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Ah well, we'll just agree to disagree. I think Citizen Kane is one of those few absolutely perfect films!

Eh, I strongly disagree. For me, Gone With The Wind is the equivalent of modern blockbusters, just a lot of fun to watch but not very deep. It has a good story and characters, but I think that Citizen Kane is especially a much deeper film. Of course Gone With The Wind is more epic, it's an epic...

You're welcome. Yeah I love black & white films too.

Eh, aside from Chinatown I wouldn't consider the other ones noirs even though they are good films. They are neo-noir but that's different from film noir to me, they are also good but just way different from the original film noir (I mean we can even call Batman films neo-noir but I wouldn't call...

Picture Bride directed by Kayo Hatta - 7/10 To me, there are really some cinematic mysteries like what ever happened to the other guys that directed In Our Time and The Sandwich Man (aside from Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien respectively), why did Lung Kong and Patrick Tam stop making films so...

Yeah, I was confused too. I did recommend Detour, Double Indemnity, and The Maltese Falcon which are film noirs. There are actually good film noirs in color too like Leave Her To Heaven.

To Each His Own Cinema directed by various directors - 4/10 What happens when you get 36 of the greatest living directors in the world to make short films on their feelings about cinema, you just get a ton of mediocre short films. I'd say that few of the films are as bad as my rating seems to...

I think the case with Gone With The Wind is that it has "dated" worse than other films of the era I think. (not to mention, most audiences don't want to watch a five hour movie from 1939). I still love it in spite of this due to its amazing story, great characters, and just the idea of watching...

Oh, when you said noir I thought you meant films of the 'film noir' genre but if it's black & white films I have even more to recommend. I mostly watch classic cinema so I have a ton of favorites. I'm not sure if you're into foreign film so I'm just going to list them separately. English...

Makes sense, and I would add great characters too!

I had a long post prepared but I'll just say I pretty much agree with most of what you say. But I'm wondering, when people say that audiences 'care most about story' I don't really understand, because I don't see the big box-office hits having great stories. Maybe they just care about the fact...

Tom, Dick And Hairy directed by Peter Chan & Chi-Ngai Lee - 8/10 Tom, Dick And Hairy is by far one of the best Hong Kong comedies I have seen. It isn't so much the humor (although if you love Hong Kong's brand of broad comedy you will laugh a lot with this film), it's the way that the film makes...

Voices Of A Distant Star directed by Makoto Shinkai - 6/10 Okay I have very mixed feelings about this film. On one hand, the film has really great animation (it's incredible that Shinkai did this all by himself on his Mac computer), and I think that the overall film is enjoyable. But on the...

Actually, I think Tarantino's heavy dialogue definitely a style, and also the way he borrows from many genre films. Every distinctive director (or 'auteur') has his/her own style. Some are more obvious than others. For example, Yasujiro Ozu's style of low camera placement, disregard for 180...

That Man From Rio directed by Philippe de Broca - 8/10 So much fun, this is essentially a James Bond film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo except that it is crazier as it is somewhat of a spoof, mixing elements of the spy genre, adventure genre, and silent comedy. Some parts didn't really work for me...

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father directed by Peter Chan and Lee Chi-Ngai - 7/10 Pretty much the Hong Kong version of Back To The Future except it's less sci-fi blockbuster and more sentimental family drama (and not just family, neighbors too). This film has a lot of heart, and I always love the...

The Servant directed by Joseph Losey - 8/10 I was disappointed by this one at first but then I got sucked in by the psychological aspects of the film. The cinematography and editing is just perfect but I didn't get into the characters until a quarter of the way in. I think this is an interesting...

I loved Annie Hall! That's one of my favorite films, I think it's one of the best relationship movies and romantic comedies. Manhattan may be a better film, but I love Annie Hall more.

I would agree with this. I don't actually "enjoy" the film either, I appreciate it and was entertained by a little less than half of it, and I admired quite a bit of the artistry. That doesn't mean I enjoyed it though, I hated how stupid the racism was, it was really stupid.

Dragon Lord directed by Jackie Chan - 8/10 I think this is an incredibly underrated Jackie Chan film, it is kind of a transitional film between Jackie's early films and his more mature works that he directed on his own. For me it just works, it has the episodic structure that I like from many...