>If you haven't seen The Duelists, do so. One of the most visual striking movies I've ever seen.
>
>>>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.

Wizard of Oz

I was ill a few days after seeing this as a child and had terrible nightmares about the wicked witch of the north . I still find it hard to watch. So maybe sometimes its not just the film its who and where you are in your life.