Movie masterpieces
Movie masterpieces
#1Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 6:44pmI've asked the same on the Broadway board in relation to musicals so now.. what movies do you consider to be near, if not perfect movies. For me, "The Color Purple".
#2Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 6:49pmVertigo was the first one that came to mind for me, in terms of every element coming together perfectly.
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#2Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 7:10pm
I'll avoid the obvious cliche answers like CITIZEN KANE, CASABLANCA, WIZARD OF OZ, JAWS...
I feel like anytime anyone talks about masterpieces in film and mentions anyone post 1975, people get all snooty. So I like to list modern day films I consider masterpieces
THE ICE STORM
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
LOST IN TRANSLATION
THE DESCENDANTS
STAND BY ME
DEAD POETS SOCIETY
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
CHILDREN OF MEN
CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON
CONTACT
SLEEPERS
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
SE7EN
BABE
ALMOST FAMOUS
FORREST GUMP
FIELD OF DREAMS
EYES WIDE SHUT
THE COLOR PURPLE
BOOGIE NIGHTS
PLEASANTVILLE
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
BACK TO THE FUTURE
GOOD WILL HUNTING
GHOST
THE GAME
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
MEMENTO
PARENTHOOD
WE WERE SOLDIERS
VOLVER
UNFORGIVEN
THE TRUMAN SHOW
DRIVING MISS DAISY
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
FAR FROM HEAVEN
#3Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 7:27pmI have many, but the two that pop into my head are THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD with Errol Flynn and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.
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#4Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 7:27pm
Random titles come to mind ... some are obvious, some not so much, some conventional, some not so much, but I wouldn't change one frame ...
Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
The Grapes of Wrath
The Wizard of Oz
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Citizen Kane
Sunrise (1927)
Psycho
Disney's Sleeping Beauty
Field of Dreams
Grey Gardens
Crumb
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Sound of Music
How Greed Was My Valley
Marcelino Pan Y Vino (The Miracle of Marcelino)
8 1/2
Fanny and Alexander
The Exorcist
Mary Poppins
Radio Days
Titanic (yes, the James Cameron version)
Avalon
Shakespeare In Love
Bullets Over Broadway
What's Up, Doc?
Casablanca
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Color Purple
Oliver!
It Happened One Night
It's a Wonderful Life
Vertigo
Rear Window
Moulin Rouge! (Baz's version)
The Sixth Sense
Nights of Cabiria
Star Wars
West Side Story
Kramer vs. Kramer
All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
Driving Miss Daisy
Fantasia
Howards End
Singin' In the Rain
The Artist
Scrooge (1970)
An American in Paris
Ordinary People
The Silence of the Lambs
The Bicycle Thief
Rear Window
You Can't Take It With You
Reds
Babette's Feast
The Triplets of Belleville
Gone With the Wind
Rebecca
Lady For a Day
West Side Story
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Jaws
Sense and Sensibility
More titles I can't think of ...
And those "so imperfect, they're perfect" movies ... and I wouldn't change one frame ...
Valley of the Dolls
Lost Horizon (1973)
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#5Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 7:44pm
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
West Side Story
The Sound of Music
Remains of the Day
Amelie
Love, Actually
Stand By Me
Back To The Future
In The Bedroom
Ordinary People
A Room With A View
Amadeus
Little Miss Sunshine
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#6Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 7:48pmCitizen Ka.. oh never mind.
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#7Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 7:56pm
Singin' In the Rain
Beauty and the Beast
The Sound of Music
The Breakfast Club
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Catch Me If You Can
Now and Then
E.T.
Roman Holiday
I'm sure I'm alone on some of these.
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#8Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 8:14pm
Auntie Mame
Dirty Dancing
The Long Walk Home
My Cousin Vinny
The Color Purple
1776
Wag The Dog
Arsenic and Old Lace
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#9Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 8:34pm
The Graduate
Dr. Zhivago
Some Like it Hot
Rocky
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#10Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 8:36pm
Psycho
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jaws
Silence of the Lambs
The Godfather
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Shawshank Redemption
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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#11Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 9:38pmFORBIDDEN GAMES and THE SEVENTH SEAL come to mind.
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#14Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 10:30pmTo name a few of mine - AMADEUS, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, JAWS, BOTH GODFATHERS, DEATH IN VENICE, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, BLACK SWAN, AMARCORD, ROMA, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD, ERASERHEAD, LE CHIEN ANDALOU
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#15Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 10:33pmPhyllis, you mean the original the Women, don't you?
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#17Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/2/13 at 11:36pmI thought that Lars von Trier's MELANCHOLIA was a masterpiece.
#18Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/3/13 at 12:23am
CITY LIGHTS
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
MON ONCLE
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Updated On: 6/3/13 at 12:23 AM
#19Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/3/13 at 1:02amairport 75
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#20Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/3/13 at 1:07am
Too much that I will just say ones not mentioned:
Firstly, Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day (unavailable on DVD due to rights hold-up but the full movie is available on Youtube)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Ballad of A Soldier
Ivan's Childhood
Andrei Rublev
Gold Diggers of 1933
The Iron Giant
Pinocchio
Brazil
Time Bandits
Lola Montes
Amarcord
The Battle of Algiers
The Third Man
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rosemary's Baby
Stagecoach
The Shining
Mulholland Drive
Fassbinder's BRD Trilogy
The 400 Blows
Le Samourai
Mean Streets
The King of Comedy
Updated On: 6/3/13 at 01:07 AM
#21Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/3/13 at 1:14am
taxi driver
in cold blood
dr strangelove
ninotchka
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#23Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/3/13 at 9:03am
THE GENERAL (Keaton's great silent comedy)
THE GODFATHER I and II
SEVEN SAMURAI
RULES OF THE GAME (Renoir)
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
8 1/2
ONE FROGGY EVENING
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
VERTIGO
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
PSYCHO
THE LADY VANISHES
HIGH AND LOW
RAGING BULL
TAXI DRIVER
ED WOOD
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
MOTHLIGHT
ANDREI RUBLEV
NAPOLEON (Gance)
SUNSET BOULEVARD
THE MALTESE FALCON
THE RABBIT OF SEVILLE
PANDORA'S BOX
The list goes on and on and on, trust me...
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#24Movie masterpieces
Posted: 6/3/13 at 9:25am
Just curious...
In "List" threads like this (particularly when the lists are so long), do folks read every post, or just scroll to the bottom to "reply" and add their list?
(EDIT: I read a couple of the short ones, but then just scrolled.)
Updated On: 6/3/13 at 09:25 AM
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