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Carol's favorite Movies

I Know Where I'm Going
Michael Powell Ernest Pressburg
Wendy Hiller

Lawrence of Arabia
Great Expectations
David Lean

The River
Jean Renoir
(I like his Dana Andrews Film, Swamp Water)

Snow White
Disney

Gigi
Vincent Minelli

Odd Man Out

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Ghost Stories
The Haunting

Comedies
Take the Money and Run
Bedazzled

Sandy likes

The Maltese Falcon
John Huston

Casablanca
Michael Curtiz

Charade
Stanley Donen

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Richard Lester

The Inlaws


M

Gigi

The Thin Man

The Thing

The Sound of Music

Ghandi

Ruggles of Redgap

All of Me

Sabateur

Suspicion



Dizozza Personal Favorites
(please follow each category with the words, "of which I'm aware")

The Music Lovers
Ken Russell

The Chalk Garden
Ronald Neame

The Ruling Class
Peter Medak (also directed Negatives) -- met the director in September, 1992

The Marriage of Maria Braun
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Chinatown
Roman Polanski

Sleeper
Woody Allen

Oliver!
Carol Reed

Carrie
Brian DePalma

Catagories:

Kubrick
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
2001
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
(although 20 years in the making, this is the best
string of films since Hitchcock)
also Paths of Glory
Full Metal Jacket
The Killing/Killer's Kiss

Polanski
Rosemary's Baby
(Chinatown)
Cul de Sac
The Tenant
almost Tess and Repulsion
Scorsese
Temptation
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
maybe Portrait of an American Boy
almost New York New York
King of Comedy

DePalma
Carrie
The Fury
Scarface

Ken Russell; * = good for something other than as a musical
Song of Summer, etc., Billion Dollar Brain
Women in Love *
The Music Lovers *
The Devils *
(The Boy Friend, Savage Messiah), XValentinoX
Tommy *
Lisztomania *
Altered States
Crimes of Passion
Gothic, Salome's Last Dance, Lair of the White Worm

he was also ARIA organizer

Other Musicals I believe are worthwhile -- because at least I've seen them

Follow the Fleet
Roberta
Top Hat

The Bandwagon
Singing In the Rain

42nd Street
Dames
Gold Diggers of 1933

Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
Hair (Milos Forman)
(Oliver!)
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Yellow Submarine
The Wizard of Oz

The Little Shop of Horrors
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

West Side Story
Gypsy
almost Bye Bye Birdie

Ken Russell
ALL HIS FILMS ARE MUSICALS
Tommy

Disney

Pinocchio
Snow White
Peter Pan
Mary Poppins

The Little (My Little) Mermaid

Maybe Pollyanna
-- also see Parent Trap for Pre-Chalk Garden Haley Mills


Great Hitchcock

almost Young and Innocent
The 39 Steps

Rebecca
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
Suspicion
The Man Who Knew To Much
Rear Window
Vertigo (The James Stewart Trilogy)
North by Northwest
Psycho
(The Madness Trilogy)

The Birds

also The Trouble with Harry

Great DePalma
Obsession
The Fury
(Carrie)
Scarface

Remember
Elaine May:
A New Leaf

Mike Nichols directed
The Graduate and Carnal Knowledge

Arthur Penn directed
The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, and Little Big Man

Warrent Beatty
B & C
$ (Dir. Richard Brooks)
Heaven Can Wait
Bugsy (Music: Ennio Morricone)
Dick Tracy

William Friedken directed
The French Connection
The Exorcist
The great Boys in the Band opening

1910-20
Swedish Films
Victor Sjostrom
Mauritz Stiller

Best Swedish Film
The Silence (Bergman)

1920-30
Way Down East
The Gold Rush
The General
Greed
Sunrise

1930-40
Little Ceasar
Public Enemy

1940-50
Casablanca, of course
They Died with Their Boots On (Prequel to Little Big Man)

1950-60
Rebel Without a Cause

1960-70
The Graduate

1970-80
Midnight Cowboy

1980-1990
Brazil
Raging Bull

Best Welles

Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Lady from Shanghai

The Third Man
Carol Reed


Great Acadamy Award Winners

The Deerhunter
The Godfather / The Godfather II
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Milos Forman)
Gone With the Wind
From Here to Eternity
The Best Years of Our Lives
The French Connection

