THE ROSIES
This is my end of the year list of best movies I saw.
This is out of a total of 250 DVDs; mostly NYTimes Best Films. Some exceptions.
I was going to have ten but I can't really reduce it.
Here are the top......uhhhhhhhh.......15?
Pickpocket: Robert Bresson's early masterpiece about the compulsion to stealHope and Glory: A young boy experiences England during WWIIThe Adjuster: An insurance adjuster! Imagine. Mess with people's lives and you might get messed up too. Nice.Chan is Missing: Way low cost indie breaks through. Justin Chin directs his first film. Went on to do Joy Luck Club and others.Forbidden Games: Two children construct their own world during war. Haunting.In the Bedroom: An adult son's death leads to the disintegration of a long term marriage. Sissy Spacek.The Leopard: My God what a wonderful film with Burt Lancaster as an aging Italian padrone. Alan Delon. Directed by VIsconti. Get the Italian (uncut) version.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: A military career from start to finish. It is wonderful to watch. Every blessed minute of its long life.The Informer: Early John Huston with a flawless Victor McLaglen in the title role. Gypo!Malcolm X: The real deal. Spike Lee directs Denzel Washington who channels X. I know. I was there.District B13: A French Bladerunner. Great. Stirring. You will wet your pants.National Lampoon Animal House: Toga!!! Toga!! Toga!!! And I thought that I would hate this picture.Nashville: I think the best Robert Altman. A fitting memorial.In the Name of the Father: Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postelwaite with Emma Thompson as their lawyer.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Ensemble playing around Jack Nicholson.And then there was the annual Mona Lisa.
I also really really liked: Heartbreak Kid, I Remember Mama, The Killing Fields, Tristram Shandy—A Cock and Bull Story, Jules and Jim, Knife in the Water, The Last American Hero, The Last Metro, The Last Picture Show, Maltese Falcon, Meet Me In St. Louis, Moonstruck, Murmur of the Heart, Mona Lisa, Beautiful Launderette, Nobody's Fool, The Opposite of Sex, Parting Glances, The Conformist and 49 UPwhich is the latest of the 7 'UP' documentaries.
Now, I want to go back and comb through again but I will stick with this list.
