I have no idea Warren. I just thought that was the catch all forum term for stuff we don't understand, like Donnie Darko, micro-breweries, and Die Antwoord.
Modern Classic Movies Everyone Needs To Watch In Their Lifetime
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A few "classics" for me and by my standard only would include.....
"The Usual Suspects"(1995), "Black Hawk Down" (2001), "Gladiator" (2000)..... These movies would qualify as "classics" as I believe they will continue to be enjoyed for a very long time.
"The Usual Suspects"(1995), "Black Hawk Down" (2001), "Gladiator" (2000)..... These movies would qualify as "classics" as I believe they will continue to be enjoyed for a very long time.
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I would regard some on the list as good films not particularly classics.
Some great choices blueeyed.
Ex Machina was overall disappointing to me,it seemed to present itself as art but fell far short.
I would put The White Ribbon, Le Belleville Rendezvous,13 Assassins,Gods and Men,The Proposition and Meserine,Killer Instinct on my list.
Some great choices blueeyed.
Ex Machina was overall disappointing to me,it seemed to present itself as art but fell far short.
I would put The White Ribbon, Le Belleville Rendezvous,13 Assassins,Gods and Men,The Proposition and Meserine,Killer Instinct on my list.
Film and video buffs should all take a break and read through, or if necessary plod through, T.S. Eliots two major poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Proofrock" and "The Wasteland." Why? Because this is at least one of the original sources of the collage and pastiche presentation of drama, with snatches of scenes and especially dialogue that propels virtually (or nearly) all film and video, and has become all-pervasive even (and extensively) in advertising. Decades later, these techniques were picked up by film makers like Fellini and Antonioni and eventually nearly everyone else in film/video/advertising. Eliot was a bottled up, sickly guy, who emigrated from his native St. Louis to become a derby wearing banker in London, where he acquired a sort of English accent. His first wife was mentally ill, and his second wife later in life was essentially his caretaker, but his talent is towering, really dominating. Hemingway hated him, for obvious reasons, Ernie being a man of action, big game hunter, etc. (Ernie was an acolyte of Theodore Roosevelt, though this is seldom mentioned, certainly not by him.) But for cinematography Eliot is the father of the modern era, never having made or been in a film. After he won the Nobel Prize -- gave one of the most insightful acceptance speeches in the history of the award -- he visited his manuscripts in a rare book room where they were delivered from under glass by someone wearing white gloves. He whipped out a pen and did revisions! The curator quietly gasped, but didn't intercede with the poet himself.
Hee Hee Hee....This was obviously a journalism class joke played on the Independent, wait, not so Independent in thought. Yes, Donnie Darko, should be number one on this list, no doubt. But Bowling for Columbine, Wall-e, Supersize Me, and There Will Be Blood reveals what's really going on here. I'll let the imagination carry you away....
Modern Classic? No Interstellar? No Zero Theorem? Just to name two that should have gone on the list. But that's just it, wasn't my list, it was someone else with a slant towards....well....you figure it out. Thanks for the share Nate....Inglorious Bastards, Inception, and Donnie Dario are indeed modern classics. ............where was the great Django Unchained on the list......or......Repo Man.....,hmmm.......oh well...
Modern Classic? No Interstellar? No Zero Theorem? Just to name two that should have gone on the list. But that's just it, wasn't my list, it was someone else with a slant towards....well....you figure it out. Thanks for the share Nate....Inglorious Bastards, Inception, and Donnie Dario are indeed modern classics. ............where was the great Django Unchained on the list......or......Repo Man.....,hmmm.......oh well...
Inglorious Basterds, really?? Can someone say why that is classic, or why it's even good? (Admitting I may have overlooked something essential)
Goodfellas- a classic in my book, watch it every few years. It's right on the cusp of falling in or out of the quarter C. Mark.- So is it a modern classic, or merely classic?
"The Graduate" was a turning point in the self-awareness of the rising American (U.S.) middle class. The acting and directing was stellar, and the casting was pure genius; no one played themselves, but all of the principals had complete mastery of the character. Superb through time.
Al- In my book, "modern" means in the last 15 or so years... But I don't know the "official" definition.
Some interesting movies on the list, and some good suggestions on others that should have been include. My list of modern classics would include "The Road to Perdition" and "The Dark Knight".
If we're dipping down into the 90's, you have to include "Fargo", one of my top 5 movies from the 90's.
Nate:
What a great conversation starter from a truly questionable list of "Modern Classic" films.
I'll give "Donnie Darko" a go because Jake Gyllenhaal, like his sister, Sad Turtle Face, is hit or miss with their endeavors.
My two favorite takeaways this evening:
1. Warren wrote: "It stared Rosemary Clooney's nephew." Seriously? Could a comment be any more grizzled?
2. The exchange between Pagan and my rabbi, Mr. Bradley, concerning a previous version of "Man on Fire" I'd never heard of. Scott Glenn as John Creasey? WTF? ("Man of Fire" was a Ridley Scott production showcasing Denzel Washington.) Thanks, guys. Here's a movie from 1987 I've got to find.
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What a great conversation starter from a truly questionable list of "Modern Classic" films.
I'll give "Donnie Darko" a go because Jake Gyllenhaal, like his sister, Sad Turtle Face, is hit or miss with their endeavors.
My two favorite takeaways this evening:
1. Warren wrote: "It stared Rosemary Clooney's nephew." Seriously? Could a comment be any more grizzled?
2. The exchange between Pagan and my rabbi, Mr. Bradley, concerning a previous version of "Man on Fire" I'd never heard of. Scott Glenn as John Creasey? WTF? ("Man of Fire" was a Ridley Scott production showcasing Denzel Washington.) Thanks, guys. Here's a movie from 1987 I've got to find.
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