#Paul Boorman

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[scenesandscreens]

Exorcist II: The Herectic (1977)

DIrector - John Boorman, Cinematography - William A. Fraker

"Once the wings have brushed you, you're mine forever!"

#scenesandscreens #Exorcist II: The Heretic #the exorcist #the Heretic #john boorman #William A. Fraker #ned beatty #Karen Knapp #dana plato #kitty winn #paul henreid #james earl jones #richard burton #louise fletcher #max von sydow #linda blair

[greensparty]

This Month in History - July

There’s quite a few landmark pop culture anniversaries this month:

July 1, 1997: OK Computer released in the U.S.

In July 1997, Radiohead’s third album and magnum opus was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 25th OK Computer!

July 11, 1972: Super Fly soundtrack released

In July 1972, Curtis Mayfield’s phenomenal soundtrack to the movie Super Fly was released. The movie itself is good, but the soundtrack is a classic! Mayfield was firing on all cylinders with his brand of soul and funk. I have my copy on vinyl. Happy 50th Super Fly soundtrack!

July 12, 2002: Road to Perdition opens

In July 2002, Sam Mendes’ crime saga was released. I can’t believe that no one ever talks about this movie. Between Paul Newman’s late career best, the breathtaking cinematography and the depression-era production design, this was one for the ages. Happy 20th RTP!

July 15, 1997: ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down released

In July 1997, The Dandy Warhols magnum opus was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 25 TDWCD!

July 16, 2002: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots released

In July 2002, The Flaming Lips’ greatest album was released. I was a casual listener in the 90s and dug some of their stuff, but in 2002, my friend had this album and was heavy into it, so I heard it a lot when he brought it into work. I went with that same friend to see Beck and The Flaming Lips at the Beacon Theatre in NYC on Halloween 2002. Flaming Lips opened, then Beck was acoustic, and then Flaming Lips were his backing band! What a show. Some consider it a concept album, and whether it is or if its just a few songs, it is a definite mood album about dystopia and pondering about one’s mortality. Happy 20th YBTPR!

July 17, 1987: Robocop opens

In July 1987, one of the greatest sci-fi movies of the 80s was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 35 Robocop!

July 19, 2007: Mad Men premieres

In July 2007, Mad Men premiered on AMC TV. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 15 Mad Men!

July 20, 2012: The Dark Knight Rises opens

In July 2012, the third film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 10 TDKR!

July 21, 1987: Appetite for Destruction released

In July 1987, Guns N’ Roses’ debut album was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 35 AFD!

July 21, 2017: Dunkirk opens

In July 2017, Christopher Nolan’s WW2 epic was released! There’s a few Nolan films celebrating anniversaries this month. This one, I saw in 70mm at Coolidge Corner and from the minute it starts till it ends, you forget to breathe! Nolan’s ambition, innovative storytelling, and skill with actors is all on full display in this World War II epic! I have it on blu-ray. Happy 5 Dunkirk!

July 22, 1987: Summer School opens

In July 1987, one of my favorite Summer comedies of the 80s was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 35 Summer School!

July 28, 2017: Everything Now released

In July 2017, Arcade Fire’s fifth album was released. It was such a polarizing album. The haters emphatically hated it. I guess I’m alone, but I thought Arcade Fire made an impressive artistic statement about living in the digital age! It was a more dance-oriented album, but had some powerful songs on it. I named it my #2 Album of 2017 and my #17 Album of the 2010s. It has accompanied me on many a car trip. Happy 5 Everything Now!

July 30, 1972: Deliverance opens

In July 1972, one of my favorite 70s ensembles was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 50th Deliverance!

July 30, 1982: Night Shift opens

In July 1982, Ron Howard’s greatest film was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 40th Night Shift!

July 30, 2002: The Rising released

In July 2002, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band reunited for The Boss’s response to 9/11. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 20th The Rising!

July 31, 1992: Buffy the Vampire Slayer opens

In July 1992, the original pre-TV series movie of Buffy was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2017. Happy 30th BTVS!

