Ah! Another Billy Wilder fan!

We just watched my relatively new (birthday gift this year) copy of Sunset Boulevard on New Years Day. What a great movie.

Also a bit of a World War II and disaster film buff. :D

Yeah...I suppose Sunset Boulevard could be classified as a disaster film... :D

It's not that old by my standards (if it was made while I was alive, it isn't old) but I am watching the newly released DVD of THX-1138 and it's awesome.

I watched the whole movie last night, as well as partway through again with the commentary track. The way they setup the sound editor's commentary is a bit clumsy, but you can watch his whole set without having to wait for the dendrite to pop up on the screen and hit "enter". I still have the Disk 2 extras to go through.

A couple of weeks ago I watched Stanley Kubrick's The Killing for the first time...dynamite heist-gone-wrong flick.Has anyone else here seen it?

I have the book, interesting story.

Saw Cool Hand Luke over the weekend. If you haven't you must. You'll find yourself turning it over in your head later.

"What we have here is a failure to com-u-ni-cate".

Seconded Nominations:

It's A Wonderful Life favorite movie of all time, and definitely the odd one out in this list.

The Manchurian Candidate freaky scary

A Touch of Evil Most excellent jazz score, don't miss it.

New Nominations:

Fail Safe with Henry Fonda

Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck (perhaps I would not have children now if I had seen this movie before they were born)

Night of the Hunter more Robert Mitchum

Class in a Glass? - i dont know what one your talking about but i have only seen (and only bits mind you) of the kubrick version and i think it is totally sick - the way they carry on with such unneccessary vulgarity!! absolutely disgusting!! from my kubrick collection this DVD was given away!

Vulgarity? Ultraviolence, yes. But I don't think they even say fuck once in the movie ...

Give it another try. The reaction you had was carefully crafted by Kubrick.

While I love Clockwork Orange in both its filmed and written forms, for me, the film sort of failed to capture what I thought was the central theme of Burgess' book, namely, that society determines what is right and wrong, and so individual freedom is a nonexistant concept.