Blow-Up - Antonioni, 1966 (it didn't open in London though until March '67)
L'Eclisse - Antonioni, 1962
I Know Where I'm Going - Powell, 1945
Black Narcissus - Powell, 1947
The Scarlet Empress - Von Sternberg, 1934
Bringing Up Baby - Hawks, 1938
Some Like It Hot - Wilder, 1959
All About Eve - Mankiewicz, 1950
A Star Is Born - Cukor, 1954
2001 A Space Odyssey - Kubrick, 1968
The Passenger - Antonioni, 1975
The Leopard - Visconti, 1963
Notorious - Hitchcock, 1946
Rear Window - Hitchcock, 1954
Vertigo - Hitchcock, 1958
North By Northwest - Hitchcock, 1959
Psycho - Hitchcock, 1960
The Birds - Hitchcock, 1963
L'Avventura - Antonioni, 1960
Umberto D - De Sica, 1952
Tokyo Story - Ozu, 1953
Pather Panchali - Ray, 1955
Au Hasard Balthasar - Bresson, 1966
The Bandwagon - Minnelli, 1953
The Quiet Man - Ford, 1952
The Searchers - Ford, 1956
Sunset Boulevard - Wilder, 1950
Double Indemnity - Wilder, 1944
Johnny Guitar - Ray, 1954
El Cid - Mann, 1961
30 more?: The Innocents, The Women, A Matter of Life and Death, Anatomy of a Murder, The Red Desert, Il Grido, La Notte, The Servant, Billy Liar, Modesty Blaise, Tom Jones, Barry Lyndon, New York New York, All That Jazz, Kiss Me Kate, Les Girls, Alexander, Kinsey, Brokeback Mountain, The Hurt Locker, All About My Mother, Bad Education, Lord of the Rings, Adventures of Quentin Durward, Moonfleet, Heaven Knows Mr Allison, All That Heaven Allows, The Misfits, Midnight Mary, A Letter to 3 Wives.
Plus '30s screwball comedies, '40s noirs, '50s epics+musicals+dramas+westerns, '60s arthouse, '70s new hollywood, etc.
2,000 POSTS DONE!, so I am posting less frequently, but will still be adding news, comments and photos.. As archived, its a ramble through my movie watching, music and old magazine store and discussing People We Like [Loren, Monroe, Vitti, Romy Schneider, Lee Remick, Kay Kendall, Anouk & Dirk Bogarde, Delon, Belmondo, Jean Sorel, Belinda Lee; + Antonioni, Hitchcock, Wilder, Minnelli, Cukor, Joni Mitchell, David Hockney etc]. As Pauline Kael wrote: "Art, Trash and the Movies"!
Dedications: My four late friends Rory, Stan, Bryan, Jeff - shine on you crazy diamonds, they would have blogged too. Then theres Garry from Brisbane, Franco in Milan, Mike now in S.F. / my '60s-'80s gang: Ned & Joseph in Ireland; in England: Frank, Des, Guy, Clive, Joe & Joe, Ian, Ivan, Nick, David, Les, Stewart, the 3 Michaels / Catriona, Sally, Monica, Jean, Ella, Anne, Candie / and now: Daryl in N.Y., Jerry, John, Colin, Martin and Donal.
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