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508,765 | 453,068 | 87,332 | 10 | One of the Funnest movies ever | Human Sacrifice , Dogs and Cats living together , MASS HYSTERIA said one Peter Venkman . And that could pretty much describe this goofy comedy from the great minds of Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis . But the plot is pretty interesting also . It shows a trio of scientists ( funny ones at that including Bill Murray in one... |
508,787 | 453,068 | 477,348 | 10 | You need to call it . I can't call it for you . It wouldn't be fair . | No Country for Old Men is as exceptional a mix of two creative talents - the Coen brothers , Joel and Ethan Coen , and author Cormac McCarthy ( recent winner of the Pulitzer for The Road , his own masterpiece ) as one could imagine , as they converge on a story that in lessor hands would be just a B movie . The story c... |
510,990 | 453,068 | 60,891 | 10 | the feminine control factory of 18th century and beyond | The Nun might be just another very good , possibly excellent and heartbreaking piece of " religion is rotten and the people in it control people in terrible and soul-crushing ways " movie-making akin to Carl Dreyer if not for its last third or maybe second half ( it's something of that length ) . For a good while Jacqu... |
508,877 | 453,068 | 373,444 | 10 | what's the third dimension ? To hear Don Hertzfeldt's little whatever-the-hell fluffy creations answering that question is one of the highlights of this deliriously campy and unhinged act of brilliant stupidity . For a while all I had seen was Intermission in the 3rd Dimension , where lots of wonderful non-sense ensue... | null |
509,709 | 453,068 | 70,136 | 10 | an incredible story of a man's gifts ; not your usual sports documentary | Werner Herzog's The Great Ecstacy of Woodcarver Steiner is a glimpse of a man who is quite amazing at his gift of ski-jumping - he's the world record holder at the time of filming ( and a record he actually tops over himself more than once ) - and how he's all the more impressive because of his humble attitude towards ... |
509,735 | 453,068 | 435,625 | 10 | possibly the most effective and scary horror movie of the year | Neil Marshall is not a name I was familiar with before seeing his latest film , The Descent ; he's made movies released in the UK , which got limited to no release in the US , to which it would be rightful to say that this is the best kind of calling card he could have made . It's a horror movie that's made with the ey... |
508,142 | 453,068 | 47,136 | 10 | one of my favorite westerns | Nicholas Ray , one of those rare directors who could put in a style or outlook of his own in various films of different conventional types in 1950's Hollywood , has with his film Johnny Guitar a job very well done . I had the chance to see it on the big screen at a revival screening some months ago ( mostly among Joan ... |
510,576 | 453,068 | 56,965 | 10 | I'm 71 , I got a right to be loud lady , I'm going to die soon ! | I was so glad I finally got to see this online ( again , via you-tube ) , because it's an incredible shot of comedy from the sharp-as-a-Jewish-tack mind of Mel Brooks . It's like Brooks stumbled into an avant-garde theater showing an underground short , like a slightly more sophisticated Brakhage short . Which makes it... |
508,963 | 453,068 | 65,780 | 10 | Not only one of the greatest rock doc's ever captured , but one of the most important of all documentary films | Gimme Shelter details the Rolling Stones tour in 1969 , as they promoted their albums Beggar's Banquet ( already released ) , Let it Bleed ( it would be released at the end of the year ) , and slowly worked through material for their album for the next year called Sticky Fingers . The film is now infamous for rock fans... |
509,259 | 453,068 | 17,925 | 10 | perhaps the boldest , and maybe just the best , of all action comedies | The General provides the kind of blockbuster entertainment a lot of today's action-film fans don't know what they're missing and provides the kind of humor that's varied in physical prowess and ingenuity with timing and detail and deadpan expressionism . While Passion of Joan of Arc may make us bawl out in tears and Ci... |
508,697 | 453,068 | 53,125 | 10 | like one big collection of classic Hitchcock sequences , strung together by one red-herring after another , plus Cary Grant | Although I wouldn't rank North by Northwest in the highest pantheon of Hitchcock's masterpieces - it won't ever get as deep or revelatory or demanding of repeat viewings as Psycho or Vertigo or Rope - it's got enough crackling , dry-sharp wit and incorrigible suspense sequences for an excellent time . One can tell that... |
509,201 | 453,068 | 57,012 | 10 | Kubrick takes a whack at comedy - and the cold war | Stanley Kubrick always likes to try something new with each movie he does , and this proves it . This is truly one of the grittiest , and best dark comedies I've ever seen with some crude moments and some odd ones ( who'd think to have Slim Pickens riding a bomb on it's way down ) . It turns into a flat out masterpiece... |
510,095 | 453,068 | 486,141 | 10 | what's with the rabbit ? | I wasn't expecting this little made-for-DVD special short cartoon , Mr . Incredible and Pals , to be THIS funny , but it is . It's sort of in a really cheesy , stupid way funny too , and I couldn't get enough of it not only as a fan of the Incredibles but in what it was spoofing too . The moving ' human ' mouths over t... |
