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THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

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Thu 12 Jul 2007

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

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When I was ten years of age, my mother went to visit her sister in Alabama. I was left with my father, who worked nights in a little town in Illinois. While he was sleeping one day I road buses to Saint Louis, Missouri to the Fox Theatre to see this movie. Humphrey Bogart played such a dark paranoid charactor, while Walter Houston (a director, not an actor) played such a deep comical man with such insight about what life was really all about. Then came the Mexicans who don’t need no stinkin’ badges because the had guns who finsh Bogart and then cut open the bags of gold, thinking it to be sand. Then as the wind is blowing the gold back to the mountains Houston points out that we can call it what we will, God or Fate, but its all going back where it came from.
I never convinced my father or mother to watch it, they didn’t believe that I had seen one of the greatest films ever made.

 

Sat 30 Jun 2007

LOTS, BUT FARGO, BLOOD SIMPLE, TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, MALTESE FALCON, PRINCESS BRIDE, SAY ANYTHING

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Dropping Fargo and adding Titanic??? Get serious. Of the rest, Blood Simple is horribly underrated. Did Sierra Madre make the list? If not, that’s unbelievable. Princess Bride and Say Anything are more recent classics, always watchable no matter the mood.

Several bloggers have mentioned some foreign films (which don’t qualify), but I’ll add my 2 cents: early Hitchcock (I’d vote for 39 Steps or The Lady Vanishes), Rules of the Game, Seven Samurai or Ran from Kurosawa, and for the lighter touch, a lesser known favorite of mine - Local Hero, with its picture-perfect yet slightly askew Scottish town.

 

Fri 22 Jun 2007

TREASURES OF THE SIERRE MADRE

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because the story and the moral of the story. not to mention the cast. how humphrey bogart did not get an oscar fof his performance is a joke. howevre walter huston did get one and he really did deserve his. tim holt and alfonso bedoya(gold hat) and the whole supporting cast and the marvelous john huston srcipt make this my favourite film of all time. not to mention boggie the worlds best actor of all time.

 

Thu 21 Jun 2007

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

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If a movie can be judged as one’s favorite by the times one has watched it or the utterly futile efforts to turn it off once it has started or the new things that become apparent with every viewing or the constantly renewed evaluations of human nature gleaned, then this would be mine.

Additionally, I have never experienced a greater fusion of soundtrack and story. Simply, the greatest movie and story ever. When you look up “movie” in the dictionary, there is a picture of Fred C. Dobbs. THIS is a MOVIE!