Great Marilyn Monroe
Bus Stop
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The River of No Return
The Misfits

Heat Wave, in There's No Business Like Show Business

Best Spielberg
Duel

Best Bette Davis besides Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Now Voyager
The Petrified Forest
(Maybe: Marked Woman, Dark Victory)

Best Katherine Hepburn
Alice Adams
Morning Glory
Bringing Up Baby

Best Cary Grant
BUB
Charade
NBN

Best (funniest) Italians

Bertollucci - never saw The Conformist
Last Tango in Paris
Partners
1900
The Last Emperor
Antonioni
Blow Up
almost Red Desert
L'Aventura
Pasolini
Pig Pen
Arabian Nights
Salo
Visconti
Ludwig
(Death in Venice/The Damned)
Fellini
Il Vitelloni
La Strada
La Dolce Vita
Best German
Nosferatu
Caligari
M
Aguire
(The Marriage of Maria Braun)
Lola
The Tin Drum

Best Japanese
Ran
Throne of Blood
Night and Fog in Japan
Kwaidon
Ugestu
Ikiru
others

Best Bergman
The Silence

Detective Films
(Chinatown)
The Big Sleep
The Big Heat (Lang)
The Thin Man

Crime Films
Double Indemnity
(The Killing)
D.O.A.
Sorry Wrong Number

Horror
(Rosemary's Baby)
Halloween
Texas Chain Saw Massacre
almost Witchfinder General/Masque of the Red Death
Freaks
(I Walked with a Zombie)
The Cat People
Island of Lost Souls
Mad Max

Great Whale
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Invisible Man
Show Boat

Ghost Stories
Beetlejuice
Blithe Spirit
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Best Carol Burnett Version of A Movie
Mildred Fierce

Best Woody Allen
ALL are of consistent quality
favorite: Sleeper

Best Marxes
Duck Soup
Horse Feathers
Go West
All the rest.

Best Comedies
Arthur

Old
City Lights

Best Danny Kaye
Up in Arms

The Saddest Comedy
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Most Misfired Comedy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Toon Town)

Best Natalie Wood besides Gypsy and West Side Story
Miracle on 34th Street
Rebel Without a Cause
Best looking Natalie Wood besides the others
The Great Race

Good Shirley McLaine
The Trouble with Harry
Sweet Charity (Directed by Bob Fosse)
Terms of Endearment

Ingrid Thulin is in The Silence and The Damned

CARTOONS
Snow White (companion, WB: Coal Black)
Pinocchio (Cinderella?)
Peter Pan
(My) Little Mermaid

Yellow Submarine
Light Years (Korea -> France -> Assimov)

Japanese Male Holocaust Fantasy: The Wandering Kid

TOONS: Mouse/Bunny/Boop

Famous directors of the least important financially profitable films to achieve attention, ever:
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Best moment or fraction thereof: Lunch, with Ms. Allen, Mr. Ford and a monkey in Raidrs accompanied by John Williams' music.
Best Williams score: The Fury. The better orchestral inspiration -- Mahler, the Seventh Symphony.

Music names:

Frank Zappa
We all have our favorites
-- best overall album
Burnt Weeny Sandwich (Berlin)
-- albums containing good material
Apostrophe (Yellow Snow/Pancake Breakfast, Remus)
Overnite Sensation (Zombie Woof)
Joe's Garage (Cyborg)
Roxy and Elsewhere (cheepnis)
Uncle Meat
Waka Jawaka

Andrew Lloyd Webber
(Jesus Christ Superstar)

Marc Blitzstein
(Nickel Under Foot)

Kurt Weil
(Three Penny Opera, the Road to Silverlake)

Hoagy Carmichael
Film appearances

Harold Arlen hits in general

Johnny Mercer, lyricist and singer

George Gershwin

Duke Elington, Billy Strayhorn

Patti Smith
(Four Albums)

The Rolling Stones
(Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed)

The Beatles

Alexander Scriabin
(Sonatas 5 & 10)

Johannes Brahms

Gustav Mahler

Peter Tchaikovsky

Serge Prokofiev

Claude Debussey

Erik Satie

Stephen Sondheim

David Bowie
(The Man Who Sold The World, Diamond Dogs)

Carly Simon

Laura Nyro

Elvis Costello
(Mighty Like a Rose, My Aim, This Year's, Armed Forces, Get Happy)

Peka Pajola

Steely Dan
Phil Oches
Pleasures of the Harbor, Letter from California

Madonna
(Recording: 12" Live Angel, song: Material Girl)

Samantha Fox

Belinda Carlyle

The Roches

Bruce Springstein
(Thunder Road, Bobby Jean)

Elis Regina

Sergio Mendez

Gong(?)

