1965 What's New Pussycat?
1971 Bananas
1972 Play It Again, Sam
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
(*But Were Afraid to Ask)1973 Sleeper
1975 Love and Death
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Interiors
1979 Manhattan
1980 Stardust Memories
1983 Zelig
1984 Broadway Danny Rose
1987 Radio Days
1987 September
1988 Another Woman
1989 New York Stories
1990 Alice
1991 Shadows and Fog
1992 Husbands and Wives
1994 Don’t Drink the Water (1994 re-make of 1969 movie)
1995 Mighty Aphrodite
1997 Deconstructing Harry
1998 Celebrity
1999 Sweet and Lowdown
2000 Small Time Crooks
2002 Hollywood Ending
2003 Anything Else
2004 Melinda and Melinda
2005 Match Point
2006 Scoop
2007 Cassandra's Dream
2009 Whatever Works
2011 Midnight in Paris
2012 To Rome with Love
2013 Blue Jasmine
2015 Irrational Man
2016 Café Society
2017 Wonder Wheel
2020 Rifkin's Festival
2023 Coup de chance
Filtering by Tag: movies
The American Film Institute's List of 100 Years, 100 Movies, Sorted Chronologically
2008 list, sorted chronologically … new additions made since 1997 in bold (the movies that were dropped from the original 1997 can be found at the bottom of this post):
Intolerance (1916)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The General (1926)
Sunrise (1927)
City Lights (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
King Kong (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Modern Times (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
High Noon (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Shane (1953)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
The Searchers (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
M*A*S*H (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Cabaret (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
American Graffiti (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Nashville (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
All the President's Men (1976)
Network (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Blade Runner (1982)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Platoon (1986)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Toy Story (1995)
Titanic (1997)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
AFI’s original 1997 list, sorted chronologically … movies that were removed from the list in 2008 are in BOLD:
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
City Lights (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
King Kong (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Modern Times (1936)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Fantasia (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Third Man (1949)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
High Noon (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Shane (1953)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Giant (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Patton (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
American Graffiti (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Jaws (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Network (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Amadeus (1984)
Platoon (1986)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Fargo (1996)
Here are the 23 movies which in 2008 were dropped from the original AFI list from 1997, sorted chronologically:
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Frankenstein (1931)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Stagecoach (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Fantasia (1940)
The Third Man (1949)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Giant (1956)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967)
Patton (1970)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Amadeus (1984)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Fargo (1996)
Here are the 23 movies that were added to the AFI list in 2008, sorted chronologically:
INTOLERANCE (1916)
SUNRISE (1927)
THE GENERAL (1927)
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)
SWING TIME (1936)
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941)
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
SPARTACUS (1960)
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
CABARET (1972)
NASHVILLE (1975)
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976)
BLADE RUNNER (1982)
SOPHIE'S CHOICE (1982)
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)
TOY STORY (1995)
TITANIC (1997)
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)
THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)
John Farr's List of 150 Essential Movies
