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Definitely one of the great American films .
This movie is most famous for a scene in which Jack Nicholson tells a waitress to hold the chicken salad between her knees so he can get some plain wheat toast , but , in a movie as good as this , that very famous scene may be its least memorable one . After that scene , I hadn't heard anything about what this film was...
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Cave Canem
Any film that affects me emotionally I consider great . But a film that affects me so much that I feel it physically can be called a masterpiece . Narrative does not normally have such power . When a spectator is learning about people who aren't directly connected with you , who are usually not even real , then he / sh...
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There's hardly been a better film ever made
Umberto D . may be the single most powerful film ever made . It's pretty much impossible not to be affected by it , and I'd imagine only a monster could get through it without shedding a tear . It's not all sad , and certainly cannot be called unrelentingly depressing . There are plenty of beautifully funny moments . T...
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Musical masterpiece
This is probably my favorite Best Picture winner of all time , with its only competition being The English Patient . It's hard to say exactly what makes this one so good for me , because its flaws are pretty obvious . Gene Kelly is way too aggressive when he first pursues Leslie Caron , almost in a creepy sort of way ....
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This film shows us the unseen face of alcoholism : the humor !
I think that W . C . Fields ' caricature is recognizable by many people , but I think almost no one is familiar with him from his actual movies . More likely , people are just familiar with him from Looney Toons and such . But the actual comedian W . C . Fields was an absolutely hilarious guy . He fits in with other cl...
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There is no better film about Jesus Christ
Well , maybe there is , but I've never caught a glimpse of it . Most movies about him are fundamentally wrong . In a religion which has totally turned its back on the line " it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of Heaven " ( in fact , I am surprised th...
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The Purina Dog Chow company will expand and make a big mistake !
Ridely Scott is such a minimalist in Alien that many sci-fi nuts find it slow and unexciting . So many people prefer Aliens , its sequel , to this one . I think Aliens , directed by James Cameron , is another sci-fi masterpiece ( and maybe the best action film ever made ) , but I think Alien is much better . In fact , ...
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One of the most underrated films ever
I was reminded of this film after sitting through the ( bad ) film The Cell . I don't know if that film's director , Tarsem , had seen Santa Sangre , but it was quite similar . For those who have not seen Santa Sangre , please do . It is basically a more foreign version of Hitchcock's Psycho . It is excessive , but its...
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Perhaps Rene Clair's most perfect film
Jean and Anna are young and in love . They spend Bastille Day together trying to dance the night away , trying to get in a kiss or two . Things keep getting in the way though , funny things like the rain , the whim of the band that's playing , and the stuffy old woman walking around . Unfortunately , when Jean returns ...
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Hollywood Masterpiece
Man , I've never seen Greta Garbo before . She is absolutely electric in Queen Christina , giving a performance of great strength and passion . In fact , if there is a flaw in this film , it is that Garbo is TOO good . She draws your attention away from all other parts of the film , all action and all other performance...
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Poor Lars von Trier
Poor Lars von Trier . Why do people hate you so ? Perhaps it is because you have come into existence so late in the chronology of film history . I personally do not believe that the filmic art has died or even weakened . It is as strong as ever right now . Every decade has its masterpieces . The only difference between...
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Pretty much a masterpiece
I honestly want to throw every superlative I can think of at this movie . I'm an unabashed Pixar fan , and have been since Toy Story 2 , but I was a little disappointed in their last two films , Cars and Ratatouille . Both were good , very good at times , but I don't think they hit the level of what came before . To me...
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Best film of the 90s
I've never been more touched or involved by a movie relationship than by the relationship between Ben and Sera in this film . This film is a dream and it wrapped me up in its mood forever . I don't see it as being depressing . Surely some of it is , but the underlying spirit of this film lies in the main characters ' u...
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Exceptional Western ( SPOILERS )
Perhaps not perfect , but I think Run of the Arrow is one of my favorite Westerns . I like it mainly because of the conflicted feelings of all the characters . I like when characters are unsure of themselves . The film opens on the last day of the Civil War . Rod Steiger plays an Irish immigrant , now a Southern soldie...
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Great American prose poem
One Hell of a movie , and very nearly perfect . Paul Newman , Melvyn Douglas , and Brandon De Wilde star as three generations of a ranching family . Douglas is the patriarch , stern and strong , but clearly moving ever closer to the end of his life . Paul Newman , who plays the title character , is his youngest and onl...
