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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:29:54 GMT
#26"Uh, well, sir, I ain't a f'real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud!" Midnight Cowboy
1969 - John Schlesinger99 points on 7 ballots
Highest Placement: #4 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:30:30 GMT
Who else voted L'Avventura #1???? Oneflyr |
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:31:22 GMT
Entering the top 25. Any hopes or predictions?
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:35:28 GMT
#25"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks." Bonnie and Clyde
1967 - Arthur Penn100 points on 8 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:38:02 GMT
#24"Isn't it easier to go forward when you know you can't go back?" Seconds
1966 - John Frankenheimer101 points on 6 ballots
Highest Placement: #5 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:40:37 GMT
#23"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 - John Ford103 points on 6 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:43:04 GMT
#22"We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all." The Wild Bunch
1969 - Sam Peckinpah103 points on 7 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:45:32 GMT
#21"I hope that was an empty bottle, George! You can't afford to waste good liquor, not on YOUR salary!" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 - Mike Nichols106 points on 7 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:48:01 GMT
#20"The truth isn't what you say, it's what I say." Le Samouraï
1967 - Jean-Pierre Melville108 points on 7 ballots
Highest Placement: #2 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:50:31 GMT
#19"You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten." The Sound of Music
1965 - Robert Wise116 points on 7 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:52:53 GMT
#18"There was too much whispering in this house, miss." The Innocents
1961 - Jack Clayton126 points on 9 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:55:24 GMT
#17"Brothers or not, we're seeds taken from the same sack meant to bear fruit. A seed gone bad must be weeded out." Rocco and His Brothers
1960 - Luchino Visconti132 points on 9 ballots
Highest Placement: #4 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 0:57:45 GMT
#16"In much wisdom there is much grief. And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow." Andrei Rublev
1966 - Andrei Tarkovsky153 points on 10 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:00:13 GMT
#15"I'd rather be told the cruel truth than be fed gentle lies." High and Low
1963 - Akira Kurosawa158 points on 12 ballots
Highest Placement: #2 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:02:16 GMT
#14"By 1965 there'll be total depravity. How squalid everything will be." La Dolce Vita
1960 - Federico Fellini159 points on 10 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 2 ballots
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:04:48 GMT
#13"Nothing... nothing!" Persona
1966 - Ingmar Bergman160 points on 11 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:07:02 GMT
#12"This thing we call samurai honor is ultimately nothing but a facade." Harakiri
1962 - Masaki Kobayashi166 points on 10 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:09:14 GMT
#11"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." The Leopard
1963 - Luchino Visconti187 points on 10 ballots
Highest Placement: #2 on 2 ballotsReview by wilcinemaThings will have to change in order that they remain the same.Ask anyone in any street of Italy and they'll know what this quote means and what movie it is from. That's how iconic and engraved in the minds of the Italian people Luchino Visconti's The Leopard is. Visconti has made many great movies, but none of them feel like the ultimate manifesto of his visionary mind as much as The Leopard does. A communist aristocrat, Visconti saw in the story of the Prince of Salina (the extraordinary Burt Lancaster), an aristocrat who accepts a moral and political compromise for the survival of his family, the quintessential struggle between the love for his class and the contempt for it, as that compromise destroyed any chance at a change in a country that sorely needed some. In the eyes of Luchino Visconti, the Risorgimento, the moment where Italian history took a drastic turn, becomes a graveyard of hope and illusions, even when it is disguised as sumptuous dance, where the destinies of an entire region come at play. The Leopard is majestic and awe-inducing as it is melancholy and crepuscular. It is also a goddamn masterpiece.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 27, 2021 1:09:41 GMT
8 1/2
The Apartment
Psycho
Dr. Strangelove
Once Upon a Time in the West
Good/Bad/Ugly
2001
Rosemary's Baby
Lawrence of Arabia
The Graduate
I think I nailed it
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:14:29 GMT
#10"People scare better when they're dyin'." Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 - Sergio Leone199 points on 12 ballots
Highest Placement: #2 on 1 ballotReview by VicedWhen you're in the right mood for it, there's no genre of film quite as majestic as the western. And there's no western that sweeps you up in its majesty quite as breathtakingly as Once Upon a Time in the West does. Morricone's god-tier score, written before filming began, gave Leone a very high bar to reach... and reach it he most definitely did. There may not be a better symbiosis of film and music in the history of cinema. But nice music and purdy images only get you so far... a gripping story, excellent characters, and some of the most badass moments in the history of the genre are what enshrines it as a true masterpiece.