Sorted first alphabetically (sort of), and then chronologically below:
A Separation (Farsi)
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (French)
Bicycle Thieves (Italian)
Breathless (French)
Diabolique (French)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Fanny and Alexander (Swedish, German)
Grand Illusion (French)
Olympia (German)
Ran (Japanese)
Rashomon (Japanese)
Rififi (French)
Rome, Open City (Italian)
Shoah (French)
The 400 Blows (French)
The Leopard (Italian)
The Sorrow and the Pity (French)
Tokyo Story (Japanese)
Wild Strawberries (Swedish)
Nanook of the North 1922
Battleship Potemkin 1925
The Gold Rush 1925
Sunrise 1927
The General 1927
City Lights 1931
Dracula 1931
Frankenstein 1931
Little Caesar 1931
Red Dust 1932
Duck Soup 1933
The Thin Man 1934
Twentieth Century 1934
Modern Times 1936
My Man Godfrey 1936
Swing Time 1936
Grand Illusion (French) 1937
The Awful Truth 1937
Bringing Up Baby 1938
Olympia (German) 1938
The Lady Vanishes 1938
Midnight 1939
Stagecoach 1939
The Wizard of Oz 1939
His Girl Friday 1940
Rebecca 1940
The Bank Dick 1940
The Grapes of Wrath 1940
The Great Dictator 1940
Citizen Kane 1941
Sullivan's Travels 1941
The Lady Eve 1941
Casablanca 1942
Woman of the Year 1942
Double Indemnity 1944
Rome, Open City (Italian) 1945
Notorious 1946
The Big Sleep 1946
Bicycle Thieves 1948
Key Largo 1948
Red River 1948
The Red Shoes 1948
Adam's Rib 1949
The Third Man 1949
White Heat 1949
All About Eve 1950
Rashomon (Japanese) 1950
Sunset Boulevard 1950
The Asphalt Jungle 1950
Strangers on a Train 1951
The African Queen 1951
High Noon 1952
Singin' in the Rain 1952
Roman Holiday 1953
Shane 1953
Tokyo Story 1953
Diabolique (French) 1954
On the Waterfront 1954
Rear Window 1954
East of Eden 1955
Mister Roberts 1955
Rififi (French) 1955
Giant 1956
The Searchers 1956
12 Angry Men 1957
Wild Strawberries 1957
Vertigo 1958
North by Northwest 1959
Rio Bravo 1959
Some Like It Hot 1959
The 400 Blows (French) 1959
Inherit the Wind 1960
Psycho 1960
The Apartment 1960
Tunes of Glory 1960
Breathless 1961
Cape Fear 1962
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Hud 1963
The Great Escape 1963
The Haunting 1963
The Leopard (Italian) 1963
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
Fail-Safe 1964
The Train 1964
The Sound of Music 1965
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
Cool Hand Luke 1967
The Graduate 1967
The Producers 1967
Bullitt 1968
Midnight Cowboy 1969
Salesman 1969
The Wild Bunch 1969
Harold and Maude 1971
The Godfather 1972
The Sorrow and the Pity (French) 1972
The Sting 1973
Chinatown 1974
Hearts and Minds 1974
The Conversation 1974
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Harlan County, USA 1975
Jaws 1975
Love and Death 1975
Network 1976
Taxi Driver 1976
Annie Hall 1977
Julia 1977
The Deer Hunter 1978
Apocalypse Now 1979
Ordinary People 1980
Fanny and Alexander (Swedish, German) 1982
Gandhi 1982
Sophie's Choice 1982
The Verdict 1982
Tootsie 1982
Ran (Japanese) 1985
Shoah (French) 1985
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (French) 1987
Goodfellas 1990
Schindler's List 1993
Pulp Fiction 1994
American Beauty 1999
A Separation (Farsi) 2011
Criterion Collection Top 40 Movies, Sorted Chronologically
Forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection… I would not have picked a lot of these, but to each his own:
Oh my god, I already blogged this back in August and forgot about it. You dat oldz, brah?
His Girl Friday 1940
Sullivan’s Travels 1941
Bicycle Thieves 1948
The Red Shoes 1948
Ace in the Hole 1951
Tokyo Story 1953
On the Waterfront 1954
The Night of the Hunter 1955
Sweet Smell of Success 1957
Pickpocket 1959
Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
Jules et Jim 1962
8½ 1963
The Battle of Algiers 1966
Persona 1966
Seconds 1966
Weekend 1967
Night of the Living Dead 1968
Wanda 1970
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971
A Woman Under the Influence 1974
Barry Lyndon 1975
Mirror 1975
House 1977
3 Women 1977
All That Jazz 1979
Being There 1979
Repo Man 1984
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
Down by Law 1986
Do the Right Thing 1989
My Own Private Idaho 1991
Naked 1993
Safe 1995
Ratcatcher 1999
In the Mood for Love 2000
Love & Basketball 2000
Yi Yi 2000
La Ciénaga 2001
Y tu mamá también 2001
CC40 -- Criterion Collection 40-Film Box Set
Interesting new box set from Criterion, here’s the blurb:
This monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition … Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology reflects the cinematic joys and inspirations of the creative community that makes the Criterion Collection possible.
