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385,094 | 391,152 | 100,274 | 9 | Godard's most beautiful film ; definitely the best of his later work that I've seen | Most people will not like this film . It's difficult to understand what's going on in the narrative . This isn't uncommon in Godard's work , but it's especially true of his later work . I've seen , besides New Wave , First Name : Carmen , Hail Mary , and his segment from the omnibus opera film Aria . That segment is ac... |
384,732 | 391,152 | 29,490 | 9 | Great | The River is a very wonderful documentary , covering the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States . It's Depression-era propaganda , yes , but it's so beautifully filmed , edited , and written , as well as read . The narration is absolutely poetic . This is a must-see if for all documentary enthusiasts ... |
384,583 | 391,152 | 203,612 | 9 | Near masterpiece , at least ; the next time I watch it , it will probably be a masterpiece | Teshigahara's debut , at least as a feature length director of fictional films . Like his most famous work , his sophomore feature A Woman in the Dunes , Pitfall is based on the work of Japanese author Kobo Abe . While Pitfall is far less famous than A Woman in the Dunes , it is at least as good . It's been a while sin... |
385,460 | 391,152 | 492,466 | 9 | Best doc of ' 06 , and one of the best films , period | Well , I finally found the very best documentary from 2006 . This exploration of Iraq is reminiscent of the beautiful ethnographic documentaries ( and faux-documentaries ) of pioneer Robert J . Flaherty . The images are awe-inspiring and completely indelible . The film is broken into three parts . In the first segment ... |
384,919 | 391,152 | 25,590 | 9 | Great Fields , Great Entertainment | If anything , this film is a must-see for two of W . C . Field's scenes : 1 ) Fields ' first meeting with Baby Le Roy ( who also appears in It's a Gift ) , which is easily one of the best comedy scenes in the movies , and 2 ) Fields ' juggling routine , for which he was very famous when he was a vaudevillian , justly s... |
385,527 | 391,152 | 27,518 | 9 | Very good | I taped this based on its title alone . It's the kind of classic Hollywood film I really love because , while it's definitely a quality picture , it's also goofy in a lot amusing ways . The Devil Is a Sissy stars three child stars of the time , Freddie Bartholomew , Jackie Cooper , and Mickey Rooney . Bartholomew is a ... |
385,419 | 391,152 | 257,044 | 9 | Great , but flawed ; Tom Hanks is wrong for the role | A great film with a painful amount of flaws . Technically , it's gorgeous . Conrad Hall's cinematography is original and stunning , and Thomas Newman's score is one of the more memorable of recent years ( and it's only rarely overused ) . Mendes keeps up his great technical direction . And the supporting actors are mag... |
384,890 | 391,152 | 18,737 | 9 | A great film , but it loses a little steam early on | I had been hearing about this film for years now , and I have finally seen it . I must say that I was enormously impressed with the first third , up until the courtroom sequence . After that , it gets a little random . There's nothing necessarily wrong with that - none of those episodes is less than great - but if it w... |
385,323 | 391,152 | 311,289 | 9 | A great adaptation | Holes , the novel , was forced on me in an education course . I didn't think I would like a children's novel ; plus , the other couple of books I was forced to read for the class were really bad . But , to my surprise , I absolutely loved Holes . It really is one of the most perfectly written novels I've ever read . I ... |
385,754 | 391,152 | 1,028,528 | 9 | The European / DVD cut is just as good as the Grindhouse cut , if not better | I honestly don't get the hate here . Tarantino is a smug bastard , to be sure , but he makes fairly entertaining movies . People complain about the endless dialogue , but I quite enjoy it here . I like the bad , B-movie dialogue of the first half of the film , as well as the more Tarantino-esquire stuff of the second h... |
385,139 | 391,152 | 42,593 | 9 | Fantastic film with Bogart at his very best . Gloria Grahame also gives one of her best performances . | The story concerns a Hollywood screenwriter ( Bogart ) who is suspected of being a murderer . Grahame , a neighbor , steps in to defend him ? she saw the murdered woman leave his apartment alone . Afterwards , they begin a relationship . But Bogart's nature is a violent one , and that violence keeps pushing forward . I... |
385,690 | 391,152 | 82,926 | 9 | Crazy send-up of American family life by John Waters | This is almost as good as Desperate Living , my favorite Waters flick . Divine stars as a beaten-down housewife married to a philandering porno theater owner . He leaves her for Mink Stole and hounds her relentlessly . Her daughter's a knocked-up skank and her son huffs like crazy and lusts after women's feet ? which h... |
