# Movies

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/movies
- Date: 2024-08-17
- Tags: movies

## Watched

> **Attention Conservation Notice**
>
> Clearly, not exhaustive, but a good time start (June 26, 2025)


| Title               | Language | Year | Starring                                       | Started    | Finished   | Where                                                           | Rating (max5) | Comments                                 |
| ------------------- | -------- | ---- | ---------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| Arbitrage           | English  | 2012 | Richar Gere                                    | 2025-05-26 | 2025-07-01 | [tubi](https://tubitv.com/movies/385498/arbitrage)              | ⭐⭐⭐        |                                          |
| The Matador         | English  | 2005 | Pierce Brosnon                                 | 2025-07-01 |            | [tubi](https://tubitv.com/movies/577521/the-matador)            |               |                                          |
| The Accountant 2    | English  | 2025 | Ben Affleck                                    | 2025-05-20 | 2025-07-02 | [amazon](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DXKSDV6P/)    | ⭐            | Nothing like the first movie             |
| A most wanted man   | English  | 2014 | Philip Seymor Hoffman (story by John Le Carre) | 2025-07-03 | 2025-07-05 | [amazon](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0DGXKM16B/)    | ⭐⭐          | They didn't know how to make spy stories |
| The Holdover        | English  |      |                                                |            |            | Blueray from CCPL. Returned unwatched. Have to reborrow         |               |                                          |
| The Great Beauty    | Italian  |      | Paolo Sorrentino                               |            |            | Blueray from CCPL. Returned unwatched. Have to reborrow         |               |                                          |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | English  | 1994 | Time Robbins; by Coeh Brothers                 | 2025-07-06 | 2025-07-06 | [tubi](https://tubitv.com/movies/100009861/the-hudsucker-proxy) | ⭐⭐⭐        | "Muncie, Indiana"!                       |
| Bad Moon Rising     | English  | 1986 | Tommy Lee Jones                                | 2025-07-10 |            | [tubi](https://tubitv.com/movies/478805/black-moon-rising)                                                                |

## Links

[Why Lawrence of Arabia Still Looks Like a Billion Bucks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1jTDaaThk) - the background about lenses, film, photography, and directorial ([David Lean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lean)) choices. Inspired by [John Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ford)'s "[The Searchers](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049730/)", shot in [Monument Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley). The music of LoA was composed by Maurice Jarre.

"Artistic Vision and Technical Innovation and sheer dedication"

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  <img src="https://files.btbytes.com/screenshots/2024/10/movies-men-women.jpg" alt="Movies with the largest disparity when ranked by men and women" width="600px">
  <figcaption>Movies with the largest disparity when ranked by men and women (<a href="https://x.com/CaudilloXIV/status/1844438806591913991">via</a>)</figcaption>
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## To watch

Top 4-5 *classics* of these actors:

- Humphrey Bogart: Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, African Queen.
- John Cazale: The Godfather The Deer Hunter Dog Day Afternoon The Godfather Part II
- Robert DeNiro: Goodfellas Taxi Driver Heat Raging Bull
- Marlon Brando: A Streetcar Named Desire On The Waterfront The Godfather Apocalypse Now
- Jimmy Stewart: Mr Smith Goes to Washington The Philadelphia Story Wonderful Life Rear Window Vertigo The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
- Daniel Day Lewis Gangs of NY Last of the Mohicans There Will Be Blood In the Name of the Father
- Bette Davis: The Little Foxes All About Eve What Ever Happened to Baby Jane Jezebel
- Katharine Hepburn: Woman of the Year The Philadelphia Story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Lion in Winter
- Val Kilmer: Willow, Top Gun, Tombstone, Heat

![James Stewart Movies](https://files.btbytes.com/screenshots/2025/james-stewart.png)