Thanks for the silents love

Thanks for the silents love

Great list, you've done a lot better job keeping up with more current Japanees filmmakers than I have - although I've seen some I've liked a lot (Tokyo Sonata, Afterlife, Audition, Fireworks, Hidden Blade & Twilight Samurai 13 Assassins). Guess the reliance on certain genres I'm not that interested in (gangsters,…

Great list, you've done a lot better job keeping up with more current Japanees filmmakers than I have - although I've seen some I've liked a lot (Tokyo Sonata, Afterlife, Audition, Fireworks, Hidden Blade & Twilight Samurai 13 Assassins). Guess the reliance on certain genres I'm not that interested in (gangsters,…

I'm saying the FX are really bad - which is made worse by the fact that it is a great SP and although I am not a big Cary Grant fan, he and EM Saint are excellent.

I'm saying the FX are really bad - which is made worse by the fact that it is a great SP and although I am not a big Cary Grant fan, he and EM Saint are excellent.

I'm glad to see you mention Hidden Blade, that and Twilight Samurai were such wonderful, masterful, beautiful films by a very old director who spent most of his very long career making disposable crap.

I'm glad to see you mention Hidden Blade, that and Twilight Samurai were such wonderful, masterful, beautiful films by a very old director who spent most of his very long career making disposable crap.

You want to see a top ten list? Here's a top 11 (off the top o' my head)

There seems to be a very slow but growing list of people who love "Barry Lyndon" - myself included. Maybe it'll make the list 10 years from now.

wolfmansRazorIt's ridiculous to say those painted backdrops in The Birds were 'intentionally bad' - you are giving Hitchcock far too much credit.

wolfmansRazorIt's ridiculous to say those painted backdrops in The Birds were 'intentionally bad' - you are giving Hitchcock far too much credit.

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It's a lot better than the craptacular and more highly-rated (on this list)  "The Searchers"

It's a lot better than the craptacular and more highly-rated (on this list)  "The Searchers"

I have a suggestion for getting into Tokyo Story:

I have a suggestion for getting into Tokyo Story:

Someday more people are going to understand just how great Tropical Malady is.

Someday more people are going to understand just how great Tropical Malady is.