Showing posts with label The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Westerns: Top 25

image from Unforgiven

Top 25 Westerns

This list of the best Westerns ever made was compiled by aggregating multiple best-of lists (see resources at bottom of page) along with films’ overall status in Dave’s Movie Database. Note: True Grit appears twice on this list – the 1969 original and the 2010 remake – so they are listed as one entry.

1. Unforgiven (1992)
2. High Moon (1952)
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
4. The Searchers (1956)
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

6. The Wild Bunch (1969)
7. Red River (1948)
8. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta Il West) (1968)
9. Stagecoach (1939)
10. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

11. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
12. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
13. Shane (1953)
14. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
15. Rio Bravo (1959)

16. True Grit (1969) / True Grit (2010)
17. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
18. Dances with Wolves (1990)
19. My Darling Clementine (1946)
20. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

21. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
22. Blazing Saddles (1974)
23. Tombstone (1993)
24. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
25. No Country for Old Men (2007)

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Originally posted 9/2/2019; last updated 5/25/2023.
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Friday, December 23, 2016

50 years ago: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the best known spaghetti western of all time, released

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo)

Released: December 23, 1966

Studio: Produzioni Europee Associate

Genre: Western

Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 25.10 Worldwide: 25.25

Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: 186.80 Worldwide: 187.94

Directing: Sergio Leone

Screenwriting: Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach

Review:

The third installment in Italian director Sergio Leone’s epic trilogy was actually a prequel to A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). “This sweeping, stylistic, and operatic film” FS has become possibly “the best known ‘spaghetti western’ of all time,” FS credited as “invigorated the ailing western.” PM

Like Leone’s other westerns, the movie “is viciously violent and machismo in tone, but buoyed by the classic, instantly recognizable, twanging Ennio Morricone score.” FS It features “very little dialogue…and vast widescreen landscapes.” FS “Leone built the action to a vertiginous climax, intercutting vivid panoramas with jarring close-ups.” PM This is his movie which “best balances art and entertainment.” E18

The film is set during the Civil War. Leone traveled to America to research the Civil War at the Library of Congress. He credited “legendary Civil War photographer Mathew B. Brady's expansive collection of images documenting the war as a main source of inspiration.” MSN

The story focuses on acquiring “a treasure chest of $200,000 in stolen Confederate gold buried in a grave at a faraway location.” FS Three “basically amoral, anti-social bounty hunters, outlaws, and murderers, are forced to form an uneasy partnership or alliance, leading to the film’s climactic graveyard shootout in which the opportunistic desperados find themselves facing off one last time for the fortune.” FS

Clint Eastwood plays “the unsmiling anti-hero ‘Good’ guy” FS known as “The Man with No Name.” He was in all three of Leone’s Dollar movies, but this was his “star-making role.” FS “Angel Eyes Sentenza (Van Cleef) serves as the vile and ruthless ‘Bad’ guy, and Tuco Ramirez (Wallach) provides the greedy, talkative, clownish and self-centered ‘Ugly.’” FS It’s the latter who “steals this Wild West show.” E18

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First posted 6/7/2023.
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Saturday, October 31, 1998

Premiere Magazine: 100 Most Daring Movies Ever Made

Premiere Magazine:

100 Most Daring Movies Ever Made

In their October 1998 issue, Premiere magazine presented its list of the 100 most daring movies ever made (also known as “Rebel Cinema” and “100 Movies That Shook the World.” The goal was to, as Filmsite.org says, celebrate films that “dared to be ridiculous, offensive, or even unpopular” but still ended up as classic films. The original list was presented in alphabetical order. It is presented here in order of the films’ rankings in Dave’s Movie Database.

1. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
2. Blade Runner (1982)
3. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
5. Metropolis (1927)
6. Nashville (1975)
7. Touch of Evil (1958)
8. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
9. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) (1959)
10. Blue Velvet (1986)

11. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
12. Do the Right Thing (1989)
13. Persona (aka “Masks”) (1966)
14. Badlands (1973)
15. Rashômon (1950)
16. The Conversation (1974)
17. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
18. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
19. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
20. Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) (1959)

21. The Terminator (1984)
22. Blazing Saddles (1974)
23. The Hustler (1961)
24. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
25. Brazil (1985)
26. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
27. The Last Picture Show (1971)
28. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
29. Mean Streets (1973)
30. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

31. Airplane! (1980)
32. Trainspotting (1996)
33. The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1970)
34. Halloween (1978)
35. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
36. The Piano (1993)
37. Blow-Up (1966)
38. Dirty Harry (1971)
39. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
40. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

41. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (aka “Nosferatu, the Vampire”) (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (1922)
42. Scarface (1983)
43. Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961)
44. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
45. Beauty of the Day (Belle de Jour) (1967)
46. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1982)
47. Rome, Open City (Roma Città Aperta) (1945)
48. Raising Arizona (1987)
49. Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s Kinoapparatom) (1929)
50. Freaks (1932)

51. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
52. The Birds (1963)
53. The Crowd (1928)
54. Peeping Tom (1960)
55. Repulsion (1965)
56. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
57. An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou) (1928)
58. Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo Tango a Parigi) (1973)
59. Detour (1945)
60. The Killer (Dip Huet Seung Hung) (1989)

61. Cat People (1942)
62. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
63. The Killing (1956)
64. Johnny Guitar (1954)
65. Dumbo (1941)
66. Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1932)
67. Akira (1988)
68. If… (1968)
69. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
70. Faces (1968)

71. Pandora's Box (aka “Lulu”) (Die Büchse der Pandora) (1929)
72. Dead Ringers (1988)
73. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
74. Don’t Look Back (1967)
75. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
76. Walkabout (1971)
77. Olympia (Parts 1 and 2) (1938)
78. Bob Le Flambeur (1955)
79. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
80. Zero for Conduct (Zero de Conduite) (1933)

81. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
82. Medium Cool (1969)
83. In the Company of Men (1997)
84. 28 Up (1984)
85. Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1974)
86. Shock Corridor (1963)
87. Pink Flamingos (1972)
88. Bananas (1971)
89. Eyes Without a Face (1959)
90. Shaft (1971)

91. Ride the High Country (1962)
92. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
93. The Harder They Come (1973)
94. Seconds (1966)
95. Animal Crackers (1930)
96. My Brilliant Career (1979)
97. The Girl Can’t Help It (1956)
98. The Gang’s All Here (1943)
99. Flesh (1968)
100. The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)

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Originally posted 8/10/2019; last updated 6/2/2023.
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