OK, I can't narrow it down to ten, but here are a dozen movies which I
consider truly excellent that are also personal favorites...
DRAMAS
Blade Runner
Braveheart
The Omega Man
Sorcerer (1977)
12 Monkeys
Vertigo
COMEDIES
Brazil
The Mask (1994)
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Raising Arizona
Wayne's World
Young Frankenstein
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And one more comedy that's not quite in a class with the twelve above,
but I love it: Phantom of the Paradise
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 15:13:04 -0400
From: Mel Eperthener <bcassidy@usaor.net>
Subject: Re: [MV] Top Ten and some Q's
At 09.54 AM 09/08/1999 PDT, Danielle Conkle wrote:
>Are we doing top ten...These deserve awards....
>
>or top ten...i just love to watch these movies over and over again...
>
>or a mix of the two? :)
I think whatever you want.
One of each, even:-)
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:47:54 -0500
From: "Durham, Lisa" <Lisa.Durham@hcor.com>
Subject: RE: [MV] Top Ten
You are the only male that has enjoyed BRAZIL as much as I did.
And I loved Phantom of the Paradise. Young Frankenstein is also
one of my favorites along with Raising Arizona.
Thank you!!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David F. Nolan [SMTP:DFN@alum.mit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 1:18 PM
> To: movies@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: RE: [MV] Top Ten
>
> OK, I can't narrow it down to ten, but here are a dozen movies which I
> consider truly excellent that are also personal favorites...
>
> DRAMAS
>
> Blade Runner
> Braveheart
> The Omega Man
> Sorcerer (1977)
> 12 Monkeys
> Vertigo
>
> COMEDIES
>
> Brazil
> The Mask (1994)
> Monty Python's Life of Brian
> Raising Arizona
> Wayne's World
> Young Frankenstein
> --------------------------
>
> And one more comedy that's not quite in a class with the twelve above,
> but I love it: Phantom of the Paradise
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 17:27:05 -0500
From: torq@mo.net
Subject: RE: [MV] Top Ten
At 02:47 PM 8/9/99 -0500, Durham, Lisa wrote:
>You are the only male that has enjoyed BRAZIL as much as I did.
>And I loved Phantom of the Paradise. Young Frankenstein is also
>one of my favorites along with Raising Arizona.
> Thank you!!!
i've not seen all (or even most) of 'brazil', but what i have seen was
interesting. and i also think rather highly of terry gilliam in general -
from the nutty python stuff, to '12 monkeys' (which is a spectacular film),
to 'fear and loathing in las vegas' (which is hilarious), so i've never had
any doubt that 'brazil' had the potential to be great. plus, i've heard
from a few friends of mine that it is in fact a very good film.
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 19:41:40 -0400
From: "Chris Culligan" <culligan@gate.net>
Subject: RE: [MV] Top Ten
(Note: this may change the next time it is asked that we compile this list)
10. The Blair Witch Project (yes it made the list)
9. Star Wars
8. Invaders From Mars (original version)
7. The Secret Garden (most up-to-date version, early 90's I think)
6. Animal House
5. Round Midnight (with Dexter Gordon)
4. A Clockwork Orange
3. Casablanca
2. Unforgiven
1. The Wizard of OZ
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 17:37:13 -0700
From: "Amy J. Fugate" <eleanor_rigby@angelfire.com>
Subject: RE: [MV] Re:Top Ten
An accurate top ten list of my favorite movies would be difficult to make, but I will list in no particular order my favorite movies of all time.
The Truman Show
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Pleasantville
When Harry Met Sally
Harold and Maude (as you can tell by the quote below)
The War
Rebel Without a Cause
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Splendor in the Grass
Forrest Gump
Schindler's List
The Apartment
Some Like it Hot (maybe this will even turn out to be a surprise party!!!)
Dirty Dancing
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Best Years of Our Lives
Heaven Help Us
Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Pump up the Volume
A Hard Day's Night
The Graduate
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
and I know you are getting tired of me rambling on about movies, so I will shutup after I name one last movie. And that movie is Sliding Doors.
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:22:57 -0700
From: Oz <oz@filmink-online.com>
Subject: Re: [MV] Top Ten
torq@mo.net wrote:
>
> and well, i suppose i have to call this my favourite film (although this
> DOES make it 11, but who cares):
>
> Walkabout, directed by Nicolas Roeg (1971)
Good call. Did you know Nicolas Roeg is still directing? His films
are somewhat less... artistic these days. His biggest success in the
last few years was Full Body Massage, with Bryan Brown and Mimi
Rogers. It was apparently such a huge cable success that a sequel is
planned.
And if you haven't seen it, the title is pretty much the story.
Bryan Brown is a wandering philosophising masseur, who teaches Mimi
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:45:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - ADVANCE - BOWFINGER - La Marti±a
BOWFINGER û La Marti±a
by Mark "Kit" Ramsey
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August 8, 1999
When I arrived at the screening of Bowfinger, the latest from one-time comic titans Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy, TV detective Jerry Orbach was wrapping orange tape around the crime scene. And sure enough, two hours later ushers were tracing what was left of the audience in chalk.
