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Recommended Viewing
Apocalypse Now - (1979) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Writing credits Joseph Conrad (novel) A classic in all aspects. A geeked up reporter (Dennis Hopper), unfathomably deep Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen), and last but not least the gung-ho Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall) who gave us lines like: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." and "Charlie don't surf!!!"
Cool Hand Luke - (1967) Directed by Stuart Rosenberg (I) Writing credits Donn Pearce (novel) Another classic. Ultimately a story about a man's spirit and those who try to break it. Paul Newman plays 'Cool Hand' Luke Jackson as no one else could. 'Dragline' (George Kennedy) creates an excellent contrast to Lukes smoothness.
East of Eden - (1955) Directed by Elia Kazan. Writing credits John Steinbeck (novel) and Paul Osborn (screenplay) . One of James Dean's few movies. Set around the time of WWI, a story about Cal (Dean) and his need for acceptance from his father and his competitiveness with his brother. The movie picks up somewhere around the middle of the book, but this does not detract (too much) from the quality of the movie.
Fight Club - (1999) Directed by David Fincher. Writing credits (WGA) Chuck Palahniuk (novel) Jim Uhls; A must see movie that you either love or you hate. Witty dialogue, and the beginning is immediately identifiable to anyone who has worked in the corporate world. http://www.fight-club.com
Simple Men - (1992) Producers: Ted Hope, Hal Hartley; Essentially, two brother's search for their long lost father . . . but what they find along the way is perhaps of greater importance. A dialogue movie that demands attention. Featuring a strangely seductive Karen Sillas as Kate. If you like this check other movies by Hal Hartley: The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Surviving Desire, Amateur, Flirt, Henry Fool, and The Book of Life http://www.best.com/~drumz/Hartley/
Vanilla Sky - (2001) Writer/Director: Cameron Crowe, I am not typically a big Tom Cruise fan, and this movie starts out like every other Tom Cruise movie - He is Mr. HipSlickandCool, but the cliché hits the fan pretty quick and the pieces go everywhere. One clusterbang of a plot. Don't read anything about it just rent it - the goods are in the unknowing.