507,926 | 453,068 | 92,067 | 10 | Miyazaki turns fantasy on its wonderful , conventional head once again | Castle in the Sky ( full title Laputa : Castle in the Sky ) is another in the extraordinary works in the cannon of Hayao Miyazaki , who is arguably the master of fantasy in animation , worldwide . It's plot should be able to read through easily , at least for anyone who's seen the main conventional point of either the ... |
511,012 | 453,068 | 910,970 | 10 | adorable and haunting , delightful , joyous , and ultimately funny | I never thought I'd say this but . . . WALLE is better than Toy Story . This might not seem like such a high claim given how many other wonderful movies from PIXAR have come out over the past 13 years , particularly the ones by Brad Bird ( Incredibles and Ratatouille ) . But since Toy Story blew open the front door for... |
508,668 | 453,068 | 29,870 | 10 | more than 70 years old and , with a couple of big exceptions , hasn't aged a day | Michael Curtiz's Angels with Dirty Faces can be considered a full-blooded , no-holds-barred genre classic for a few reasons . One of it is how well he depicts the " hero " worship of street-tough kids who look up to the next generation of super street-tough and street-wise hoodlums . The Dead End Kids - an actual gang ... |
509,700 | 453,068 | 765,443 | 10 | deep in rich characterizations , unpretentious in style , perfect performances , one of the year's best ! | David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises takes on , in the broadest stroke , the Russian mafia . But it's not that broad , per-say , so much as it takes on the atmosphere of an organized crime family , of the terror that is just completely seething under the surface , and comes up like pus out of a boil when heated . The Ru... |
508,779 | 453,068 | 1,227,926 | 10 | possibly the single funniest thing I've seen from Whedon . . . | . . . I say this though as a quasi-Whedon ignorant ; I've only seen about two seasons worth of Buffy , no Angel , and all of Firefly and Serenity . Joss Whedon's sense of humor is playful , crude , warped , and everything one might love from a skewering of superheroes . Hancock , take note , this is how it's done with ... |
508,898 | 453,068 | 65,836 | 10 | One of De Palma's very best ; perhaps his most gleefully deranged | In this very late 60's irreverent , almost anarchic low-budget film , Brian De Palma defines more of his strange , given Hitchcock-like fascination of voyeurism , and attacks the issues of the day . The most prominent of which , both cringe-inducing and just plain funny , is when he focuses on the black-power movement ... |
509,539 | 453,068 | 416,320 | 10 | a serious channeling of Dostoyevsky via infidelity drama by Woody Allen | Match Point is my favorite American-directed film of 2005 . Woody Allen , coming off of hitting his stride again with Melinda and Melinda , goes back to his darker , dramatic side , and makes a story that may seem a little familiar , though not to his discredit . Woody borrows ( some may say steal ) elements from Fyodo... |
509,398 | 453,068 | 26,029 | 10 | extremely entertaining , even by today's standards suspenseful , and probably Hitchcock's first great ( sound ) movie | The 39 Steps , which is based on a novel and now has become the basis of a hit Broadway show , is full of the kinds of things we love about Alfred Hitchcock's films , and in a rough , awesome form . It's got a MacGuffin , sort of ( or rather the title itself is something that doesn't even matter ultimately in what it r... |
508,433 | 453,068 | 1,185,616 | 10 | a waltz with death and memory | Sometimes the only way to deal , or at least come to terms with , something inhuman and inescapable like experiences in combat can be through abstraction . When faced with the memories of such things , I can only personally imagine as someone who's never been shot at repeatedly or shot repeatedly at others as a soldier... |
509,860 | 453,068 | 286,244 | 10 | the best neo-surrealistic animation I've seen since The Wall - a unique movie-going experience | Within the first five minutes of The Triplets of Belleville I knew I was about to see either one of the worst films of the year , or one of the best - writer / director Sylvain Chomet and art director / designer Evgnei Tomov have created a ( animated ) world in which they seem to be in love with every frame , every ima... |
510,461 | 453,068 | 78,446 | 10 | Still the most superb and funny drug film ever | You notice how Ebert has his great movies section in his site , well if I was to have a section like that , this would be the first film to put in it ( among a couple of dozen though , so don't be nervous ) . While of course there are other great drug films : Traffic ( which deserved best picture ) , Boogie Nights , Go... |
508,871 | 453,068 | 462,322 | 10 | the bad-ass extravaganza of the year ; B-movie heaven if there ever was | Ah , Grindhouse movies , loaded for bear with the sickest garbage and clichéd to hell ; hell , by the way , not to be taken for granted . The films and trailers presented are half-vomitoriums and half-absurd white-knuckle thrill-rides , where genre is taken apart like scissors on a stretch-Armstrong doll with all of th... |
