Ryunkin's Favorite Movies
July 12th 2008 18:20
Get ready for a roller coaster ride. This kangaroo boy isn't locked into one genre...BORING! I flip from Blood Diamond and Casino Royal, among my latest favorites to The Devil Wore Prada, Bewitched and Infamous. At least in movie preference I'm very much a switch hitter.
But to be honest, something that I either am to a fault or not, depending on the circumstances and my vitriol at any particular moment, I can't list them all because I've watched so many. At one time I was going through about 50 a week. The VCR and now the DVD have proven to be my downfall. Ever since I discovered them, I've gotten little else done. Mr. Editor Man please hire me as a newspaper film critic so I can at least claim to be doing something destructive.
I guess I'd best stop hedging and get on with it. Here's a portion of my favorites, or should I say faves and sound really light in the loafers, which I'm not every other day.
ARRRRRRRE YOU READY?
For my early films i tend to like the black and whites because they create mood and if I'm anything, its moody. Later on, in the fifties and sixties, technicolor caught my eye because it turned the big screen into a painting. One of my complaints about digital film is that it lacks the creativity of the pictures made in the late 40s through the mid sixties that improved on reality and made you dream of more beautiful worlds. If you want an example of what I'm talking about, watch a John Ford western, forgetting about everything (plot, acting, etc.) but the visual aspects, and tell me that they aren't artistic masterpieces.
There is such a thing as too much reality and I think the digital tech heads have fallen into this trap. THEY'RE BORING!!!!!
Having said all this, here are my early favorites, from the 30s to the 60s.
All Through the Night*, Shane*, Hondo, Bell Book and Candle*, From Russia With Love*, Dr. No, The Searchers, The Pink Panther*, The Mr. Moto Series*, The Thin Man, Laura*, Murder Over New York*, My Favorite Brunette, The House of Wax (1953), A Kiss Before Dying*, Rear Window*, The Big Sleep*, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Song of the Thin Man*, Another Thin Man*,The Third Man, High Noon*, To Catch a thief*, North by Northwest*, Charlie Chan in London*, in Paris, in Shanghai, at the Opera, at the Race Track, at Monte Carlo*, at Treasure Island, in Reno*, in Honolulu, City of Darkness*, in Rio*, Castle in the Desert, The Kennel Murder Case*, Sgt. Rutledge*, The Tall T*, Peter Pan*, Alice in Wonderland*, Lady and the Tramp, any Warner Bros. cartoon short*, Singin' in the Rain, Annie Get Your Gun, Funny Face, Silk Stockings*, The Maltese Falcon*, Murder, My Sweet**, The Blue Dahlia, Gilda*, Dark Passage*, Out of the Past, The Narrow Margin, The Bank Dick**, My Little Chickadee*, The Flame and the Arrow, Apache, The Crimson Pirate*, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man**, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break**, Flower Drum Song, The House on 92nd Street, M, The More the Merrier, Kidnapped, Disney's Rob Roy, The Lady from Shanghai, Hud, Llyod's of London, The Black Rose, A Shot in the Dark*, Forbidden Planet*, Night Passage, Northwest Frontier*, Zulu***, One Touch of Venus*, Pittsburgh*, Port of New York, The Quartermass Experiment**, Quartermass 2**, The Purple Heart, Massacre*, Red River*, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon**, Fort Apache**, The Quiet Man***, Rogue's March*, Roman Holiday, Saboteur*, Saigon, The Saint (1938), Secret Agent (1936), The Shanghai Gesture*, The Louisiana Purchase*, The Lemon Drop Kid*, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty***, Wonder Man*, Knock on Wood, Station West, Stopover Tokyo*, Three Coins in the Fountain, Titanic (1953)*, The 300 Spartans, Helen of Troy, The Three Musketeers (1948)**, Treasure Island***, The Trouble with Harry, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*, The Uninvited, The Wolfman, The War of the Worlds***, The Wizard of Oz*, Suez and probably a few more that I've missed.
