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Definitely didn't think it would do that well. It even outdid A Star is Born. People forget how big Queen were. I was more shocked with the success in America and how well it did there, I know Queen were huge there for a while but later releases didn't do as well. I still don't understand the hate it got from the critics to be honest, sure it messed with some truths but most Biopics do.
Definitely like a 70's version of Wes Anderson, just with a drug habit, a bit of a hippy, a Oscar winning Editor and a guy ruined by Studios. Definitely someone like him wouldn't make it in Hollywood today. Stories of him going onto sets just as they filming without a script and doing things on the hop, could you imagine someone doing that today on a Hollywood film lol. But his films today are classic's of 70's Hollywood cinema.
The Landlord (1970) a early performance from Beau Bridges, one of the first films you seen on interracial relationships. And a white man having a child with a black woman, damn that was eye opening in cinema back then. Great performance from Diana Sands and young Louis Gossett Jr.. Probably Ashby's most underrated film for me.
Harold and Maude (1971) flopped on it's release. Now a Classic of 70's American cinema. Great Cat Stevens soundtrack. Also shocking of a relationship between a young man and older woman in her 70's (and not taken as a joke). Ruth gordon is excellent as is Bud Cort. Wes Anderson whole career is based on this film.
The Last Detail (1973) Ashby's true masterpiece, with I think Nicholson best performance. In a way Ashby most bleak film.
Shampoo (1975) Basically a Beatty pet project, to have got such a great film made with Beatty (know to be a tough taskmaster) is amazing. Julie Christie is great too.
Bound for Glory (1976) loose telling on Woody Guthrie's life, beautifully shot and acted. Gives The Landlord a run for Ashby's most underrated film.
Coming Home (1978) His most successful film, with Oscar wins. For me Bruce Dern steals the film. Great Soundtrack too.
Being There (1979) the last great Peter Sellers performance. Wonderful film. Ashby's last great film imo.
Second Hand Hearts, Lookin' To Get Out, The Slugger's Wife and 8 million ways to Die are poor films. Clear by this time Ashby drug problems were getting the best of him and studio's weren't taken his style of film making anymore sadly.
The Tenant, I think it's one of Polanski's more underrated films.
I think Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien (1974) has the sort of same feel. I love that film.
It's not awful but it's not great either, just meh. Instead of been a straight out actioner, it wanted to be too smart for it's own good. Should have been just Wahlberg and Uwais both working for the same side, they don't get along at the start but as the shit goes down with them protecting a important key witness as their team is slaughtered they need to team up and just have balls to the wall action. Sure it's simple but a lot of the great action films are.
Nope, they wanted to be deadly serious. The worse thing is they have a great talent in Uwais, who showed he could do a awesome fight and action in the Raid films. Instead they chop and edit during his fights, that was the moment the film lost me. That ending, the sheer arrogance that they think they get a sequel out of this mess. Peter Berg has done some good films and this wasn't one of them.
Yeah, he's excellent in that. One of his better performances.
Forman definitely is director that deserves more respect then he gets. Even though he directed two out right classics in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and Amadeus, both Oscar Winners. Amadeus is a fantastic film.
He also directed really some underrated films like the musical Hair (which is a lot better then many give it credit for) and Ragtime (impossible to adapt that great novel into one film, but he did a great job with it even though it's flawed). Man on The Moon and The People vs Larry Flynt are not classics, but they are very good films. The Fireman's Ball and Loves of a Blonde are two of his Czech based classics. Taking Off, is his debut in Hollywood and it's a gem of a film. A bit more offbeat as his other american films.
Really, I thought it was one of the better films of the last few years. Gosling really rubs people up the wrong way. I thought he was excellent in it.
I don't see it, in terms of talent I think someone like Daniel Kaluuya is more in the vein of Denzil especially after his performance in Get Out and Widows. Also we can say Denzel's son John David Washington from Klansman is probably the one who looks a lot like him lol.
