My Top Ten favourite movies
Seeing as everybody else is doing it:
Mishima
L'Appartement
Barcelona (yes, I know I'm in a minority of one - but what a minority!)
Day of the Jackal
Smiley's People (yes, I know it was a TV series but it's near enough)
OK, so that's only five but I am applying a fairly exacting criterion here: did it make me wish I had written/directed/appeared in/done the egg rolls for it? If the answer's yes, it's in.
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How a libertarian can love Whit Stillman
I have no time to expand, because I'm about to go out and about for the rest of the day, but just to say that this, by Julia Magnet for City Journal, is a terrific piece, about the great American movie maker (and about to be novelist, I read somewhere ...
Samizdata.net on January 14, 2004
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All these artsy fartsy film lists. Be a man for gods sakes!!!!!!
A real mans top 5 would be:
1) The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2) Fistful of Dollars
3) For a few Dollars More
4) Raging Bull
5) Bambi (to show his novelty cuddly side)
Now, thats more like it :-)
All these artsy fartsy film lists. Be a man for gods sakes!!!!!!
A real mans top 5 would be:
1) The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2) Fistful of Dollars
3) For a few Dollars More
4) Raging Bull
5) Bambi (to show his novelty cuddly side)
Now, thats more like it :-)
Posted by Mike Morris on December 27, 2003