Alex Rieneck
Official web site : Tlaloc
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without taste or any hope of redemption.
Alex Rieneck's Top Ten Films of All Time
For me, these films come as close as is possible to perfection.
By this I mean that they are perfectly photographed, scripted,
edited, acted and directed. They survive multiple re-watchings
within short periods of time and always provide new ideas and
insights into the weird thing known as human existence. My top
twenty listing changes reasonably often but these films keep on keeping
on. I have made something of an effort to represent all the
genres that I like, but I'm not fanatical.
In no particular order:
- Miller's Crossing. (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
- All that Jazz (Bob Fosse)
- The Betrayed (Documentary)
- Crash (David Cronenberg)
- Bladerunner (Ridley Scott)
- Network (Sidney Lumet)
- Koyannisquatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
- Won't fit but should be mentioned as being really, really good.
- Fierce Creatures
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Fifth Element
- Apocalypse Now
- The Crazy Family (Japanese)
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Personal Services (Terry Jones, Julie Walters)
- The Sixth Sense
- Light Sleeper
- Worst Of All Time, as they occur to me.
- Sleepers (Some Hack, Brad Pitt) *
- Private Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) *
- The Great Gatsby( Alan Ladd)
- Triumph of the Will (Leni Reisenstahl)
- The Money Train
- Dumb And Dumber
- Showgirls
- ...and as the man says "And many More!!"
* represents films of such quality and magnificence that I
walked out on them before they were over and after I had paid my
own money to see them at first run movie houses.
Some people have accused me of disliking far more than I like,
and to this I plead guilty. I admit nitpicking, sticking popcorn
up my nose to suffocate my brain, shouting abuse at things I
don't like on video, arguing about whether it's shit or not
(thereby "spoiling the evening") and shameless fast forwarding.
My defense?
"Life is too short for crap."
I welcome arguments, please email me and beg to differ.
Alex Rieneck
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