401.IL LEONE DI TEBA/THE LION OF THEBES(1964-Giorgio Ferroni)
Mark Forest,Yvonne Furneaux
402.LADY IN A CAGE(1964-Walter Grauman)Olivia deHavilland,James Caan,Ann Sothern
403.THE LONG SHIPS(1964-Jack Cardiff)Richard Widmark,Sidney Poitier,Rosanna Schiaffino,Russ Tamblyn
404.MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH(1964-Roger Corman)Vincent Price,Hazel Court,Jane Asher
405.THE NAKED KISS(1964-Samuel Fuller)Constance Towers,Anthony Eisley
406.ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS(1964-Byron Haskin)Paul Mantee,Vic Lundin
407.THE AMOROUS ADVENTURES OF MOLL FLANDERS(1965-Terence Young)Kim Novak,Richard Johnson,Leo McKern,Angela Lansbury,Lilli Palmer
408.DIE SOHNE DER GROSSEN BARIN/THE SONS OF GREAT BEAR (1965-Joseph Mach)Gojko Mitic
409.DO NOT DISTURB(1965-Ralph Levy)Doris Day,Rod Taylor
410.IL RITORNO DI RINGO/THE RETURN OF RINGO(1965-Duccio Tessari)Giuliano Gemma,Fernando Sancho
411.UNA PISTOLA PER RINGO/A PISTOL FOR RINGO(1965-Duccio Tessari)
Giuliano Gemma,Fernando Sancho
412.WINNETOU 3. TEIL/THE DESPERADO TRAIL(1965-Harald Reinl)Lex Barker,Pierre Brice
413.APACHE UPRISING(1966-RG.Springsteen)Rory Calhoun,Corinne Calvet,John Russell,Gene Evans
414.ARIZONA COLT(1966-Michele Lupo)Giuliano Gemma,Fernando Sancho
415.DJANGO(1966-Sergio Corbucci)Franco Nero
416.MADEMOISELLE(1966-Tony Richardson)Jeanne Moreau,Ettore Manni
417.QUIEN SABE/A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL(1966-Damiano Damiani)Gian Maria Volonte,Lou Castel,Klaus Kinski,Martine Beswick
418.AKAI TENSHI/THE RED ANGEL(1966-Yasuzo Masumura)Ayako Wakao
419.THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED(1966-Sydney Pollack)Natalie Wood,Robert Redford,Charles Bronson,Kate Reid
420.DA UOMO A UOMO/DEATH RIDES A HORSE(1967-Giulio Petroni)Lee Van Cleef,John Phillip Law
421.MORE THAN A MIRACLE(1967-Francesco Rosi)
Sophia Loren,Omar Sharif
422.QUATERMASS AND THE PIT(1967-Roy Ward Baker)James Donald,Barbara Shelley,Andrew Keir
423.THE TAMING OF THE SHREW(1967-Franco Zefirelli)Elizabeth Taylor,Richard Burton,Michael York,Michael Hordern
424.I LOVE YOU ALICE B.TOKLAS(1968-Hy Averback)Peter Sellers,Leigh Taylor-Young,Jo Van Fleet,Joyce Van Patten
425 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY(1968-Stanley Kubrick)Keir Dullea,Gary Lockwood
426.THE BIG BOUNCE(1969-Alex March)Ryan O’Neal,Leigh Taylor-Young,Van Heflin,Lee Grant,Robert Webber
427.FELLINI SATYRICON(1970-Federico Fellini)Martin Potter,Hiram Keller
428.THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES(1971-Robert Fuest)Vincent Price,Joseph Cotten,Peter Jeffrey,Virginia North
429.THE BOY FRIEND(1971-Ken Russell)Twiggy,Christopher Gable,Tommy Tune,Max Adrian,Antonia Ellis
430.COLD TURKEY(1971-Norman Lear)Dick Van Dyke,Pippa Scott,Bob Newhart
431.DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN(1972-Robert Fuest)