385,795 | 391,152 | 99,902 | 9 | Just a wrung below Raise the Red Lantern | In ten or twenty years , Zhang Yimou will be regarded as one of the greatest foreign directors . I think his film Raise the Red Lantern is one of the greatest films ever made , easily . Ju Dou is just one step below it . Its positive points are too numerous to mention in any great detail . Just let me warn you that , l... |
385,482 | 391,152 | 253,754 | 9 | Don't listen to the critics on this one | I'm not a big enough fan of Star Trek to deserve the title " trekkie . " I've only seen about six whole episodes of the original series , and only the last three of the original movie series . And I've probably watched about three episodes total from the three most recent series , Deep Space Nine , Voyager , and Enterp... |
385,801 | 391,152 | 60,153 | 9 | A helluva lot of fun | They were aiming for pure cornball with the 1960s Batman television series , and they hit a bullseye . This movie , which followed the first season , was given a lot of money to work with ? all of which was promptly ? and happily ? blown on some new bat-themed vehicles , the bat-copter , bat-boat , and bat-cycle , whos... |
385,719 | 391,152 | 443,455 | 9 | Maddin should have dropped the narration for general release , but the film is still gangbusters | First of all , I have to say : finally ! I was almost positive that I was going to have to wait for DVD for this one , and God knows how long that was going to take . Secondly , I have to speak my only criticism of the film up front : the live show experiment might have been something truly awesome . I'll never know . ... |
384,748 | 391,152 | 209,144 | 9 | Truly , utterly brilliant | I had grave doubts going into this one . Its fans seemed to me to be the same people who like a lot of the movies I really hated over the past five years or so , movies like The Matrix , Run Lola Run , Fight Club , and many others . I avoided it for a long time , though I always thought I had to see it no matter what .... |
385,468 | 391,152 | 20,492 | 9 | Gripping Whodunit | This isn't a typical Tod Browning film . It's more or less a very basic filming of a stage play ( I gather ; I don't know that for sure , but it feels very stagey ) about a group of rich people who hire a medium to find out who killed their friend ( and , to some of the group , an enemy ) . When they go into their sean... |
385,548 | 391,152 | 48,947 | 9 | Well deserved Oscar for Ingrid Bergman | Excellent film about a group of Imperial Russian expatriates who try to pass off a nobody as the Grand Duchess Anastasia , who was supposedly executed along with the rest of her family a decade ago . No one knows , not even the woman herself , whether she is or is not Anastasia . Ingrid Bergman plays this woman in her ... |
385,318 | 391,152 | 51,361 | 9 | The earliest Suzuki Seijun film available in Region 1 ; it's newly released on DV | For those who doubt the talent of Suzuki , for those who think that he was just some kind of a nut who really just didn't understand how to make a coherent film , I present to you his seventh film , Underworld Beauty , newly released on DVD by Home Vision Cinema . This is the earliest available Suzuki film , and the ea... |
385,862 | 391,152 | 35,937 | 9 | A brilliant thriller | A brilliant thriller . It's not as beautiful as some of the other Val Lewton movies ( I really think the director must make a difference ) , but the script makes up for any lack in such a quality . Apparently the story was stolen ; a subsequent lawsuit is the reason that this one is so rare . The film concerns a ship's... |
385,861 | 391,152 | 25,423 | 9 | John Ford is by far my favorite director | No director impresses me more consistently than John Ford . Add The Lost Patrol to the list of his second tier triumphs - it's a cliche , but if anyone else had made this film , it would probably be their masterpiece . A British officer , riding through the Arabian desert in 1917 , refuses to share his orders with his ... |
385,200 | 391,152 | 33,945 | 9 | Almost perfect ; | One of Fields ' best ( is there anything that's not ? ) , Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is basically his swan song . Never again would he star in a motion picture . And it is a glorious swan song , nearly as funny as his greatest film , The Bank Dick . It may even be his second best film , although several fight fo... |
384,620 | 391,152 | 60,050 | 9 | Underrated | John Ford's swan song is very underrated . Anne Bancroft plays a chain-smoking doctor who has fled the United States ( for reasons unknown , unless they were explained during the minute or so I was away to answer the phone ) to work at a mission in China . Margaret Leighton plays the head of this mission , a devout Chr... |
385,883 | 391,152 | 69,400 | 9 | Almost as good as Tati's best films ; very underrated ! | Tati's final theatrical film , which is often considered his greatest failure , is in actuality nearly as good as his masterpieces . In this film , Tati stars for the fourth and final time as M . Hulot . This time he has a job as an automobile designer , and it is his job to get his company's new Camping Car to Amsterd... |
