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I decided to forget about a strictly '90's film list and just go with what I like to watch on my shelves here at home (in alphabetical order).The Essentials:
Amadeus, The Apu Trilogy, Casablanca, Chariots Of Fire, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, 8 and 1/2, Forbidden Games (thanks for the rec.!), Godfather I and II, The Graduate, Grand Illusion, It's A Wonderful Life, Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring, Lawrence of Arabia, Manhattan, MASH, Midnight Cowboy, Patton, Raging Bull, The Right Stuff, The Road Warrior, Secrets and Lies, Seven Samurai, Singing In The Rain, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, West Side Story.
Almost As Good:
Aliens (director's cut), Amarcord, Andrei Rublev, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now, The Apostle, Battleship Potemkin, Being There, Ben Hur, Blue Velvet, Body Heat, Brazil, Bridge On The River Kwai, Cabaret, Cinema Paradiso, City Of Hope, Crumb, Das Boot, Day Of The Jackal, Dead Man Walking, Deliverance, Do The Right Thing, Dr. Strangelove, Duel (Spielberg), Eat Drink Man Woman, The Empire Strikes Back, The English Patient, Eve's Bayou, The Exorcist, Fanny and Alexander, Farewell My Concubine, Fargo, Forrest Gump, The French Connection, Ghostbusters, Glory, Gone With The Wind, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, GoodFellas, Goyokin, The Great Dictator, The Great Escape, Hannah and Her Sisters, High Noon, Hoop Dreams, Howard's End, Hope and Glory, Ikiru, The In-Laws, It Happened One Night, Ju Dou, Kwaidan, L.A. Confidential, The Last Emperor, La Strada, Life Is Beautiful, Like Water For Chocolate, A Little Princess, Lone Star, The Manchurian Candidate, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Marty, Mary Poppins, Midnight Express, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moonstruck, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Naked, Once Were Warriors, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Platoon, The Producers, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, The Quiet Man, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Raise The Red Lantern, Rashomon, Red (Three Colors Trilogy), The Red Balloon, Samurai Trilogy, Schindler's List, Searching For Bobby Fischer, Short Cuts, The Silence Of The Lambs, Sleuth, Star Wars, The Stunt Man, The Sweet Hereafter, Tampopo, Taste Of Cherry, Taxi Driver, Tender Mercies, The Terminator, Tess, That's Entertainment, The Thin Man, Tootsie, Topkapi, Twelve Angry Men, Unforgiven, The Usual Suspects, Walkabout, Wings Of Desire, Wuthering Heights, Yojimbo, Young Frankenstein, Z.
My Guilty Pleasures:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, After The Fox, Airplane, The Andromeda Strain, Animal Crackers, Army of Darkness, Beer, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Big Trouble In Little China, The Blade (Dao), Blade Runner, Boogie Nights, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, Chungking Express, City Hunter, The City Of Lost Children, Cold Comfort Farm, Dead Alive, Dead Ringers, Death Race 2000, Diner, The Dirty Dozen, Dirty Harry, Duck Soup, Ed Wood, Endless Summer, Enter The Dragon, Everyone Says I Love You, Exotica, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Fear of a Black Hat, La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element, A Fish Called Wanda, Flirting With Disaster, Frankenhooker, Freaked, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Goldfinger, Green Snake, Groundhog Day, Hairspray, Halloween, Hard Boiled, The Haunting, Hear My Song, Heathers, Heavenly Creatures, Help!, House Party, I Love You To Death, In The Mood, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Kentucky Fried Movie, Kingpin, Lake Placid, L.A. Story, The Last Seduction, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, The Loved One, Mighty Aphrodite, The Naked Gun, National Lampoon's Animal House, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Night of the Living Dead, Paperhouse, Parents, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Pet Sematary, Phantasm, The Pillow Book, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Player, The Princess Bride, The Prophecy, Prospero's Books, Q the Winged Serpent, Quick Change, Raising Arizona, Repo Man, Reservoir Dogs, Risky Business, Robocop, Romancing The Stone, Roxanne, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Rustler's Rhapsody, Serial Mom, Seven, Short Time, Smile, Speed, Spirit of '76, Strictly Ballroom, Supervixen, Suspiria, Tapeheads, Theatre of Blood, The Thing (John Carpenter), This Is Spinal Tap, Top Secret, Trainspotting, Tremors, Tromeo and Juliet, True Love, Tune In Tomorrow..., Used Cars, The Vanishing (foreign version), What About Bob?, Who Am I This Time?, Wing Chun.
Saw this film as it initially aired on TV some years ago; recognized
Dennis Weaver, of course, but didn't learn of Spielberg until much later.
This is a good film, suspenseful thoughout, interesting in that one never
actually sees the villian throughout its entirety! (Only the big-rig he
or she is driving). - AH
I've never seen this masterpiece, but have read it was a satire on feminism and male/female relations in the 1980s. What appeals to you
about this film? - AH
After you get past the T&A opening which seems to have been grafted on as an afterthought, the male-female relationship dialogue is funny and clever, helped by the delivery of Bill Maher (of Politically Incorrect).