Here are the included films, listed chronologically, with my comments:
His Girl Friday (1940) — No
Sullivan’s Travels (1941) — Yes (Great movie)
Bicycle Thieves (1948) — Haven’t seen in ages
The Red Shoes (1948) — No (gay, showbiz thing)
Ace in the Hole (1951) — No (Kirk Douglas plays an asshole)
Tokyo Story (1953) — Yes (Great movie)
On the Waterfront (1954) — No (Shirtless Brando mumbling)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) — Yes (Great movie)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) — No (surprisingly I hated this)
Pickpocket (1959) — Haven’t seen in ages
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) — Haven’t seen in ages
Jules and Jim (1962) — No
8½ (1963) — Haven’t seen in ages
Persona (1966) — Never seen it? Seen lotta Bergman though
Seconds (1966) — Yes (Great movie)
The Battle of Algiers (1966) — Yes (Great movie)
Weekend (1967) — Never seen it?
Night of the Living Dead (1968) — Never seen it?
Wanda (1970) — No
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) — No
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) — God no, Cassavetes is AWFUL, ALWAYS
Barry Lyndon (1975) — No
Mirror (1975) — No, Tarkovsky, has some inspired scenes, but as a whole, no
3 Women (1977) — Never seen it?
House (1977) — No (super weird Japanese thing)
All That Jazz (1979) — No (gay showbiz thing, see The Red Shoes)
Being There (1979) — No (but I usually love Peter Sellers and Hal Ashby, so it’s strange I don’t like this)
Repo Man (1984) — Yes (Great movie)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) — No, if it’s the movie I’m thinking of
Down by Law (1986) — No, but Jarmusch made one great movie: Dead Man (also a Criterion issue)
Do the Right Thing (1989) — No, I mean yeah, Spike Lee, 1980s New Yawk, had to put a black guy on the list, etc. but no…
My Own Private Idaho (1991) — Never seen it, gay thing, I should see it
Naked (1993) — No, this is Mike Leigh? He made Kes, which IS a great movie, this one is just sort of disturbing…
Safe (1995) — Todd Haynes, very gay stuff, though I LOVE Nicole Kidman in everything, she is smart and hard-working…
Ratcatcher (1999) — Lynne Ramsay, this is slash your wrists depressing, I recommend her You Were Never Really Here, I think that’s her masterpiece…
In the Mood for Love (2000) — Yes (Great movie)
Love & Basketball (2000) — Never heard of it, uh oh, looks like another token black movie
Yi Yi (2000) — Three hour movie from Taiwan, never been able to make it through it…
Y tu mamá también (2001) — Yes, I saw this when it first came out and liked it, but recently re-watched it and wasn’t as thrilled.
La Ciénaga (2001) — YES! I’m thrilled they included a Lucrecia Martel movie, though I liked The Holy Girl best from the Salta Trilogy.
Honest Reviews of Martin Scorcese's Terrible Movie, "The Departed"
From Rick Groen: “Rumour had it that the source material - a rejigging of the tense Hong Kong hit Infernal Affairs - was ideal for [Scorcese], a return to the mean streets and mobsters of his glory days. Rumour had it that the cast, including Jack Nicholson in his first teaming with the director, was exceptional. Rumour had it that God was in His heaven and Martin Scorsese was back on track. Rumour was wrong … Scorsese has been doing some channelling too - of Tarantino on a really off-day … As so often before, the body count is high in a Martin Scorsese movie. But where once the bodies pulsated with life in all its vainglorious furor, here they drop like wooden ducks in an artificial pond.”