385,936 | 391,152 | 49,261 | 9 | Gorgeous piece of work | I thought Doctor Zhivago had totally ruined me for epics . I had taped Giant months ago , and had avoided it until this morning when , circa 5AM , I decided to watch it as an attack against my insomnia . It had quite the opposite effect . Giant is a marvelous film . I'll be the first to say that it has a lot of rough e... |
385,283 | 391,152 | 65,054 | 10 | Fosse's first film ( and big bomb ) is remarkable | There's just something about this movie that I love . I had seen bits and pieces of it some half a dozen times in the past couple of years . Tonight I finally sat and watched all of it . In theory it sounds like blasphemy : a musical remake of Fellini's Nights of Cabiria . But somehow first time director Bob Fosse pull... |
385,773 | 391,152 | 28,212 | 10 | Easily one of Hitchcock's greatest films | Ah , yet another Hitchcock movie that is less than famous but then turns out to be one of the best films ever made . Every Hitchcock film that I see just makes me want to the rest of his films . Sabotage has a lot going for it . It is based on a novella by Joseph Conrad , the master writer who wrote Heart of Darkness (... |
385,909 | 391,152 | 15,324 | 10 | Almost certainly the funniest comedy I've ever seen . | Yes , counting all the comedies I've ever seen , silent or talkie , this is probably the funniest . I was lucky ( boy , was I lucky ! ) to see this in a theater with a live piano player . Ever scene is brimming with comic genius , cinematic inventiveness , and just plain perfection . I laughed almost nonstop from begin... |
385,347 | 391,152 | 30,643 | 10 | Like Being Punched Really Hard in the Gut | I took a class in French Poetic Realism and Italian Neorealism this past Fall in which I saw many of the best films I will ever see . The third film we watched in the class was Jean Vigo's L'Atalante , which is just about the most gorgeous experience in film viewing I have ever experienced . I left the building in a cl... |
385,249 | 391,152 | 32,551 | 10 | Note Perfect | There's probably nothing new I could say about this film - just the regular and much deserved praise : John Ford's direction is perfect , perhaps only surpassing it in The Searchers , as well as Greg Tolland's cinematography ; the next year , he would photograph Citizen Kane , and his work there is just the slightest h... |
384,888 | 391,152 | 19,563 | 10 | A small masterpiece from director Tod Browning and actor Lon Chaney | Tod Browning is a marvelous director . I guess I've known this since i've seen his two most famous films , Dracula ( the Bela Lugosi version ) and Freaks . But neither of those films could have prepared me for the two films that I saw tonight ( well , okay , maybe Freaks did ; Dracula's not all that great a film ) . Fi... |
385,203 | 391,152 | 36,891 | 10 | Preston Sturges just could not go wrong | Yet another perfect film from Preston Sturges , Hail the Conquering Hero is perhaps his most touching film , too . If you've seen Miracle at Morgan's Creek , then you have to see this one , and vice versa . They are sister films : Bracken plays a young sap who couldn't fight in WWII because of health reasons . Where Mi... |
385,315 | 391,152 | 56,371 | 10 | One of the most stunning pieces of filmmaking I've ever seen | Before the Revolution , Bernardo Bertolucci's second film , is kind of a mess . He was only 22 when he made it , and he must have made it immediately after he finished his first film , Grim Reaper . It's obvious that he's a genius from this film . Like I said , it's kind of a mess , but no more beautiful mess has ever ... |
385,574 | 391,152 | 30,711 | 10 | Among the best animated shorts ever | I love musical animated shorts , so I was pretty much guaranteed to love this one . However , I think the animation of the title character , Sally Swing , who is discovered by Betty Boop when she's looking for someone to lead the swing concert at a college , is superb . I've never seen more fluid dance animation anywhe... |
385,040 | 391,152 | 290,329 | 10 | A vile masterwork | Visitor Q is hard to deal with , but I think I'd call this a masterpiece . This is an update of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema . It's often compared to Pasolini's Salò because of its shocking content , but , plot-wise , it's virtually a remake of the 1968 film , brilliantly updated and moved to modern Japan . Teorema is... |
384,896 | 391,152 | 23,814 | 10 | How shocking that this turned out to be so great . Stanwyck is miraculous . | During the opening ten minutes of The Bitter Tea of General Yen or so , I was absolutely cracking up . I mean , it was the most preposterous , dated , and unintentionally funny film I thought I ever had seen . The film opens with a wedding ceremony where a priest tells a story of his missionary days in Mongolia : " I w... |
