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Top Ten and Desert Island flicks...
Y'know this is tougher than it looks, but here's mine, again in no essential sequence;
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe - Tandy and Bates pre-fame; great story-telling, a couple of cracking gags and a perceptive view on American history as is rarely seen in modern cinema
Bladerunner - Excellent translation of PK Dick; visionary perception from Scott, career-defining performance from Harrison Ford . . . and the last time Sean Young showed up in front of a camera sober
Alien - OK, OK, no shock here. Made and broke the mould for realism in Sci Fi; Giger, Weaver, Hurt, Skewritt, Stanton, Kotto, Cartwright, Holm, Scott . . . it's all there on the screen people. Still not usurped IMHO as the greatest Sci Fi flick filmed
The Hunger - Deneuve, Sarandon, Bowie . . .that music and one of the most breathtaking, truly erotic scenes in modern cinema
Raging Bull - Ultimate method acting; De Nitro unleashed, Peschi the calming influence; huge human story impact and all true
The Blues Brothers - Into Belushi and Ayckroyd back in the Saturday Night Live days; will always love this movie for that influence alone
Sense and Sensibilities - Ang Lee shows us how period drama should be done, and it stars Hugh Grant!
Wild At Heart - Cage and Dern, Harry Dean Stanton; Lynch adds the BBQ sauce
Apocalypse Now - Coppolla, The Doors, Hopper, Brando outta whack, The Horror, The Horror
The Fly - Cronenberg remake with Goldblum and Davies; horror, pathos and plum strangeness . . . horror as it should be, with interest
Ask me again tomorrow . . .
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph
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