510,382 | 453,068 | 64,873 | 10 | one of the sleepers of the late sixties , with ( good ) experimental ideals for a drama | In some scenes in the Rain People , Francis Ford Coppola's precursor to his hey-day of the seventies , there is the mark of a similar situation to 1969's Easy Rider , but not exactly in the same reference frame . Here we have a drama about disconnected people from society , in some ways alienated by the choices or by l... |
508,560 | 453,068 | 12,349 | 10 | rarely has there ever been such a deft mix of wonderful absurdity and ( dark ) sentiment as here | It's easy to call Charlie Chaplin a genius , but I'll say it once again : the man was a genius , if only at doing a certain particular kind of film . You wouldn't ever see Charlie Chaplin doing a silent horror film , or at least one like out of Germany , or even a big epic that ran Griffith lengths . His artistry was c... |
509,563 | 453,068 | 87,193 | 10 | If ever there was a way to spend 72 minutes with Bergman , it's here | Fanny and Alexander , to Ingmar Bergman , IS his last released film , written and directed by him . But this film , which was originally meant only for Swedish television , found its way to the USA and abroad , and ( excluding Saraband , which was a film that just had to be made by its maker ) is a welcome piece of the... |
510,193 | 453,068 | 386,676 | 10 | grows on you very quickly | The luscious saga of Michael , Dwight , Jim , Pam , Janice , the whole ball of wax , is one of the great comedy successes of the past decade . It might not quite be Seinfeld , but it's close , and in its own way this revamp of the British TV show ( with Ricky Gervais here as executive producer and occasional writer ) i... |
509,410 | 453,068 | 52,987 | 10 | not too sure why Polanski doesn't like this one , unless for purely obsessive reasons | The Lamp , apart of the short films collection on the Criterion DVD of Knife in the Water , distills a lot of the great visual madness and absurdism in his films into one silent short film . It's a really quick punch of ' why not ' movie-making , where there is a sense of total control over the movement of the camera ,... |
509,095 | 453,068 | 39,689 | 10 | perhaps the major studio triumph of Touner's career ; cast is fantastic | To see Robert Mitchum in a film like Out of the Past is to see one of the benchmarks of the film-noir era and style of film . He wears his trench-coat through many scenes of the film , looking weathered yet strong in his own way as he's put against the elements , and there's a certain tragedy in his performance at time... |
508,824 | 453,068 | 338,751 | 10 | A truly smashing , psychologically bound blockbuster | Martin Scorsese strikes again with a powerful cast and expert crew , but the subject matter is what really got me into the grip of The Aviator . Scorsese and writer John Logan focus , of course , on the prime of the life of Howard Hughes , a kind of c . f . Kane with airplanes and movies substituting for the newspapers... |
508,207 | 453,068 | 74,749 | 10 | one strange kind of pulp , Cassavetes style . it's not for all tastes , but it is a brave , effective work of originality | Killing of a Chinese Bookie is , from time to time , not easy to sit through . John Cassavetes had one of the harshest styles of any independent director in film history ; his close-ups can be out of focus , wavering , mostly hand-held , and his DP probably had only enough lights depending on when Cassavetes could get ... |
510,500 | 453,068 | 47,478 | 10 | Kurosawa's triumphant epic - totally & successfully driven by character and story | Akira Kurosawa was and is considered the master of east-western film-making ( in that he made his Japanese films accessible for fans of American westerns while still making the movies his country found popular ) , and out of the few Kurosawa movies I've had the pleasure of viewing ( Hidden Fortress , Rashomon , and thi... |
508,233 | 453,068 | 22,100 | 10 | Fritz Lang's ( sound ) masterpiece - a taut and quintessentially suspenseful story , and Lorre | The first time I saw M , by Fritz Lang , I almost didn't know what to make of it . I was overwhelmed by the power of the performances , the staging of the scenes , the locations , and the power that the simple story had with such complex circumstances . Then I saw it again , and a third time , and I know that this is o... |
510,187 | 453,068 | 64,921 | 10 | disarming , honest look at the practices of salesmen on the road | Albert and David Maysles , apparently working from a personal source ( the four men , nicknamed the Gipper , the Rabbit , the Bull , and the quasi-lead being the Badger , all come from or around the Irish-Boston section that the Maysles came from as well ) , found themselves a kind of theatrical core to what is , in te... |
510,621 | 453,068 | 69,762 | 10 | Meditative view of life , love , and death by Terrence Malick | Badlands , based on the relationship between Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate ( and later an inspiration for Tarantino's True Romance and NBK ) , never has a moment where something un-realistic curries . Writer / producer / director Terence Malick leads his film along with a true emphasis on both the psychological... |
507,872 | 453,068 | 78,480 | 10 | just about a masterpiece of animation ; Rosen is a brilliant British filmmaker | Watership Down is that animated film you'll hear about from a friend - not usually when you're a kid unless you're the kind that hangs around those reading dark British animal novels written by Richard Adams - when you're an older teen or an adult , and that it's not you're garden-variety Disney movie with violent rabb... |
