As you may know, I am doing a countdown of my top 30 films. However, in the prologue, there was a tribute to great film that I had not seen and I included The Shining by Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Since I wrote that post, I have seen both these films and this has totally messed up the original top 30 that I came up with before starting this countdown. To compensate, I will continue with the original top 30, but this was as of 1st November 2011. Then after I get to no.1, I will give a revised version of my top 30 or even 50 (depending how I feel), because there are still many great films which I haven't seen which I could before we get to no.1. I am of course talking about The Godfather trilogy, The Exorcist, The Fly, Annie Hall and (a film I didn't mention in the prologue, but hope is as good as everyone says) Raging Bull. Plus, I may end up re-watching some, so it could be not so different or change dramatically.
My short review of The Shining - another masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson's performance is psychotic and memorable, mind you the scene with the naked lady in the bath is disturbing
My short review of Taxi Driver - Robert De Niro's stand-out performance, what a chilling piece of cinema, features memorable soundtrack by Bernard Hermann and perhaps one of the greatest movie quotes ever - "You talkin' to me?"
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