From Stanley Kauffmann: “William Monahan’s screenplay is so full of cryptic pronouncements and swift portentous scenes that neatness is blown away … But [Sorcese’s] film is so frantic with plot jabs and counter jabs that the gravity of the theme is blurred in cop-and-criminal sorties. Even Scorsese’s usually gleaming direction is dulled to the Law & Order level, except for a few of his famous traveling shots … Jack Nicholson… virtually repeats his Joker in Batman … Is Scorsese desperate? This screenplay has the scent of it, as if he is scraping for material to feed his basic filmic interests. But the risk in this case—not evaded—was that his need led him close to painful strain. I can’t remember another Scorsese moment as shockingly banal as the finishing touch here. We look out the window of the stooge’s luxe apartment, past his terrace. Then a rat comes out and plays on the terrace railing.” [Yeah, I laughed out loud then.]
From Christopher Orr: “A remake of the sleek, superb 2002 Hong Kong police thriller Infernal Affairs, the movie has been Nicholsonized across the board, becoming fatter, coarser, and more self-indulgent than the original.”
From The Standard: “Being a Scorsese fan these days is like sitting at the bedside of someone on a life support machine. As each new offering appears we look, desperately, for signs of animation. Sad news, my friends. On the evidence of The Departed, it's time to pull the plug … scriptwriter Bill Monahan (fresh from the yawn-fest that was Kingdom of Heaven) fails to do anything interesting with the characters in the second half … As in his remake of Cape Fear, Scorsese has mucked up a B-movie he professes to love: producing something full of twists but devoid of that lovely, fluttery, rare thing: surprise.”
Best Thriller / Mystery Movies of the 2010s
These are the best thriller / mystery movies of the 2010s according to John Farr. I’ve arranged them chronologically below:
English-language movies:
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Drive (2011)
Margin Call (2011)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Take Shelter (2011)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Argo (2012)
Mud (2012)
American Hustle (2013)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Prisoners (2013)
The Widower (2013)
A Most Violent Year (2014)
Foxcatcher (2014)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Room (2015)
The Gift (2015)
All the Money in the World (2017)
Personal Shopper (2017)
Sweet Country (2017)
Mr. Jones (2019)
Queen and Slim (2019)
Foreign-language movies:
In a Better World (2010) (Danish)
Incendies (2010) (French)
Of Gods and Men (2010) (French)
Poetry (2010) (Korean)
The King of Devil's Island (2010) (Norwegian)
White Material (2010) (French)
Aurora (2011) (Romanian)
Bullhead (2011) (Dutch)
Elena (2011) (Russian)
Policeman (2011) (Hebrew)
The Skin I Live In (2011) (Spanish)
A Hijacking (2012) (Danish)
No (2012) (Spanish)
Bastards (2013) (French)
Stranger by the Lake (2014) (French)
Elle (2016) (French)
The Handmaiden (2016) (Korean)
The Salesman (2016) (Farsi)
The Woman Who Left (2016) (Tagalog)
Transit (2017) (German)
A White, White Day (2019) (Icelandic)
The Traitor (2019) (Italian)
Best Thriller / Mystery Movies of the 2000s
These are the best thriller / mystery movies of the 2000s according to John Farr. I’ve arranged them chronologically below:
English-language movies:
Sexy Beast (2000)
Snatch (2000)
The Contender (2000)
Traffic (2000)
Gosford Park (2001)
Memento (2001)
Mullholland Drive (2001)
The Deep End (2001)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Insomnia (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Elephant (2003)
Mystic River (2003)
Shattered Glass (2003)
Maria Full of Grace (2004)
Omagh (2004)
The Machinist (2004)
The Staircase (2004)
Brick (2005)
The Constant Gardner (2005)
The Illusionist (2006)
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
United 93 (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
Boy A (2007)
Breach (2007)
Michael Clayton (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Zodiac (2007)
Frozen River (2008)
Julia (2008)
Man on Wire (2008)
The Square (2008)
Foreign-language movies:
A Matter of Taste (2000) (French)
Lumumba (2000) (French)
Under the Sand (2000) (French)
With a Friend Like Harry (2000) (French)
My Father and I (2001) (French)
Nine Queens (2001) (Spanish)
Safe Conduct (2001) (French)
