Jake Gittes

Amazon Prime folks put this on your watchlists. It's really great.

Amadeus has already shown up. I'm guessing Schindler, SPR, Lawrence, Grave and Dunkirk

nvm

I was on board with the moon falling on earth plot but Josh Gad playing someone with "a high level of intelligence" and "one of the most important people on Earth" really stretches the boundaries of realism.

Which means that it'll turn any month it releases in into its own personal blockbuster season no problem.

Some of this chaotic energy better find its way into the movie

Did you like what you read?

Yeah nothing so far indicates this will be revisionist/"alternative" history. Unless you think sex, orgies and nudity didn't exist in 1920s Hollywood which have I got news for you...

It rules very hard

Not that many lists, a lot of different movies and a tight point system that groups them all incredibly close together pretty much explains it.

Yeah take out that and Beautiful Girl and I'm onboard with the masterpiece crowd.

Happy 40th Last Day as a Wiseguy anniversary

I was lucky enough to rewatch the movie on the big screen a few years back. The audience was audibly having a good time in the first half and then that scene happened and there was nothing but pure tomb-like silence. One of my favorite moviegoing experiences.

Ben-Hur was a VHS staple when I was a kid but I never felt the slightest urge to rewatch it since about the age of 12. Tbh I found the overtly religious stuff a chore even then.

Do it. It'll own your ass

I regret ranking Harakiri #2 rather than #1.

List as it looks right now. Hope to squeeze in a rewatch of The New World tomorrow after which it might rise higher (or drop out, but I doubt it). 1. Goodfellas 2. Harakiri 3. Barry Lyndon 4. Chinatown 5. Dazed and Confused 6. Avalon (1990) 7. Cabaret 8. Days of Heaven 9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 10. Zodiac 11. Apocalypse Now 12. Lawrence of Arabia 13. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 14. My Friend Ivan Lapshin 15. Topsy-Turvy 16. The Duellists 17. The Immigrant 18. There Will Be Blood 19. The Witch: A New-England Folktale 20. The Wolf of Wall Street 21. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 22. Black Book 23. The Conformist 24. Diner 25. The Wild Bunch 26. Army of Shadows 27. Day of Wrath 28. The Long Day Closes 29. Orlando 30. Trial on the Road 31. 20th Century Women 32. 5 Fingers 33. Andrei Rublev 34. Carol 35. Paths of Glory 36. The Cranes Are Flying 37. The Irishman 38. L.A. Confidential 39. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 40. The Passion of Joan of Arc 41. The Age of Innocence 42. Casino 43. The Devils 44. First Man 45. The House of Mirth 46. House of Tolerance 47. If Beale Street Could Talk 48. Ivan the Terrible 49. Meek’s Cutoff 50. The New World

It doesn't have to be based on a true story. It has to express something about an earlier time in history.

if only there was some kind of original post in this thread that made it pretty clear what counts and what doesn't

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