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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5160 on: July 27, 2020, 10:48:50 PM »
Not sure I will have a look and get back. I am on my iPad at the moment and it is a pain to use for that sort of searching

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5161 on: July 29, 2020, 08:51:03 AM »
My Top 100 Noir

I decided to leave out neo-noir because L.A. Confidential on top stuck out like I was being a jerk about it. This list goes from 1940 - 1964. There's always the debate over what's considered Noir. I ultimately decided to include Notorious, but left out Sunset Blvd. and Night of the Hunter. while including Noir Westerns Silver Lode and Station West.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5162 on: July 29, 2020, 09:30:23 AM »
I just watched Alias Nick Beal the other day. Really good stuff, could well make my own list if I were to redo it. The supernatural/religious angle is quite unusual.

Of the 11 I haven't seen, only Deadline USA is currently on my watchlist, but there's a couple of others I'm intrigued by.

The fact that there isn't more crossover between our lists is surprising, and yet there aren't many titles on yours that I think are unworthy. I gave Illegal and Criminal Lawyer 2.5 stars, then there's four I gave 3 stars. The rest are all 3.5 and above.

Man, I love noir.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5163 on: July 29, 2020, 11:05:17 AM »
My list certainly leans towards lighter, more fun Noir like Nick Beal or Two of a Kind. With Beal, I like the blend of supernatural horror and the three leads (Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell) are in peak form.

I could probably divide the list into the expected/boring picks (Indemnity, Killing, Asphalt), ones I have you to thank for discovering (Split Second, Time Table, The Threat) and the ones where I found my own unlocked door (Pushover, Broadway, The Mob).

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5164 on: July 29, 2020, 11:51:52 PM »
Just had a look at the list and I am wondering what makes Sweet Smell of Success a noir? It did not feel like a noir when I watched it.

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« Reply #5165 on: July 30, 2020, 12:22:13 AM »
Thematically it's like Night and the City. The two leads are hustlers, only their beat isn't sports it's journalism (another popular noir profession). One is the fat cat mobster type while the other keeps nibbling around the edges, hoping to get off the street and into a comfortable booth. We meet them right as their lives are about to take the darkest turns giving the film an increasing atmosphere of doom. There's even a corrupt cop prowling around. On a technical level, there's the high contrast lighting, razor-sharp dialogue, smoky nightclub atmosphere and the sound of jazz.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5166 on: July 30, 2020, 02:26:51 PM »
This is where I'm at now. Left off two Capra films that I wasn't sure about, and didn't control for the amount of films by any given filmmaker. No pictures either. No 21st century.

One Week (Buster Keaton + Edward F. Cline, 1920)
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925)
The General (Buster Keaton + Clyde Bruckman, 1926)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
Street Scene (King Vidor, 1931)
Young America (Frank Borzage, 1932)
Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh, 1932)
Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman, 1933)
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
 
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
To Be or not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli, 1943)
Great Freedom No. 7 (Helmut Käutner, 1944)
Going My Way (Leo McCarey, 1944)
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)
The Bells of St. Mary’s (Leo McCarey, 1945)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
 
I’ve Always Loved You (Frank Borzage, 1946)
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)
The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli, 1948)
Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, 1949)
Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller, 1951)
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951)
 
The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly, 1952)
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
The Long Gray Line (John Ford, 1955)
Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
Ludwig II (Helmut Käutner, 1955)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur, 1956)
Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder, 1957)
Rock-A-Bye Baby (Frank Tashlin, 1958)
 
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
Donovan’s Reef (John Ford, 1963)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis, 1966)
El Dorado (Howard Hawks, 1966)
 
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
Raphael, or the Debauched One (Michel Deville, 1971)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974)
Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali, 1974)
Small Change (François Truffaut, 1976)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Chusei Sone, 1979)
10 (Blake Edwards, 1979)
The Magnificent Butcher (Yuen Woo Ping, 1979)
 
L’enfant Secret (Philippe Garrel, 1979)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)
Victor / Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982)
Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung, 1984)
Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark, 1984)
Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985)
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (Shinji Somai, 1985)
Typhoon Club (Shinji Somai, 1985)
Love Hotel (Shinji Somai, 1985)
Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino, 1985)
 
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao Hsien, 1987)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
Sound and Fury (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1988)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989)
Les Sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, 1989)
 
Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung, 1989)
To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990)
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)
Les amants du pont-neuf (Leos Carax, 1991)
Celine (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992)
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)
A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer, 1992)
Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, 1993)
Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993)
Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara, 1993)
 
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1995)
Voices Through Time (Franco Piavoli, 1996)
Comrades Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas, 1998)
 
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No Love Juice: Rustling in Bed (Yuji Tajiri, 1999)

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5167 on: July 30, 2020, 05:24:33 PM »
Pretty great list. Funny how no good films came out after 1999. Needs some Kiarostami, tho.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5168 on: July 31, 2020, 08:51:54 AM »
Do you have a write up on The Cook, The Thief..... anywhere?  I hadn’t seen that film since it came out in the theatre and think it made me like vomiting at the time.

No write up of the movie, but I do have a response to jdc's viewing of the film here

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #5169 on: July 31, 2020, 10:33:57 AM »
Do you have a write up on The Cook, The Thief..... anywhere?  I hadn’t seen that film since it came out in the theatre and think it made me like vomiting at the time.

No write up of the movie, but I do have a response to jdc's viewing of the film here

Thanks for digging that up. I have always wanted to rewatch this as normally, it fulls into a category of films I like but somehow turned me off when I saw it. A few others of the Greenaway I watched left no impression except they were visually interesting.
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