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Post by Javi on Nov 27, 2021 1:16:23 GMT
#11"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."The Leopard
1963 - Luchino Visconti187 points on 10 ballots
Highest Placement: #2 on 2 ballotsReview by wilcinemaThings will have to change in order that they remain the same.Ask anyone in any street of Italy and they'll know what this quote means and what movie it is from. That's how iconic and engraved in the minds of the Italian people Luchino Visconti's The Leopard is. Visconti has made many great movies, but none of them feel like the ultimate manifesto of his visionary mind as much as The Leopard does. A communist aristocrat, Visconti saw in the story of the Prince of Salina (the extraordinary Burt Lancaster), an aristocrat who accepts a moral and political compromise for the survival of his family, the quintessential struggle between the love for his class and the contempt for it, as that compromise destroyed any chance at a change in a country that sorely needed some. In the eyes of Luchino Visconti, the Risorgimento, the moment where Italian history took a drastic turn, becomes a graveyard of hope and illusions, even when it is disguised as sumptuous dance, where the destinies of an entire region come at play. The Leopard is majestic and awe-inducing as it is melancholy and crepuscular. It is also a goddamn masterpiece. Masterpiece with capital M! Great review, Will. |
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:16:33 GMT
#9"Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone." 8½
1963 - Federico Fellini212 points on 11 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 3 ballotsReview by IbbiA maze of dreams and memories trap a man lost somewhere in the void between fantasy and reality. Fellini's ode to the process and the struggle concerns itself more with its academic rigour than its narrative one, and it could easily be dismissed as a mess on account of it, but I feel like half of the magic of 8½ is its closed circle of a quality to house within its hazy soul an answer to almost any criticism you could throw at it, and come out in its chronicle of intimate and internal human duelling as one of the more towering love letters to the movies that there is.
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:18:40 GMT
#8"It's a wonderful thing, dinner for two." The Apartment
1960 - Billy Wilder217 points on 14 ballots
Highest Placement: #2 on 2 ballotsReview by Martin StettTaking place at Christmas - the loneliest time of the year - The Apartment is a film of palpable loneliness. It's a story of two people with nowhere to go and nothing to live for, people who are perilously close to grabbing a bottle of sleeping pills to end their suffering. It is also one of the funniest movies ever made. Billy Wilder's masterstroke is to never invalidate the pain of his characters. Instead, he allows them to look at their own wounds and laugh. There's a bitter laugh that can be wrung out of remembering that your first kiss was in a cemetery, or that you spend your evenings eating TV dinners with such famous personages as Ed Sullivan or Mae West ("of course, she was younger then"). By allowing his characters to laugh at themselves, he never invites the audience to pity them, because you can't pity a man who is mocking his inability to properly kill himself. He's enjoying himself too much! This fine balancing act between despair and mirth makes The Apartment a special beast - a film about the darkest hours in people's lives, that is paradoxically a sidesplitting showcase of how these people can stand up and find their way out.
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Nov 27, 2021 1:20:22 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 27, 2021 1:20:45 GMT
#7"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts." Lawrence of Arabia
1962 - David Lean235 points on 15 ballots
Highest Placement: #1 on 2 ballotsReview by IbbiBoys own, honour driven adventure, transformed into imperialist, delusion driven, politically consumed nightmare. Saved as most of the sermonizing and moralizing is done via glances, quips and action instead of speeches, saved too by its scope, because Freddie Young sat in the desert and filmed the sun rise, because Maurice Jarre captured in musical form the sweep of something between the human and the divine. Lawrence of Arabia is cinematic poetry, where the images do the majority of the most meaningful talking, and every one of its two hundred and ten minutes will come back to mean something in the grandiosity of David Lean's vision.
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