Vincent Price,Robert Quarry,Fiona Lewis,Peter Jeffrey
432.LADY CAROLINE LAMB(1972-Robert Bolt)Sarah Miles,Jon Finch,Richard Chamberlain,Margaret Leighton
433.MOLLY AND LAWLESS JOHN (1972-Gary Nelson)Vera Miles,Sam Elliott
434.PLAY IT AGAIN SAM(1972-Herbert Ross)Woody Allen,Diane Keaton
435.APACHEN(1973-Gottfried Kolditz)Gojko Mitic
436.GODSPELL(1973-David Greene)Victor Garber,David Haskell,Gilmer McCormick
437.THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD(1974-Gordon Hessler)John Phillip Law,Caroline Munro
438.YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN(1974-Mel Brooks)Gene Wilder,Madeline Kahn,Teri Garr,Peter Boyle,Marty Feldman
439.THE HINDENBURG(1975-Robert Wise)George C.Scott,Anne Bancroft,William Atherton
440.OBSESSION(1976-Brian De Palma)Cliff Robertson,Genevieve Bujold
441.ANNIE HALL(1977-Woody Allen)
Woody Allen,Diane Keaton
442.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND(1977-Steven Spielberg)Richard Dreyfuss,Melinda Dillon,Teri Garr,Francois Truffaut
443.SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER(1977-John Badham)John Travolta,Karen Lynn Gorney,Barry Miller,Donna Pescow
444.DEATH ON THE NILE(1978-John Guillermin)Peter Ustinov,Mia Farrow,Bette Davis,Maggie Smith,Lois Chiles
445.A DREAM OF PASSION(1978-Jules Dassin)Melina Mercouri,Ellen Burstyn
446.THE MEDUSA TOUCH(1978-Jack Gold)Richard Burton,Lee Remick,Lino Ventura,Michael Byrne
447.DRACULA(1979-John Badham)Frank Langella,Laurence Olivier,Kate Nelligan
448.CRUISING(1980-William Friedkin)Al Pacino,Paul Sorvino,Karen Allen
449.BLOW OUT(1981-Brian De Palma)John Travolta,Nancy Allen
450.PENNIES FROM HEAVEN(1981-Herbert Ross)Steve Martin,Bernadette Peters,Jessica Harper
451.TARZAN THE APE MAN(1981-John Derek)
Bo Derek,Richard Harris,Miles O’Keeffe
452.BLADE RUNNER(1982-Ridley Scott)Harrison Ford,Sean Young,Rutger Hauer
453.CONAN THE BARBARIAN(1982-John Milius)Arnold Schwarzenegger,Sandahl Bergman,James Earl Jones,Max Von Sydow
454.MY FAVORITE YEAR(1982-Richard Benjamin)Peter O’Toole,Mark Linn-Baker,Joseph Bologna,Jessica Harper,Lainie Kazan
455. Q–THE WINGED SERPENT(1982-Larry Cohen)Michael Moriarty,David Carradine,Candy Clark,Richard Roundtree
456 CAREFUL HE MIGHT HEAR YOU(1983-Carl Schultz)Wendy Hughes,Nicholas Gledhill
457.HEAT AND DUST(1983-James Ivory)Julie Christie,Greta Sacchi,Shashi Kapoor,Christopher Cazenove
458.THE WICKED LADY(1983-Michael Winner)Faye Dunaway,Alan Bates,Glynis Barber,John Gielgud,Oliver Tobias
459.THE EMERALD FOREST(1985-John Boorman)Powers Boothe,Charley Boorman,Ruy Polonah ,Meg Foster
460.LEGACY OF RAGE(1986-Ronny Yu)Brandon Lee,Michael Wong
461.SOMEONE TO LOVE(1987-Henry Jaglom)
Henry Jaglom,Orson Welles,Andrea Marcovicci,Sally Kellerman,Michel Emil,
462.DJANGO II: IL GRANDE RITORNO/DJANGO STRIKES AGAIN(1987-Nello Rosatti)
