Hats off to Dai for introducing us to a wonderful new tool for sharing our favourite music, films, games, books etc. And hopefully generating discussion, agreement and disagreement.
It’s enjoyable to see your favourite album covers as a collage. It’s equally satisfying to do the same thing with movie posters.
I’ve made a collage of 25 films I’ve seen and liked in the past 3 or 4 years and would recommend. It’s posted in the comments. I’ve seen almost all of them at our local cinema here in Kärrtorp.
If you thought my choice of 25 albums was obscure, cop a look at this lot! I’m not being perverse!
I enjoyed all of these films and most of them got pretty healthy audiences
Instructions:(which I’ve nicked from Dai)
“Go to Topsters 3 and select “Add Items” and then “Films”
https://topsters.org/
Search for the film you want to add to your list and drag and drop onto the table on the right
You’ll likely find duplicate posters for different markets
When finished, click “Download” in the upper right of the page and save the result to your computer.
Upload to an image host of your choice – I use Imgur and embed the image in your post! (you might need to right click and “open image in new tab” to get the raw file to embed after it’s done)”
Please feel free to devise your own categories!
25 films noir
25 favourite French films
25 Chuck Norris films
25 music documentaries
25 under-rated movies that never had the success they deserved
25 horror movies
25 anime films
25 road movies
25 kids films that the whole family will enjoy
25 films where the pace is SOOOO slow that you are guaranteed to be knocking out zeds within the first ten minutes
Come on cinephiles!! Share a few silver screen moments with us!
Here is my collage.
Hopefully you will recognise a few.
The Quiet Girl is a beautiful film.
It is quite transcendent*. So much is unspoken yet deeply expressed.
*and the only film of KFD’s 25 I have seen. Unless the OP allows best films ever, I’m out.
I’m very pleased to hear that you both enjoyed The Quiet Girl as much as I did, @Boneshaker and @salwarpe..
As you may have noticed, for the last week I’ve been listening to a lot of songs sung in Irish Gaelic which has been a great complement to the film. A spotify playlist is imminent.
Of course the OP allows best films ever, Sal! Take the Topster tool and use it to create whatever appeals to you.
Well then…
Brilliant! Groundhog Three and a half weeks!
Being able to use the same poster several times opens up all kinds of graphic possibilities.
What about ‘Groundhog Day: The Director’s Cut’ and ‘Groundhog Day: Expanded Edition’? I watched them the day after, and the day after that, on which I watched ‘Groundhog Day’. Prove me wrong!
Despite liking to think of myself as a cinephile I’ve embarrasingly only seen one of your selection, the wonderful Fallen Leaves. Aki Kaurismaki can do little wrong as far as I’m concerned (though admittedly the second Leningrad Cowboys film was shit, as was Calamari Union, so nobody’s perfect). My excuse is I tend to go for older films but I clearly need to up my modern game! I’ll take this as a starting point.
Re: “25 films where the pace is SOOOO slow that you are guaranteed to be knocking out zeds within the first ten minutes”
Well, an automatic choice here would be Béla Tarr’s “Sátántangó” (1994). The film runs for more than seven hours at glacial pace in black and white, and the opening shot, which shows a herd of cows, lasts nearly eight minutes.
Wolverine and Deadpool are conspicuous by their absence.
I think you’ve stumbled across a new cinematic genre: lack-of-action films @duco01. The Japanesenexcel in this field.
You’re a fast worker @Gary!
There is a marvelous range in your 25. A broad range of genres.
Boyhood is a wonderful movie As is the terrifying Night of the Hunter.
Thanks a lot for the list. I will browse in more detail later.
I’ve just noticed the bit in your OP about “categories”. I tend to ignore the instructions in these threads, propelled forward as I am by the dominant force of enthusiasm. My category can be “Films whose titles don’t begin with vowels, apart from Apocalypse Now”.
…and Unforgiven. 😉
I’m gonna have to re-think my whole approach.
I’ll play. I could post film all the live long day.
Twenty five favourites of world cinema.
