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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" (1974)
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Zaz
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RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Sleeper" (1973)
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Next: "Serpico" (1973)
USA 129 min. Colour
Director: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Martin Bregman
Screenplay: Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
Photography: Arthur J. Omitz
Music: Mikis Theodorakis
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Tony Roberts
Frank Serpico is a man who refuses paybacks, and becomes so unpopular with his coworkers than one of them shoots him (in the face).
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Serpico" (1973)
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No, the Cage dressed as bear in Wicker Man remake is not a canard, he really does it. Go to YouTube and search for "Wicker Man bad scenes." You'll hit comedy gold. I like the bit where Cage dramatically approaches an elderly woman in a tavern (it looks like) and then just frigging lays her out cold with a right cross. Hi. La. Rious.
Sleeper is pretty good, but then I still like early Allen. There's some funny bits, including, as memory serves a spoof of Streetcar Named Desire, but it's not nearly as consistent as Bananas.
Serpico is also a great film. Pacino's performance is a brilliant one. One of the worst film scores in history though; testimony to Pacino that he makes it work in spite of the muzak.
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Zaz
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RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "Serpico" (1973)
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It's 'Wicker Man best scenes' and the bees are my favorite.
What was anybody thinking there?
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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I know. How can you even say, "My eyes! My eyes!" with a straight face?
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Zaz
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And Cage doesn't *need* to take roles like that... 
Next: "The Exorcist" (1973)
USA; 122m. Colour
Language: English, Latin, Greek, French, German, Arabic
Director: Wm. Friedkin
Producer: Wm. Peter Blatty
Screenplay: Wm. Peter Blatty, from his novel
Photography: Owen Roizman, Billy Williams
Music: Jack Nitzsche, David Borden, George Crumb, Hans Werner Henze, Mike Oldfield, Krzysztof Penderecki, Anton Webern
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Linda Blair and the uncredited voice of Mercedes McCambridge
The young daughter of a film star starts exhibiting 'strange' behaviour, and medical tests show nothing. Her mother enlists stronger help.
The first modern horror film to be a blockbuster, it is the progenitor of many, many more.
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Vortigern99
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RE: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Now Disc. "The Exorcist" (1973)
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I consider The Exorcist to be one of the best films ever made, a note-perfect piece of cinematic craftsmanship that transcends the horror genre into the realm of metaphysical philosophy. It exudes evil and malice but promises hope and healing. The title could refer to either of the two hero-priests, Karras and Merrin, both of whom give their lives in their efforts to banish the demon and restore life and liberty to the innocent young victim of possssion. Yet of the two Karras is the more compelling figure, mainly because he is like us in that he questions his faith. "I want out," he tells a fellow Jesuit; only his harrowing experience with the demon can restore his fallen belief in God. Even the agnostic or atheistic Chris MacNeil, the possessed girl's mother, finds some degree of faith, if we are to take the final scene, in which Karras' friend Father Dyer bids her to keep Karras' Catholic medallion, as symbolic. I could go on at length; this film is so rich with meaning and passion that it could bear a thousand viewings, a thousand pages of commentary. I've seen it perhaps thirty, once with WP Blatty -- the novelist, screenwriter and producer of The Exorcist -- in the audience behind me. His comments to me before and after the showing helped me fathom the depths of this brilliant masterpiece of a movie. For those who conceive of it as a mere gross-out of a horror movie, I entreat you to look closer.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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I concur with all of the above, with one addition.
Even though this was ultimately the peak of William Friedkin's directing career, for it's day, let's give him credit, his peak is a masterpiece. He destroyed his own career afterward through arrogance, hubris and bad choices, but he must have had angels on his shoulders when he directed this devilish tale. It probably sent church attendance soaring.
I urge people to watch the DVD and listen to Friedkin's commentary. It is one of the absolutely best director commentaries I have EVER heard. Most director commentaries are redundant, often useless. This one's not useless, it's priceless. Particularly toward the end. It provides genuine illumination into every aspect of this amazingly effective film. He's articulate and passionate to this day about what he created, a gold standard of modern horror. Don't miss it.