Franco Nero,Christopher Connelly,Donald Pleasence
463.STAYING TOGETHER(1989-Lee Grant)Melinda Dillon,Dermot Mulroney,Daphne Zuniga,Sean Astin,Stockard Channing
464.ARCHANGEL(1990-Guy Maddin)Kyle McCulloch
Marlo Thomas,Elaine May,Peter Falk
466.KABUTO/JOURNEY OF HONOR(1991-Gordon Hessler)Sho Kosugi,David Essex,Christopher Lee,John Rhys-Davies,Polly Walker
467.ONLY THE LONELY(1991-Chris Columbus)John Candy,Maureen O’Hara,Ally Sheedy
468.THE RAPTURE(1991-Michael Tolkin)Mimi Rogers,David Duchovny
469.RHAPSODY IN AUGUST(1991-Akira Kurosawa)Sachiko Murase,Richard Gere
470.BLOODSTONE:SUBSPECIES II(1993-Ted Nicoloau)Anders Hove,Denice Duff
471.FALLING DOWN(1993-Joel Schumacher)
Michael Douglas,Robert Duvall
472.STRICTLY BALLROOM(1993-Baz Luhrmann)Paul Mercurio,Tara Morice
473.LITTLE BUDDHA(1994-Bernardo Bertolucci)Bridget Fonda,Keanu Reaves,Alex Wiesendanger,Ying Ruoching
474.STARGATE(1994-Roland Emmerich)James Spader,Kurt Russell,Jaye Davidson,Viveca Lindfors
475.TIMECOP(1994-Peter Hyams)Jean-Claude Van Damme,Mia Sara,Gloria Reuben
476.BATMAN FOREVER(1995-Joel Schumacher)Val Kilmer,Nicole Kidman,Jim Carrey
477.THE SCARLET LETTER(1995-Roland Joffe)Demi Moore,Gary Oldman,Robert Duvall,Joan Plowright
478.STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY(1995-Harold Ramis)Al Franken,Laura San Giacomo,Vincent D’Onofrio,Shirley Knight
479.THE ARRIVAL(1996-David Twohy)Charlie Sheen,Teri Polo,Lindsay Crouse
480.RAJ KUMAR(1996-Pankaj Parashar)Anil Kapoor,Madhuri Dixit
481.DIL TO PAGAL HAI(1997-Yash Chopra)
Shah Rukh Khan,Madhuri Dixit,Karisma Kapoor,Akshay Kumar
482.HIMALAY PUTRA(1997-Pankaj Parashar)Akshaye Khanna,Anjala Zhaveri,Vinod Khanna,Hema Malini
483.PARDES(1997-Subhash Ghai)Shah Rukh Khan,Mahima Chaudhary
484.STARSHIP TROOPERS(1997-Paul Verhoeven)Casper Van Dien,Dina Meyer,Denise Richards,Neil Patrick Harris
485.DIL SE(1998-Mani Ratnam)Shah Rukh Khan,Manisha Koirala,Preity Zinta
486.LAAWARIS(1998-Shrikant Sharma) Akshaye Khanna,Manisha Koirala,Jackie Shroff,Dimple Kapadia
487.LEGIONNAIRE(1998-Peter MacDonald) Jean-Claude Van Damme
488.THE NINTH GATE(1998-Roman Polanski) Johnny Depp,Frank Langella
489.HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM(1999-Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Aishwarya Rai,Salman Khan,Ajay Devgan
490.TAAL(1999-Subhash Ghai) Aishwarya Rai,Akshaye Khanna,Anil Kapoor
491.CHUCK AND BUCK(2000-Miguel Arteta)
Mike White,Chris Weitz,Lupe Ontiveros,Beth Colt
492.DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR?(2000-Danny Leiner)Ashton Kutcher,Seann William Scott,Jennifer Garner,Marla Sokoloff
493.EYE OF THE BEHOLDER(2000-Stephan Elliott) Ashley Judd,Ewan McGregor,Jason Priestley,Patrick Bergin,k.d.Lang
494.DIL CHAHTA HAI(2001-Farhan Akhtar) Aamir Khan,Akshaye Khanna,Saif Ali Khan,Preity Zinta,Dimple Kapadia
495.LAGAAN(2001-Ashutosh Gowariker) Aamir Khan,Gracy Singh,Rachel Shelley
