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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2009
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    @ 256 - Which Blade Runner? There's so many special director's cut editions* and whatnot ... Now THAT'S a movie to see on a big screen!

    * I actually LIKE the version with the voice-over narration ...
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    The Point
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      CommentAuthormichfisher
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2009
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    Both Being There and Network just keep getting better with each year's viewing.
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    Amadeus is another classic worth watching again.
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    I watch Seven Samurai a couple times a year. Same for The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly and Lawrence of Arabia. Not really a film per se, but the entire run of Cowboy Bebop and Firefly. The first four films by the Marx Brothers. Naked Lunch to remember why I want to write. Dead Man if I'm in a strange mood....
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    A lot of movies that are perennial faves for me to watch have already been listed, so I'm just gonna throw out a suggestion for one of my favorite things to do and think everyone should make it a point to do: pick an influential director and just run through their entire series of works. (Or pick a director you just like, and run through their movies you like... I guess. Lazy.)

    Kurosawa, Scorsese, Coppola, Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Spielberg... I rarely ever actually accomplish this, but even the false starts and halfway-finished attempts prove fun and worthwhile.
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    256: I totally agree on Blade Runner. When I was a pre-teen watching the movie, I was just rooting for Han Solo to kill all the evil androids. It seemed pretty obvious to me that if you give Harrison Ford a big gun, then whoever he's pointing it at must be the bad guy. When I watched it about 6 years later, it felt like a completely different movie. It also helped that when I was older I watched the Final Cut.
    • CommentAuthorLani
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2009
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    I'm amused at the movies that made it to both this list and the "moves you loved but that didn't age well".

    Ditto on Dr. Strangelove. Every time I watch that movie, I catch something new.

    Au Revoir les Enfants, Jean de Florette, and Manon de la Source were movies I watched in my high school French class. I haven't watched them since, but I'm pretty certain they're still fantastic pieces of cinema.

    Das Boot - the original WWII sub movie. Hell yeah.

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - probably my favorite play, and the movie adaptation - with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton - is as brutal as it is brilliant.
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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2009
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    Know what? Ghostbusters. Bill Murray OWNS that film. Bill Murray. That's right.

    And ... Die Hard. The first one. It's still a good movie. As film, as cinema? No. It's a goddamn movie. IT MOVES. Yippee-Eye-Oh-Kay-Aye, Motherfucker.
    • CommentAuthoricelandbob
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2009
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    @ RacingPenquins

    Good call on Das Boot and Au Revoir les Enfants. How about Betty Blue?

    and another movie has sprung to mind... The warriors!! ("warriors come out to play...")
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    Watch the first half of Ghostbusters 2 again. Bill Murray is still great in that one.... then, yeah, it gets pretty bad.

    The more bands I'm in, the funnier Spinal Tap gets.
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    No director since has even tried to pull off the crazy shit that they did in that film

    Herzog's Aguirre and Fitzcarfaldo probably match your Larwence for crew-risking, film-making odacity. Also, both way kewl flics. And of course, everyone else in the room can just have a seat when Keaton enters.

    On that note, I'll mention that the silent era itself has copiously rewarded my recent revisitation -- in that my only youthful exposure was vapid, bullshit Laurel & Hardy mediocrity, and I never experienced the edgy and the great of cinema's first era. Oh Keaton, oh Dreyer! Holy shit, this is such brilliant, arresting work. There is a purity and potency of structure to silent film that talkies in many ways can only replicate imperfectly. Also, Babetown USA, amiright.

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Do you mean the original, 1930 version!? If so, yes, watch it again, without delay. You cannot beat that movie for being extravagantly ahead of its time. You can't. The mind-bogglingly elaborate battle-scenes are also pitch-perfect depictions of war -- edgy, sweeping, devastating.

    My god, look at this, this shit was filmed in 1930:





    Pre-code is where it's at. 40s and 50s: take a back seat. Bogart's whole carreer! I don't have any use for you, Bogart's whole career, and you owe me over ten hours of attempts to be impressed.
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    On that note, I'll mention that the silent era itself has copiously rewarded my recent revisitation…

    There is nothing like seeing silent films with new scores played live at the Wurlitzer in the Castro theater.
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    True dat I am hitting up this next week. Ridiculously excited.
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    Alien is another great film that ages like wine. It’s still the scariest movie ever made and has a great cast, great script, and great set design. It’s being released again in July, so see it on the biggest fucking screen you can get to because the Nostromo looks awesome when it’s the size of a building.
    • CommentAuthorLani
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2009
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    BrianMowrey - hey, you're an Austinite! I'm in San Marcos. I'd see every single damn movie playing at the Paramount if I could, but nothing for me until I can find a job.

    Speaking of silent films - Metropolis and The Passion of St. Joan are fantastic. Lots of people know about Metropolis though... Passion of St. Joan was lost for many years and then found in a janitor's closet in a mental institution. Awesome. The film was so hard on the actress playing Joan she actually had to be hospitalized for some time afterward.
    • CommentAuthoricelandbob
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2009
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    if we are looking at war films i totally recommend seeing Idi i smotri (Eng: Come and See) again. I remember seeing this when i was 12 years old late at night on Channel 4 (when they did proper world cinema) and it totally overwhelmed me. Wasn´t much use at school the following day. Schindlers list had nothing on this....

    climax scene to "Come and See"
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    Fiml 4 is not my friend sometimes - some movies do get better as I get older, but I always seem to watch the same 3 when they are on:

    Fight Club - the film and the book are awsome to me!
    Under Seige - don't ask me why, but my brother is the same
    From Dusk Til Dawn - Mmmmm! Salma Hayek!
    Mmm!
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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2009
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    @ 3millionyears - my girlfriend (at the time) wanted to walk out on From Dusk Til Dawn. She DID walk out on El Topo. She's now a film professor at the University of Calgary.

    She sat in stunned silence on the subway ride home after we saw Reservoir Dogs, while I bounced around like a kid who just saw Star Wars. SHE IS NOW A FILM PROFESSOR. And she walked out on El Topo.
    • CommentAuthor256
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2009
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    @hex - good point on The Many Versions Of Blade Runner. Oh my GOD that would be good to see in the cinema.

    Also, Die Hard (1) is a great film. I can't think of another action movie that compares to it. And it's one of my favourite films, even though my taste mainly runs to Inaction Movies (Chicago Cab, Lost In Translation, etc) and Weird Yet Not David Lynch Films (Immortal, Repo Man, etc). Also, the DVD version of it that came out a while back has really great commentary tracks from the director, and two of the production directors.

    @puckett Re: Alien being re-released - I saw it the last time they re-released it in cinemas and it was amazing. Will definitely see it again if it comes around.

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