Train To Busan! Respect! I toyed with putting that one as of all the films I’ve seen recently it’s the one I’m most looking forward to watching again. I’m saving it for a treat. Definitely one of the most on-the-edge-of-my seat films I’ve seen.
It’s tremendous fun. Korean cinema and television get zombies.
Good to see Pan’s Labyrinth get a mention. And Seven Samurai.
It was going to be The Devil’s Backbone and Rashomon but I had a change of heart in both cases, similarly with the Fellini, I could have chosen a few.
What a cavalcade of masterpieces @pencilsqueezer! From all over the world. Brazil, Argentina, Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy, Japan…..
It’s a list that makes me want to dash off to the cinema and see one of them I haven’t seen or re-see one that I have!
If Reflexen ever needs help with programming, I’ll be on the phone to you and @gary!!
It’s a few years back now, @Bingo Little, but I remember you posting a wonderful list of your favourites her on the AW which led to many happy hours of viewing for me.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off! What a superb movie.
Another 25 from you today which fills me with enthusiasm. Several films here that I’ve never heard of! Riding Giants and Friday Night Lights, for example. That’s the way I like it.
Oh, it’s lovely to hear that you enjoyed some of them!
Riding Giants and Friday Night Lights are two sports movies that are dear to my heart, albeit it’s a genre I have a pretty low bar for. Great soundtracks too.
Too many films to choose from. Here’s 25 recent-ish World Cinema films.
You’re right, @Boneshaker, there are a ridiculous number of excellent films available out there thanks to DVDs and streaming, not to mention channels like BBC (and SVT here in Sweden) screening the classics.
You’ve picked a fine bunch there. From Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander to two films by the pride of France, the wonderful Celine Sciamma. Plus my perennial favourite Cinema Paradiso.
What larks! Scrolling down I’ve already seen films I could/should have included – and including the entire Powell/Pressburger and Coen Brothers oeuvre probably isn’t in the spirit of the thing. Hey ho, these are films I keep going back to.
Well, @mikethepm´, it would be rather fun if someone chose to have 25 films by the same director or featuring the same actor.
Lots of vintage goodies in your compendium. Point Blank! Yes please! Directed by John Boorman starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickenson.
Brighton Rock, the Big Sleep, Get Carter, the Dirty Dozen.. it’s the most hard-boiled list we’ve had yet!
Sexy Best, In Bruges, Calvary and Local Hero.
All kind of gems on your list @retropath21
Here’s one we did earlier! Seven years ago we had a thread about imaginary bands.
I made an IMDB list.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls064099945/?ref_=uspf_t_100
And now it’s this rather fine collage.
The possibilities of this Topster technology are endless.
Visually I suspect some of these could be promising…
25 vampire movies.
25 monster movies.
25 films including the name of city.
25 films including the name of a woman.
25 musicals.
25 vintage kids films.
25 films that have one word in their title in common….
I bet poor Dai is wishing he’d never told me abut Topster!
As I’m currently in the throes of a bit of a Randy Newman jag this seems apt.
Thanks @CharlieGordon. Each new 25 comes with a few, new exciting surprises.
Harold and Maude! I saw that when I was working at the Screen on the Green in 1977. Oh the memories!
The Secrets in their Eyes! Ricardo Darin’s second appearance here today.
Three days of the Condor! Another classic.
@kaisfatdad, what about Roberto Darin?
I am sure someone can work out what my category is …
Big thumbs up for that one, @Dai! It took me 10 seconds to twig.
25 rather exciting, dramatic posters. All we need now is some dramatic music by Bernard Hermann.
Is it blondes?
The kind that gentlemen prefer?
You’d need to ask a gentleman about that.
On the Afterword……I think not!
Blondes is warm. I suggest that you continue to think about birds!
Liver
Of a feather
Of Paradise
Ronnie Wood’s old band
am I on the right track?
Couldn’t find “Human Traffic” in their database.
“The Bed Sitting Room” was briefly considered, as were “Cinema Paradiso” and “The Blues Brothers”.
