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1. Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey
2. International House (1933) A. Edward Sutherland
3. A Day at the Races (1937) Sam Wood
4. Out of the Past (1947) Tourneur
5. Wages of Fear (1953) Clouzot
6. Night of the Demon (1957) Tourneur
7. Yojimbo (1961) Kurosawa
8. The Exterminating Angel (1962) Bu�uel
9. Kwaidan (1964) Masaki Kobayashi
10. The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) Wojciech Has
11. Farewell, My Lovely (1975) Dick Richards*
12. Love and Death (1975) W. Allen
13. Seven Beauties (1975) Wertm�ller
14. Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) Altman
15. Hearts of Glass (1976) Herzog
16. High Anxiety (1977) Mel Brooks
17. The Last Wave (1977) Peter Weir
18. Apocalypse Now (original version) (1979) Coppola
19. Stalker (1979) Tarkovsky
20. Repo Man (1984) Alex Cox
21. Secret Honor (1984) Altman
22. O.C. and Stiggs (1985) Altman
23. Housekeeping (1987) Bill Forsyth*
24. Swimming to Cambodia (1987) Spalding Gray, Demme*
25. Miller's Crossing (1990) Coen Bros.
26. Careful (1992) Guy Maddin
27. Roadside Prophets (1992) Abbe Wool
28. Cabaza de Vaca (1993) Nicholas Echevarria
29. Magic Hunter (1994) Ildik� Enyedi*
30. Mallrats (1995) K. Smith
31. City of Lost Children (1995) Caro, Jeunet
32. Four Rooms (1995) Anders, Rockwell, Rodriguez, Tarantino
33. Dead Man (1995) Jarmusch
34. Schizopolis (1996) Soderbergh
35. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) Guy Maddin
36. The Big Lebowski (1998) Coens
37. Pecker (1998) Waters
38. Ghost Dog (1999) Jarmusch
39. City of God (2002) Meirelles
40. Skins (2002) Chris Eyre
41. The Big Empty (2003) Steve Anderson
* Farewell, My Lovely, Housekeeping, Swimming to Cambodia and Magic Hunter are not or have never been available on DVD in the U.S.
Reviews
No Country for Old Men (2007)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN made easy
Allegory (āl'ĭ-gôr'ē, -gōr'ē) noun
1. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
2. A story, picture, or play employing such representation.
Manichaeism (mān'ĭ-kē'ĭz'əm) noun
1. A dualistic philosophy dividing the world between good and evil principles or regarding matter as intrinsically evil and mind as intrinsically good. A key belief in Manichaeism is that there is no omnipotent good power.
***
I saw the film two months ago upon first release and it has not lost its grip. Tommy Lee Jones' spare performance deserves more recognition from the awards community as the opening and closing monologues are at the core of the film.
Thank you, Joel and Ethan.
Human Highway (1982)
Mr. Hulot meets 200 Motels
After the almost universal panning this movie received I did not have the bar set very high for this one.
You will probably not like this movie if you are expecting a concert film or the ads that MTV and VH1 have stuck in high rotation. Or if you do not appreciate surrealism as an art form. And I suppose you have to be enough of a Neil Young fan to appreciate and understand his dark humor. I was surprised by the amount of screen time the normally reclusive Mr. Young enjoyed.
I found myself laughing out loud several times through the film. There IS a plot and plot elements, interesting dialog and visuals are woven quite deftly and in a unique way through the film. This film warrants a DVD release (and I hope to be able to see "Journey Through the Past" some day).
Normally I am tolerant of other's taste in film, but those who describe this film as a painful ordeal or attribute it to drug (ab)use should stick to HBO.
Thank's, Neil, for this wonderful, visionary and hilarious "trip."