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posted 05-09-2008 14:55

 
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So have we ever actually done "best" rather than "favourite"?


Not sure, but a while back we did to the taste knockout competition, ganja had us make a list of our 20 favorite films, and people voted on who had the best taste.

Do I need to remind you who was deemed by OTF to have the best taste in films?
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posted 05-09-2008 16:53

 
Five films really is impossible. You just have to pick five and go with them. I'm not sure any on this list is necessarily a 'guaranteed' top fiver - at any other moment I could pick a completely different five - but I've tried to spread them around a little.

Badlands
The Maltese Falcon
Muriel's Wedding
The Philadelphia Story
Talk To Her

Casablanca was almost on there. I plumped for the Falcon instead, mainly because it makes better use of Lorre and Greenstreet, but then again Casablanca has awesome dialogue. (Not sure how anybody could not love it btw.)

Then again I'm personally not so big on Citizen Kane, which feels to me more like a history lesson than a story one can really get into. A film that has many admirable moments, but one to be admired rather than one which draws the viewer fully into its world.
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posted 05-09-2008 17:03

 
Inca wrote:
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Do I need to remind you who was deemed by OTF to have the best taste in films?


Please.
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posted 05-09-2008 17:05

 
If we're talking best 5 is no one going to mention Lawrence of Arabia?
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posted 05-09-2008 19:19

 
Great capsule summary of the essence of Vertigo by Taylor. As with Rear Window in that film's more genial, less subtle way, Stewart is channelling Hitchcock's own, weird obsessions with the female form which have a borderline fetishistic quality about them - the female as inanimate, doll-like, malleable. (Didn't he send Tippi Hedren, or her daughter, a doll facsimile of herself in a coffin?)
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posted 05-09-2008 19:24

 
Yes, it was Melanie Griffith.
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posted 05-09-2008 21:00

 
archivedmusicpress wrote:
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TonTon wrote:
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Do I need to remind you who was deemed by OTF to have the best taste in films?


Please.


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posted 08-09-2008 08:24

 
Melbourne Arab wrote:
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linus wrote:
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the supporting actors and side characters are a gallery of grotesque 1950s Hollywood Frenchman cliches. This is one of several weaknesses of this movie; I wholeheartedly agree with Lyra there, "Casablanca" is way overrated.


1950s cliches in a 1942 film. Impressive.

The supporting actors are one of the main reasons Casablanca is great (although I do prefer The Maltese Falcon) - Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Claude Rains - you couldn't get a better "non-star" line up.


Well, they could have gotten a real French man to play the role of the French officer. And how cliche is it to name that french character after one of the most popular French brands, but I suppose the movie's Hollywood writers couldn't come up with a basic French name... 1950 or 1942, it's pretty much the same Hollywood cliches.
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