As requested by my man jim:favorites by genre

Submitted by jblack on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:19
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  • DRAMA One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  • ACTION The French Connection
  • COMEDY Dr. Strangelove
  • HORROR The Exorcist
  • THRILLER Dressed To Kill
  • MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Chinatown
  • WAR(WW I) Reds
  • WAR(WW II) Schindlers List/Best Years Of Our Lives
  • WAR(Civil) Glory
  • WAR(Vietnam) Apocalypse Now/The Deer Hunter
  • SCIENCE FICTION 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • WESTERN Unforgiven
  • CRIME (The Godfather I and II
  • FOREIGN Das Boot/Last Year At Marienbad
  • ANIMATED Cinderella
  • MUSICAL Singing In The Rain
  • DOCUMENTARY:The "Up" Documentaries(7 Up/14 Up etc.)/Hoop Dreams
bertie11/08/2000

Thoroughly approve of your Comedy, War (Vietnam), Science Fiction, and Western choices.

For me, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is the film I've long wanted to see but never met up with. I've heard both very good and very bad opinions of it.

DRESSED TO KILL is very good, given that it owes a lot to Hitchcock.

jim11/10/2000

Excellent list, thanks! What are the "Up" documentaries? I loved Hoop Dreams, so I was thinking I might add those to my "to see" list.

jblack11/12/2000

British director Michael Apted began a project in 1965. The first movie is 7 UP,a documentary that follows a group of seven year old kids, talking of their dreams and goals. Every seven years, Apted made a new documentary over the same kids.This time called 14 UP, when they are all 14. Every 7 years a new documentary is made about the same kids following as they grow up and you see how some dreams came true, and how others fell to the side. The latest was 42 UP, and all of theme are great. 7 UP 14 UP 21 UP 28 UP 35 UP AND 42 UP.iF THERE AVAILABLE IN YOUR AREA, RENT THEM. yOU'LL BE ROCKED.

JohnnyW05/03/2001

Can't say anything bad about a list with Chinatown and The French Connection on it. If pushed, I might have to agree with you about the seventies being the best decade, especially if I could add certain films from '67-'69, which is when the foundation was laid for so many of the great films of that decade...

Johnny Waco

jblack05/04/2001

I kinda agree with that. The 70's great moviemaking started in about '66 with "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?"