Movies every film maker should see

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[quote author=identity link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=30#39 date=08/31/04 at 09:43:12]This one is not mushy, just silly...

"Waiting for Guffman" - you'll either love it, or you'll hate it.  It was created by Christopher Guest (co-conspirator of "Best In Show" and "A Mighty Wind"), so it is done in a documentary style.[/quote]

What? Best In Show and A Mighty Wind and not even a mention of This Is Spinal Tap?
 
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Yes, Spinal Tap and the Evil Dead series... good one's. How about Scarface? It seems to be making a comeback with the kids and gangsta's, but it's an awesome f-ing movie.
 
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For me,

Die Hard (the first, the only one) must be on the list.

It's the best action film I've never seen.
Everything is perfect : screenplay, acting, shooting. A milestone.

Most of the Eastwood's films ; especially Honkytonk Man

Some others title :
my own private idaho.
breaking the waves
12 monkeys
Festen

from french :
claude sautet : Vincent, François, Paul and the Others
most of patrice leconte's film ; especially :
the Hairdresser's Husband
Yvonne's Perfume
 
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OMG! I can't believe I forgot This is Spinal Tap! You are right GenJerDan, it's a classic! ;)
 
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damnit guys. no one put "Scarface."

the ring
hannibal
the cell

i have more but time to get back to work.
 
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[quote author=John Hudson link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=45#46 date=09/01/04 at 10:54:48]Also, BODY DOUBLE[/quote]

Except for the part where Craig and Deborah do the spinning around kissy face thing at the tunnel's entrance. Annoying as all getout...even the music.

Dan
 
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I thought I was the only person who liked Body Double. I still want to live in that house to this day (even if it doesnt have the same "view").
 
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A first list could be...

Stroheim "Greed"
Vertov "The man with a movie camera"
Chaplin "King of New York" "Limelight"
Murnau: "Sunrise" "The last" "Nosferatu", "Tabu"
Fritz Lang: "M"
Buñuel: "Chien Andalou" "Los olvidados" "Nazarin"
Rosselini "Stromboli" Roma citta aperta" "Viaggo to Italia" "India"
Bresson: "Mouchette"
Godard: "Breathless"
Wenders: The american friend
Scorsese: Taxi Driver, and his chapter in New York Stories
Lynch: Blue Velvet, and Tha straight story
Bergman: all, but especially "Summer with Monika"
Jarmusch: Down by law
Truffaut: Jules and Jim
Victor Erice: All.

Sorry to all i forgot....
 
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[quote author=David Jimerson link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=45#47 date=09/01/04 at 10:56:27]“Rushmore.”  Bloody near perfection of a film.[/quote]

You're right David! Rushmore was a BRILLIANT flick! I can't wait for their next one, The Life Aquatic!
 
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BODY DOUBLE was great. Pleasure Dome music, filming a porn, vampire opening, drills through the cieling. Awesome.
 
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[quote author=John Hudson link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=45#53 date=09/01/04 at 14:43:47]BODY DOUBLE was great.  Pleasure Dome music, filming a porn, vampire opening, drills through the cieling.  Awesome. [/quote]

Any film even peripherally about the biz automatically gets my attention. :)

Oh, okay. I want to be Brian De Palma when I grow up. (I said Brian, not Louie!)

Never much wanted to be Francis, or Martin, or George, or Steven, or Adrian, or Ridley, or or or... Always Brian. Maybe it's a New Jersey thing.

But first I have to find my own Nancy Allen and convince Dennis Franz to be in the films...

Dan
 
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Nancy Allen was kind of hot in Carrie wasnt she? Not bad in Blow Out either.
 
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De palma goes from greatness to awfulness, a strange career that man has had.
 
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So true so true. And yes, David. In 1941 I wished I was Tim Matheson.
 
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