Post your top 100 in here

[Mysterious Dude]

You know you have a list of your 100 favorite movies on your computer, and you’ve always wanted to share it with the world. Maybe you’ve even attempted to do so in the past. But who has the time or the wherewithal to write up a review of every film on their list? You have a job and maybe a family and other obligations that consume your time and energy. It’s probably been a long time since you’ve seen some of the movies and you don’t have time to rewatch them so they are fresh in your mind when you write about them. And how many people are really going to read your write-ups anyway? You’ll put a lot of effort into writing about the movies you love, and get only a few responses in return. Commentary is great and all, but I think the list itself often says a lot about the poster. I like lists that have distinction. If you saw D_Davis’s list without the commentary, you’d still know that only D_Davis could make such a list.

I respect people who take the time to write lengthy analyses of their favorite movies, but this thread is for the rest of us. If you have a top 100, but can’t be bothered to write commentary for each movie, post it here. Hell, even if you have shared your top 100 in the past, it’s probably changed a little since then, so post it here anyway! But no damn commentary! (If you really want to say something, go ahead and say it, but for the love of Christ, keep it brief! Also, if someone asks a question about your list, you are welcome to answer it.)

Please note that I will be very embarrassed if I’m the only one who posts a list.

1. The 400 Blows (1959)
2. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
3. Napoleon (1927)
4. The Elephant Man (1980)
5. Breathless (1960)
6. Touch of Evil (1958)
7. M (1931)
8. City of God (2002)
9. Throne of Blood (1957)
10. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

11. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
12. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
13. Metropolis (1927)
14. The Graduate (1967)
15. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
16. Germany Year Zero (1948)
17. Badlands (1973)
18. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
19. Testament (1983)
20. Broken Blossoms (1919)

21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
22. Taxi Driver (1976)
23. The Fantastic Planet (1973)
24. Satyricon (1969)
25. Sunrise (1927)
26. Waking Life (2001)
27. The Four Days of Naples (1962)
28. Shoe Shine (1946)
29. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
30. Ikiru (1952)

31. Fight Club (1999)
32. Z (1969)
33. The War Game (1965)
34. Children of Men (2006)
35. The Miracle Worker (1962)
36. The Kid (1921)
37. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
38. Pather Panchali (1955)
39. Come and See (1985)
40. Los Olvidados (1950)

41. Umberto D. (1952)
42. Double Suicide (1969)
43. Bully (2001)
44. Voyage to the Moon (1902)
45. Salt of the Earth (1954)
46. Schindler’s List (1993)
47. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
48. Seven Samurai (1954)
49. Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
50. The General (1927)

51. The Virgin Spring (1960)
52. Tol’able David (1921)
53. Ugetsu (1953)
54. Fargo (1996)
55. The Naked City (1948)
56. Ballad of Narayama (1983)
57. The Kid Brother (1927)
58. Reds (1981)
59. Intolerance (1916)
60. Funny Games (1997)

61. Baraka (1992)
62. The Scarlet Letter (1926)
63. Jean de Florette (1986) / Manon of the Spring (1986)
64. The Glass Harmonica (1968)
65. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
66. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
67. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
68. Lord of the Flies (1963)
69. City Lights (1931)
70. Mamma Roma (1962)

71. Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961)
72. L’Idée (1932)
73. By the Law (1926)
74. Double Indemnity (1944)
75. J’accuse! (1919)
76. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
77. Marjoe (1972)
78. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
79. Salesman (1969)
80. In the Company of Men (1997)

81. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
82. Traffic (2000)
83. Warning Shadows (1923)
84. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
85. Ménilmontant (1926)
86. The Color of Paradise (1999)
87. I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
88. Zelig (1983)
89. The Blue Bird (1918)
90. The Circus (1928)

91. The Red and the White (1967)
92. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
93. Our Hospitality (1923)
94. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
95. The Music Box (1932)
96. The Quiet One (1948)
97. Gaslight (1944)
98. Shame (1968)
99. Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
100. The Pawnbroker (1964)

[megladon8]

I could never do this.

My list changes weekly.

[Dukefrukem]

I could never do this.

My list changes weekly.

tis true. But I will try.

[lovejuice]

like meg. but i can try if you don't give it too much account.

[megladon8]

I could probably do an un-numbered list.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I was thinking of updating mine anyway, so when I do that I'll post it here.

[D_Davis]

I need to update mine as well. A couple of new entries will be: The Ninth Configuration, Electra Glide in Blue, and The Fall. I know for sure that Desperado is coming off, not sure what else. Armageddon will never come off - that film will always be exactly my 100th favorite film.

The Master List

1. Once Upon a Time in the West - Dir. Sergio Leone (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_1west.htm)
2. The Boxer From Shantung - Dir. Chang Cheh (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_2boxer.htm)
3. The Blade - Dir. Tsui Hark (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_3theblade.htm)
4. Mind Game (2004) - Dir. Masaaki Yuasa (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_4mindgame.htm)
5. Dead Alive (Braindead) (1992) - Dir. Peter Jackson (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_5deadalive.htm)
6. Oldboy - Dir. Chan-wook Park (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_6oldboy.htm)
7. Pulp Fiction - Dir. Quentin Tarantino (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_7pulp.htm)
8. Mulholland Dr. - Dir. David Lynch (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_8mulholland.htm)
9. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - Dir. Lau Kar Leung (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_936chamber.htm)
10. Nausicaa - Dir. Hayao Miyazaki (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_10nausicaa.htm)

10.5. Hero - Dir. Zhang Yimou (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_hero.htm)
11. The Thing - Dir. John Carpenter (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_11thething.htm)
12. The Killer - Dir. John Woo (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_12thekiller.htm)
13. The Big Lebowski - Dir. The Coen Brothers (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_13lebowski.htm)
14. Scream - Dir. Wes Craven (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_14scream.htm)
15. A Touch of Zen - Dir. King Hu (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_15zen.htm)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Dir. Steven Spielberg (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_16raiders.htm)
17. Heroes of the East - Dir. Lau Kar Leung (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_17heroes.htm)
18. Saving Private Ryan - Dir. Steven Spielberg (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_18ryan.htm)
19. Once Upon a Time in China - Dir. Tsui Hark (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_19china.htm)
20. Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969) - Dir: Chang Cheh (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_20onearmed.htm)

21. Funky Forest: First Contact - Dir. Katsuhito Ishii and Hajime Ishimine (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_21funkyforest.htm)
22. Peking Opera Blues (1986) - Dir: Tsui Hark (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_22peking.htm)
23. Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985) - Dir: Lau Kar Leung (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_23disciples.htm)
24. Aliens (1986) - Dir: James Cameron (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_24aliens.htm)
25. Die Hard (1988) - Dir: John McTiernan (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_25diehard.htm)
26. Pink Floyd: Live in Pompeii (1972) - Dir: Adrien Maben (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_26pinkfloyd.htm)
27. Evil Dead 2 (1987) - Dir. Sam Raimi (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_27evildead2.htm)
28. American Movie (1999) - Dir: Chris Smith (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_28americanmovie.htm)
29. Genghis Blues (1999) - Dir: Roko Belic (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_29genghis.htm)
30. Young Frankenstein (1974) - Dir: Mel Brooks (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_30youngf.htm)

31. Galaxy Express 999 (1979) - Dir: Rintaro (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_31ge999.htm)
32. The Bride With White Hair (1993) - Dir. Ronny Yu (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_32bride.htm)
33. Bill Cosby: Himself (1983) - Dir. Bill Cosby (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_33cosby.htm)
34. Death Trance (2005) - Dir: Yuji Shimomura (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_34deathtrance.htm)
35. Project A (1984) - Dir. Jackie Chan (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_35projecta.htm)
36. Ultimate Versus (2000/2006) - Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_36versus.htm)
37. Out of Sight (1998) - Dir. Steven Soderbergh (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_37outofsight.htm)
38. Akira (1988) - Dir: Katsuhiro Otomo (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_38akira.htm)
39. The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - Dir: The Wachowski Siblings (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_39reloaded.htm)
40. Holy Flame of the Martial World (1983) - Dir. Lu Chin-ku (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_40holyflame.htm)

41. We're Going to Eat You (1980) - Dir: Tsui Hark (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_41eatyou.htm)
42. Samurai Fiction (1998) - Dir: Hiroyuki Nakano (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_42samuraifiction.htm)
43. Pi (1998) - Dir. Darren Aronofsky (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_43pi.htm)
44. Descent (2005) - Dir: Neil Marshall (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_44descent.htm)
45. Super Dimensional Fortress Macross:
Do You Remember Love? - Dir: Shoji Kawamori & Noboru Ishiguro (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_45macross.htm)
46. T. Rex: Born to Boogie (1972) - Dir. Ringo Starr (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_46born.htm)
47. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) - Dir. Ching Siu Ting (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_47acgs.htm)
48. The Magic Blade - Dir. Chu Yuan (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_48magicblade.htm)
49. Ping Pong (2002) - Dir: Fumihiko Sori (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_49pingpong.htm)
50. Misery (1990) - Dir: Rob Reiner (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_50misery.htm)

51. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003) - Dir: Judy Irving (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_51wildparrots.htm)
52. The Haunting - Dir: Robert Wise (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_52haunting.htm)
53. Martial Arts of Shaolin (1985) - Dir: Lau Kar Leung (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_53martialarts.htm)
54. Re-Animator (1985) - Dir: Stuart Gordon (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_54reanimator.htm)
55. Exiled (2006) - Dir: Johnnie To (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_55exiled.htm)
56. Waiting For Guffman (1996) - Dir: Christopher Guest (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_56guffman.htm)
57. First Blood (1979) - Dir. Ted Kotcheff (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_57firstblood.htm)
58. The Odd Couple (1979) - Dir. Lau Kar Wing (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_58oddcouple.htm)
59. Shaolin Intuders (1983) - Dir. Tong Gaai (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_59shaolinintruders.htm)

60. The Blade of Fury (1993) - Dir. Sammo Hung (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_60bof.htm)
61. Smile/Beautiful Dreamer (2004) - Dir. David Leaf (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_61smile.htm)
62. The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1996) - Dir. Benjamin Ross (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_62youngpoison.htm)
63. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) - Dir. Tim Burton (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_63peewee.htm)
64. Return of the Living Dead (1985) - Dir. Dan O'Bannon (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_64rotld.htm)
65. Signs (2002) - Dir. M. Night Shyamalan (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_65signs.htm)
66. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) - Dir. Hayao Miyazaki (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_66cagliostro.htm)
67. Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - Dir. John Carpenter (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_67bigtrouble.htm)
68. Angel's Egg (1985) - Dir. Mamoru Oshii (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_68angels.htm)
69. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Dir. Ang Lee (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_69crouching.htm)

70. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Dir: Wes Craven (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_70elmstreet.htm)
71. Robocop (1987) - Dir: Paul Veorhoven (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_71robocop.htm)
72. The Sword (1980) - Dir: Patrick Tam (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_72thesword.htm)
73. Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Dir. George A. Romero (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_73notld.htm)
74. Whispers of the Heart (1995) - Dir: Yoshifumi Kondo (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_74whispers.htm)
75. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1984) - Dir: Will Vinton (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_75marktwain.htm)
76. Godzilla Vs. Mothra: Battle for the Earth - Dir: Takao Okawara (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_76gvm.htm)
77. The Master (1980) - Dir: Lu Chin-ku (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_77themaster.htm)
78. The Road Warrior (1981) - Dir: George Miller (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_78roadwarrior.htm)
79. An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Dir: John Landis (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_79americanwerewolf.htm)
80. For a Few Dollars More (1965) – Dir. Sergio Leone (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_80forafew.htm)

81. Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain (1983) - Dir: Tsui Hark (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_81zuwarriors.htm)
82. Mr. Vampire (1985) - Dir. Ricky Lau (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_82mrvampire.htm)
83. Kung Fu Hustle (2004) - Dir: Stephen Chow (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_83kungfuhustle.htm)
84. Conan the Barbarian - Dir: John Milius (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_84conan.htm)
85. The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) - Dir: Makoto Shinkai (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_85placepromised.htm)
86. Biozombie (1989) - Dir: Wilson Yip (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_86biozombie.htm)
87. Jacob's Ladder (1990) - Dir: Adrian Lyne (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_87jacobsladder.htm)
88. Iron Giant (1999) - Dir: Brad Bird (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_88irongiant.htm)
89. Fearless Freaks (2004) - Dir: Bradley Beesley (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_89fearlessfreaks.htm)
90. The Mission (1999) - Dir. Johnnie To (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_90themission.htm)

