If.... (1968)

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My personal favorite film of all time, If takes place in a British boarding school, where Mick Travis (played by Malcolm McDowell, who is fantastic as usual) and his fellow "degenerates" revolt against the "whips" (seniors of the school who dominate their classmates) and the authorities of the school.

If is a very fascinating and unique film. The style is most noteworthy in the way the film switches between black and white to color, seemingly for no reason.

A very dark and surreal film, highly recommended.

-10/10

Days of Heaven (1978)

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Days of Heaven tells the story of Bill and Abby a couple posing as brother and sister in beginning of the century America who travel south to Texas to escape poverty. They find work in the fields and harvest crops, on the farm of a wealthy man who falls in love with Abby and sets off a chain of violence and jealousy.

Directed in a visually stunning way by Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven has some of the most breathtaking poetic cinematography in film history.

-9/10

Down by Law (1986)

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One of the first films I've seen by Jim Jarmusch, I was very pleasantly surprised by this little gem.

The story is pretty simple, three men (two of which were set up, and one of which murdered a man in self defense) are sent to prison in Louisiana, and plan to escape to freedom.

A very idiosyncratic ensemble (Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni), a very minimalist approach, and the melancholy mood throughout make this film a very interesting viewing experience.

-10/10

I heard McDowell's performance in this is why Kubrick chose him for A Clockwork Orange. I'm gonna have to check it out.

Beetlejuice (1988)



:)

>>: A-

Blitz (2011)

Pretty average cop thriller where nothing much happens actually.

>>: C

Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993)

Pretty solid Lovecraftian Horror anthology. Liked it.

>>: A-

Closed for the Season (2010)

The idea was decent as it centers around a forgotten-abandoned amusement park and even it had several scenes shot at the long-closed Chippewa Lake Park-Ohio, and featured some of the park's derelict attractions as backgrounds. But this low budget horror feature is quite lengthy (almost 2 hrs!) with a kind of repetitive materials and that made it pretty dull overall.

>>: C-

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i was after this movie for so many years, fearonsarms helped me find it.
pure cheese, but good fun.

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LET THE DEVIL WEAR BLACK (1999)

This one was different...Pretty interesting but of course way too much is left unanswered. Barely 3 out of 5

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962)
-John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles

Plot: IMDB
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

Phantom's Review: One of the true greats in movie history. This film is damn near perfect. Acting, direction, story and action. This film has it all. John Ford's last GREAT film. A classic..

urban legend: 6/10. http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/...anLegendBQ.jpg A vastly underrated movie. The acting was decent but the goth chick was a terrible actor and the killer in the backseat kill was too obvious and the script was somewhat lacking. The kills other then the killer in the backseat kill were very well done and interesting. overall not the bad movie critics always say it is.

I thought that the reason why they switched from black and white to color was that they ran out of money... The color scenes were shot first, then they ran out of funds and shot everything else in black and white.

It was one of my dad's favorite films of all time - he was the one that told me that story. Been a while since I've seen it.

Maybe, who knows. In an article I was reading it said that the cinematographer wasn't able to guarantee color consistency in a lot of the church scenes, so the director decided to switch back and forth throughout the film for aesthetic reasons.

silence of the lambs

still the best one out of all of them