496.LE PACTE DES LOUPS/BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF(2002-Christophe Gans) Samuel L Bihan,Vincent Cassel,Emelie Dequenne,Monica Belluci,Mark Dacascos
497.FAR FROM HEAVEN(2002-Todd Haynes)Julianne Moore,Dennis Quaid
498.A KNIGHT’S TALE(2002-Brian Helgeland) Heath Ledger,Shannyn Sossamon
499.RULES {PYAR KA SUPERHIT FORMULA}(2003-Parvati Balagopalan) Milind Soman,Meera Vasudevan,Tanuja
500.TROY(2004-Wolfgang Petersen) Brad Pitt,Orlando Bloom,Eric Bana,Diane Kruger,Peter O’Toole
6 comments:
I've seen 26!
423.THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
427.FELLINI SATYRICON
428.THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES
429.THE BOY FRIEND
434.PLAY IT AGAIN SAM
436.GODSPELL
438.YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
439.THE HINDENBURG
441.ANNIE HALL
442.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
443.SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
444.DEATH ON THE NILE
448.CRUISING
449.BLOW OUT
450.PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
451.TARZAN THE APE MAN
452.BLADE RUNNER
453.CONAN THE BARBARIAN
471.FALLING DOWN
472.STRICTLY BALLROOM
476.BATMAN FOREVER
478.STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY
491.CHUCK AND BUCK
495.LAGAAN
497.FAR FROM HEAVEN
500.TROY
492.DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR?
I've seen 24:
405. THE NAKED KISS
423. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
425. 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY
427. FELLINI SATYRICON
428. THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES
438. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
441. ANNIE HALL
442.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
443. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
452. BLADE RUNNER
453. CONAN THE BARBARIAN
454. MY FAVORITE YEAR
455. Q–THE WINGED SERPENT
459. THE EMERALD FOREST
467. ONLY THE LONELY
471. FALLING DOWN
474. STARGATE
475. TIMECOP
484. STARSHIP TROOPERS
488. THE NINTH GATE
491. CHUCK AND BUCK
496. BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF
497. FAR FROM HEAVEN
500. TROY
I've seen 66!
YAY!
Also, just out of curiosity, why 'Troy'?
I've seen 114! Man, I bet I've seen more, but I can't recall the titles of all those Italian Hercules movies.
I love musicals, so there's plenty of those on my list. I also thank my younger days of watching the Saturday morning movies on TV (you young whippersnappers may not remember that the only way to see many of these movies was to wait for them to show up on TV - the horror, the horror). Saturday mornings were great for the Abbott & Costello movies.
I just have to say that anyone who has Robinson Crusoe on Mars on his favorites list is the kind of person I'd like to watch movies with.
I've seen 36 in this section.
