Favourite Movies
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poliphilo I found myself watching Robin and Marian again last night.
Directed by Dick Lester, starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn and Robert Shaw. 1976.
And I found myself thinking, "If I'm happy to keep watching this over and over- as I seem to be- then perhaps it's my favourite movie. And perhaps it is.
I'm a bit of a cineaste, I know a fair bit about cinema history. But if I were to make a list of "great" movies and another of movies I can watch repeatedly they wouldn't be the same. There would be some cross over; The Wild Bunch for instance would be on both lists, so, I rather think, would be The Passion of Joan of Arc, but otherwise there are lots of movies I admire enormously but would hesitate to sit down with again. Both lists are changing all the time but here for the record is a list of ten movies that- at this present moment- if you suggested we watch them, I'd say, "Oh, go on then..."
1 Robin and Marian
2. Being There (Peter Sellers)
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc (the only silent on the list).
4. M Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
5 The Wild Bunch (Bloody Sam at his bloodiest)
6. Savage Messiah (an all but forgotten small film by Ken Russell)
7. Confidential Report (one of Orson Welles buggered up later movies, but so very Wellesian)
8. Barry Lyndon (I would once have said 2001, A Space Odyssey, but, like all SF movies it has been overtaken by events and Barry Lyndon, being set in the past, is secure)
9. Chimes at Midnight (Welles and Shakespeare- both at their peak)
10. Les Visiteurs du Soir. (So very, very French)
Do they have anything in common? Well, yeah, all but two could be loosely categorised as period pieces- and four of them are set in a version of the Middle Ages- which tells me something about myself, though I'm not entirely sure what....
Directed by Dick Lester, starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn and Robert Shaw. 1976.
And I found myself thinking, "If I'm happy to keep watching this over and over- as I seem to be- then perhaps it's my favourite movie. And perhaps it is.
I'm a bit of a cineaste, I know a fair bit about cinema history. But if I were to make a list of "great" movies and another of movies I can watch repeatedly they wouldn't be the same. There would be some cross over; The Wild Bunch for instance would be on both lists, so, I rather think, would be The Passion of Joan of Arc, but otherwise there are lots of movies I admire enormously but would hesitate to sit down with again. Both lists are changing all the time but here for the record is a list of ten movies that- at this present moment- if you suggested we watch them, I'd say, "Oh, go on then..."
1 Robin and Marian
2. Being There (Peter Sellers)
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc (the only silent on the list).
4. M Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
5 The Wild Bunch (Bloody Sam at his bloodiest)
6. Savage Messiah (an all but forgotten small film by Ken Russell)
7. Confidential Report (one of Orson Welles buggered up later movies, but so very Wellesian)
8. Barry Lyndon (I would once have said 2001, A Space Odyssey, but, like all SF movies it has been overtaken by events and Barry Lyndon, being set in the past, is secure)
9. Chimes at Midnight (Welles and Shakespeare- both at their peak)
10. Les Visiteurs du Soir. (So very, very French)
Do they have anything in common? Well, yeah, all but two could be loosely categorised as period pieces- and four of them are set in a version of the Middle Ages- which tells me something about myself, though I'm not entirely sure what....
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