Movies seen from July, 10 till October, 14 (first views only)
- 10
- A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
- Fanny och Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
- The General (Keaton & Bruckman, 1927)
- 9
- Festen (Vinterberg, 1998)
- Shichinin No Samurai (The Seven Samurai) (Kurosawa, 1954)
- Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
- Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973)
- Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Tati, 1953)
- The Godfather, Part III (Coppola, 1990)
- The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962)
- The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999)
- Broken Flowers (Jarmusch, 2005)
- 8
- Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (Babenco, 1981)
- Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
- Bullitt (Yates, 1968)
- Stardust Memories (Allen, 1980)
- Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996)
- Bronco Billy (Eastwood, 1980)
- Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002)
- Scarface (De Palma, 1983)
- Time Bandits (Gilliam, 1981)
- Mississippi Burning (Parker, 1988)
- Bad Day at Black Rock (Sturges, 1955)
- Opening Night (Cassavetes, 1977)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
- Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969)
- The Kid (Chaplin, 1921)
- Il Gattopardo (Visconti, 1963)
- Tigerland (Schumacher, 1998)
- The African Queen (Huston, 1951)
- Richard III (Loncraine, 1995)
- The Cameraman (Keaton & Sedgwick, 1928)
- Oliver Twist (Lean, 1948)
- Mighty Aphrodite (Allen, 1995)
- Aguirre- Der Zorn Gottes (Herzog, 1972)
- Good Bye, Lenin! (Becker, 2003)
- Patton (Schaffner, 1970)
- Tarantula (Arnold, 1954)
- Nosferatu- Phantom der Nacht (Herzog, 1978)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold, 1957)
- 7
- Manhunter (Mann, 1986)
- Moonstruck (Jewison, 1987)
- Diner (Levinson, 1982)
- The Defiant Ones (Kramer, 1958)
- Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) (Wenders, 1987)
- Freaks (Browning, 1932)
- La peau douce (Truffaut, 1963)
- Life as a House (Winkler, 2001)
- The Cowboys (Rydell, 1971)
- 6
- Bugsy (Levinson, 1991)
- Serpico (Lumet, 1973)
- Awakenings (Marshall, 1991)
- Black Rain (Scott, 1989)
- The Sons of Katie Elder (Hathaway, 1965)
- The Right Stuff (Kaufman, 1983)
- Prizzi's Honor (Huston, 1985)
- A Child Is Waiting (Cassavetes, 1963)
- Silent Fall (Beresford, 1994)
- 5
- Aberration (Boxell, 1997)
- 4
- Galaxy Quest (Parisot, 1999)
- Bulletproof Monk (Hunter, 2003)
- Spy Kids 2 (Rodriguez, 2002)
- 3
- Noose for a Gunman (Cahn, 1960)
- 2
- Rats (Lafia, 2002)
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash (Underwood, 2002)
- 1
- 0
In order of appreciating them.
SHORT FILMS I HAVE SEEN: (no order)
Démolition d'un mur (Lumière)
L'arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat (Lumière)
La sortie des usines Lumière (Lumière)
Partie d'écarte (Lumière)
Repas de bébé (Lumière)
(many other Lumière shorts, cannot remember the titles)
Le locataire diabolique (Méliès)
Le tripot clandestin (Méliès)
Le roi du maquillage (Méliès)
Les cartes vivantes (Méliès)
Les transmutations imperceptibles (Méliès)
Les affiches en goguette (Méliès)
Le mélomane (Méliès)
Le chaudron infernal (Méliès)
Le cake-walk infernal (Méliès)
Le voyage dans la lune (Méliès)
Barbe-bleu (Méliès)
L'homme à la tête de caoutchouc (Méliès)
L'homme orchestre (Méliès)
Nouvelles luttes extravagantes (Méliès)
Un homme de têtes (Méliès)
La Jetée (Norman)
More (Osborne)
Nice to see you're back, and you're lucky to have seen so few bad films :-)
You rate Mean Streets pretty high... has it replaced Taxi Driver as your favorite Scorsese?
What does A Woman Under the Influence have that the much lower rated Cassavetes film A Child Is Waiting doesn't have? Just more interesting subject matter, or better direction or acting or ...?
Give Peckinpah's Straw Dogs a look.
Mean Streets is a great film, but for Scorsese I'd still prefer Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and also the underrated After Hours.
As for Cassavetes A Woman Under the Influence was a revelation. A Child Is Waiting (one of the very few studio productions Cassavetes has made) on the other hand is (far from being a bad movie though) a cold, calculated film. AWUTI tops ACIW in every possible way. Gena Rowlands is (at least to me) a much better actress than Judy Garland, and I also prefer AWUTI because it is a more personal work.
Thanks for the tipp. I try to catch as much of Peckinpah's work as possible.
1922 - Now that you're back, I just wanted to let you know that I watched Taxi Driver twice during your absence and absolutely loved it. It is my favorite Scorsese.
Ah, glad to hear that. I just read your comment here, and agree on your thoughts.
If you ever want to discuss it, just let me know.
That reminds that I wanted to put up an extensive article about Taxi Driver (actually I have read an **almost** scene-per-scene analysis, of which I wanted to share the most interesting parts here on listology).