Greatest Movies of All Time

[PFY]

I commend you Mickey for the choice of Miller's Crossing - still the greatest of the Coen brothers' films in my mind. I have such a hankering to revisit this, twisting turning plot; great characters (The Dane is a legend); some career best performances (Gabriel Byrne, Jon Turturro, Jon Polito IMO) and some of the best use of language ever. Sheer class.

[jibiko]

[jibiko]

Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt)

The film explores the events that fate alone controls and displays the constant "what if's" that occur every moment and that can easily change the happenings of the next. The film follows the events between a woman, Lola, and her boyfriend, Mani, who she desperately tries to save from death by helping him obtain a huge amount of money he carelessly lost. It takes you on three different journeys with Lola, all controlled by fate, showing you what would happen in each, and all the "what if's" that provide the foundations for each outcome.

[jibiko]

The Name of the Rose (original title, Der Name der Rose)
is a German-French-Italian 1986 film, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud,
based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco.
Sean Connery is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville
and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk,
who are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a Medieval abbey.
(wikipedia)

The soundtrack by James Horner is excellent and fans of the movie are bound to recognize its power. It's a great soundtrack that fits in so well with the film.
(d2eux, youtube)

[jibiko]

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 samurai action film
written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.
Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog",
an African-American hitman in the employ of the Mafia,
who follows the ancient code of the samurai
as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure.
(wikipedia)

Ghost Dog - Emptiness is Form

Ghost Dog - famous scene



The film has been interpreted by critics as an homage to Le Samouraï,
a 1967 crime-drama by Jean-Pierre Melville starring Alain Delon.
That movie opens with a quote from an invented Book of Bushido
and features a meditative, loner hero, Jef Costello.
In the same manner that Ghost Dog has an electronic "key" to break into luxury cars,
Costello has a huge ring of keys that enable him to steal any Citroën DS.
The endings share a key similarity.
Moreover, the peculiar relationship between the heroes of both movies and birds,
companions and danger advisers, is another common point.
(wikipedia)

[Boo]

The legend Jack Nicholson.

Powerful soundtrack by John Murphy.

[Scalper]

Watched La Haine last night Scalper.

Excellent movie, beautifully shot in B&W. A brilliant account of the social disintegration within the Paris Project slums.

Cheers.

Mickey

Glad you enjoyed it, mate.

[doubleback]

Ganster No. 1, i couldn't find this clip with the original soundtrack.

[nigelbleddfa]

Who can argue with that ?

[jibiko]

watch it online



They Live is a 1988 film directed by John Carpenter,
who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym "Frank Armitage."
The movie is based on Ray Nelson's 1963 short story "Eight O’Clock in the Morning."

Part science fiction thriller and part dark comedy,
the film echoed contemporary fears of a declining economy,
within a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption common among Americans in the 1980s.
In They Live, the ruling class within the monied elite are in fact aliens
managing human social affairs through the use of a signal on top of the tv broadcast
that is concealing their appearance and subliminal messages in Mass media.

(source: wikipedia)

trailer




Greatest movie quote




watch it online
They Live (1988) Part 1/10

[oldboy]

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone."

[Mickey Pearce]

"A visceral thrill ride................."


Visceral, now that's an interesting word. Stomach churning perhaps in this context?

Interesting choice Oldman. I have not seen this film, but will try to get a copy and have a gander.

[oldboy]

"A visceral thrill ride................."


Visceral, now that's an interesting word. Stomach churning perhaps in this context?

Interesting choice Oldman. I have not seen this film, but will try to get a copy and have a gander.

It might not be to everyone's taste and some scenes are certainly not for the faint hearted but it's a real hidden gem and a must see movie. It's dark, brutal and, at times, shocking but so beautifully crafted, visually stunning and undeniably emotive. Roger Ebert summed it up best when he said "Oldboy is a powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare". I hope you enjoy it.

[Boo]

Sergio Leone's epic western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Music by Ennio Morricone.

Starring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinale.

[oldboy]

Audrey Tautou shows the dark side of Amelie...