Cause of death: Comic asphyxiation. Okay, okay, it's not that we were dead, only that we wished we were.
Will you laugh at this movie? Sure, if you wire up to a Walkman and a Chris Rock tape. I know, you'll laugh in all the wrong places, but in Bowfinger, every place is wrong anyway.
Fortunately and not a moment too soon, United Artist Cinemas appealed to the federal government which declared all Bowfinger theaters a disaster area, thereby making producer Brian Grazer eligible for relief funds, which is the only way he's gonna earn his nut back from this fiasco.
What's gotten into Brian, anyway? No wonder Variety reports that Brian has been forced to wear socks recently, because toxic chemicals from those Italian loafers are leeching into his bloodstream, impairing his judgment and inducing what the Red Cross describes as "dementia of the deal."
"The Con is On," proclaims the poster for this movie, and the con is most decidedly on, because the comedy is way, way off. And guess who's being conned, America? Blowfinger is one of the worst movies of the year. "The BOMB is on," I think you mean. I'll take my con on the cob, thank you.
Five minutes into this flick, my lovely bride turned to me and said "This movie blows." "It'll get better," I replied hopefully and with more than a little crossing of fingers.
It didn't.
Incredibly, Steve Martin actually wrote this bow-finger to the audience. Steve's the same guy who wrote Roxanne, one of the greatest romantic comedies ever! Nowadays, however, it seems Steve has decided to prematurely release some posthumous unfinished draft works-in-progress.
"Great script," says Steve's opening line in this movie, proving for once and for all the futility of positive affirmations. Hey Steve, this puppy needs more than a polish, it needs a contractor and an expense account at the Home Depot!
Yep, the "wild and crazy guy" has yanked that arrow out of his head and is sticking it through yours and mine, folks.
Will someone please explain to me how somebody as obviously talented as Eddie Murphy can make so many lousy career choices. Eddie is the Venus Fly-Trap of winged shitty scripts.
Already, Eddie has entered the Henry-Fonda-Stars-in-"The-Swarm" phase of his career. That's the phase where stars lose roles to Lou Gossett, Jr. "Damn that Lou Gossett, Jr.," said Eddie in the Hollywood Reporter. "That bitch can kiss my ass, especially if he wears hot-pants and a midriff-baring tank top."
Eddie plays "Kit Ramsey," who is described as one part Knight Rider, one part "the hottest, sexiest action star in the movies."
Let's face it, Eddie would make one hell of a kick-ass action star, especially if the action happened in the back seat of his Benz and the bad guy was a badass in pumps.
Although I admit the association of the name "Ramsey" with the terms "hot" and "sexy" tops off my subliminal ego tank, am I the only one who gets annoyed when movies make up names of big stars, then everyone in the movie fawns obsequiously over the faux celebrities? Don't phony star names blow the fantasy all to hell?
Reputed "It" girl Heather Graham energetically slums her way through this flick like a fine thoroughbred greyhound chasing an "It" bunny around the high school track. If Heather makes many more movies like Bowfinger, she'd better take a picture of "It" so that "It" lasts longer.
So Steve plays a schlocky filmmaker, a latter day Ed Wood, but without the vampires, the angora sweaters, or the development deal with Dimension Films. Get the picture? An unfunny movie about an unfunny movie. Can you possibly count the number of times Steve must have whispered to the studio suits "trust me"?
"Steve and Eddie, Together for the First Time," the poster taunts us. Well, much like Hitler and Mussolini, let's hope it's the last.
Copyright 1999 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:24:02 -0500
From: Diane Christy <dchristy10@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [MV] Bryan Brown
On 8/10/99, 3:05 PM +1000, Lillian Lepinath said so nicely:
>really? for me, he's always going to be Doug from Cocktail
Gee, for me he's Luke in "The Thorn Birds."
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August 15, 1999
What's this gossip about Warren Beatty running for president? Does this mean the first lady will be joined by the second lady, the third lady, and the fourth lady? Will new legislation require all lobbyists to be mother/daughter teams? What's the campaign slogan, "Warren Beatty for President: Show Me Your Tits"?
From Dimension Films (the "Mr. Hyde" to Miramax's "Dr. Jekyll") comes a Heathers-like black comedy written and directed by Kevin Williamson, writer of the Scream franchise, the Dawson's Creek franchise, and the Jiffy Lube franchise.
It's back-to-school and that means it's time for Teaching Mrs. Tingle.
The awesomely talented Helen Mirren stars as Mrs. Tingle, and much like old Kris Kringle, she's the queen of tingle-ling. Mrs. Tingle you see is a mean and nasty old crone of a history teacher. And this single mingle Tingle has it in for our heroes, Katie Holmes and her crew.
Katie, the Maggie Smith of the Clearasil set, is hero number one. I had trouble paying attention to Katie, though, because the real hottie was her friend Jo Lynn.
