(1) Blue Velvet (2) Do the Right Thing (3) Raging Bull (4) The Elephant Man (5) Society (6) Ran (7) White Dog (8) Mishima : A Life in Four Chapters (9) Blade Runner (10) A Better Tomorrow (11) Kiss of the Spider Woman (12) To Live and Die in L.A (13) Heartbreakers (14) Amadeus (15) Gandhi (16) Pixote (17) Cinema Paradiso (18) Jesus of Montreal (19) Street Smart (20) Spetters (21) The Killing Fields (22) Being There (23) Once upon a Time in America (24) Last American Virgin (25) Mephisto (26) The Stuntman (27) Legend (28) Vigil (29) The Last Emperor (30) Ordinary People
(1) The Red Desert (2) Looking for Mr Goodbar (3) The Incident (4) Dutchman (5) The Sergeant (6) The Fox (7) Last Tango in Paris (8)Bigger than Life (9) Of Human Bondage 1964 version (10) Pixote (11) Medium Cool (12) Zabriskie Point (13) The Town that dreaded Sundown (14) Some Came Running (14) A Time to Love a Time to Die (15) Society (16) Electra Glide in Blue (17) Death by Hanging (18) The Ninth Configuration (19) The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea (20) Hideo Gosha’s Hunter in the Dark (21) John Huston’s The Dead (22) Nagisma Oshima’s Violence at Noon (23) Ken Russell’s The Devils (24) Titicut Follies (25) Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
I forgot these…. (1) The Original Stepford Wives (2) The New Centurions (3) The Yakuza (4) The Man Facing Southeast (5) Seance on a wet Afternoon (6) Paths of Glory (7) Play it as it lays (8) Amantes (9) Streamers (10) When the Wind Blows (11) Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (12) Killer of Sheep (13) Seconds (14) Soylent Green (15) The Pawnbroker (16) Summer with Monika (17) Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (18) John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (19) The Americanization of Emily (20) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (21) Akira (22) Johnny Guitar (23) Performance (24) Leadbelly (25) Uptight (26) The Effect of Gamma Rays on man in the moon Mariogold (27) Heartbreakers (28) Four Horsemen of the apocalypse..1962 version (29) Melody (30) Vanishing Point
Lucio Fulci…I love his Zombie film . ZOMBIE, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE BEYOND. Other Zombie films worth noting. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE, NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES, ZOMBIE 3, BURIAL GROUND, THE BLIND DEAD SERIES.."They’re a blast to watch.
(1) EL TOPO, (2) THE HOLY MOUNTAIN . (3) FLESH GORDON (4) LITSZOMANIA (5) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (6) DEMENTIA 13 (7) THE TRIP (8) VANISHING POINT (9) TWO LANE BLACKTOP (10) THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (11) FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL. KILL (12) THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (13) CARNIVAL OF SOULS (14) EQUINOX (15) LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (16) I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (17) CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (18) BLUE SUNSHINE (19) I SAW WHAT YOU DID (20) WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? (21) ENDLESS SUMMER (22) SOYLENT GREEN (23) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (24) ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES (25) RABID
The Letter reading during the finale of The Burmese Harp and the ending of the Ninth Configuration. The Documentary Ring of Fire, the meeting between The Boxer and the son of the man he killed in the ring.