385,132 | 391,152 | 407,304 | 10 | The best film of 2005 , in my opinion | As this was one of the more memorable films I saw in 2005 , and as it was also one of the most obviously flawed , I was afraid it would be worse upon a revisiting . I'm glad to say I was entirely wrong about that . It got better . In fact , when you know the flaws are coming , it's easier to concentrate on its strength... |
384,616 | 391,152 | 50,598 | 10 | Vastly undervalued Chaplin masterpiece | It's not only one of Chaplin's best films , but one of the most important films about America ever made . Thrown out of the US for his liberal views , Chaplin became very irate at America . This is his response , a bare-knuckle boxing match with Uncle Sam - and this tramp doesn't pull punches . He doesn't leave a stone... |
385,830 | 391,152 | 87,884 | 10 | PLEASE ! RELEASE THIS TO DVD ! ! ! | I have been in love with Wenders ' Wings of Desire since I first saw it several years ago , so I taped this movie off of HBO2 or some such channel . I could NOT find this at a video store , and they don't sell it in any format anymore . The only thing left to be sold is the soundtrack , which doesn't make any sense to ... |
384,719 | 391,152 | 112,767 | 10 | One of the best films I've seen in a while | The setup sounds a bit like The Bicycle Thieves , with a poor Saigon teenager getting his rented bicycle-taxi stolen by a group of gangsters . I was pretty sure this was going to be a film of the " sucks-to-be-poor " genre so common throughout foreign cinema , but Cyclo veers into much darker territory . The teen is fo... |
385,634 | 391,152 | 70,544 | 10 | Beautiful - a masterpiece | Science fiction is the perfect genre for animation . Unfortunately , very few films have taken full advantage of that . Fantastic Planet , though , uses the medium to its fullest extent . It is , without a doubt , one of the most imaginative films ever created . The animation is simple , with few drawings per second , ... |
384,753 | 391,152 | 24,025 | 10 | Grade A Entertainment ! An Underrated Gem ! | Flying Down to Rio will always be best known for being the movie that first paired Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers , but , believe me , its worth goes far beyond just that stunning accomplishment . The lead actor is Gene Raymond , who was one of the funniest actors in early Hollywood . My other favorite Raymond movie is... |
384,997 | 391,152 | 41,931 | 10 | A vastly underrated masterpiece | An enormous step forward from his three neorealist classics listed above . Unfortunately , I think it might still be suffering from its original backlash . It was pounded by the critics at the time , but that was all for reasons outside the film itself ( well , not exactly ; the film seems to mimic real life at the tim... |
385,563 | 391,152 | 43,809 | 10 | Weird and wonderful step away from Neorealism by Vittorio de Sica and Cesare Zavattini | Perhaps the last film you would expect to come from Vittorio de Sica and Cesare Zavattini ( who wrote the novel on which this film is based ) . It's a neorealist fantasy , kind of an oxymoron , really . An old woman finds a baby in her cabbage patch and raises him as her own son . After a few years , the baby is a youn... |
385,313 | 391,152 | 32,728 | 10 | One of John Ford's best . Maybe THE best . | The Long Voyage home is not a typical film from this period . It differs in that it focuses on an ensemble cast instead of on a star . That's common nowadays , but not back then . Ford's Stagecoach , made the previous year , had quite an ensemble cast , but the film was always focused on Ringo and Dallas . Here , John ... |
384,857 | 391,152 | 37,077 | 10 | Not only funny , but completely lovable | There are some scenes which are just perfect in their comedic ability , such as the scene where Trudy subtly tries to make Norval propose to her . Much of the comedy is not of the laugh-out-loud variety , but rather of the smile and maybe giggle variety . Plus , it may be a bit hard for younger people to enjoy , for it... |
385,920 | 391,152 | 38,991 | 10 | Vastly underrated Welles - one of his best films , one of the best thrillers ever | The Stranger is a little slow to start . Edward G . Robinson , playing a war crimes detective named Wilson , lets loose one of the right-hand men of an important Nazi war criminal named Franz Kindler ( Orson Welles ) who escaped prison and managed to erase his identity . He was the mastermind behind the concentration c... |
385,944 | 391,152 | 52,311 | 10 | Probably the single most entertaining masterpiece ever made | Most movies that are agreed to be masterpieces are usually somber films that almost take a film class to fully " get , " or at least a few viewings . Touch of Evil is different . It is so entertaining , that I was thinking , " This is too easy to enjoy to be a masterpiece . " It is one of the most exciting and perfectl... |
