Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Heck yes)
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Based on the movies I watch, you can kind of guess I'm young ^^;
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Heck yes)
Pride and Prejudice
Avatar
Kung-Fu Panda
Spirit (yeah, the horse one)
Based on the movies I watch, you can kind of guess I'm young ^^;
I would agree with pretty much all of this list as being among the greatest films ever made, especially Tokyo Story, Citizen Kane and Greed which, if you haven't read the book on which it is based ( McTeague by Frank Norris) I suggest you might find it worthwhile. Von Stroheim almost bankrupted the studio in making the film which he wanted to be as close to the novel as a film could be. Both the book and the film are monuments to their respective art forms.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
Oh yes indeed. It is probably the ultimate sin of Hollywood that the studio destroyed the eight hours of footage cut from Greed. Stroheim is really one of the American cinema's unspoken masters. His Foolish Wives is also a masterpiece and while not being as immense as Greed, is still as biting a satire on post-WWI European society as you can get.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
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black & white: Random Harvest
The Dark Knight
Batman is the best superhero EVER.
marry me.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
on topic, one at a time:
http://avantmag.com/wp-content/uploa...11/Persona.jpg
http://film.vtheatre.net/images/persona.jpg
Lol. I think the list once again needs some revising:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
2. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
3. The Third Man - Carol Reed
4. Tokyo Story - Yasujio Ozu
5. Playtime - Jacques Tati
6. Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
7. Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi
8. Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa
9. The House is Black - Forrough Farrokhzad
10. In the Land of Silence and Darkness - Werner Herzog
11. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
12. The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles
13. Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles
14. Sans Soleil - Chris Marker
15. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl T. Dreyer
16. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
17. The General - Buster Keaton
18. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir
19. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
20. Satantango - Bela Tarr
I couldn't find room for Persona though, it probably most undoubtedly be number 21 lol. Bergman is a great director and probably the most personal of them all. Cries and Whispers is also his other masterpiece that comes at the summit of his career.
cries and whispers has some awesomely cruel moments, yes.but nothing will ever compare to the seventh seal, although i have this uncontrollable obsession with persona. its amazing how you chose tarkovsky's andrei rublev, and not solaris! and kurosawa's ikiru, instead of dersu uzala.
and you completely ignored this, its very hurtfull, that!
ok, one more:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b5...vingCastle.jpg
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Avatar
3. Trainspotting
4. Gladiator
Take all the films that have ever been made and this still remains the finest. On present form it will never be bettered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuZ6f...&tracker=False
"the dead" directed by john houston
the life aquatic (michael gambon... C'mon)
the thirteenth warrior
blackhawk down
scent of a woman
dancing at langusa (michael gambon is a genius)
one film per director
Three Colors: Red(Kieślowski)
Office Space(Judge)
Dumb and Dumber(Farrelly Brothers)
Raising Arizona(Coen Brothers)
The Purple Rose of Cairo(Allen)
Eclipse(Antonioni)
Through a Glass Darkly(Bergman)
North by Northwest(Hitchcock)
Dr.Strangelove(Kubrick)
Out of the Blue(Hopper)
Mulholland Drive(Lynch)
Rushmore(Anderson)
Star Wars episode V(Kershner)
A Woman Under the Influence(Cassavetes)
Synecdoche NY(Kaufman)
The Wind Will Carry Us(Kiarostami)
Paris, Texas(Wenders)
Sunrise(Murnau)
Trust(Hartely)
Dancer in the Dark(von Trier)
8 1/2(Fellini)
Breathless(Godard)
The 400 Blows(Truffaut)
Trafic(Tati)
The Long Goodbye(Altman)
Apocalypse Now(Coppola)
Chinatown(Polanski)
Badlands(Malick)
Kicking and Screaming(Baumbach)
Stalker(Tarkovsky)
1.Excalibur
2.Kingdom of Heaven(Directors cut)
3.Arn the Templar
4.Seventh seal
5.Taras Bulba
6.Robin Hood
7.Monthy pithon and the holy grail
8.The Da vinci code/Angels and demons
9.The great dictator
10.Sweeney Todd
One of the best films I have watched in the last few years is "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" by Jacques Audiard. "A Prophet", by the same director, is equally beautiful.
