LawrenceA

After film lover posts their 1990 list, I'll post the 1001, and we can move on. I have to say, when I tried to log on this morning and was told I was banned, my heart skipped a beat at the thought of not being able to finish this!

Bogie, I haven't seen An Angel at My Table, Paris is Burning, A Shock to the System (I have this one taped), Journey of Hope, or Korczak, TopBilled, I've seen all of your choices again. I liked Mr. & Mrs. Bridge as well.

Chi-com = Chinese communist. I used to hear it a lot in Red Menace type fearmongering dialogue and rightwing rhetoric.

TREASURE OF THE YANKEE ZEPHYR - (5/10) - Would-be action-adventure comedy fails to deliver much of anything. Ken Wahl and Donald Pleasence star as..buddies? Co-workers? Relatives? I'm not quite sure. They fly around the New Zealand wilderness in a small helicopter and jump out to tackle deer. What ever you call that relationship. Anyway, Pleasence stumbles across a downed WW2 cargo plane loaded with gold, so he and Wahl, along with Lesley Ann Warren as Pleasence's daughter, try to retrieve it before effete bad guy George Peppard can. There's some really gorgeous scenic photography, and some exciting POV action shots, but overall the film is a dud, with Pleasence doing some of the hammiest acting I've seen. Directed by David Hemmings. Future DIE ANOTHER DAY James Bond director Lee Tamahori was a boom operator.

Chi-coms. Or gremlins.

That's how I watch 'em. I keep movies of the same year together, and watch them in alphabetical order when I get to said year, so when I write 'em in my "I've seen" notebooks, they are easier to refer to. Then I move on to the next year. I'm on 1981 now. About half of what I'm watching are rewatches of movies I've purchased on dvd or blu ray, so I'm watching the new copy; the other half are ones I've never seen before. This is all a loose guideline. I make exceptions when I watch a theatrical release, or something strikes my fancy like the Thy Kingdom Come doc on YT, or if I DVR something that I want to watch in HD, I'll watch "out of order". These aren't just reviews of all the films from a given year that I've seen either. If it was, I've seen 152 films from 1981...that would be a substantially longer list of reviews than what I've done on here. I know my method is stupid, and maybe a little OCD, but it's a hobby.

Keep 'em comin', Speedracer! Your # 6 & 8 favorite actors are priceless!

Swithin, I've never seen Metropolitan, Mountains of the Moon, A Tale of Springtime, or Truly Madly Deeply. I have either failed, or have something to look forward to.

Greer Garson was in Sunrise at Campobello with Ralph Bellamy.

Evelyn Ankers

Kilbride, Percy

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Conan - Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Destroyer

11:14

Nob Hill

Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

The Greatest Show on Earth next: foggy London

The Green Hornet

Xtro 2: The Second Encounter

1944

Basil Rathbone was in If I Were King with Ronald Colman.

Estelle Getty appeared in the stage production of Torch Song Trilogy with Matthew Broderick.

I'm still waiting to see the walrus feast scene from On the Town. Or the censor-mandated excised footage of the mackerel slathering contest in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. And of course the Jerry Lewis as a murderous toddler cameo that they used to show on the extended network tv version of Ocean's 11. Finally, the long-requested final 15 minutes of Three Hats on a Two-Seater, where they explained the whole thing with the mittens. The way they usually run it, you have no idea why Peter Lorre even has a limp at the beginning.

1990 - 194 films seen 1. Goodfellas 2. Dances With Wolves 3. La Femme Nikita 4. Edward Scissorhands 5. Wild at Heart 6. Miami Blues 7. Miller's Crossing 8. Misery 9. The Grifters 10. The Godfather, Part III Runner-ups: Cyrano de Bergerac, Night of the Living Dead, Dick Tracy, State of Grace, and The Hunt for Red October. Larry's Choices: Omega Cop & The Judas Project

I'll wait to post my 1990 picks for a couple of hours, so anyone who wants to can finish up the 80's. Everyone else can post 1990 late tonight or tomorrow.