She was definitely over exposed, as she was the last star Harvey Weinstein pushed before his downfall. Without him I doubt she would have won that Oscar, undeserved for me imo. She took some risks with films like Mother! and Red Sparrow that didn't pay off. Nothing she's done quite has reached the heights of her performance in Winter Bone. But she badly needs a hit, that isn't a X-Men film, to prove she's the A Lister Star the Studio think she is.
Ah that's a tough one, I go for The Terminator too just about, but Robocop is every bit as awesome. I just love that cold dark bleak feel to The Terminator, still think it's Cameron's best film still.
Thanks, tough to leave out so many other films. Those top list especially cut down to 10 or 20 sucks cause you leave off so many other great films that deserve a place.
Wish they did Less Then Zero again, and go by the book, also do it's sequel Imperial Bedrooms. Glamorama be so Vital for todays culture of celebrity and fame. Victor Ward Character as seen in Rules of Attraction is a interesting character.
Agreed, American Psycho is still the best film from a Easton Ellis adaption. But Attraction deserves more love, it be great if some company like ARROW or even Criterion Collection, release this film along with Glitterati and the awesome extras already on DVD (some of the best commentaries ever done) and C.D Soundtrack.
There Will Be Blood is just a sheer masterpiece, greatest American film of the last 30 years imo. Blade Runner is fantastic, Ridley Scott's best film, I also loved Blade Runner 2049 that be in my top 50. Dark Knight is a given, still the best comic book film ever made.
Really??? Pam, Robert Forester and Sam L. Jackson were the best things in this film. The film fails if she isn't great and thank god it doesnt cause it's actually behind Pulp Fiction as my favorite Tarantino film. It's his most mature work, and I don't understand why it doesn't get the love like his other films do.
It's amazing that Roger Avary got this film green lit. Such a un-Hollywood film even with it's cast, feel's like a European film.
It's a lot better then 6.7 rating on IMDB, I'd have it at 7.8 or 7.9 imo. But I see this rating as it's definitely is a split opinion type film.
James Van Der Beek hasn't been better, either has Jessica Biel (shame she hasn't tried more edgy material). Shannyn Sossamon, had such star potential but never quite lived up to it. She's very good in this. Her character Lauren has two of the most awkward sex scenes in film. Kip Pardue as Victor steals the film though, in one of the most exciting and in your face ten minutes sequence you are likely to see (I hear that Avary and Pardue went on a three week bender around Europe with Pardue in character as Victor, and Avary edited into a whole film be interesting to see that). You also have cameos from Oscar winner Faye Dunaway, Eric Stoltz, Fred Savage, Paul Williams and Kate Bosworth. Early performance from Jay Baruchel.
Some stunning sequences especially the scene of Sean Bateman and Lauren meeting from the first time is along with Victor Travel sequence, the film's standout. I love that none of the characters are likeable, not even Lauren who think's she's smart but really isn't. The balls to end the film the way they did makes me love the film even more. It's definitely not a film for everyone, as it's at times a pretty messed up film and has a downbeatness to it that sticks with you throughout.
The Apartment
Breathless
L'Avventura
The Magnificent Seven
The Virgin Spring
Rocco and His Brothers
Purple Noon
Elmer Gantry
Le Trou
Shoot The Piano Player
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Entertainer
Wild River
1960 was a good year for cinema. Alain Delon and Albert Finney both had two classics each.
1. La Haine
2. Taxi Driver
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Drive
5. Dead Man Shoes
6. Fight Club
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Raiders of The Lost Ark
10. Blade Runner
11. The Dark Knight
12. A Clockwork Orange
13. Once Upon A time In America
14. The French Connection
15. Fucking Amal
16. A Room For Romeo Brass
17. Paris Texas
18. Mishima: Life In Four Chapters
19. A History of Violence
20. The Wild Bunch
Barry Lydon basically anything by Stanley Kubrick.
Marlon Brando
Robert De Niro
Peter O' Toole
Burt Lancaster
Jack Nicholson
Gerard Depardieu
Tom Hardy
Gary Oldman
Vincent Cassel
Juliette Binoche
Daniel Day Lewis
Ben Foster
Max Von Sydow
Liv Ullman
Gene Hackman
William Dafoe
Song Kang Ho