Thanks @Mike_H, Another thread packed with classics.
Glad to see Jazz on a Summer’s Day, one of the great concert movies, and The ´Michael Winner take on The Big Sleep with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe.
An all star cast!
25 Raymond Chandler adaptation could be fun!
I like both takes on The Big Sleep pretty much equally. The Hollywood version is a very good “classic crime” somewhat-sanitised take on the story and the Winner/Mitchum version is truer to the underlying sleaze of Raymond Chandler’s story, despite being transposed to London in the ’60s.
Jazz On A Summer’s Day was innovative in the way it portrayed the event, influential on how Woodstock was portrayed, some years later.
Ladies in hats wiggling their heads to the music. People wandering about. Sailing boats. The elegant Anita O’Day and that distinctive hat, that she bought somewhere on her way to the festival.
Here are 25 films that I like.
The first one selected is supposed to be the 2003 Russian film “The Return” directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. There seemed to be a lot of films called “The Return” in topsters’ database, but none of the pictures looked like the film I was after!
That is a solid gold list @duco01. Not of course that I’d expect anything else from you. Your film tips are always right on the money.
Very pleased to see Ida and Still Life. Two wonderful films that I saw at Reflexen and were entry drugs for my current intense loyalty to it.
Lone Star is another film that I really liked. .
Here is the IMDB list for @DuCo01‘s list.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls548145794/?ref_=uspf_t_1
Several movies I love. And several I have never even heard of.
This one for example.
“Edgar Reitz (director of the Heimat Trilogy) continues his visionary journey through German history with a domestic drama and love story set against the backdrop of a forgotten tragedy. In the mid-19th century, hundreds of thousands of Europeans emigrated to faraway South America. It was a desperate bid to escape the famine, poverty and despotism that ruled at home. “
There are a few different movies called “Another Time Another Place”!
The one that I meant was not the same as the 1958 American film on that IMDB list.
I meant the 1983 British film directed by Michael Radford. It’s set in Scotland during the Second World War and features a wonderful performance by Phyllis Logan.
My apologies! The underling who made the list should have looked more carefully at the thumbnail. I’ve sacked him and corrected the list, @Duco01
I swiftly decided that as this my list and purely for my own pleasure, unlike the albums list, I didn’t care if some directors featured more than once.
That, sir, is a magnificent list.
It is indeed @Yorkio. Packed with five star classics.
I salute your sentiment: “this my list and purely for my own pleasure, I didn’t care if some directors featured more than once.”
I don’t go for this “Only one film from each director” jive. If you like a director, of course you are going to want several films by them.
Let’s write lists that give ourselves pleasure! If some others like them too, that’s a little icing on the cake.
With just a couple of exceptions, these are all films that I taped off of the TV back in the day when a well-thumbed copy of Leslie Halliwell’s movie guide was my constant companion. I’ve seen some of them on the big screen, but really, it’s more of a small screen selection, I suppose. And in the case of Fanny and Alexander, it was specifically the TV cut, which was on BBC2 over Christmas some time in the 80s, that I was thinking of.
So while we’re doing genres, yee, and moreover hah, here’s a selection of top notch westerns, including several of the spaghetti variety with more bullets than Trump’s security team could handle, and atrocious dubbing.
Hurray! Glad to see you getting a little unbuttoned, @Boneshaker and treating us to this spaghetti and beans campfire banquet, Quite a few movies there I’ve never heard of.
I suspect you had fun compiling it.
My Westerns
An excellent selection @Sitheref2409. Very broad range .of both star and directors.
Shane and High Noon both appear twice, Which means you could cram in two more favourites.
And finally, if it’s stiff upper lips and cut glass accents you’re after, here are 25 of my favourite British films from the 1940s and 1950s.
Thumbs up from me. Some of those were *very* close to making my list.
Mine too!
Thanks @Boneshaker. It was a real education to do an IMDB list for your vintage 25.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls548161798/?ref_=uspf_t_1
25 films I own on DVD (many also on VHS), very probably the soundtrack album too, have watched several times, will re-watch again, and if I stumble across any on the telly will keep watching then too.
