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Box of Moonlight (1996)
now that's a few minutes of your life well spent!
brilliantly acted, great story, masterfully directed, and most people don't even know it exists! no point in telling you bits and pieces, just rent it, watch it and perhaps you too will conclude that it will be a few minutes of your life well spent! simply put, everyone and everything in this one is good!
Novecento (1976)
huge canvas, lots of paint, some drips, some runs!
huge canvas, lots of paint, some drips, some runs! A massive undertaking (subject matter, length of the film, the cast, there is nothing that isn't huge in this one) full of historical commentary, fairly obviously sympathetic to left leaning ideologies a la Italian Communists of the 60's and 70's, which makes liberal use of extremely graphical if not gratuitous violence to portray fascism at its darkest. What Bertolucci has to say does not merrit turning up the volume to these levels, and perhaps speaking with a softer voice and not for quite so long, I would have enjoyed listening to him a lot more.
Duck Soup (1933)
sublime, absurd, surreal
this is truly ahead of its time (for that matter any time) movie making. having seen it well over 20 times, I still discover new material in it every time I see it. it is beyond comedy, and belongs in a category all by itself. simply put, this is one for the ages.
Deep Throat (1972)
a remarkably influential movie ...
the timing was perfect: 1972, Dick Nixon, Vietnam, sexual revolution, etc. If you recall Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" is from this very same period, though in my opinion not as enduring as Deep Throat. Deep Throat defined and pretty much set in motion the modern porn genre and actually anticipated the massive porn industry as we know it today. There were law suits and supreme court rulings. Alan Dershwitz defended Harry Reems and William Buckley had a whole program devoted to the movie. It is perhaps one of the most influential movies of all time and it made many to question, analyze, and think, and that is the hallmark of a great movie.