June 27, 2012

The Last Ten Movies I Saw

By michaelgloversmith

1. The Awful Truth (McCarey)
2. The Searchers (Ford)
3. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
4. Citizen Kane (Welles)
5. Chinatown (Polanski)
6. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
7. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
8. Aliens (Cameron)
9. Eraserhead (Lynch)
10. The Lady Eve (Sturges)

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About michaelgloversmith

Filmmaker, author and Film Studies instructor. View all posts by michaelgloversmith

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 at 9:42 pm and posted in The Last Ten Movies I Saw. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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15 responses to “The Last Ten Movies I Saw”

• david
  June 28th, 2012 at 9:10 pm

  Sir,do you have a list of the films you showed in your Cinema History classes? I’m interested what films you pick up from all those greats.

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  • michaelgloversmith
    June 28th, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    Not only do I have a list, my Chinese brother, I even have my students rate all the films I show them. Check it out: https://whitecitycinema.com/2011/08/22/my-student-tomato-meter/

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    • david
      June 28th, 2012 at 10:38 pm

      This a sensational list as I expected,but no Abbas and HHH? considering they are two of your faves.

      It is a fact that there is a learning curve in appreciating the cinema,plot is always the easiest to appreciate,then the editing,cinematography,acting,direction etc etc.Your students are lucky to learn all those in a young age!!
    • michaelgloversmith
      June 28th, 2012 at 10:41 pm

      Well, I posted that last August. Since then I’ve shown The Taste of Cherry, which went over really well. I’d like to show an HHH film but I can’t figure out which one. It would be too heart-breaking if I showed Three Times and it was met with hostility!
• david
  June 28th, 2012 at 10:49 pm

  His early ones would be prefect.

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• david
  June 28th, 2012 at 10:49 pm

  sorry for the typo,perfect.

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• Omar Pineda
  July 2nd, 2012 at 5:39 pm

  Last Ten Movies I Saw
  1. Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger)
  2. Boogie Boy (Hamann)
  3. More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (Philputt)
  4. Homeboy (Seresin)
  5. Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara)
  6. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Lumet)
  7. Scum – Theatrical Version (Clarke)
  8. Bonnie & Clyde (Penn)
  9. Far from Heaven (Haynes)
  10. Dial M For Murder (Hitchcock)

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  • michaelgloversmith
    July 2nd, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    Bad Lieutenant, Bonnie and Clyde, Far from Heaven and Dial M for Murder are faves. I hope you got to see the original, now-suppressed version of Bad Lieutenant with Schooly D’s Signifying Rapper on the soundtrack.

    I really need to see Where the Sidewalk Ends.

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• Omar Pineda
  July 2nd, 2012 at 11:23 pm

  I loved all those too. I own the original Bad Lieutenant DVD, but i don’t think it has Schooly D’s song in it. I’ve heard of that version plenty. As far as i know that’s the only thing that was taken out of it, shame too. Where’ve you see that version?

  And Where the Sidewalk Ends is an excellent Noir film. Has a great and simple title sequence too

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  • michaelgloversmith
    July 2nd, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    I saw that version twice in the theater and then again on VHS tape. I’ve actually never seen the DVD with Ferrara’s substitute score.

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• Omar Pineda
  July 3rd, 2012 at 1:53 am

  Wow, so when it came out in 1992?

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  • michaelgloversmith
    July 3rd, 2012 at 7:06 am

    I saw it in early 1993 at the Angelika Film Center in NYC. I was only 17 and I loved it!

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• Omar Pineda
  July 4th, 2012 at 2:51 pm

  Wow, 17. You’re one of few to have seen that version now. I saw there was a version with Schooly D’s song in the movie on some torrent.

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  • michaelgloversmith
    July 4th, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Facets actually has the VHS for rent. It’s well worth checking out if you have a VCR.

    “Tell aunt Wendy to get the fuck out of the bathroom!”

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• Omar Pineda
  July 6th, 2012 at 9:49 pm

  I ought to have a VCR for some things, that’s one. Some definitive editions of movies or films in general only have a life on VHS.

  “What are you men or mice!”

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