509,739 | 453,068 | 18,217 | 10 | an early Soviet classic of visuals that should be seen by anyone serious about editing | I think that Sergei Eisenstein , who has ( rightfully ) been credited as one of the grandfathers of modern cinema , is sometimes forgotten as someone who can really direct great epic scenes along with making them expertly edited . The filmmaker here knows he's pushing along an ideology , one that is not only encouraged... |
510,200 | 453,068 | 317,248 | 10 | a powerhouse crime saga , with a fierce , daunting fusion of style | City of God played for months on end at an the Angelika theater in New York City back in 2003 , and I was hesitant whether or not I should go there to spend ten dollars and to sit in a little theater with a packed audience , or to wait in video . I gave in to my temptations to see the film , from what I heard from vari... |
509,614 | 453,068 | 104,815 | 10 | a bang of a debut | Robert Rodriguez has his first little / big film here that is by no means big money wise . The book written by Rodriguez , Rebel Without a Crew , illustrates this point very well , but to see the film in its present form you might wonder if it really cost more than he says . But it's this same grit that adds to its rou... |
510,636 | 453,068 | 734,824 | 10 | I want you rockin ' back inside my heart | Surely one of the best episodes of the entire series - and with one of the most terrifying scenes ever shown on television - episode 7 of season 2 is one that really packs its astounding punch in the last part of the show , as we see what becomes of Laura's cousin , Madeline , as she is about ready to leave Twin Peaks ... |
510,957 | 453,068 | 43,014 | 10 | arguably Wilder at his very best ; Swanson , Holden , and von Stroheim are about perfect | I was a little speechless after I first finished watching Sunset Blvd . I had an idea of what to expect , but I didn't expect that a film made over half a century ago would be so sharp , so artistically compelling , and so tragic while still containing a blistering sense of humor . In some ways it was ahead of its time... |
508,399 | 453,068 | 104,797 | 10 | superior craftsmanship , Washington's performance , and a sobering mixture of history and drama | Malcolm X is many things to many people , but one can never say he didn't make a significant mark on his time and for ' his ' people , as he and the Nation of Islam defined it . But ' his ' was contingent on his religion , his experience growing up and being an ' Afro-American ' in the United States , and as it turned ... |
509,665 | 453,068 | 91,983 | 10 | an above-average rom-com script crossbred with juicy pulp fiction , great stuff | Why can't more romantic comedies be like this ? This question came to me while watching Something Wild , a little sleeper from the mid 80s from Jonathan Demme about a seemingly typical 80s NY businessman , Charlie ( Jeff Daniels ) who gets whisked away by a ' free-spirit ' " Lulu " ( Melanie Griffith ) . Well , probabl... |
510,635 | 453,068 | 734,815 | 10 | one of the few truly inspired series finales in TV history | What a way to go out on a bang ! The series finale to Twin Peaks is not only superb as an episode in tying together loose ends in an entertaining way , it transcends what are usually the limitations of the TV medium . David Lynch directed the episode , which is obvious from every single minute that was shot . It's a lo... |
510,953 | 453,068 | 117,951 | 10 | One of the Best films of the 90's | This film has almost everything - Sex , violence , drugs , language and Iggy Pop . The novel of this film is completely a waste of time , but when it is put on the screen like this ( especially by Danny Boyle ) it gets good . The actors are electrifyingly good , especially Ewan McGregor's breakthrough performance as a ... |
509,885 | 453,068 | 60,647 | 10 | A remake of the Big Sleep as only the " Girl and a Gun " man can do it | It's probably a given to note one of Jean-Luc Godard's notorious Godard-isms , likely the one that everyone knows even if they haven't seen a Godard picture : All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun . While this is a pointed reference to the simplicity possible and / or inherent in the gangster picture or noir... |
508,557 | 453,068 | 60,268 | 10 | seen it just once : it's one of the most unusual , and unlikely dark comic masterpieces , of the 60s | Roman Polanski steers a film along in one location or kind of place with just a few characters like it's nobody's business . He's one of the most brilliant at it , at being able to veer away from making things static and stagey with a possible chamber piece like Knife in the Water or Death and the Maiden . Cul-de-sac i... |
508,940 | 453,068 | 25,316 | 10 | one of the great light-hearted romance comedies | Frank Capra's It Happened One Night was a film I saw a few years ago , first and only time ( though there will be other viewings to come ) , and it's never left me . Not exactly on a big profound dramatic level like a lot of other films of the 30s - including Capra's It's a Wonderful Life - but it's got such an air of ... |
508,728 | 453,068 | 106,179 | 10 | even in its lulls , this was one of the best shows on prime-time TV | The X-Files was , regrettably , not a show I was die-hard about when it was airing week after week in my youth / teen years . I would catch an episode here and there , be entertained , but also think ' this episode isn't TOO much different from the other ones ' . The film that came out as the spin-off of the series did... |
