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LawrenceA
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Did they all play Hitler?
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Soldier of Orange
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Charles Bickford
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FULL MOON HIGH - (3/10) - Really awful werewolf comedy from the usually better writer-director Larry Cohen. Adam Arkin is a high school football star that travels with his C.I.A. dad Ed McMahon(!) to Romania and gets bitten by a werewolf. He returns to his hometown and commences a vicious campaign of lycanthropic heiny-biting. Really. He turns into a werewolf and nibbles people on their rear end. Ha...ha...ha.
A lot of familiar faces show up, including Roz Kelly, Pat Morita, Louis Nye, Demond Wilson, Jim J. Bullock, Kenneth Mars, Bob Saget, Elizabeth Hartman, and star Adam's dad Alan Arkin. Really dumb and embarrassing for all involved, I guess it can brag that it did the werewolf-in-high-school concept 4 years before the better known TEEN WOLF.
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Bogie, HANZO THE RAZOR: SWORD OF JUSTICE is the full title of the one film, not two separate. It's part one of a trilogy starring Shintaro Katsu from the Zatoichi movies. Hanzo is a policeman in a medieval Japanese city who has some unique law-enforcement techniques. To reveal more would be a spoiler, but it's a truly bizarre and unforgettable movie. The other two aren't quite as good, but still entertaining.
On your list I haven't seen THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY, STATE OF SIEGE, or UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN.
TopBilled, I haven't seen THE EFFECTS OF GAMMA RAYS, EVERY LITTLE CROOK AND NANNY, J.W. COOP, ONE IS A LONELY NUMBER, YOU'LL LIKE MY MOTHER, and YOUNG WINSTON.
Swithin, I haven't seen SAVAGES or, surprisingly, GRAVEYARD OF HORROR, which I just looked up and it looks amazing.
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1972 - 164 films seen
1. The Godfather
2. Deliverance
3. Sleuth
4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
5. Solaris
6. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
7. Jeremiah Johnson
8. Way of the Dragon/Return of the Dragon
9. Cries and Whispers
10. Last Tango in Paris
Runner-ups: Play It Again Sam, Frenzy, Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice, The Ruling Class, and Cabaret.
Special Consideration: Lone Wolf and Cub - Six films from 1972-1974.
Larry's Choices: Blood Freak & Psyched by the 4-D Witch
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I goofed again. THE HEARTBREAK KID should be listed with the 1972 picks. I corrected my original post.
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Here are the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die entries for 1971:
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
THE DEVILS
DIRTY HARRY
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
GET CARTER
HAROLD AND MAUDE
THE HIRED HAND
KLUTE
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
MURMUR OF THE HEART
RED PSALM**
SHAFT
THE SORROW AND THE PITY** (documentary)
SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP
W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM**
WAKE IN FRIGHT**
WALKABOUT
WANDA
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
**denotes films I have not seen
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EYES OF A STRANGER - (6/10) - Standard suspense thriller/slasher flick. A masked killer is loose in the city, targeting women or anyone else that gets in his way. Lauren Tewes (from LOVE BOAT) stars as a tv reporter who is convinced the killer may be her neighbor. Tom Savini provides the grisly make-up effects. Jennifer Jason Leigh makes her debut as a deaf-blind-mute teen. From the director of SHOCK WAVES, which can be glimpsed briefly on a tv.
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Here are my "unseens" from your 1971 lists:
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
TAKING OFF
DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD
COLD TURKEY
JOE HILL
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
THE BOY FRIEND
BROTHER JOHN
A NEW LEAF
THE NIGHT DIGGER
PLAZA SUITE
TWO ENGLISH GIRLS
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6.) "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"--Underrated, little known Vincent Price horror film.
When I met Vincent Price, I got his autograph on the entry for THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES in one of my horror film books. The only movie star autograph I ever got.
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Remember when Esquire did a cover story on TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, proclaiming it the best movie of the year before it had ever opened, and then at the end of the year gave themselves a Dubious Achievement Award for doing so?
Haha- no, but wouldn't it be nice if more critics did that?
My story of seeing TWO-LANE BLACKTOP is unique. About ten years ago, I was in a discussion with a guy who was attending film school at FSU. I had mentioned my regard for A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, which he despised. In fact, he used to tell me that the worst thing ever to happen to American cinema was the misguided belief in the quality of Stanley Kubrick's work. Anyway, he said CLOCKWORK wasn't even the best film of 1971, that was TWO-LANE BLACKTOP. When I said I hadn't seen it, he ended the discussion and said, "how can I take anything you say seriously if you haven't even seen TWO-LANE BLACKTOP?"
I finally saw it a few years after that, and enjoyed it. But A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is far better.
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I've never been able to see THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS. I don't know what TAKING OFF is.
P.S.: While I think your choice of Warren Clarke is inspired, on my ballot for BSA it would be Warren Oates from TWO-LANE BLACKTOP.
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1971 - 166 films seen
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Dirty Harry
3. The Devils
4. The French Connection
5. Two-Lane Blacktop
6. The Andromeda Strain
7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
8. Macbeth
9. Play Misty for Me
10. Get Carter
Runner-ups: Bananas, Walkabout, Straw Dogs, The Hospital, and Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Larry's Choices:
Dracula vs Frankenstein & Beast of the Yellow Night
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Here are the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die entries for 1970:
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Deep End**
El Topo
Five Easy Pieces
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis**
Gimme Shelter
Little Big Man
MASH
Patton
Performance
The Spider's Stratagem**
Tristana
Ucho/The Ear**
Woodstock
Zabriskie Point
**denotes films I have not seen
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AN EYE FOR AN EYE - (5/10) - Dimly lit and dimly thought out police action with Chuck Norris. He plays a San Francisco detective on the trail of an international heroin smuggling operation. Can he kick his way to the secretive mastermind behind it all? With Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree, Rosalind Chao, Matt Clark, Terry Kiser, Mako, and Professor Toru Tanaka in platform shoes.
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I always wonder how many magnificent David Lean films we will never see as a result of the unproductive years that resulted from the crushing effect on the director of the widespread rejection of this wonderful creation. What a travesty!"
I've thought the same thing many times about Lean, and Kurosawa after the release of RED BEARD and then 5 years till DODES'KA-DEN, which was also received poorly, so another five years...
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the tiger sequence from THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Or the trapped on the mountain/ice cave scenes from AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.
Or the entire role of Peter Lorre in OUT OF THE PAST as the shady hamburger salesman.
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RYAN'S DAUGHTER was a film I enjoyed. I didn't see it until much later after its release. Swithin and Bogie, I notice you both thought very highly of it. So why do you think it has been savaged so often by the critical establishment?
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Ha, your comment on ZABRISKIE says it perfectly.
I have PRICK UP YOUR EARS on DVD. I like it, but confess to having no further knowledge of Orton or his work.
LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS was enjoyable to me, also.
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Looking at the 1001 Movies book, I noticed that while I haven't seen all of their choices from 1970, every one of the titles I have seen showed up on my top ten or runner-ups. That hasn't happened often. Also, Bogie, remember they listed THE CONFORMIST with the 1969 films, so don't be surprised by its omission.
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Yes, as for deviations I can say that I didn't care for El Topo when I saw it in the theatre way-back-when. Perhaps I was either too stoned or just thought I must be stoned when watching it.
Yeah, EL TOPO doesn't make any sense, and has no real story. But, like ZABRISKIE POINT, I don't always need a story. It helps, though, if I'm prepared for something like that, and go in with the proper expectations.
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Film lover, I have yet to get around to THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, although I know about it. However, I don't think I've heard of ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE.
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