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

She scared a lot of us. I guess that was the intention.

What is little remembered is that the book it was based on was a parable about the gold standard vs. the silver standard. Follow the yellow brick road....