Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Films

City Hobgoblin said:
No love for the great Nic Roeg yet ?
And not one film in a foreign language. Ho hum.
Time running out for a number of greats: Malick, Van Sant, Polanski, Herzog, Kurosawa...
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It’s a real shame, as quite a few auteur directors have made movies that are also very entertaining.

Here are a few examples:

Jean Pierre Melville - Le Samourai

Pentecorvo - Battle for Algiers

Kobayashi - Hara Kiri

Pialat - Police (fans of The Wire would love this)

Jafar Panahi - Offside! (the best movie about football ever made)

BBC 2 used to show stuff like this ages ago when they did that ‘Moviedrome’ thing. But these days, it’s all endlessly repeating superhero movies or crap romantic comedies.

Which reminds me: Grosse Pointe Blank and Point Blank should feature in any top hundred.

Am also with you when it comes to Roeg. Performance is one of my favourite films. And it’s good to encounter a fellow fan of Mark E Smith standing up for world cinema.
 
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ZenHalfTimeCrock said:
It’s a real shame, as quite a few auteur directors have made movies that are also very entertaining.

Here are a few examples:

Jean Pierre Melville - Le Samourai

Pentecorvo - Battle for Algiers

Kobayashi - Hara Kiri

Pialat - Police (fans of The Wire would love this)

Jafar Panahi - Offside! (the best movie about football ever made)

BBC 2 used to show stuff like this ages ago when they did that ‘Moviedrome’ thing. But these days, it’s all endlessly repeating superhero movies or crap romantic comedies.

Which reminds me: Grosse Pointe Blank and Point Blank should feature in any top hundred.

Am also with you when it comes to Roeg. Performance is one of my favourite films. And it’s good to encounter a fellow fan of Mark E Smith standing up for world cinema.
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I had one foreign language film (Guillermo del Toro). There are certainly one or two others that came close to my top 20 (Jean de Florette and City of God). You are right though, wether mainstream TV or streaming there isn't many places you can regularly find quality movies these days.
 
19. Saving Private Ryan 7/87

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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, the film is known for its graphic portrayal of war and for the intensity of its second scene of 23 minutes, a depiction of the Omaha Beach assault during the Normandy landings. The film follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) and his squad (Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), the last surviving brother of a family of four, with his three other brothers having been killed in action. The film was a co-production between DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, and Mutual Film Company, with DreamWorks distributing the film in North America while Paramount released the film internationally.

In 1996, producer Mark Gordon pitched Rodat's idea, which was inspired by the Niland brothers, to Paramount, which eventually began development on the project. Spielberg, who at the time was forming DreamWorks, came on board to direct the project, and Hanks joined the cast. After the cast went through training supervised by Marine veteran Dale Dye, the film's principal photography started in June 1997 and lasted two months. The film's D-Day scenes were shot in Ballinesker Beach, Curracloe Strand, Ballinesker, just east of Curracloe, County Wexford, Ireland and used members of the Irish Army as infantry for the D-Day landing.

Released on July 24, 1998, Saving Private Ryan received acclaim from critics and audiences for its performances (particularly from Hanks), realism, cinematography, score, screenplay, and Spielberg's direction, and was placed on many film critics' 1998 top ten lists. It was also a box office success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1998 in the United States with $216.8 million domestically and the second-highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide with $481.8 million worldwide.

Since its release, Saving Private Ryan has been considered one of the greatest films ever made and has been lauded as influential on the war film genre.



 
My best foreign language film by far was Mary Poppins where dick van Dyke's American accent was so strong the had to over dub him with east Londons own Don Cheadle.

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Another Spielberg classic. Saving Private Ryan wasn't in my top 20, but it was close.
 
The Omaha beach landing scene.
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The rest of the film.
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