Analysis and questioning
It's a nice day today. I would like to be outside. The lights in the office keep turning themselves off in an irritating fashion because there's no-one walking around. A very nice colleague of mine who was in for the morning has bought me an enormous coffee from Starbucks. He is clearly one of the good guys.
( Office thoughts )
( Office thoughts )
Great Movies (TM):
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
12 Angry Men
The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, although all three are reminiscent of and influential on Westerns more than anything, which arguably is an irrelevant and most tedious genre. But if one Western is enough for a lifetime, make that one Yojimbo.
Look Back in Anger (Richard Burton's best effort)
Dog Day Afternoon (Al Pacino's best effort)
Taxi Driver (Robert de Niro's best effort)
Optionally, The African Queen (Humphrey Bogart's best effort, but not the best film he's in)
Good stuff that's a bit more recent:
Nikita
Fargo
Memento
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Monsters, Inc.
Stuff that you have to see if the idea is to cure ignorance in the ways of film:
Citizen Kane
North by Northwest, and in general every Hitchcock film ever. Some of them are good, such as Rear Window. Marnie is not. Neither is The Birds. Teh Rubbish more like.
A Clockwork Orange or Full Metal Jacket or Dr Strangelove. Avoid all other Kubrick, or you might fail to overrate him to a socially acceptable level.
Offbeat stuff that you might just hate:
Jacob's Ladder
La Haine
Abre los Ojos (I've seen Vanilla Sky, which is an American remake. It would be worth seeing you couldn't read, and also didn't have time to learn Spanish.)
Plus stuff that other people have said.
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