This is a list of DVDs I have loaned/given to people much younger than myself that I can still recall their reactions. The reactions range from, “I fell asleep” to “The best film I have ever seen.” They are ranked according to who I loaned them to which is how I was able to drag them to mind. The first few were all to a 30yo WW2 buff who’s fav film of all time was The Great Escape, the last few were a different collegue who loved bio-pics. My favourite was the fella who wanted scary films to help him woo his new girlfriend, she hung on to him for dear life when they watched them
The “I fell asleep” was Jesus of Montreal which is a fine film. The most notable reaction was 12 Angry Men. The woman I loaned it to had been away on a jury for a month and when she came back to work she was telling us about it, it had not been pleasant. I said I was going to lend her a movie set entirely in a jury room. She gave it back the very next day with the words…“That is the best film I have ever seen.”
Great work @Cookieboy. Not only do you give us some superb movies. You also provide some entertaining stories.
Drag me to hell, It’s a wonderful life, 12 Angry Men, Run, Lola, Run: that’s quite a segue.
Singing in the Rain, Halloween and Gone with the Wind. One classic after the other!
Stories? You want stories? The lending of Risky Business came about because we were inspecting a car that was half submerged in Port Phillip Bay. When I saw it I naturally said, “Who’s the U-boat commander?” The reaction to Gone With the Wind, one of the most famous films in history was, “It was good I watched it while I was doing my ironing.”
The reactions of the war movies may interest some of you since a lot of us have seen them all. The young WW2 fan (born 1985 if I recall correctly) LOVED Das Boot, had never heard of it, wasn’t overly keen to see a 4 hour film set on a German submarine but watched it anyway. Also loved The Dirty Dozen. He liked Downfall very much he had long intended to see it just hadn’t got around to it so there were no surprises for him. Also liked Cross of Iron had never heard of it. Thanked me for Come and See but said he would never watch it again which is understandable. Found The Caine Mutiny boring and much to my chagrin hated Mr Roberts which is easily my favourite of the seven.
Stories? Yes please, we do want more of your stories @Cookieboy
But right now it’s time for a Monster Mash!
My top 25 musicals.
Where be Cabaret?
Didn’t make the cut.
This morning, confronted with the very depressing news from the US election I need cheering up.
As luck would have it, four years ago we had a discussion here on our favourite comfort zone movies
Here’s the IMDB list I created.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls098289509/?ref_=uspf_t_41
The Tawny Pipit. English bird spotting in 1944! Enjoy!
Sticking my head in the sand and ignoring the headlines! That’s me!
Here’s Comfort Zone Volume Two.
Gems from Denmark and Iceland plus classics from Tarantino and Kubrick and some vintage British movies.
And ..Travolta and Newton-John.
It’s the one that you want! Yeah yeah yeah!
The colourful world of black & white.
Wonderful stuff, Pencil.
I’m tempted to try and answer it with 25 modern films in B & W.
Cuaron’s Roma, Italian fave C’e ancora domani, Paris 13th arrondissement, Branagh’s Belfast, Ida, Cold War,
Can anybody help me with some more titles, please?
I’ll need to scratch my head a little.
How about…
Anatomy of a Murder.
Music by Ellington, of course.
Nice.
Very nice indeed. He is of course called Pie Eye in the one scene he appears in. Groovy etc.
Doesn’t download for me. Maybe because I am using my telephone. Maybe a laptop is required but we don’t use ours.
Let’s see how this goes.
I don’t own a computer or laptop so I’ve been using a tablet. I haven’t bothered with downloading I’ve just taken screenshots then cropped the image and uploaded them to Imgur from the tablet’s storage. You should be able to do the same with a smartphone.
Yes thanks. I screenshot with tablet. Works fine. Got there in the end.
👍
Thanks Diddley! Another list packed with gems.
I was very pleased to see Shoplifters, The Ice Storm and the Robert Altman version of the Long Goodbye-
Nice of you to respond. We also went to a film society for a few years. Shoplifters was one from then, also Stories We Tell.