The Finale of TAXI DRIVER. There is an obscure slasher film from the 80’s called NIGHTMARE…brutal ! THE WILD BUNCH, John Woo’s THE KILLERS. ICHI THE KILLER, THE LONE WOLF AND CUB FILMS, The Original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, TETSUO THE IRON MAN, Dario Argento’s TENEBRE, THE BOXER FROM SHANTUNG…One of the bloodiest shaw brothers films , A vampire film called THE ADDICTION…it’s a suck fest, SonnyChiba’s THE STREETFIGHTER….“He ripped off a mans balls”. SOUTHERN COMFORT, GATOR BAIT, STAGEFRIGHT, VAMPIRE CIRCUS…everybody dies. The HANZO the Razo series,
Robert Altman’s Streamers, Madchen in Uniform, Wild Side, The Cool World, The LaceMaker, Titicut Follies, Come and See, To Live and in L.A , A Man and a Woman, Across The Bridge, The Innocents, The Trial, Kiss Me Deadly, The Education of Sonny Carson, 1984 …the 1956 version, Bone, Leadbelly,
The Swimmer, This Sporting Life, The Innocents, Of Human Bondage 1964 version, The Ninth Configuration, The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea, The Razor’s Edge, Ship of Fools, Judgement at Nuremberg, Brother John, The Indian Runner, Island in the streams ,400 Blows, Murmur of the Heart
That’s bad…NEW YORKER shutting down. They just released DONA FLOR and HER TWO HUSBANDS. It would be nice if criterion picked it up or Pixote which they released years ago.
DEATH MACHINE ….A low budget Sci fi film directed by Steve Norrington. THE MAD MONSTER PARTY, LOVING, THE FUGITIVE KIND. Vincent Price’s Gothic films..Oblong Box, The Raven , Witchfinder General, Masque of the Red Death and any Japanese monster movie..War of the gargantuas, Frankenstein conquered the world, Varan the Unbelievable…etc etc
ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L,A , THE DEER HUNTER, LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR, IN COLD BLOOD, NIGHT AND THE CITY, THE GREAT SILENCE, THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY, FRESH, THE NEW CENTURIONS, THE ONION FIELD, THE EDUCATION OF SONNY CARSON, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA , STREAMERS. THE FRENCH CONNECTION,
TITICUS FOLLIES, GHOSTS OF RWANDA, HEARTS AND MINDS, THE DONNER PARTY, JAZZ, ENRON..The smartest guys in the room, RING OF FIRE, FORGIVING BLACKNESS, ILLICIT THE DARK TRADE, SCOTTSBOROUGH and american tragedy, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS
JACK CARDIF, FREDDIE FRANCIS, CHRISTOPHER DOYLE, JOHN ALTON, PETER PAU, SVEN NYKVIST, GREG TOLAND, JOSEF VON STERNBERG, DOUGLAS SLOCOMBE. STANLEY CORTEZ.
JODOROWSY’S DUNE..would love to have seen it. BRIAN GIBSON was to dircet a sci fi film called THE TOURIST, Hammer films was to make VAMPIRELLA. Jerry Lewis film THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED…never released Gordon Parks was to direct a movie on ALEXANDER PUSHKIN.
Best Films of the 80's? about 3 years ago
(1) Blue Velvet (2) Do the Right Thing (3) Raging Bull (4) The Elephant Man (5) Society (6) Ran (7) White Dog (8) Mishima : A Life in Four Chapters (9) Blade Runner (10) A Better Tomorrow (11) Kiss of the Spider Woman (12) To Live and Die in L.A (13) Heartbreakers (14) Amadeus (15) Gandhi (16) Pixote (17) Cinema Paradiso (18) Jesus of Montreal (19) Street Smart (20) Spetters (21) The Killing Fields (22) Being There (23) Once upon a Time in America (24) Last American Virgin (25) Mephisto (26) The Stuntman (27) Legend (28) Vigil (29) The Last Emperor (30) Ordinary People
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
(1) The Red Desert (2) Looking for Mr Goodbar (3) The Incident (4) Dutchman (5) The Sergeant (6) The Fox (7) Last Tango in Paris (8)Bigger than Life (9) Of Human Bondage 1964 version (10) Pixote (11) Medium Cool (12) Zabriskie Point (13) The Town that dreaded Sundown (14) Some Came Running (14) A Time to Love a Time to Die (15) Society (16) Electra Glide in Blue (17) Death by Hanging (18) The Ninth Configuration (19) The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea (20) Hideo Gosha’s Hunter in the Dark (21) John Huston’s The Dead (22) Nagisma Oshima’s Violence at Noon (23) Ken Russell’s The Devils (24) Titicut Follies (25) Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
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The Worst Films of 2008 about 3 years ago
The Remake of… The Day the Earth Stood Still …“There was ‘nooooo way’ i was standing still !!!!!!!!, In the Name of the King..”Horrible!!!!!!!!!!!