508,742 | 453,068 | 421,460 | 10 | can't say much about the original talk soup , but this ' new ' version is great brain candy | The Soup has become one of those nifty little pleasures of cable TV for me recently . To say that it's a guilty pleasure might be a little hard to say , as it is basically just a summary of all of the weird , crazy , delirious , whatever-you-call-it , and plain bad and near offensive TV of the past week . So to say it'... |
509,553 | 453,068 | 381,681 | 10 | what fascinates and interests almost works to annoy the viewer , but Linklater does come closest to Bergman here | Before Sunset provides us not so much a sequel as a continuing development in the lives of these characters , who are starting to embody the neuroses and deeply-held desires that neither want to admit to until it's at the most crucial and tragic of times . Jessie ( Ethan Hawke ) and Celine ( Julie Delpy ) , who first m... |
508,979 | 453,068 | 64,116 | 10 | Maybe Leone's second best behind GB & U - sophisticated weaving of techniques from past westerns into an near-mythic treatment . . . | Sergio Leone's the master of the spaghetti western - hard to refute that - and with Once Upon a Time in the West he goes for taking the skills he formed in the ' Dollars ' trilogy ( inspired by the likes of John Ford ) into a stylistically complex work . The story as well ( by Leone , horror director Dario Argento , an... |
510,654 | 453,068 | 110,005 | 10 | a tale of two girls , with a certain passion for life , and each other | Heavenly Creatures may be the best film I've seen so far from Peter Jackson , even after having gone through the Lord of the Rings , King Kong , even Dead-Alive . His film is loaded with so much that it's hard to classify it as one specific thing , and its psychological complexities make it something special . One way ... |
509,040 | 453,068 | 963,207 | 10 | hard-edged , take-no-prisoners satire at its finest ; Carlin's best in almost 10 years | It might be a stretch saying this as a die-hard Carlin fan , but the material , both written and as performed , in It's Bad for Ya is some of the best late-era material yet . At 70 Carlin bounces back from the level of despair ( and some of the stumbles in the act itself ) from Life is Worth Losing to a special that is... |
508,543 | 453,068 | 64,106 | 10 | not entirely Hitchcockian thriller / melodrama , but somehow in a class of its own | When Claude Chabrol , the French director of many thrillers and dramas and other genres , is at his best when subtly but forcefully pulling the rug out from the viewer . This isn't your usual case of a romance story criss-crossed with a serial killer thriller . In fact , we're not made very much aware that there is a s... |
507,925 | 453,068 | 106,226 | 10 | As Absorbing and magnificent as any other Scorsese film | Martin Scorsese is definatley one of the greatest directors of the past century and with this work , he proves ( along with Kundun ) that his verizons span beyond his classics like Mean Streets , Raging Bull and GoodFellas , though those works are some of the best in the American history of film . Here in the Age of In... |
508,990 | 453,068 | 67,140 | 10 | One of the best westerns / war films made in the 70's : brutal , violent , funny , poetically tragic , etc . . . | With Fistful of Dyanmite ( a . k . a . ' Duck , You Sucker ' , a . k . a . ' Once Upon a Time in the Revolution ' , the second part of a ' trilogy ' ) , legendary Sergio Leone puts together something experimental , even more so than the other films in his catalog . Here he now deals with war , but he still has the crim... |
508,417 | 453,068 | 86,984 | 10 | De Palma's lurid and outrageous thriller hits all the right marks as more of a satire or parody than a full-on thriller , and magnificently so | With Body Double , Brian De Palma has another of his " Hitchcock rip-offs " , but in quotes as it's the easy critical thing that's already been said by others . The film is really a lot more cunning than that , and has a level of cunning wit that one could more associate with De Palma's early comedies that felt very mu... |
510,795 | 453,068 | 192,335 | 10 | the humility of execution , or how Fred Leuchter got in over his head | Fred A . Leuchter is a man whom you want to despite , to hate with all your being . It's easy to do . How could a man be so foolish and ego-maniacal ? He was already fortified with a solid career as an engineer who helped manufacturer and supervise the more ' humane ' developments of the electric chair , lethal injecti... |
508,249 | 453,068 | 86,979 | 10 | WOW | I saw this film for the first time tonight and even though it is a re-release from the original 1984 feature and not new , I found it to be one of the best films I've seen his year . It is ingeniously done by It's actors and It's first time film-makers , Joel and Ethan Coen who bring such a disturbing film it makes Far... |
509,859 | 453,068 | 60,196 | 10 | Sergio Leone's penultimate Italian-western ; a film that gets better with each passing year . . . | . . . and though those last several words could also be attributed to Leone's " Once Upon a Time " films ( West and America ) as well as the other pieces in his trilogy of films with Clint Eastwood - Fistful of Dollars and For a Few More Dollars - arguably this is the most ambitious and spellbinding one of the bunch , ... |
