>>>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
>>>
>>>The Duelists (Ridley Scott)
>>>Apocalypse Now dir cut
>>>McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
>>>3 Women (Altman)
>>>The Player (Altman)
>>>Nashville (Altman)
>>>oh hell
>>>
>>>Altman.*
>>>Scorcese.*
>>>Kurosawa.*
>>>Orson Wells.*
>>>Ridley Scott.*
>>>
>>>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)
>>>
>>>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)
>>>
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>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)

There is a very good oral biography of Robert Altman, which I think is unfortunately out of print. One of the memorable bits is Warren Beatty bitching about the sound level on McCabe. "You can't hear it! No one can hear it!"

Before establishing a new career as a director Beatty reputedly took down half the starlets in Hollywood. Plus he went to Northwestern. Like so many of the actors and actresses who went there, he was on the one year program. In for a visit and then off like a rocket. One of my favorite professors, Donald Torchiana, had an anecdote about Ann Margret. She came to him before finals and said I'm sorry, Professor, I won't be able to take my final, I'm going to Europe to make a movie.