384,989 | 391,152 | 26,529 | 10 | Masterpiece ; one of John Ford's best films | Gypo Nolan ( Victor McLaglen ) is as poor as anyone on Earth . Living in 1920s Ireland , Gypo and his fellow Irishmen are part of an underground rebellion against the oppressive Brits . One particular rebel , wanted for murder by the English , arrives back into town secretly . He thinks he can trust his friend Gypo , b... |
385,096 | 391,152 | 156,610 | 10 | Very creative ; a masterpiece | In the final days of the year 1999 , most everyone in Taiwan has died . A strange plague has ravished the island . Supposedly spread by cockroaches , the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects . Eventually , they die . The Hole takes place in a crumbling apartment building ( which is... |
385,915 | 391,152 | 100,998 | 10 | Entirely Underrated . The Best Kurosawa Film I've Ever Seen | I have been exploring the works of Akira Kurosawa for about 6 months now , and I have seen most of those films which are generally considered masterpieces of film . There wasn't one of his films that I felt surpassed classics like 2001 , Citizen Kane , Raging Bull , or The Godfather . The one I had felt was the best wa... |
384,730 | 391,152 | 23,634 | 10 | A Whole New Ozu : The Old Ozu ! | I like Yasujiro Ozu's work , but , even after seeing some of those works that are generally considered best , I was still skeptical of his minimalist style . But then I saw the New Yorker VHS of the silent I Was Born , But . . . Let me just say that it is absolutely amazing . It's a nearly perfect film , with great dir... |
385,730 | 391,152 | 59,012 | 10 | In desperate need of restoration . We should start a charity fund . | It has grown mythic in my mind since several Europeans that I talkto on the internet began to tell me many months ago that Chimesat Midnight was an Orson Welles film that they preferred even toCitizen Kane . Yet it was unavailable in the US , and I thought that Iwould never see it . But finally I found a copy at a loca... |
385,621 | 391,152 | 85,838 | 10 | One of Sayles ' very best films | Sayles ' second feature as director , and his first great film . It's not perfect , has its share of clichés and is certainly dated , but it's wonderful . Linda Griffiths stars as Lianna , a young mother of two who is constantly suffering under her smarter , controlling husband , a film professor ( Jon DeVries ) . Lian... |
384,651 | 391,152 | 41,513 | 10 | The best Faulkner movie out there ( of the many that I've seen ) | This is easily the best cinematic version of William Faulkner's fiction that I've ever seen , and I've seen several of the most prominent ones . Filmed in Faulkner's hometown of Oxford , Mississippi , it really captures the feeling of Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha County . Intruder in the Dust is not one of Faulkner's be... |
385,207 | 391,152 | 32,338 | 10 | up there | Christmas in July is nearly as good as Sturges ' masterpieces , Sullivan's Travels , The Lady Eve , and Miracle at Morgan Creek . It's a nice film . The actors are good . It's funny and well directed . You couldn't ask for much more in a film . |
384,812 | 391,152 | 243,017 | 10 | May ( and should ) some day be considered a cinematic milestone | The worst part about Waking Life is that , after the lights come up , you find yourself sitting in a theater , stuck in utter reality . For 99 minutes , I almost believed I could fly , could do anything I wanted . Perhaps reality doesn't exist , I thought as the film progressed , and I am living in a dream . But then t... |
384,987 | 391,152 | 63,442 | 10 | A milestone ; one of the best films ever made | When I recently , for fun , ranked my favorite films in a top 100 list , Planet of the Apes ended up at 33 . It was the second sci-fi on the list , after 2001 , which ranked # 1 . I have always been disappointed and irked at the ill-will that some people have towards Planet of the Apes . I almost assaulted someone who ... |
385,474 | 391,152 | 54,698 | 10 | One of the most satisfying Hollywood romances ever made | I really could not praise this film enough , nor could I really find adequate words to do so . All you have to know is that it is the most perfect romantic comedy I've ever seen , in that it is entirely successful at being both , a romance and a comedy . It's also a stunning drama with excellent characterizations . Hol... |
385,187 | 391,152 | 48,037 | 10 | One of Bunuel's top works | Perhaps my favorite of Buñuel's Mexican years . As a child , Archibaldo de la Cruz willed the death of his young , sexy nanny through the device of a magical music box . As an adult , he finds this box at a pawn shop , and it awakens the exciting feelings he had as he stood over the corpse of his nanny checking out her... |
384,572 | 391,152 | 32,376 | 10 | Beautiful , powerful movie | I love classical Hollywood as much as anyone I know , but I am also aware that the films are often mechanical and emotionally distant . Very few reach the level of Dance , Girl , Dance . The plot is great . It is not exactly original , but it seemed that way to me . I was entirely hypnotized . This is due to the direct... |
