Favourite waste of time

Various directors blah blah, favourite films etc, here's a list and so forth...

Land of Cerpts and honey's idea...Fleapit of the mind has done it, so here it is, a completely unimportant selection to add to the world of futile gestures and meaningless list making and so on...

http://fleapit-movieexpress.blogspot.com/2011/02/totally-futile-waste-of-time.html

http://landofcerptsandhoney.blogspot.com/

Jerry Lewis-The Nutty Professor

John Carpenter-the thing

John Landis-An American Werewolf in London

Alfred Hitchcock-The 39 Steps

Brian DePalma-Carrie

George Lucas-American Graffiti

George Pal-The Time Machine

Stanley Kubrick-The Shinning

David Lynch-Mulholland Drive

Sidney Pollack-Tootsie

Martin Scorsese-Mean streets

Sidney Lumet-The Hill

Richard Donner-Lethal Weapon

Fritz Lang-Fury

Steven Spielberg-Jaws

Tony Scott-True Romance

Ridley Scott-Alien

Ang Lee-Crouching tiger hidden dragon

Spike Lee-Do the right thing

Steven Soderburgh-Erin Brokovitch

Rob Reiner-Stand by me

Carl Reiner-Dead men don’t wear plaid

George Romero-Martin

David Mamet-House of games

David Lean-Oliver Twist

 David Fincher-Fight Club

Roman Polanski-Repulsion

David Cronenburg-The Fly

Frank Oz-Dirty rotten scoundrels

Terry Gilliam-Time bandits

Danny Boyle-Trainspotting

Stephen Frears-The Grifters

William Friedkin-To Live and Die in LA

Joe Dante-The Howling

Cameron Crowe-Jerry Maguire

Michael Mann-Manhunter

Christopher Nolan-Memento

Bryan Singer-The Usual Suspects

John Huston-The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Hughes-Ferris Bueller’s day off

Michael Curtiz-Casablanca

Mike Leigh-Life is sweet

Oliver Stone-JFK

Barbet Schroeder-Barfly

Curtis Hansen- LA Confidential

Wolfgang Reitherman-The Jungle book

John Singleton-Boyz n the hood

Sam Peckinpah-The wild bunch

Paul Greengrass-The Bourne Ultimatum

Joseph L Mankiewicz-All about Eve

Paul Verhoeven-Robocop

Wolfgang Peterson-In the line of fire

Lawrence Kasdan-Body Heat

John McTeirnan-Die Hard

Orson Welles-Citizen Kane

Woody Allen-Love and Death

Joel Coen-The Big Lubowski

George Cukor-A star is born

Mike Newell-Donnie Brascco

Billy Wilder-Sunset Boulevard

Penny Marshall-A league of their own

Howard Hawks-Bringing up baby

Paul Thomas Anderson-Boogie nights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jdQaCIxhss

Empire state of mind

“New York, just like I pictured it”-Living for The City (S.Wonder)

Once visited never forgotten this city has possibly had more great movies set in it than any other across the world. Here is a selection that represents aspects of the multi faceted metropolis. Some Directors, Allen, Scorsese, Lee set their movies there, so I have only selected one from each, others like Friedkin and Lumet come back time and again for the energy, the atmosphere and the cooperative NY Film Unit.

However it's not all about the grittiness associated with New York, there is also the fun side, the aspirants, the good times the wit and humour and the action. It's impossible to make a 'best of' selection when recommending the less serious side of New York movies but I have put together a list that shows some of these different aspects. I hope a viewing of some of the following will give a taste for those that haven’t visited NYC, and for those that have, will recapture the soul and feeling that you get on the streets of the big apple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQshyrB_sD8

Broadway Danny Rose

The Producers

Tootsie

The Apartment

On the town

The Goodbye girl

Arthur

The out of Towners

The King of Comedy

Adams Rib

The Seven Year itch

The prisoner of second avenue

Trading Places

As Good as it gets