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Paul Giamatti’s Closet Picks

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Viggo Mortensen’s Closet Picks



The Gunfighter

Astonished at how many of the films in these presentations I've never watched.

Actors seem to like obscure movies

52 I've found to watch from the Criterion Collection:

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) ABANDONED
Sullivan's Travels (1941) ABANDONED
Remorques (1941) ABANDONED
Ornamental Hairpin (1941) 8.75
The Jungle Book (1942) ABANDONED
Sanshiro Sugata (1943) 9.5 MASTERPIECE
The Seventh Victim (1943) 8.25
La Ciel est a Vous (1944) NOT WATCHED YET
The Gunfighter (1950) 8
Stromboli (1950) 9.25
The River (1951) NOT WATCHED YET
Summer With Monika (1953) ABANDONED/PHOTOGRAPHED
Summertime (1955) ABANDONED
Rififi (1955) ABANDONED (OK, but just a heist film and not as good as Bob le Flambeur)
Crazed Fruit (1956) ABANDONED
The Killing (1956) 8.75
3:10 To Yuma (1957) 8.5
Shadows (1958) 7.75
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 9.5
Through A Glass Darkly (1961) ABANDONED
L'Eclisse (1962) ABANDONED
The Trial (1962) I skipped some bits. Could give it an 8.
Dragon Inn (1967) 8.5
Teorema (1968) ABANDONED
Stolen Kisses (1968) 9.25
Phantom India (1969) COULDN'T FIND IT
A Touch of Zen (1971) 8.75
Cries and Whispers (1972) 7
Roma (1972) LOOKED TERRIBLE. BARELY STARTED IT
Fist of Fury (1972) ABANDONED
Day for Night (1973) ABANDONED
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) 8.5
In the Realm of the Senses (1976) LOOKED TERRIBLE. BARELY STARTED IT
3 Women (1977) DIDN'T QUITE FINISH IT
Taipei Story (1985) 9.75 MASTERPIECE (Watched out of sequence)
Dressed to Kill (1980) ABANDONED
Blow Out (1981) ABANDONED
Identification of a Woman (1982) COULDN'T FIND IT. WASN'T BOTHERED
El Sur (1983) ABANDONED (film for women)
The Runner (1984) 9.25 MASTERPIECE
Rouge (1987) ABANDONED
As Tears Go By (1988) ABANDONED
The Match Factory Girl (1990) 9.25
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) 8.5
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) ABANDONED
Traffic (2000) ABANDONED
Medicine for Melancholy (2008) ABANDONED
Frances Ha (2013) 9
One Night in Miami (2020) ABANDONED
About Dry Grasses (2023) ABANDONED
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) CAN'T FIND IT
Perfect Days (2024) ABANDONED

Will keep me busy for a while.

More than half way through my list. Found some really good ones so far.

Jerry Schatzberg’s Closet Picks

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The Criterion Closet Is Hitting the Road

I did not wait 10 hours in line to do this, but it was fun to see the van in person.

Easy:

Viggo Mortensen... the man f'in knows his westerns and giving props to great westerns like Red River (my favorite film of all time) and 3:10 to Yuma as well as some lesser known great Barbara Stanwyck westerns like Forty Guns and The Furies. Oh and one of my all time favorites McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Yeah, dude knows his shit and cool to see the western (my favorite genre) getting some love:

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lol, I just saw this going back through the thread after I posted mine. Good call! And I've always preferred The Gunfighter over High Noon... as much as I adore the main theme of High Noon. The Gunfighter is a better film.

Same. And we consider ourselves to be film nerds. The depth of great cinema is insurmountable. Sadly most people will never see how great storytelling in film can be, as when young people are watching films it's the Marvel stuff, but the rest of the time they're scrolling through tiktok.

lol, it has been posted three times on this page.. Love both The Gunfighter and High Noon both make my all time top hundred with ease. I couldn't choose between them.. I do think High Noon's; theme, 'the clock', Grace Kelly, the photo/cinematography and third act gives it the edge for most viewers.

Johnnie To is as cool as you think he is.

Christian Petzold is one of my favorite's directors - I love his enthusiasm; he made me smile in his "city of movies" - it's also cute how he pronounces robber as sounding something like 'rubber'

I love that he took People on Sunday, which is one I own and cherish but don't hear many folks talk about.

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Watching that was interesting. I mean that in a positive manner. I decided to look up Christian Petzold and four of his films grabbed my attention, so I saved them to my IMDb Watch List, and checked my library for them. I lucked out; the library has four of his films, including three I saved, so I requested Afire.

Your enthusiasm for his enthusiasm made me curious and some of his films sounded intriguing so I figure it wouldn't hurt to give at least one a shot. If I don't like it, I tried it out and will know that.

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Pamela Anderson

She was so endearing in this!