Nobody does American coming-of-age movies better than Linklater ( Boyhood), and this riotous 1993 comedy is arguably the highest of his high-school adventures. Tommy Lee Jones oozes malignity as the famously disliked ball player Ty Cobb.
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Those in the know declare Shelton’s film a contender for the best (and most undervalued) sports movie of all time. Postclassical Hollywood was at its absolute classiest in this noir concerning the men who brought water to LA. Jonathan Pryce is going mad in steampunk dystopia. BRAZILĪ year after 1984, Terry Gilliam – approaching from an oblique, unofficial angle – delivered the best take on George Orwell’s novel. BLACK SNAKE MOANĬrazy Christploitation flick in which a God-fearing small farmer (Samuel L Jackson) aims to save a white-trash sex addict (Christina Ricci). Michael Keaton eats the furniture as an actor going slightly mad in one of the decade’s less likely best picture winners. BEGINNERSĬhristopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor star in this lovely, moving family drama about a straight son and his dying gay father. The only sequel to win the Golden Lion at Venice.
The second part of Ray’s legendary Apu trilogy – following on from Pather Panchali – details the hero’s troubled teenage years in Varanasi. Might this theatrical version of Tolstoy’s classic – featuring Keira Knightley and Domhnall Gleeson – be Joe Wright’s best film and the best English-language Karenina? We’re sticking with the proposition. But it went on to become the most-quoted film on this list. Nobody played the slightest attention when McKay’s ramshackle 1970s pastiche emerged. That’s to say it’s a proper comedy and a proper horror. There has never been a comedy-horror with quite the same tone as Landis’s delicious oddity. Surely, this still irresistible comedy must have the greatest hit-rate for classy one-liners in the history of the medium? It does … and stop calling me “Shirley”. (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, 1980) Preteen Conor is struggling with his mother’s illness, a no-nonsense granny (Sigourney Weaver) and nightly visits from a storytelling giant (Liam Neeson). But it’s getting there.įantastic animated steampunk epic set in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future in which “stitchpunk” puppets take on rampant killing machines. The Irish service hasn’t quite caught up with the bountiful UK equivalent. Hence this handy cut-out-and-keep (meaning look-up online) guide to the 50 best films on APV. As any regular user can attest, APV is an eclectic bazaar, a marketplace where stately award-winning documentaries (1982’s Genocide) co-exist with barmy conspiracy woo woo ( Alien Reptilian Legacy, Hitler’s UFOs), and where undeserving Oscar winners ( Chicago, Out of Africa) rub shoulders with financial catastrophes ( Freddy Got Fingered, Cool World). When Amazon Prime Video belatedly launched in the Republic of Ireland – some 10 years after its UK bow – Irish customers were thrilled to finally avail of Mr Robot and Transparent and, erm, Mr Robot? Happily, Netflix’s main rival has come on in leaps and bounds since that threadbare debut.