>I'm not much for sequentially ranking stuff like this but here are some movies I really liked that I don't think are showing up on the other lists
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>The Duelists (Ridley Scott)
>Apocalypse Now dir cut
>McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
>3 Women (Altman)
>The Player (Altman)
>Nashville (Altman)
>oh hell
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>Altman.*
>Scorcese.*
>Kurosawa.*
>Orson Wells.*
>Ridley Scott.*
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>My Favorite Year
>Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf
>The Spy who came in from the Cold
>The Killers
>Breathless (Godard)
>Day for Night (Truffaut)
>The Third Man
>Raiders of the Lost Ark
>Personal Best
>Glengarry Glenross (Mahmet) - never ever get tired of it.
>Pretty Baby, Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
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>Choose Me (Rudolph)
>Last Emperor
>Shanghai Triad
>Raise High the Red Lantern
>Don't Look Now
>The Deep End (Tilda Swinton)
>The Pledge (Jack Nicholson - Sean Penn directing)
>Kill Bill 1 and 2
>Inherit the Wind
>Cool Westerns :
>The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
>Magnificent 7
>The Professionals
>The Man Who Shot LIberty Valance
>Cat Ballou
>Silverado
>Tender Mercies (you had me at Duvall)
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>FWIW I find most of what came out of "the golden age of Hollywood" to be unwatchable much as I find almost all TV prior to Hill St. Blues and All in the Family to be a complete waste of time.
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Great list, Charles.
One of my favorites by Altman is Brewster McCloud.
Scorcese has made some great ones - Goodfellas, Departed, but he does an occasional stiff like The Aviator.
I had forgotten Tender Mercies. Thanks for reminding me, I'll get that one and also The Apostle.