Stories we tell! I’d not heard of that at all. One to look out for @Diddley Farquar.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2366450/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_stories%2520we%2520
Very pleased to hear that you’ve been a member o a film club. It’s done wonders for me. Dragging right out of my comfort zone,
25 Sci Fi films of the last 25 years. I will kick myself later for the ones I’ve forgotten
Cracking list @Sewer Robot.
Getting to the end of the 25 and then realising that you’ve missed out something vey important is all part of the ritual of doing these lists.
Some real gems there. Cuarón’s Children of Men is stupendous. As is Serenity. I am a big fan of Firefly, Joss Whedon’s TV series where it all began. How could they cancel that show??
Probably missed lots. There would have been several Ealing comedies and Marx Brothers.
Excellent work @Hubert rawlinson. Your 25 cover a very broad time period and a wide range of genres.
Metropolis might be the oldest film that’s been mentioned.
I was not surprised to see Harry Lime making an appearance!
Well when you’ve taken a trip down the sewers and stood in Harry’s doorway what else could you choose.
A guided tour of Vienna’s sewers? I salute you @hubert rawlinson. A dedicated cineaste who dares to tread boldly in the most unexpected places.
It was a trip into the sewer just to the part that’s seen on the cover. It was a full walking tour (not to the cemetery as this was too far out) of Vienna which alas I’d not be able to do now.
I had to visit the Riesenrad later too.
There’s also a museum to the Third Man.
@pencilsqueezer posted 25 classic black and white films-
That nimble-footed cineaste from Sardinia, @gary, then replied with 25 modern b & w films
I’m the tortoise to Gary’s hare. Here are 25 more modern b & w films
There are some wonderful films on these three lists: Roma, Ida, Frances Ha, There’s still tomorrow, La Haine, Down by Law, Cold War, Casablanca, Great Expectations, The Innocents etc
And here are the votes from the Alice jury
I inherited my love of Alec Guinness from my dad, who tried to see all his films and would take me along if he deemed it suitable. Here’s my top 25 Guinnesses – I was struggling a bit at the end, I’m not sure Situation Hopeless But Not Serious would be in anybody’s Top 10. But I enjoyed it because Guinness was in it, so there.
Might do Alastair Sim next.
That is excellent, @mikethep. I look forward to Alastair Sims!
I hope we get a few more of these based on one actor, director, screenwriter etc.
Here’s a 25 that was great fun to do: Film titles featuring girls names.
Some very obvious, others perhaps less so.
Reading Lolita in Tehran! That was a find!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27679443/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_0_in_0_q_reading%2520lolita%2520in%2520Tehran
Here’s the story behind that film.
https://www.screendaily.com/features/how-israels-eran-riklis-made-reading-lolita-in-tehran-with-golshifteh-farahani/5198286.article
As an enthusiastic member of a book circle, I was fascinated by the title . Slightly different from our set-up and a great deal braver.
A clandestine, women’s reading circle that reads classics of Western literature. Very subversive. Our book circle is about as subversive as Bagpuss and Professor Yaffle!
Ooops! . I got it all wrong about Bagpuss. It turns out that he and Yaffle were radical miaowists.
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/10/comment-postgate-bagpuss-television?fbclid=IwY2xjawGZWTdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHb_2CbCQ5nSQJQyr4UZP8IMmzGhj8F3QGkz2xe6xrfZP6SMw4jCbogPWVw_aem_k_iM5tROHLMPADUkavYGAA
Talking of revolutionaries, I’ve just learn on IMDB that Volga Volga (1938) was Stalin’s favourite film.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030947/?ref_=ls_t_1
This was a shamefully enjoyable waste of time. 25 films in which rivers play an important role.
The Don, the Mersey, the Mississippi, the Danube, the Seine, the Thames, the Cape Fear River
All very educational. I had no idea that Cape Fear is the name of a river in North Carolina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Fear_River
If your local waterway has been left out, let me know and we can do another 25.
