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| Actor: | Actors that I'm enjoying in 2007: Emile Hirsch & Hal Holbrook, Javier Bardem & Josh Brolin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julie Christie, Ray Winstone, Glenn Hansard & Markita Irglova, George Clooney & Tom Wilkinson, Seth Rogen & Paul Rudd, Simon Pegg & Nick Frost, Michael Cera & Jonah Hill, Rose McGowan, Angelina Jolie, Patton Oswalt, Kerri Russel, Alan Tudyk, Chris Cooper, Shia LaBeouf, Nikki Blonsky, James Marsden, Julie Kavner, Robert Downey Jr., Paddy Considine |
| Director: | David Cronenberg, Sergio Leone, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Terry Gilliam, Billy Wilder, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Fuller, Mel Brooks, David O. Russell, Chan Wook Park, Baz Luhrman, Federico Fellini, Howard Hawks, Luis Bunuel, Steven Spielberg, Vincent Minelli, Martin Scorsese,Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Edgar Wright, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Rob Zombie, Henri Clouzot, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Curtiz, Akira Kurosawa, Werner Herzog, Phillip Kaufman, Darren Aronofsky, John Huston |
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1.
The Godfather
R
This is it. Everyone's favorite film, the best of the best. Yet for all its universal appeal the family really is a personal favorite. You can pull just about anything you want from this movie; being so packed with juicy themes, incidents, characters, performances and dialogue. Though at the end of the day there are two key concepts at its core; making one's way in America and how to be a man. I could go on and on but you know what, why don't you just go and watch it again. It's not as good as you remember...its better.
2.
Mary Poppins
G
Truly every day is a holiday with Mary. There is not once ounce of hate or bile in a single frame of this film. So good and genuine. Julie Andrews is practically perfect in every way. Dick van Dyke always make me smile and David Tomlinson makes me a little sad. Terrific songs, gorgeous matte painting and the greatest dancing penguins ever (well, jury's still out on Happy Feet). I pity the poor soul who doesn't have a place in their heart for Mary Poppins.
3.
Reds
PG
Reds, as its recent DVD advertising will tell you, is as releavant today as the time in which it is set (and for when it was originally released for that matter). While ostensibly about Jack Reed's involvement in the communist revolution the film covers personal liberties versus national security, workers rights, race and gender equality, fidelity, intellectualism and on and on and on. A hyper-literate script, an epic scope and heart-breaking performances from Keaton and Beatty, Reds covers it aesthetic bases nicely. It's truly remarkable "gimmick" is how Beatty weaves first person accounts of Jack Reed into the narrative but it never comes off as a documentary spin on the proceedings. Instead it hieghtens the viewers awareness of how little (or alternatively how much) personal perception has to do with reality.
4.
The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)
Unrated
Structurally perfect. Clocking in at three and a half hours there is not an ounce of fat in this picture. Everything perfectly builds upon itself informing the viewer about the world, the village, the characters and on and on. Kurosawa is the master of cinema for a reason. This is pure, pure film. Oh and Toshiro Mifune rules the earth without question in this film. He is all at once its comic relief and arguably its most rounded character (in a film thats filled with them). He also has the greatest sword in movies. Really I mean, who's gonna mess?
5.
Once Upon a Time in the West
PG-13
Every frame is perfection. The composition, the angles, the performances, my god the music. This movie is perfection. Its the ultimate reward for western fans with abundant references to other films in the genre in every scene. This movie also makes pretty remarkable use of flashbacks. A true masterpiece from a true master and there was at least one more to come from Leone.
6.
Singin' in the Rain
G
Once again perfect movie alchemy from the time when the Freed unit could do no wrong. Top down a perfect film. With its once in a lifetime quality performances from Kelly, O'Connor, Reynolds and Hagen. Donen and Kelly are able to take the screen musical in a direction that hasn't really been surpassed to this day (arguably Moulin Rouge did it but was unable to start a trend). Comden and Green's perfectly formed screenplay is amazing to watch on your own but try watching it in a crowd of people who've never seen it before and the sheer giddiness is palpable.