#Radiohead #curtis mayfield #super fly #road to perdition #sam mendes #the dandy warhols #the flaming lips #robocop #paul verhoeven #mad men #the dark knigth rises #Christopher Nolan #guns n roses #dunkirk #summer school #carl reiner #Arcade Fire #deliverance #john boorman #night shift #ron howard #Bruce Springsteen #buffy the vampire slayer #fran rubel kuzui #this month in history #music nerd #film geek #tv #1997 #1972

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

The Exorcist II: The Heretic is a sight to behold. While most of its unintentionally funny moments won't stick with you the way "Oh hi Mark!" or "They're eating her! And then they're going to eat me! OH MY GOD!" did, I recommend it to those who like bad movies. This sequel makes so many mistakes so often you'll be constantly picking your jaw off the floor.

Set four years after the events of the previous movie, Father Philip Lamont (Regan MacNeil) is investigating the final exorcism performed by the late Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow). This brings him to a now sixteen-year-old Regan (Linda Blair) and the demon that possessed her.

It’s not that the plot of Exorcist II comes out of nowhere; it all “make sense”. It's that to the audience, nothing we see follows any logic. Regan is staying at a psychiatric institute that looks like a space station crossed with a beehive. To determine what happened to her, they’re using a device to plunge into her psyche that might as well be magic because, in this realm, it's thoroughly unbelievable any way you look at it. Then, it explains her demon's origin. Hallucinations, flashbacks, crazy costumes, swarms of locusts, battles in the subconscious, and technobabble all happily line up. Even if the best parts have been spoiled for you (Hint: It has to do with James Earl Jones’ part), you can’t be prepared.

I suppose that, in theory, and if you squint really hard, the premise is decent. It’s not simply a new family moving into the same house as Regan and her mom (not appearing in the film). With the church looking back at what happened and wondering if it was all really true, this is the next “logical” story. The execution is disastrous but at least you can “see” why the project was green-lit. Well, ok, not really. This one was made solely for the money.

There's no doubt of its origin as a cash-grab but the film doesn’t reveal itself as an abomination from the very start, which sort of plays in its favor as a bad movie. For maximum effect, watch the original film with your friends. Discuss why it’s so good. Talk about the performances, the special effects, the unconventional choices, and how frightening it is. Then, drop this bomb on them. It’s an assault so devastating, it’s delicious.

The Exorcist II: The Heretic has been called “one of the worst movies ever made” but it isn't. Everything it does poorly someone else has fumbled harder. It is a contender for "worst sequel ever made", however. It isn’t merely tonally and technically the antithesis of the first; The Exorcist II is an impenetrable brick wall of a story, a tale so baffling, so inept and so numbing it'll have you entranced. (On DVD, June 9, 2017)

#The Exorcist II #The Exorcist II: The Heretic #movies #films #Movie Reviews #film review #John Boorman #William Goodhart #Linda Blair #Richard Burton #Louise Fletcher #Max von Sydow #Kitty Winn #Paul Henreid #James Earl Jones #1977 movies #1977 films

[scotianostra]

The actor Ian Bannen was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, on June 29th,1928.

Ian Edmund was one of our best known actors and was a prolific performer on stage and screen. He appeared in more than 70 films in a movie career which began in the 1950s.

But Ian was equally renowned for his stage and television performances and gained a reputation as a versatile actor, often overshadowing those in the leading role.

Ian attended St Aloysius’ College, Glasgow and then Ratcliffe College, Leicester before serving in the army. After a spell as a photographer he got into acting, his first known role was in a play in Dublin. He became a successful figure on the London stage, making a name for himself in the plays of Shakespeare, he was one of the founding members of the RSC.

The young Bannen, who was soon to become a household name himself, appeared with notables such as Vanessa Redgrave in As You Like It and in Othello with Sir John Gielgud.

His film career began with movies including Private’s Progress and A Tale of Two Cities, and he was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in the Flight of the Phoenix in 1965, alongside James Stewart.

His film appearances read like a list of some of the most notable post-war films.He won a Bafta award for best actor in Sidney Lumet’s The Offence, a tense thriller in which fellow Scot Sean Connery also starred.