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
The Third Man - Carol Reed
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
Persona - Ingmar Bergman
Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather I & II- Francis Ford Coppola
Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcok
Psycho- Alfred Hitchcock
The Mirror- Andrei Tarkovsky
Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean
The Seventh Seal- Ingmar Bergman
Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman
Virgin Spring- Ingmar Bergman
M- Fritz Lang
The Elephant Man- David Lynch
Spellbound- Alfred Hitchcock
Notorious- Alfred Hitchcock
It's a Wonderful Life- Frank Capra
Double Indemnity- Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard- Billy Wilder
Some Like it Hot- Billy Wilder
Once Upon a Time in the West- Sergio Leone
The Maltese Falcon- John Huston
A Streetcar Named Desire- Elia Kazan
On the Waterfront- Elia Kazan
Suddenly, Last Summer- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Amadeus- Milos Forman
The Wizard of Oz- Victor Fleming and Noel Langley
Dr. Strangelove- Stanley Kubrick
Rear Window- Alfred Hitchcock
Nosferatu- F. W. Murnau
Nosferatu- Werner Herzog
The cabinet of Dr. Caligari- Robert Wiene
Europa- Lars von Trier
The Nightmare before Christmas- Henry Selick, Tim Burton
No particular order and open to change from day to day. Any number of films that I haven't seen in a long time (The Grand Illusion, anything by Fellini and Eisenstein) is always up to being added to this list.
Some that spring to mind:
- A Man for All Seasons
- A Touch of Evil
- The Pianist
- Snatch
- Dr. Strangelove
- Rear Window
Lawrence of Arabia
Ryan’s Daughter
Doctor Zhivago
Summertime
Barry Lyndon
2001: A Space Odyssey
Eyes Wide Shut
Modern Times
The Dictator
Citizen Kane
The Trial
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once upon a time in the West
The Leopard
Casanova
Rashômon
Ran
Napoléon by Abel Gance
La Règle du jeu
Madame de
L’Enfant sauvage
Jules et Jim
À bout de souffle
L’Armée des ombres
Que la fête commence
Buffet froid
Un héros très discret
Rear Window
North by Northwest
12 Angry Men
Splendor in the Grass
Rosemary’s baby
Taxi Driver
After hours
Deliverance
The Deer Hunter
Alien
The Thing
Solaris
Come and See
The Elephant Man
Lost Highway
Groundhog Day
Underground
Leaving Las Vegas
Requiem for a dream
Seul contre tous
Songs from the Second Floor
The New World
Pan’s Labyrinth
Black Book
There Will Be Blood
Moon
Etc.
^Moon is ****ing awesome, not many people have heard of it.
Fanny & Alexander
The Elephant Man
Eyes Wide Shut
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Godfather I & II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Solaris
Rear Window
Taxi Driver
Annie Hall
Der Untergang
Seven
Being John Malkovich
Into the Wild
Barton Fink
I'm Not There
Melancholia
And so on...
From the ones I can remember,
Amelie
The Bee Movie
Spirited Away
The Mummy
Stardust
Howl's Moving Castle
The Fall
Wall-E
The Red Violin
Casanova
Casablanca
The Sound of Music
Doctor Dolittle
LOTR trilogy
Underworld 1,2&3
Another Earth
Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
Source Code
The Time Traveller's Wife
District 9
Alien 1&2
Predator 1&2
AVP 1&2
Prometheus
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 1&2
Wild Wild West
Men in Black 1&2
Queen of the Damned
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Womb
Only Lovers Left Alive
Bicentennial Man
I robot
A.I
The Terminator 1,2&3
Night at the Museum 1&2
9
Corpse Bride
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ice age
The Matrix 1&2
Antz
Shrek
Hotel Transylvania
The Guest
Jumanji
Ratatouille
Dracula Untold
A Walk in the Clouds
Anna and the King
For North Star, who asked:
Goodfellas
Godfather I and II
The Departed
Ran
Rashomon
Seven Samurai
Fanny and Alexander
Late Spring
Floating Weeds
The Seventh Seal
Cries and Whispers
Through A Glass Darkly
La Regle du Jue
A Man Escaped
Bicycle Thief
La Grande illusion
The Spirit of the Beehive
Raise the Red Lantern
Solaris
Stalker
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
Andrei Rublev
Dogtooth
Maboroshi no Hikari
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Volver
The Skin I Live In
Ugetsu
Sanshō the Bailiff
Life of Oharu
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
Eyes Wide Shut
Barry Lyndon
Breathless
The 400 Blows
My Life to Live
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The White Ribbon
Amour
Pan's Labryinth
Annie Hall
Amarcord
8 1/2
La Dolce Vita
Spirited Away
L'Avventura
Vertigo
The Tree of Life
The Exterminating Angel
A Separation
EDIT: I forgot Wild Strawberries.
