Why are there so few post about this great movie? Apparantly Stanley Kubrick ranked this as his favourite film of all time and has the most influence on directors alike like Scorsese (he mentioned this film influenced him the most in the introduction in the criterion La Strada dvd). Personally I think it is one of the best character study film around.
sharebesides scorsese and kubrick it was a big influence on lucas when he did american grafitti and later in another movie called dinner.
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<<another movie called dinner. >>
"Diner," actually.
How are 'ya ??
- Bobby Bittman.
"American Graffiti" & "Diner", both fine movies.
shareDiner is a Barry Levinson film.
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This movie is simply brilliant.
While I'm not a Fellini aficionado, I consider it one of the 50 greatest films of all time.
Kubrick was dead right on loving it. =)
This may have been Kubrick's favorite film until 1977, but that changed once he saw Eraserhead.
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need.
And Eraserhead might have been top until 1989, but then Dekalog annihilated the competition.
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eh, i was looking for something else when i read the synopsis and saw the cover art and all. so i guess this movie didn't really stimulate anything in me at all. i'm mad at myself for not being able to see what you all saw
shareI was really surprised when I saw this film. When people talk about Fellini, its all La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, La Strada (not bashing them, I love them all) and had never heard of I Vitelloni, before I saw the cover, bless criterion. It was simple and beautiful, and has become one of my favourite films. I still rank La Strada and 8 1/2 a bit higher though.
shareAt other times, though, Kubrick claimed David Lynch's "Eraserhead" and Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" to be his favorite films. Of course, that doesn't take away the brilliance of this film.
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It's in Kubrick's mini biography under trivia,
As of 1963 his favorite films were, in order, Vitelloni, I (1953), Smultronstället (1957) (Wild Strawberries), Citizen Kane (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), City Lights (1931), _Chronicle History or King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France, The (1944)_ (Henry V), Cette nuit-là (1958), The Bank Dick (1940), Roxie Hart (1942) and Hell's Angels (1930).
Hmmm..
That could be true.
I am not doubting the vericity of those facts, but I have always heard that Kubrick's favourite was 8 1/2 (also Fellini's).
Anyway, both of them are genious and we should be thankful of their legacy to us!
Kubrick singled out The Bank Dick as a favorite! That's awesome!
Janet! Donkeys!
Kubrick said some years before he died that Kieslowski's Dekalog was "the only masterpiece he could name in his lifetime".
Hence I think that makes "The Decalogue" the "número 1" film in Kubrick's book. (Albeit in fact "Dekalog" is a series of 10 films)
It's amazing.
Such depth of feeling in it.
Of the edge all the characters are heading. So full of life.
What is my favourite film? I cant say it probalby neither can you or kubrick.
I could maybe make a list with my 20 favourites but bringing it in order would be very hard.
I dont believe in having a favourite band, movie, book etc
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