Ian appeared in John Huston’s The Mackintosh Man, opposite Paul Newman; The Driver’s Seat, in which he co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor and The Voyage, with Sophia Loren.

Bannen was consistently sought for major film productions and performed in Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, Gorky Park, John Boorman’s Hope & Glory and of course Braveheart as The Bruce’s father.

Television appearances included parts in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “Doctor Finlay”, for which he won the viewers’ affection in his role as Dr Cameron.

Bannen was killed, aged 71, in a car accident near Loch Ness in 1999. He and his wife, Marilyn, who had been driving, were discovered in an overturned vehicle in Knockies Straight between Inverness and Fort Augustus, Marilyn escaped with only minor injuries. The couple had been married since 1978, he is buried at Kilchuiman Burial Ground, Fort Augustus.

#scotland #scottish #actor #cinema #theatre #television

[johndpg]

SPANKING ON TV #6

The General (1998) d. John Boorman

This is a biopic of maverick Dublin crime lord Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies but came into conflict with members of his own gang and attracted attention from the police and the IRA. Ultimately though it was his dealings with the UVF that led to his downfall. It’s based on a book by journalist Paul Williams. In this scene, Cahill has been sent to a reform school as a boy after being caught stealing. The school is run by the Christian Brothers who oversee a brutal regime of beatings, humiliation and abuse.

A nine-year investigation into Ireland’s Roman Catholic-run institutions in the 2000s found that priests and nuns had terrorised thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades, and that government inspectors failed to discover what was happening. More than 30,000 children deemed to be petty thieves, truants or from dysfunctional families were sent to Ireland’s austere network of industrial schools, reformatories and orphanages from the 1930s until the last church-run facilities shut in the 1990s.

In this early scene Cahill and the other boys in his dormitory (twelve are shown on-screen) have been told to bend over the end of their beds and lift their nightshirts to present their bare backsides for belting. It seems they have to stay in this humiliating position until every boy has been lashed. They aren’t being punished for any particular wrong-doing and it’s clear that this is a regular nightly occurrence. Nightshirts were positively Victorian by 1962, so the inference is that such attire made abuse easier and, indeed, we see this in a later scene. The priest has obviously taken a liking to Cahill and chooses not to belt him; instead, he returns to molest him when the other boys are sleeping but Cahill is able to fight him off.

The film features a number of well-known actors including Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Jon Voight. Cahill as a boy is played by Eamonn Owens, who was around 14 at the time. Donncha Crowley plays the priest.

It looks like five of the boy actors are belted bare for real; a sixth is heard being lashed off-screen. I thought maybe a plastic strap and sound effects had been used but two of the boys' buttocks are clearly indented when the belt hits them, one in close-up, and all the boys' jumps and yelps as they are lashed seem very convincing. John Boorman is renowned for getting his actors to perform their own stunts, so I suppose this is just more of the same. Goodness knows what casting director Jina Jay told their parents, but I hope the lads were well paid for their efforts. Realising it's being played for real certainly adds an extra frisson to the scene. It’s Kes (1969) all over again, isn’t it.

Although shot in colour, the theatrical release of the film was presented in black-and-white for artistic reasons. A colour print was subsequently made available for television broadcast and home video. There was some Oscar buzz when the film was released but this ultimately didn’t materialise.

Here’s a link to a clip featuring the dormitory scene at 4:40 but you'll have to watch it on YouTube.

And here’s another link to a colour print of the whole film. Unfortunately it’s a Russian dub, so good luck with the YouTube subs.

#Youtube

[mourningmaybells]

the chances people have seen all of three are low, but i'm still curious

#my pick is dominion. i couldnt even laugh at the bad decisions as much #the exorcist #the exorcist 1973 #dominion prequel to the exorcist #the exorcist 5 #exorcist the beginning #the exorcist 4 #the exorcist 2

[kwebtv]

Sharon Acker (April 2, 1935 – March 16, 2023)  Film, stage, and television actress and model. She appeared mostly on television in Canada and the United States from 1956 to 1992. She played Della Street, Perry Mason's loyal secretary, in The New Perry Mason opposite Monte Markham.

