My Favorite Movies

Though Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde is a hell of a film(and one of my favorites) nothing on earth can compare to Gun Crazy. I saw it for the first time at the age of ten(probably has warped me since then) and the low-budget, dark edge of the film(brillantly directed by Joseph H. Lewis) hit me harder than anything. It's probably my favorite of the late 40's early 50's noir and it's without a doubt my favorite movie ever made.

Also Peggy Cummins was a goddess. Sure other Femme Fatales are more well known..but Peggy would have blown them all alway and have a smoke afterwords.

Probably no other film defines the "heroic bloodshed" genre more than The Killer. The ultra-cool of Melville, the violent bloodbaths of Peckinpah, and the operatic emotions of Douglas Sirk all meld together in what's possibly the best pure action film ever made.

More than just good genre entertainment..this film needs to take it's rightful place as one of the greatest crime films made.

Yakuza!, Schoolgirls!, Hot female assassins!, Samurai Swords!, Daryl Hannah in a nurse outfit!

I'm not gonna get wordy with this review and instead merely state that while Pulp Fiction is probably the better movie in the long run, Kill Bill(both parts) is probably my favorite Tarantino film and maybe one of my absolute favorite movies ever.

If there's ever a movie that comes close to the stuff that's going on in my head, Kill Bill would probably be it.

Make of that what you will.

He's cooler than Superman, drives a better car than Batman, and his chick can wipe the floors with almost all the Bond girls combined. He's Italy's number-one favorite Super-thief DIABOLIK!! *Que evil laughter*

Mario Bava was already a genius(even if he made no other movie Black Sunday would make him a legend) when he turned his attention to this rare non-horror effort to make quite possibly the best comic-book movie ever made. The inventiveness, winking humour, fun performances by both John Phillip Law, and the ungodly beautiful Marisa Mell(if this movie doesn't make you fall in love with her then I'm shocked!), and kickass Ennio Morricone score make this pure cinematic and comic-geek perfection.

Terrence Malick is a genius and it's rare that one can say that about a director who's only made for films in the last few decades. Though some will put Days of Heaven as his best(it's neck and neck) I can't help but place Badlands at the top.

Possibly the best adaptation of the Starkweather killing spree(second best is suprisingly the Arch Hall Sr. directed "The Sadist") Malick's film is a slow-burn wonder, never allowing you to get any type of glee from the dark crimes inside. And when you add in career-best performances from Martin Sheen, and Sissy Spacek you get something amazing.

One of my favorite films ever made.

For the longest time you couldn't get me to watch Bound for any reason whatsoever. I saw the Wachowski's boom with The Matrix and like everybody else I was won over by the anime-like stylizations of the brothers. Still I just kinda avoided Bound really for the simple reason that as a lesbian I was completely and utterly worried that the brother's had made some usual "late night on cinemax" movie, and that had no appeal whatsoever.

How wrong I was though. Bound's one of my favorite Neo-Noirs of the 90's and happens to be pretty fricking hot on top of it. Coming across like a low-budget pulp paperback(ya know with the yellow pages and titles like "Sisters in Sin!") and almost entirely set within the neo-gothic confines of some Mafia hotel(great use of limited sets in that regard), Bound feels like classic dirty-filthy-cool Thompson noir.(though it's a lot more optimistic) The baddies are bad, the heroines are tough(and subversive) and the suspense is killer.

Also Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly are really hot, but then I'm simple.

As much as I love Jackie Chan's films, and as much as I realize that Bruce Lee is probably the greatest martial arts star ever, my heart pretty much belongs to everybody's favorite portly kicker Sammo. And Pedicab Driver is his finest work, my favorite martial arts film ever, and one of my favorite movies ever.

It starts off as a light-hearted comedy, becomes a romantic drama, and ends in almost heroic bloodshed territory. And for the whole film Sammo is putting all that he loves about movies in between and it shows on the screen. And did I mention the fights? From an early barroom brawl between the pedicab and taxi workers, to a dizzying pole fight with Lau Kar-Leung(Maybe the best fight ever filmed) to a final knockdown drag out beatdown inside a gangster's mansion, Pedicab Driver delievers on that front in spades.

It's a classic of the genre, a hidden gem in Hong Kong films, and the best movie from one of the best dudes to ever emerge from Hong Kong films.

Just wonderful.