Casablanca (USA, 1942). Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Clockwork Orange (UK, 1971). Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke. The Godfather (USA, 1972). Directed by Francis Ford Coppola (story by Mario Puzo). With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall. The Quintet (USA, 1979). Directed by Robert Altman. With Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson. Blade Runner (USA, 1982). Directed by Ridley Scott. With Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos. L' Année des méduses ("The Year of the Jellyfish", France, 1984). Directed by Christopher Frank. With Bernard Giraudeau, Valérie Kaprisky, Caroline Cellier, Jacques Perrin. Crimes of Passion (USA, 1984). Directed by Ken Russell. With Kathleen Turner, Anthony Hopkins, Bruce Davison, Annie Potts. Body Double (USA, 1984). Directed by Brian De Palma. With Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (USA, 1989). Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo. ¡Átame! ("Tie me up, tie me down", Spain, 1990). Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. With Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles León, Julieta Serrano.
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Goldfish Memory (Ireland, 2003). Directed by Elizabeth Gill. With Sean Campion, Flora Montgomery, Jean Butler, Peter Gaynor, Fiona Glascott. De Reditu (Il Ritorno) ("The Voyage Home"; Italy, 2004). Directed by Claudio Bondi. With Elia Schilton, Rodolfo Corsato, Romuald Andrzej Klos, and Roberto Herlitzka. |
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Great movies that consistently make various "best-ever" lists (but not necessarily mine): Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang, director), Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles, dir), The Bicycle Thief ("Ladri di Biciclette", 1948, Vittorio De Sica, dir), Rashomon (1950) and The Seven Samurai (1954, both Akira Kurosawa, dir), Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960, both Alfred Hitchcock, dir), The 400 Blows ("Les Quatre Cents Coups", 1959, Francois Truffaut, dir), A Streetcar Named Desire (1961, Elias Kazan, dir), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan, dir), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, dir), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman, dir)... The list goes on. |
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