Empire of Light: Dusty's Film Series
Film Series Preview. #BeMorePorcupine
Sorry for lots of posts, readers!! Busy, busy, busy. Will try and calm it down after this!!
Anyway, if you have read the Lucy Connolly piece I am sure you need some light relief!!
Before the brief Westerns season, we featured those films nominated by readers as best films for update 500 as listed here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/empire-of-light-nominations-for-films
As I worked through these excellent nominations from readers and featured them in (alphabetical) turn, I kept thinking of other great films that deserved to be in the list ( in my humble opinion). So I have made Dusty’s list of great films ( aside from the films we have already featured, of course) that will now also follow in alphabetical order. As ever I am aware that us Terfs do like a good hero ( or even anti-hero) and have borne that in mind. One film that I have included has such a psychotic central character that I don’t even think he could be described as an anti-hero - let’s see if you can spot that film!!
I am happy to include further films at the suggestion of readers.
So here we go:
American History X
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Battle of Britain
A Beautiful Mind
Beautiful Thing
The Big Country
The Book Thief.
Brokeback Mountain
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chariots Of Fire
Citizen Kane
City of God
Crocodile Dundee
The Dark Knight Rises
The Deer Hunter
Diamonds Are Forever
The Dig
Dirty Harry
The Draftsman’s Contract
Educating Rita
ET
A Fistful of Dollars
Flags of Our Fathers
For A Few Dollars More
Frank
The French Connection
Full Metal Jacket
The Full Monty
Gandhi
The Gard
Goldfinger
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Great Escape
Gremlins
The Harder They Come
Heavenly Creatures
High Noon
High Plains Drifter
Hobson’s Choice
Hostiles
The Hurt Locker
In Bruges
In The Heat Of The Night
The Ipcress File
The Italian Job
Jaws
The Jungle Book
The Killing Fields
The Kite Runner
The Lady In The Lake
The Lady In The Van
The Ladykillers
Last Orders
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Life Of Brian
Little Dorrit
Live and Let Die
Living
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
The Long Goodbye
The Long Good Friday
The Long Riders
Maiden
The Maltese Falcon
Mapantsula
Mary Poppins
Midnight Cowboy
Minecraft The Movie
Mona Lisa
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Beautiful Launderette
My Life As A Dog
Nine To Five
No Country For Old Men
Notting Hill
Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
Oliver!
Otway The Movie
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Pale Rider
Panic Room
Passport To Pimlico
Pay It Forward
Picnic At Hanging Rock
The Pink Panther
Pulp Fiction
Rain Man
Reservoir Dogs
Ryan’s Daughter
Salaam Bombay
The Shawshank Redemption
Shine
Silent Running
Sliding Doors
Slumdog Millionaire
Snatch!
The Sound of Music
South West To Sonoro
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 version I hasten to add!!!)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tampopo
The Third Man
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Time Bandits
To Kill A Mockingbird
Tom Horn
Tombstone
True Grit ( 2010 remake)
Watership Down
Way Out West
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Whistle Down The Wind
The Winslow Boy
The Year of Living Dangerously
Zero Dark Thirty
Zombieland
Please let me have your suggested additions.
#BeMorePorcupine
Great list Dusty. I’ve seen most of them and agree that they’re worthy choices despite being disappointed that my favourite isn’t on there 😁 ( A Man for all Seasons). I’d forgotten Silent Running which I love and which should have been on my original list of favourites. I recently watched The Dig which I really enjoyed about the finding of the treasures at Sutton Hoo and the woman who owned the land.
Great list, Dusty. If you are happy to include a documentary can I suggest Maiden. It’s about Tracy Edward’s and her all-women crew sailing the Whitbread round the world race