385,486 | 391,152 | 72,417 | 10 | A short comment | To see A Woman Under the Influence is to see how poorly every other movie about mental illness deals with its subject . Take 1975's Best Picture winner , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . It's filled with quirky and amusing characters at whom we can giggle . If you extracted Gena Rowland's performance from A Woman , it... |
384,759 | 391,152 | 48,055 | 10 | Wow ! | This is such a fantastic movie , a Western about a self-concerned man ( Jimmy Stewart ) going up to the Klondike for gold . On the way , he gets hassled by a local sheriff in Alaska ( John McIntire , giving a wonderfully evil performance ) , whom he hassles back . McIntire threatens that he'll be a dead man if he ever ... |
385,233 | 391,152 | 30,448 | 10 | Probably the best of all the Mickey Mouse shorts | I was obsessed with this cartoon when I was a child , and now that I have the new DVD box set " Mickey Mouse in Living Color , " I can watch it every day ! This is just filled to the brim with some of the funniest jokes Disney ever created . The animation is simply gorgeous , as it always was in this era of Disney Stud... |
384,816 | 391,152 | 78,073 | 10 | A vision of pure beauty | I'm at a loss over what I could say about Eric Rohmer's Perceval . I was so deeply affected by it . I'm guessing that many will be annoyed at the French New Wave style , which I personally love . I'm definitely a French New Wave fan . I'm not really a Rohmer fan , though . This is only the second Rohmer film I've seen ... |
384,917 | 391,152 | 56,801 | 10 | Peak | I believe that I have seen all of Fellini's significant films now with the exception of Amarcord . There are two interpretations of his career . One opinion holds that his peak was La Strada , and as things went on Fellini became more self-indulgent . Of course , Nights of Cabiria is very similar to La Strada in a lot ... |
385,654 | 391,152 | 26,423 | 10 | One of the best Silly Symphonies | This is just a superb retelling of the King Midas story , who asked that everything he touched be turned to stone . The jokes in this one are extremely clever . I especially like the visualization of the skeleton in the mirror and the elf . . |
385,966 | 391,152 | 26,421 | 10 | I think this is even better than ' 33 | Even without Busby Berkeley's trademark musical numbers , Gold Diggers of 1935 would be an utterly delightful comedy . From start to finish , it's a ball . Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart star . The supporting cast is full of Hollywood's finest character actors : Frank McHugh , Adolph Menjou , Hugh Herbert , Alice Brady ... |
384,667 | 391,152 | 120,663 | 10 | Kubrick's Second best after 2001 | I think the critics , even the ones who like this film , are missing the point . When 2001 came out , most every critic panned it completely . Pauline Kael , the uber-critic , called it dull and unimaginative . At that time , I can understand her view . Kubrick's famous films that far were The Killing , Paths of Glory ... |
385,666 | 391,152 | 17,743 | 10 | Not really a documentary , but some sort of masterpiece | Previously Merian C . Cooper and Ernest B . Schoedsack made Grass , a very great silent documentary inspired by the success of Nanook of the North ( which they hadn't even seen when they were flying off to the Middle East to film the long migration of a group of nomads ) . Grass was a real documentary , with little sta... |
384,569 | 391,152 | 375,063 | 10 | The best film I've seen so far from 2004 | Jonathan Rosenbaum theorized that critics liked Sideways so much is because it was about critics , and that it appealed specifically to them . He's right . I'm sure every critic is someone who wished they could have been a director or screenwriter , but couldn't make it . But I say , so what ? The film wouldn't appeal ... |
384,610 | 391,152 | 66,434 | 10 | One of the best of its sub-genre and probably the best movie George Lucas has yet ( read " ever " ) directed | Sure , Star Wars is a lot of fun . It's a great way to waste some time or to keep people entertained at a party or something . However , it's unbelievable how crazy people have become about it . In fact , people are so insanely in love with it that they actually convinced themselves that The Phantom Menace was a good m... |
385,516 | 391,152 | 120,681 | 10 | Truly effective Gothic horror film | I wasn't expecting much from this movie . The critics passed it over rather quickly , saying a few kind words but without a strong recommendation . The couple of people I knew who saw this said that it was " good , " but never cared to say much more than that and have never brought it up again . As I sat down to watch ... |
385,404 | 391,152 | 68,379 | 10 | Strange , hypnotic , and somehow quite affecting | Ciao ! Manhattan is an avant-garde film that makes the films of Jean-Luc Godard seem conventional . That's not to attack Godard , mind you . I'm just comparing the two to express how far out Ciao ! Manhattan is . The slight narrative concerns a young Texan hippie traveling the American countryside just because he likes... |
