Movie/film suggestions.


 

While this is of course a forum for the discussion of all things audio/hi-fi and music, pretty much all of us are also lovers of movies, the enjoyment of which is effected by the reproduction of the sound they contain (with the exception of silent movies wink).

I've been focused on David Lynch movies since his death, but with current events so much a part of our lives at the moment, I plan on re-watching a movie I’ve seen only once, and years ago. That movie is:

The Madness Of King George. Apropos, no?

 

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I found the movie Crash to be a very watchable movie with a strong cast.  Besides Matt Dillon as a bigoted police officer, the movie, which was intersecting stories of various characters with their own prejudices and biases,  featured Don Cheadle, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Ludacris, Michael Pena, Keith David, Tony Danza.  It also featured Sandra Bullock and William Fichtner whose acting I particularly enjoy when cast in the right roles.

William Fichtner made me think of his brief appearance as a coke dealer in Hot Summer Nights which was set in the north east in the summer of '91 (a heat wave) which just happened to be the year we moved from NC to Pittsburgh and I was wondering, "Is it always this hot here?  The realtor told us we wouldn't need air conditioning!"   

A couple of Sandra Bullock movies I enjoyed were the comedy Heat with Melissa McCarthy  and Our Brand Is Chaos.  with Billy Bob Thornton.

 

Has Goodfellas been mentioned yet?  If it has, I missed it, but with my eyesight that's quite possible.  A classic!

Ah, 'Legends of the Fall.'

A feel good romp if there ever was one...!

Well, @thecarpathian , I guess maybe, but didn't it take some suicide, murder, sickness, death, brutality of war, and betrayal to get there?

Here are some of my favorites. I have too many to name them all.

(Kubrick)

Dr. Strangelove

2001 A Space Odyssey 

A Clockwork Orange 

The Shining 

(Lynch)

Blue Velvet 

Lost Highway 

Mulholland Drive

(Film Noir)

The Asphalt Jungle

Nightmare Alley

The Maltese Falcon

(Everything Else in rough chronological order)

Modern Times

Citizen Kane

The Seven Samurai 

The Seventh Seal

The Apartment 

Lawrence of Arabia

High and Low

Seconds

Midnight Cowboy

Five Easy Pieces

Deliverance

The Parallax View

The Conversation 

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Apocalypse Now

Alien

Blade Runner

Once Upon A Time In America 

Drugstore Cowboy 

Goodfellas

Barton Fink

Pulp Fiction 

Dead Man

The Usual Suspects 

The Big Lebowski

Spirited Away

The Life of Pi