The Killing

The Killing (aka O Grande Golpe)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson and Lionel White

A huge surprise for me, I was expecting an "old", linear and slow film telling a simple history. Turns out that seems that that movie is the father of many of other films I adore. If you like movies from Quentin Tarantino or from Guy Ritchie, you WILL love this movie. Despite its age (1956) and its Black & White, it is for sure a movie ahead of its time; it is pretty modern!

Outrageously funny and intelligent. Some might say it is the best movie kubrick ever made.

For sure, many of you never put your eyes on this one but here goes the advice: RENT IT!

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Eyes Wide Shut
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Written by: Arthur Schnitzler & Stanley Kubrick

Movie picture with famous "pop" actors but still REALLY great.
A movie that makes you re-think about all your sexual values.

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Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Screenplay:
Stanley Kubrick
Peter George
Terry Southern
Novel:
Peter George

Greaat movie!!! Outrageoulsy funny and intelligent. A great history. Some of the best black-comedy films out there.

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A Clockwork Orange (Laranja Mecânica)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
History by: Anthony Burgess

This movie picture is quite famous in the "cult" world.
Extremely great and intelligent.
Great soundtrack and great acting; A beautiful art work.


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A MUST-SEE movie, FOR SURE!
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C ya!

First raw list..

I've been keeping my list of great movies for some time and I think it would be a good starting point.

Some movies have different names in brazil, for identification purposes I'll put that name in parenthesis after the original name.

Dir stands for director and Scw for Screenplay writer (yes, I think sometimes it says more than any other "names")

THEY ARE NOT RANKED.. I'll do that later..

A Clockwork Orange (Laranja Mecânica)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Dr. StrangeLove (Dr. Fantástico)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Eyes Wide Shut (De olhos bem fechados)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

The Killing (O grande golpe)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Paths of Glory
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

2001, Space Odissey,
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Lolita
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Full Metal Jacket
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Waking Life
Dir/Scw: Richard Linklater

A Scanner Darkly
Dir/Scw: Richard Linklater

Brazil
Dir: Terry Gilliam

The Twelve Monkeys
Dir: Terry Gilliam

True Romance
Dir:Tony Scott
Scw:Quentin Tarantino

Natural Born Killers
Dir: Oliver Stone
Scw: Quentin Tarantino

Pulp Fiction
Dir: Quentin Tarantino

Jackie Brown
Dir: Quentin Tarantino

Kill Bill v1v2
Dir: Quentin Tarantino

Reservoir Dogs(Cães de Aluguel)
Dir: Quentin Tarantino
Scw: Quentin Tarantino & ...

Adaptation
Dir: Spike Jonze
Scw: Charlie Kaufman

Human Nature (A natureza quase humana)
Dir: Michel Gondry
Scw: Charlie Kaufman

Beeing Jhon Malkovich
Dir: Spike Jonze
Scw: Charlie Kaufman

Confessions of a dangerous mind
Scw: Charlie Kaufman

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless mind
Dir: Michel Gondry
Scw: Charlie Kaufman

Lock, Stock, and two Smoking Barrels
Dir: Guy Ritchie

Snatch
Dir: Guy Ritchie

THX 1138
Dir: George Lucas

Vanilla Sky
Dir: James Cameron

Fight Club
Dir: David Fincher

Sin City
Dir: Robert Rodriguez

Mulholland Drive
Dir: David Lynch

Bringing Out the Dead
Dir: Martin Scorsese

The good, the bad and the ugly
Dir: Sergio Leone

Scarface
Dir: Brian de Palma
Scw: Oliver Stone

Four Rooms
Dir:Various
Segment: The man from hollywood
Dir: Quentin Tarantino

Drained, ( O Cheiro do Ralo)
Dir: Heitor Dhalia
Scw: Lourenço Mutarelli

Films I don't remember any specs:
Run LOLA Run,
The Usual Suspects,
Holy Smoke!,
Dog day afternoon,
The three burials of Malquiades Estrada
Memento (Amnésia)
Swordfish
The princess and the warrior

My first post...

It's 4:40 (AM), I am listening to Johnny Cash.
After spending a few hours on the web searching for good film suggestions, without much success, I decided to erect my own LIST of must-see movies.

At first I was just using Orkut's Movie Preferences to express myself. Well.. it got too poor on resources so.. " ere I am J.H."

Ideas for this blog are flooding me and I really dunno which ones to adopt.

Mainly, I'll post informations (if possible some kind of ranking..) about movies I really like.


Here goes my first post.