384,578 | 391,152 | 74,235 | 10 | Passionate , poetic , exceptional filmmaking | At its base , Bound for Glory is just a simple biopic about Woody Guthrie . In execution , it turns out to be a lot more . We actually learn very little about Woody Guthrie's life . I don't know the exact statistic , but I would guess that it covers no more than a few years , with an end title that tells us briefly of ... |
385,182 | 391,152 | 19,959 | 10 | Deeply moving | A gorgeous , all-black masterpiece . King Vidor directs a group of ( mostly ) non-actors to depict a picture of black life in the South . Daniel L . Haynes stars as Zeke , a none-too-smart cotton farmer who is tricked into wasting half a year's pay on gambling by a sexy little hoochie ( Nina Mae McKinney ) . When Zeke ... |
385,945 | 391,152 | 417 | 10 | As much a masterpiece as any other bona fide masterpiece | The Voyage to the Moon should be included in the handful of bona fide masterpieces which includes Citizen Kane , the Godfather , and 2001 . It is short , but it is so delightful . The effects are not as crude as many might believe . The director was very surrealistic in his design . He had no misconceptions of what he ... |
385,496 | 391,152 | 180,073 | 10 | Philip Kaufmann has produced yet another amazing piece of work | Quills is one of the best films of 2000 , in my reckoning , second best only to You Can Count on Me . It is one of the most brilliantly directed , acted , produced , and written films I've seen in a very long time . There is not a ( major ) character in this film that is not very complex , and the issues at stake are u... |
384,928 | 391,152 | 56,736 | 10 | A masterpiece | I saw this several years ago in a class . This was long before Criterion had a DVD , and the VHS we watched was simply awful . The subtitles were completely illegible , so I didn't get much out of it . I did like it , however . But revisiting it on DVD , the film is a revelation . It easily ranks as highly as any of An... |
385,913 | 391,152 | 32,976 | 10 | The very definition of " Haunting " | I was quite interested in the film while I was watching it , but when it ended , I didn't feel impacted . Very soon afterwards , however , my mind began to feel very heavy . The first words of the film came floating back to me : " Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again . " I ruminated over the events of the film ... |
384,998 | 391,152 | 361,127 | 10 | One of the best films of 2004 | The most underrated film of 2004 is this subtle , powerful and sad little independent starring Kevin Bacon . He plays a man just out of jail after 12 years ; he was there because he molested pre-teen girls . The movie perfectly captures the mind and existence of this man . His life is impossible . He can't look another... |
384,744 | 391,152 | 765,120 | 10 | I for one thought this was brilliant | Famously shoved aside at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival , which it opened , and barely plopped into theaters early in 2008 , with a couple of swears cut out to insure a PG-13 rating . I've seen all of Wong Kar-Wai's films , and while My Blueberry Nights has generally been considered a good example of wheel-spinning by m... |
384,772 | 391,152 | 74,360 | 10 | Simple , but labyrinthine . Truly fantastic . | A perfect sister film to one of my absolute favorites , Spirit of the Beehive . It also stars Ana Torrent and has similar themes . And I like it probably as much . Torrent , three years older but looking pretty much the same , plays the middle child of three girls . At the beginning of the film , their father has just ... |
385,592 | 391,152 | 45,152 | 10 | I love this film , but . . . | I think the dance numbers , and even some of the songs , are less amazing than those of its immediate predecessor , An American in Paris , made by gene Kelly a year beforehand . I know that the An American in Paris songs were just adaptations of Gershwin songs , but they're great , and they work . That rendition of " I... |
384,533 | 391,152 | 154,420 | 10 | In the near future , say fifteen-twenty years , The Celebration will be ranked among the best films of foreign cinema | The Celebration is a remarkable film . It is actually the second Dogma film I've seen , after the Idiots . I am one of that film's few supporters ( there aren't even many people in the US who have seen it , and most who have , whether an American or not , don't like it ) , but The Celebration blows it away . Idioterne ... |
385,545 | 391,152 | 18,119 | 10 | Pretty amazing | Robert Florey's Loves of Zero is , as we are told by an opening placard , " an impressionist film made for less than $200 . 00 . " And that it is ! Great-Grandpappy was right , though . You used to get a heck of a lot for your money back in the good old days . This is mostly just a few friends having a ball on film , p... |