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
I forgot these…. (1) The Original Stepford Wives (2) The New Centurions (3) The Yakuza (4) The Man Facing Southeast (5) Seance on a wet Afternoon (6) Paths of Glory (7) Play it as it lays (8) Amantes (9) Streamers (10) When the Wind Blows (11) Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (12) Killer of Sheep (13) Seconds (14) Soylent Green (15) The Pawnbroker (16) Summer with Monika (17) Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (18) John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (19) The Americanization of Emily (20) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (21) Akira (22) Johnny Guitar (23) Performance (24) Leadbelly (25) Uptight (26) The Effect of Gamma Rays on man in the moon Mariogold (27) Heartbreakers (28) Four Horsemen of the apocalypse..1962 version (29) Melody (30) Vanishing Point
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Zombies and the people who love them about 3 years ago
Lucio Fulci…I love his Zombie film . ZOMBIE, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE BEYOND. Other Zombie films worth noting. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE, NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES, ZOMBIE 3, BURIAL GROUND, THE BLIND DEAD SERIES.."They’re a blast to watch.
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
Jodorowsky’s SANTA SANGRE. I think that would be a perfect choice
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Your Top Cult Films about 3 years ago
(1) EL TOPO, (2) THE HOLY MOUNTAIN . (3) FLESH GORDON (4) LITSZOMANIA (5) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (6) DEMENTIA 13 (7) THE TRIP (8) VANISHING POINT (9) TWO LANE BLACKTOP (10) THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (11) FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL. KILL (12) THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (13) CARNIVAL OF SOULS (14) EQUINOX (15) LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (16) I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (17) CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (18) BLUE SUNSHINE (19) I SAW WHAT YOU DID (20) WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? (21) ENDLESS SUMMER (22) SOYLENT GREEN (23) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (24) ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES (25) RABID
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What film scenes really make you cry? about 3 years ago
The Letter reading during the finale of The Burmese Harp and the ending of the Ninth Configuration. The Documentary Ring of Fire, the meeting between The Boxer and the son of the man he killed in the ring.
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WHICH MOVIES...PUT OUT IN LAST 5 YEARS...DO YOU THINK WILL ONE DAY JOIN THE CRITERION COLLECTION? about 3 years ago
DOWNFALL, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, HARD CANDY, THE FOUNTAIN, CRASH,
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Directors that consistently make terrible films about 3 years ago
RENNY HARLIN,
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YOUR FAVORITE SILENT FILM, PLEASE. about 3 years ago
KING VIDOR’S THE CROWD
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What are you watching now? about 3 years ago
JOANNA (1968) THE NEW CENTURIONS (1972)
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HAMMER FILMS for Criterion about 3 years ago
CRESCENDO… a rare title starring stephanie powers , THE GORGON, PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES, SHE, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, THE WITCHES, THE REPTILE
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Who is the worst critic in the business right now? about 3 years ago
BEN LYONS, MICHAEL MEDVED
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WHICH DIRECTORS...NOT...CURRENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE CRITERION COLLECTION DO YOU WANT TO SEE INCLUDED? about 3 years ago
HAL ASHBY…I would like to see THE LANDLORD released.