403.THE LONG SHIPS
406.ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS
409.DO NOT DISTURB
423.THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
425 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY
430.COLD TURKEY
434.PLAY IT AGAIN SAM
436.GODSPELL
437.THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD
438.YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
439.THE HINDENBURG
441.ANNIE HALL
442.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
443.SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
444.DEATH ON THE NILE
447.DRACULA
450.PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
451.TARZAN THE APE MAN
453.CONAN THE BARBARIAN
454.MY FAVORITE YEAR
455.Q–THE WINGED SERPENT
467.ONLY THE LONELY
468.THE RAPTURE
469.RHAPSODY IN AUGUST
471.FALLING DOWN
472.STRICTLY BALLROOM
474.STARGATE
475.TIMECOP
476.BATMAN FOREVER
478.STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY
479.THE ARRIVAL
484.STARSHIP TROOPERS
488.THE NINTH GATE
490.TAAL
495.LAGAAN
498.A KNIGHT’S TALE
"The Red Angel" - about a Japanese nurse's tour of duty in WW2 China is shattering stuff. Not surprisingly, it was pretty much unknown in the west in the 60's. But it's on DVD now.
If you're up for a spaghetti western, "A Bullet for the General"'s the way to go - a very good - and possibly great - movie.
Vincent Price's two Dr. Phibes pictures are still fun. And the wonderful Robert Quarry makes the second one especially savory. A third instalment was planned ("Dr.Phibes in the Holy Land") but, sadly, never materialized.
Vera Miles has a showcase role (largely unappreciated then and now) in the revisionist western "Molly and Lawless John". Check it out.
And Cliff Robertson & Genevieve Bujold (aided and abetted by Bernard Herrmann) make a memorably lovelorn pair in Brian De Palma's poignant thriller "Obsession".
Michael Tolkin's unique and gutsy "The Rapture" is definitely worth catching.
The one Canadian film on my list is visionary Guy Maddin's epic-on-a-shoestring "Archangel". Astonishing - and available as a bonus on the DVD of (the costlier but much less impressive) "Twilight of the Ice Nymphs". The disc also contains Maddin's mind-blowing six-minute short "Heart of the World"
Finally, why "Troy"?
Why not?
I was crazy about ancient mythology as a kid. I remember staring transfixed at the huge billboard dominating our main street. It was promoting Warner Brothers' upcoming "Helen of Troy" with Rossana Podesta. I was practically exploding with excitement by the time it arrived. And guess what! I wasn't disappointed. It fuelled a lifelong appetite for Ancient Epics. Hence the Euro-Peplum fetish. Mind you, I've seen some duds. But my pulse still speeds up when I get wind of a new sword and sandal opus on the horizon. So I was definitely up for "Troy" and "Alexander". And I liked them both. I'd give "Troy" the edge, though. Great photography! I loved the overhead shots of the fleet and of the city's final sacking. There were some terrific battle scenes. Remember those tumbling fireballs? And full marks for the early skirmish that winds up with Brad Pitt storming a temple on the beach. Beautifully choreographed and exciting. I've never been all that sold on Brad Pitt. But I think he did fine here. And I was blown away by his commitment to the fight training, climaxing with that great one-on-one with Eric Bana. I found the script involving - and the cast ran with it. Kudos to Orlando Bloom for playing a non-heroic character - and beautifully! Peter O'Toole's superb, of course; Vincent Regan's a memorable Eudorus. Even the extra sprinkle of stardust from Julie Christie works for me. Regrets? Well, I'd love to hear the Gabriel Yared score that was dumped weeks before the premiere and hastily replaced with one that James Horner whipped up. It was serviceable. But the few who've heard the Yared music say it's something special. And then there's the casting of Helen. Diane Kruger was perfectly fine. But I read an (unconfirmed) report in the Indian press that ravishing Aishwarya Rai had initially been approached - but turned it down because of a projected nude love scene in the script. A large part of the world's population regards Rai as the most beautiful woman in films. And I wouldn't really argue. The onetime Miss World has also developed into quite a sensitive actress as well. So it would have been marvelous to see her cast as the Face That Launched a Thousand Ships. As it is, she's currently the face on a million or so L'Oreal "Volume Shocking" Mascara billboards world-wide. Still, even without Aishwarya, I found "Troy" a treat. I believe the picture's domestic box-office performance was only so-so. But it was a smash in almost every other country in the world. Proving that sword and sandal's here to stay.
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