91. Shaolin Temple (1976) - Dir: Chang Cheh (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_91shaolintemple.htm)
92. Poltergeist (1982) – Dir: Tober Hooper (and, by most accounts, Steven Spielberg) (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_92poltergeist.htm)
93. The Prodigal Son (1982) - Dir: Sammo Hung (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_93prodigal.htm)
94. Desperado (1995) - Dir: Robert Rodriguez (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_94desperado.htm)
95. SLiTHER (2006) - Dir: James Gunn (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_95slither.htm)
96. Project A-Ko (1986) - Dir: Katsuhiko Nishijima (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_96projectako.htm)
97. The Tai Chi Master (1993) - Dir: Yuen Woo Ping (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_97taichimaster.htm)
98. Boxer's Omen (1983) - Dir: Kuei Chih-Hung (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_98boxersomen.htm)
99. The Lady Hermit (1971) - Dir: Hoh Mung-wa (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_99ladyh.htm)
100. Armageddon (1998) - Dir: Michael Bay (http://www.genrebusters.com/film/top100_100arm.htm)

[lovejuice]

I need to update mine as well. A couple of new entries will be: The Ninth Configuration, Electra Glide in Blue, and The Fall. I know for sure that Desperado is coming off, not sure what else. Armageddon will never come off - that film will always be exactly my 100th favorite film.


damn! don't you get my PM. we're actually trying to embarrass antoine. ;)

[D_Davis]

Film that I like from your list:



4. The Elephant Man (1980)
9. Throne of Blood (1957)
11. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
22. Taxi Driver (1976)
23. The Fantastic Planet (1973)
26. Waking Life (2001)
29. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
31. Fight Club (1999)
48. Seven Samurai (1954)
54. Fargo (1996)
66. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
74. Double Indemnity (1944)
76. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
80. In the Company of Men (1997)
84. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
92. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)


We have very different tastes in movies, you and I, but your list is quite respectable. I especially like you inclusion of Waking Life - that's cool.

[Dukefrukem]

Davis i love how you have signs on there. It's on my list too.

edit: and big trouble in little china!

[Spinal]

1. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
2. Breaking the Waves (Trier, 1996)
3. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
4. Walkabout (Roeg, 1971)
5. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
7. Life of Brian (Jones, 1979)
8. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan, 1997)
9. Los Olvidados (Bunuel, 1950)
10. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)

11. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
12. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
13. Dogville (Trier, 2003)
14. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
15. Winter Light (Bergman, 1962)
16. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenaway, 1989)
17. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
18. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
19. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
20. Dancer in the Dark (Trier, 2000)

21. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 1948)
22. The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960)
23. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
24. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
25. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
26. Muriel’s Wedding (Hogan, 1994)
27. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell, 2001)
28. The War Game (Watkins, 1965)
29. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994)
30. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)

31. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
32. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
33. Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
34. Y tu mama tambien (Cuaron, 2001)
35. Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)
36. Boys Don’t Cry (Peirce, 1999)
37. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
38. The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
39. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
40. Prospero’s Books (Greenaway, 1991)

41. Once (Carney, 2006)
42. M (Lang, 1931)
43. Grey Gardens (Hovde/Maysles/Maysles/Meyer, 1975)
44. Fargo (Coen, 1996)
45. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
46. The General (Bruckman/Keaton, 1927)
47. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
48. Me and You and Everyone We Know (July, 2005)
49. Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)
50. Kirikou and the Sorceress (Ocelot, 1998)

51. The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998)
52. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
53. Hangmen Also Die (Lang, 1943)
54. Orlando (Potter, 1992)
55. City of God (Meirelles/Lund, 2002)
56. Manderlay (Trier, 2005)
57. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
58. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
59. The Atomic Cafe (Loader/Rafferty/Rafferty, 1982)
60. The Piano Teacher (Haneke, 2001)

61. The Firemen’s Ball (Forman, 1967)
62. Baseball (Burns, 1994)
63. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang, 1991)
64. The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
65. Marat/Sade (Brook, 1967)
66. The Kingdom (Trier, 1994)
67. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
68. Poltergeist (Hooper, 1982)
69. The Isle (Kim, 2000)
70. Henry V (Branagh, 1989)

71. The NeverEnding Story (Petersen, 1984)
72. Death in the Seine (Greenaway, 1988)
73. Together (Moodysson, 2000)
74. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 1988)
75. Satyricon (Fellini, 1969)
76. Fat Girl (Breillat, 2001)
77. Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel, 1929)
78. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jires, 1970)
79. Umberto D (De Sica, 1952)
80. All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)

81. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
82. Fucking Amal (Moodysson, 1998)
83. In the Company of Men (Labute, 1997)
84. Drowning By Numbers (Greenaway, 1988)
85. Simon of the Desert (Bunuel, 1965)
86. I am Curious – Yellow (Sjoman, 1967)
87. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
88. Bob Roberts (Robbins, 1992)
89. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
90. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Haneke, 1994)

91. The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993)
92. Santa sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
93. Palindromes (Solondz, 2004)
94. Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)
95. O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 1973)
96. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
97. The Up Documentaries (Apted/Almond, 1964--??)
98. The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000)
99. The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck, 2006)
100. The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924)


101. Funny Games (Haneke, 1997)
102. Edward II (Jarman, 1991)
103. High School (Wiseman, 1968)
104. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
105. Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
106. Prick Up Your Ears (Frears, 1987)
107. May (McKee, 2002)
108. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz, 1995)
109. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)
110. The Brave Little Toaster (Rees, 1987)

111. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
112. The Weather Underground (Green/Siegel, 2002)
113. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
114. The Humiliated (Jargil, 1998)
115. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren/Hammid, 1943)
116. The Secret of NIMH (Bluth, 1982)
117. Witches' Hammer (Vavra, 1969)
118. I Live in Fear (Kurosawa, 1955)
119. The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel, 1974)
120. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)

121. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
122. Betty Blue (Beineix, 1986)
123. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang, 1933)
124. Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
125. The Graduate (Nichols, 1967)
126. Hoosiers (Anspaugh, 1986)
127. Dead Man Walking (Robbins, 1995)
128. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
129. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Jones/Washam, 1966)
130. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)

131. The Iron Giant (Bird, 1999)
132. The Pillow Book (Greenaway, 1996)
133. The Shop on Main Street (Kadar/Klos, 1965)
134. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
135. Zelig (Allen, 1983)
136. Perfect Blue (Kon, 1998)
137. Time Bandits (Gilliam, 1981)
138. El (Bunuel, 1953)
139. Priest (A. Bird, 1994)
140. I'm From Hollywood (Marguilies/Orr, 1989)

141. Talk to Her (Almodovar, 2002)
142. The Road Home (Zhang, 1999)
143. Children of Paradise (Carne, 1945)
144. Cowards Bend the Knee (Maddin, 2003)
145. Jude (Winterbottom, 1996)
146. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
147. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
148. Evil Dead 2 (Raimi, 1987)
149. Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960)
150. Paprika (Kon, 2006)

151. Tabu (Murnau, 1931)
152. Ladyhawke (Donner, 1985)
153. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)
154. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
155. Das Boot (Petersen, 1981)
156. Talk Radio (Stone, 1988)
157. Queen Margot (Chereau, 1994)
158. The French Lieutenant's Woman (Reisz, 1981)
159. Whisper of the Heart (Kondo, 1995)
160. Schindler's List (Spielberg, 1993)

[Qrazy]

Film that I like from your list:



We have very different tastes in movies, you and I, but your list is quite respectable. I especially like you inclusion of Waking Life - that's cool.

How many on the list have you seen? I've only seen 71.

[Sycophant]

Some of you may remember my hilarious attempt at doing one of those list threads, which stalled out at #98 or so. I still consider working on it from time to time, and if I ever return to it, it probably won't be in order (I never want to write up something for the film that's next).

So I'll just post the full 100 here (kinda been looking for an excuse to do just this--thanks, Antoine!). It remains mostly unchanged from over a year ago when I started my thread, and there are parts of it that I would now consider questionable (I may edit it again soon), but here goes:

1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001, USA)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004, Japan)
3. Kikujiro no natsu (Kitano, 1999, Japan)
4. The Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1987, Japan)
5. God of Cookery (Chow, 1996, Hong Kong)
6. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941, USA)
7. Sans Soleil (Marker, 1982)
8. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985, Japan)
9. Whisper of the Heart (Kondo, 1995, Hong Kong)
10. Doppelganger (Kurosawa, 2003, Japan)

11. Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1950, USA)
12. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1952, USA)
13. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1984, USA)
14. The Taste of Tea (Ishii, 2004, Japan) and Funky Forest; The First Contact (Ishii et al, 2005)
15. Citizen Dog (Sasanatieng, 2004, Thailand)
16. Chungking Express (Wong, Hong Kong)
17. Sullivan's Travels (Sturges, 1941, USA)
18. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (Girard, 1991, Canada)
19. Millennium Actress (Kon, 2003, Japan)
20. Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Miike, Japan)

21. Playtime (Tati, France)
22. Election & Election 2 (To, 2005/2006, Hong Kong)
23. 3-Iron (Kim, 2003, Korea)
24. Cure (Kurosawa, 1997, Japan)
25. Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki, Japan)
26. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931, USA)
27. Hana-bi (Kitano, 1997, Japan)
28. Do the Right Thing (Lee, USA)
29. No Country for Old Men (Coens, 2007, USA)
30. The Truman Show (Weird, 1998, USA)

31. After Life (Kore-eda, 1998, Japan)
32. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 (Tarantino, 2003/2004, USA)
33. A Chinese Odyssey (Lau, 1995, Hong Kong)
34. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, Italy)
35. Limelight (Chaplin, 1952, USA)
36. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977, USA)
37. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
38. Ikiru (Kurosawa, Japan)
39. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998, USA)
40. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2001, Hong Kong)

41. The Squid & the Whale (Baumbach, 2005, USA)
42. The Band Wagon (Minelli, 1953, USA)
43. Memories of Matsuko (Nakashima, 2006, Japan)
44. Deconstructing Harry (Allen, 1997, USA)
45. Happiness of the Katakuris (Miike, Japan)
46. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, France)
47. Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau, 1946, France)
48. The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, USA)
49. Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong, 2000, Korea)
50. My Father's Glory/My Mother's Castle (Robert, France)

51. Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki, Japan)
52. Bullet in the Head (Woo, 1991, Hong Kong)
53. The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002, Japan)
54. Allegro non troppo (Bozzetto, Italy)
55. The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986, USA)
56. End of Evangelion (Anno, 1995, Japan)
57. Babe: Pig in the City (Miller, USA)
58. My Neighbors the Yamadas (Takahata, 1999, Japan)
59. Oldboy (Park, 2003, Korea)
60. Love Letter (Iwai, 1995, Japan)

61. Audition (Miike, Japan)
62. The Incredibles (Bird, 2004, USA)
63. Christmas in July (Sturges, 1940, USA)
64. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, Japan)
65. Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996, USA)
66. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1960, USA)
67. Takeshis' (Kitano, 2005)
68. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950, Japan)
69. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai, 2001, Japan)
70. The Awful Truth (McCarey, USA)

71. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000, Taiwan)
72. King of Comedy (Chow, 1999, Hong Kong)
73. Au revoir les enfants (Malle, France)
74. Bad Santa (Zwigoff, 2003, USA)
75. The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer, 1962, USA)
76. The Mission (To, 1999)
77. Seventh Seal (Bergman)
78. Arsenic and Old Lace
79. Men Suddenly in Black (Pang, 2003, Hong Kong)
80. Only Yesterday (Takahata, 1991, Japan)

81. The Producers (Brooks, 1968, USA)
82. The General (Keaton or whatever, USA)
83. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995, USA)
84. The Host (Bong, 2006, Korea)
85. Being There (Ashby, USA)
86. Samaritan Girl (Kim, Korea)
87. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park, 2001, Korea)
88. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
89. The Bird People in China (Miike, Japan)
90. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, USA)

91. While You Were Sleeping (Turteltaub, 1995)
92. My Night at Maaud's (Rohmer)
93. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004, USA)
94. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
95. Hot Fuzz (Wright, 2007, UK)
96. A Wedding (Altman, USA)
97. Robocop (Verhoeven, USA)
98. In the Company of Men (Labute, 1997, USA)
99. A Goofy Movie (Lima, 1995)
100. Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak, Hong Kong)

[Spinal]

47% Asian!

