How many of the IMDb top 250 have you seen? I rated 72%. Have a go yourself, go on you know you want to.
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”
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101 is my score.
[quote comment=""]101 is my score.[/quote]
101% – jeebus!
81.something%. You definitely should see Unforgiven.
[quote comment=""]81.something%. You definitely should see Unforgiven.[/quote]
Just had lunch with someone who took great pleasure in pointing out the ‘essential’ films I haven’t seen. A Clockwork Orange!
Unforgiven is out on blu-ray which will provoke further investigation. I also want to catch-up on my missing Eastwoods (A Perfect World) before Gran Torino and The Changeling come out.
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