Looking through such lists in an experience in itself. To some degree this is like exposing your naked body for everyone to see and admire - so I appreciate your candor. "Give me the child at 7, and I will give you the man, Give me your movies list and..."I made a copy of it and will be studying it more closely. I found about 50% overlap, with perhaps 25 to 30% I didn't recall, or perhaps completely forgot. And sure enough there are some big disagreements... great surprise. La Strada kind of "almost as good" as Dancing in the Rain? Hmmmm.. That's what makes such lists interesting. The Terminator, but no Bergman?
Trainspotting, hah? Have you seen the Withnail and I? This was one of VERY few movies that we could not finish watching. I probably could have gone through 35 minutes of it, but my wife's reaction was fierce and it was all over in 20.
Interesting, too, the choice between the Platoon and the FMJ... I have resolved that dilema differently. And It's a Mad, Mad.... - there is nothing guilty about enjoying that timeless classic...
I trully appreciate your list and wish I could put together mine - I am not as well ogranized, unfortunately. But you now got me going, so perhaps some time...
I am sure you threw in the Potemkn just to tease me... although that pram-on-the-steps sceene is one you can never forget. And you MUST be heavy into meditation (I think you mentioned before that you are) to appreciate the dead-bugs-crawl-faster-than-this Ikiru.
And how could you have possibly forgotten the Porky's?
I was more of a "Risky Business" fan than a "Porky's" fan.I own copies of all of those films I listed (primarily laserdisc), So I've put my money where "my mouth" (or at least two other body openings) is. I think this list is a very fluid document, as I wrote most of it two years ago when my cousin asked me for some recommendations. Had to change a few of them after reconsideration. I do own a copy of "Withnail And I", but only watched it once. I also have a copy of "Full Metal Jacket".
I do admire "Potemkin" and also have a copy of Zbigniew Rybcinsky's experimental film reedit of the Odessa steps scene in which he walks around every character on the steps to analyze their fates.
I admire "Ikiru" because it is about the life process and the protagonist makes about every mistake possible before doing the right thing to give his existence meaning. Maybe it is my Buddhist upbringing.
I remember Harry Pearson writing about "Mad, Mad World" in TPV and discussing how unfunny it was. He almost convinced me, but then I saw the parts where Jonathan Winters tears apart the service station and Dick Shawn plays Ethel Merman's idiotic son "Sylvester" and the big smile on my face broke into laughter again. I was especially impressed by the con man ways of Phil Silvers, as I was too young to watch the original broadcasts of his Sgt. Bilko series.
***I was more of a "Risky Business" fan than a "Porky's" fan.Beacuse of young Tom, or young Rebecca? Or music?
***I own copies of all of those films I listed (primarily laserdisc),Yes, I know. Apparently you are competing favorably with Library of Congress, and it is nice to have someone set the tone for the rest of us to follow. For the longest time I used to believe that libraries were for books and I am paying now.
***So I've put my money where "my mouth" (or at least two other body openings) is. I think this list is a very fluid document, as I wrote most of it two years ago when my cousin asked me for some recommendations. Had to change a few of them after reconsideration. I do own a copy of "Withnail And I", but only watched it once. I also have a copy of "Full Metal Jacket".***I do admire "Potemkin" and also have a copy of Zbigniew Rybcinsky's experimental film reedit of the Odessa steps scene in which he walks around every character on the steps to analyze their fates.
I admire "Ikiru" because it is about the life process and the protagonist makes about every mistake possible before doing the right thing to give his existence meaning. Maybe it is my Buddhist upbringing.
I am sure that's what it is. It is quite uncommon to have it on personnal list. Me, I would rather start working for HP again...
***I remember Harry Pearson writing about "Mad, Mad World" in TPV and discussing how unfunny it was. He almost convinced me, but then I saw the parts where Jonathan Winters tears apart the service station and Dick Shawn plays Ethel Merman's idiotic son "Sylvester" and the big smile on my face broke into laughter again. I was especially impressed by the con man ways of Phil Silvers, as I was too young to watch the original broadcasts of his Sgt. Bilko series.
Well, just another reviewer' opinion... It has been many years since I watched it, and it is on my short list of movies to rewatch.
I give you another chance to reconsider the Terminator thingy - at least would you consider moving it down one notch? Make a room for Nights of Cabiria?
Haven't seen "Nights of Cabiria", but "The Terminator" stays. Bergman's on the list ("Fanny and Alexander"), but I didn't pick "The Seventh Seal" because spoofs like "The Dove" (I miss Madeline Kahn) and "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" ruined it for me.Liked "Risky Business" for its satirical look at young entrepreneurship during the Reagan years. Also liked the music and my favorite line about drowned Porsches ("Who's the U-boat commander?").
***Haven't seen "Nights of Cabiria", but "The Terminator" stays.OK, OK, so it stays... just add Cabiria... it IS one of his best, after all.
***Bergman's on the list ("Fanny and Alexander"),
Yes, my fault.
***but I didn't pick "The Seventh Seal" because spoofs like "The Dove" (I miss Madeline Kahn) and "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" ruined it for me.
So I must be lucky - I didn't see these. Just saw again the Virgin Spring. Von Sydow is truly incredible. It is interesting, he barely moves any facial muscles... yet he says so much.
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