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One of the greatest children's films ever made
This ranks up there with Pinocchio as the greatest movie for children ever made . One huge problem with most animated children's films are that the plots are so conventional and often contain very 1950s ideals for society that they become detrimental to society . One's childhood is the most impressionable time in their...
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I kinda want to beat up some Germans right now . . .
When I first saw this film around 6 months ago , I considered it interesting , but little more . But it stuck with me . That interest grew and grew , and I wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual VHS quality rather than the film itself . I purchased the Criterion DVD box set , an...
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Hard to beat for best film of ' 07
It would be hard to defend this nostalgic double-feature film as a masterpiece , but I can , without any guilt , say that it was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had at the theater . It's not just a movie ; it can legitimately be called an experience . Rodriguez's segment , Planet Terror , is probably the more...
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Very satisfying light entertainment
I have lately got into the habit of purchasing any interesting DVD that the Criterion company releases . I figure that even if I dislike the movie , Criterion usually supplies enough extra material to compensate for any shortcomings in the actual film . I read up on them , and I buy the ones which are the most interest...
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Surely he can't hit two homeruns in a row , can he ?
John Cameron Mitchell had a lot to live up for after his debut film , Hedwig and the Angry Inch . Since that film was based on a play and a character he created and perfected over many years , one had to wonder whether he had anything besides that left in him . Fortunately , his second film , Shortbus , lived up to my ...
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Masterpiece
I've seen the plot before , at least in some fashion . A man and a woman meet under tragic ( or tragicomic ) circumstances . They are complete opposites , but begin an unconventional , semi-romantic relationship . It took me the whole movie to think of where I had seen it , but I did finally come up with a title ( Mons...
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Offensive , but it's a great cartoon
Betty ended her career in 1939 . I don't know which is her last cartoon , but I'm hoping it's this one . It would be a great culmination of the cartoon's development . Featuring some very offensive Indian stereotypes , but that doesn't mean it's not exceptional . Betty , transporting swing instruments to her band , sto...
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as funny as any other film ever made
I never really cared for the way a character in a Howard Hawks movie delivered their dialogue . I liked everything else about his movies - the direction , the actual dialogue , and the plots , but that rapid-fire delivery had turned me off in the past in such films as His Girl Friday , The Big Sleep , and The Thing fro...
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A masterpiece
Maybe the best prison film ever made because its origin is people who were actually in prison , most notably its main author , Miguel Piñero . The film deals with the interrelationship between the prisoners of a cell block . That's what most of the film is , the observation of these men and their culture . The plot of ...
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Exceptionally funny
After the lamentably unseen The First Time , the next Frank Tashlin movie showing at my local revival theater was Susan Slept Here . I was sure that SSH could not live up to the high standard set by the first film . But it did , and surpassed it . Personally , I think it's one of my five or ten favorite comedies . Dick...
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There is one joke in this short that cracks me up so much . . .
Pluto stumbles into a henhouse when chicks are being born , and they think that he is their mother . The joke I refer to is when one of the chicks eats a grasshopper as big as he is , and bounces around when the grasshopper refuses to stop . This is a very funny cartoon to be found on the new Silly Symphonies DVD colle...
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Left me gasping for air . . .
Conventional knowledge has it that the only film of Fellini's worth a damn after 8 ½ is Amarcord . Earlier this afternoon , I would have gladly agreed , but tonight I have discovered that this is a fallacy . I present to you And the Ship Sails On . . . , a film that is not only to be ranked alongside Fellini's permanen...
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We've really lost something nowadays
I don't want to be one of those " they don't make ' em like they used to " people , but I just can't help it when it comes to comedy . We've lost that talent completely , it seems . I can't think of any really great comedies of the past ten years . The golden age for film comedy was the mid 1930s to the mid 1940s ( at ...
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A twisted masterpiece
My first experience with Canadian director Guy Maddin , whom I've heard a lot about but for whom I wasn't quite prepared . This is easily one of the strangest films I've ever seen , and it was like nothing else I'd ever seen previously . I absolutely loved it . It's the kind of innovative film-making that makes my hear...