385,435 | 391,152 | 62,622 | 10 | By Light Years the Best Film Ever Made | 2001 warps beyond every other film ever made . I have seen it nearly a dozen times since I first saw it in 1997 . I bought it right away on VHS , and when I got DVD , it was the only VHS tape I replaced with a DVD . So why is it the best film ever made ? Simply because it transcends narrative . No other film has really... |
385,433 | 391,152 | 109,508 | 10 | One of the most ignored Masterpieces of our time | Crumb has not gotten its due credit . Very few films of the 1990s have been universally accepted as masterpieces . Crumb should definitely have been one of the few . On the back of the video's box , it proclaims " one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time . " It is probably the only film of the decade besi... |
385,857 | 391,152 | 116,209 | 10 | Underrated | This movie has suffered from an undeserved Oscar backlash . It is truly a powerful film experience . The writing , direction , and acting are all perfect . All the passion of this film is overwhelming ! What did this film do wrong to anger so many people ? Was it the complexity of the characters and the situations that... |
385,308 | 391,152 | 65,622 | 10 | A great masterpiece | Pier Paolo Pasolini might be the most underrated director of all time . You hear almost nothing about him nowadays , except how disgusting Salo was . But , in my mind , Pasolini ranks evenly with the other great masters , Fellini , Visconti , De Sica , Antonioni , and Rosselini , perhaps better than them . Pasolini is ... |
385,918 | 391,152 | 140,384 | 10 | An S & M masterpiece ; Please , release more stuff like this ! | A discovery like this reminds me how much more there is to Japanese cinema besides Kurosawa , Ozu , and Mizoguchi . Well , my two favorite Japanese filmmakers are Sezuki Seijun and Shinya Tsukamoto , maverick filmmakers in their own country . Yasuza Masumura may be thrown on that list pretty quickly here , although thi... |
385,316 | 391,152 | 45,112 | 10 | Life's a bitch ! | Kenji Mizoguchi's Life of Oharu is the tragic , humanistic tale of , well , the life of a woman named Oharu . Born into luxury , she errs with a man of lower class . For this offense , she is exiled along with her parents , convicted of letting their child run wild . As the film progresses , Oharu goes through about a ... |
385,222 | 391,152 | 366,721 | 10 | Angelopoulos can do no wrong | I think anyone familiar with Angelopoulos knows what to expect with his films : long , drawn out , meticulously planned shots that slowly scan environments , with the image composed of not only the foreground but hundreds of yards into the background . I guess some are not impressed with the director's style , but that... |
384,559 | 391,152 | 104,652 | 10 | Beautiful masterpiece | This has dropped slightly in my esteem since my first viewing , when I thought of it as Miyazaki's second best and one of the best ever made . Well , yeah , actually , I still consider it one of the best films ever made , but that definitely covers everything he's ever done . What can I say ? I'm an unabashed fan . Por... |
384,962 | 391,152 | 56,869 | 10 | Fascinating ; Freudian analysis of The Birds | One would think , not having seen this film , that it is just a normal horror film where a mass of animals attacks people who run from them and scream . Well , this film is different , in that it was directed by the single greatest director of all times , Alfred Hitchcock . The Birds was made during his peak . It follo... |
384,708 | 391,152 | 74,254 | 10 | Far , far , far better than it is given credit for . A great film , really | I can understand some of the arguments that people have made against this film through the years . Its revisionist history can seem pretty simplistic , and its depiction of Indians seems stereotypical and not particularly enlightened . Or at least that all seems true on first glance . But I can also understand why a fe... |
385,087 | 391,152 | 51,047 | 10 | One of the great Westerns | I have seen the previous Budd Boetticher / Randolph Scott collaboration a short while back , Seven Men from Now . It was good , but not particularly memorable , except for Lee Marvin's ambiguous villain . The Tall T , on the other hand , is pretty much perfect , the kind of taut Western that Anthony Mann was making aro... |
384,878 | 391,152 | 60,827 | 10 | Rambling on . . . | I don't know what to say about Persona , but I know I have to say something . I can say straight out that I did not fully grasp it , nor do I believe that it is fully able to be grasped . Like my favorite film , 2001 , Persona allows for a plethora of interpretations , none of which can ever be said to be correct . But... |
384,683 | 391,152 | 53,198 | 10 | Perfection | I first saw this film around three or four years ago for the first time . I had watched it late at night , and I was very sleepy after it ended . I was rather ambivalent towards it . To tell you the truth , I don't know whether I had even heard of it before I rented it . And I don't even remember if it was my first fil... |
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