Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Forty Years of the Greatest Movies--Iggy Pop " The Passenger"




The Great Escape
Sunset Boulevard
(Repeated)
The Prince and the Pauper
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Flying Leathernecks
Pursued
Black Angel
Pickup on South Street
Fallen Angel
Giant
From Here to Eternity
His Girl Friday
Pursued
Lawrence of Arabia
The Great Escape
Big Jake
Rififi "this is the movie of the bleeding guy driving with the kid in the backseat. It's a French film noir and it's awesome."--CommanderPutney
Giant
Fallen Angel
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Prince and the Pauper
From Here to Eternity
The Bad and the Beautiful
Pickup on South Street
Duel in the Sun
Top Hat
Stalag 17
Casablanca
Singin' In the Rain
Fallen Angel
The Wild Bunch
It Happened One Night
Black Angel
His Girl Friday
Murder My Sweet
Trouble In Paradise
Duel in the Sun
The Shop Around the Corner
Murder My Sweet
Pursued
Top Hat
From Here to Eternity
It Happened One Night
My Man Godfrey
The Fighting Seabees
Casablanca
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Some Like It Hot
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Stalag 17
Citizen Kane
Destry Rides Again
Citizen Kane
Singin' In the Rain
Citizen Kane
Destry Rides Again
Duel in the Sun
The Thin Man
Force of Evil
Rio Bravo
Lawrence of Arabia
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Take Me Out To the Ballgame
The Searchers
In the Navy
East of Eden
Robin and the Seven Hoods
The High and Mighty
In Old California
Giant
The Godfather
There's No Business Like Show Business
Top Hat
Rio Bravo
The Searchers

Not all great movies perhaps but some of the best the studio system ever made plus some great work by maverick directors like Sir David Lean, Sam Peckinpah and Jules Dassin. This will be provide a little finish off to the movie blogs I've done this month. Goodbye August. See you next year, and bring cooler weather.

A collage of film clips of some of the the best work by American and foreign film makers from 1930 to 1970, approx. Music by Igggy Pop and the Stooges. With thanks to Commander Putney of You Tube for the video and Aaran Aardvark for the inspiration.

10 comments:

  1. That certainly is some list you have there Doug, now you have inspired me to compile a list of my favourite films too and so it goes as Kurt Vonnegut might have said. Great video, Iggy always does a good show, secondary vocals are of course by David Bowie who also travels well I think.....nice one!

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  2. Glad you enjoyed the music and the montage. Thanks for dropping by.

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  3. Most of these films would indeed find their way on my list of favorite movies of all time, not coincidentally I think because they were films I saw when younger and had maximum impact. The glaring exception to Commander Putney's list is, of course, a lack of Alfred Hitchcock films. There are always atleast one glaring exception to any book or video compilation.

    I'd like to do such a list but the presentation is all and I need to figure how to do it and do justice to the best of them.


    Speaking of glaring exceptions, I recently re-discovered a coffeetable book I laid away on cinema over the first 75 years of commercial film. It's by a couple of noted critics, one British, one American. And darned if they manage to make no mention whatever of Welles' "Citizen Kane"(1941), or much of anything by Welles apart from a passing refernce that he was a director who was once married to and did a film with Rita Hayworth ????

    What the HELL gives!!!

    Bit like doing a book on alternative music from the 60 and 70's and leaving out Frank Zappa.

    Didn't notice the Bowie secondary vocals there. Now I do. Thanks AA.

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  4. I had never seen it. I will have to go check it out.

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  5. really enjoyed that, always loved Iggy

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  6. Me too! Glad you liked it Iri Ani.

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  7. A great version with fab visuals too thanks x

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