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Powerful film , with two of the best performances of the past few years
I could easily imagine Hollywood remaking Olivier Assayas ' Clean ? in fact , I would be happy to see it . The story is a sure-fire Oscar winner . Whichever big Hollywood actress wants her Oscar , step right up . But it would certainly be melodramatic , and could never match the raw power contained in this film . Maggi...
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I think this is what God invented light for
My mind is just so clouded with enthusiasm that I'm not sure I can judge Hero well , but I definitely had the feeling that I was watching a film that would instantly be one of my very favorites . I loved it , every damn second of it , to death . It can be compared to any number of films , directed by any number of dire...
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Hey , the guy who plays the professor in this film was Commandant Lassard from the Police Academy Series ! ! !
Okay , okay . Now that I've got that out of my system , I can actually review the movie . Vanya on 42nd Street is pretty much a perfect film , just like its predecessor My Dinner With Andre . Both films have the same three cooperative creators , Andre Gregory , Wallace Shawn , and Louis Malle . Both these films have re...
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Never before have I heard an audience react so much to a film
Safety Last was funny pretty much throughout its entirety . The scene where Harold and his roommate hide in their coats ( you'd have to see it to know what I'm talking about ) got an enormous laugh which lasted for a long time , followed by some applause . I remember that there was a slow section , lasting about 5 minu...
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We need to see more films of this type from Japan in the US
I was under the impression when I rented this film that it wasdirected by Sezuki Seijun , but the credits gave a different name . Itstill might be him ( it was something else Sezuki ) , and I amassuming it was as I write this review . Having totally fallen in love with Branded to Kill and , to a slightlylesser extant ,...
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After a second viewing . . .
The first time around , I was a little lost on this one . I didn't have the proper knowledge of its historical context . The Criterion liner notes are a big help . I just wish I had read them more recently . This is a satire of the militaristic attitude that eventually lead Japan into WWII . I remembered it being a com...
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One of the most important films of its time
While Jonah is generally referred to as a comedy , it is not . It does have some , perhaps many , funny moments . Comedy is certainly a part of it . But the film is a serious and almost perfect meditation on the post-revolutionary era and what's in store for the future . It is also a document on the passage of time , t...
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Unbelievably Great
This is one of the most perfect films ever committed to celluloid . It involved me more than at least 99 % of other films I've seen , and the main character , Cabiria , is a character to cherish and love forever ( of course , we who have seen La Strada are already partly familiar with the character ) . I've hardly ever...
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one-of-a-kind
I'm not going to go into any long , complicated discussions on Onibaba . Suffice it to say that it is one of the most original and best films I've ever seen . It's truly breathtaking . It grows to a fever pitch of fear by the finale . The black and white photography is also amazing . .
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Beautiful . One of the best romances ever filmed
SPOILERSMichael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are master filmmakers , and I Know Where I'm Going is one of their greatest films . The only one that I've seen that I think is better is A Matter of Life in Death ( in America called Stairway to Heaven ) , but this film is very close . It concerns a woman who knows where s...
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One of the best of the last couple of years
Extraordinary neo-noir . It's so good a Raymond Chandler imitation that it's shocking that it was an original screenplay and not adapted from a detective novel . The film takes place in high school , where a student , Brendan ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt ) , investigates the murder of his ex-girlfriend . He navigates through...
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? That's waaaaaaaaaaay too low
When such weak 1990s efforts as the Matrix , Se7en , Fight Club , The Shawshank Redemption and American Beauty are so high up on the imdb list , and King Kong is hardly on the list , this should tell you that there is something wrong with the system . Sure , King Kong looks a little silly , but you can't expect it to l...
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A masterpiece
A stunning and original film . This is the second film by Alain Tanner I've seen . I watched his Jonah Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 last summer , and it sticks with me as few films have . In the White City might not , but who knows . It's already getting bigger in my mind , and I only turned the VCR off about five minut...
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My God , I wasn't expecting it to be THAT good
Before I new much about him , when I used to see the box for Alexander Nevsky on the Foreign shelf at my local video store , I always misread Eisenstein's name , transforming it into Einstein . Well , Einstein suits him just as well , for what Albert Einstein was to science Sergei Eisenstein is to the cinema . Witness ...
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Exceptionally done
An exceptional social issue film about prisoners rioting , trying to get the press to tell the stories of their mistreatment and trying to get the government to effect change in the prison system . Everything about it is absolutely top-notch : the screenplay and the direction are realistic and very , very taut . Don Si...
