This is such a great idea BigWilly, such a great list too. For my money, Funeral Parade of Roses is the perfect way to get introduced to Japanese New Wave, please cover it.
as mentioned Croc, these are all picks I’ve made that we WILL be covering. There were a few more C-D-B gems in there, but I couldn’t find trailers for them. I think people are gonna dig Funeral Parade. I waited YEARS to see that film. Glad you like the idea, we figured it’d be cool to whet everyone’s appetite with some of the GGtMC flavor to come.. I’m going to go back and edit the list I made to indicate which one are from C-D-B..
Wilson, I haven’t seen Thunder Road, but will have to look into it.. Man, I have to say, making my list was HARD. I spent a good portion of yesterday at work paring the list down from over 100 films to 20 of the ones you see there.. I cut a lot of French stuff out last minute that I think I’ll throw on next time(Truffaut’s the Bride wore black, Don’t deliver us from evil, etc)
Wilson, I haven’t seen Thunder Road, but will have to look into it.. Man, I have to say, making my list was HARD. I spent a good portion of yesterday at work paring the list down from over 100 films to 20 of the ones you see there.. I cut a lot of French stuff out last minute that I think I’ll throw on next time(Truffaut’s the Bride wore black, Don’t deliver us from evil, etc)
Wilson, I haven’t seen Thunder Road, but will have to look into it.. Man, I have to say, making my list was HARD. I spent a good portion of yesterday at work paring the list down from over 100 films to 20 of the ones you see there.. I cut a lot of French stuff out last minute that I think I’ll throw on next time(Truffaut’s the Bride wore black, Don’t deliver us from evil, etc)
Bride Wore Black is wonderful, the fact that Truffaut made that the same year as Stolen Kisses is amazing to me. What a double bill they are! Most directors do not make a film as good in their whole career and he made both in 1968.
that was awesome. Like early rockabilly country ala Cash. Allow me to retort with some Chris Mitchum Z-grade gold He was a Lethal Hunter! This is one we’re probably gonna squeeze in there somewhere as well..
yes Mitchum truly is a heavyweight. I’ve never seen Yakuza, but have meant to for quite some time.. Have you seen any Chris Mitchum? He has some EXCELLENT z grade actioners out there
Looking at IMDB the only Chris Mitchum film I have seen is The Last Hard Men with Heston and Coburn - though I do not remember Mitchum in it. Though Bob Mitchum’s other kid Jim Mitchum was in a few decent films - most notably in my opinion Thunder Road with his old man (playing his dad’s younger brother) I am huge fan of Thunder Road - with the theme song sung by Bob Mitchum which is a classic.
You can see Chris Mitchum along with John Wayne in Hawks’ third remake of Rio Bravo - Rio Lobo. It’s sadly inferior to the previous two, but entertaining as long as Jennifer O’Neill stays off camera.
Wilson, I haven’t seen Thunder Road, but will have to look into it.. Man, I have to say, making my list was HARD. I spent a good portion of yesterday at work paring the list down from over 100 films to 20 of the ones you see there.. I cut a lot of French stuff out last minute that I think I’ll throw on next time(Truffaut’s the Bride wore black, Don’t deliver us from evil, etc)
Bride Wore Black is wonderful, the fact that Truffaut made that the same year as Stolen Kisses is amazing to me. What a double bill they are! Most directors do not make a film as good in their whole career and he made both in 1968.
I moved stolen kisses up near the top of my Zip queue.. It’s funny how some directors catch lightening in a bottle. Look at Coppola. The man can’t get of his own way now, and yet he made 4 films in the 70’s that are absolutely essential. 2 of which are considered to be amongst the very best ever. One is the definitive war movie in my opinion, and his “side project” was The Conversation!
yes Mitchum truly is a heavyweight. I’ve never seen Yakuza, but have meant to for quite some time.. Have you seen any Chris Mitchum? He has some EXCELLENT z grade actioners out there
Looking at IMDB the only Chris Mitchum film I have seen is The Last Hard Men with Heston and Coburn - though I do not remember Mitchum in it. Though Bob Mitchum’s other kid Jim Mitchum was in a few decent films - most notably in my opinion Thunder Road with his old man (playing his dad’s younger brother) I am huge fan of Thunder Road - with the theme song sung by Bob Mitchum which is a classic.
You can see Chris Mitchum along with John Wayne in Hawks’ third remake of Rio Bravo - Rio Lobo. It’s sadly inferior to the previous two, but entertaining as long as Jennifer O’Neill stays off camera.
I have seen Rio Lobo - enjoyably flawed - and now looking at IMDB properly I have noticed that I seen quite a few Chris Mitchum films - Chisum, Big Jake, Rio Lobo - all with Wayne.
Wilson, I haven’t seen Thunder Road, but will have to look into it.. Man, I have to say, making my list was HARD. I spent a good portion of yesterday at work paring the list down from over 100 films to 20 of the ones you see there..
Everything you do, you do it for your fans. Thank you
that was awesome. Like early rockabilly country ala Cash. Allow me to retort with some Chris Mitchum Z-grade gold He was a Lethal Hunter! This is one we’re probably gonna squeeze in there somewhere as well..
