1965: Movies Sorted By Tier

Submitted by stooky on Sat, 07/10/2004 - 10:39
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  • Great

  • The Ipcress File
  • The Pawnbroker
  • Red Beard
  • **This is the film that pushed Kurosawa ahead of Hitchcock as my fave director. I've been aware that he had made this film, but I hadn't really "tried" to see until certain listologists deemed it a "great film". Anyway, read Jim's review since it's better than anything I could write. And after you've read it the following line should be reffered to...

    "stook says ditto."

  • Repulsion
  • Ship Of Fools
  • Simon Of The Desert
  • The Train

  • Very Good

  • Cat Ballou
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas (short)
  • **An acknowledgement of Christmas spirit that retains it’s sweetness after many years. I remember it fondly after all these years and upon watching, for the seventh time, I’ve lost none of my fondness for this television short. It’s a simple treat that reminded me of the brilliant nostalgia of 60’s television. Everyone should see it once in his or her lives.
  • The Collector
  • Darling
  • Help!
  • The Hill
  • Juliet Of The Spirits
  • **Visually sumptuous Fellini extravaganza about house-wife finding herself (or that's what I thought it was about anyway). It starts out pretty normal and eventually spirals into manic story-telling and bizarro dream/non-dream sequences so confusing I just gave up trying to understand the plot. Anywho, great to look at, great main performance, weirdness on a grand scale. What can I say, if I woulda known what was going on I'd have put it in the "Great" section. I hope you have better luck.
  • The Sound Of Music
  • The Tomb Of Ligeia

  • Good

  • The Agony & The Ecstasy
  • **Charlton Heston plays Michelangelo! I do not understand this choice and his performance leaves you wondering if he’s going to bellow “You dirty ape!” but aside from that he’s actually quite good. Making his artistic character a hyperactive he-man of passionate beliefs and a muddled personal life (devoid of homosexuality of course). Rex Harrison is divine as the Pope, using a British accent no less, spitting out retorts and fiery gazes with papal fury, then harnessing subdued winsomeness for his heart-felt speeches. They’re a marvellous duo. Turning their movie into something like The Ten Commandments starring Michelangelo, he even goes up a mountain for many days to find inspiration for goodness sake (I’m surprised they didn’t put his sketches on tablets and get it over with). Unfortunately their script is a limp fish in which the phrases “When will you be done!” and “When I’m finished!” are used with such frequency they become maniacally silly and embarrassing. Yet, with all this gratuitous silliness, an inspiring and entertaining movie emerges (about the time you turn off your brain) and you start to have grand time watching these people mock history. Charlton is stricken and Rex comes to his aid (in a manly, brusque way of course) and vice versa. Heston bellows out religious mumbo-jumbo from his gigantic support whilst Harrison bellows about money. Raphael makes a brief appearance to be shown as Michelangelo’s arch rival who eventually sees the light. There’s even a beautiful love interest that understands the man but lacks the godliness to truly save him. Who knew history was such a soap opera? I suppose 50 years from now if they shoot a movie about my life, I won’t be typing on a computer about to post on Listology concerning a movie, I’ll be talking to the Prime Minister about the perilous path to enlightenment.
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • The Great Race
  • King Rat
  • The Rounders
  • The Satan Bug
  • Those Maganificent Men In Flying Machines
  • Thunderball

  • Guilty Pleasures

  • Average

  • The Cincinnati Kid
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
  • None But The Brave
  • Operation Crossbow
  • Pierrot Le Fou
  • **Average and boring and unreasonably complicated. Whatever.
  • What’s New Pussycat?

  • Dissapointing

  • How To Murder Your Wife
  • A Patch Of Blue

  • Cellar Dwellers

  • Planet Of The Vampires
  • She
  • That Darn Cat!

  • The Big Stink

  • Unfortunately Haven’t Seen

  • Alphaville
  • Gertrud
  • The Knack
  • The Loved One
  • Loves Of A Blonde
  • Othello
  • Shakespeare Wallah
  • The Shop On Main Street
  • Tokyo Olympiad
  • Two Stage Sisters
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1966: Movies Sorted By Tier
pherber09/23/2004

Ironic isn't it that a movie called the Greatest Story Ever Told just turns out to be average.

stooky09/24/2004

Indeed...have you watched this marvel, which it turns out is basically select Bible exerts. Who knew. This movie and The Bible could turn you into an aetheist.

T'ho

:?)

grandpa_chum05/07/2005

I was curious what your thoughts on the ending of Simon of the Desert were?... alot of people that have seen it like to say something like it was an attack on the 60's youth... i think that is ridiculous, is it just me or does it make more sense that the whole film was a setup for the comedic statement that although religious suffering may seem heroic and simon may look like a great man, it was all really in vain, because all he was fighting off was some rock and roll and dancing teens. your thoughts?

stooky07/03/2005

Interesting theory and I would tend to agree with yours as apposed to the nasty 60's youth scenerio. However, in my opinion (and because it was made Bunuel) the movie is about:

Simon is fighting against basic human behaviour, people generally don't want to stand on a pedastal, pooping dust and praying to god, they wanna have fun, sex, booze it up, etc. Modern civilization is a den of iniquity in almost every facet, given rise by a majority of happy sinners. Simon isn't fighting a loosing battle against sin, the battle was lost even before Simon started fighting it, o the irony. The ending in my opinion represents the intense fury with which civilization casts itself into sin as juxtaposed by Simon's singular worship to God.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

:?)