Interesting indeed. Every list consists of a couple of true classics, but every single one is still very personal (except for John Woo's - who's list did he steel?). What's also interesting to see is that nobody becomes a great film maker without watching a loooot of films. It's evident that all...
I'm surprised I didn't see anybody mentioning "Blackboard Jungle". One of my many favourite movies. It's a superb movie with great acting and one fine script. It has got Rock around the clock on the soundtrack and a 30-year old Sidney Poitier acting 17 or 18 or so (!). I truely recommend it.
I read about a year ago that King Kong was about to get the same treatment as Citizen Kane. I beleive it is Warner Bros who owns the rights and they said that it would be released within that year (which I beleive was 2002) and also would be the final and optimal release. And since this film...
To be honest, I'm not certain Moore will make such a big deal of all this tonight. He knows everybody will be expecting rough words against the Iraq issue and Bush himself from him. Perhaps he therefore thinks that tonight should be the time (the first time maybe) when he keeps his mouth shut...
Roger Ebert was right on the spot with his comment for this movie when he and Roeper appeared at The Tonight Show a couple of months ago when he stated this: "Even if you live till you are 107 years old life is too short to see Slackers."
Oh, I almost never have time to write as long posts on these forum as I'd like, but Bergman is one of my absolute favorite film makers. Well, let’s get straight to the point.
Which movie of his is the best one to start with? That it such a tricky question when it comes to a brilliant film...
To me it's like this:
Since movie is to 95 % percent about the feeling to me (which of course can be expressed in many ways) I want the trailer/teaser to create the same atmosphere and push the same buttons as the complete movie will, although in a much smaller scale and without revealing the...