One of my greatest pleasures is the album by Robert Mitchum Calypso - Is Like So… It sounds like a high Johnny Cash entoning (cannot really call it singing) over a Calypso heavy soundtrack. Mitchum makes it great.
Wilson, I haven’t seen Thunder Road, but will have to look into it.. Man, I have to say, making my list was HARD. I spent a good portion of yesterday at work paring the list down from over 100 films to 20 of the ones you see there.. I cut a lot of French stuff out last minute that I think I’ll throw on next time(Truffaut’s the Bride wore black, Don’t deliver us from evil, etc)
Bride Wore Black is wonderful, the fact that Truffaut made that the same year as Stolen Kisses is amazing to me. What a double bill they are! Most directors do not make a film as good in their whole career and he made both in 1968.
I moved stolen kisses up near the top of my Zip queue.. It’s funny how some directors catch lightening in a bottle. Look at Coppola. The man can’t get of his own way now, and yet he made 4 films in the 70’s that are absolutely essential. 2 of which are considered to be amongst the very best ever. One is the definitive war movie in my opinion, and his “side project” was The Conversation!
That is very true some directors can have amazing periods of filmmaking and then surround them with completely dross. Coppola will forever be a hero of most film fans but I am sorry to say having caught his last film Youth Without Youth, he has completely lost it. Youth Without Youth is one of the poorest films I have ever seen from a major director, it is De Palma bad.
On his good films - I do think that The Conversation is the best film he has ever made. I love Gene Hackman in the film. But even into the eighties he made some good stuff - One From The Heart (Tom Waits music is awesome in this) Rumble Fish and parts of The Cotton Club.
aww, thanks Croc; We certainly do do it for our listeners and for our collective love of film, and you are welcome. No matter where in the world we are or what other interests we have, we can all agree that film is one of the most wonderful things we can experience. It is art in it’s purest form.. The tricky thing with the “road maps” as Sammy and I call them is that we try to strike a balance between genres, directors, etc. I try to throw a few action films in there, with some Kung-fu and some other stuff.. Try as I might, there was some horror, I just couldn’t get on. I tried to make a more conscious effort to include some, but to no avail. As well, there was some cool 70’s thinking man/woman’s sci-fi that I wanted to get into, but it also didn’t quite make it this time.. there’s always next time..
that was awesome. Like early rockabilly country ala Cash. Allow me to retort with some Chris Mitchum Z-grade gold He was a Lethal Hunter! This is one we’re probably gonna squeeze in there somewhere as well..
One of my greatest pleasures is the album by Robert Mitchum Calypso - Is Like So… It sounds like a high Johnny Cash entoning (cannot really call it singing) over a Calypso heavy soundtrack. Mitchum makes it great.
I moved stolen kisses up near the top of my Zip queue
Being that I have been banging on about this film for a few weeks, I hope you are not disappointed! It is a semi-sequel to 400 Blows (one of the most famous films of the French New Wave) though I do not think you need to see them back to back, but there are a couple of nods to the previous film. The reason I love the film is that it takes a film noir standard - the private eye - and shows how it does not really fit in the real(ish) world, the comedy is funny and the two central relationships are both funny and romantic.
Possibly I love it so much because I am film noir fanatic, I love the genre. It and Westerns are my two favourite genres, which are perhaps two of the most American film artforms in culture. Who knows what appeals!
Wilson, I haven’t seen Thunder Road, but will have to look into it.. Man, I have to say, making my list was HARD. I spent a good portion of yesterday at work paring the list down from over 100 films to 20 of the ones you see there.. I cut a lot of French stuff out last minute that I think I’ll throw on next time(Truffaut’s the Bride wore black, Don’t deliver us from evil, etc)
Bride Wore Black is wonderful, the fact that Truffaut made that the same year as Stolen Kisses is amazing to me. What a double bill they are! Most directors do not make a film as good in their whole career and he made both in 1968.
I moved stolen kisses up near the top of my Zip queue.. It’s funny how some directors catch lightening in a bottle. Look at Coppola. The man can’t get of his own way now, and yet he made 4 films in the 70’s that are absolutely essential. 2 of which are considered to be amongst the very best ever. One is the definitive war movie in my opinion, and his “side project” was The Conversation!
That is very true some directors can have amazing periods of filmmaking and then surround them with completely dross. Coppola will forever be a hero of most film fans but I am sorry to say having caught his last film Youth Without Youth, he has completely lost it. Youth Without Youth is one of the poorest films I have ever seen from a major director, it is De Palma bad.
On his good films - I do think that The Conversation is the best film he has ever made. I love Gene Hackman in the film. But even into the eighties he made some good stuff - One From The Heart (Tom Waits music is awesome in this) Rumble Fish and parts of The Cotton Club.
the only one of the 3 80’s Coppola films you mentioned that I’ve seen is Rumble Fish, which is good. When you say De Palma bad, you mean late 90’s and on De Palma right? I know I speak for Sammy and I both when I say early De Palma(70’s and 80’s) is deeply loved by both of us. Carrie is one of the 5 best horror films of all time in my opinion, and dressed to kill is one of the better attempts by an american filmmaker at doing giallo-esque stuff
