>>I was tempted to put in Lonesome Dove even though it was a TV miniseries because it is probably my favorite Duvall.
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>>Oh man, just rmemebered The Mission with DeNiro.
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>That is the problem with this type of lists :)
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>"The Mission" is really good. I am surprised that you are the only one mentioning a Spielberg movie (Riders of the Lost Ark), nobody mentioned Jaws or E.T. or, as someone else put it, Spielberg.* :)
Yeah, I just figured Raiders was the iconic Spielberg.
There was a TV series Young Indiana Jones he backed that was really brilliant and is the top of my list to recommend to younger people. On Netflix now I think
Of course The Mission reminds me of Fitzcaraldo and that reminds me of Aguirre Wrath of God ...
(and later Herzog made Little Dieter Needs to Fly which had a special meaning for me as I had a somewhat intertwined history with Dieter Dengler ... )
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