508,900 | 453,068 | 67,116 | 10 | what Friedkin set out to do , he accomplished tremendously ; Hackman's at a peak | Although not the very best film of 1971 , The French Connection packs enough of a wallop to continue significance as a serious , but un-shamefully entertaining , thriller . William Friedkin , the director , has said about the film that he wanted to " infuse the documentary style . " And in this rare time in Hollywood w... |
508,987 | 453,068 | 29,583 | 10 | the Dwarfs steal the show , but there's much to see in this ground-breaker of cinema | To call Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs a classic goes without saying that practically everyone has called it such . It is a great film , but there are certain factors that make it so , and without them the film could've gone the other way and become important more for its technical breakthrough ( s ) than for the cont... |
509,143 | 453,068 | 257,360 | 10 | At sixty five , Nicholson turns in his fourth best performance in his career : | ( possible spoilers ) Jack Nicholson is truly one of America's best actors from the 20th century , and in the new milennium he was in the quite under-rated The Pledge last year , and now in About Schmidt , and proves that he is still one of the greatest treats to look for in the film system . His work in Alexander Payn... |
510,888 | 453,068 | 40,092 | 10 | was well worth it to seek out ; one of the most powerful Italian dramas of it's time , possibly any | It could be something of a challenge to be fair to L'Amore as a whole if one of its two shorts , one titled ' The Human Voice ' ( script by Jean Cocteau ) and the other titled ' The Miracle ' ( original script by Federico Fellini ) , sold short of the other . But in the end , one only slightly edges out over the other ... |
510,833 | 453,068 | 110,074 | 10 | the ultimate screwball / Frank Capra comedy , done over like no other by the Coen brothers | For a while I didn't really feel a need to check out the Hudsucker Proxy , probably for a childish reason ( the name sounded like a pharmaceutical company ) , especially strange since many of the films by Joel and Ethan Coen are some of the greatest made in the past 25 years of American cinema . But somehow , like the ... |
508,738 | 453,068 | 51,566 | 10 | a kind of small , nifty absurd / surreal film-making | I saw this Roman Polanksi short on the Criterion collection DVD set , and it's definitely one of my favorites of his . It shares a lot with silent comedy , but it's a little more peculiar within its own conventional quirkiness . It's all about two men , and a wardrobe , as the title all too blatantly makes clear . But ... |
508,509 | 453,068 | 51,554 | 10 | not sure if it's the most absolute " faithful " Dracula adaptation , but it's my favorite | Has there even been in the history of British horror such a clash of the titans ? Peter Cushing , a man who has super-high cheekbones ( more-so as he grows older , see : Star Wars ) and a face stern enough to scare schoolchildren silly , and Christopher Lee , a man who is somehow able to combine the everlasting creepyn... |
509,090 | 453,068 | 102,293 | 10 | one of the few true must-sees for fans of B-movies , Kung-fu and Grindhouse flicks | It's almost inane for me to give a film such as Riki-Oh : The Story of Ricky a rating of , but why carp ? This kind of film reminded me , in a sense , of what Mel Brooks once said regarding his films " I rise below vulgarity " . Mark my words , folks , you'll rank this as one of the five most ( pointlessly ) violent fi... |
509,257 | 453,068 | 170,232 | 10 | quickie that acts as a sweet prelude to Lunacy's interludes | This is merely one minute long and it's climax is just what it sounds like : two pieces of bloody-as-hell slices of red-meat getting it on and humping with strings attached . It's dirty and lightly crazy , but it all works because you actually forget most of the time Svankmajer is working with the strings . There's eve... |
508,593 | 453,068 | 67,085 | 10 | still the most experimental film Herzog ever made ; pretentious nonsense or close to slowly riveting poetry , you be the judge | It would be something to try and tell someone what Fata Morgana is very simply about . Or , maybe it isn't : Herzog goes to the Sahara desert and nearby villages to film assorted landscapes and the locals . But this is just the broadest stroke . It's a feat that you either surrender yourself to , or you don't . He gets... |
509,221 | 453,068 | 64,040 | 10 | aside from his later crime films , this is Melville at his best , and usual challenging self | Jean Pierre Melville , writer / director of Army of Shadows , has said in interviews that the book of which he based his movie from is considered THE book on the French resistance in the second world war . While I can only speculate as to this film being THE film of its category , as I've yet to see other films on the ... |
508,007 | 453,068 | 71,487 | 10 | Bunuel walks a razor line between comedy and tragedy , coming out with few marks as always | Luis Bunuel's final film from an original screenplay ( by him and collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere ) , The Phantom of Liberty , befuddled me so much more than the other Bunuel films I've seen that I had to turn it off after twenty minutes , thinking I'd get back to it at some point . I finally did , and it turns out t... |
