I saw it way back when and have no memory of it other than I know I saw it.

Depends what you think "film" should be. I think Lear is better than Hamlet, too. Of course I realize it's subjective, but I'm not pretending to be objective. F For Fake is Welles's best film. Next question.

barry lyndon is one of the handful of kubrick movies i haven't seen

Same years for me, too. So that makes me 104.

It's also been titled A Fistful of Dynamite.

Hotdog,

I came close to picking this one last round. It wouldn't have made it past me this time.

it appears that busto can now be skipped. Kudzo on the 2 hour clock.

Write up to come...I pick The Last Waltz.

Spaceballs!

My round 4 write-up:

The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman, 1983



Altman's great, unknown masterpiece. And unlike M*A*S*H or Nashville, it hasn't grown dated.

Elliot Gould (that's Ross and Monica's dad to those of you under the age of 35), back when he was the biggest movie star in the world, takes on Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe; and in so doing, he and Altman completely turn the film noir genre upside down.

Gould's Marlowe is a completely ineffectual hero. He doesn't solve anything, he doesn't protect anyone, he's a little bit of a clown. Hell, even his cat runs away. Gould's Marlowe is also a detective out of time. He's a film trope from the 40s and 50s and he's found himself in Altman's 70's, where Altman and screenwriter Leigh Brackett changed Marlowe into a loser. They even nicknamed Gould's character Rip Van Marlowe, as if he had been asleep for 20 years, had woken up, and was wandering around Los Angeles in the early 1970s but "trying to invoke the morals of a previous era."

It has Altman's stylized sound design, his rambling monlogues, his quiet interludes. And even though it takes place in that easiest of eras to make fun of - the early 70s - it still feels fresh today. It has a bleak world view, and no one is really a "good guy."

Look at this cast, besides Gould: Nina van Palandt, Sterling Hayden, director Mark Rydell (in a chilling performance), Henry Gibson, baseball player Jim Bouton, George Wyner, Jack Riley, David Carradine, Carl Gotlieb, and yes, even Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This is a true Southern California movie. The angst, the laziness, the sunshine, the despair. And I really wish someone would rediscover Elliot Gould. He's that great.






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My picks:

Aquirre, The Wrath of God
Alien
The Man Who Would Be King
The Long Goodbye

American Graffiti

My 5th round pick:

All That Jazz, Bob Fosse, 1979



Probably in my all-time Top Ten. I saw this as a junior in high school, with no knowledge of Show Business, addiction, or even infidelity. And the only musical I had seen and liked up to that point was The Wizard of Oz. But man, this movie blew me away.

It's pretty much Fosse's autobiographical take on his own life - and how he'd probably die. And he was right. The film is uncompromising in its portrayal of the Fosse character, played by Roy Scheider in a career performance.

The whole movie takes place while Fosse (Scheider) is both casting a Broadway musical and editing a film. He pops pills, has heart attacks, cheats on his girlfriend while working with his ex-wife, ignoring his doctors, visiting with his dancer daughter...he does not stop...until it kills him.

There are two kinds of musical numbers here - ones that are "real," and those that are figments of Fosse's imagination as his health gets worse. They are, quite simply, showstoppers, every one.

You've also got Jessica Lange as the Angel of Death, talking to Fosse about his past, his women, his selfishness. Before she opens her arms to him.

Bob Fosse was a true genius, and one of the few talents who could cross over between film and stage with ease. This movie is his one-of-a-kind masterpiece. And his admission that even he, while a genius, is also an azzhole. Great, great film.








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My picks:

Aquirre, The Wrath of God
Alien
The Man Who Would Be King
The Long Goodbye
All That Jazz

The Long Goodbye is such an underrated gem of a movie

Sorry guys, saw I missed my turn via pm. Don't have time to look through recent selections so I'll just pick Jeanne Dielman. Write up later.

already picked....pick something else

I'll check back in a bit or maybe I'll ship Dom a list

he was kidding dom.

ah. so wait, did Busto pick or not?

i was going to ask if it was a level...but I didn't want to look stupid lol

i can't believe Chuck took Sleuth!

I would rather have that than several i've already taken, but I thought it would fall far.

I'm getting killed this draft by trying to estimate draft order rather than just taking in my own order.

seriously, make me an offer to trade, chuck

This has been the toughest draft so far. Lots of stuff I was hoping to snag later is already gone but the 70's are so deep I will love all my choices. But I always go with a favorite first strategy as handicapping what may or may not fall is real tough.

Both picks here as I won't be online

hahaha lol I was just playing with hotdog. I have never heard of this jeanne whatsherface

legend is on the clock for the next 30 min