1990-1999 Best Movies Draft
04-01-2011
, 05:17 PM
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) Dir. Fax Bahr and George Kickenlooper
This documentary complies footage and interviews from the making of one of the greatest films of all time, Apocalypse Now.
In the opening interview Coppola summarizes the making of AN perfectly;
"We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane."
Few films can claim that they literally almost killed their stars. Coppola and Sheen half joke that they paid for the greatness of AN with years off theirs lives and this documentary makes a pretty good case that this statement is no hyperbole.
This documentary complies footage and interviews from the making of one of the greatest films of all time, Apocalypse Now.
In the opening interview Coppola summarizes the making of AN perfectly;
"We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane."
Few films can claim that they literally almost killed their stars. Coppola and Sheen half joke that they paid for the greatness of AN with years off theirs lives and this documentary makes a pretty good case that this statement is no hyperbole.
04-01-2011
, 06:26 PM
Sorry for the delay.
ROUND 11 PICK:
ROUND 11 PICK:
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04-01-2011
, 06:34 PM
I am going to post my final pick before I head out for the night;
Southpark: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999) dir. Trey Parker
Not to take umbrage with Dom, because Get Shorty is awesome, but this is the funniest movie of the 90's. I am not really a huge fan of the show, having only seen it a few times, but this movie made me laugh so hard.
It's pitch perfect political satire; bitting, incisive, and funny as hell.
As a Canadian, how could I not love this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAYMJnO9LBQ
Southpark: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999) dir. Trey Parker
Not to take umbrage with Dom, because Get Shorty is awesome, but this is the funniest movie of the 90's. I am not really a huge fan of the show, having only seen it a few times, but this movie made me laugh so hard.
It's pitch perfect political satire; bitting, incisive, and funny as hell.
As a Canadian, how could I not love this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAYMJnO9LBQ
04-01-2011
, 06:42 PM
It's the final round, so it's guilty pleasure time, and this is one of the best.
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04-01-2011
, 07:04 PM
Just from how dominant Jia was on feinschmecker lists of best of 2000s I'll assume this is a very good pick. Bout time I check out his films, I think.
04-01-2011
, 07:11 PM
04-01-2011
, 07:15 PM
04-01-2011
, 07:21 PM
04-01-2011
, 07:42 PM
So many to choose from, including Woody's best film of the decade, the Danish dogma masterpiece, A Merchant-Ivory gem, and A Lynch nightmare...but my final pick is:
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Lone Star, 1996, John Sayles
John Sayles is my favorite American director of the last few decades, and one of his films will definitely be a pick of mine on the upcoming 80s draft.
This film is a big, sprawling epic murder mystery and historical drama about a border town in Texas. It stars Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey, and deals with a sheriff's investigation into who murdered one of his predecessors.
Like most of Sayle's films, this one has dozens of characters and many different story-lines, all converging in the end. It's also, for me, his most emotionally affecting film, as Copper and Pena's relationship is incredibly touching; especially at the end, when they make a decision to ignore the past and be together in the future.
Kristofferson and McConaughey both give what I feel to be their best film performances. Cooper, as always, is just plain great.
Lone Star is about Texas and Mexico, and the huge gulf of culture and prejudice that separates them. It is a truly great film.
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My final picks:
Trois Coleurs Trilogy
Reservoir Dogs
The Piano
The Player
Heavenly Creatures
Hard Boiled
The Limey
The Grifters
La Reine Margot
The Last of the Mohicans
Get Shorty
Lone Star
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Lone Star, 1996, John Sayles
John Sayles is my favorite American director of the last few decades, and one of his films will definitely be a pick of mine on the upcoming 80s draft.
This film is a big, sprawling epic murder mystery and historical drama about a border town in Texas. It stars Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey, and deals with a sheriff's investigation into who murdered one of his predecessors.
Like most of Sayle's films, this one has dozens of characters and many different story-lines, all converging in the end. It's also, for me, his most emotionally affecting film, as Copper and Pena's relationship is incredibly touching; especially at the end, when they make a decision to ignore the past and be together in the future.
Kristofferson and McConaughey both give what I feel to be their best film performances. Cooper, as always, is just plain great.