The asterisks are for those flicks that I either really liked, really, really liked, or really, really, really liked.
Next time out we go for the 70s to the present. That should be controversial.
But to be honest, something that I either am to a fault or not, depending on the circumstances and my vitriol at any particular moment, I can't list them all because I've watched so many. At one time I was going through about 50 a week. The VCR and now the DVD have proven to be my downfall. Ever since I discovered them, I've gotten little else done. Mr. Editor Man please hire me as a newspaper film critic so I can at least claim to be doing something destructive.
I guess I'd best stop hedging and get on with it. Here's a portion of my favorites, or should I say faves and sound really light in the loafers, which I'm not every other day.
ARRRRRRRE YOU READY?
For my early films i tend to like the black and whites because they create mood and if I'm anything, its moody. Later on, in the fifties and sixties, technicolor caught my eye because it turned the big screen into a painting. One of my complaints about digital film is that it lacks the creativity of the pictures made in the late 40s through the mid sixties that improved on reality and made you dream of more beautiful worlds. If you want an example of what I'm talking about, watch a John Ford western, forgetting about everything (plot, acting, etc.) but the visual aspects, and tell me that they aren't artistic masterpieces.
There is such a thing as too much reality and I think the digital tech heads have fallen into this trap. THEY'RE BORING!!!!!
Having said all this, here are my early favorites, from the 30s to the 60s.
All Through the Night*, Shane*, Hondo, Bell Book and Candle*, From Russia With Love*, Dr. No, The Searchers, The Pink Panther*, The Mr. Moto Series*, The Thin Man, Laura*, Murder Over New York*, My Favorite Brunette, The House of Wax (1953), A Kiss Before Dying*, Rear Window*, The Big Sleep*, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Song of the Thin Man*, Another Thin Man*,The Third Man, High Noon*, To Catch a thief*, North by Northwest*, Charlie Chan in London*, in Paris, in Shanghai, at the Opera, at the Race Track, at Monte Carlo*, at Treasure Island, in Reno*, in Honolulu, City of Darkness*, in Rio*, Castle in the Desert, The Kennel Murder Case*, Sgt. Rutledge*, The Tall T*, Peter Pan*, Alice in Wonderland*, Lady and the Tramp, any Warner Bros. cartoon short*, Singin' in the Rain, Annie Get Your Gun, Funny Face, Silk Stockings*, The Maltese Falcon*, Murder, My Sweet**, The Blue Dahlia, Gilda*, Dark Passage*, Out of the Past, The Narrow Margin, The Bank Dick**, My Little Chickadee*, The Flame and the Arrow, Apache, The Crimson Pirate*, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man**, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break**, Flower Drum Song, The House on 92nd Street, M, The More the Merrier, Kidnapped, Disney's Rob Roy, The Lady from Shanghai, Hud, Llyod's of London, The Black Rose, A Shot in the Dark*, Forbidden Planet*, Night Passage, Northwest Frontier*, Zulu***, One Touch of Venus*, Pittsburgh*, Port of New York, The Quartermass Experiment**, Quartermass 2**, The Purple Heart, Massacre*, Red River*, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon**, Fort Apache**, The Quiet Man***, Rogue's March*, Roman Holiday, Saboteur*, Saigon, The Saint (1938), Secret Agent (1936), The Shanghai Gesture*, The Louisiana Purchase*, The Lemon Drop Kid*, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty***, Wonder Man*, Knock on Wood, Station West, Stopover Tokyo*, Three Coins in the Fountain, Titanic (1953)*, The 300 Spartans, Helen of Troy, The Three Musketeers (1948)**, Treasure Island***, The Trouble with Harry, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*, The Uninvited, The Wolfman, The War of the Worlds***, The Wizard of Oz*, Suez and probably a few more that I've missed.
The asterisks are for those flicks that I either really liked, really, really liked, or really, really, really liked.
Next time out we go for the 70s to the present. That should be controversial.
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