Four Greatest Black & White Films of All Time. BTW, gotta know I love 3-star movies, I bathe in them.
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Sorcerer 1977
Perfectionist William Friedkin has said his thinking man’s action film Sorcerer is the only movie he’s made that he wouldn’t re-do a single shot.
This heady, machismo action film (too much set-up, too much brainy plot! was the original complaint) was released on June 24, 1977 while “Star Wars” had been released on May 25 and still packing in repeat business, both from 20th Century Fox. This remake of the just as robust French classic “Wages of Fear” (1953) is…
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
It was 1975 and even the crazies in the loony bin were more interesting people than most “sane” people you find in 2020 movies. At the zenith of interest is Jack Nicholson who has more personality, more raucousness, more chutzpah, than any other personality you can find anywhere in any other movie. His R.P. McMurphy has arrived at the state mental hospital in order to evade prison work detail, unknowing that he has walked into a chamber of boredom and…
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In the Name of the Father 1993
Governments are made up of fascist/bully idiots, Exhibit #93.
Two of my favorite acting moments of the 90’s belong to Daniel Day-Lewis for In the Name of the Father. First, the sequence where Day-Lewis, as Gerry Conlon, is tortured by interrogators to such strenuous degrees until he breaks down to sign a false confession, is unmistakably harrowing (Day-Lewis literally stayed up three nights in a cell while having crew members to heckle and behave as tyrants to get him into…
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The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
Beautifully shot film about functioning people in a small Spanish village, circa 1940. And I say it that way because we never come to feel the inner-workings of the people contained in The Spirit of the Beehive. I wouldn’t call it out-and-out detached, but rather a film that starts to say something but never comes into focus. But what do you know: Some people call this a masterpiece. I call it a wasted evening when I could have either chose…
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Walkabout 1971
“In Australia when an Aborigine man-child reaches sixteen, he is sent out into the land. For months he must live from it. Sleep on it. Eat of its fruit and flesh. Stay alive. Even if means killing his fellow creatures. The Aborigines call it the Walkabout. This is the story of a Walkabout.” – Prologue
The greatest film ever made. Walkabout features two city children lost in the Outback, luckily saved by an Aborigine boy who is on his yearlong…
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The Terminator 1984
One of my favorite Andrei Tarkovsky moves ever was when during his illness he steered a print interview towards praising an American film he had just seen, The Terminator. He said:
"The brutality and low acting skills are unfortunate, but as a vision of the future and the relation between man and his destiny, the film is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art."
It's of course a brand blockbuster sci-fi name now. But in 1984, James Cameron was…