Screwball comedies. Once again, I had most of these on VHS, diligently taped from BBC2 or the early glory days of Channel 4. I can still remember the thrill of cracking open the Christmas Radio/TV Times and planning out what I was going to record! I dragged those boxes of old VHS tapes about with me for many years and only slung them out a few house moves ago.
Bravo @Yorkio! This week screwball comedies are just what I need. Total escapism!
I must see if I can find any of these at second hand music shop.
What @yorkio no Monkey Business – the Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers one. It’s a great list otherwise. I’d better do my own list. I’m just finding it tricky to see them all properly on my phone.
Ooh, that would have been a good call. Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht, Cary Grant… that’s quite some pedigree. Don’t know what I would have bumped off though. Hellzapoppin’ perhaps? It’s probably a bit more slapstick than screwball.
Comment number 100! So let’s celebrate accordingly!
100 Steps?
That movie looks very interesting @Gary. But if we are going for steps, I want 39.
I can feel a new collage coming on based on films with numbers in their title.
But before that here is my latest creation inspired by Salwarpe. It’s called Simply Red.
Very enjoyable and rather relaxing to think about the visual content of the posters rather than the films they portray. And one can also get some unexpected juxtapositions.
So what’s your favourite year? This one was great fun to do.
A special mention for a wonderful comedy starring Peter O’Toole: My Favourite Year
And an hilarious Swedish romcom: The Year I started Masturbating
I call this one Alex Cox’s Videodrome. What an education those films were, all sorts of intriguing oddities and marvels.
Picked the wrong image for Fahrenheit 451 but we know the movie I think.
To my shame, I’d never heard of Moviedrome. What a stupendous selection of cult films they had, @Diddley Farquar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moviedrome
That was an excellent idea to do a 25 in hommage to the programme.
Here’s Alex introducing The Long Goodbye.
He’s excellent.
Wiki mentions The Film Club, another BBC movie show for which Alex Cox also presented a few films. Here’s a long list of all the movies they had.
https://letterboxd.com/filmfan1971/list/the-film-club-bbc-2-1986-1991/
These lists make for interesting reading. Many cult classics, several of which have made an appearance on this thread.
Just for fun, I am going to do a few 25s from different countries.
Here’s Ireland.
What do you think @Bamber? Are there any major films that I’ve missed?
Off the top of my head @kaisfatdad I’d add films that are rated in Ireland that didn’t necessarily score any attention abroad. Two featuring Brendan Gleeson – I Went Down and Into the West, the latter partly filmed on the road I grew up on. There’s a scene where Gabriel Byrne walks out of a block of flats and says “I’m going to the pub”. Watching it in a cinema in London a friend and I shouted in chorus, “you’re going the wrong way!”
Two much liked films that crop up on TV regularly would be Man About Dog and Intermission featuring early appearances by Cillian Murphy and Colin Farrell.
Well done including the Barrytown Trilogy of the Commitments, The Snapper and the Van. These are very good realisations of the books, and important part of Ireland’s culture.
Some older films worth checking would be Eat the Peach and the General starring, you’ve guessed it, Brendan Gleeson. I regard John Boorman’s Excalibur as an Irish film as it was filmed here and has many future Irish stars in it. I love it as a film too in spite of Nicol Williamson’s panto-style Merlin. I’ll get back to you if I think of any more.
Thanks a lot @Bamber. You really did us proud there.
I really agree with you about the importance of listing films that have done well domestically but have made few waves internationally. Every country has them and they are invariably big hits.
When I do a list for Sweden, I expect there will be several.
Interesting to me that John Boorman directed The General. Reading his Wiki entry, I see it won him best director award at Cannes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boorman
I also learnt that he lived for many years in Ireland.
Having just scanned the Ireland section of my DVD collection, can I add the Oscar winning Once and the excellent Neil Jordan’s adaptations of the Patrick McCabe books The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto featuring a wonderful
performance by Cillian Murphy. Late addition – The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
Ken Loach directed the Wind that shakes the Barley.