She appeared in a 1961 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) production of Macbeth with Sean Connery, directed by Paul Almond.

Her first American film appearance was in the John Boorman cult action film Point Blank (1967) starring Lee Marvin and John Vernon. From that point, Acker appeared in film and television roles in Canada and the United States. In 1969 she guest-starred in the Star Trek episode "The Mark of Gideon" as Odona, a young woman who chooses to sacrifice herself by introducing disease to her overpopulated planet. In 1976–77 she portrayed Helen Walling in the prime-time drama Executive Suite. She appeared in two roles in two episodes of The Rockford Files in 1978 and 1979. She made her last feature film appearance in 1981 and her last television appearance in 1992.  (Wikipedia)

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Beer Birthdays

Samuel Whitbread II (1764)

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Jeff Alworth (1967)

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Jeff Moakler (1985)

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Cary Grant; actor (1904)

A.A. Milne; writer, "Winnie the Pooh" (1842)

Peter Mark Roget; lexicographer, "Roget's Thesaurus" (1779)

Robert Anton Wilson; science fiction writer (1932)

Famous Birthdays

Dave Attell; comedian (1965)

Dave Bautista; wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor (1969)

David Bellamy; English botanist (1933)

John Boorman; film director (1933)

Raymond Briggs; cartoonist, "The Snowman" (1934)

Randolph Bromery; geologist (1926)

Kevin Costner; actor (1955)

Jonathan Davis; singer-songwriter (1971)

Henry Austin Dobson; English poet and author (1840)

Ray Dolby; inventor (1933)

C. M. Eddy Jr.; author (1896)

Curt Flood; baseball player (1938)

Paul Freeman; English actor (1943)

Bobby Goldsboro; pop singer (1941)

Jorge Guillén; Spanish poet (1893)

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Joanna Newsom; pop musician (1982)

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Julius Peppers; Carolina Panthers DE (1980)

Hargus "Pig" Robbins; session keyboard and piano player (1938)

David Ruffin; pop singer (1941)

Mark Rylance; English actor, director, and playwright (1960)

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin; French mystic and philosopher (1743)

Arno Schmidt; German author (1914)

Jason Segel; actor (1980)

Thomas Sopworth; British aviation pioneer (1888)

Jon Stallworthy; English poet (1935)

Vassilis Tsitsanis; Greek bouzouki player (1915)

Thomas A. Watson; assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (1854)

Daniel Webster; politician, writer (1782)

Charlie Wilson; businessman and politician (1943)

Vitomil Zupan; Slovene author, poet, and playwright (1914)

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[byneddiedingo]

George C. Scott in The Last Run (Richard Fleischer, 1971)

Cast: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst, Aldo Sambrell. Screenplay: Alan Sharp. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist. Art direction: José María Tapiador, Roy Walker. Film editing: Russell Lloyd. Music: Jerry Goldsmith. 

