Showing posts with label "Niel and Ani's 100 greatest film marathon". Show all posts
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Thursday
#96 Do The Right Thing
Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Frank Vincent and John Tutturo. The hottest day of the summer in Brooklyn just got a bit hotter. This movie seemed like a play, all the small vignettes that form one larger piece. Now thinking back about it, the tension in the movie started slowly like a pot of water boiling and then eventually as the day went on boiled over with death and mayhem. And then ended the next day, it was cooler out and cooler heads were prevailing. It was good - I liked that Radio Rahiem always was playing the song "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy. I'm not sure it was one of the 100 best pictures ever made.
Saturday
#97 Blade Runner
Blade Runner (1982 – Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Darryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos and Sean Young)
This is one of the films on the list that I have already seen, but I hadn’t seen it in years and a lot of scenes were s muddled together in my mind. It is really interesting how much future sci-fi and pop culture take from Blade Runner. The Nexus 6’s are referred to as “skin Jobs” like new humanoid Cylons are on Battlestar Galactica. The basic story of Blade Runner is man creates a perfect robot; the robot becomes too perfect it wants to become man. Man has to stop the robot.
On aside a note, next time you see Blade Runner, notice how much Sean Young looks like Zooey Deschanel. Also this movie is smack down in the middle of Harrison Ford’s most successful and prolific decade - Star Wars 77, Apocalypse Now 79, Empire Strikes Back 80, Raiders of the lost Ark 81, Blade Runner 82, Return of the Jedi 83, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 84, Witness 85, Mosquito Coast 86.
This is one of the films on the list that I have already seen, but I hadn’t seen it in years and a lot of scenes were s muddled together in my mind. It is really interesting how much future sci-fi and pop culture take from Blade Runner. The Nexus 6’s are referred to as “skin Jobs” like new humanoid Cylons are on Battlestar Galactica. The basic story of Blade Runner is man creates a perfect robot; the robot becomes too perfect it wants to become man. Man has to stop the robot.
On aside a note, next time you see Blade Runner, notice how much Sean Young looks like Zooey Deschanel. Also this movie is smack down in the middle of Harrison Ford’s most successful and prolific decade - Star Wars 77, Apocalypse Now 79, Empire Strikes Back 80, Raiders of the lost Ark 81, Blade Runner 82, Return of the Jedi 83, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 84, Witness 85, Mosquito Coast 86.
Thursday
Niel and Ani's 100 greatest film marathon (logo to come)
Ten years ago … the American Film Institute came up with a list of the 100 greatest movies, this past week they re-released the list updating it (now including films that came out from 96-06). Seeing that I have only seen about a quarter of the movies, Ani and I have decided that we will watch all of the movies that we have not seen. Our goal is to get through the movies by the end of the year.
After we see a new movie on the list we will each write a short review of it. I think there is a lot of potential in our project.
Here's a complete list of AFI's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time (all the bolded movies are ones both of have seen)
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singin' in the Rain
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler's List
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General*
19. On the Waterfront
20. It's a Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown
22. Some Like It Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. E.T.
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance*
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51. West Side Story
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunter
54. M*A*S*H
55. North by Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Gold Rush
59. Nashville*
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan's Travels*
62. American Graffiti
63. Cabaret*
64. Network
65. The African Queen
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption*
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. The Silence of the Lambs
75. In the Heat of the Night*
76. Forrest Gump
77. All the President's Men*
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus*
82. Sunrise*
83. Titanic*
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night at the Opera*
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men*
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense*
90. Swing Time*
91. Sophie's Choice*
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show*
96. Do the Right Thing*
97. Blade Runner*
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story*
100. Ben-Hur
After we see a new movie on the list we will each write a short review of it. I think there is a lot of potential in our project.
Here's a complete list of AFI's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time (all the bolded movies are ones both of have seen)
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singin' in the Rain
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler's List
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General*
19. On the Waterfront
20. It's a Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown
22. Some Like It Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. E.T.
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance*
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51. West Side Story
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunter
54. M*A*S*H
55. North by Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Gold Rush
59. Nashville*
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan's Travels*
62. American Graffiti
63. Cabaret*
64. Network
65. The African Queen
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption*
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. The Silence of the Lambs
75. In the Heat of the Night*
76. Forrest Gump
77. All the President's Men*
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus*
82. Sunrise*
83. Titanic*
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night at the Opera*
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men*
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense*
90. Swing Time*
91. Sophie's Choice*
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show*
96. Do the Right Thing*
97. Blade Runner*
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story*
100. Ben-Hur
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