Lone Star is about Texas and Mexico, and the huge gulf of culture and prejudice that separates them. It is a truly great film.
****
My final picks:
Trois Coleurs Trilogy
Reservoir Dogs
The Piano
The Player
Heavenly Creatures
Hard Boiled
The Limey
The Grifters
La Reine Margot
The Last of the Mohicans
Get Shorty
Lone Star
04-01-2011
, 08:04 PM
04-01-2011
, 08:16 PM
Yes still quite a lot of great ones left and I think I'll post my other 6 picks after the draft is over. However, this round became very easy for me as I watched one of the best films I've seen yesterday and it is from the 90s. I pick:
Beau Travail (Claire Denis - 1999)
Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, the film concerns Sgt. Galoup of the French Foreign Legion who, together with Commandant Bruno Forestier, leads a troop of men in Djibouti. Galoup greatly admires Forestier, yet Forestier barely notices him. So then when a young Legionnaire named Sentain - who Galoup instantly disliked from the day he joined the Legion - catches Forestier's attention Galoup becomes very jealous, gradually pressing closer to the edge of madness.
For those who think homoeroticism might be a problem, it's best to stay away. It isn't explicit in any way (apart from one brief shot), but there's a lot of manflesh on display. The way the film tells the story, in a loose, poetic way - with excellent voiceover work and acting in general, especially by Denis Lavant - may also prove problematic for some. For me the film's rhythm and editing and soundtrack is just perfect. Denis orchestrates her actors as if in a ballet or opera (parts of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd opera is on the soundtrack), and let's just say the film is absolutely breathtakingly well-shot. Denis' vision is one of a calm but often startling originality, as witnessed in the film's unforgettable ending scene.
Again, I don't feel like this film can be summed up in a short write-up, at least surely not by my rambling self. But the film is a bona fide masterpiece and surely in the top 5 of the 90s, for me it might be the very best.
Also, pretty unusual for an arthouse film to feature both Tarkan's Simarik and Corona's Rhytm of the night on its soundtrack
Beau Travail (Claire Denis - 1999)
Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, the film concerns Sgt. Galoup of the French Foreign Legion who, together with Commandant Bruno Forestier, leads a troop of men in Djibouti. Galoup greatly admires Forestier, yet Forestier barely notices him. So then when a young Legionnaire named Sentain - who Galoup instantly disliked from the day he joined the Legion - catches Forestier's attention Galoup becomes very jealous, gradually pressing closer to the edge of madness.
For those who think homoeroticism might be a problem, it's best to stay away. It isn't explicit in any way (apart from one brief shot), but there's a lot of manflesh on display. The way the film tells the story, in a loose, poetic way - with excellent voiceover work and acting in general, especially by Denis Lavant - may also prove problematic for some. For me the film's rhythm and editing and soundtrack is just perfect. Denis orchestrates her actors as if in a ballet or opera (parts of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd opera is on the soundtrack), and let's just say the film is absolutely breathtakingly well-shot. Denis' vision is one of a calm but often startling originality, as witnessed in the film's unforgettable ending scene.
Again, I don't feel like this film can be summed up in a short write-up, at least surely not by my rambling self. But the film is a bona fide masterpiece and surely in the top 5 of the 90s, for me it might be the very best.
Also, pretty unusual for an arthouse film to feature both Tarkan's Simarik and Corona's Rhytm of the night on its soundtrack
04-01-2011
, 08:25 PM
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Yes still quite a lot of great ones left and I think I'll post my other 6 picks after the draft is over. However, this round became very easy for me as I watched one of the best films I've seen yesterday and it is from the 90s. I pick:
Beau Travail (Claire Denis - 1999)
Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, the film concerns Sgt. Galoup of the French Foreign Legion who, together with Commandant Bruno Forestier, leads a troop of men in Djibouti. Galoup greatly admires Forestier, yet Forestier barely notices him. So then when a young Legionnaire named Sentain - who Galoup instantly disliked from the day he joined the Legion - catches Forestier's attention Galoup becomes very jealous, gradually pressing closer to the edge of madness.
