Friday, November 04, 2005

OZARK'S TOP 250 MOVIES: #110-#101

#110 - Gangs of New York (2002)
With a bit of poetic license this is Martin Scorsese take on the true story of the New York City Draft Riots. Featuring a career best performance from Leonardo DiCaprio.

#109 - Face/Off (1997)
John Woo's best Hollywood action flick to date. Made with his traditional orgy of violence, two-gunned, slow-motion and mexican stand offs. Also has John Travolta and Nicholas Cage firing on all cylinders.

#108 - Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Audrey Hepburn is absolutely gorguous and delightful as Holly Golightly in this Blake Edwards comedy. Brings out the romantic in everyone.

#107 - The Pianist (2002)
A great view of WWII from the eyes of Polish Jewish pianist (Adrien Brody) as he struggles to survive through the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto.

#106 - The Jerk (1979)
This is Steve Martin at the peak of his comedic brilliance. He is Navin R Johnson a simpleton struggling through life until an invention of his makes his wealthy.

#105 - Lethal Weapon (1987)
A defining moment in the action movie genre. The first of the great buddy cop movies, the highstrung suicidal white cop (Mel Gibson) and old retiring black cop (Danny Glover). A formula that will be copied many times.
"I'm getting to old for this shit."

#104 - High Noon (1952)
The classic black and white western. Gary Cooper is the marshall of a small town who finds out the criminal he incarcerated is coming back to town at noon only to find out his own town refuses to help him. One of the early examples of a movie being filmed in real time.

#103 - City of God (2002)
A multilayered ganster film from Brazil. It follows two kids lives in the ghetto as the grow up running on different sides of the law. Amazing in it's execution and style.

#102 - Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
An epic in the true sense of the word. Everything about this Sergio Leone western is huge. From the desert vistas to the extreme closes up of twitching glances.

#101 - Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Controversial and deemed both sacrilegious and blasphemous by many people upon it's release it is the story of Brian, a man born at the same time as Christ and is then mistaken for the messiah.

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