The Last Run begins with a love scene so intense it might have needed an intimacy coordinator if it weren't between a man and his car. The man is Harry Garmes (George C. Scott), a retired driver for the Chicago mob, now living in Portugal. The car is a souped-up BMW 503, and it's practically the last thing in the world Harry loves after his small son's death and his wife's disappearance. He does occasionally visit a friendly prostitute named Monique (Colleen Dewhurst) and he gets along with Miguel (Aldo Sambrell), who sails his fishing boat for him. Otherwise, there's not much to keep him from coming out of retirement to meet up with an escaped con, Paul Rickard (Tony Musante), and drive him across Spain to connect with some guys who say they're going to smuggle Rickard into France. Harry doesn't know that Rickard will make him stop along the way to pick up Claudie Scherrer (Trish Van Devere), but when Harry meets Claudie he doesn't much mind. Naturally, none of this goes exactly as planned. The Last Run was a critical flop when it was first released, partly because of stories about behind-the-scenes problems. The first director attached to it, John Boorman, disliked the script. So did the second one, John Huston, whose efforts to rewrite the screenplay led to conflicts with Scott. When Huston left the film, it was assigned to a journeyman director of no great distinction, Richard Fleischer, who mostly went back to Alan Sharp's original screenplay. Meanwhile, Scott, whose wife, Dewhurst, had taken the small role of Monique, began an affair with Van Devere; after filming ended, Dewhurst and Scott divorced and he married Van Devere. I think critics may have seen the film through a lens smudged with such gossip, because it's by no means a bad movie. Roger Ebert's review, for example, makes much of the fact that it could have been directed by Huston instead of Fleischer, whom Ebert calls a "prince of mediocrities." Huston, he says, "would have been incapable of [the] mawkishness" that occurs at a key moment in the final scene. But who knows for sure? I, for one, didn't find the moment Ebert singles out particularly mawkish, but rather an effective link to the film's opening scene. Ebert is right in criticizing the film's failures of tone and inconsistencies in characterization, and the ending is a bit of a muddle. Still, Scott is always fun to watch and the Spanish landscape, handsomely filmed by Sven Nykvist, making a 180 away from his work for Ingmar Bergman, is spectacular.

#The Last Run #Richard Fleischer #George C. Scott

[alexlacquemanne]

Aout MMXXIII

Films

L'Appel de la forêt (The Call of the Wild) (2020) de Chris Sanders avec Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Karen Gillan, Dan Stevens et Bradley Whitford

Indiscret (Indiscreet) (1958) de Stanley Donen avec Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert et David Kossoff

Jojo Rabbit (2019) de Taika Waititi avec Scarlett Johansson, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell et Rebel Wilson

Le Verdict (The Verdict) (1982) de Sidney Lumet avec Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea, Lindsay Crouse et Ed Binns

Mondwest (Westworld) (1973) de Michael Crichton avec Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Dick Van Patten, Anne Randall, Majel Barrett et Terry Wilson

La Grande Lessive (!) (1968) de Jean-Pierre Mocky avec Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Roland Dubillard, Jean Tissier, Michael Lonsdale, R. J. Chauffard, Jean Poiret, Karyn Balm et Alix Mahieux

La Traversée de Paris (1956) de Claude Autant-Lara avec Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Jeannette Batti, Georgette Anys, Robert Arnoux, Laurence Badie et Myno Burney

Austerlitz (1960) d'Abel Gance avec Pierre Mondy, Jean Marais, Martine Carol, Elvire Popesco, Georges Marchal, Vittorio De Sica, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi, Claudia Cardinale et Leslie Caron

La Bride sur le cou (1961) de Roger Vadim avec Brigitte Bardot, Joséphine James, Mireille Darc, Edith Zetline, Michel Subor, Jacques Riberolles et Claude Brasseur

Hiroshima, mon amour (1959) d'Alain Resnais avec Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas et Pierre Barbaud

Quo vadis (1951) de Mervyn LeRoy avec Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, Buddy Baer et Finlay Currie

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Christine Delaroche, Evelyne Grandjean, Marc Cassot, Patrick Guillemin, Raymond Loyer, Joël Martineau, Jean-Claude Montalban, Roger Rudel et Gérard Rouzier

Beethoven 3 (Beethoven's 3rd) (2000) de David M. Evans avec Judge Reinhold, Julia Sweeney, Joe Pichler, Michaela Gallo, Mike Ciccolini, Jamie Marsh et Danielle Keaton

The Big Short (2015) d'Adam McKay avec Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Rafe Spall et Marisa Tomei

GoldenEye (1995) de Martin Campbell avec Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Joe Don Baker, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Tchéky Karyo et Alan Cumming

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) de Wes Anderson avec Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Saoirse Ronan, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe et Jeff Goldblum

Le Hussard sur le toit (1995) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Claudio Amendola, Isabelle Carré, François Cluzet, Jean Yanne : le colporteur juif et Pierre Arditi

Heat (1995) de Michael Mann avec Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson et Natalie Portman

Excalibur (1981) de John Boorman avec Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicol Williamson, Cherie Lunghi, Nicholas Clay, Paul Geoffrey, Robert Addie, Gabriel Byrne, Patrick Stewart et Liam Neeson

Le Grand Chantage (Sweet Smell of Success) (1957) d'Alexander Mackendrick avec Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols et David White

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My 100 best movies of all time

As a start, this is a top 100 I made back in 2018.