[Sycophant]

The Asian Cult expects nothing less of me.

EDIT: Actually just traded out 2 films for a Bergman and a Rohmer.

[MadMan]

I've never made a Top 100 favorites list, or Top 100 best of list in my life. The highest I've gone for either one is 20. I keep putting off compiling such things.

[ledfloyd]

i need to fix mine, it's outdated. i will post it at some point.

[soitgoes...]

I don't have one, but I'll put one together over the next few days.

[EyesWideOpen]

I'll put one together tonight.

[eternity]

Mine is literally outdated immediately after I post it, I always find things I forgot, things that need to be placed way higher, things that need to be way lower, things that shouldn't be anywhere near it. It's pretty bad, but regardless, I will try.

Post later.

[eternity]

Yeah, don't mind me, being all pedestrian and stuff.

1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963, Italy/France)
2. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2006, USA)
3. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974, France/Iran/Germany)
4. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, Italy/France)
5. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976, USA)
6. Blowup (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1966, UK/Italy/USA)
7. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997, USA)
8. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994, USA)
9. M (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany)
10. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003, USA)

11. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970, USA)
12. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden)
13. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939, USA)
14. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France/Italy)
15. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962, UK)
16. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950, USA)
17. The Player (Robert Altman, 1992, USA)
18. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960, France/Italy)
19. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, Germany/Soviet Union)
20. The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998, USA)

21. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983, Canada)
22. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France)
23. The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999, USA)
24. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985, USA)
25. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, UK/USA)
26. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982, USA)
27. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988, Italy/France)
28. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, UK)
29. Orange County (Jake Kasdan, 2002, USA)
30. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991, France)

31. Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1988, USA)
32. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000, USA)
33. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967, France/Italy)
34. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941, USA)
35. L'avventura (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1960, Italy/France)
36. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952, Japan)
37. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946, USA)
38. The Man With The Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929, Soviet Union)
39. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996, UK)
40. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962, USA)

41. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004, USA)
42. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960, USA)
43. Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970, France/Italy)
44. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997, USA)
45. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK/USA)
46. I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932, USA)
47. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008, USA)
48. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977, Italy)
49. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004, USA)
50. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008, USA)

51. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green, 2003, USA)
52. Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998, USA)
53. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942, USA)
54. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007, USA)
55. The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1994, UK/Germany/USA)
56. Miller's Crossing (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1990, USA)
57. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, 1960, France)
58. Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007, USA)
59. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001, USA/UK/Germany)
60. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979, UK/USA)

61. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994, Hong Kong)
62. L'intrus (Claire Denis, 2004, France)
63. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998, USA)
64. Election (Alexander Payne, 1999, USA)
65. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982, USA)
66. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA)
67. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941, USA)
68. Catch-22 (Mike Nichols, 1970, USA)
69. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007, USA/Germany)
70. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995, USA)

71. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961, Japan)
72. Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987, USA)
73. Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997, USA)
74. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999, USA/Germany)
75. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971, USA)
76. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961, Sweden)
77. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003, USA/Japan)
78. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997, USA)
79. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954, Italy)
80. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962, UK)

81. Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990, USA)
82. L'apartement (Gilles Mimouni, 1996, France/Spain/Italy)
83. Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996, Canada/UK)
84. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006, USA)
85. Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002, USA)
86. The TV Set (Jake Kasdan, 2007, USA)
87. The Brady Bunch Movie (Betty Thomas, 1995, USA)
88. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001, USA)
89. Storytelling (Todd Solondz, 2001, USA)
90. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004, USA)

91. Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999, USA)
92. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955, USA)
93. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998, USA)
94. Say Anything (Cameron Crowe, 1989, USA)
95. Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973, Italy/USA)
96. Tideland (Terry Gilliam, 2005, Canada/UK)
97. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971, UK/USA)
98. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967, USA)
99. In the Land of Women (Jon Kasdan, 2007, USA)
100. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979, USA)

[Fezzik]

Hehe...in the interest of disclosure, I do have a top 100 list on my computer. I can honestly say I don't feel comfortable posting it here, though.

It's a failure in me...I feel intimidated by the film knowledge that all of you possess...my list will seem trite, overly mainstream and boring by comparison :)

And no, I'm not trying to be flippant or sarcastic. I mean it. In a good way. you guys floor me with what you know sometimes.

[Russ]

1. The Man Who Planted Trees (Back, 1987)
2. Play Time (Tati, 1967)
3. Taxi Driver (Scorcese, 1976)
4. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
5. Gallipoli (Weir, 1981)
6. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
8. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
9. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
10. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
11. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
13. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
14. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
15. Vernon, Florida (Morris, 1982)
16. It’s a Gift (McLeod, 1934)
17. Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
18. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
19. The Stunt Man (Rush, 1980)
20. The Kid Brother (Howe, Wilde, 1927)
21. Umberto D. (De Sica, 1952)
22. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
23. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
24. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)
25. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
26. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
27. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
28. Crumb (Zwigoff, 1994)
29. The Scenic Route (Rappaport, 1978)
30. Happiness (Solondz, 1998)
31. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
32. Alien (Scott, 1979)
33. Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
34. Fantasia (1940)
35. The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)
36. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
37. Female Trouble (Waters, 1974)
38. American Movie (Smith, 1999)
39. Little Big Man (Penn, 1970)
40. Scorpio Rising (Anger, 1964)
41. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
42. The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999)
43. Crime Wave (Paizs, 1985)
44. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
45. L’Age D’Or (Buñuel, 1930)
46. King Kong (Cooper, Schoedsack, 1933)
47. Breaking the Waves (Trier, 1996)
48. The General (Bruckman, Keaton, 1927)
49. Pistol Opera (Suzuki, 2001)
50. Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
51. Talk to Her (Almodóvar, 2002)
52. Freaks (Browning, 1932)
53. Pickup on South Street (Fuller, 1953)
54. Burden of Dreams (Blank, 1982)
55. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
56. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
57. The Kid (Chaplin, 1921)
58. Being There (Ashby, 1979)
59. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
60. Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson, 2000)
61. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
62. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
63. Miller’s Crossing (Coen, 1990)
64. The Invisible Man (Whale, 1933)
65. A Night to Remember (Baker, 1958)
66. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
67. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
68. Careful (Maddin, 1992)
69. Bambi (Hand, 1942
70. Salt of the Earth (Biberman, 1954)
71. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy, 1932)
72. Wait Until Dark (Young, 1967)
73. Mickey One (Penn, 1965)
74. Targets (Bogdanovich, 1968)
75. Of Mice and Men (Milestone, 1939)
76. Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)
77. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)
78. Flaming Creatures (Smith, 1963)
79. Visitor Q (Miike, 2001)
80. Freeway (Bright, 1996)
81. Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968)
82. Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
83. Who’ll Stop the Rain (Reisz, 1978)
84. Inherit the Wind (Kramer, 1960)
85. Lessons of Darkness (Herzog, 1992)
86. Lemonade Joe (Lipský,1964)
87. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
88. The Boys in the Band (Friedkin, 1970)
89. Melvin and Howard (Demme, 1980)
90. Body Double (De Palma, 1984)
91. Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962)
92. Sleuth (Mankiewicz, 1972)
93. The Haunting (Wise, 1963)
94. Ashes and Snow (Colbert, 2005)
95. The Wanderers (Kaufman, 1979)
96. For All Mankind (Reinert, 1989)
97. Eating Raoul (Bartel, 1982)
98. Ratatouille (Bird, 2007)
99. And Then There Were None (Clair, 1945)
100. Plan 9 From Outer Space (Wood Jr, 1959)

[transmogrifier]

I started doing the list based on my excel scores, but got bored after I got to 20-odd. It's very much a product of the period of my life when I first got into film. I'd defend it to the death (it looks quite fanboyish in the main), but I don't think it would illicit much in the way of debate - it's all pretty standard.

Though, based on scores, Alien 3 is on the list.

[transmogrifier]

14. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)


Exactly the same ranking for me as well.

[transmogrifier]

Screw it. Strictly according to scores, with no ranking within tied groups:

1=
Wild Bunch, The
Short Cuts

3=
Apocalypse Now
La Haine
Dazed and Confused
Do the Right Thing
Husbands and Wives

8. Boogie Nights

9=
Les Miserables (1995)
Midnight Clear, A
Last of the Mohicans, The
Life of Brian
Purple Rose of Cairo, The

14=
Seven
Mulholland Dr.
Empire Strikes Back, The

17=
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
When Harry Met Sally
Jaws

20=
Magnolia
Annie Hall

22=
Battle Royale
Grease
Smoke
Oldboy

27=
Ice Storm, The
Unforgiven
Fight Club
49th Parallel
Dogfight
Heavenly Creatures
Dog Day Afternoon
Fisher King, The
In the Mood for Love
Hannah and Her Sisters

36=
Rashomon
Some Like it Hot
LA Confidential
Trainspotting
Shawshank Redemption, The
Aliens
Emperor's New Groove, The
Long Goodbye, The
Once Upon a Time in America
Paths of Glory
Everyone Says I Love You

47=
Carrie
High Noon
Miller's Crossing
Professional, The
Mean Streets
Heat
Player, The
Days of Heaven
Brazil
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood

58=
Lost Highway
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Nashville
Memento Mori

62=
Easy Rider
Spirited Away
Beautiful People
Dead Man
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Zed & Two Noughts, A
Get On the Bus
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Chungking Express

71=
Carlito's Way
Fish Called Wanda, A
Yi Yi: A One and a Two
Diaboliques, Les
City of Hope
Limbo
Three Colors: White
Don't Look Now
Brain Dead
Fearless
Before Sunset
Once Upon a Time in the West
12 Monkeys
Dead Man Walking
Southern Comfort

86=
Jesus' Son
Five Easy Pieces
In My Father's Den
Alien 3*
Roger Dodger
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
His Girl Friday
Chasing Amy
Frighteners, The
Audition
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Oasis

99=
Iron Giant, The
Usual Suspects, The
Star Wars
Henry Fool
Remains of the Day, The
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Blood Simple
Asphalt Jungle, The
Matewan
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Rosemary's Baby
Dead Man's Shoes

[transmogrifier]

I think it's spooky Spinal, Russ and I all have Mulholland Dr. at 14 (well, equal 14 for me). Exclusive club, guys? I call leader.

[transmogrifier]

2. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2006, USA)


I have a better chance of understanding the quantum mechanics of string theory in 10 minutes than I have of ever understanding this.

[eternity]

I have a better chance of understanding the quantum mechanics of string theory in 10 minutes than I have of ever understanding this.

With the exception of some choppy editing at times, I cannot find a single thing that I don't find absolutely perfect in that movie. Completely stunning.

[megladon8]

I, too, thought Brick was great.

Won't be making my list, but still...good movie.

[megladon8]

OK here's my list. As I said before, if I were to do this next week there'd certainly be some differences.

I've definitely missed things, and I don't like the placement of some of them, but I think this gives a pretty good idea of what my top 100 would look kind of like...


