Yes, yes. Cool Hand Luke. I don't know of a film that Paul Newman's been in that I didn't like except Message in a Bottle (puke). And I forgot this Western--last line: "The old man was right, only the farmers won. We lost. We'll always lose." Magnificent Seven; I have to confess to being a Hitchcock fan. Cary Grant is...no words to describe.And I just thought of a few more that made my head spin.
Midnight Cowboy
To Kill a Mocking Bird
African Queen
Passage to India
Annie Hall
Easy Rider (of course)
One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest (wow)
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Good choices, though, would you believe I've never seen Easy Rider?
I completely forgot about Yul Brenner! He rocks my world. I love him in The Brothers Karamazov.
What Hitchcock's?
I like Vertigo, Rear Window, North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, and BIRDS! I still don't know how they got all those crazy birds together in one place. They didn't have CGI then, so the scenes are mighty impressive.
And I've been trying for about a million years to see Notorious because I really like Ingrid Bergman too. I fell in love with her in For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Woe is me, or rather, woe is us. Movies used to be so good.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was the first rated R movie I ever saw. I was a sophomore at BYU-I, home for the weekend. My sister had rented it. I felt like if she was going to hell for it, so was I. And I never regretted it because it changed my soul. I love you, Jack Nicholson.
Has anyone seen J.N. in Goin' South??? SOOOOOOOO DAMNEDLY FUNNY. You heard it from here.
Also, little known fact: Jack Nicholson has ALSO played, in the 1960 version, the role Bill Murray took later on as the crazy sadistic dental patient of Little Shop of Horrors.
Jaren, I've never met anyone who hasn't seen Easy Rider. Whew. A first. I agree with all the rest of your choices. I salivate over old films. And Em, One Flew... changed my life also. I laughed and cried and have loved Ken Kesey forever. I worked as a research assistant for the BYU professor who was commissioned to write the Ken K. biography for the Twain series. He pulled into Kesey's farm in Oregon (where K. said he was busy "watching the corn grow") with his bow tie and suit. The Merry Prankster bus was parked in the corn field with some hipsters living in it. K. was great, showed him around, and they found some old manuscripts in the back of the barn. He gave them to BYU. So, BYU has an original collection of works by Ken Kesey. I, myself, find this hilariously ironic. Watch Sometimes a Great Notion sometime or read the book. Great, though harsh.
Oh, and every time I see a more than three crows together, I freak. The Birds scared me into a corner.
Em, I'll trade you one piece of good leather, some velum paper, a purple colored rock I found in the Snake River above Island park dam, and a small Buddha statue if you'll change that bratty, sulky-looking pic on your profile. It looks like you're about ready to throw up. (Though it's certainly better than the pink Face book dress.)
No way. I want the leather and vellum. I need it badly.
Can't you make thin paper out of snake skin?
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