To make things tasty, the first rule I followed was "no more than one movie per director". The second one was "don't get mad trying to order that top 100, just write it down".

I told myself a lot of lies about the fact that this top could change any day but I'm too lazy to make a new one every day. So here I am, stuck with this one :)

BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO ME (with no particular order)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)

The Professionals (1966, Richard Brooks)

Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970, Elio Petri)

Queimada (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo)

C'eravamo tanto amati (1974, Ettore Scola)

Reservoir dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)

The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)

Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)

Les enfants du paradis (1946, Marcel Carné)

Kiss Me Stupid (1964, Billy Wilder)

Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)

The Shop Around The Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)

Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)

The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

Le trou (1960, Jacques Becker)

Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir)

Le salaire de la peur (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Judex (1963, Georges Franju)

The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)

The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)

Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)

Le cercle rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville)

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966, Sergio Leone)

Curse of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur)

Singin' In The Rain (1952, Stanley Donnen - Gene Kelly)

Hero (1992, Stephen Frears)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Das indische Grabmal (1959, Fritz Lang)

Le voleur (1967, Louis Malle)

Born Yesterday (1950, George Cukor)

Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)

Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)

Ginger e Fred (1986, Federico Fellini)

Small Time Crooks (2000, Woody Allen)

Barton Fink (1991, Joel and Ethan Coen)

Batman returns (1992, Tim Burton)

I due superpiedi quasi piatti (1977, Enzo Barboni)

The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

Carlito's Way (1993, Brian De Palma)

French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Jack Arnold)

Gremlins 2 (1990, Joe Dante)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)

Warlock (1959, Edward Dmytryk)

The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)

Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)

El ángel exterminador (1962, Luis Buñuel)

Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972, Yves Robert)

Down by Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)

Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

Ladri di biciclette (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

Man without a Star (1955, King Vidor)

Peter Ibbetson (1935, Henry Hathaway)

City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)

Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973, Tonino Valerii)

Excalibur (1981, John Boorman)

Dance of the Vampires (1967, Roman Polanski)

Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)

Be Kind Rewind (2008, Michel Gondry)

The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)

Mononoke hime (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)

Les Douze Travaux d'Asterix (1976, René Goscinny - Albert Uderzo)

Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)

Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)

The Front (1976, Martin Ritt)

Big (1988, Penny Marshall)

El secreto de sus ojos (2009, Juan José Campanella)

Amores perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)

El espinazo del diablo (2001, Guillermo del Toro)

The Man in the White Suit (1951, Alexander Mackendrick)

Village of the Damned (1960, Wolf Rilla)

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Ms. 45 (1981, Abel Ferrara)

The Gunfighter (1951, Henry King)

Copland (1997, James Mangold)

Terminator 2 (1991, James Cameron)

Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)

Le Schpountz (1938, Marcel Pagnol)

12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)

Man on the Moon (1999, Milos Forman)

Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel)

A Perfect World (1993, Clint Eastwood)

Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)

Gentleman Jim (1942, Raoul Walsh)

Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant)

Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955, Otto Preminger)

The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)

Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)

L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)

La classe américaine (1993, Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette)

Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)

Un singe en hiver (1962, Henri Verneuil)

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Recently Watched I

‘Bullitt’ (1968) dir. Peter Yates

‘The Panic in Needle Park’ (1971) dir. Jerry Schatzberg

‘Jaws’ (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

‘Annie Hall’ (1977) dir. Woody Allen

‘Django Unchained’ (2012) dir. Quentin Tarantino

‘Midnight Cowboy’ (1969) dir. John Schlesinger

‘Deliverance’ (1972) dir. John Boorman

‘Boogie Nights’ (1997) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

‘The Last Picture Show’ (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich

‘True Romance’ (1993) dir. Tony Scott

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