I'll admit the top ten film list isn't perfect. Pulp Fiction should be higher and I regret not having Saving Private Ryan up there and maybe one of Rocco Sigfredi's earlier works. I stand by "Man On The Moon" as my 5th and 9th favorite movie. Next time, I'll put a star beside my jokes.*
But Fitzcaraldo...some movie? It took three years to shoot and originally starred Mick Jagger as a retard. The film was recast entirely after the lead actor nearly died and he was later replaced by Klaus Kinski (who makes Christian Bale seem like a teddy bear*). I used to play Fitzcaraldo in the background at parties on Euclid Street. So, please - allow me the eccentricity to include one of the strangest epics ever conceived.
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I think Barnsey's top ten is a wonderful, delightfully enjoyable list of films. Some real gems there - Heat, Requiem for a Dream. Placing Rushmore above Royal Tannenbaums is refreshingly insouciant (albeit somewhat bereft of intelligence). And, upon further consideration, I will defer judgement on 'Fitzcarldo', about a retarded Mick Jagger until I see it again (to suppose I remember anything about Euclid - especially a party held therein - is quite simply a stretch). Mondays do suck. Toronto is currently down 485.
Euclid is where the upstairs neighbors did strange drugs. Euclid is where we used to hit golf balls down the alley. Euclid is where we sat in wife beaters on the front cement and tried to intimidate every human that walked past. Euclid is where you shaved a whole in my head. Euclid is where we left for Biloxi from. Euclid is where you hit the light bulb with the battery, sending the world into darkness.
Correction....lights out was from an airplane bottle of Smirnoff.
Isn't Euclid where you peed in the closet, the Colonel fireballed Field and Field choked him, and was our jumping off point for Sneaky Dee's through the alleys many times??
Barnesy
YES! Euclid was our Sneaky Dee's warm-up spot. Remember when that place had two pool tables and a million evil punks?
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