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In Reply to: Then, I think at heart... posted by Harmonia on November 12, 2002 at 15:29:52:

Masterpices:
Vertigo
The 39 Steps
The Lady Eve
Sullivan's Travels
The Passion Of Joan of Arc
Beauty & The Beast (Cocteau, sorry Victor)
Distant Voices Still Lives
Singin' In The Rain
Three Colors Trilogy
Dekalog
Andrei Roublev
Jou Dou
A Taste Of Cherry
Fanny & Alexander
8 1/2
Seven Samurai
L'Age d'or
Black Narcissus
Blood of the Poet
Rear Window
The Sweet Herafter
The Player
Raise the Red Lantern
The Circus
City Lights
Great Expectations (Lean)
Apocalypse Now (tho it's kind of a mess)
I should put Godfathers I & II, but I like The Conversation better and I've seen the Godfathers a little too often lately (disproving the rule, lol?)
Near Masterpices:
Vincent & Theo
North by Northwest (father of the modern blockbuster???)
Performance
Chinatown
An Angel At My Table
Innocent
Red River
High Noon
Kind Hearts & Coronets
Kiss Me Deadly
The Maltese Falcon
The Dead
Solaris
Dr. Strangelove
It Happened One Night
King Kong
Hotel du Nord
Nosferatu
Blow Up
Faces
In the Mood For Love
Duck Soup
Out of the Past
Raise the Red Lantern
Bride Of Frankenstein
Holiday
Children of the Paradise
Bicycle Thieves
...and still there/s more...but not tonight, from memory...
So many movies, so little time.

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No problem... :-)) - Victor Khomenko 06:36:29 11/13/02 (1)
Actually, if we were putting such lists together, then Cocteau would be the least of our disagreements. But I would be fighting hard to move several films between the categories. No way I would agree to keep the Bicycle Thief in the second category while putting Vertigo in the top one. But yes, we all have our unique tastes.
However, you included Blow Up - a good and solid film, to be sure, but certainly not at the level of Antonioni's best film in my view - the 1975 "Professione: reporter"...
All in all, I actually love lists like this, they bring so much back...
- Re: No problem... :-)) - patrickU 09:21:12 11/13/02 (0)
  Vertigo, one of the few REALLY erotic & obsessive film-EVER-
  Blow UP was a film with his time-long dead-
  Beauty do not care of the passing modes.
  Beauty is for ever.
  Money or for ever fame - that is the only choice of the real artist in an given " oeuvre "
  P.
Three Colours.... - patrickU 04:05:14 11/13/02 (2)
this trilogies, did want to be cult films, they try hard.
They are not ..never will be...They lack totally of any thing you could call profund...
They are like designer wines.
- Yeah... but... - Victor Khomenko 06:40:58 11/13/02 (1)
  ...each one of them could compete on its own merits with the vast majority of films made in the past twenty years. Of the three the Blue would probably be my favorite.
  - Re: Yeah... but... - patrickU 06:57:55 11/13/02 (0)
    Blue, is my favorit too, but still more surface than real deepness.
    I look at it three times ( the first vision did impress me ) but in my eye, it did not stand the more.
The Dead... - patrickU 03:38:35 11/13/02 (0)
IS definitively one...underated, certainly.... It is a legacy from J.Huston.
One of the few very best.

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