Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!news.service.uci.edu!cerritos.edu!kristinat From: kristinat@cerritos.edu (string) Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Subject: 100 Best Movies You've Never Heard Of Message-ID: <1993May10.080554.8243@cerritos.edu> Date: 10 May 93 08:05:54 PST Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA Lines: 112 By popular demand, here is EW's 100 Best Movies You've Never Heard Of: Assault on Precinct 13 Bad Day At Black Rock The Ballad of Cable Hogue Barbarosa La Bete Humaine The Big Combo Black Narcissus Brain Damage The Brood Burn! Candy Mountain Carrie (1952) Caught Chilly Scenes of Winter Comfort and Joy The Company of Wolves Criss Cross Dancing Lady Dark Star Death Race 2000 Deception Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle) Detour Dodsworth Dreamchild A Fine Madness The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T Forbidden Zone 49th Parallel Foxes Get Crazy Glen or Glenda? Good News Go Tell The Spartans Gun Crazy Heartland Hell In the Pacific The Hidden High and How High Tide Hi, Mom! The Hit Home of the Brave Housekeeping In a Lonely Place I Walked With a Zombie Jazz On a Summer's Day The Killing Kiss Me Deadly Lonely Are the Brave Macao Marked Woman Mikey and Nicky Miracle Mile Mixed Blood Monkey Business (1952) The Naked Kiss The Naked Spur Near Dark 1918 The Ninth Configuration On Dangerous Ground One-Eyed Jacks Over the Edge Paris Blues Payday Peeping Tom Personal Best The Plague Dogs Point Blank Q: The Winged Serpent The Revolt of Job Ride the High Country Riot In Cell Block 11 The Saga of Anatahan Saint Jack Say Amen, Somebody Secret Honor The Sender Shack Out On 101 The Shanghai Gesture Smile Songwriter The Stepfather Straight Time Streamers Streetwise The Tenant They Live By Night Ticket To Heaven Track 29 Twice Upon a Time Under Fire Used Cars Vampire's Kiss While the City Sleeps Who'll Stop the Rain Withnail & I Zardoz A Zed and Two Naughts There. I'd have typed in the descriptions of the films too but I have this job thing that they pay me for, and I'd better do it. However, if you have any questions about any of these movies, e-mail me and I'll send you the info. There's no indication given on how these movies were selected, but most of the ones I've seen off of this list have been good. "The Ballad of Cable Hogue," however... I'll post the other EW list later. Off-to-bandage-my-bleeding-fingers-ly, Little Pine Weasel Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!km2a+ From: "Kenneth E. Mohnkern" Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Subject: Re: 100 Best Movies You've Never Heard Of Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 14:59:30 -0400 Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 48 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: andrew.cmu.edu Candy Mountain Isn't Tom Waits in this? It didn't make much impression on me. Comfort and Joy Bill Forsythe, one of my favorite directors. The Hit John Hurt. This guy gives me the creeps. Can't get enough, though. Home of the Brave Laurie Anderson's concert? Housekeeping The one with Christine Lahti? _Everyone's_ seen this one! It's good, too. This was the first I'd seen of Lahti. I thought she was great. I've been disappointed in everything else she's done, though. Mikey and Nicky John Cassavettes and Peter Fonda. Great dou. Great director (Cassavettes). Great flick. (My wife left the room to go read a book. Maybe it's a "guy" movie.) Miracle Mile Depressing. Pretty well done, but I'd never expect it to be on a "best" list. Track 29 Nicholas Roeg, right? Theresa Russell and Christopher Lloyd. Not a great, I think. A Zed and Two Naughts This is Greenaway, isn't it? Haven't seen it yet. At the risk of sounding snooty, let me say it seems these 100 titles would only be unknown to those who only spend their rental money in places like West Coast Video. Get out of there! There are advantages to shopping in the small, locally owned places. They usually know something about film in the little places, so they're good to talk to. (Though I've only heard of 17 of them, and seen only 10.) ken # ken mohnkern # multimedia specialist & graphic artist # # the graphics deli # the robotics institute # # carnegie mellon university # pittsburgh pa # # "It's a big old goofy world." # Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!news.service.uci.edu!cerritos.edu!kristinat From: kristinat@cerritos.edu (string) Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Subject: 100 Best Movies On Video Message-ID: <1993May10.115104.8249@cerritos.edu> Date: 10 May 93 11:51:04 PST Organization: Cerritos College, Norwalk CA Lines: 124 EW's 100 Best Movies on Video (Unlike the other list, where the films are presented alphabetically, these are actually ranked): 1. The Bodfather 1902-1959: The Complete Epic 2. Citizen Kane 3. Raging Bull 4. Blue Velvet 5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 6. Vertigo 7. Chinatown 8. Sullivan's Travels 9. The General 10. The Magnificent Ambersons 11. Bonnie and Clyde 12. Taxi Driver 13. Annie Hall 14. The Seven Samurai 15. The Palm Beach Story 16. Duck Soup 17. Psycho 18. Double Indemnity 19. All About Eve 20. The Rules of the Game 21. Sunset Boulevard 22. The Manchurian Candidate 23. Rebel Without a Cause 24. La Strada 25. Aliens 26. E.T. the Extraterrestrial 27. Mean Streets 28. The Wild Bunch 29. Jules and Jim 30. This Is Spinal Tap 31. Persona 32. The Night of the Hunter 33. Choose Me 34. 