01.) Blade Runner
02.) American Psycho
03-05.) The Man With No Name Trilogy
06.) Le Samourai
07.) Superman
08.) The Haunting (‘63)
09.) Casablanca
10.) The Fountain

11.) Alien
12.) The Royal Tenenbaums
13.) Solaris (‘02)
14.) King Kong (‘33)
15.) The Dark Knight
16.) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
17.) Young Frankenstein
18.) Pulp Fiction
19-21.) Star Wars OT

22.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
23.) The Big Lebowski
24.) Se7en
25.) Heat
26.) Fanny & Alexander
27.) The Prestige
28.) City Lights
29.) The Seventh Seal
30.) Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht

31.) Batman Begins
32.) Dawn of the Dead
33.) Oldboy
34.) From Russia With Love
35.) Night of the Living Dead
36.) Princess Mononoke
37.) The Maltese Falcon
38.) Halloween
39.) Unbreakable
40.) Ran

41.) Dead Ringers
42.) Mind Game
43.) Holiday
44.) The Shawshank Redemption
45.) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
46.) Amadeus
47.) Requiem for a Dream
48.) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
49.) Harvey
50.) Goodfellas

51.) The Kid With the Golden Arm
52.) Ghostbusters
53.) Back to the Future
54.) The Phantom of the Opera
55.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
56.) After the Thin Man
57.) Die Hard
58.) Ghost in the Shell
59.) The Matrix
60.) Spirited Away

61.) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
62.) Citizen Kane
63.) The Iron Giant
64.) Minority Report
65.) The Conversation
66.) Once Upon a Time in the West
67.) Goldeneye
68.) Raiders of the Lost Ark
69.) The Great Dictator
70.) Memento

71.) Videodrome
72.) Mulholland Dr.
73.) Unforgiven
74.) The Taste of Tea
75.) Out of the Past
76.) Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
77.) Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
78.) North By Northwest
79.) Winchester ‘73
80.) Beauty and the Beast (Disney)

81.) Onibaba
82.) The Shining
83.) La belle et la bete
84.) The Mist
85.) The Bride With White Hair
86.) Akira
87.) The Bourne Supremacy
88.) The Sword of Doom
89.) The Philadelphia Story
90.) L.A. Confidential

91.) The Limey
92.) Batman Returns
93.) Eyes Wide Shut
94.) In the Mood For Love
95.) Memories of Murder
96.) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
97.) Seven Samurai
98.) The Emperor’s New Groove
99.) Rope
100.) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (‘78)

[The Mike]

#1. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
#2. Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)
#3. Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
#4. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
#5. American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)
#6. Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks)
#7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
#8. The Rock (1996, Michael Bay)
#9. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, Frank Capra)
#10. The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)

#11. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
#12. Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)
#13. The Spanish Prisoner (1997, David Mamet)
#14. It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
#15. North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
#16. Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
#17. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
#18. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
#19. The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
#20. Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)

#21. Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)
#22. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997, George Armitage)
#23. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
#24. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
#25. Gremlins (1984, Joe Dante)
#26. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005, Shane Black)
#27. The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
#28. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)
#29. Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford)
#30. Rocky (1977, John G. Avildsen)

#31. To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
#32. Say Anything... (1989, Cameron Crowe)
#33. Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)
#34. The Wolf Man (1941, George Waggner)
#35. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
#36. Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)
#37. My Man Godfrey (1936, Gregory La Cava)
#38. Out of Sight (1998, Steven Soderbergh)
#39. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
#40. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)

#41. The 'Burbs (1989, Joe Dante)
#42. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
#43. Midnight Run (1988, Martin Brest)
#44. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
#45. Moonlight Mile (2002, Brad Silberling)
#46. Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel)
#47. Spider-Man (2002, Sam Raimi)
#48. Lantana (2001, Ray Lawrence)
#49. Iron Man (2008, Jon Favreau)
#50. Flash Gordon (1980, Mike Hodges)

#51. Harvey (1950, Henry Koster)
#52. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976, John Carpenter)
#53. Marty (1955, Delbert Mann)
#54. Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
#55. Serenity (2005, Joss Whedon)
#56. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
#57. Winchester '73 (1950, Anthony Mann)
#58. Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
#59. Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich)
#60. Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe)

#61. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)
#62. The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
#63. Gunga Din (1939, George Stevens)
#64. Wonder Boys (2000, Curtis Hanson)
#65. The Breakfast Club (1985, John Hughes)
#66. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
#67. Spartan (2004, David Mamet)
#68. Gaslight (1944, George Cukor)
#69. Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
#70. Wayne's World 2 (1993, Stephen Surjik)

#71. Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
#72. The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton)
#73. Shane (1953, George Stevens)
#74. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
#75. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
#76. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)
#77. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent)
#78. The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)
#79. The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
#80. The Philadelphia Story (1940, George Cukor)

#81. The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)
#82. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero)
#83. In America (2002, Jim Sheridan)
#84. Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2003, Fernando Meirelles)
#85. A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) (1946, Powell & Pressburger)
#86. King Kong (1933, Cooper & Schoedsack)
#87. Speed (1994, Jan De Bont)
#88. Waking the Dead (1999, Keith Gordon)
#89. Enter the Dragon (1975, Robert Clouse)
#90. The Limey (1999, Steven Soderbergh)

#91. Straw Dogs (1971, Sam Peckinpah)
#92. The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)
#93. Hoosiers (1986, David Anspaugh)
#94. Predator (1987, John McTiernan)
#95. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
#96. Red Rock West (1993, John Dahl)
#97. Escape from New York (1981, John Carpenter)
#98. Army of Darkness (1993, Sam Raimi)
#99. The Italian Job (2003, F. Gary Gray)
#100a. The Blob (1958, Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.)
#100b. The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966, Don Weis)
#100c. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974, Roy Ward Baker)

[Ezee E]

Based on my own taste, and a quick, silly average system, the top ten that I like the most belongs to D_Davis and Russ. Eternity's is last.

Take that for what you will.

[eternity]

Based on my own taste, and a quick, silly average system, the top ten that I like the most belongs to D_Davis and Russ. Eternity's is last.

Take that for what you will.:cry:

Oh who am I kidding, I love that you feel that way. It makes me feel like a maverick.

[monolith94]

Oi vey. I used to have one, but reformulating it to accurately represent my current tastes would be too hard. Suffice it to say that my top 3 remains relatively stable:

Brazil
The Thief of Bagdad
Delicatessen

[Ezee E]

:cry:

Oh who am I kidding, I love that you feel that way. It makes me feel like a maverick.
Blame it solely on Week End. otherwise it's pretty good.

[lovejuice]

15. Citizen Dog (Sasanatieng, 2004, Thailand)

do you actually like black tiger? but yes, citizen dog is likely to be my favorite thai movie of all time.

[D_Davis]

How many on the list have you seen? I've only seen 71.

Only a few more than the ones I listed that I like. Probably ~25 or so.

[D_Davis]

From Spinal's list, I really like these:


1. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
3. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
10. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)
11. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
14. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
15. Winter Light (Bergman, 1962)
17. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
19. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
25. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
26. Muriel’s Wedding (Hogan, 1994)
29. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson, 1994)
30. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
37. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
38. The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
39. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
44. Fargo (Coen, 1996)
45. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, 1975)
49. Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)
52. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
57. Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
58. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
63. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang, 1991)
68. Poltergeist (Hooper, 1982)
80. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
82. In the Company of Men (Labute, 1997)
91. Santa sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
95. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)


I especially like you inclusion of Muriel's Wedding; fantastic film.

I thought you had The Young Poisoner's Handbook on your list, or was that just a film that you really like?

[Spinal]

I thought you had The Young Poisoner's Handbook on your list, or was that just a film that you really like?

Not a top 100 film, but an excellent film nonetheless.

[D_Davis]

From your list I like:




1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001, USA)
2. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004, Japan)
4. The Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1987, Japan)
5. God of Cookery (Chow, 1996, Hong Kong)
8. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985, Japan)
9. Whisper of the Heart (Kondo, 1995, Hong Kong)
10. Doppelganger (Kurosawa, 2003, Japan)
12. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1952, USA)
14. The Taste of Tea (Ishii, 2004, Japan) and Funky Forest; The First Contact (Ishii et al, 2005)
16. Chungking Express (Wong, Hong Kong)
20. Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Miike, Japan)
22. Election & Election 2 (To, 2005/2006, Hong Kong)
24. Cure (Kurosawa, 1997, Japan)
25. Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki, Japan)
28. Do the Right Thing (Lee, USA)
31. After Life (Kore-eda, 1998, Japan)
32. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 (Tarantino, 2003/2004, USA)
33. A Chinese Odyssey (Lau, 1995, Hong Kong)
34. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, Italy)
36. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977, USA)
37. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
39. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998, USA)
40. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2001, Hong Kong)
52. Bullet in the Head (Woo, 1991, Hong Kong)
53. The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002, Japan)
55. The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986, USA)
57. Babe: Pig in the City (Miller, USA)
59. Oldboy (Park, 2003, Korea)
64. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, Japan)
65. Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996, USA)
67. Takeshis' (Kitano, 2005)
68. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950, Japan)
71. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000, Taiwan)
76. The Mission (To, 1999)
80. Only Yesterday (Takahata, 1991, Japan)
87. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park, 2001, Korea)
88. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
89. The Bird People in China (Miike, Japan)
94. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
97. Robocop (Verhoeven, USA)
98. In the Company of Men (Labute, 1997, USA)
100. Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak, Hong Kong)

I love how highly you've rated Mind Game, The Taste of Tea, and Funky Forrest - truly awesome.

Mind Game is a stunning film.

Also, Including Only Yesterday is a cool choice.

In the Company of Men seems to be a very popular film around Match Cut - that is cool.

[D_Davis]

Eternity's list...


Yeah, don't mind me, being all pedestrian and stuff.


2. Brick (Rian Johnson, 2006, USA)
8. Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994, USA)
11. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970, USA)
20. The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998, USA)
21. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983, Canada)
25. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, UK/USA)
28. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, UK)
30. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991, France)
33. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967, France/Italy)
37. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946, USA)
45. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK/USA
56. Miller's Crossing
59. Ghost World
60. Alien
61. Chungking Express
66. Vertigo
70. Heat
74. Fight Club
81. Jacob's Ladder
88. Donnie Darko
91. Office Space
93. Rushmore
97. Straw Dogs
98. The Graduate


Happy to see Ed Wood, Jacob's Ladder, and Miller's Crossing.

Very happy to see Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - fantastic film. Probably should have been on my list.

[lovejuice]

#48. Lantana (2001, Ray Lawrence)


the inclusion of this movie makes yours my instant favorite. :pritch:

[Qrazy]

the inclusion of this movie makes yours my instant favorite. :pritch:

Hate that film.

[balmakboor]

After the first 20 or so, the order becomes virtually meaningless. Trying to put 100 movies you love in order is just too difficult.

1. Slacker
2. I am Cuba
3. The Fountain
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Barry Lyndon
6. Sans Soleil
7. WR: Mysteries of the Organism
8. Tokyo Story
9. Pierrot le fou
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

11. Rear Window
12. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
13. Dead Alive
14. Sonic Outlaws
15. Stoszek
16. My Own Private Idaho
17. There Will Be Blood
18. Gimme Shelter
19. Poison
20. Over the Edge

21. Days of Heaven
22. Meet Me in St Louis
23. Phantom India
24. Koyaanisqatsi
25. Young Frankenstein
26. Grave of the Fireflies
27. Love Song (Brakhage)
28. Pulp Fiction
29. Scorpio Rising
30. Short Cuts

31. Mystery Train
32. Grease
33. F for Fake
34. Playtime
35. War of the Gargantuas
36. Audition
37. The 36th Chamber of the Shaolin
38. Paris, Texas
39. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
40. Blow Out

41. 8 1/2
42. Pinocchio
43. Running on Empty
44. The Wizard of Oz
45. The Godfather Part II
46. The Grapes of Wrath
47. Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
48. El Mariachi
49. Manufacturing Consent
50. The Wanderers

51. Rock 'n' Roll High School
52. Cry Baby
53. Singin' in the Rain
54. Taxi Driver
55. Bound for Glory
56. Bonnie & Clyde
57. Spirited Away
58. Rosemary's Baby
59. Naked
60. Opening Night

61. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
62. Mulholland Dr.
63. Peeping Tom
64. Blade Runner: Original Cut
65. Dark City: Director's Cut
66. Brazil
67. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
68. Star Wars
69. Finding Nemo
70. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

71. Some Like it Hot
72. Back to the Future
73. Sherman's March
74. The Thin Blue Line
75. Children of Heaven
76. Se7en
77. Amadeus
78. The Taste of Tea
79. City Lights
80. Our Hospitality

81. It's a Wonderful Life
82. Ed Wood
83. Holy Mountain
84. Umberto D
85. To Kill a Mockingbird
86. Vengeance Is Mine
87. Annie Hall
88. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
89. Ikiru
90. House of Flying Daggers

91. This is Spinal Tap
92. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
93. The Night of the Hunter
94. The Up Documentaries
95. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
96. The Fly (Cronenberg)
97. Ghost World
98. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
99. Bad Education
100. The Deer Hunter

[soitgoes...]

