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Bravo. (Reply to this comment)
by ChrisJarmick
A maddening exercise in deciding what riches to elevate over other riches and how to determine what flaws knock one movie off the list but keep others on it.
Fine job. Of course. Some minor disagreements, but life would be so dull otherwise.
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Oct 04 '10
4:24 am PDT
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Great review! (Reply to this comment)
by beefchop
You've just helped me populate my Netflix queue. Cheers, Zach
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Apr 27 '09
7:18 am PDT
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Re: Go Liza! (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
She was all wrong for Sally Bowles, but it was hard to care. Both "Cabaret" and "NY,NY" are movies in which love does not conquer all, a theme of Sydney Pollack movies, too, as he pointed out to Elvis Mitchell in an interview rebroadcast last night. "Kramer vs. Kramer" was another important 70s movie.
Speaking of Ms. Streep, in addition to "Manhattan," she was in "Julia" on my list (and was good in "Deer Hunter", perhaps the decade's over-honored film).
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Apr 24 '09
3:22 pm PDT
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Go Liza! (Reply to this comment)
by Ricardo_Ramos
with a z... too bad she has not even approached doing anything as good since the 70s!
I was expecting Hal Ashby movies. Oh, wait! You're an Ashby detractor, I remember.
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Apr 24 '09
11:51 am PDT
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Stephen: (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Glad to see you slip CABARET into your list.
A very comprehensive and impressive selection.
Alex
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Apr 24 '09
10:44 am PDT
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cinemarographers (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
It is astounding that the only award from his own guild he won was for the tv movie "Stalin." They are the ones who should recognize what great and innovative work he did for Altman in "The Long Goodbye" and (the ghastly!) "Images" as well as in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller." That he won an Oscar for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" instead says much about the acuity of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters. (Zsigmond also did great work in "Winter Kills," one of the "paranoid thrillers" that are archetypes of "70s movies," even though perhaps the greatest, Frankenheimer's "Manchurian Candidate" came earlier.)
Tonino Delli Colli, whom Malle borrowed (or inherited) from Pier Paolo Pasolini made major contributions to the great look of "Lacombe, Lucien" and to "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time in America" (before and after the 1970s).
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Apr 24 '09
10:37 am PDT
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Re: Hey, no fair! (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
Mea culpa, back, but then I swallowed the whole world... and anyone who wants ten can stop there, no? :)
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Apr 24 '09
10:22 am PDT
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by jsommersby, in Movies
I think that "Lacombe, Lucien" (1974) is the best movie about the Nazi occupation and local collaborators ever made
I finally got around to watching this a week or so ago, and thought it impressive but just couldn't make sense of why the father idiotically went to the Gestapo headquarters looking for Lucien. Surely he knew the danger he was placing himself in, and all for a matter that wasn't particularly urgent or important.
As for "McCabe", one of the best home-video experiences I've ever had was finally getting to watch it in glorious widescreen on LaserDisc after years of having to suffer with the cropped VHS. It's nothing short of criminal not to have nominated the groundbreaking work of Vilmos Zsigmond (still our best cinematographer) that year.
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Apr 24 '09
7:49 am PDT
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Hey, no fair! (Reply to this comment)
by mrkstvns
Can't get your faves list down to just 10, eh?
It *IS* a challenge...
Best,
M
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Apr 24 '09
5:58 am PDT
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