Or any of the countless stars
The reading was cool. I now own a neat paperback of Couch (2008), signed; to be saved for the holidays. Which may be tricky. The excerpts Ben Parzybok read aloud and the first twenty pages I sneaked on my own were terrific.
In which I steal a meme from
darcydodo: Jim Hosney's 100 Great American Films. Bold the ones you've seen, although since I've never taken a class with him, underlining is out in this case. There are some films on this list I really should have watched by now, especially the one I own.
ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
ALIEN (1979)
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)
BADLANDS (1973)
THE BAND WAGON (1953)
THE BANK DICK (1940)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956)
BIG WEDNESDAY (1978)
BLADE RUNNER (1982)
BLUE VELVET (1986)
BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958)
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
CASABLANCA (1942)
CASINO (1995)
CHARADE (1963)
CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
CHINATOWN (1974)
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
CITY LIGHTS (1931)
THE CONVERSATION (1974)
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
DEAD RINGERS (1988)
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
DOWN BY LAW (1986)
DUCK SOUP (1933)
EAST OF EDEN (1955)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
FUNNY FACE (1957)
GIGI (1958)
THE GODFATHER I AND II (1972, 1974)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
HEAT (1995)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)
IMITATION OF LIFE (1958)
THE INSIDER (1999)
JFK (1991)
KLUTE (1971)
THE LADY EVE (1941)
LAURA (1944)
LOLITA (1962)
MALCOLM X (1992)
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
MANHATTAN (1979)
MAN OF THE WEST (1958)
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1943)
MISSING (1981)
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
MUNICH (2005)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)
NETWORK (1976)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (1973)
PATTON (1969)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
PINOCCHIO (1940)
THE PIRATE (1948)
RAGING BULL (1980)
RISKY BUSINESS (1983)
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934)
SHERLOCK JUNIOR (1924)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
SHORT CUTS (1993)
SOME CAME RUNNING (1958)
SPEEDY (1928)
A STAR IS BORN (1954)
SUNRISE (1927)
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007)
SWING TIME (1936)
3 WOMEN (1977)
THE THIN RED LINE (1998)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1945)
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
VERTIGO (1958)
In which I steal a meme from
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ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
ALIEN (1979)
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)
BADLANDS (1973)
THE BAND WAGON (1953)
THE BANK DICK (1940)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956)
BIG WEDNESDAY (1978)
BLADE RUNNER (1982)
BLUE VELVET (1986)
BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958)
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
CASABLANCA (1942)
CASINO (1995)
CHARADE (1963)
CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
CHINATOWN (1974)
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
CITY LIGHTS (1931)
THE CONVERSATION (1974)
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
DEAD RINGERS (1988)
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
DOWN BY LAW (1986)
DUCK SOUP (1933)
EAST OF EDEN (1955)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
FUNNY FACE (1957)
GIGI (1958)
THE GODFATHER I AND II (1972, 1974)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
HEAT (1995)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)
IMITATION OF LIFE (1958)
THE INSIDER (1999)
JFK (1991)
KLUTE (1971)
THE LADY EVE (1941)
LAURA (1944)
LOLITA (1962)
MALCOLM X (1992)
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
MANHATTAN (1979)
MAN OF THE WEST (1958)
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1943)
MISSING (1981)
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
MUNICH (2005)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)
NETWORK (1976)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (1973)
PATTON (1969)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
PINOCCHIO (1940)
THE PIRATE (1948)
RAGING BULL (1980)
RISKY BUSINESS (1983)
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934)
SHERLOCK JUNIOR (1924)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
SHORT CUTS (1993)
SOME CAME RUNNING (1958)
SPEEDY (1928)
A STAR IS BORN (1954)
SUNRISE (1927)
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007)
SWING TIME (1936)
3 WOMEN (1977)
THE THIN RED LINE (1998)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1945)
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
VERTIGO (1958)
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Of the films you have not seen that I have, I think my favorites are Network, The Parallax View, and Malcolm X.
Godfather II was well done, IMHO, but I may be biased as my cousin was the editor.
I think you should get your circle to create their own top 100 or at least top 30 or so - that would be an interesting exercise and list, as well.
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I'm in!
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Recommendations taken! Thanks.
Godfather II was well done, IMHO, but I may be biased as my cousin was the editor.
That's still awesome.
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I gotta say, though, as with all such lists, there are a bunch of films on there I think are (anywhere from kinda to vastly, vastly) overrated, and I can never figure out how someone who'd seen both film X and film Y could possibly think X is better, etc., etc.
(Oh, and um, I'd have thought it obvious that Dead Ringers, being a Canadian film, doesn't qualify...)
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I know, I know. Out of the Past and Sunset Boulevard are lying around my house;
I gotta say, though, as with all such lists, there are a bunch of films on there I think are (anywhere from kinda to vastly, vastly) overrated, and I can never figure out how someone who'd seen both film X and film Y could possibly think X is better, etc., etc.
Well, yeah. Sweeney Todd?
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Murnau. First winner of the Best Picture - Artistic Oscar (and one of the few, as they stopped giving it out a few years later). Yet another pic (yawn) where Murnau innovated himself right into major new inventions that are still with the movie industry today, albeit much updated since 1927. It crams so many different subplots into one movie that you start to wonder whether anything's ever going to get resolved, but it's Murnau, the magician. So (almost) everything does.