1. The Graduate (Nichols 67)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean 62)
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg 81)
4. The Grand Illusion (Renoir 37)
5. Boogie Nights (Anderson 97)
6. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch 01)
7. Gosford Park (Altman 01)
8. Winter Light (Bergman 62)
9. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa 56)
10.The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman 43)

11. Sherlock Jr. (Keaton 24)
12. Notorious (Hitchcock 46)
13. Schindler's List (Spielberg 93)
14. Elephant (Van Sant 03)
15. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson 02)
16. Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski 93)
17. Harakiri (Kobayashi 62)
18. To Have abd Have Not (Hawks 44)
19. Ikiru (Kurosawa 52)
20. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer 28)

21. Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos 88)
22. The Man Who Planted Trees (Back 87)
23. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Naruse 35)
24. The Third Man (Reed 49)
25. Los Olvidados (Buñuel 50)
26. Red Beard (Kurosawa 65)
27. LBJ (�lvarez 68)
28. Dancer in the Dark (Trier 00)
29. A Touch of Zen (Hu 69)
30. Tokyo Story (Ozu 53)

31. Oldboy (Park 03)
32. The Heart of the World (Maddin 00)
33. M (Lang 31)
34. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick 75)
35. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson 01)
36. The Royal Tenebaums (Anderson 01)
37. Ménilmontant (Kirsanoff 26)
38. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock 51)
39. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata 88)
40. The Godfather (Coppola 72)

41. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer 69)
42. Early Summer (Ozu 51)
43. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau 27)
44. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra 39)
45. Rififi (Dassin 55)
46. The Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov 29)
47. Citizen Kane (Welles 41)
48. Paths of Glory (Kubrick 57)
49. Chinatown (Polanski 74)
50. One Froggy Evening (Jones 55)

51. The General (Bruckman, Keaton 27)
52. Big Business (McCarey, Horne 29)
53. Men with Guns (Sayles 97)
54. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman 71)
55. The Seventh Continent (Haneke 89)
56. Taxi Driver (Scorsese 76)
57. Yearning (Naruse 64)
58. Madame de... (Ophüls 53)
59. Late Spring (Ozu 49)
60. Rules of the Game (Renoir 39)

61. Breaking the Waves (Trier 96)
62. Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski 94)
63. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Enrico 62)
64. 12 Angry Men (Lumet 57)
65. The Cranes Are Flying (Kalatozov 57)
66. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa 54)
67. Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Park 93)
68. Rain (Franken. Ivens 29)
69. JFK (Stone 91)
70. Empire of the Sun (Spielberg 87)

71. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang 91)
72. Rear Window (Hitchcock 54)
73. High Plains Drifter (Eastwood 73)
74. Forbidden Games (Clément 52)
75. A Man Escaped (Bresson 56)
76. Shoeshine (De Sica 46)
77. Casablanca (Curtiz 42)
78. The Blue Angel (von Sternberg 30)
79. Aliens (Cameron 86)
80. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise 51)

81. Pleasantville (Ross 98)
82. Before Sunset (Linklater 04)
83. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich 71)
84. Punishment Park (Watkins 71)
85. Secrets & Lies (Leigh 96)
86. Fargo (Coen 96)
87. The Truman Show (Weir 98)
88. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog 74)
89. Rabbit of Seville (Jones 50)
90. Two Women (De Sica 60)

91. Hud (Ritt 63)
92. The Big Lebowski (Coen 98)
93. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor 40)
94. Magical Maestro (Avery 52)
95. Safety Last! (Newmeyer, Taylor 23)
96. Down by Law (Jarmusch 86)
97. To Live (Zhang 94)
98. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee 00)
99. The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini 50)
100. The Idle Class (Chaplin 19)

[Russ]

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Enrico 62)
Love this pick. It's always in and out of my top lists.

[soitgoes...]

Love this pick. It's always in and out of my top lists.
I was in awe after watching it the first time. It is a great short film. I've always have been interested if Enrico has done anything else as worthwhile, especially in feature length form. The Old Gun, Le Vieux fusil, looks promising.

[Qrazy]

I was in awe after watching it the first time. It is a great short film. I've always have been interested if Enrico has done anything else as worthwhile, especially in feature length form. The Old Gun, Le Vieux fusil, looks promising.

I like The Graduate a fair bit but I'm interested to know what about catapults it to your number one spot.

[soitgoes...]

I like The Graduate a fair bit but I'm interested to know what about catapults it to your number one spot.
The film always brings a smile to my face. I've seen it more that any other film on my list, except Raiders, and yet it never ceases to entertain. If I could sum up this film in one word, it would be manipulation. Nichols's characters are masters of it, both in this film and in his almost as great Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. One difference between the two films, and what raises The Graduate up to a higher level, is the injection of humor. Martha and George in WAoVW? are just plain mean in their manipulating, whereas Ben brings a youthful awkwardness as he is being manipulated by Mrs. Robinson. You can also bring in the fact that film features brilliant framing, a wonderful soundtrack, great editing and a superb cast (a smoking hot Bancroft and Ross!!), but the main reason why it is number one is that I can put the DVD in my player at anytime, and be completely happy to be watching it. I can see why some might not see it as a perfect film, but in my eyes it is.

[balmakboor]

I should add that, to maximize diversity and best capture my range of tastes, I limited myself to one film per director. It is a list I'm quite pleased with, but I could very easily have flooded it with a number of Ozu films -- such as Tokyo Chorus which I just finished watching and still find enchanting. More by Fassbinder, Linklater, Coppola, Herzog, Powell, ... could easily have been included as well.

Maybe I'll post a top 1000 some day.

[Raiders]

1 Persona 1966
2 A Man Escaped 1956
3 The Conversation 1974
4 [safe] 1995
5 My Life to Live 1961
6 In a Lonely Place 1950
7 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000
8 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927
9 The Ascent 1977
10 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943

11 Vertigo 1958
12 Sans soleil 1983
13 Au hasard Balthazar 1966
14 Shock Corridor 1963
15 F for Fake 1974
16 Pulse 2001
17 Sherlock, Jr. 1924
18 Ugetsu 1953
19 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978
20 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937

21 The Sweet Hereafter 1997
22 Duck Amuck 1953
23 Days of Heaven 1978
24 Charulata 1964
25 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
26 Johnny Guitar 1954
27 La Caza 1966
28 Dead Ringers 1988
29 George Washington 2000
30 None Shall Escape 1944

31 The Man Who Planted Trees 1987
32 Throne of Blood 1957
33 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971
34 Days of Being Wild 1991
35 The Servant 1963
36 Park Row 1952
37 WALL·E 2008
38 Eyes Without a Face 1959
39 Only Angels Have Wings 1937
40 Nights of Cabiria 1957

41 Portrait of Jennie 1948
42 Tropical Malady 2004
43 Repulsion 1965
44 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974
45 Dead Man 1995
46 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
47 Shoot the Piano Player 1960
48 Come and See 1985
49 Hana-bi 1997
50 The Wrong Man 1956

51 The Blue Angel 1931
52 The Rules of the Game 1939
53 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
54 Stage Door 1937
55 Martha 1974
56 I, an Actress 1977
57 Exotica 1994
58 The War Game 1965
59 White Dog 1982
60 Mouchette 1967

61 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
62 The Green Ray 1986
63 Bigger Than Life 1956
64 The Holy Mountain 1973
65 Point Blank 1967
66 Assault on Precinct 13 1976
67 Citizen Kane 1941
68 Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1973
69 Lawrence of Arabia 1962
70 Blow Out 1981

71 Sansho the Bailiff 1954
72 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
73 Masculin-Feminin 1966
74 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985
75 Something Wild 1986
76 Kill, Baby... Kill! 1966
77 Rear Window 1954
78 The Mascot 1934
79 8½ 1963
80 Force of Evil 1948

81 Maborosi 1995
82 The Cameraman 1928
83 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
84 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
85 Ride Lonsesome 1959
86 At Land 1944
87 Southern Comfort 1981
88 Princess Mononoke 1997
89 God Told Me To 1976
90 The Innocents 1961

91 The Thin Red Line 1998
92 The Tall Target 1951
93 The Big Red One 1980
94 The House of Mirth 2000
95 Angels With Dirty Faces 1938
96 There Will Be Blood 2007
97 A Zed & Two Noughts 1985
98 Martin 1977
99 Ms. 45 1981
100 The Butcher Boy 1997

[megladon8]

That's a great list, Raiders. I love that you include Angels With Dirty Faces.

I can't believe some of the films I forgot on my list. In a Lonely Place being a big one.

Also several horrors I would have included had I remembered them.

[Spinal]

I decided I need to have The NeverEnding Story in my top 100. It has been added.

[Derek]

I decided I need to have The NeverEnding Story in my top 100. It has been added.

Wise decision. :)

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. The Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
3. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)
4. I Fidanzati (Olmi)
5. Man With a Movie Camera (Vertov)
6. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
7. La Jetee (Marker)
8. Sunrise (Murnau)
9. L'Atalante (Vigo)
10. A Man Escaped (Bresson)

11. The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
12. Sansho the Baliff (Mizoguchi)
13. Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
14. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
15. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
16. Ordet (Dreyer)
17. The Naked Island (Shindo)
18. The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
19. Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini)
20. Early Summer (Ozu)

21. Playtime (Tati)
22. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
23. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
24. Black Narcissus (Powell)
25. Blow Up (Antonioni)
26. Napoleon (Gance)
27. A Page of Madness (Kinugasa)
28. Le Samourai (Melville)
29. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)

30. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
31. People on Sunday (Siodmak/Ulmer)
32. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
33. Stolen Kisses (Truffaut)
34. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes)
35. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
36. Come and See (Klimov)
37. The Cameraman (Keaton)
38. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
39. Contempt (Godard)

40. Viridiana (Bunuel)
41. Kanal (Wajda)
42. Days of Heaven (Malick)
43. Paris, Texas (Wenders)
44. Modern Times (Chaplin)
45. Night Train (Kawalerowicz)
46. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
47. The General (Keaton)
48. Dekalog (Kieslowski)
49. Que Viva Mexico! (Eisenstein)

50. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
51. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
52. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog)
53. Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
54. The Letter Never Sent (Kalatozov)
55. The Tenant (Polanski)
56. Ikiru (Kurosawa)
57. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
58. A Matter of Life and Death (Powell)
59. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)

60. The Cremator (Herz)
61. Veronika Voss (Fassbinder)
62. Stroszek (Herzog)
63. Un Partie de Campagne (Renoir)
64. Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
65. Mauvais Sang (Carax)
66. A Face in the Crowd (Kazan)
67. The Conversation (Coppola)
68. Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
69. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway)
70. La Notte (Antonioni)

71. Zero For Conduct (Vigo)
72. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
73. Eyes Without a Face (Franju)
74. Pas de Deux (McLaren)
75. The Scarlet Empress (Von Sternberg)
76. The Last Laugh (Murnau)
77. Notorious (Hitchcock)
78. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
79. The Passenger (Antonioni)

80. Chungking Express (Wong)
81. Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky)
82. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
83. Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut)
84. Eternity and a Day (Angelopoulos)
85. The Face of Another (Teshigahara)
86. The Heart of the World (Maddin)
87. The Innocents (Clayton)
88. California Split (Altman)
89. Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Arnold)

90. Swedish Love Story (Andersson)
91. 10:30 PM Summer (Dassin)
92. Peppermint Frappe (Saura)
93. Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai)
94. Vivre sa Vie (Godard)
95. Johnny Guitar (Ray)
96. Blood Simple (Coen)
97. Don't Look Now (Roeg)
98. Husbands (Cassavetes)
99. Behind Your Walls (Zwartjes)
100. Punch Drunk Love (Anderson)
Godzilla (Honda)


whew!

[D_Davis]

I decided I need to have The NeverEnding Story in my top 100. It has been added.

It's a great movie.

Are the rumors of the remake true? Anyone know?

[Pop Trash]

I've never thought much beyond my top ten:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Sweet Hereafter
4. Citizen Kane
5. 2001: ASO
6. Psycho
7. Blue Velvet
8. The Godfather 1&2
9. Bicycle Thieves
10. The Graduate

[Sycophant]

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/59560/thumbs/s-MAVERICK-MCCAIN-large.jpg

mav·er·ick
Pronunciation:
\ˈmav-rik, ˈma-və-\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Samuel A. Maverick â€*1870 American pioneer who did not brand his calves
Date:
c. 1867 - 2008

1: an unbranded range animal ; especially : a motherless calf
2: an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
It's a dead word.

[Sycophant]

... Who killed it?

...


http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/59560/thumbs/s-MAVERICK-MCCAIN-large.jpg

[megladon8]

So, yeah...someone notify me by PM when this shit stops and the lists carry on.

Thanks.

[megladon8]

One picture of that man is too much.

