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Film critics pick the 50 best movies of all time
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| January 30, 2012
| Molly Driscoll
Posted on 02/04/2012 12:16:26 AM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark
Annie effin’ Hall???
At best it should come in around 120 or 121
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posted on
02/04/2012 1:38:26 AM PST
by
Rashputin
(Obama stark, raving, mad, and even his security people know it.)
To: iowamark
When I was going through cardiac rehab I met a wonderful Polish woman who had also recently survived a heart attack. She was a young girl in 1939 when the Nazi’s invaded Poland and she wound up in a concentration camp during the Nazi occupation. She survived though she lost her entire family to the camps.
One day when we were talking she told me that the Pianist is a very good movie, very close to what many had experienced. She then looked at me and said, “Schindler’s List is shit!”
For that reason alone, I cannot put it anywhere on a “top” list.
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posted on
02/04/2012 1:39:41 AM PST
by
CougarGA7
("History is politics projected into the past" - Michael Pokrovski)
To: iowamark
If the list is to include a Truffaut film (I thought it was English only at first), I’d go with “The 400 Blows” over “Jules and Jim”. And it’s good to see “Chinatown” increasingly recognized as one of the best of all time - I’ve always thought so.
To: hosepipe
No Tombstone or Fort Apache.
I guess these movies were too lowbrow for his elite taste.
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posted on
02/04/2012 1:44:34 AM PST
by
Yorlik803
(better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
To: SMGFan
I would have put Young Frankenstein in there instead...
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posted on
02/04/2012 1:53:03 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
02/04/2012 1:55:42 AM PST
by
erkelly
(Never underestimate the stupidity of the stupid party!)
To: iowamark
My favorite Western didn’t make the list. My second favorite Western did.
1. Shane
2. The Searchers
To: Rashputin
>>
Annie Hall is way too high. <<
>>
#8 Annie Hall - I watched it and it was not special. <<<
>>
Annie effin Hall??? <<
I'm with you guys on that. I could never understand why film critics always rate this film as one of the greatest movies of all time. It some really funny bits (my favorite being Christopher Walker as Annie Hall's suicidal brother), but as far as comedy's go I think it's average. Not only would this movie fail to make my "Top 10" list of "Greatest" films, it wouldn't even make my "Top 10" list of greatest WOODY ALLEN films. (I vastly prefer the zany over the top stuff he did in the late 60s and early 70s to the sappy romantic comedy stuff he did in the late 70s and early 80s).
Even more perplexing is the film he made two years later, Manhatten (1979) is ALSO beloved by critics and cited as a masterpiece. I find it to be insanely boring. The only good part about Manhatten is Woody Allen's character dating a 17 year old is UNINTENTIONALLY funny for those of us who viewed the movie AFTER the Soon-Yi scandal.
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02/04/2012 1:57:26 AM PST
by
BillyBoy
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To: CaptainMorgantown
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posted on
02/04/2012 1:58:57 AM PST
by
TheWriterTX
(All in now for Newt Gingrich)
To: iowamark
Opinions are like... Well you know.
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:01:26 AM PST
by
metesky
(Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
To: iowamark
It is my considered opinion that Scent of a Woman is a better movie than Annie Hall. In this opinion I an unquestionably correct.
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:12:48 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
To: iowamark
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Stupid beyond belief. Doesn’t belong on this list.
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:13:03 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: iowamark
O Brother, Where Art Thou; Midnight; The Lady Eve; Song of Bernadette
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:14:06 AM PST
by
Liberty Wins
(Newt --named after Isaac Newton?)
To: hosepipe
Don't forget Gary Cooper in Sgt. York
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:14:18 AM PST
by
piroque
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
To: FreedomForce
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:15:32 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
To: iowamark
Gran Torino? No Eastwood movies at all? Some list.
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:18:10 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
To: iowamark
BS!! Not one movie with Clint Eastwood, Bruce Lee or Mel Brooks! PHOOEY!
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:21:20 AM PST
by
eastforker
(Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
To: iowamark
Well wait, we haven’t seen Spike Lees movie yet “BAM” about Obama starring Denzel Washington as Obama. That could be #1!! You never know!
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:26:36 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(How ironic that Ann Coulter should write a book called Treason.)
To: muir_redwoods
IMHO, Unforgiven is Eastwood's magnum opus, and should certainly have been in the top 50% of that list.
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:28:56 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: SMGFan
But it has New York liberals in it, so therefore that automatically qualifies it to be high up on any movie list. “Oh look, Woody Allen sneezed and the cocaine flew off the table! Oh ha ha ha such genius! Give him an Oscar!”
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posted on
02/04/2012 2:34:36 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(How ironic that Ann Coulter should write a book called Treason.)
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