DISQUS

alicia · 1 year ago

Good selection!
Brian Rodden · 1 year ago

Don't mess with Texas. The Getaway is awesome and Steve McQueen is the man!!
Maggie Van Ostrand · 1 year ago

What about Giant?
matt · 1 year ago

no mention of True Stories either?
Cole Abaius · 1 year ago

A little defense:

I didn't include Giant for two reasons. One, I wanted to stay away from Westerns and the like because then the list grows impossible. And two, which you may need to sit down for, I don't like Giant. At the very least, I don't think it paints a very real picture of Texas anyway - not that a novelist from Michigan couldn't get Texas right with research and an extended stay (which I don't think Ferber did). It gives a sort of melodramatic view of life that non-Texans love to think of as "Texan".

I may not dig Giant, but I still love you, Maggie.
Maggie Van Ostrand · 1 year ago

Not even for the sake of James Dean?

Never mind ... since you love me, I'll say here in print that the list is perfect.
Bradley Kreft · 1 year ago

I watched Blood Simple again just last week actually. Such an amazing debut by the boys- and well worthy of its place on a list like this.