For those who think homoeroticism might be a problem, it's best to stay away. It isn't explicit in any way (apart from one brief shot), but there's a lot of manflesh on display. The way the film tells the story, in a loose, poetic way - with excellent voiceover work and acting in general, especially by Denis Lavant - may also prove problematic for some. For me the film's rhythm and editing and soundtrack is just perfect. Denis orchestrates her actors as if in a ballet or opera (parts of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd opera is on the soundtrack), and let's just say the film is absolutely breathtakingly well-shot. Denis' vision is one of a calm but often startling originality, as witnessed in the film's unforgettable ending scene.
Again, I don't feel like this film can be summed up in a short write-up, at least surely not by my rambling self. But the film is a bona fide masterpiece and surely in the top 5 of the 90s, for me it might be the very best.
Also, pretty unusual for an arthouse film to feature both Tarkan's Simarik and Corona's Rhytm of the night on its soundtrack
Beau Travail (Claire Denis - 1999)
Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, the film concerns Sgt. Galoup of the French Foreign Legion who, together with Commandant Bruno Forestier, leads a troop of men in Djibouti. Galoup greatly admires Forestier, yet Forestier barely notices him. So then when a young Legionnaire named Sentain - who Galoup instantly disliked from the day he joined the Legion - catches Forestier's attention Galoup becomes very jealous, gradually pressing closer to the edge of madness.
For those who think homoeroticism might be a problem, it's best to stay away. It isn't explicit in any way (apart from one brief shot), but there's a lot of manflesh on display. The way the film tells the story, in a loose, poetic way - with excellent voiceover work and acting in general, especially by Denis Lavant - may also prove problematic for some. For me the film's rhythm and editing and soundtrack is just perfect. Denis orchestrates her actors as if in a ballet or opera (parts of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd opera is on the soundtrack), and let's just say the film is absolutely breathtakingly well-shot. Denis' vision is one of a calm but often startling originality, as witnessed in the film's unforgettable ending scene.
Again, I don't feel like this film can be summed up in a short write-up, at least surely not by my rambling self. But the film is a bona fide masterpiece and surely in the top 5 of the 90s, for me it might be the very best.
Also, pretty unusual for an arthouse film to feature both Tarkan's Simarik and Corona's Rhytm of the night on its soundtrack
04-01-2011
, 08:46 PM
04-01-2011
, 09:56 PM
Red Rock West
Back when Nic Cage was in good movies.
If you like neo-noir you should love this.
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Nicolas Cage stars in this noir thriller as Michael Williams, a drifter who lands a job when a bartender, Wayne (J.T. Walsh), mistakes him for "Lyle from Dallas." But the gig isn't Michael's usual line of work: Wayne wants his wife, Suzanne (Lara Flynn Boyle), killed. When Suzanne serves up an appealing counteroffer, Michael's little white lie spirals out of control -- and then, the real Lyle from Dallas (Dennis Hopper) strolls into town.
If you like neo-noir you should love this.
04-01-2011
, 09:57 PM
04-01-2011
, 11:46 PM
'Bout time Dumb and Dumber went! How did Liar Liar and Doubtfire go before this?
Tremors was picked? lollerskates.
I chose not to participate in this draft but I would definitely be up for the '80s draft.
Still a few movies that should definitely get picked. I'm surprised one has fallen this far as I had figured it was pretty in-line with the likes of the posters on this forum. Maybe closer to an OOT selection but still - it will get picked.
I was in 1 film in the '90s (extra) and it hasn't been taken but could legitimately be a late-rounder by someone with a discriminating, refined palette of course
. It's rated above a 7.2 on IMDB and that director has already had more than 1 film taken.
Tremors was picked? lollerskates.
I chose not to participate in this draft but I would definitely be up for the '80s draft.
Still a few movies that should definitely get picked. I'm surprised one has fallen this far as I had figured it was pretty in-line with the likes of the posters on this forum. Maybe closer to an OOT selection but still - it will get picked.
I was in 1 film in the '90s (extra) and it hasn't been taken but could legitimately be a late-rounder by someone with a discriminating, refined palette of course
. It's rated above a 7.2 on IMDB and that director has already had more than 1 film taken.