Tom Cruise was spectacular in that role. Amazing considering he's the exact opposite of Vincent in real life. Marvelous. And I had no problem with the ending either. Anything different would've left a Mystic River type sour taste in my mouth.

I just watched Raging Bull again. Frank Vincent just has no luck with Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro! Pesci kicked the sh*t out of him in both Raging Bull and Goodfellas! And De Niro's character in both films doesn't like Frank Vincent's character. Poor guy!

You obviously didn't see Vincent's revenge in Casino. :p

I haven't seen Casino since it was in theaters. I couldn't tell you one thing that happens!

Well that's your next movie xxx. If I were you, drive down to your local Blockbuster (or have someone else drive you) and rent it.

Le Mépris/Contempt **** (2nd Time)
1963, Godard, Fr/It
In Italy, a French scriptwriter is hired by an American producer to doctor a faithful adaptation of The Odyssey.
Beautifully shot, intelligent study of marital problems and filmmaking, which are suggested here to be one and the same.

Mick

I've looked everywhere for any copy of Casino, whether it be on DVD or VHS, and have been unsuccessful in finding it for at least a year now. I'm assuming its because the Special Edition (hell, if you can even call it that) is coming out soon. I've even checked online merchants such as Amazon, but to no avail. Believe me, I'd have seen it a million times by now if I could find it.

I would wait for the SE, either way you look at it the SE will be the way to go between the two DVDs.

I've looked everywhere for any copy of Casino, whether it be on DVD or VHS, and have been unsuccessful in finding it for at least a year now. I'm assuming its because the Special Edition (hell, if you can even call it that) is coming out soon. I've even checked online merchants such as Amazon, but to no avail. Believe me, I'd have seen it a million times by now if I could find it. [/b][/quote]Yeah I'd just wait for the DVD as well. It's suppose to come out 2 weeks from yesterday. I just can't believe nobody carries it on DVD OR VHS?

Yankee Doodle Dandy #100 on the AFI Top 100 List

I had never seen Yankee Doodle Dandy before but there was a lot of singing. It started to kinda get on my nerves but overall I did like the movie. In some parts I said I liked it and in others I said I didn't. But overall, it was a good movie. Not bad for my first (and probably only time)

Peeping Tom * (1st Time)
1960, Powell, GB
A focus-puller-by-day is a murderer-by-night, striving to capture pure fear on film.
Rightfully controversial upon its release; now it seems merely tame and jejune. Dialogue, acting and production have dated atrociously.

Ocean's Twelve (1st Time)
2004, Soderbergh, US
The group of master thieves must conjure up another heist to pay debts.
Smug, slick and silly; a predictable routine which shows hope ate in the day with some neat in-jokes. By then, nobody cares.

Mick

I watched The Insider last night for the first time. It's one of my favorite films already after 1 watch. Russell Crowe was phenomenal, and it was Al Pacino's best performance of the 90s. The score was great, the acting was phenomenal, all the characters looked like the real life people. It kind of reminded me of Heat the way the movie was structured. I enjoyed Heat more than this movie, but it was great nonetheless.

A Fistful of Dollars - (Leone;1964;Italy) - ***1/2
A mysterious stranger arrives in a town run by two gangs. He plays both sides for his benefit.
A very influential western that not only boasts very good cinematography and another great Morricone score. A great film, and the first of the Dollars trilogy, which is excellent all together.
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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner #99 on the AFI Top 100 List

A very good movie with a very good message for it's time (1967). Great acting by Sidney Poitier & Katharine Houghton. A pretty funny movie too, I was pleasantly surprised

A shame they remade it into Guess Who with Ashton Kutchner. After you complete the American list, you should advance into international lists.

If I spelled his last name wrong, I don't care. :p

There's an internationl top 100 list? That's news to me as well as Guess Who was the remake. My friend and I were talking about this before I left for New York somewhat, that they have to "urbanize" all the classics now. Look at the new Honeymooners movie with Cedric the Entertainer :rolleyes:

You have to realize film isn't just an American thing. Of course there are lists of best films everywhere. PRoblem is, some are hard to find like what has become my favorite, which is quoted in my profile and in my avatar.

This is a list I'm gonna start hunting down soon.

http://theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_top100films.htm

I understand that film isn't just an American thing. I just wasn't aware that there was a similar list for international movies. I'm not as in depth in movies and information as you or suspect_5

Irish, it is by no means a definitive list, but a great start to world viewing...

MFA Top 100 . Happy viewing.

Mick

I've just watched Titanic with my class. Really pompous and dull.

Gotcha. Yeah I need to watch the US first definately. Don't know if I'll have time/the same interest to do it internationally but we'll see

And why not?

Imagine if I only watched English movies. Imagine if the whole world only wanted to see their own countries' films. The Finnish wouldn't be very occupied, for starters.

Mick

I understand what you're saying and I do like some foreign movies (Hero, House of Flying Daggers among others) but like I said, time is a factor. Now I have time in the summer, but come the fall I'll be back in school plus working full time. Plus, I just don't know, haven't seen that many foreign films I guess

Irish, may I ask what gave you the incentive to watch those two films? I mean, of all the "foreign" movies released today, why see those?

Mick

You could probably already guess but the Kill Bill movies. Plus Quentin "presented" Hero. I have also seen Seven Samurai I forgot to mention. I would like to see the Neo whatever movies that some say Pulp Fiction takes after

Start with Tarantino, who I know you like. See some Jean-Pierre Melville (a big QT inspiration, along with Michael Mann and Scorsese) films like Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge.

There are many others who inspired Tarantino too, but Capo is more keen on their films then me.

Neo-Noir are newer movies after the 50's that take the style of Film-Noirs. Pulp Fiction isn't just Neo-Noir, but also has a lot of homages to French New Wave (which I need to see more of).

http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/NeoNoir.html

Well yeah Tarantino was basically my inspriation for seeing a lot of movies that normally I wouldn't have seen (such as A Firstful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bady, & The Ugly, Hero) just to name a few

What exactly is a French New Wave or Neo-Noir type movie? I've heard you talk about them before but I have no idea what they mean

Film-Noir was usually referred as 'dark films.' They started in the 40's although I've seen movies like M considered Film-Noir. They were usually dark films, many of which had femme fatales and a narration. Double Indemnity is the best Film-Noir I've seen.

Film-Noir ended in the 50's, but it would be soon enough that other directors in the 60's began making similar films. Chinatown, Collateral, Heat, Pulp Fiction, and many 60's and 70's movies are examples.

Capo can educate you more on French New Wave, which was one of the key film movements like Italian Neo-realism. I've only seen two Melville films from French New Wave (from what I've heard).