[Winston*]

Hey dudes, lets carry on posting lists and not tell meg about it.

[Boner M]

Got kinda bored halfway through making this (even though it's just a revamped version of my top 50), so 50-100 are pretty slapdash.

100. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
99. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
98. Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
97. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)
96. Dawn of an Evil Millennium (Damon Packard, 1988)
95. Blood Simple (Joel Coen, 1984)
94. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997)
93. Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
92. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
91. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992)
90. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
89. Waiting For Guffman (Christopher Guest, 1996)
88. Oh Dem Watermelons (Rob Nelson, 1965)
87. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1949)
86. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990)
85. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
84. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967)
83. Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf De Heer, 1993)
82. Mauvais sang (Leos Carax, 1986)
81. Moonrise (Frank Borzage, 1948)
80. Woman of the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
79. Mikey & Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
78. Les Rendezvous D’Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978)
77. The Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945)
76. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
75. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)
74. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
73. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
72. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
71. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
70. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
69. Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, 1923)
68. Le Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
67. Oasis (Lee Chang-Dong, 2002)
66. Memories of Murder (Joon-Ho Bong, 2003)
65. What Happened Was… (Tom Noonan, 1994)
64. Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
63. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, 2002)
62. The Life of Jesus (Dumont, 1997)
61. Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
60. News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
59. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)
58. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
57. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
56. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
55. Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
54. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
53. Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
52. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
51. The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, 2002)
50. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
49. Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
48. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
47. 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
46. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
45. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925)
44. Heaven and Earth Magic (Harry Smith, 1962)
43. A nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
42. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
41. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
40. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
39. Artificial Intelligence: AI (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
38. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)
37. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
36. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
35. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
34. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
33. Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979)
32. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
31. Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005)
30. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
29. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
28. Pump up the Volume (Allan Moyle, 1990)
27. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
26. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
25. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
24. The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)
23. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
22. Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
21. Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
20. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
19. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1969)
18. Buffalo ’66 (Gallo, 1998)
17. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
16. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, 1962)
15. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
13. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
12. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
11. Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955)
10. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
9. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
8. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
7. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
6. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
5. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
4. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
3. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
2. O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
1. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

[Fezzik]

One picture of that man is too much.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/actors_films_images/top_gun_maverick_tom_cruise_su ited.jpg

Is that better?

[Ezee E]

A top 100 isn't happening.

1. Goodfellas
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Shining
4. Aliens
5. The Godfather Part II
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. The Exorcist
8. Children of Men
9. Amadeus
10. Raging Bull

A typical list I guess, but I keep coming back to these movies, and I'd be lying if I didn't list these. Amadeus is probably the biggest mover in the list from when I did do a Top 100.

[Spinal]

2. O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
1. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

Wha? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Melville]

This thread will be great for recommendations. In the spirit of list-making, here are my choices for the top 10 best lists, ranked according to a precise formula:

1. Raiders
2. Boner
3. Kurious Jorge
4. Spinal
5. fasozupow
6. Russ
7. Antoine
8. soitgoes
9. Sycophant
10. meg

[balmakboor]

This thread will be great for recommendations. In the spirit of list-making, here are my choices for the top 10 best lists, ranked according to a precise formula:

1. Raiders
2. Boner
3. Kurious Jorge
4. Spinal
5. fasozupow
6. Russ
7. Antoine
8. soitgoes
9. Sycophant
10. meg

Poor Eternity. Other than Brick -- which was a pretty whacked out choice in my opinion -- there's lots of good stuff on there. I especially applaud him for Gummo, Jerry, and Tideland.

You're right. Lots of great suggestions in this thread.

[D_Davis]

I like the following from Russ's list:



3. Taxi Driver (Scorcese, 1976)
6. Mind Game (Yuasa, 2004)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
8. Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
13. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
14. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
15. Vernon, Florida (Morris, 1982)
18. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
23. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
24. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)
25. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
26. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
27. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
28. Crumb (Zwigoff, 1994)
31. In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
32. Alien (Scott, 1979)
34. Fantasia (1940)
38. American Movie (Smith, 1999)
41. Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987)
42. The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999)
49. Pistol Opera (Suzuki, 2001)
55. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
59. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
61. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
62. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
63. Miller’s Crossing (Coen, 1990)
75. Of Mice and Men (Milestone, 1939)
82. Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
91. Carnival of Souls (Harvey, 1962)
93. The Haunting (Wise, 1963)
96. For All Mankind (Reinert, 1989)
100. Plan 9 From Outer Space (Wood Jr, 1959)

It's really cool to see the following:
American Movie
Vernon, Fl
Mind Game
The Straight Story
Carnival of Souls
For All Mankind

[balmakboor]

American Movie is something that would probably make my list if I re-watched it. I haven't seen it for years and years.

[megladon8]

My placement at the bottom of Melville's list is offensive.

I'm taking it as him evaulating my worth as a person, and basically saying that he would choose those 9 other posters' lives over mine.

Way to ruin my day.


If anyone doesn't realize that's a joke, I'll seriously think about abandoning this place.

[Raiders]

My placement at the bottom of Melville's list is offensive.

I'm taking it as him evaulating my worth as a person, and basically saying that he would choose those 9 other posters' lives over mine.

Way to ruin my day.

If anyone doesn't realize that's a joke, I'll seriously think about abandoning this place.

Chill out, dude. Don't take everything so personally.

[megladon8]

Chill out, dude. Don't take everything so personally.


...

:frustrated:

[Raiders]

...

:frustrated:


:twisted:

[D_Davis]

From meg, I really like:



01.) Blade Runner
03.) The Man With No Name Trilogy
04.) Le Samourai
06.) The Haunting (‘63)
09.) Alien
10.) The Royal Tenenbaums
14.) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
15.) Young Frankenstein
16.) Pulp Fiction
18.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
19.) The Big Lebowski
20.) Se7en
21.) Heat
29.) Oldboy
31.) Night of the Living Dead
32.) Princess Mononoke
35.) Unbreakable
36.) Ran
38.) Mind Game
40.) The Shawshank Redemption
41.) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
42.) Amadeus
43.) Requiem for a Dream
44.) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
47.) The Kid With the Golden Arm
48.) Ghostbusters
51.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
53.) Die Hard
54.) Ghost in the Shell
55.) The Matrix
59.) The Iron Giant
60.) Minority Report
62.) Once Upon a Time in the West
64.) Raiders of the Lost Ark
67.) Videodrome
68.) Mulholland Dr.
70.) The Taste of Tea
73.) Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
74.) North By Northwest
76.) Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
78.) The Shining
80.) The Mist
81.) The Bride With White Hair
82.) Akira
90.) In the Mood For Love
91.) Memories of Murder
93.) Seven Samurai
97.) Sunshine
98.) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
100.) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (‘78)

Really nice to see The Bride With White Hair, The Kid With the Golden Arm, Akira, Unbreakable, and many others.

Good list.


Meanwhile...

I have to say I am somewhat surprised by how many people have included Eternal Sunshine... on their lists. That's a film that I just don't understand the love for.

[D_Davis]

My placement at the bottom of Melville's list is offensive.

I'm taking it as him evaulating my worth as a person, and basically saying that he would choose those 9 other posters' lives over mine.

Way to ruin my day.


If anyone doesn't realize that's a joke, I'll seriously think about abandoning this place.

I didn't even make his list - so there! But seeing as how our tastes are practically mirror images of each other, I actually consider it a compliment. I'd hope to be number 1 on his list of the lists he doesn't like!

:)

[Russ]

I have to say I am somewhat surprised by how many people have included Eternal Sunshine... on their lists. That's a film that I just don't understand the love for.
THANK YOU and rep for that!

[megladon8]

Really nice to see The Bride With White Hair, The Kid With the Golden Arm, Akira, Unbreakable, and many others.

I have you and Jen to thank for those first two.

Your kung-fu thread from the old MatchCut site was one of my favorite threads ever. One of the most informative, for sure. It felt like I was opened up to a whole new world, where chop-socky flicks weren't just movies to watch for laughs on a Saturday afternoon, but a serious art form unto themselves.



I have to say I am somewhat surprised by how many people have included Eternal Sunshine... on their lists. That's a film that I just don't understand the love for.

I actually didn't think you'd like this one.

I remember you saying you also never got the love for Lost in Translation, and that you've kind of developed a distaste for Wes Anderson's films (aside from Bottle Rocket).

Maybe these quirky comedy / rom-coms just aren't your bag...baby.

[D_Davis]

Yeah - can't stand LiT.

Still really love Bottle Rocket, and I also like Rushmore a lot.

I thought Eternal Sunshine... was watered down SF. I kept hearing about how mind bending, and genre-busting it was, but all I got was PKD/JG Ballard lite. It is merely okay - I don't dislike it, but I don't think it's very good, either.

[megladon8]

Yeah - can't stand LiT.

Still really love Bottle Rocket, and I also like Rushmore a lot.

I thought Eternal Sunshine... was watered down SF. I kept hearing about how mind bending, and genre-busting it was, but all I got was PKD/JG Ballard lite. It is merely okay - I don't dislike it, but I don't think it's very good, either.


I found it worked better as a very honest, telling look at a relationship which, on one hand, feels like two people who are diametrically different...but they also feel like they should be together, without it feeling false or forced.

I didn't really look at it as a sci-fi at all. Just a romance with some mild sci-fi elements used to present the film's messages more effectively.

[Sycophant]

Yeah, I can't say that I demanded that Eternal Sunshine be a hard sci-fi experience.

[D_Davis]

Just a romance with some mild sci-fi elements used to present the film's messages more effectively.

Sans the romance (although, not always (Theodore Sturgeon and others...)), this is pretty much what SF is - stories that use imaginative devices to examine real world, social, and humanistic issues in a different light. Eternal Sunshine... is very much an SF film, along the same lines as something like Open Your Eyes, but I think Open Your Eyes is much, much better.


Yeah, I can't say that I demanded that Eternal Sunshine be a hard sci-fi experience.Me neither. I'm not really a fan of hard SF.

SF, as Speculative Fiction, covers a much larger ground than sci-fi and hard sci-fi.

[lovejuice]

Yeah - can't stand LiT.

ohhh....boy. that makes two of us i guess.

my evalution is entirely personal though. i saw this movie after two hours on a metro ride across los angeles, crash-style. homesick like hell. seeing LiT, i'm like....shut up, bitch, you don't how it's living in foreign land.

[D_Davis]

Also, I simply didn't connect with the romantic notion of Eternal Sunshine...

Everything fell flat for me. I left the theater feeling totally neutral towards the whole experience. I guess you could say I found the film vapid, as it did nothing for me.

[megladon8]

D, what did you think of Vanilla Sky?

[D_Davis]

D, what did you think of Vanilla Sky?

It's an OK remake of a remarkable film. Great soundtrack.

I love Open Your Eyes - As I mentioned in a previous post above, I think it is a much better example of this kind of film, and I think it is similar to Eternal Sunshine... in how it presents its themes filtered through a SF lens. OYE reminds me a lot of UBIK, it is very Phildickian.

[balmakboor]

It's an OK remake of a remarkable film. Great soundtrack.

I love Open Your Eyes - As I mentioned in a previous post above, I think it is a much better example of this kind of film, and I think it is similar to Eternal Sunshine... in how it presents its themes filtered through a SF lens. OYE reminds me a lot of UBIK, it is very Phildickian.

Recommendation duly noted. I remember watching Vanilla Sky and having very mixed -- mostly negative -- feelings about it. But having the distinct impression that a very interesting movie was in there somewhere trying to wiggle out.

[Melville]

Yeah - can't stand LiT.

Still really love Bottle Rocket, and I also like Rushmore a lot.

I thought Eternal Sunshine... was watered down SF. I kept hearing about how mind bending, and genre-busting it was, but all I got was PKD/JG Ballard lite. It is merely okay - I don't dislike it, but I don't think it's very good, either.
Eternal Sunshine didn't seem the least bit mind-bending or genre-busting to me. It was just a very affecting look at romantic love (specifically our desire to forget/annihilate our loved ones after a relationship goes sour, to free ourselves from the pain of their dominant position in our thoughts and feelings).

And, yes, your list would have been dead-last by a considerable margin if I had ranked all the lists. I'll use it for recommendations of movies to avoid. ;)

[D_Davis]

And, yes, your list would have been dead-last by a considerable margin if I had ranked all the lists. I'll use it for recommendations of movies to avoid. ;)

Right on!

