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385,268 | 391,152 | 65,724 | 10 | 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... |
385,851 | 391,152 | 104,466 | 10 | 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... |
384,963 | 391,152 | 45,274 | 10 | 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... |
385,973 | 391,152 | 43,278 | 10 | 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 .... |
384,885 | 391,152 | 32,234 | 10 | 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... |
384,697 | 391,152 | 58,715 | 10 | 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... |
385,436 | 391,152 | 78,748 | 10 | 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 , ... |
384,883 | 391,152 | 98,253 | 10 | 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... |
385,562 | 391,152 | 24,480 | 10 | 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 ... |
384,891 | 391,152 | 24,481 | 10 | 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... |
384,669 | 391,152 | 87,280 | 10 | 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... |
385,953 | 391,152 | 910,970 | 10 | 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... |
384,666 | 391,152 | 113,627 | 10 | 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... |
385,426 | 391,152 | 50,915 | 10 | 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... |
385,208 | 391,152 | 57,163 | 10 | 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... |
385,741 | 391,152 | 97,814 | 10 | 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... |
385,152 | 391,152 | 29,850 | 10 | 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... |
385,126 | 391,152 | 462,322 | 10 | 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... |
385,911 | 391,152 | 22,150 | 10 | 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... |
385,821 | 391,152 | 367,027 | 10 | 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 ... |
384,562 | 391,152 | 345,549 | 10 | 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... |
385,572 | 391,152 | 31,855 | 10 | 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... |
385,206 | 391,152 | 29,947 | 10 | 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... |
385,321 | 391,152 | 76,706 | 10 | 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 ... |
385,212 | 391,152 | 47,550 | 10 | 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... |
385,232 | 391,152 | 27,990 | 10 | 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... |
385,810 | 391,152 | 87,188 | 10 | 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... |
385,503 | 391,152 | 28,010 | 10 | 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 ... |
385,141 | 391,152 | 366,996 | 10 | 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... |
384,860 | 391,152 | 388,838 | 10 | 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... |
384,644 | 391,152 | 299,977 | 10 | 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... |
385,745 | 391,152 | 111,590 | 10 | 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... |
385,596 | 391,152 | 14,429 | 10 | 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... |
385,737 | 391,152 | 58,409 | 10 | 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 ,... |
385,802 | 391,152 | 60,586 | 10 | 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... |
385,558 | 391,152 | 74,718 | 10 | 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... |
384,537 | 391,152 | 50,783 | 10 | 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... |
385,310 | 391,152 | 58,430 | 10 | 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 . . |
385,935 | 391,152 | 37,800 | 10 | 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... |
384,706 | 391,152 | 393,109 | 10 | 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... |
384,959 | 391,152 | 24,216 | 10 | ? 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... |
385,479 | 391,152 | 85,400 | 10 | 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... |
385,168 | 391,152 | 37,824 | 10 | 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 ... |
384,758 | 391,152 | 47,417 | 10 | 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... |
385,061 | 391,152 | 28,119 | 10 | 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... |
385,229 | 391,152 | 20,414 | 10 | 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 ! . |
384,715 | 391,152 | 60,668 | 10 | 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... |
385,515 | 391,152 | 109,066 | 10 | 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... |
384,608 | 391,152 | 45,464 | 10 | 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... |
384,615 | 391,152 | 57,277 | 10 | 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... |
385,568 | 391,152 | 113,824 | 10 | 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... |
385,854 | 391,152 | 67,185 | 10 | 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... |
384,626 | 391,152 | 42,786 | 10 | 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... |
385,618 | 391,152 | 60,277 | 10 | 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... |
385,800 | 391,152 | 285,005 | 10 | 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 ... |
385,643 | 391,152 | 110,005 | 10 | 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... |
384,762 | 391,152 | 46,672 | 10 | 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... |
384,532 | 391,152 | 58,279 | 10 | 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... |
385,398 | 391,152 | 36,244 | 10 | 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... |
384,628 | 391,152 | 22,867 | 10 | 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... |
385,377 | 391,152 | 18,528 | 10 | 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 ... |
385,341 | 391,152 | 60,176 | 10 | 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 . ... |
384,618 | 391,152 | 216,625 | 10 | 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... |
385,769 | 391,152 | 29,604 | 10 | 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... |
385,406 | 391,152 | 38,120 | 10 | 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... |
385,878 | 391,152 | 36,172 | 10 | 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... |
385,356 | 391,152 | 443,680 | 10 | 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... |
385,107 | 391,152 | 20,768 | 10 | 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... |
385,489 | 391,152 | 34,240 | 10 | 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... |
384,946 | 391,152 | 46,754 | 10 | 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... |
385,469 | 391,152 | 22,913 | 10 | 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... |
385,796 | 391,152 | 73,580 | 10 | 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... |
385,716 | 391,152 | 311,648 | 10 | 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... |
385,173 | 391,152 | 237,993 | 10 | 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... |
385,863 | 391,152 | 36,104 | 10 | 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 ... |
385,659 | 391,152 | 119,375 | 10 | 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... |
384,696 | 391,152 | 58,138 | 10 | 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... |
385,276 | 391,152 | 324,197 | 10 | 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... |
385,671 | 391,152 | 84,787 | 10 | 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... |
385,559 | 391,152 | 90,565 | 10 | 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... |
384,662 | 391,152 | 119,698 | 10 | 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... |
385,720 | 391,152 | 389,557 | 10 | 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... |
385,372 | 391,152 | 51,207 | 10 | 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 ... |
385,850 | 391,152 | 111,873 | 10 | 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... |
385,848 | 391,152 | 90,605 | 10 | 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 ... |
384,978 | 391,152 | 96,332 | 10 | 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... |
385,209 | 391,152 | 31,252 | 10 | 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 .... |
384,923 | 391,152 | 33,804 | 10 | 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... |
385,614 | 391,152 | 469,494 | 10 | 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 ... |
385,763 | 391,152 | 29,339 | 10 | 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 . . |
385,279 | 391,152 | 40,369 | 10 | 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... |
384,680 | 391,152 | 58,003 | 10 | 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 ,... |
385,528 | 391,152 | 101,991 | 10 | 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... |
384,827 | 391,152 | 15,881 | 10 | 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... |
384,597 | 391,152 | 25,452 | 10 | 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... |
384,911 | 391,152 | 69,467 | 10 | 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... |
385,587 | 391,152 | 48,933 | 10 | 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 ... |
385,791 | 391,152 | 163,988 | 10 | 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 .... |
384,942 | 391,152 | 57,940 | 10 | 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... |
385,442 | 391,152 | 60,107 | 10 | 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... |
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