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The Best Popeye Cartoon
That I can think of anyway . This Popeye cartoon is the funniest and most exciting short ever made , counting Disney and Warner Brothers , too . I especially like the songs , Sinbad's ( Bluto ) theme , and the song that the two-headed giant sings as he beats the tar out of Popeye . The best scene has Popeye taking care...
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Maybe the first great work of animation and probably one of the first important sound films
Every second of those six minutes is perfect . What a creative little cartoon ! This is Disney gold ! Four skeletons awake from their graves and dance around , scaring black cats and owls alike . They turn each other into xylophones and do the Charleston ! These are six of the most important minutes of film history ! .
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Brilliant !
Brilliant in every way . A film of a play about a play put on by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton in France , 1808 , as directed by the Marquis de Sade ( played by Patrick Magee ) . Filmed plays are often criticized for their staginess , but this one quite requires that feeling . The actors are separated from the...
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A masterpiece
I don't even know where to begin on Vive L'Amour . It is the second Tsai Ming-liang film I've seen , after The Hole . I doubted that it could be as good as The Hole , but it turned out to be an even better film . In fact , I'd say it's pretty close to perfect . The only thing I don't like about it is its American title...
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One of the best live-action children's films ever made
What a wonderful and beautiful movie ! It was a failure when it was first released , so it's about time that it was rediscovered by the whole world . Only a couple of other live-action children's films are better . This ought to be considered next to The Wizard of Oz and Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory . It's ab...
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Exceptional
If , at some point in the future , Pather Panchali cannot fulfil its duties as Satyajit Ray's masterpiece , Mahanagar can step up and fill in the position . Or perhaps the two films can co-rule , as they compliment each other so nicely . Pather Panchali is the simple , straightforward masterpiece and Mahanagar is the m...
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Ghibli cannot be stopped !
A very moving animé film from Studio Ghibli , as good as anything either Miyazaki or Takahata have made . It's a very simple and down-to-earth movie about a young teenage girl who is experiencing her first love , as well as doubts about her future . Whisper understands its characters as few films do , and I became quit...
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This is the movie The Graduate should have been
Harold and Maude is a perfect movie . It's extremely well written and well acted . It reminded me a lot of The Graduate , a movie which I liked but felt was not all that special . Harold is much like Benjamin from that movie , but he's such a jerk . And Mrs . Robinson is also completely unlikable . Harold and Maude has...
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Very important and much better than people have ever realized
An intriguing , understated , and remarkable picture . It focuses on a super-typical American family of the 1950s , the Smiths , husband ( James Whitmore ) , wife ( Nancy Davis , later Reagan ) , son ( Gary Gray ) , and expected child . One night , precisely at 8 : 30 , a strange voice on the radio announces that he is...
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A favorite of mine
It's not especially deep , but it's a dark and disturbing chambara about a merciless samurai , Ryunosuke ( Tatsuya Nakadai ) , who can ? and will , without hesitation ? kill anybody who challenges him with a sword . He sees himself as a force of karmic balance . The film starts off with him disposing of an old man pray...
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One of Miike's greatest achievements
Yes , it's another yakuza movie ( well , close enough , anyway ) , but , like all of Miike's crime movies , it has its own flavor . Two rival hit men ( Miike regulars Sho Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi ) discover that they're old friends . They were raised together in the same orphanage . In the first half of the film , the ...
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easily one of the best films of the 1990s
Oh , Jesus . Heavenly Creatures is a heavy , heavy film that's just about enough to kill you . It builds up a frenzied mood that seems to me incomparable to any other film that I've seen . I liked Peter Jackson's Braindead , which was planned-as-camp fun , but never in that film did I see a hint of genius . Here his ma...
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Underrated masterpiece
When I was 13 , I visited Disney World as a present for my graduation from elementary school . I was already too old , and I was rather annoyed at most of it . Particularly annoying was the 20 , 000 Leagues Under the Sea . It had the longest line and , when I finally got on the ride , it was utterly boring . It also ta...
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A masterpiece .
Kwaidan is a somewhat difficult work . Its four stories , with the exception of one , are not very involving and they can even become a little boring in their narrative . They are not very frightening , although they all attain a level of creepiness . Except for " Hoichi , the Earless , " one of the most stunning tales...
