Again, see my first reply & I definitely believe in perfect films, in the sense of movies that draw you into their world utterly. This is NOT a best of or even most favorite list on Mamet’s part, it’s simply he’s made enough movies to know when a film transcends its mechanisms to become an experience

@2bisgoodenuff
One does not have to be a gourmet chef, to know a good meal when one tastes one.
Likewise the film aficionado need not be a master filmmaker to pass an opinion.
Mamet knows how to make a David Mamet film and can rightly judge his own work by his own standards, likewise he can judge other people's works, by his own standards
That does not make his word law, or even lore and he is as capable of being viewed as wrong in his opinions as anyone else.
As are you as am I, but out of morbid curiosity I wonder how it is you feel you can be objective about perfection, when it would seems such a definition must by necessity be subjective?

Failsafe is a masterpiece

@LenHazell53 yes it is..imo

@LenHazell53 it know it's loosely based on the life of W.R Hearst..I haven't read that book, I'll check it out, thanks Len.

@Charlene Yes, Citizen Cain is more than loosely based on Hurst, Hurst tried to sue to stop Wells from making it, marketing it and releasing it, all to no avail. Ironically the film is now more well remembered than Hurst is himself.
The book I mentioned is the Basis for Failsafe

@floWteiuQ yes, I hear that a lot...that it glamourizes crime. Not for me though. i just got so bored ai slept through it twice. There was zero glamour, 100% didnt care for the characters, lol. I liked the blocking and framing and the lighting. The dialogue...eh. Decent acting.