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LawrenceA
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SansFin, I haven't seen those two. I've heard of NUDE NUNS WITH GUNS, but not HARVEY PUTTER.
TopBilled, I haven't seen MADE IN DAGENHAM, BURLESQUE, IN A BETTER WORLD, NORWEGIAN WOOD, or THE TEMPEST.
Swithin, I've heard CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS was fantastic in 3D. It almost made me want to watch a movie in that format. Almost. I have that "glasses on glasses" problem.
LiamCasey, I haven't seen RAMONA AND BEEZUS or SHREK FOREVER AFTER, but I know what they are.
As for 3-D in adult films, I believe that's been used for decades. Adult films tend to have budget issues, though, so it's rarely, or effectively employed. That is, to the best of my knowledge. If I'm not going to wear extra glasses to watch a regular movie, I'm not going to for porn, either.
It's worth noting that an anticipated/dreaded film that saw release last year was the latest from Gaspar Noe, the provocateur director of IRREVERSIBLE, I STAND ALONE, and ENTER THE VOID. It was entitled LOVE, was shot in 3-D, and supposedly features long, unsimulated sex scenes. It got the blandest reception in his career.
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SansFin, The White Ribbon won the Palm d'Or at Cannes, Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes, and was nominated for 2 Oscars. So it's not exactly obscure.
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Bogie, I haven't seen:
Outside the Law
The Way Back
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Wildest Dream
How to Train Your Dragon
Casino Jack
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Yeah, nevermind. I just went to Comet's website, and they told me I wasn't cool enough to hang with them. Oh, well...back to TCM.
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2010 - 164 films seen
1. Inception
2. 127 Hours
3. Monsters
4. Black Swan
5. Shutter Island
6. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
7. The Fighter
8. Winter's Bone
9. The Town
10. True Grit
Runner-ups: The Social Network, Never Let Me Go, 13 Assassins, The Killer Inside Me, and The Kids Are All Right.
Uncle Bingo's Kartoon Korner: Toy Story 3 & The Secret World of Arietty
Larry's Choice: none
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Here are the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die entries for 2009:
Avatar
District 9
An Education
Fish Tank
The Hangover
In the Loop
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
The White Ribbon
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Hey Kay, nice to see you again. You name some very interesting films. I haven't seen, or even heard of:
The Wind Journeys
Korkoro
Aaltra
Memories of Murder I've read a lot about, and have a copy to watch, but haven't got to it yet.
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I would like to carry on through 2015, then a best of 2011-2015, then wrap with an all time best of 1930-2015.
Sounds good, but I will only have full lists for 2010-2013. I haven't seen enough from the last two years to make a top ten.
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Mae Questel
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I'll go ahead and post my end of decade best, but I hope others will continue to post top tens for 2009, so maybe I can catch up with some of them.
I think everyone who is going to post 2009 has done so already, with the possible exception of Speedracer.
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Auer, Mischa
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00's ENDGAME
FAVORITE FILMS
1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Children of Men
6. Memento
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. The Dark Knight
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10. Mulholland Dr.
FAVORITE MENS
Daniel Day Lewis
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Christian Bale
Joaquin Phoenix
Denzel Washington
Matt Damon
Sean Penn
George Clooney
Heath Ledger
Brad Pitt
FAVORITE WOMENS
Cate Blanchett
Scarlett Johansson
Naomi Watts
Rachel Weisz
Michelle Monaghan
Audrey Tautou
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Emma Stone
Zhang Ziyi
Angelina Jolie
FAVORITE TASKMASTERS
Joel and Ethan Coen
Quentin Tarantino
Paul Thomas Anderson
Martin Scorsese
Wes Anderson
Christopher Nolan
Clint Eastwood
Darren Aronofsky
Ang Lee
Park Chan-wook
Larry's Choicest Choice: Anything directed by Uwe Boll.
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SansFin, that SYMBOL movie looks insane.
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Bogie, I haven't seen SONS OF CUBA, MICMACS, BACKYARD, or the original GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.
I just read today that Sam Raimi is directing the English-language remake of A PROPHET. Ugh.
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SLC PUNK!
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Rex Harrison was in THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR with George Sanders.
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Yor, Hunter from the Future
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(skipping X)
Young, Roland
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BLUE SKY
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Fantine - Florence Eldridge in LES MISERABLES
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Tab Hunter
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Mia Farrow is the daughter of director John Farrow.
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Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Top Ten Films of...
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I liked the movie a lot. Fincher is my favorite working director after Scorsese and the Coens. And I like Eisenberg, and felt he was born for that role. I also liked the ambiguous morality of it all. Some view he and his cohorts as revolutionary business geniuses, heroes to be revered and emulated. Others view him as the nadir of human-as-social-being, a borderline sociopathic narcissist whose only goal is the domination, mentally and financially, of everyone he meets. When I watched the movie, part of me cringed at the idea that future tech entrepreneurs may view this film not as a cautionary tale but as a primer on ethical behavior, the way the financial sector started viewing Gordon Gekko in WALL STREET.