Which of the films directed by John Huston would you consider your favorite?

Easily Moulin Rouge. I had no idea he directed that!

Yeah... okay.

Wow he must have used time dilation cameras or some bungshit stuff.

No Wise Blood, The Dead, Under The Volcano, The Mistfits???? For shame.

John Huston was the most underrated director of the 70's/80's. His work holds up with any American director of that era! But hardly anyone talks about it.

My number one is Wise Blood.

My top 5

5 The Dead
4 Fat City
3 The Misfits
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1 Wise Blood

Haven't seen a lot of that list, but I'll go with The African Queen, shweetheart.

I think this movie has replaced A Face in the Crowd for TCM's most over-played movie in recent years---But I'm not complaining about that.

Loved a lot of Huston's work, but I have to go with Moby Dick as most favorite. Which is still the best adaptation of the book.

For me, it's a toss-up between his two crime classics, THE MALTESE FALCON (his directorial debut) and THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. I went with MALTESE because it's one I go back to and revel in every few years. Just great writing (adapting Dashiell Hammett's wonderful novel) and acting.

Huston once talked about how producers would come to him asking for the rights to remake his various hits--MALTESE FALCON, SIERRA MADRE, AFRICAN QUEEN--and he would stop them and suggest that one film of his that had real possibilities but got botched in the making, THE ROOTS OF HEAVEN (1958), was the one that would most benefit from a remake. No one ever took him up on it. I've taped ROOTS OF HEAVEN off Fox Movie Channel, but have yet to watch it. It's got a great cast: Errol Flynn, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom, Eddie Albert.

Asphalt Jungle. It was tough choosing between this and Maltese Falcon, but in the end 'Asphalt' barely edges it out. Such a perfect noir and riveting from start to finish.

Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a flawless masterpiece in every way...


... but - goddamn - did Huston have one impressive resume.

Favorite is 'The Man Who Would Be King' easily.

Man... that's one of the most entertaining films ever made.

I gots to go w/ The Maltese Falcon. Fucking great debut and great film as well. Just love it. Really wish the BD was like the DVD set we got. Loved seeing how others did the story... then Huston comes in and does in so many ways of awesome.

Tough choice. Of the ones I have seen, I went back and forth over Maltese Falcon and Treasure of the Sierra Madre. In the end, I leaned more toward Maltese Falcon.

I voted for The Maltese Falcon because it's the film of his that I re-watch the most and is probably the greatest remake in film history (which I think means a lot nowadays given that creating a good remake seems like some sort of herculean task to do without messing up).

But others favorites I have out of his films are Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, and The Man Who Would Be King.

Chinatown

Roman Polanski directed that.

Sooooo I just saw Wise Blood off of Hulu. I'm not sure if I liked it. I'd like to hear some comments off of that. I'm..just...slightly off balance w/ it. I liked the feel of it but the narrative just leaves me a bit w/ the head cocked out of not possibly understanding.

I know.

I saw it years ago and didn't like it at all. It's been so long that I can't remember what it was about it that made me not like it, so maybe I need to see it again.

The Maltese Falcon. It's the stuff that dreams are made of.

I don't know if I can choose between Maltese Falcon, Asphalt Jungle, The Misfits, and The Man Who Would Be King.

Treasure of Sierra Madre for me.

Went with The Maltese Falcoln but also considered African Queen and The Dead. Just caught up with The Treasure of the Sierra Madre for the action challenge but still need to see The Misfits and The Asphalt Jungle.

I've only seen four but out of those, Treasure of Sierra Madre.

I think I'm one of the few people who doesn't care much for The African Queen. Mainly it's because of not liking Katherine Hepburn's character in the film, which is really my personal dislike of practically every role she played after roughly about 1950. The great charm she had in 1930s-1940s films she was in seemed to completely disappear by then and she played almost every role after about 1950 like some sort of stuffy and pompous prude. To me, she seemed like she was basically channeling Margaret Dumont's characters from the Marx Brothers movies from that point on.

But, then again, I haven't seen The African Queen in many years, so maybe I'm being too harsh and need to see it again.