Edwin Pereyra

I am looking forward to The House Of Mirth this weekend. Its quite a long movie but should be worth it.

Next Up: The House Of Mirth and Amores Perros (Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee).

~Edwin

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American Film Institute Top 100 Films Home Theater Forum Challenge
Countdown Of AFI Movies Left To Watch: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12!

Seth Paxton

Well, I'm going to try and knock out 4 AFI films, along with plowing through that Ken Burns Baseball set (now somewhere around the 14th hour of the 24 or so in the set - whew).

But maybe I will be able to sneak in a viewing of Before Night Falls.

And that trailer for Amores Perros caught my eye.

Man, after Yi Yi I will have seen just about every good film that I wanted to try and see.

Jason, I don't know how you manage to see so much stuff. I mean I've heard you explain it, but still, that's a shitload of flicks at the theater.

Jason Whyte

Great note, Seth. That is exactly why I take such pride and passion into these lists. Not only does it start conversation, it keeps me sane on all of my viewing and helps others of what to see and what not to see.


Know your theaters. Know the smaller and the cheaper ones. I'd sacrifice a little quality in presentation in order to have more films seen.

Jason

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John Thomas

Resurrecting this thread...

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Seth Paxton

Cool, this thread wasn't a total wipeout at least.

Guess I need to go through and see what changes occurred lately.

Brook K

I watched Girlfight last night. I liked it, but don't really get the rave reviews that came out around Sundance 2000. While it has some excellent visuals which you usually don't see in today's indies, it also had some structural problems and the fights were not entirely convincing. She looked like Lawrence Fishburne in The Matrix, s-l-o-w.

Next up: Remember The Titans

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Rob Willey

Updated my list to the most current.

The only new addition since the interim software is Jesus' Son at #10.

Great performance by Billy Crudup (better than AF) and Samantha Morton (ten times better than Sweet and Lowdown) and a very literate script. I'm still trying to figure out parts of it. Highly recommended.

Rob

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Seth Paxton

Well, I just watched Best in Show. A lot of fun, especially Fred Willard who steals the film with so many great one liners. Perhaps because I had already seen Guffman or something, but I didn't find this film to be top 10 material.

It was funny and a bit insightful on characters, but still somehow not as ambitious possibly. Anyway I found New Groove to be a bit more fun, so as comedies go Best in Show has to go on the list a bit down from there. A great film none-the-less.

Seth Paxton

And then I stayed up extra late to get Tigerland in as well. One question, how did hack Schumacher get this film out the door? If I were a teacher I'd doing an investigation of plagerism or cheating because I don't think he did the work.

Somehow a truly great film came out of his hands, maybe simply by having a good script, good young actors, and most certainly in no small part thanks to having Matthew Libatique (Pi, Requiem) do the cinematography. However it happened, I'm glad it did. It's a great story of an interesting non-conformist hero that somehow manages to glorify him without getting sappy about it, even in the end.

Instead, the characters are allowed to fall into who they are. Not only that but the film establishes early on how things are going to go down

Spoiler:

that the guy who is trying to get out of the war will end up getting every guy who wants to be in out instead and will wind up being the only one who will go

and yet it was a joy to watch it unfold.

For some reason the hero here (Bozz) reminded me of Crudup's character (Fuckhead) in Jesus' Son. Bozz is more of a hero at heart, maybe it was just their quirkiness or maybe it was the style or flow of the films.

Anyway, I thought it was damn good, almost a top 10 film.

Also, I rearranged my list a bit with Snatch improving the most on reconsideration of everything for now.

And one final note here, is 2000 just the year of the quirky misanthrope hero (ala Cool Hand Luke)? I see at least You Can Count on Me, Jesus Son, Tigerland, Wonder Boys, and even a bit of Virgin Suicides to strongly feature such characters/philosophies.