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A-1 (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:16 pm I will also vote for "Silence of the Lambs" Plus all the sequils except for the one that had the horrible excursion from Jonathan Harris' original novel's plot.

Ridley Scott or Scott Ridley or whatever that hallucinating frustrated person's name is who directed that piece of trash disquised as decent cinema had no right to downplay the romance between Starling and Lector and the South American "happily ever after" scene. Let alone do away with it ENTIRELY! His directing SUCKS!

Perhpas the most shitty thing of all was

A-1 (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:16 pm here was this brilliant but oh, so EVIL man, Hannibal Lector, who picked the lock of a pair of handcuffs while his hands were handcuffed behind his back with the insert from a cheap ink pen in the first movie. However, then he had one hand free and the other in hand cuffs and he could not do any better than to cut his own hand off with a meat cleaver. What a crock of shit!

Fucking ridley scott or scott ridley or whatever that idiotic director's name is should stick to shittly little horror flicks based on comic books instead of ones based on best selling novels.

That way, he could fuck up with impunity, and nobody would give a damn.



A-1

Well said, I'm glad I am not the only one to notice that!!!

There are so many to choose from! I thought about this a lot, and finally picked films that had stayed with me - films that I still thought about years later, films that changed me, films that taught me new ways to see the world. There's a long list of films that entertained me, often brilliantly, but didn't have a lasting impact. These are some of the best -

Modern Times (Chaplin)

The Awful Truth (Cary Grant & Irene Dunne)

It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)

Vertigo (Hitchcock)

The Third Man (Orson Welles & Joseph Cotton)

Tokyo Story (Ozu)

Dodes'ka-den (Kurosawa)

Sanshiro Sugata, Part 2 (Kurosawa)

Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)

Mon Oncle (Jaques Tati)

Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)

Fellini's Roma (Fellini)

Akira Kurosawa's RAN (chaos) and Kagemusha (the shadow warrior)

Can Can

Gigi

Pirates of Penzance

Thoroughly Modern Milly

Once upon a time in the west

Unforgiven

High Noon

Young FRANKenstein, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, TO be or NOT to be,

Vertigo by Hitchhock

Shadow of a Doubt

NNW

Arabesque (with Sophia Loren)

Charade

Dave,

All of your choices are great picks. I recall enjoying Can Can and Gigi, when I was young. I highly regard Kurosawa’s Kagemusha, Ran and every other movie of his that I have seen. Kagemusha astounds me. I watch the DVD from time to time.

Don’t forget Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America. I have read that Hitchcock said Shadow of a Doubt was his favorite of his movies. I have never seen Arabesque.

Ted

Dave, I'll be seeing Kagemusha again on DVD in a few minutes. I love all of Kurosawa's films, so it was hard to pick my one or two favorites. Stray Dog is one of his greats, and even the late August Rhapsody.

Unforgiven! An Eastwood great that almost made my list.

To Be Or Not To Be! I'm thrilled to find another Lubitsch fan on this site. Not to forget Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, and The Shop Around the Corner.

I think Shadow of a Doubt was the first film Hitchcock made in America. A great film, but I would have liked it better with someone else in Joseph Cotten's part. North By Northwest! One of the Judiciary Committee senators asked John Roberts for his favorite movies, and he answered NNW and Dr. Zhivago.

Charade! Who can forget the funeral scene in the church?

Well, this is a lot of fun. Glad to find so many kindred spirits here. But where else?

Alfred Hitchcock was able to break from working with David O. Selznick during his early years in the United States. Selznick and Hitchcock disagreed over how to make film. I believe that Shadow of a Doubt came after the break with Selznick.

I am a big fan of Joseph Cotton. He was in another of my favorite films The Third Man.

bobov (imported) wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:02 pm Dave, I'll be seeing Kagemusha again on DVD in a few minutes. ...

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To Be Or Not To Be! I'm thrilled to find another Lubitsch fan on this site. Not to forget Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, and The Shop Around the Corner.

I hate to sound sentimental but I almost cried at the end of Kagemusha when I saw it for the first time. It, like Bridge over the River Kwai and Hair is one of the most powerful statements about the futility of war... etc...

As for To Be or Not To Be - I meant the Mel Brooks version. - - I have nothing against Lubitsch, I just like comedies

The final of Kagemusha stuns me every time I see it. The scene where the shadow warrior is forced from the castle moves me just as much.

Lacking any hint of a sense of humor, I do not usually put comedies on my lists of great or favorite movies, though Brining Up Baby is splendid.

Dave,

I have never seen Arabesque.

Ted

GASP

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060121/

Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren

Professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to infiltrate the organization of a man named Beshraavi (Alan Badel), who is involved in a plot against the Prime Minister. The nature of the plot is believed to be found in a hieroglyphic code. Beshraavi's mistress, Yasmin Azir (Sophia Loren) is a mystery intertwined in the plot. Pollock needs her help, but when she repeatedly seems to double cross him in one escapade after another, he can't decide on whose side she is working. Ultimately working together, Pollock and Yasmin decipher the plot and set out to stop an assassination of the Prime Minister.

Here are my fav's-

Tombstone

Titanic

Blade 1,2,3

Pearl Harbor

Saving Pvt Ryan

Green Mile

Shawshank Redemption

3 Muskateers (love Chris O'donald)

Tourch song Trilogy

Bird cage ( Fred Lane is a hoot)

Dogma

Bright Blessings,

DW