510,432 | 453,068 | 404,203 | 10 | Field proves himself to be a veritable force of importance in the drama genre | Maybe I'm a sucker for this kind of arena of drama , dealing with adulteries and infidelities , or at least when then they're done with a level of believability that doesn't cross into soap operas . But going into Little Children , that's really all I expected to see . I got that , but I also got more than I would've h... |
507,942 | 453,068 | 60,176 | 10 | A Museum movie , sped at just the right speed for the time , resonating brilliance today | Michelangelo Antonioni's utlimate movie , Blow Up , looks at the life of a swinging photographer , captured in a non-funny un-like Austin Powers manner , as he gets involved in a number of events , including a woman played by Vanessa Redgrave , who adds dimension in the intenseness in slow progression . An essence is c... |
509,702 | 453,068 | 94,562 | 10 | Altman on the campaign trail - seamlessly scathing humor , peerless observations , a must-see | Robert Altman and Gary Tredeau were a good match , and according to the DVD interview it makes a lot more sense than the simple notion of ' well , Doonsbury is a funny comic , Altman makes some funny movies . ' As the two say and agree upon , it has to do with scenes , the behavior allotted not in a very rigid story st... |
509,156 | 453,068 | 60,390 | 10 | Truffaut adapts a hard edged , frightening , and hopeful futuristic action / drama | This is one of the most exciting , incendiary , and poignant films of Francois Truffaut's career . Any problems that happened off the set ( fueds between Truffaut and star Oscar Werner ) are not prevalent here - this is a film that with its style captures the kind of thought process behind Ray Bradbury's classic futuri... |
510,974 | 453,068 | 443,706 | 10 | not your typical serial killer movie ; it's mystery about mystery , and with plot not as paramount as character and mood | David Fincher is back in action after a five year wait that is , at least for me , well worth the gap . Zodiac tests the boundaries of what can really be done in a genre that by now - and ironically by Fincher's own doing with Se7ven being such a huge success - has almost run its course . He reinvigorates it in a very ... |
511,011 | 453,068 | 1,245,104 | 10 | excellent , uproarious throwback to 40's Disney shorts , with a touch of Looney Tunes | This is a wonderful homage / recreation of the kinds of shorts kids used to go ape over back in the 1940s . It starts off with the opening titles , which are a direct reference to those shorts of old ( not like the usual PIXAR shorts ) . Then it thrusts into the situation with total glee : a magician is having trouble ... |
509,584 | 453,068 | 48,641 | 10 | One of the most literate and satisfying of all romantic comedies | Ingmar Bergman's dramatic forays capture what is very essential to great dramas - the key emotions should be expressed like poetry , flowing to a rhythm even if it's somber and tragic . He uses this emotional logic with his actors for this comedy of manners and the heart ( pre-Seventh Seal ) , where he has his screenpl... |
508,332 | 453,068 | 109,830 | 10 | One of the best films of the 90's | Winston Groom's Forrest Gump was a novel that was complicated , but ( Oscar winning ) director Robert Zemeckis brings events together with visual effects that boggle even George Lucas . And leading the film in this odyssey of American life is Tom Hanks playing Gump ( he won his second Oscar for his portrayal ) in a fil... |
508,288 | 453,068 | 443,693 | 10 | Herzog's ' 2001 ' , or the closest you'll ever see of Herzog doing an IMAX doc | What a strange experience to see Werner Herzog's documentary / drama / whatever movie the Wild Blue Yonder , particularly on the big screen . But it's the kind of strange experience I didn't regret in the slightest . This is a practically great film of visual magnificence and imagination , where Herzog , still on his n... |
509,108 | 453,068 | 848,557 | 10 | Shoot the Dead ! Shooting , and shooting , and shooting away | George Romero's Diary of the Dead should be looked at as much as your typical ' kill - the - brain - to - kill - the - dead ' zombie movie as it is a multi-faceted comment on media itself . In a sense this is Romero's 21st century remake of Night of the Living Dead , only replacing the original EC comic style with a fo... |
508,473 | 453,068 | 113,677 | 10 | One of the most entertaining films about film-making ever made | Steve Buscemi may or may not have been the first choice by writer / director Tom DiCillo for the lead role of Nick , the director behind the three ( err , one ) film ( s ) being made within the film Living in Oblivion , but it works so well it's impossible to see anyone else in the role . Buscemi , who is one of the pr... |
508,302 | 453,068 | 174,852 | 10 | one of the most personal pieces of Holocaust documentary film-making | What can I say that hasn't been said by others who have come across this essential document of the survivors of the holocaust ? It goes beyond any kind of rating ; watching the people on screen tell their stories , and re-connect with their haunted roots , is about as captivating as it can get , genuinely so , enough t... |
