Interestingly, Children of Paradise made the top 100 last time (in 2012) but seems to have fallen out of favour this time around. You can add it to the list of films I really should have seen by now!watt price tully wrote:Interesting list but no “All about Eve” and no “Les enfants du paradis” loses it for me! 7 Samurai is in my top 10 as is Rashomon.
It’s as though one needs by genre that is top 5 by genre as Singing in the rain for song and dance OK but top 20 per se?
Watching a film in the Cinema as well changes the perspective. Top films when viewed in a Cinema as opposed to a TV makes a huge difference to the experience.
Sunset Boulevard remains a wonderful film. Special mention to the Korean Parasites which doesn’t do as well on TV imo.
For me Les enfants du paradis and All About Eve are standouts. Just love them.
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David wrote:Hmm. I'm going to say Singin' in the Rain, Mulholland Drive and ... The Godfather? How many did I get right?
1 each!What'sinaname wrote:Godfather
Apocalypse Now
2001
Apocalypse now. (Brilliant but disturbing)
Mulholland drive, x boyfriend choice, why is it on this list???
Vertigo - I prefer rear window!
Actually 4, I’ve seen the searchers too! Used to love westerns, think I’ve seen all the John Wayne ones and probably clints too!
Tried to watch the godfather, fell asleep, ditto singing in the rain! Ugh
I agree with WIAN, shit list!
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
It actually beggars belief that you have never seen Les Enfants du Paradis. That's a joke, surely?David wrote:Interestingly, Children of Paradise made the top 100 last time (in 2012) but seems to have fallen out of favour this time around. You can add it to the list of films I really should have seen by now!watt price tully wrote:Interesting list but no “All about Eve” and no “Les enfants du paradis” loses it for me! 7 Samurai is in my top 10 as is Rashomon.
It’s as though one needs by genre that is top 5 by genre as Singing in the rain for song and dance OK but top 20 per se?
Watching a film in the Cinema as well changes the perspective. Top films when viewed in a Cinema as opposed to a TV makes a huge difference to the experience.
Sunset Boulevard remains a wonderful film. Special mention to the Korean Parasites which doesn’t do as well on TV imo.
For me Les enfants du paradis and All About Eve are standouts. Just love them.
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Oh, I wish I could say it's the only embarrassing omission in my film viewing. There are holes all over the place, sometimes encompassing entire directors' filmographies! And the older I get, the less time there seems to be to rectify those gaps...
(I have seen Carné's later Three Rooms in Manhattan, though, which I liked very much.)
(I have seen Carné's later Three Rooms in Manhattan, though, which I liked very much.)
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Brilliant. I'm pretty sure I could quote the whole movie verbatim. Lost count the amount of times I've watched it.Pies4shaw wrote:Yes, time's a factor. I struggle to find the space to get through The Blues Brothers more than twice a week, these days. Still, I make the effort. I see that isn't on the list, either.
Did you ever go the screenings at the Valhalla in Northcote?
I lived around the corner on Bridge St, some great times in that suburb in the early 90's.
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Saw it one time at Valhalla in Richmond (pre Northcote with Mrs WPT and friends) and when the flamethrower scene came on everyone got their cigarette lighters out.LaurieHolden wrote:Brilliant. I'm pretty sure I could quote the whole movie verbatim. Lost count the amount of times I've watched it.Pies4shaw wrote:Yes, time's a factor. I struggle to find the space to get through The Blues Brothers more than twice a week, these days. Still, I make the effort. I see that isn't on the list, either.
Did you ever go the screenings at the Valhalla in Northcote?
I lived around the corner on Bridge St, some great times in that suburb in the early 90's.
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Yes, Laurie, like wpt I went (many, many times) to the Valhalla when it was in Victoria St. I don't think I've been to the Valhalla since it moved to Westgarth.
Originally, I had to catch the train to Adelaide to see this unrivalled masterpiece. It barely got any screenings in Melbourne on its first run (pre-Christmas 1980) and I missed it with work (in those days I had a full-time job and also played in bands 8 or 9 times a week, so there wasn't much room in my schedule). Anyway, the music industry used to go quiet in Melbourne for a couple of weeks in the new year, so I took a fortnight off and went interstate to see it. First screening for me was 18 January 1981 - I went to the Adelaide Oval to watch Greg Chappell bat (and Jeff Thomson bowl) in the SA v Qld game and saw The Blues Brothers in the evening, then several more times over the rest of the fortnight. It's hard to explain the impact, now, given we have the internet. Every time I wanted to learn to play a new Ray Charles number in those days, I had to copy it from a record onto a cassette that I could stop and start and rewind, over and over, until I could identify all the notes (an extraordinary ask because Ray basically played sophisticated hard bop and his chord voicings were at once spectacular and spectacularly complex) and you never really knew if you "had" it because you never saw these people play. Anyhow, after Otis Spann's untimely death ten years earlier, Ray and Aretha and John Lee were like my personal deities - but I had never seen any of them perform, even on TV (and, let's be blunt, records were always shit, so we never really heard them properly at home until CDs came along during that decade) - and seeing Dunn and Cropper, who had played on almost all of Otis Redding's great records, was jaw-dropping. It was all revelatory for me. Startlingly, it remains as fresh for me every time I watch it as it was the first time. An extraordinary piece of art.
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Originally, I had to catch the train to Adelaide to see this unrivalled masterpiece. It barely got any screenings in Melbourne on its first run (pre-Christmas 1980) and I missed it with work (in those days I had a full-time job and also played in bands 8 or 9 times a week, so there wasn't much room in my schedule). Anyway, the music industry used to go quiet in Melbourne for a couple of weeks in the new year, so I took a fortnight off and went interstate to see it. First screening for me was 18 January 1981 - I went to the Adelaide Oval to watch Greg Chappell bat (and Jeff Thomson bowl) in the SA v Qld game and saw The Blues Brothers in the evening, then several more times over the rest of the fortnight. It's hard to explain the impact, now, given we have the internet. Every time I wanted to learn to play a new Ray Charles number in those days, I had to copy it from a record onto a cassette that I could stop and start and rewind, over and over, until I could identify all the notes (an extraordinary ask because Ray basically played sophisticated hard bop and his chord voicings were at once spectacular and spectacularly complex) and you never really knew if you "had" it because you never saw these people play. Anyhow, after Otis Spann's untimely death ten years earlier, Ray and Aretha and John Lee were like my personal deities - but I had never seen any of them perform, even on TV (and, let's be blunt, records were always shit, so we never really heard them properly at home until CDs came along during that decade) - and seeing Dunn and Cropper, who had played on almost all of Otis Redding's great records, was jaw-dropping. It was all revelatory for me. Startlingly, it remains as fresh for me every time I watch it as it was the first time. An extraordinary piece of art.
"They broke my watch".
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The Vallhalla in Richmond is a blast from a misspent early adulthood. We'd head there plenty of times on a Friday or Saturday night in '81 and '82. A few bongs beforehand and movies such as Eraserhead, Deerhunter and The Blues Brothers before it became a wankfest. Funny enough, I don't remember many of the other movies.