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IN A LONELY PLACE
Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame are both in excellent form here. The first few scenes aren’t very interesting unfortunately but the film more than makes up for that with its magnificent second half and a cracking end scene.
Haven't seen Manhunter. I'll have to check it out soon.
What else is in your top 10 favourites list
They seem interesting, thanks for the heads up.
I've seen both on the big screen and I agree with @GoldenGun that these were very good films - with a slight preference for Cold War. In terms of foreign films that I enjoyed seeing on the big screen in 2018, I'd add Shoplifters (went to see it this afternoon), Dogman, Capernaum, Burning and The Guilty.
Thank you @001
My wildly subjective list of favourites would include:
- PLEIN SOLEIL (1960, René Clément)
- LA NOTTE (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)
- ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE (1969, Peter R. Hunt)
- SUSPIRIA (1977, Dario Argento)
- MANHUNTER (1986, Michael Mann)
- DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN (1987, Wim Wenders)
- THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987, John Glen)
- NIKITA (1990, Luc Besson)
- THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001, Peter Jackson)
- ALEXANDER (2004, Oliver Stone)
That last one is a bit controversial I’ll admit :)
As we agree on Cold War and Suspiria, I’ll add those other five to my watchlist @DaltonCraig007!
Mine would be:
Dr. No (1962)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Jaws (1975)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
The Italian Job (1969)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Total Recall (1990)
The Aristocats
Sin City
Sin City-A Dame To Kill For
Blade Runner
Blade Runner 2049
Watchmen
Herbie Rides Again
Bram Stoker s Dracula
2001-A Space Odyssey
I prefer the title Star Wars better as well, but i went to imdb and that's what the title is there.
I don't like the title add on, : Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) either.
CARLITO'S WAY (Brian de Palma, 1993)
CAPE FEAR (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (Terence Young, 1963)
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (Peter Hunt, 1969)
BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, 1982)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
ALIENS (James Cameron, 1986)
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron, 1991)
ALIEN (Ridley Scott, 1979)
DIE HARD (John McTiernan, 1988)
JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
RAGING BULL (Martin Scorcese, 1980)
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (Sydney Pollack, 1975)
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Miloš Forman, 1975)
THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
TRUE ROMANCE (Tony Scott, 1993)
Most of the Bond films
The Godfather Trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990)
Scarface (1983)
Goodfellas (1990)
Casino (1995)
Heat (1995)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Trainspotting (1996)
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Snatch (2000)
Layer Cake (2004)
Halloween 1, 2, 3, and 4 (1978, 1981, 1982, 1988)
Friday the 13th Parts 4 and 6 (1984, 1986)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
True Romance (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Psycho (1960)
Fright Night 1 and 2 (1985, 1988)
The Lost Boys (1987)
License to Drive (1988)
Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 (1987, 1989)
Hell or High Water (2016)
The Cowboys (1972)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Long Riders (1980)
Manhunter (1986)
Jaws (1975)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Bandits (2001)
Blood Simple (1984)
Fargo (1996)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Magnum Force (1973)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Can't go wrong with a bit of Mitchum. While I accept it not his most respected film, The Big Sleep is my personal favourite of his.
Can't go wrong with The Night of the Hunter either, that's one of my favorites of Mitchum's. The cinematography/lighting throughout a lot of those sequences, particularly in the back half of the film, is mesmerizing and too damn good.
Great to see Ladri di biciclette getting a mention. It would make my top thirtyish for sure.
Never heard of it before.
Also known as Bicycle Thieves (1948)
From imdb:
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.
Must be some special bike. :)
From imdb:
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.
Sounds like a comedy film but it's a drama film. :)
The thing about the bike is that in post-war Italy, a country very much in economical distress and with a lot of unemployment, the protagonist finally gets a job but he is required to have a bike to be able to exercise his job properly. Without a bike he would lose his job.
Something as common as a bike represents the last resort for a family in poverty. It also says a lot that such situations were more rule than exception at that time in Italy.
Thematically relevant even today, graced with extraordinary black and white cinematography and with powerful scenes galore it is quite rightly hailed as one of the best films of all time.
Just my two cents, of course.
The story sounds like a comedy doesn't it ?
I suppose the synopsis could be deciphered in many ways - detaching myself from the film, sounds like it could easily read as a Taken or John Wick type of movie, too.
Not really.
Taken,John Wick has a decription as revenge etc
"A man loses his dog and he sets out to find who did it."
"A man loses his bicycle and he sets out to find who did it."
Same thing. I'm not sure what you're getting at either way, though, as it's not a comedy.
John wick on imdb:
"An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him."
Sounds like a Revenge film
"A man loses his bicycle and he sets out to find who did it."
Drama at it's best. Go watch it. it supposed to be very good.
Hey relax man.
No need for that comment is there ?
Why are you so rude ?
Oh dear. This is not a hill worth dying on. It's not the responsibility of those to apologise for misunderstanding your comments if they are easily misunderstood.
”Subtle cinema isn’t for everyone” ;)
Another favourite of mine. Not forgetting...
Cape Fear
The Yakuza
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
The Grass Is Greener
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
Macao
Ryan's Daughter
Two For The Seesaw
And while it is more of a Wayne film, Mitchum is on fine form in El Dorado. I could quote my favourite scene, but better still, it's on Youtube: