tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161637385294744810.post8387601247430616118..comments2024-02-24T04:06:50.811-05:00Comments on The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World: My Quest to See the 1000 Greatest Films: #900 Thru #919Kevyn Knoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17840497589713234794noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161637385294744810.post-17020372102636441172012-11-14T14:20:40.907-05:002012-11-14T14:20:40.907-05:00A particularly weak batch, IMO...
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War and ...A particularly weak batch, IMO...<br /><br />GREAT:<br />War and Peace<br />Wild River<br />Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors<br /><br />VERY GOOD:<br />Carnival in Flanders<br />Il Posto<br />The Great Escape<br /><br />GOOD:<br />Seventh Heaven<br />Le Corbeau<br />The Sorrow and the Pity<br />Funny Face<br />I Know Where I'm Going!<br />The Manchurian Candidate<br /><br />OKAY:<br />Le Cercle Rouge<br /><br />MEH:<br />Ben-Hur<br />Salo<br /><br />DISLIKE:<br />The Travelling Players<br />Hotel Terminus<br />The Tin Drum<br />Abraham's Valley<br />The FountainheadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161637385294744810.post-33563113965734132772012-10-27T11:37:53.311-04:002012-10-27T11:37:53.311-04:00The Great Escape was entertaining to me, although ...The Great Escape was entertaining to me, although downbeat like you mentioned.<br /><br />Salo is just one of those films that professional critics like to say is great in order to show how brave they can be. It's nothing but crap. It doesn't take filmmaking skills to generate a strong reaction by showing people eating feces.<br /><br />Funny Face was an enjoyable little film, but nothing more.<br /><br />The reason to see Ben-Hur is for the chariot race. Can you believe they cut away more than half of it for pan and scan?<br /><br />The Manchurian Candidate worked for me, but it was so many years ago I have lost some of the details of it.Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.com