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[Jocephus]

[Freed Roger]

I've never seen "Cloak and Dagger" movie from the 80s - but with the Stranger Things vibe going, I thought some of you 80s dorks would appreciate this review of it.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/cloak-dagger-may ... 9_facebook

[cardsfantx]

was prob my favorite movie when i was a kid....i wore the vcr tape of that, and the movie RAD out

[ghostrunner]

Cloak and Dagger is one of those safe for daytime action movies that HBO trucked out all the time. It still shows up on HBO GO now and then, so I assume they must still run on it the channel every so often.

[Tim]

I rarely go to the theater, but the wife and I will be checking this one out. Brandon Burlsworth is a legend in the state of Arkansas and his foundation, started by his brother, continues to amazing things.

The trailer says January 2016, but it was pushed back until today.

[The Third Man]

I was bored, so I wrote a top 100. Subject to change.

12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo, 1988)
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1983)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1995)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
Carrie (Brian de Palma, 1976)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
Cry-Baby (John Waters, 1990)
Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
Dredd (Pete Travis, 2012)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
The Godfather/The Godfather Pt. II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972/1974)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier, 2016)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi, 1963)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2015)
It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2012)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2008)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1955)
The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary, 2002)
Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2013)
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Terminator 2 (James Cameron, 1992)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2014)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

[The Third Man]

I'm glad my list was so definitive it put an end to movie discussion.

[33anda3rd]

Good list. Very eclectic list. My quibble with it (though I'm not arguing, taste is taste) is that close to half your list is from 1990 to present and it's on the whole very American.

My list would include something from Nic Ray, a couple Godards, a couple Antonionis, a Tarkovsky or two, more Hitch, more Kurosawa, Rivette, Rossellini, a Bertolucci (The Conformist), S. Ray, 2-3 Bressons (knowing what I know of your taste esp for Tarr I was surprised to not find at least 2 Bressons on here), Lang, a couple Fellinis, Ford, multiple Howard Hawks, Bunuel, Kiarostami, Almodovar, Haynes, Tsai, Haneke, Errol Morris, Hou. If I were putting a Coen in it would be Fargo, I'd make different Kubrick choices, and I'd have Pulp Fiction in over Basterds. I'd probably also put in a lot more comedy, which I think gets poor treatment in these kinds of lists. Preston Sturges would be on for sure.

[ghostrunner]

Not to mention a lack of Russ Meyer.

[The Third Man]

Most of what you mentioned would strongly represent in a second list of 100, and could just as easily have features in my list above, which just shows how arbitrary an exercise it is. Another five films by any of Ray, Bresson (Pickpocket was a last-minute cut), Kurosawa, Godard, etc. The Confoemist barely missed as well and probably should've made it.