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American Masterpiece
More than a decade before Henry Fonda purchased the rights to and produced Twelve Angry Men , he starred in The Ox-Bow Incident , another film about possibly innocent men accused of murder and up for execution . Luckily , the kid from Twelve Angry Men didn't live in the old West , ' cause they didn't have them darn , h...
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One of the best ever made
Famous for introducing the world to Hedy Lamarr and full frontal nudity , but it's oh so much more . In fact , this is one of the pinnacles of cinematic poetry , up there with some of the seminal works of 1930s art cinema , in the same prestigious group as Under the Roofs of Paris , Tabu , Olympia , and even L'Atalante...
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The Unknown is an unknown masterpiece
This is an enormously powerful film , and also very unique as far as the films I've seen . Lon Chaney plays an armless circus performer , a knife thrower , who , well , is not quite honest about his existence . He's in love with the circus ringleader's daughter , played by Joan Crawford . A strong man named Malibar is ...
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The most malleable masterpiece I can think of
I would only suggest the films of Michelangelo Antonioni to those who are extremely serious about film . He is an underappreciated auteur , and this underappreciation comes from the enormous difficulties his films raise . In fact , his films are kind of difficult to find . I've only seen two , L'avventura and Blowup . ...
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Absolutely brilliant ! One of the best of the last couple of years !
A brilliant an original film . It unites current fads in art cinema , the frequent long take and multiple , interlocking storylines , both of which are in danger of becoming cliché . The way that these interlocking stories begin and end is very interesting . It gives us so little , and leaves us to figure out so much f...
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One of the best examples of Hollywood's Golden Age
I don't quite know how to put my passion for this film into words . It's something I never expected . I taped it off of television because I've been on a Ginger Rogers kick lately ( I think I'm in love with her ) , and very luckily experienced something of enormous quality . There is not a regular plot . Unlike most cl...
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Maybe the best American WWII film
William A . Wellman is one of the American cinema's greatest craftsmen . The Story of G . I . Joe is one of his best , if not his best . It presumably inspired a lot of later films . It especially reminds me of Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam film , Full Metal Jacket ( the second half of it , anyway ) . This film should also...
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Comic masterpiece !
Easily the best film that I've ever seen from George Stevens ( and I really like several of his other films ) . Jean Arthur stars as a woman renting out half of her apartment because of a housing shortage in Washington D . C . Charles Coburn , who is in Washington to help solve the crisis , weasles his way into the apa...
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One of the best so far this decade
This almost defines the oft-used term " elegiac Western " . It has some of the well-worn themes of Westerns , such as the creation of Western myth vs . the cold , harsh realities . But for some reason , it never feels like anything else I've ever seen . It has a style more reminiscent of Michelangelo Antonioni than any...
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The sun rises again
Murnau's third American film after Sunrise and the lost Four Devils , and his penultimate before Tabu . City Girl , of the surviving three , is the least seen . The reason for this must be its close resemblance to Sunrise , which is a masterpiece of the first order . Yes , City Girl does remind one of Sunrise in its mo...
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One of the cleverest scripts ever written ; MAJOR SPOILERS AHEA
Sullivan's Travels has a lot to offer . Its comedy is often great , and its drama is even greater . It is also one of the most well written films I have ever seen , especially from the studio system . This is its basic premise : a Hollywood director , Sullivan , sees the suffering of the common people around him , or a...
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I like it better than All About Eve , myself
A quietly moving film about the short life of a curiously indescribable woman , Maria Vargas ( Ava Gardner ) , and the men who knew her . Joseph L . Mankiewicz is probably most famous for his film All About Eve , which he both wrote and directed , as he did with The Barefoot Contessa . He structures Contessa much the s...
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A great film
I saw this for the first time when I was 14 . It was probably the oldest film I'd ever seen at the time , and also for many years afterwards . I remember being really disturbed . I was wondering for days how they created these special effects in 1932 . But they aren't special effects - I couldn't accept that at the tim...
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Nearly as great as L'Avventura or Blowup
First off , I'd like to complain about this film's lack of availability . It has been on VHS before , and in this format I rented it . It is not available now , though . It deserves to be on DVD . And if its director is not a good enough reason ( Michelangelo Antonioni ) , it contains a masterful performance by Jack Ni...
