Look, this is really sad. No
list of all-time great movies whose top ten includes only movies I've already seen can be credible.* Or if it is credible, this is a sad world. Not to denigrate my own tastes, judgments, and habits, but round '78 I decided that I didn't have the time or money to watch a lot of movies. And in 1999 I made the decision, I
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A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
Election (Payne, 1999)
The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
F for Fake (Welles, 1973)
Fargo (Coen, 1996)
Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
The Treasure of the Sierre Madre (Huston, 1948)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy, 1964)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis, 1988)
Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)
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brokeback mountain*
the cowboys
custer of the west
the far country
jesse james
johnny guitar
lone star*
the man from laramie <-- this is the one i'm in the middle of
the man who shot liberty valance
red river
rio bravo
the sheriff of fractured jaw
the warlords
warlock
*both relatively recent
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Favorite westerns I can think of:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Red River
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Westerns I like but don't love:
High Noon
The Wild Bunch
Hud
No Country for Old Men
The Misfits
"Meh"sterns
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Giant (<--not sure if this counts)
Dances with Wolves
The Robert Rodriguez Mariachi series
3:10 to Yuma (remake)
Would welcome recommendations
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--The Tall T, w/ Randolph Scott, dir. Budd Boetticher, story Elmore Leonard, script Burt Kennedy. Taut emotional chess match between Scott and bad-guy Richard Boone.
--Buchanan Rides Alone. First Scott-Boetticher western I saw, strangely light-hearted, more poker than chess, my mouth was half agape all through (Sarris, The American Cinema: "Constructed partly as allegorical Odysseys and partly as floating poker games where every character takes turns about bluffing at his hand until the final showdown, Boetticher's Westerns expressed a weary serenity and moral certitude...").
--Day Of The Outlaw w/ Robert Ryan, dir. Andre De Toth. Screenplay is fairly awful at the start ( ... )
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