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Damn. Okay. I'll see that.
Your signed book, into the vortex
Great to meet you (2x!)
best,
b
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That's no good! Most people just sacrifice small toiletries to the travel gods—socks, toothpaste—not entire books. I hope Pandemonium can find it.
I'll ring Pandemonium to see if I simply left it there, but I didn't so much as get a chance to crack the spine to see your signature.
"For Ben, who should do more readings on the East Coast!"
Which you should. It was great to meet you as well.
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"You had left it at the register, Kelly took it and will be mailing it to you, it should already be on its way by this time."
While I normally keep together, I seem to have caught a bit of leprosy on this journey. I sacrificed many things along the way - phone chargers, books, items of clothing, a bag of carefully-considered children's toys (the most missed, of the missing).
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Awesome. Enjoy!
phone chargers, books, items of clothing, a bag of carefully-considered children's toys (the most missed, of the missing).
Understood: I'm so sorry. Any chance they jumped ship at someone's house along the way?
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Incredibly great masterpieces:
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
CHINATOWN (1974)
MANHATTAN (1979)
RAGING BULL (1980) (probably that great; I've only seen it once)
Terrific:
BLUE VELVET (1986)
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
THE INSIDER (1999)
RISKY BUSINESS (1983)
Solid:
3 WOMEN (1977)
JFK (1991)
MUNICH (2005) (way overrated here)
FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002) (ditto)
The 25 films you have seen that I have not:
THE BAND WAGON (1953)
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
CHARADE (1963)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
EAST OF EDEN (1955)
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
FUNNY FACE (1957)
GIGI (1958)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)
THE LADY EVE (1941)
LAURA (1944)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
PINOCCHIO (1940)
THE PIRATE (1948)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
SWING TIME (1936)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1945)
This exceeds the 21 movies we have both seen.
The 40-42 movies neither of us have seen:
ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)
BADLANDS (1973)
THE BANK DICK (1940)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956)
BIG WEDNESDAY (1978)
BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958)
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) (saw it on TV years ago, doesn't count)
CASINO (1995)
CITY LIGHTS (1931)
THE CONVERSATION (1974)
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
DEAD RINGERS (1988)
DOWN BY LAW (1986)
HEAT (1995)
IMITATION OF LIFE (1958)
KLUTE (1971)
LOLITA (1962)
MALCOLM X (1992)
MAN OF THE WEST (1958)
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1943)
MISSING (1981)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)
NETWORK (1976)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (1973)
THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934)
SHERLOCK JUNIOR (1924)
SHORT CUTS (1993)
SOME CAME RUNNING (1958)
SPEEDY (1928)
A STAR IS BORN (1954)(also on TV long ago)
SUNRISE (1927)
THE THIN RED LINE (1998)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
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I note a certain trend in their timing . . .
The 40-42 movies neither of us have seen
All right: another project!
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
ALIEN (1979)
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)
THE APARTMENT (1960)
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007)
BADLANDS (1973)
THE BAND WAGON (1953) (next on my hold list)
THE BANK DICK (1940)
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956)
BIG WEDNESDAY (1978)
BLADE RUNNER (1982)
BLUE VELVET (1986)
BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958)
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
CASABLANCA (1942)
CASINO (1995) (good god, how I hated this movie)
CHARADE (1963)
CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
CHINATOWN (1974)
CITIZEN KANE (1941)
CITY LIGHTS (1931)
THE CONVERSATION (1974)
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)
DEAD RINGERS (1988)
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) (right before you posted this!)
DOWN BY LAW (1986)
DUCK SOUP (1933)
EAST OF EDEN (1955)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
FUNNY FACE (1957)
GIGI (1958)
THE GODFATHER I AND II (1972, 1974)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
HEAT (1995)
HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)
IMITATION OF LIFE (1958) (more times than I can count, used to be on my list of the 100 best films ever made)
THE INSIDER (1999)
JFK (1991)
KLUTE (1971)
THE LADY EVE (1941)
LAURA (1944)
LOLITA (1962) (Kubrick's best film. period.)
MALCOLM X (1992)
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) (in the top 10 portion of that top 100 list)
MANHATTAN (1979)
MAN OF THE WEST (1958)
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1943)
MISSING (1981)
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
MUNICH (2005)
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946) (Tombstone's better)
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991)
NETWORK (1976)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977)
NOTORIOUS (1946)
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968)
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (1973)
PATTON (1969)
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
PINOCCHIO (1940)
THE PIRATE (1948)
RAGING BULL (1980)
RISKY BUSINESS (1983)
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968)
THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934)
SHERLOCK JUNIOR (1924) (better than The General.)
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
SHORT CUTS (1993)
SOME CAME RUNNING (1958)
SPEEDY (1928)
A STAR IS BORN (1954)
SUNRISE (1927)
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (2007)
SWING TIME (1936)
3 WOMEN (1977)
THE THIN RED LINE (1998) (one of the worst movies of 1998. There will never be a proper film adaptation of this novel. Not possible.)
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1945)
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
VERTIGO (1958) (still good, but really, really overrated in the Hitch canon-- odd choice for a list missing NNW, Psycho, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps...)
I need to stop with the commentary or I'll be here all day.
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