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Most violent films you've seen about 3 years ago
The Finale of TAXI DRIVER. There is an obscure slasher film from the 80’s called NIGHTMARE…brutal ! THE WILD BUNCH, John Woo’s THE KILLERS. ICHI THE KILLER, THE LONE WOLF AND CUB FILMS, The Original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, TETSUO THE IRON MAN, Dario Argento’s TENEBRE, THE BOXER FROM SHANTUNG…One of the bloodiest shaw brothers films , A vampire film called THE ADDICTION…it’s a suck fest, SonnyChiba’s THE STREETFIGHTER….“He ripped off a mans balls”. SOUTHERN COMFORT, GATOR BAIT, STAGEFRIGHT, VAMPIRE CIRCUS…everybody dies. The HANZO the Razo series,
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
Robert Altman’s Streamers, Madchen in Uniform, Wild Side, The Cool World, The LaceMaker, Titicut Follies, Come and See, To Live and in L.A , A Man and a Woman, Across The Bridge, The Innocents, The Trial, Kiss Me Deadly, The Education of Sonny Carson, 1984 …the 1956 version, Bone, Leadbelly,
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What film scenes really make you cry? about 3 years ago
COL. DAX…" I agree 100% ! The Burmese Harp is one of the most moving films i have ever seen. IKIRU.. i feel is another one.
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If you had to pick ONE film as your favorite... about 3 years ago
The Swimmer, This Sporting Life, The Innocents, Of Human Bondage 1964 version, The Ninth Configuration, The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea, The Razor’s Edge, Ship of Fools, Judgement at Nuremberg, Brother John, The Indian Runner, Island in the streams ,400 Blows, Murmur of the Heart
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New Yorker Films shuts down about 3 years ago
That’s bad…NEW YORKER shutting down. They just released DONA FLOR and HER TWO HUSBANDS. It would be nice if criterion picked it up or Pixote which they released years ago.
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THOSE DARN '60'S COMEDIES THAT YOU LOVE about 3 years ago
HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE, A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN…..Really funny films.
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A Random Film You Like about 3 years ago
DEATH MACHINE ….A low budget Sci fi film directed by Steve Norrington. THE MAD MONSTER PARTY, LOVING, THE FUGITIVE KIND. Vincent Price’s Gothic films..Oblong Box, The Raven , Witchfinder General, Masque of the Red Death and any Japanese monster movie..War of the gargantuas, Frankenstein conquered the world, Varan the Unbelievable…etc etc
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
I think KINJI FUKASAKU’S film BLACK LIZARD …would be perfect or HIDEO GOSHA’S.HUNTER IN THE DARK
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Most Traumatic or Dramatic Film Endings about 3 years ago
ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L,A , THE DEER HUNTER, LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR, IN COLD BLOOD, NIGHT AND THE CITY, THE GREAT SILENCE, THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’T THEY, FRESH, THE NEW CENTURIONS, THE ONION FIELD, THE EDUCATION OF SONNY CARSON, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA , STREAMERS. THE FRENCH CONNECTION,
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Any good documentaries out there? about 3 years ago
TITICUS FOLLIES, GHOSTS OF RWANDA, HEARTS AND MINDS, THE DONNER PARTY, JAZZ, ENRON..The smartest guys in the room, RING OF FIRE, FORGIVING BLACKNESS, ILLICIT THE DARK TRADE, SCOTTSBOROUGH and american tragedy, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS
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The Great Cinematographers about 3 years ago
JACK CARDIF, FREDDIE FRANCIS, CHRISTOPHER DOYLE, JOHN ALTON, PETER PAU, SVEN NYKVIST, GREG TOLAND, JOSEF VON STERNBERG, DOUGLAS SLOCOMBE. STANLEY CORTEZ.
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The Greatest Movies Never Made... about 3 years ago
JODOROWSY’S DUNE..would love to have seen it. BRIAN GIBSON was to dircet a sci fi film called THE TOURIST, Hammer films was to make VAMPIRELLA. Jerry Lewis film THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED…never released Gordon Parks was to direct a movie on ALEXANDER PUSHKIN.
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HIDEO GOSHA...Overlooked? about 3 years ago
I just recently saw to outstanding films by him..The wolves and Hunter in the dark. Do you think he’s overlooked?
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Which directors have you seen every feature from? about 3 years ago
Segio Leone, Sam Peckinpah
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Objections to The Godfather about 3 years ago
I just wish AMC would change up a little bit…instead of playing it every three weeks as if it were a world premiere.
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