Thread for listing what's accumulated on our Tivos and Genies and Hoppers, because as cryptosicko said, "the process of occasionally listing everything I've been saving to watch 'for later' might actually goad me into watching some of these things." Also for ILXor advice a la "don't miss that!" or "don't watch that crap!"
If we've done this already, I couldn't find the thread.
― WilliamC, Monday, 9 June 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
In order from most-recently recorded to earliest-recorded:
Rushmore*Robocop*Five Easy PiecesBob & Carol & Ted & AliceGreat ExpectationsSteamboat Bill, Jr.Bicycle ThievesTopkapiDuel in the SunTrainspotting*Magic MikeThe Year of Living DangerouslyGoing My WayOthello (1965)In the Name of the FatherCarnal KnowledgeChinatown*
*rewatches
― WilliamC, Monday, 9 June 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Of the ones I've seen but you haven't, I'd say def watch Carnal Knowledge first. Five Easy Pieces, Magic Mike and Going My Way all good too. And there is never not a good time to rewatch Chinatown.
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 June 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
Recommendations welcome, particularly since I recorded just about all of TCM's recent Fritz Lang fest aside from the ones that I've seen more recently.
Mon Oncle d'AmériqueLeave Her to HeavenWhile The City SleepsMoonfleetThe Blue GardeniaClash By NightFury *MetropolisF for FakeLauraThe Normal HeartLooperBlue Velvet*RoxanneThe Lonely GuyVictor/Victoria*Strange BrewAltered StatesParaNormanThe Perks of Being a WallflowerBad InfluenceThe Place Beyond the PinesDon Jon*Funny FarmPremium RushStrangers on a TrainLooking (first season)The MasterWhen Night is Falling
I think Blue Velvet has to be your first stop there, then maybe Strangers on a Train. F For Fake, Looper, Roxanne all worth the time, and surprisingly to me, so was Premium Rush (Michael Shannon + interesting structure). I wanted to like The Master a lot more than I did, since I loved There Will Be Blood so much. Altered States and Victor/Victoria...ehhh.
TCM is showing Laura in a couple of weeks...I will try to catch that finally.
― WilliamC, Monday, 9 June 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Blue Velvet, Strangers on a Train, F for Fake and Altered States are all on my "how the hell have I not seen these?!" list (or rather, in the case of Strangers, how have I never seen the whole thing?), so I should make those priorities. Premium Rush is on there because, as with Looper and Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one of the very few contemporary actors whose presence alone will generally convince me to see a film.
― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 June 2014 03:11 (ten years ago) link
babettes feastmixed blood (1985)juliet of the spiritsthe leopardbarbara (2012)lust, cautionlore (2012)
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 June 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link
deleted benjamin button after not watching it for over a year
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 April 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
You didnt miss much
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Saturday, 16 April 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link