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^ ^ Word. Friedkin's commentary is extremely informative, and the story of the making of this movie is almost as fascinating as the film itself!
The Exorcist also has the rare distinction of being a movie that is almost exactly like the book on which it is based. This is due, of course, to the fact that the novelist, Blatty, wrote the screenplay and produced the film as well, and that he was already a screenwriter (A Shot in the Dark, the first Inspector Clouseau film) at the time he wrote the book. The chief difference between book and film is that in the book, it's never made explicitly clear that Regan is in fact possessed; there are any number of psyhcological ailments -- gone into at length in both book and film -- that could account for her condition. Of course, in the movie, her hideous make-up and impossibly malevolent voice make it clear that there is indeed something supernatural at play here. Also, in the book there is a more detailed subplot involving Lt. Kinderman, the police investigator; he and Karras developed a closer friendship, and he also pursued Karl -- the MacNeil housekeeper with an anger management problem -- as a possible suspect in the Burke Dennings murder. (This explains the reason for showing Dennings calling Karl a "bloody Nazi" in the film, and Karl reacting aggressively: it provides a motive for the later killing.)
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One of the best movies i've seen for sure, not to mention one of the only movies that managed to scare me and freak me out 
I'll have to watch the DVD with the commentary for sure after ur recommendations... i'm intrigued... i normally avoid commentaries cause some just can be so lame they turn me off to watching others... but i'll give this one a try for sure 
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my sister was possesed in my dreams because of this movie it scares the crap out of me 
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I too have reasons for loving this movie which have their source in primal childhood fears. As I told the writer/producer Blatty when I met him in 2000, my mother made the mistake of allowing me to watch the (CBS-TV-edited version of) The Exorcist when I was about 8 years old. The look of Regan's horrible face, her dayglow eyes and scarred cheeks, and her deep monstrous voice terrified me out of my wits for years on end. I had to sleep with the light on and endure my father's mockery on this subject until I was perhaps 13 or 14. There are times even today, at 38 years of age, when in the lonely pitch-blackness of the night, the demon's face will appear unbidden in my mind and freak me the **** out. As a result of my youthful terror and morbid fascination, however, the original novel became the first adult novel I read, at age 10 and 11, which set me on something of a literary journey which I still enjoy today. It was also the first movie I watched over and over again, which led to my understanding of cinematic techniques, especially screenwriting and editing. I'm grateful that this childhood obsession happened to coincide with a brilliant masterpiece of a film rather than some second-rate exploitation movie! My love and appreciation of cinema has definite roots in my revulsion and horror towards this film early in my life.
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Next: "Turkish Delight" (1973)
The Netherlands; 112m. Colour
Language: Dutch
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Producer: Rob Houwer
Screenplay: Gerard Soeteman
Photography: Jan de Bont
Music: Rogier van Otterloo
Cast: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer
The book describes this movie as a percuser of his big-budget Hollywood movies exploring sexuality.
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That mid-seventies period also had a huge impact on me Vortigern.
THE EXORCIST
JAWS
STAR WARS
and the roadshow re-releases of 2001
all of these amazing films seeded my fascination with cinema.
Especially the audience reactions to the Exorcist and Jaws. I'll never forget that time when I learned just how powerfully movies could affect people's emotions, particularly fear.
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^ ^ ^ Agreed. I'd also add Close Encounters, and the re-release of American Graffiti, to that list of highly influential mid-to-late-70s films.
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Next: "The Spirit of the Beehive" (1973)
Spain; 97m. Colour
Language: Spanish
Director: Victor Erice
Producer: Elias Querejeta
Screenplay: Victor Erice et al.
Photography: Luis Cuadrado
Music: Luis de Pablo
Cast: Fernando Gomez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Two small girls imagine that a political fugitive is the spirit of Frankenstein.
I confess that I've seen this listed on TCM twice, but haven't watched it.
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