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The best Thanksgiving movie ever
Thanksgiving has always meant a lot to me . Unlike the stereotypical depiction of the holiday from movies , I always found it to be , beyond any other day of the year , the day when my family is the closest . Differences and resentments fade for a day , possibly because we're Midwesterners of German descent and there's...
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If they were to release this in the US , it could be a runaway hit
SPOILERSOr , at the very least , it's destined to be a cult favorite . It also could give credit to Icelandic filmmaking . The only Icelandic filmmaker that anyone knows here is Fridrick Thor Fridthrickson ( sp ? ) , although he is not know all that well , either . 101 Reykjavik is a perfect comedy , with great hints o...
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I loved this one !
Well , for the most part , anyway . In a rural part of New Mexico , actress Kiki Walker is competing for attention with a local castanets dancer . Kiki's manager brings her a leopard on a leash so she can show the dancer up during her performance . Her rival one-ups her by snapping the castanets right in the leopard's ...
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Tight as hell
It is hard to believe that this is Erik Skjoldbjaerg's first film . It seems like a pro job to me . Very rarely do you get thrillers crafted this well . Almost everything is perfect . The script is as taut as possible . I saw no holes , anyhow . The plot is believable and you will never see the best twists coming . Eve...
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A difficult and complex film , to say the least
If you were to just watch this film half-heartedly or with a mind busy thinking of other matters , it would certainly seem like a dry film about infidelity and falling out of love - the kind of stuff that's been done a thousand times before , a thousand times before this film was made , even . And why did Dreyer have t...
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Exceptionally directed
If there's one subgenre that particularly appeals to me , it is the post-apocalyptic movie , or any movie dealing with the end of civilization . I don't know why the subject fascinates me so , but it does . Haneke's The Time of the Wolf is one of the best of its type ever made . Some sort of cataclysm has occurred ? al...
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An equal to Alien
This stands next to Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers ' 78 as one of the great horror / sci-fi hybrids of the era . The film takes place in an American research base in Antarctica . A Norwegian helicopter chases an escaped sled dog into camp , shooting at it with a rifle . When the shooter wounds one of the Amer...
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I love this !
The more Rohmer I see , the greater my appreciation and love grows for him . Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle is a wonderful film about a Parisian girl and a girl from the country who meet , become friends , and then move in together in an apartment in Paris . The film consists of little more than the two girl...
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one of the best films i've ever had the chance to see
Princess Mononoke is , without a doubt , one of the best films I have ever witnessed . There has never been an animated film even close to this - - I kept thinking after I left the theater , how can Disney even have the guts to make another film after seeing this ? Even live action movies pale in comparison to Princess...
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Exceptional flick . One of the best 2007 releases .
Stunning , gripping WWII thriller that plays like a pulpier version of Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows . That's not something that should be criticized , I think . There's nothing wrong with being entertaining when dealing with serious subjects , as long as the film stays respectful of its subject . And Black Bo...
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Despite its generic title , this is a great film
In the common way of considering Hitchcock's career , The Wrong Man is a generic and somewhat mediocre Hitchcock film . Not true . This is one of Hitchcock's best , made during the same era as many of his other major masterpieces , Rear Window and Vertigo , for instance . This is completely different than any other of ...
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The best television series ever on television . Go get your mind warped today !
If I were to make a list of the top ten television shows ever made , I would put Aeon Flux at # 1 . If I were to make a list of the top ten television shows and movies combined , it would end up at # 2 ( if you read my other comments , you'll notice that I often exalt films that I've seen in a similar top ten list form...
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Probably the best action film ever made , and one of the best sci-fi films
This is James Cameron's best film . He used to be an action auteur ( but I think he threw that completely away with Titanic ) . Aliens is a masterpiece of thrills . The set is so claustrophobic , it makes me shiver just thinking about it . The reason that this movie becomes so great , though , is the mother / daughter ...
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Unbearably Beautiful - one of the best films ever made
One of the most romantic films ever made , it shows the problems of people whose intimacies and personal conflicts are being interrupted by history on the move . I think this film surpasses the novel , which is utterly cynical ( although understandably ) . Even in the last moments of the novel , Teresa is concerned tha...
