films:
1. Frankenstein (1931), James Whale
2. The Miracle Woman (1931), Frank Capra
3. Love Me Tonight (1932), Rouben Mamoulian
4. Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ernst Lubitsch
5. Queen Christina (1933), Rouben Mamoulian
6. Scarlet Empress (1934), Josef von Sternberg
7. Peter Ibbetson (1935), Henry Hathaway
8. Fury (1936), Fritz Lang
9. These Three (1936), William Wyler
10. Easy Living (1937), Mitchell Leisen
11. Gone With the Wind (1939), Victor Fleming
12. Ninotchka (1939), Ernst Lubitsch
13. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), John Ford
14. The Philadelphia Story (1940), George Cukor
15. Rebecca (1940), Alfred Hitchcock
16. Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles
17. Cat People (1942), Jacques Tourneur
18. Double Indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder
19. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Vincente Minnelli
20. Laura (1944), Otto Preminger
21. Notorious (1946), Alfred Hitchcock
22. Duel in the Sun (1946), King Vidor
23. The Big Sleep (1946), Howard Hawks
24. The Killers (1946), Robert Siodmak
25. Monsieur Verdoux (1946), Charles Chaplin
26. My Darling Clementine (1946), John Ford
27. Brute Force (1947), Jules Dassin
28. The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Orson Welles
29. Out of the Past (1947), Jacques Tourneur
30. Scarlett Street (1947), Fritz Lang
31. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), Max Ophuls
32. Unfaithfully Yours (Infielmente tuya, 1948), Preston Sturges
33. The Fountainhead (1949), King Vidor
34. The Heiress (1949), William Wyler
35. White Heat (1949), Raoul Walsh
36. All About Eve (1950),Joseph L. Mankiewicz
37. Sunset Blvd. (2950), illy Wilder
38. A Place in the Sun (1951), George Stevens
39. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Elia Kazan
40. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Vincente Minnelli
41. Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
42. The Naked Spur (1953), Anthony Mann
43. Johnny Guitar (1954), Nicholas Ray
44. On the Waterfront (1954), Elia Kazan
45. Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock
46. All That Heaven Allows (1955), Douglas Sirk
47. The Night of the Hunter (1955), Charles Laughton
48. The Ten Commandments (1956), Cecil B. De Mille
49. The Searchers (1956), John Ford
50. Forty Guns (1957), Samuel Fuller
51. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), John Huston
52. Les Girls (1957), George Cukor
53. Paths of Glory (1957), Stanley Kubrick
54. Gigi (1958), Vincente Minnelli
55. Touch of Evil (1958), Orson Welles
56. Vertigo (1958), Alfred Hitchcock
57. North by Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock
58. The Nun’s Story (1959), Fred Zinnemann
59. The Apartment (1960), Billy Wilder
60. Spartacus (1960), Stanley Kubrick
61. Breakfast in Tiffany’s (1961), Blake Edwards
62. The Cid (1961), Anthony Mann
63. West Side Story (1961), Robert Wise y Jerome Robbins
64. The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock
65. Doctor Zhivago (1965), David Lean
66. Seven Women (1965), John Ford
67. Bonnie & Clyde (1967), Arthur Penn
68. Planet of the Apes (1967), Franklin J. Schaffner
69. Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Roman Polanski
70. The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah
71. Deliverance (1972), John Boorman
72. The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola
73. The Exorcist (1973), William Friedkin
74. Badlands (1974), Terrence Malick
75. The Godfather, Part II (1974), Francis Ford Coppola
76. Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg
77. Carrie (1976), Brian De Palma
78. The Deer Hunter (1978), Michael Cimino
79. All That Jazz (1979), Bob Fosse
80. Manhattan (1979), Woody Allen
81. Raging Bull (1980), Martin Scorsese
82. Amadeus (1984), Milos Forman
83. Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Sergio Leone
84. Pale Rider (1985), Clint Eastwood
85. Hannah and her Sisters 1986), Woody Allen
86. Bird (1988), Clint Eastwood
87. Dead Ringers (1988), David Cronenberg
88. Goodfellas (1990), Martin Scorsese
89. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme
90. Barton Fink (1991), Joel Coen
91. The Age of Innocence (1993), Martin Scorsese
92. Short Cuts (1993), Robert Altman
93. Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino
94. The Ice Storm (1997), Ang Lee
95. Happiness (1998), Todd Solondz
96. The Insider (1999), Michael Mann
97. Magnolia (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson
98. Mulholland Dr. (2001), David Lynch
99. 25th Hour (2002), Spike Lee
100. There Will Be Blood (2007), Paul Thomas Anderson
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Movie's you just don't like. over 3 years ago
All the Star Wars movies!
