Hokay so George Clooney, in a recent interview for his upcoming film The Ides of March, has published his list of the best 100 films from 1964-76, which some (excluding me) consider to be the Golden Age of Cinema. Excluding me because such pigeonholed classifications are usually based on blindspot biases, and every generation has its greats. Only ignorant/bigoted idiots would stoop to say that great filmmakers/artists have all perished.
The list.
The list has some really great titles, interspersed with some that are in my opinion junk yet highly overrated, and some lesser known gems. Those who use the IMDb Top 250 as a recommendation list should immediately identify the good titles in this list, so I'm going to recommend some from it that are NOT in IMDb Top 250 but are truly great films in their own right:
In order:
Deliverance (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
All The President’s Men (1976)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Blow Up (1966)
The Producers (1968)
The French Connection (1971)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Marathon Man (1976)
MASH (1970)
Going to watch Badlands this weekend, and I might add that pending my response. And one very important and worthy film that's missing from Clooney's list is, of course, Barry Lyndon. Though not as popular as Kubrick's other endeavors, Barry Lyndon is a period masterpiece with Kubrick's signatures signed all over it, a paragon of artistic, dramatic and technical perfectionism he was known for.
The list.
The list has some really great titles, interspersed with some that are in my opinion junk yet highly overrated, and some lesser known gems. Those who use the IMDb Top 250 as a recommendation list should immediately identify the good titles in this list, so I'm going to recommend some from it that are NOT in IMDb Top 250 but are truly great films in their own right:
In order:
Deliverance (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
All The President’s Men (1976)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Blow Up (1966)
The Producers (1968)
The French Connection (1971)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Marathon Man (1976)
MASH (1970)
Going to watch Badlands this weekend, and I might add that pending my response. And one very important and worthy film that's missing from Clooney's list is, of course, Barry Lyndon. Though not as popular as Kubrick's other endeavors, Barry Lyndon is a period masterpiece with Kubrick's signatures signed all over it, a paragon of artistic, dramatic and technical perfectionism he was known for.
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