2001: A Space Odyssey 35. A Hard Day's Night 36. To Kill a Mockingbird 37. The Red Shoes 38. Bringing Up Baby 39. Apocalypse Now 40. Casablanca 41. It Happened One Night 42. King Kong (1933) 43. His Girl Friday 44. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 45. Written On the Wind 46. Gone With the Wind 47. Swing Time 48. A Face In the Crowd 49. Blow-Up (1966) 50. Nashville 51. Rear Window 52. Bad Boys 53. Touch of Evil 54. Only Angels Have Wings 55. Singin' In the Rain 56. It's a Gift 57. On the Waterfront 58. Dead Ringers 59. Local Hero 60. Do the Right Thing 61. The African Queen 62. The Shop Around the Corner 63. M*A*S*H 64. Manhunter 65. Alien 66. Prizzi's Honor 67. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 68. River's Edge 69. Raising Arizona 70. Modern Times 71. Top Hat 72. Breathless (1959) 73. The Birds 74. The Producers 75. National Lampoon's Animal House 76. M 77. My Darling Clementine 78. Mildred Pierce 79. Wings of Desire 80. Carrie (1976) 81. Grand Illusion 82. A Clockwork Orange 83. The Thin Man 84. A Night At the Opera 85. The Last Waltz 86. Tootsie 87. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 88. The Wizard of Oz 89. Crimes and Misdomeanors 90. Stop Making Sense 91. It's a Wonderful Life 92. Halloween 93. The Thin Blue Line 94. Jaws 95. Cabaret 96. Night of the Living Dead 97. Some Like It Hot 98. Atlantic City 99. Last Tango In Paris 100. White Heat Whew! Quite a list. Again, if you'd like to know anything about any of these, I've got the synopses! The list was compiled by a poll of EW editors, and film critics, including those from the Milwaukee Journal, New York Post, Kansas City Star, Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Rolling Stone. So, now you know who to send love letters or flames to. I-expect-you-to-have-written-reports-on-all-100-by-next-Monday-ly, Little Pine Weasel Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!km2a+ From: "Kenneth E. Mohnkern" Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Subject: Re: The 60 Essential Films? Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 10:16:29 -0400 Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 29 Message-ID: <0fvaCxa00WC=01fDQB@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <1993May5.163517.9238@desire.wright.edu> Excerpts from erobinette@desire.wright > It has been two years since Entertainment Weekly printed a list of 60 > films every film buff should see (actually, it was May 10, 1991). I've > been thinking the list should be expanded to 100. What should be the > other 40? For reference, here are the 60 films EW selected: I'm surprised these weren't listed: Raging Bull (Rocky was listed!) The Player (shows us how H'wood works) The Man Who Would Be King And some personal favorites: Blood Simple Raising Arizona Goodfellas The real question here is why _should_ any of these 100+ films be seen? As has already been said, not because they're good. Because they've had an effect on film? They're often referenced by other films? by critics? by partygoers? ken # ken mohnkern # multimedia specialist & graphic artist # # the graphics deli # the robotics institute # # carnegie mellon university # pittsburgh pa # # "It's a big old goofy world." # Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!news.claremont.edu!uunet!infonode!ingr!b8!panzer.b17b.ingr.com!anthony From: anthony@panzer.b17b.ingr.com (new user) Subject: Re: The 60 Essential Films? Message-ID: <1993May10.142525.4504@b8.b8.ingr.com> Sender: usenet@b8.b8.ingr.com (Usenet Account) Organization: Intergraph References: <1993May5.163517.9238@desire.wright.edu> Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 14:25:25 GMT Lines: 31 I can't believe all the films they left out. How about: Apocalypse Now The Godfather II Midnight Cowboy Battleship Pontempkin (sp?) Metropolis High Plains Drifter Spartacus The Dirty Dozen Zielig M Modern Times Ben Hur The Forbidden Planet Dr. Zhivago War and Peace (Russian version) Through a Glass Darkly Patton One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest And as much raging as the industry does about "Raging Bull," you'd think they would've at least included in this 60 "must-sees" list. BTW, Did anyone else notice there were only 6 foreign films in a list of 60? (Unless "Clockwork Orange" and "A Hard Day's Night" are British-made, then we have a total of 8 foreign films, one of which is "Godzilla"). Oh well, I guess no one ever accused Entertainment Weekly of international sopnistication. Anthony