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Disturbing Movies that You Love... over 3 years ago
Pasolini’s Salo; and any David Lynch or David Cronenberg film! Love each one!
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Sex in the movies: Disturbing? over 3 years ago
I enjoy a good movie. A lot of times sex are parte of them… But sometimes sex scenes are absolutly unnecesary. Is not disturbing for me, but some people don´t agree with me. What about you?
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WHICH DIRECTORS...NOT...CURRENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE CRITERION COLLECTION DO YOU WANT TO SEE INCLUDED? over 3 years ago
Argetinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel: “La ciénaga” (The Swamp, 2001), “La niña santa” (The Holy Girl, 2004) o “La mujer sin cabeza” (The Headless Woman, 2008). The best cinema in spanish since Buñuel.
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ANYONE ELSE STARTING TO ABANDON DVD FOR BLU-RAY? over 3 years ago
I agree with Fernando.
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Controversial opinion: Orson Welles is not very good over 3 years ago
God! Orson Welles is not so good?
Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil… three very GOOD reasons to believe in Welles like a genius!
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Sex in the movies: Disturbing? over 3 years ago
Censorship? I’m against any kind of censorship-
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Madame De. . . over 3 years ago
Divinem:
Go now for the marvelous “Le Plaisir”… the first story is magical, with the most glorious camerawork!
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Vincente Minnelli over 3 years ago
Hey Beecher… I agree with you. Minnelli was the right director for “My Fair Lady” and not Mr. Cukor. And “Gigi” is the proof for that.
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Rate The Last Film You Watched over 3 years ago
Last night:
Love Me or Leave Me (1955), directed by Charles Vidor. 85/100
On Dangerous Ground (1952), directed by master Nicholas Ray. 95/100
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Which film has changed your life forever? over 3 years ago
When I was a teenager the strong personality of Scarlett O’Hara was very important to me. She change my life in some way.
But years later, when I was a law student I watched SENSO, by Luchino Visconti. In that moment I understand my real desires about life, career, future. So I am here… bachelor in law and political sciences just by the name.
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CLASSIC FILM NOIR over 3 years ago
I am a great fan of film noir and can’t control my enthusiasm about it.
So, here a few titles in not order:
The Killers, Robert Siodmak
Phantom Lady, Robert Siodmak
Criss Cross, Robert Siodmak
Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder
On Dangerous Ground, Nicholas Ray
In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray
The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles
Laura, Otto Preminger
Where the Sidewalks End, Otto Preminger
Road House, Jean Negulesco
Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur
The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston
Murder My Sweet, Edward Dmytryck
They Live by Night, Anthony Mann
Side Street, Anthony Mann
Crossfire, Edward Dmytryck
Born to Kill, Robert Wise
The Narrow Margin, Richard Fleischer
Lady in the Lake, Robert Montgomery
No Way Out, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Scarlett Street, Fritz Lang
The Woman in the Window, Fritz Lang
The Big Heat, Fritz Lang
Sudden Fear, David Miller
Brute Force, Jules Dassin
The Naked City, Jules Dassin
The Big Sleep, Howard Hawks
White Heat, Raoul Walsh
This Gun for Hire, Frank Tuttle
The Blue Dahlia, George Marshall
and others
And my favorite pre-noir: High Sierra, Raoul Walsh.
And I agree: the perfect example of film noir is “Out of the Past”.
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Army of Shadows over 3 years ago
Melville is one of my favorite directors. I consider “Le Samurai” his masterwork but admire very much “Army of Shadows” (watched for the first time at Film Forum NYC). The Criterion edition is amazing. The film looks perfect! And go for the other Melvilles in Criterion. Everyone is a great experience!
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