Listing Movies: Man-Movie Addendum

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

mans-illo-magMy man-movie list from a couple of days ago generated quite a few comments as well as lots of suggestions from readers. I thought I’d consolidate all of the suggested titles into this follow-up post.

I can’t say I endorse all of these choices, but since UR has awesome readers, they’re all worth thinking over, considering, catching up with, etc.

I also included some that I would have included on my own list had I thought of them earlier — things like “California Split,” “Killer Joe,” and “Mad Max.”

Who’ll Stop the Rain (Reisz, 1978)
The Duellists (Scott, 1977)
Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976)
Betrayal (Lester, 2003)
The American Friend (Wenders, 1977)
Glengarry Glenn Ross (Foley, 1992)
Matewan (Sayles, 1987)
Hope and Glory (Boorman, 1987)
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
The Cruel Sea (Frend, 1953)
The Way Ahead (Reed, 1944)
The Gift Horse (Bennett, 1952)
Reach for the Sky (Gilbert, 1956)
The Wild Geese (McLaglen, 1978)
The Three Musketeers (Lester, 1973)
The Four Musketeers (Lester, 1974)
Royal Flash (Lester, 1975)
MR 73 (Marchal, 2008)
Les Lyonnais (Marchal, 2011)
Wasabi (Krawczyk, 2001)
District 13 (Morel, 2004)
War (Balabanov, 2002)
The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
Killer Joe (Friedkin, 2011)
Get Carter (Hodges, 1971)
California Split (Altman, 1974)
Mad Max (Miller, 1979)
Hell Drivers (Endfield, 1957)
Breathless (Godard, 1959)
The Professional (Lautner, 1981)
Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965)
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (Sfar, 2010)
Our Man Flint (Mann, 1966)
In Like Flint (Douglas, 1967)
The Swimming Pool (Deray, 1969)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir, 2003)
Southern Comfort (Hill, 1981)
Assault on Precinct 13 (Carpenter, 1976)
Zulu (Endfield, 1964)
The Hunt for Red October (McTiernan, 1990)
Guns of Navarone (Thompson, 1961)
Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1991)
Ronin (Frankenheimer, 1998)
Heat (Mann, 1995)
Thief (Mann, 1981)
Conan the Barbarian (Milius, 1982)
The Bridges of Madison County (Eastwood, 1995)
Rancho Deluxe (Perry, 1975)
The Ninth Configuration (Blatty, 1980)
Charley Varrick (Siegel, 1973)
Dumb and Dumber (Farrelly/Farrelly, 1995)
Three Stooges shorts (Various)
The Hospital (Hiller, 1971)
Porco Rosso (Miyazaki, 1992)
Los Olvidados (Bunuel, 1950)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
The Man who Fell to Earth (Roeg, 1976)
Hud (Ritt, 1963)
Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002)
A Boy and His Dog (Jones, 1975)
Tell Them Willie Boy is Here (Polonsky, 1969)
Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
The Man in the Iron Mask (Wallace, 1998)
Michael Clayton (Gilroy, 2007)
Easy Rider (Hopper, 1969)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
Monsters, Inc. (Pixar Focus Group, 2001)
The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean, 1957)
Diner (Levinson, 1982)
Not Fade Away (Chase, 2012)

Update to account for new reader suggestions and ones I missed the first time:

Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977)
Lonely Are the Brave (Miller, 1962)
Fat City (Huston, 1972)

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About Fabrizio del Wrongo

Recovering liberal arts major. Unrepentant movie nut. Aspiring boozehound.
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5 Responses to Listing Movies: Man-Movie Addendum

  1. Fenster's avatar Fenster says:

    A true public service.

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  3. Chip Smith's avatar Chip Smith says:

    Great list. So much I haven’t seen.

    A Boy and His Dog is a sly choice. In a perhaps similar spirit — showing my generational bias — I would suggest Vince Gallo’s Buffalo 66 and Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Quest for Fire.

    I suspect you have personal reasons for not including some titles that might seem like no-brainers to many readers, e.g., Cool Hand Luke, Reservoir Dogs, the first two Godfather films, Sin City, Full Metal Jacket. But where is The Getaway? That there’s a reel of testosterone, with Peckinpah at the helm, Walter Hill adapting Jim Thompson, and Steve McQueen at his coolest even though Ali MacGraw does most of the driving. Tony Scott’s True Romance follows.

    I would have included some Blake Edwards. The first few Pink Panther movies have an undeniably masculine comic sensibility.

    Not many horror films. Might be interesting to speculate on why. Oddly, the one that first comes to mind is Ridley Scott’s Alien, starring a chick. Oh, now I see that you have John Carpenter’s The Thing. Completely agree and I think Howard Hawks’ original, The Thing From Another World, should go in as well.

    No Coen Brothers, eh? I would have Blood Simple in there somewhere. Maybe The Big Lebowski, too.

    And I vote for Jaws, if only because it has arguably the best (Milius scripted) male bonding scene in movie history.

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  5. ricardo's avatar ricardo says:

    Excellent list.

    Cross of Iron
    Only Angels Have Wings
    Valhalla Rising
    Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    Seul Contre Tous
    Too Late The Hero
    The Warriors
    Gallipoli
    Boiling Point
    A Short Film About Love

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