Monday, October 28, 2013

Kubrick Completed, Scorsese Starts

My Friday night movie club has made it through the first director and will be moving on to the second in less than two weeks.  Stanley Kubrick was a mixed bag for those in attendance.  Evan enjoyed and was appreciative of the films Kubrick made, but didn't necessarily intend to watch some of them again (ever), while Danny's opinion was more varied and what he didn't like he REALLY didn't like.
The next director on our horizon is Martin Scorsese.  The films we will be viewing are Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Color of Money (with the possibility of viewing The Hustler before it as a view to see how Scorsese handled a sequel to a film he had no association with), Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, and Shutter Island.  By the time we finish Scorsese, his new movie The Wolf of Wall Street, will likely be in release and we can take a field trip to the cinema.
Following the viewing of half of Kubrick's films in the past few weeks, I have ranked his entire filmography again.  There was a minor change to the order since this was completed a few years ago.  The new order is below:

13. Fear and Desire
12. Eyes Wide Shut
11. Barry Lyndon
10. Killer's Kiss
9. Lolita
8. Spartacus
7. Full Metal Jacket
6. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Shining
4. Paths of Glory
3. The Killing
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
1. Dr. Strangelove

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