gg2 wrote: » [... ] Whatever Happened To Baby Jane would be my favourites
The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio, 1968), or The Big Silence, is an Italian spaghetti western.[2] The movie features a score by Ennio Morricone and stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence, a mute gunfighter with a grudge against bounty hunters, assisting a group of outlawed Mormons and a woman trying to avenge her husband (a murdered outlaw). They are set against a group of ruthless bounty hunters, led by Loco (Klaus Kinski). It is one of Corbucci's better known movies. Unlike most conventional spaghetti Westerns, The Great Silence takes place in the snow-filled landscapes of Utah during the Great Blizzard of 1898.
Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law.[1]
marozz wrote: The Man with the Golden Arm /quote] Excellent performance by Frank Sinatra, proving he's more than a singer. The Forbidden Planet - classic space saucer sci-fi Defence of the Realm - great cold war thriller, starring our very own Gabriel Byrne. Fresh - 90s forgotten gem about a boy who is both an avid chess player and a criminal mastermind.
Jake1 wrote: » 'Imitation of Life' Lana Turner. I cry at the end everytime.
e_e wrote: » For sheer innovation though you can't beat the 1960s for film.
Tony EH wrote: » Um, I think the 1970's trumps the 1960's. For a while there, it was anything goes. Studios were willing to take a punt on things they wouldn't have touched with a barge pole in the 60's. The likes of 70's classics 'Taxi Driver', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Star Wars', 'The Exorcist', 'Death Wish', 'Dirty Harry' or 'Zardoz' wouldn't have been even remotely considered in the previous decade.
The Th!ng wrote: » The Great Silence Death Rides a Horse Just watched both thanks, less said about the first, the better.
Just watched both thanks, less said about the first, the better.
Candie wrote: » Clint Eastwoods 'Play Misty for Me'.
takamichinoku wrote: » I'd say e_e is talking about the 60s internationally, the US lagged a bit there.
e_e wrote: » Yep, the New Hollywood is just minor in terms of what was happening all around the world in the 60s. I haven't even scratched the surface either. A lot of film watchers seem to think of cinema in terms of America alone when there's often so much else going on elsewhere. I'd say even as a big movie 2001 A Space Odyssey trumps most (if not all) of what was made in the 1970s in terms of creativity, ambition and uniqueness.