With that dippy-flippy hair and those groovy capri pants, Jo Lynn should be screaming "Oh, Rob" as Dick Van Dyke tailspins over the ottoman. Hot as Hades though she may be, she's also a not-too-bright aspiring actress who likes Stanislavsky because he designs such cute accessories.
On the other hand, Katie's not completely ice-cold. There's one steamy love scene here where the camera pans away to the fireplace just in time for you to say "why the hell is the camera panning to the fireplace NOW!?" If I wanted to see a fireplace I'll buy a log!
Katie's out for an "A" in history so she can win a scholarship and escape small town living. She's Eva Gabor in Green Acres. Jo Lynn, meanwhile, struggles to spell an "A" in history. As she bobs her head, she triggers a persistent jingling noise. Something, it seems, is loose in there, and I'm not talkin' about thoughts! Jingle, jingle, meet Mrs. Tingle.
Stuff happens, and Katie is wrongly accused of cheating. So she and her posse tie the Tingler to the bed (which isn't as hot as it sounds, believe me. Helen Mirren's hottie days were the proverbial Days of Yore).
Problem is, the foot shots. LOTS of foot shots. Yikes, Mrs. Tingle! Do you wear socks or nuclear containment receptacles? Have your toes been rioting? Call in the peacekeepers, there's a ground war on down there! Those ten little piggies need to be hosed down! Did the Blair Witch eat your cuticles? Are your shoes shaped like a "Z"? You need more than a pedicure, Mrs. T., you need a pedi-miracle!
Thanks to her captive status, Mrs. Tingle escapes the clutches of special guest link to high schools from the 80's, Molly Ringwald. Molly plays the principal's assistant with all the finesse and verve we'd expect from someone whose career has been coasting on fumes since the Reagan administration. And, from the looks of her, those fumes are noxious, indeed.
Maybe it's just me but there's something inherently funny about a character shouting "Stop right there, Mrs. Tingle!" as he holds her at bay with a crossbow.
A crossbow? Are there vampires about? Are the hounds on the moors tonight? Not since the sling shot has there been a more awkward weapon. Have we scheduled a duel with Braveheart? If we're storming a medieval castle, will someone bring a Britney Spears MP3? I only go into battle with tunes, dammit!
With all the teen crap out nowadays, Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a flick worth seeing. It's good! It's Kevin's chance to exercise his Hitchcock muscles and advance from the irony-laced fright of Scream to something really terrifying:
Helen Mirren's horrifying pedal extremities!
Copyright 1999 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:16:11 -0600
From: "The Reporter" <gregorys@xmission.com>
Subject: [MV] Movie News - 08/16/99
LOS ANGELES (AP) - It was deja vu at the weekend box office as "The
Sixth Sense"took in $26.1 million to remain the nation's top movie -
the first film since "Phantom Menace" to repeat as No. 1, according
to estimates Sunday. The ghostly thriller starring Bruce Willis as a
therapist treating a boy who talks to the dead grossed $70 million in
its first 10 days. The Steve Martin-Eddie Murphy comedy "Bowfinger,"
about a luckless producer who tries to con his way into big-time show
business, bowed in at No. 2 with $18.2 million in its first weekend.
"The Blair Witch Project" slipped from second to third place with
$15.3 million. "Runaway Bride" with $14.2 million and "The Thomas
Crown Affair" with $10.2 million rounded out the top five.
-=> * <=-
(UltimateTV.com) - Wayne Campbell put him on the map, and now Dieter
will make him the $20 million dollar man. Former "Saturday Night
Live" star Mike Myers, whose summer movie "Austin Powers: The Spy Who
Shagged Me" has earned nearly $200 million, will receive $20 million
to play the pretentious German talk show host Dieter, a character he
originated on the NBC comedy a decade ago when he joined the series
in 1989. Myers is set to sign a two-picture deal with Universal and
Imagine Entertainment, which will net him $20 million to star in
"Sprockets," and another $20 million for a second undisclosed film.
The Canadian comedian initially signed on to write the "Sprockets"
script last year for $10 million. Thanks to the success of "The Spy
Who Shagged Me" that figure doubled. In the film Dieter travels to
the U.S. to find his beloved monkey after the primate is kidnapped.
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:10:13 +0200
From: "Olaf Adam" <Olaf.Adam@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: [MV] Poem, film-buff's style
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I haven't contributed much to this list yet, but I just found something =
I wrote a couple of years ago and which some of you might find =
interesting or at least entertaining.
POEM, FILMBUFFS'S STYLE
Jimmy T. Muratakumi, 1985
Wallace Wolodrasky, 1995
Norman Jewison, 1967
Jeffrey Reiner, 1991
are
James Ivory, 1993
Of course, the names and years stand for titles of movies, so if you =
want to find out how the poem really reads simply enter the titles in =
the appropriate places and there you have it. If you can do this without =
using the IMDB you are really good!
So, have fun, and let me know if you got it right!
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