509,014 | 453,068 | 48,728 | 10 | a big , classy , glossy and enormously entertaining " A-List " Hitchcock movie | To Catch a Thief is , as some others have noted , a kind of antithesis to Alfred Hitchcock's own Psycho . It's not that Hithccock put any more or less work into them ( although I'm sure ' Thief ' had a higher budget ) , but they reveal to sensibilities that aren't remotely similar . I mean this though as a compliment ;... |
508,656 | 453,068 | 71,562 | 10 | One of the best sequels ever made | The Godfather part 2 gets very close to the title for best sequel ever made , but not quite . Even so , I would rank this among the superior films to follow up on another and still be as strong and appealing and dramatically satisfying as the former . The structure of the film is also very important as it jumps back an... |
507,843 | 453,068 | 94,517 | 10 | one of the great ' cult ' TV shows of the past twenty years | It's a shame this show doesn't get much airplay anymore , but when it was on I tried to watch as regularly as I could . To this day the show affects the way I watch certain movies . And , really , they make it so that it's the ONLY way I can watch some of these movies . I could maybe see myself seeing a bad monster mov... |
510,876 | 453,068 | 74,958 | 10 | Not just the sharp-as-a-tack dialog , but the key performances and the look of the film are enduring | This is one of those works that is emblematic of what can be done with a director who knows his craft and chooses a style that is both controlled and not controlling , a writer who can let out some wild scenes and incredible exposition and make it practically believable ( maybe more so today ) , and a cast that underst... |
510,630 | 453,068 | 82,517 | 10 | It's good to be the king | That's what Mel Brooks must be saying all the time , especially after this film . This is one of his funniest films that looks at history instead of parodying other films . Great fun , as we look at The Stone Age , The Ten Commandments ( thats probably the funniest part ) , The Roman Empire , The Spanish Inquisition ( ... |
510,501 | 453,068 | 71,604 | 10 | This is to the Vietnam War as Bowling for Columbine is to Violence in America | Peter Davis ' Hearts and Minds does it's best to try and get both sides of the issue on America's military involvement in Vietnam , and like Bowling for Columbine the film can be accessible to an audience on each side of the coin ( though with this film Davis isn't in front of the camera at all ) . This is perfectly fi... |
508,763 | 453,068 | 113,749 | 10 | Cool Comedy | Kevin Smith's Mallrats is quite an amusing picture . Some might go as far to say as it is not as high to standards as his last pictures ( and sadly I slightly agree ) , but that still doesn't matter with Smith at the helm . In fact , he can be better at writer / director / Silent Bob than any other one in America when ... |
509,335 | 453,068 | 785,532 | 10 | Carpenter gives us his take on Roe v Wade . . . well , not exactly , but it's a nicely gruesome thriller | John Carpenter doesn't quite reach the comeback high he got last year with Cigarette Burns , the first in his entries in the Masters of Horror series . But it's definitely a showcase for him to display his storytelling panache on a typically grisly and hell-bound tale . He gets to also mix a few elements from past pict... |
509,025 | 453,068 | 55,499 | 10 | One of Bergman's best works : tragic / poetic / remarkable | The first part of a ' religious ' trilogy of films released from 1961-1963 , Through the Glass Darkly may be the most accomplished of the three , and has the literary qualities of some of the best authors while still sticking to a character-driven story about mental drought and bewilderment . All four members bring out... |
509,488 | 453,068 | 71,615 | 10 | Are you experienced ? Jodorowsky's ambitious Rorschach motion picture tests human's connection to spirituality , and cinema | How does one start describing writer / director / star / master-of-ceremonies Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain ? Sensational , outrageous , in-your-face , ( the much overused phrase ) one-of-a-kind , hilarious , self-indulgent , dangerous , and enlightening could be some words , and there could be more . But th... |
508,103 | 453,068 | 60,028 | 10 | where no TV shows have gone before ! ( always wanted a log-line like that ) | Star Trek is one of the true zeitgeists of TV history , a show that is about as unlikely to be popular as imaginable , but it caught on to the audience eventually , and today , half a dozen more series ( not counting the animated Star Trek TOS ) , ten or so movies , and a mind-boggling number of Trekkie conventions , h... |
508,347 | 453,068 | 109,707 | 10 | one of the best films of 1994 | Here is an example of film-making elements coming wonderfully together , in a package that can entertain the usual moviegoers and give the movie-geek his or her money's worth . That it is also perhaps the most well-rounded of Tim Burton's films , with enough does of comedy , drama , and movie-within-movie stylings , to... |
508,866 | 453,068 | 71,249 | 10 | what can they really want with the head of Alfredo Garcia ? | At one point Warren Oates's character Bennie asks this , and it may or may not be a rhetorical question at this point in the film . By this time several people are dead , though more on the way , and he's lost the love of his life and any sense of self-worth . Then again , maybe he never had much of it anyway . But the... |
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