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Jesse Walker now takes us back to 1975.
The Perpetual Three-Dot Column
Here's his top ten films for the year:
1. Nashville
2. Seven Beauties
3. Welfare
4. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next
5. Monty Python And The Holy Grail
6. Love And Death
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. Night Moves
9. Picnic At Hanging Rock
10. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Looks like a pretty good year.
Nashville is a fine film. Altman was on a streak then--I don't consider it his best from the period, but still a top ten film (though not #1).
Seven Beauties is pretty good (you don't hear much about Wertmuller anymore). Not top ten, perhaps.
I've seen a lot of Wiseman, but not Welfare. I'd like to.
Everyone but me loves One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. I've learned to live with it. (Maybe it would have been better if I hadn't read the novel first.)
Both Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Love And Death are classics. Rated too low.
Dog Day Afternoon is pretty good. Maybe a bit overrated here. I feel the same way, maybe stronger, about Night Moves.
Picnic At Hanging Rock is pretty special.
Haven't seen #10. (I call it #10 because I don't want to have to spell it again.)
Here are Jesse's honorable mentions:
11. Jaws
12. Fox And His Friends
13. Grey Gardens
14. Organism
15. The Man Who Would Be King
16. Shivers
17. Posse
18. Monsieur Pointu
19. Three Days Of The Condor
20. The Magic Flute
I can't believe Jaws, Spielberg's best, isn't in the top ten. It should be in the running for #1.
Never seen Fox And His Friends. Fassbinder sure made a lot of films in his short life. I wonder how often this one is confused with Fox & Friends?
Grey Gardens should be top ten. Its reputation seems to grow with each decade.
Haven't seen Organism.
The Man Who Would Be King is one of the few John Huston films I truly like--should be top ten.
Shivers is okay. Not sure if it should make the list. Feel sort of the same about Posse.
Monsieur Pointu is a short I haven't seen.
Three Days Of The Condor is a fine thriller that should probably make the top ten. (And I like the false predictions about our future at the end.)
I've never seen The Magic Flute. Not liking opera, I haven't gone out of my way to catch it.
By the way, where is Jeanne Dielman--the greatest film of all time? For that matter, where is Barry Lyndon--Kubrick's greatest?
Here are some other films that would make my top twenty:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Other films I like:
A Boy And His Dog, Cooley High, Coonskin, Death Race 2000, Hard Times, Hearts Of The West, Hester Street, The Passenger, Rancho Deluxe, The Return Of The Pink Panther, Royal Flash, Shampoo, The Story Of Adele H., The Sunshine Boys
Other films of Note
posted by LAGuy @ 10:06 AM
6 Comments:
Was a big fan of Wertmuller in High School, should revisit. I think my favorite at the time was Love and Anarchy but Seven Beauties was up there. Here are my picks:
1. Picnic at Hanging Rock;
2. Deep Red;
3. Jaws;
4. Dersu Uzala;
5. Barry Lyndon;
6. Nashville;
7. Sholay;
8. Take a Hard Ride;
9. Wolf Guy;
10. Dog Day Afternoon;
Honorable mentions:
The Passenger; The Mirror; Hedgehog in the Fog; Shivers; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Seven Beauties; Dolemite; Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (what if The Night Porter had the guts to give Nazi fetishization the crass and pathetic treatment it deserves); The Man Who Would be King; Karayuki-san;
I can't believe Jaws, Spielberg's best, isn't in the top ten. It should be in the running for #1.
As I said in the post, it would've made the top five in a less stellar year.
By the way, where is Jeanne Dielman--the greatest film of all time? For that matter, where is Barry Lyndon--Kubrick's greatest?
I guess Barry Lyndon is at #21. (Kubrick's actual greatest is either Strangelove or Paths of Glory, of course, but I won't quibble.) Jeanne Dielman might be somewhere in the forties.
I hope it was clear, but just in case, let me note I was being ironic in referring to Jeanne Dielman as the greatest film of all time. It's an intriguing experiment, but Sight And Sound listing it as the best film ever is the kind of thing that gives film lists a bad name.
As for Barry Lyndon, I keep hearing people call it his masterpiece, when all I see is a beautifully shot, poorly told, endless movie. (At least it's shorter than Jeanne Dielman.)
I realized you were being ironic about Jeanne Dielman but thought you were serious about Barry Lyndon.
Have never seen Jeanne Dielman. Honestly no idea what I would consider Kubrick's masterpiece, but off the top of my head I think I liked 2001 better than Barry Lyndon, but the latter is still up there for me. Haven't seen Strangelove or Paths of Glory since the 90s.
Underappreciated movies of the year.
At Long Last Love, which is pretty bad but still interesting.
The Day Of The Locust.
Farewell, My Lovely.
Hustle.
Rollerball.
The Stepford Wives.
Switchblade Sisters.
Tommy.
The Yakuza.
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