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One of Ford's very best
An exceptional film from John Ford ( what else should I expect ? ) . This one is set during the American Revolution , around 1776 , in the frontier area of the Mohawk River Valley ( Ohio ? ) . A British soldier named Caldwell ( John Carradine ) has come to pay the Indians of the area to make war against the Americans ....
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Very easily one of the greatest films ever made
Preston Sturges never fails to amaze me . His directorial skills are excellent . His skills as a writer are even greater . There are probably fewer than five scripts better than The Lady Eve . Both the plot and dialogue are exquisite . It is a comedy , but it is also a grand romance and an affecting drama . Barbara Sta...
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One of the most memorable characters of 2007 in one of the year's best films
Wunderkind Paul Thomas Anderson's new film calls to mind Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane in its themes and subject , and , shockingly , it's a good enough film to sit side by side with the one most often dubbed the greatest movie ever . Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview , an oil prospector who will do anything to be ...
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Nine of the most beautiful minutes ever put to film
The Old Mill was a Silly Symphony developed as a test for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves , which was just going into production at the time . What came out of it is utterly beautiful . It is possibly the best Disney short , even rivalling The Skeleton Dance . .
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Brilliantly acted , directed , and written
One of John Ford's greatest films , the first of his so-called Cavalry Trilogy . Henry Fonda stars as Lt . Col . Owen Thursday , a former Union General . He gets assigned to a cavalry post in the Southwest , an assignment that he considers unimportant . He brings his daughter , Philadelphia , with him . She is played b...
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I'm one of its followers . . .
If I could , I would deify this film . What most impresses me about a film is exhibited here to the utmost : mood . After this film is done , I feel completely destroyed . If you did not feel alienated from the world around you when you started , you will be by the end . If you were feeling alienated when you started ,...
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Holds up against his best films
Akira Kurosawa is one of my very favorite filmmakers . If you search through my reviews , I have written about a few , The Seven Samurai , High and Low , Kagemusha , and Dreams . I have seen many more , Rashomon , Ikiru ( my personal favorite ) , Yojimbo , Sanjuro , Dersu Uzala , and Ran . I have only disliked one , Hi...
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The mother of all melodramas !
I just finished watching the recent reconstruction of this film that was commissioned by TCM a couple of years ago . Everyone knows the history of this film , at least everyone who's ever heard of it . Von Stroheim's first cut was about nine and a half hours long . MGM , of course , couldn't release such an enormous mo...
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Vastly underrated
One of Hitchcock's best films , and entirely undervalued . I love most of Hitch's films . His bigger productions of the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s are probably best loved , but I really like his grittier , more reality-based films as well . During that period , The Wrong Man is almost entirely overlooked , despite bein...
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The silence of a Bergman film can tear the flesh right from your body
Ingmar Bergman makes the sorts of intellectually challenging films that are almost not allowed anymore . The younger generation is basically taught that the sorts of profound questions that Bergman asks ( and Bergman more than any other auteur , for even the most highly respected auteurs , Truffaut , Fellini , Kurosawa...
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Mizoguchi's final film , and his final masterpiece
Mizoguchi's swan song is one of his best , personally my second favorite film after Life of Oharu . This is the story of a group of modern day prostitutes in the red light district of Tokyo . Their sad stories are basic melodramas , but they are deeply affecting nonetheless . One is working to support her sick husband ...
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IS a masterpiece ( SPOILERS )
Martin Scorsese is arguably the best living American filmmaker , and perhaps the best living filmmaker period ( who is still making films , i . e . , not counting Ingmar Bergman ) . He has made three bona fide masterpieces , Taxi Driver , Raging Bull , and Goodfellas . Mean Streets is also often included in this list ....
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The Culmination of Ford's Career ( Part 1 of 2 )
Another vastly underrated John Ford masterpiece , Cheyenne Autumn is one of his most powerful and poignant . Many see it as an apologia for his career of demonizing the red man , and perhaps there's something to that , but , for the most part , the idea that he demonized Native Americans is a misinterpretation . The mo...
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If this is not a perfect film , then such a thing doesn't exist
Howard Hawks defined a masterpiece as a film with three great scenes and no bad ones . What would Hawks have said about Andre Rublev , a film with no bad scenes and some fifty scenes that are not just great but perfect in every aspect ? This is one of the most difficult films ever made , so don't expect a cake walk goi...