:lol:

[Boner M]

Wha? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Get the message, Spinal? You betta recognise.

http://www.moviecritic.com.au/images/gena-rowlands-a-woman-under-the-influence1.jpg

[Fezzik]

So, after looking through the lists posted, I decided that maybe, just maybe, I should post my list. I looked at mine, though, and realized I had not updated it in about 5 years, so I went through and did that, and here it is:

1. Glory (Zwick, 1989)
2. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
3. Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
5. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)
6. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
7. The Empire Strikes Back (Lucas, 1980)
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
9. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
11. Swing Time (Stevens, 1936)
12. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
13. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
14. The Princess Bride (Reiner, 1986)
15. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
16. Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)
17. Wall-E (Stanton, 2008)
18. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
19. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
20. Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959)
21. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940)
22. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
23. Pan's Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)
24. When Harry Met Sally… (Reiner, 1989)
25. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
26. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
27. Searching for Bobby Fischer (Zaillian, 1993)
28. Hamlet (Branagh, 1996)
29. Ratatouille (Bird, 2007)
30. Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
31. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
32. Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
33. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
34. The Iron Giant (Bird, 1997)
35. E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, 1982)
36. Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg, 1967)
37. Once (Carney, 2006)
38. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
39. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
40. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000)
41. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
42. All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
43. King Kong (Cooper, 1933)
44. No Country for Old Men (Coen, 2007)
45. The Truman Show (Weir, 1998)
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975)
47. North By Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
48. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
49. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
50. The Pink Panther (Edwards, 1963)
51. West Side Story (Robbins/Wise, 1961)
52. Field of Dreams (Robinson, 1989)
53. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
54. The Sound of Music (Wise, 1965)
55. Henry V (Branagh, 1989)
56. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
57. Dead Again (Branagh, 1991)
58. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
59. Babe (Noonan, 1995)
60. Heat (Mann, 1995)
61. Beauty and the Beast (Hahn, 1991)
62. The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
63. My Fair Lady (Cukor, 1964)
64. Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000)
65. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
66. A Few Good Men (Reiner, 1992)
67. The Sixth Sense (Shyamalan, 1999)
68. Romancing the Stone(Zemeckis, 1984)
69. In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967)
70. Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
71. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992)
72. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
73. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
74. Dark City (Proyas, 1998)
75. Apocalypse Now(Coppola, 1979)
76. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
77. 12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995)
78. The Fugitive (Davis, 1993)
79. The Dark Crystal (Henson, 1982)
80. The African Queen (Huston, 1951)
81. Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak, 2002)
82. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
83. Roman Holiday (Wyler, 1953)
84. The Muppet Movie (Frawley, 1979)
85. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
86. Caddyshack (Ramis, 1980)
87. Iron Man (Favreau, 2008)
88. A Perfect World (Eastwood, 1993)
89. Sabrina (Wilder, 1954)
90. The Breakfast Club (Hughes, 1985)
91. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997)
92. The Green Mile (Darabont, 1999)
93. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
94. Trading Places (Landis, 1983)
95. The Untouchables (DePalma, 1987)
96. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis, 1988)
97. The American President (Reiner, 1995)
98. Serenity (Whedon, 2005)
99. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
100. Big (Marshall, 1988)

[Spinal]

Haven't seen Glory since it came out, but I remember enjoying it quite a bit at the time.

[Winston*]

I saw Glory last year and didn't like it very much. That goddamn score...

[Derek]

Get the message, Spinal? You betta recognise.

Psh, Spinal has no time for movies without curving bullets or microwave POV shots these days.

[Ezee E]

I saw Glory last year and didn't like it very much. That goddamn score...
You just rang the Barty alarm.

[D_Davis]

I saw Glory last year and didn't like it very much. That goddamn score...

Same here. I remember loving the heck out of it, but upon a recent rewatch I discovered my aversion to its overbearing score.

[D_Davis]

This is a solid list - I've seen a lo of them, and really like the following:




4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
5. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)
7. The Empire Strikes Back (Lucas, 1980)
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
13. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
16. Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)
18. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
19. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
22. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
33. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
34. The Iron Giant (Bird, 1997)
35. E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, 1982)
38. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
40. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000)
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975)
47. North By Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
48. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
49. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
52. Field of Dreams (Robinson, 1989)
53. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
56. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
58. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
59. Babe (Noonan, 1995)
60. Heat (Mann, 1995)
64. Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000)
65. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
67. The Sixth Sense (Shyamalan, 1999)
70. Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)
72. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
76. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
77. 12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995)
78. The Fugitive (Davis, 1993)
81. Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak, 2002)
82. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
85. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
90. The Breakfast Club (Hughes, 1985)
91. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997)
92. The Green Mile (Darabont, 1999)

[eternity]

Antoine: The 400 Blows
Daniel Davis: Once Upon a Time in the West
Spinal: Amadeus
Sycophant: The Royal Tenenbaums
Eternity: 8 1/2
Russ: The Man Who Planted Trees
Transmogrifier: The Wild Bunch/Short Cuts
Megladon: Blade Runner
Mike: Rear Window
fasozupow: Slacker
soitgoes: The Graduate
Raiders: Persona
Kurious George: Nights of Cabiria
Pop Trash: Pulp Fiction
Boner: A Woman Under the Influence
E: Goodfellas
Fezzik: Glory

[transmogrifier]

I didn't make the Top 10 Top 100 list OR get D. Davis' critique.

:cry:

[transmogrifier]

Antoine: The 400 Blows - na
Daniel Davis: Once Upon a Time in the West - on my list
Spinal: Amadeus - really dislike
Sycophant: The Royal Tenenbaums - average
Eternity: 8 1/2 - na
Russ: The Man Who Planted Trees -na
Transmogrifier: The Wild Bunch/Short Cuts - awesome, best films ever!!
Megladon: Blade Runner - average
Mike: Rear Window - great
fasozupow: Slacker - na
soitgoes: The Graduate - overrated
Raiders: Persona - na
Kurious George: Nights of Cabiria -na
Pop Trash: Pulp Fiction - on my list
Boner: A Woman Under the Influence - na
E: Goodfellas - very good
Fezzik: Glory - very good

[Sycophant]

do you actually like black tiger? but yes, citizen dog is likely to be my favorite thai movie of all time.

I actually love Black Tiger. I've watched it three times and built myself up to expect to dislike it every single time and only find more to love about it. It's got its flaws, but it's really quite solid. Are there any Thai Westerns before it that you know of worth checking out?

I saw Unseeable, too, and didn't much care for it.

[Sycophant]

Was going to rank everyone's top ten lists, but mine was so clearly superior (seriously, I like everything on it!) that I thought it an insult to include it on the same list as anyone else's. :confused:

[D_Davis]

I didn't make the Top 10 Top 100 list OR get D. Davis' critique.

:cry:

You'll get it!

There are a few more I need to do....

:)

[D_Davis]

I like more of your films than I thought I would. I don't know why - I guess it just seems like we disagree more often than not, but that doesn't really seem to be the case here. Just a weird, and wrong, assumption.




Wild Bunch, The
Do the Right Thing
Midnight Clear, A
Seven
Mulholland Dr.
Empire Strikes Back, The
Jaws
Magnolia
Battle Royale
Smoke
Oldboy
Fight Club
Heavenly Creatures
Dog Day Afternoon
Fisher King, The
In the Mood for Love
Trainspotting
Shawshank Redemption, The
Aliens
Carrie
High Noon
Miller's Crossing
Professional, The
Heat
Brazil
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood
Memento Mori
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Chungking Express
Brain Dead
Fearless
Once Upon a Time in the West
12 Monkeys
Five Easy Pieces
Alien 3*
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Iron Giant, The
Usual Suspects, The
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Rosemary's Baby


I am VERY happy to see A Midnight Clear on your list - an underrated, and, I think, under-seen gem of a film.

I also your inclusion of Momento Mori, Smoke, Heavenly Creatures, and Battle Royale.

For some reason I am most surprised to see Brain Dead on your list.

[Boner M]

Davis reading my list = dog denied cupcakes

[D_Davis]

Davis reading my list = dog denied cupcakes

:)

[D_Davis]

#6. Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks)
#7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
#8. The Rock (1996, Michael Bay)
#10. The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
#11. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
#12. Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)
#13. The Spanish Prisoner (1997, David Mamet)
#17. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
#19. The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
#21. Fargo (1996, Joel Coen)
#22. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997, George Armitage)
#23. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
#30. Rocky (1977, John G. Avildsen)
#35. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
#38. Out of Sight (1998, Steven Soderbergh)
#39. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
#40. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
#43. Midnight Run (1988, Martin Brest)
#46. Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel)
#51. Harvey (1950, Henry Koster)
#52. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976, John Carpenter)
#54. Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
#56. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
#61. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)
#65. The Breakfast Club (1985, John Hughes)
#66. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
#74. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
#81. The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)
#82. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero)
#91. Straw Dogs (1971, Sam Peckinpah)
#93. Hoosiers (1986, David Anspaugh)
#94. Predator (1987, John McTiernan)
#95. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
#97. Escape from New York (1981, John Carpenter)
#100c. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974, Roy Ward Baker)

Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was co-directed by Chang Cheh!

:)

Big thumbs up for The Spanish Prisoner - my favorite Mamet film - and for Out of Sight - awesome flick. On my list.

Also, cool to see some love for Midnight Run and Hoosiers. Not top 100 films for me, but good films.

[Qrazy]

Right on!

:lol:

Yeah I too don't mesh well with your list although I still saved it to my harddrive and am working through it anyway... completionist that I am. I mean I do like some of your choices for sure. I have these left to see...

2. The Boxer From Shantung (1972) - Dir. Chang Cheh
3. The Blade - Dir. Tsui Hark
15. A Touch of Zen (1969) - Dir: King Hu
17. Heroes of the East (1979) - Dir. Lau "Pops" Kar-Leung
20. Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969) - Dir: Chang Cheh
23. Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985) - Dir: Lau Kar Leung
26. Pink Floyd: Live in Pompeii (1972) - Dir: Adrien Maben
29. Genghis Blues (1999) - Dir: Roko Belic
34. Death Trance (2005) - Dir: Yuji Shimomura
40. Holy Flame of the Martial World (1983) - Dir. Lu Chin-ku
41. We're Going to Eat You (1980) - Dir: Tsui Hark
42. Samurai Fiction (1998) - Dir: Hiroyuki Nakano
45. Super Dimensional Fortress Macross:
Do You Remember Love? - Dir: Shoji Kawamori & Noboru Ishiguro
46. T. Rex: Born to Boogie (1972) - Dir. Ringo Starr
48. The Magic Blade - Dir. Chu Yuan
49. Ping Pong (2002) - Dir: Fumihiko Sori
51. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003) - Dir: Judy Irving
53. Martial Arts of Shaolin (1985) - Dir: Lau Kar Leung
54. Re-Animator (1985) - Dir: Stuart Gordon
58. The Odd Couple (1979) - Dir. Lau Kar Wing
59. Shaolin Intuders (1983) - Dir. Tong Gaai
60. The Blade of Fury (1993) - Dir. Sammo Hung
61. Smile/Beautiful Dreamer (2004) - Dir. David Leaf
62. The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1996) - Dir. Benjamin Ross
72. The Sword (1980) - Dir: Patrick Tam
75. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1984) - Dir: Will Vinton
76. Godzilla Vs. Mothra: Battle for the Earth - Dir: Takao Okawara
77. The Master (1980) - Dir: Lu Chin-ku
81. Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain (1983) - Dir: Tsui Hark
82. Mr. Vampire (1985) - Dir. Ricky Lau
86. Biozombie (1989) - Dir: Wilson Yip
89. Fearless Freaks (2004) - Dir: Bradley Beesley
91. Shaolin Temple (1976) - Dir: Chang Cheh
93. The Prodigal Son (1982) - Dir: Sammo Hung
95. SLiTHER (2006) - Dir: James Gunn
96. Project A-Ko (1986) - Dir: Katsuhiko Nishijima
97. The Tai Chi Master (1993) - Dir: Yuen Woo Ping
98. Boxer's Omen (1983) - Dir: Kuei Chih-Hung
99. The Lady Hermit (1971) - Dir: Hoh Mung-wa

I bolded what I think I have a better chance of liking.

[Qrazy]

Get the message, Spinal? You betta recognise.

http://www.moviecritic.com.au/images/gena-rowlands-a-woman-under-the-influence1.jpg

Hilariously inappropriate.

