>>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.

My favorite Altman (and maybe one of my top 5 of all) is McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The Leonard Cohen sound track was the theme of my 20s.

I thought Scorcese's Hugo in 3d was a masterpiece. My wife does not agree but our tastes in visual arts are very very different (except Art Nouveau)