Novelist Patrick McCabe was a new name for me, @Bamber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe_(novelist)
When researching for my Irish 25, I found the Irish Film Institute site very helpful. I could spend hours browsing around there.
https://ifi.ie/ifiifilmdirectory/international-category/page/2/?category=feature
The BFI has an excellent list of films about The Troubles.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-films-about-troubles
Their site is a treasure trove for all kinds of film info.
And here’s Italy.
Stupendous list @Gary. To my shame I’ve only seen four of them but they were all wonderful:
There’s always tomorrow, Dogman, The Postman, The Great Beauty and The Stolen Children.
What a brilliant film that is.
I made an IMDB list so that I could read more about the films
https://m.imdb.com/list/ls548176377/?ref_=uspf_t_1
I will try and do a similar list for all the 25s on this thread.
The icicle thief is a very witty name for an Italian film.
Glad to see one of the old masters being included Fred & Ginger. Certainly not the obvious Fellini film!
@kaisfatdad
I think the Fellini is the oldest film on that list. I’m not a fan of Fellini, though I loved La Dolce Vita, but it’s a bit obvious and Fred and Ginger is a great film.
If you only see one, I’d urge you to see The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé) for three reasons:
1. It’s a good film.
2. It was shot in Bari, where I lived for 20 years. So… me, me, me.
3. It’s Sophia Loren’s last film to date, directed by her son Eduardo Ponti. She gives a great performance, the opposite of her public image. She should at least have been nominated for an Oscar, imho.
Thanks @Gary. It just jumped to the top of my must-see list.
I’m presuming that you have a small but important cameo in the film!
Gary – you lived in Bari for 20 years?
Mrs duco01 and I have just come back from 2 days in Bari.
Everyone seemed to be buying or eating orrechiette.
In 20 years there you must’ve eaten a LOT of orrechiette…
@duco01
Yep. Bari has three main traditional dishes: Orecchiette con cime di rape (turnip tops), fave e cicorie (a puree of fava beans with chicory) and patate, riso e cozze (potatoes, rice and mussels). I love all three. Though the antipasto misto della casa is usually the best choice on any Puglian menu.
I saw on BloggerTakeover that you visited Matera. Did you also visit Monopoli? I lived there for 20 years too. Lovely town but a bit overrun by tourists in the summer nowadays.
I’m happy I left Puglia, I absolutely adore Sardinia (as evidenced by my new celebratory avatar), but the food isn’t as good here as it is in Puglia. I haven’t yet found a typical Sardinian dish I like as much as I liked orecchiette con rape.
That looks delicious! Thanks for the culinary intro Puglia, @Gary.
Here’s a pasta granny from Sardinia to inspire your gastronomical explorations.
We just had 3 days in Matera and 2 days in Bari. We didn’t go anywhere else. I thought Matera was one of the most amazing places I’ve ever been. Quite incredible. We liked Bari, too – we were mainly just in the old town bit.
Unlike Bari Gary and the Duke of Culinary Cool, I have no idea what orrechiette is. Thanks goodness for the Pasta Grannies YT page!
How can you not like this page??
“Welcome to Pasta Grannies! I find and film real Italian grannies – nonne – making delicious, traditional, handmade pasta. And sometimes soups, breads, dolci, rice dishes, that kind of thing, because that is what the Grannies wanted to cook for me.
I’m saving skills and sharing traditions one recipe and Granny at a time!”
I now want to create a 25 films featuring pasta. Hmm. Tricky! 25 spaghetti westerns perhaps?
Animation. A bit of a cheat including Arcane which is a not a film but it is rather splendid and available to watch via Netflix. The second and sadly the last series starts soon.
Peasants, stunningly beautiful film.
You’re on a roll this morning, @Pencilsqueezer. Some wonderful gems on that list. And what amazing variety!
https://m.imdb.com/list/ls548176377/?ref_=uspf_t_1
Quite a few new names there for me.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is on my must-see list. That certainly is a quite remarkable story.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt19811010/?ref_=ls_t_9