Genesis
(Nursery Crime, Selling England, Supper's Ready)

Gentle Giant
(Glass House)

Movie Music:
Collaborators with Hitchock
Bernard Herman
Ken Russell,
Peter Maxwell Davies, Rick Wakeman

Ennio Morricone

and for De Palma
(least important major talent, John Williams, shines in The Fury (Mahler's Seventh), rehashed by someone else in The Elephant Man. Williams shining also: Superman, Can You Read My Mind?, and in the good Raidrs scene.)

Best Bacharach (despite words, of course, although the words are essential)
One Less Bell to Answer
Hey, Little Girl
The Look of Love

Bacharach and Herb Albert: This Guy's in Love with You

Best Scores for: Casino Royale, Lost Horizon, Arthur (Bacharach also gives credit to April Fools).

Best Bachrach recording by other than Bacharach -- The Mendez "Look of Love."

Hamlish wrote
Theme from Ice Castles: Please Don't let this feeling end ...
The Spy Who Loved Me - Best recording
If You Remember Me (The Champ)
(On Broadway: Chorus Line/Playing our Song. Is any of it good?)
Favorite Sondheim: All, particularly A Little Night Music

1990 Peak of Powers: Sondheim and Elvis Costello
(Mighty Like a Rose)

Favorite Rupert Holmes (from Drood)
Ceylon, and almost Perfect StrangersFavorite Books

The Woman in White

Bleak House

1984

Lolita

Flowers for Algernon

And Then There Were None

The Glass Key

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Cobra

Madame Bovary

The Picture of Dorian Gray



Best Anne Rice? -- Lestat

Best Kosinski: Cockpit

Melville
Falkner
Chandler
Hammett

John Barth, anyone?Writers
Recent interest in: Robert Benchley
Raymond Chandler
Anne Rice (Rampling? Roquefort)
Aleister Crowley
Doonesbury
Martin Amis -- London Fields, Time's Arrow, half way through Money I had had enough.
Daphne DuMaurier,
Short stories collection: The Turning Point
My Cousin Rachel
etc.
Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation trilogy.

Philip K. Dick's Valis

Some Vacchs books
The Perfume Book
The Unnatural Selection book.

Music: Marc Blitzstein
Broadway besides Sondheim:
Harnick & Bock She Loves Me, Fiddler, Fiorello

Artist Names:

Max Ernst
Salvador Dali
Hans Belmer
Francis Bacon
Max Escher
Hieronemous Bosch
Peter Breugel

Renoir
Vermeer
Monet
Gogh

Giacometti

DeKooning, exhibited at the Guggenheim over ten years ago.

Theatre events

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Stratford, Kier Dullea, Fred Gwyne, and Ms. Ashley

Mourning Becomes Elektra, Stratford

Our Town, Stratford

Three Penny Opera, not Beaumont's but Delecort's

Taming of the Shrew, Delecort, Raul Julia, and the only time Merrill Streep has made an impression (positive).

James Earl Jones' King Lear, Delecort

The Caucasion Chalk Circle, Brecht

Lupone as Evita

Les Miserables

Dream Girls

Sweeney Todd six weeks into the Uris run

Ian McKellen's Duchess of Malfi

Pinter's Sweet Bird of Youth

can't remember...

Pacino played Hughie -- that was good. dir. Theodore Mann

My favorite Hamlet: Richard Chamberlain
Favorite Playwrites:
Shakespeare
O'Neill (Mourning)
Williams (Cat)
others (Pinter, Stoppard, Mamet, Rabe)

Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest
Wrote the Happy Prince and the Devoted Friend, recorded by Claire Luce for Folkways Records