Since we're doing the epic lists:
Blade Runner
The Searchers
Out of the Past
Adaptation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Vertigo
The Gold Rush
Rashomon
La Dolce Vita
Office Space
This is Spinal Tap
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Wild Strawberries
Boogie Nights
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Goodfellas
The Godfather Part II
Her
Primer
Minority Report
The Terminator
Chinatown
The Exorcist
Session 9
Alien
Aliens
The Thin Red Line
Memento
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Inglorious Basterds
Crimes and Misdemeanors
L.A. Confidential
Moulin Rouge
The Proposition
Apocalypse Now
Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
Seven
The Wild Bunch
Jaws
Sexy Beast
The Departed
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Nice list Pike, I've seen about half of them.
Great films, all. All of Tarkovsky is very high on my list to watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Tarkovsky is one of my all-time favorites :)
Thread resurrection. Delete if that's not allowed here.
V for Vendetta.
Life as a House.
The Red Violin.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Allegro Non Troppo.
The Princess Bride.
Gattaca.
The Ref.
Lady Hawke.
Serenity.
Avatar.
The Abyss.
The Croods.
The Castle
The Dish.
The Jerk.
Some good lists in this thread. I just don't get The Princess Bride though, must be over my head.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
hey spike...I have a fun question for you (since everyone else apart from tailor is long gone from the thread).
there are tons of movies I have enjoyed but only about a dozen or so that I would list as "favorites."
for you, whats the distinction between the two?
Sorry bounty, would have answered earlier but I don't get back here often.
Every one on my list moved me in some way and stayed with me long after the lights came on. Each was very well done for what it is, in my unprofessional opinion. There are a lot of comedies amongst my list but they are comedies with heart and not one has stereotyped, "phoned in" characters or plot. I watch most of those every few years and either see new details in them or fall in love anew with the aspects I liked in the first place.
(With the exception of Princess Bride, it's the stereotyping and variation within that makes that film. It's an intelligent fairy tale with humour.)
I would probably add
What We Did on our Holidays.
The Best Offer.
I would add Bel Canto but could never watch that again.
Interested to hear your own answer to your question?
I think your statement of "my list moved me in some way and stayed with me long after the lights came on" captures my own sentiment really well spike. then the fun question after that is to explore what the "some way" is.
I believe that art is commentary on the human condition, and the best movies speak to some universal elemental aspect of being. its the common thread that allows for seemingly disparate movies to be held in mutual esteem on any one person's list of favorites.
as an offshoot---I read bel canto and liked it, but it never really occurred to me to watch the movie afterwards. the major attraction might be to see how well the creators of the movie deal with the powerful effect of music in people's lives.
to that point, have you ever seen the Shawshank redemption?
and as an aside---ann Patchett's book truth and beauty is one of the best written books ive ever read. if anyone ever sees this post and is inspired to give it a shot, read the autobiography of a face by lucy grealy first (which is also one of the best written books ive ever read).
I tried to put those on hold at the library just now.
Ran into that thing where we can now source books from the local region only. They used to be prepared to bring things in from all over the state. Radically improved the chances of reading something recommended.:) I'll note them. We will cross paths eventually.
Yes, I'd put Shawshank, and The Green Mile, in the category of films that say more than you see on the surface. I don't read King any more, grown out of horror, but he is a more thoughtful writer than I initially gave him credit for. I've read sentences in his books that have made me think for days.
oh boy spike, if you can read those two books, id love to hear what you think. remember to read lucy first and ann second.
ive watched some really enjoyable movies recently---but I should also say that "enjoyment" for me doesn't really mean an entertaining distraction. as we're kinda talking about, there has to be something more going on.
Generally, I like SF films and films based on literature.
I've just recently re-watched ready, player one (even better the second time around!) which is maybe more fantasy than science fiction, but its at least a little bit of both, and I was just reminded that's also a book on my wish list.
I've just recently re-watched ready, player one (even better the second time around!) which is maybe more fantasy than science fiction, but its at least a little bit of both, and I was just reminded that its also a book on my wish list.
while im here, I want to put in another plug for pride and prejudice and zombies!
I have just heard a Franz Liszt's composition (I do not know its name) and it occured to me that he was one of George Sand's lovers. The film about George Sand's very interesting life is lovely, but one scene remind in my mind so much. Alfred de Musset, also her lover, once treated her badly, so she spent a night crying in fron of his house. Authors of the film inserted there a music by Franz Liszt, (if I remember well), after that she became Franz's mistress. Maybe it is not much of an idea, but it was so emotionally exciting (knowing that they become lovers afterwards) that I think, I will always like it.
Five Easy Pieces is my favourite independent film.
Five Easy Pieces is not just a character study. It’s a quiet, devastating meditation on what it means to be free, yet lost, in America—making it a timeless piece of Americana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtWasAUMYz8
not my favorite film by a longshot but in an effort to add to the site---and maybe make a difference for someone someday, I recently watched midway, thoroughly enjoyed it and heartily recommend it.