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Not really done, just relocating…..

As Aleem has noted, it’s more convenient to keep track of these films on the List of Bests.

Phenomenal performances that re-envision Truman Capote’s novel of the same name. Of most interest to me is how completely Robert Blake seems to inhabit the character of Perry Smith, without being nearly as charismatic as I imagined the novel’s Perry; Blake realizes his own Perry, paying homage to Truman’s character without being overly beholden to it. (I’m not sure about the real-life Perry Smith. Several explicit psychoanalytic scenes, some complete with nightmarish circus music, strangely add to the film.

Overall, I’d say this is one of the few adaptations I’ve seen that holds its own with the source text, neither being too derivative of the material nor too loosely taken.

Worth seeing is the trailer for the film, on the DVD. It makes a claim for authenticity that is almost eerie.

in List of lists

With the reincarnation of listsofbests… this list is obsoleteBTW JUST IN CASE you are reading this MR Ebert… When is Das Boot going to make it in?????

Bi-weekly additions over the last 2 months

→ •” The Long Goodbye (1973)”

Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery

looks interesting

→ •” Ripley’s Game (2002)”

Genre: Drama / Thriller

I want to see this

→ •” Night Moves (1975)”

Genre: Thriller

not familiar with this title

→ •” Cat People (1942)”

Genre: Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller

havent heard of it!

i think i will add this list to that site if it isn’t there yet.

Bi-weekly additions over the last 2 months

→ •” Samurai Rebellion (1967)”

Drama

Have heard a lot about this over the years.. got to get a hold of the Criterion DVD soon

→ •” The River (Le Fleuve) (1951)”

Drama / Romance

I want to explore Jean Renoir’s work

His “Rules of the Game” and “Grand Illusion” are also on Eberts Great Movies List

→ •” Inherit the Wind (1960)”

Drama

had not heard of this one.

→ • Chuck Jones: Three Cartoons (1953-1957)

“Duck Amuck” (1953)
“One Froggy Evening” (1955) and
“What’s Opera, Doc?” (1957)

→ •” My Fair Lady (1964)”

I think I’ve seen this partially…

awesome movie. makes me want to do richard gere.

Man, is Easy Rider a hippie movie. Hippie hippie hippie. So bad that I could smell the wafting of patchouli and sweat from my couch. That being said, the ending is crazy and unexpected. It was a good movie. Awesome soundtrack.

Is a crazy movie, hands down. “Joe Buck” should have entered our slang diction a long time ago for a failed gigilo, and I am not 100% sure why it never did. It is funny how in 1969 (or whenever this was made, I think I’m right, or close to right) this would have been rated X. It doesn’t even seem bad for today’s standards.

4 big ole’ stars.

12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The 400 Blows (1959)
8 1/2 (1963)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Amadeus (1984)
Amarcord (1974)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Apartment (1960)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Apu Trilogy (1959)
Atlantic City (2005)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Being There (1979)
The Bicycle Thief (1949)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Blowup (1966)
Body Heat (1981)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Casablanca (1942)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Chinatown (1974)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
The Color Purple (1985)
The Conversation (1974)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Crumb (1994)
Dark City (2005)
Day for Night (1973)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Don’t Look Now (1974)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Dracula (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. —The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
Easy Rider (1969)
Fanny and Alexander (1983)
Fargo (1996)
The Exterminating Angel (1962
The Films of Buster Keaton (1923)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Gates of Heaven (1978)
The General (1927)
The Godfather (1972)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)
GoodFellas (1991)
Grand Illusion (1937)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Greed (1925)
Groundhog Day (1993)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
House of Games (1987)
Howards End (1992)
The Hustler (1961)
Ikiru (1952)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
JFK (1991)
Jules and Jim (1961)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
King Kong (1933)
L’Atalante (1934)
L’Avventura (1960)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
M (1931)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Manhattan (1979)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Mean Streets (1973)
Metropolis (1926)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Moonstruck (1987)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nashville (1975)
Network (1976)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Nosferatu (1922)
Notorious (1946)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Paris, Texas (1984)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Patton (1970)
Persona (1966)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Ran (1985)
Rashomon (1950101)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Say Anything (1989)
Scarface (1983)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Solaris (1972)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Star Wars (1977)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Third Man (1949)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Three Colors Trilogy (1994)
3 Women (1977)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Un Chien Andalou (1928)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Up Documentaries (1985)
Vertigo (1958)
Walkabout (1971)
West Side Story (1961)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Wings of Desire (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
A Woman’s Tale (1992)
Woodstock (1970)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Yojimbo (1961)