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"A Face In the Crowd" is on TCM tonight at 8ET. If you haven't seen it and want to know what the "Lonesome Rhodes" Beck thing is about. It's pretty brilliant, both on its own merits, and as one of KO's most effective long-range metaphors.
Also, a great performance by Patricia Neal (and Andy Griffith).
Yes, they were both very good...you get to see another side of him, especially.
Oooh, I've been wanting to see A Face in the Crowd for ages--thanks for the info!!
Star Wars as silent movie.
The music in that is particularly awesome.
From io9:
25 classic science fiction movies that everybody must watch
Methodology: We looked at a few different criteria, including overall cinematic excellence. We wanted to include films that were important to the development of the genre, and which had helped to raise the overall level of awesomeness in science fiction films. We also wanted to represent as many different types of films as possible. And we looked for films that had an original concept, or which were the first of their kind in some way.
But most of all, we looked for films that would represent science fiction well to a new audience and totally rock a neophyte's brain.
I've seen 22 of the 25.
23, baby!
Curses!
I've seen 21. Missing Ghost in the Shell, Primer, District 9 and Moon. Of those, I have two on DVD and I think I DVRed Primer and burned it to disc.
23!
I haven't seen Alien or District 9 (yet).