Desert Island Weekend

Posted by afilado (A) on March 15, 2007 at 22:52:44

OK, tinear, you asked. If I were going away for a long to watch some old favorites here's a representative list I could really be happy with:

- A Vertical Ray Of The Sun - I'll have it for you soon.
- The Professionals - My favorite Western.
- Dr. Strangelove - Sterling Hayden is a favorite.
- Blade Runner - Rutger Hauer always moves me here.
- Le Samourai - Was there ever a man more beautiful and cool than the young Alain
Delon? Melville ain't bad either.
- Moby Dick - The other Melville.
- The Hustler - More beauty and cool in the young Newman. Jackie Gleason's greatest
turn.
- Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe? - Wit, intensity, brutality and sadness hardly get better.
- The French Connection - I love this oyster-eating Fernando Rey performance.
- The Big Lebowski
- Dead Man - Worth it for Henricksen and Mitchum.
- Das Boot
- Apocalypse Now
- Fitzcarraldo - My dose of Kinski
- Viva Zapata - Brando!! Another western.
- The Getaway - The McQueen one, although, I like both.
- A History Of Violence - Still impressive to me.
- Wild River - Lee Remick (yummy). Montgomery Clift. The TVA story.
- Psycho
- Waiting For Godot - Beckett on film is still good.
- The Rules Of The Game
- Playtime
- Ran
- Dersu Uzala
- Russian Ark- I need to see this many times.
- The Sacrifice - Ditto
- The Ipcress File
- Alfie
- We're No Angels - My favorite Christmas film. Bogart tickles me.

I welcome your comments.

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Topic - Desert Island Weekend - afilado 22:52:44 03/15/07 (23)

A Paul Newman comment: - tinear 16:49:44 03/16/07 (3)

Re: A Paul Newman comment: - afilado 23:24:58 03/16/07 (2)

Brando was not just an "entertainer" but an immensely skilled - tinear 04:57:48 03/17/07 (1)

Of course,.... - afilado 11:13:45 03/17/07 (0)

Re: Desert Island Weekend - rico 08:05:41 03/16/07 (1)

Re: Desert Island Weekend - afilado 10:18:51 03/16/07 (0)

Great list, and I'm glad you didn't do the snobbish - tinear 04:51:22 03/16/07 (2)

Re: Great list, and I'm glad you didn't do the snobbish - afilado 10:30:35 03/16/07 (1)

Sterling certainly well-played a writer in "The Long Goodbye;" I believe - tinear 15:32:00 03/16/07 (0)

No Kubrick? No Fellini? - Victor Khomenko 04:46:30 03/16/07 (13)

I'd put De Sica ahead of Fellini, as much as I love him. "The Children - tinear 16:24:27 03/16/07 (1)

Re: I'd put De Sica ahead of Fellini, as much as I love him. "The Children - Victor Khomenko 16:32:51 03/17/07 (0)

Re: No Kubrick? No Fellini? - afilado 10:08:40 03/16/07 (9)

"but I fell asleep recently watching 'Nights Of Cabiria'." - sjb 10:57:12 03/16/07 (5)

Re: Impossible.nt - patrickU 02:47:23 03/18/07 (0)

Appreciate your encouragement... - afilado 11:55:45 03/16/07 (3)

A few... off the top of my head... - sjb 06:23:58 03/17/07 (2)

Oh Boy.... - afilado 09:32:21 03/17/07 (1)

Re: Oh Boy.... - sjb 10:12:23 03/17/07 (0)

Sorry, missed the good Dr.! - Victor Khomenko 10:46:58 03/16/07 (1)

Bergman and Ullmann... - afilado 01:33:05 03/17/07 (0)

I became self-conscious... - afilado 12:05:02 03/16/07 (0)

Ah, now you've challenged me to surprise you! The Hermitage in - tinear 04:56:34 03/16/07 (0)

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