The Devil’s Backbone (2001) (Spanish)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002) (French)
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) (Korean)
Cautiva (2003) (Spanish)
Crimson Gold (2003) (Persian)
Good Morning, Night (2003) (Italian)
I’m Not Scared (2003) (Italian)
Memories of Murder (2003) (Korean)
Osama (2003) (Dari)
The CIty of No Limits (2003) (Spanish)
The Return (2003) (Russian)
A World Without Thieves (2004) (Mandarin)
Bad Education (2004) (Spanish)
Kontroll (2004) (Hungarian)
Red Lights (2004) (French)
Shutter (2004) (Thai)
The Edukators (2004) (German)
13 Tzameti (2005) (French)
Caché (2005) (French)
L’Enfant (2005) (French)
Paradise Now (2005) (Arabic)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) (German)
The Method (2005) (Spanish)
Black Book (2006) (Dutch)
Paprika (2006) (Japanese)
Tell No One (2006) (French)
The Lives of Others (2006) (German)
Cargo 200 (2007) (Russian)
Katyn (2007) (Polish)
Lust, Caution (2007) (Mandarin)
Secret Sunshine (2007) (Korean)
Under the Bombs (2007 (Arabic)
Volver (2007) (Spanish)
Gomorrah (2008) (Italian)
Just Another Love Story (2008) (Danish)
Let the Right One In (2008) (Swedish)
Revanche (2008) (German)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) (German)
A Prophet (2009) (French)
Mother (2009) (Korean)
Rapt (2009) (French)
Sin Nombre (2009) (Spanish)
The Double Hour (2009) (Italian)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) (Swedish)
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) (Spanish)
The White Ribbon (2009) (German)
Troubled Water (2009) (Danish)
Movies Watched -- Klute (1971)
118 minute running time so about 20 minutes too long, which is a shame … this isn’t terrible, I didn’t hate it. The squalor of 1971 New York City on full display as is a glimpse of the World Trade Center (under construction) … Roy Scheider with a bowl cut … Donald Sutherland playing a square but not really … Hanoi Jane wearing her corduroy jacket and no bra to see her therapist … It gets a solid yellow rating, though John Farr recommended it. There were a lot of decent 1971 movies (French Connection, Straw Dogs, etc.), and this one fits right in there to give a flavor of the times.
Jane not darning socks in Tuscarora
Best Thriller / Mystery Movies of the 1990s
These are the best thriller / mystery movies of the 1990s according to John Farr. I’ve arranged them chronologically below:
English-language movies:
Goodfellas (1990)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
The Grifters (1990)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Rapture (1991)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
A Few Good Men (1992)
Let Him Have It (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
One False Move (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The Crying Game (1992)
Carlito's Way (1993)
The Fugitive (1993)
True Romance (1993)
Clean, Shaven (1994)
Fresh (1994)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Speed (1994)
The Last Seduction (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Heat (1995)
Seven (1995)
Sister My Sister (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
To Die For (1995)
Bound (1996)
Fargo (1996)
Lone Star (1996)
Primal Fear (1996)
Cop Land (1997)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Hard Eight (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Apostle (1997)
A Simple Plan (1998)
Croupier (1998)
Following (1998)
Out of Sight (1998)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Interview (1998)
A Civil Action (1999)
The Insider (1999)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The War Zone (1999)
Foreign-language movies:
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990) (Swedish)
Monsieur Hire (1990) (French)
La Femme Nikita (1991) (French)
Europa (1992) (German)
Hard-Boiled (1992) (Cantonese)
Man Bites Dog (1992) (French)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) (German)
The Kingdom (1994) (Danish)
La Promesse (1996) (French)
Zero Kelvin (1996) (Norwegian)
Brother (1997) (Russian)
Character (1997) (Dutch)
Funny Games (1997) (German)
Insomnia (1997) (Norwegian)
Open Your Eyes (1997) (Spanish)
Secrets of the Heart (1997) (Spanish)
Seventh Heaven (1997) (French)
Winter Sleepers (1997) (German)
Run Lola Run (1998) (German)
Secret Defense (1998) (French)
In China They Eat Dogs (1999) (Danish)
Running Out of Time (1999) (Cantonese)