[MadMan]

Antoine: The 400 Blows-N/A
Daniel Davis: Once Upon a Time in the West-100
Spinal: Amadeus-N/A
Sycophant: The Royal Tenenbaums-100
Eternity: 8 1/2-N/A
Russ: The Man Who Planted Trees-N/A
Transmogrifier: The Wild Bunch/Short Cuts-100 for WB, N/A for SC
Megladon: Blade Runner-100 for DC, 90 for TC
Mike: Rear Window-100
fasozupow: Slacker-N/A
soitgoes: The Graduate-100
Raiders: Persona-N/A
Kurious George: Nights of Cabiria-N/A
Pop Trash: Pulp Fiction-100
Boner: A Woman Under the Influence-N/A
E: Goodfellas-100
Fezzik: Glory-N/A

[EyesWideOpen]

1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
3. Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
4. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
6. Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino)
7. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
9. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
10. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
11. The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)
12. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
13. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
14. Garden State (Zach Braff)
15. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
17. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
18. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
19. Aladdin (Ron Clements & John Musker)
20. The Village (M. Night Shyamalan)
21. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
22. Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
23. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
24. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller)
25. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
26. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
27. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
28. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
29. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
30. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe)
31. Iron Monkey (Woo-ping Yuen)
32. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
33. Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
34. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
35. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
36. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
37. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
38. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
39. 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim)
40. The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers)
41. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
42. Audition (Takashi Miike)
43. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
44. Fireworks/ Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano)
45. Fight Club (David Fincher)
46. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
47. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
48. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper)
49. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
50. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
51. Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
52. Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
53. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
54. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
55. Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin)
56. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
57. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
58. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker & Matt Stone)
59. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
60. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
61. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
62. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
63. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
64. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Ki-duk Kim)
65. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
66. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
67. Brick (Rian Johnson)
68. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai)
69. Freaks (Tod Browning)
70. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
71. A Bug's Life (John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton)
72. The New World (Terrence Malick)
73. The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii)
74. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
75. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
76. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
77. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
78. Battlefield Baseball (Yudai Yamaguchi)
79. No Country for Old Men (The Coen Brothers)
80. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)
81. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
82. Closer (Mike Nichols)
83. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
84. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
85. Born into Brothels (Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman)
86. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
87. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
88. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
89. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
90. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
91. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
92. Infernal Affairs (Wai-keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak)
93. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
94. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
95. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
96. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
97. The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements & John Musker)
98. The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
99. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
100. Shogun Assassin (Robert Houston)

[Sycophant]

Rankin' Y'all
1. Sycophant: The Royal Tenenbaums (BEST EVAR!)
2. Pop Trash: Pulp Fiction (love it)
3. Daniel Davis: Once Upon a Time in the West (love it)
4. Mike: Rear Window (love it)
5. soitgoes: The Graduate (love it)
6. Russ: The Man Who Planted Trees (love it)
7. EyesWideOpen: Clockwork Orange (liked it a great deal)
8. Eternity: 8 1/2 (like it quite a bit!)
9. Spinal: Amadeus (like it quite a bit!)
10. Fezzik: Glory (liked it well enough last time I saw it)
11. Megladon: Blade Runner (I don't like this one)

Not yet seen:
Transmogrifier: The Wild Bunch/Short Cuts
fasozupow: Slacker
Raiders: Persona
Kurious George: Nights of Cabiria
Boner: A Woman Under the Influence
E: Goodfellas
Antoine: The 400 Blows

[Sycophant]

Acting like Davis here. This is what I loved on your awesome list!

1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
3. Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
6. Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino)
7. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
9. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
10. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
12. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
13. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
15. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
17. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
18. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
21. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
23. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
24. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller)
25. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
28. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
29. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
32. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
35. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
36. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
37. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
39. 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim)
41. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
42. Audition (Takashi Miike)
43. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
44. Fireworks/ Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano)
46. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
47. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
50. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
51. Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
52. Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
54. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
55. Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin)
56. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
58. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker & Matt Stone)
59. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
60. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
62. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
63. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
64. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Ki-duk Kim)
65. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
66. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
67. Brick (Rian Johnson)
68. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai)
70. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
71. A Bug's Life (John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton)
73. The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii)
74. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
79. No Country for Old Men (The Coen Brothers)
81. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
83. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
87. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
88. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
89. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
92. Infernal Affairs (Wai-keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak)
94. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
96. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
98. The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
99. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
The films I liked made up the vast majority of what I'd seen on your list!. Mad props for Linda Linda Linda. If that didn't make it onto the final draft of my list, an edit may be in order.

[D_Davis]

I bolded what I think I have a better chance of liking.

I think you would like Tam's The Sword, and Tsui's The Blade quite a bit as well. I can't imagine many film biffs who even remotely like Asian cinema not appreciating these two films.

[Qrazy]

I think you would like Tam's The Sword, and Tsui's The Blade quite a bit as well. I can't imagine many film biffs who even remotely like Asian cinema not appreciating these two films.

Well I've had a mixed reaction to Hark's cinema but yeah I'll probably like it. I just didn't know enough or anything about The Sword to be able to bold it.

Tie saam gok (2007) (as Tsui Hark) - D
... aka Triangle
Ching Se (1993) - C-
... aka White Snake, Green Snake
Wong Fei Hung ji saam: Si wong jaang ba (1993) - C
... aka Once Upon a Time in China 3 (Australia)
Wong Fei Hung II: Nam yi dong ji keung (1992) - C+
... aka Once Upon a Time in China II (Hong Kong: English title)
Wong Fei Hung (1991) - B
... aka Once Upon a Time in China (Hong Kong: English title)
Do ma daan (1986) - B-
... aka Peking Opera Blues (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)
Shang Hai zhi yen (1984) - B+
... aka Shanghai Blues (Hong Kong: English title)

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Antoine: The 400 Blows- 84
Daniel Davis: Once Upon a Time in the West-91
Spinal: Amadeus-75
Sycophant: The Royal Tenenbaums- 87
Eternity: 8 1/2- 93
Russ: The Man Who Planted Trees- N/A
Transmogrifier: The Wild Bunch/Short Cuts- N/A for WB, 82 for SC
Megladon: Blade Runner- 67
Mike: Rear Window- 79
fasozupow: Slacker- 65
soitgoes: The Graduate- 78
Raiders: Persona- 88
Kurious George: Nights of Cabiria- 100
Pop Trash: Pulp Fiction- 80
Boner: A Woman Under the Influence- 94
E: Goodfellas- 77
Fezzik: Glory- 58

[D_Davis]

I love the love for Oldboy - seems to be on quite a few lists here.

That is awesome.

[Watashi]

Mix up!

1. Whisper of the Heart (1995)
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)
5. 12 Angry Men (1957)
6. Ratatouille (2007)
7. Casablanca (1942)
8. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
9. Network (1976)
10. Nashville (1975)

11. Winter Light (1962)
12. Annie Hall (1977)
13. Minority Report (2002)
14. The Incredibles (2004)
15. Citizen Kane (1941)
16. Miller's Crossing (1990)
17. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
18. The Elephant Man (1980)
19. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989)
20. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

21. Toy Story 1 & 2 (1995/1999)
22. The Thin Red Line (1998)
23. Pleasantville (1998)
24. Rear Window (1954)
25. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
26. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
27. Ran (1985)
28. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
29. Princess Mononoke (1997)
30. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

31. The Iron Giant (1999)
32. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
33. Rashomon (1950)
34. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
35. Trois Couleurs: Rouge (1994)
36. Days of Heaven (1978)
37. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
38. Pulp Fiction (1994)
39. Umberto D. (1952)
40. Blade Runner (1982)

41. Field of Dreams (1989)
42. WALL-E (2008)
43. Rififi (1955)
44. Chungking Express (1994)
45. Fail-Safe (1964)
46. Jaws (1975)
47. Millennium Actress (2002)
48. High and Low (1963)
49. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1963)
50. His Girl Friday (1940)

51. Seven Chances (1925)
52. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
53. Barton Fink (1991)
54. Paris, Texas (1984)
55. Speed Racer (2008)
56. JFK (1991)
57. You Can Count On Me (2000)
58. Stroszek (1977)
59. The General (1927)
60. Starman (1984)

61. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
62. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
63. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
64. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
65. The Conversation (1974)
66. Robocop (1987)
67. Glory (1989)
68. High School (1968)
69. Apocalypse Now (1979)
70. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

71. The Insider (1999)
72. The Apartment (1960)
73. Black Narcissus (1947)
74. The Proposition (2005)
75. Adaptation. (2002)
76. Rushmore (1998)
77. Stranger than Fiction (2006)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. Akira (1988)
80. Hana-bi (1997)

81. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
82. Finding Nemo (2003)
83. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
84. Park Row (1952)
85. Matewan (1987)
86. Raising Arizona (1987)
87. Laura (1944)
88. Dark City (1998)
89. A.I. (2001)
90. Rumble Fish (1983)

91. There Will Be Blood (2007)
92. Dead Ringers (1988)
93. The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
94. Porco Rosso (1992)
95. Wag the Dog (1997)
96. A Man Escaped (1956)
97. The Thing (1982)
98. The Birds (1963)
99. Death Proof (2007)
100. Harvey (1950)

[Spinal]

11. Winter Light (1962)
68. High School (1968)



Awesome.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. Dawn of the Dead
2. Ghostbusters
3. The Bicycle Thief
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. Casablanca
6. Shadow of a Doubt
7. Seven
8. The Road Warrior
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
10. Fantasia

11. The Empire Strikes Back
12. Rear Window
13. 12 Angry Men
14. Evil Dead II
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
17. The Apartment
18. Goodfellas
19. Citizen Kane
20. Fargo

21. Duck Soup
22. Life of Brian
23. Aliens
24. 13 Conversations About One Thing
25. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
26. Pinnochio
27. High Fidelity
28. This is Spinal Tap
29. Night of the Living Dead
30. The Green Mile

31. Raiders of the Lost Ark
32. Almost Famous
33. Gates of Heaven
34. Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
35. Dogma
36. Winchester ‘73
37. It Happened One Night
38. Unbreakable
39. Big Trouble in Little China
40. The Godfather

41. Raging Bull
42. Akira
43. Under the Roofs of Paris
44. Apocalypse Now
45. The Wrong Trousers
46. Pulse
47. American Movie
48. Born on the Fourth of July
49. Alien
50. Touch of Evil


51. Primer
52. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
53. Anchorman
54. Sanjuro
55. Pulp Fiction
56. Nosferatu
57. Lawrence of Arabia
58. The Shawshank Redemption
59. Notorious
60. Floating Weeds

61. The Sea Hawk
62. The Maltese Falcon
63. Batman Begins
64. The Seventh Seal
65. Boogie Nights
66. The Incredible Shrinking Man
67. Murder My Sweet
68. Annie Hall
69. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
70. The Princess Bride

71. The Nightmare Before Christmas
72. A Simple Plan
73. Jesus Christ Superstar
74. Die Hard
75. The Haunting
76. Blood Simple
77. The Producers
78. Waking Life
79. Sunrise
80. Spirited Away

81. The Magnificent Seven
82. The Forty-Year-Old Virgin
83. Taxi Driver
84. Election
85. Meet Me in St. Louis
86. Children of Men
87. Persona
88. Twelve Monkeys
89. Before Sunrise
90. Halloween

91. Metropolis
92. Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
93. Saving Private Ryan
94. Office Space
95. Grizzly Man
96. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
97. Finding Nemo
98. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
99. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
100. In Bruges

[transmogrifier]

Someone with a lot of time on his (or her, but lets not kid ourselves) hands could compare these lists and generate an index of similarity in taste for all the posters here.

I nominate anyone but me.

[Sxottlan]

I've only ever gotten to about 20 before I lose interest or else the ranking becomes meaningless to me. Perhaps I should redouble my efforts.



30. The Truman Show (Weird, 1998, USA)

Yes it was. ;)

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. The Empire Strikes Back
02. Rear Window
03. Rushmore
04. Casablanca
05. 8 ½
06. Star Wars
07. A Hard Day's Night
08. His Girl Friday
09. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
10. The Third Man

11. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
12. Jules & Jim
13. Raiders of the Lost Ark
14. Miller's Crossing
15. The Seventh Seal
16. The Apartment
17. Lawrence of Arabia
18. The 400 Blows
19. Dr. Strangelove or: ...
20. Field of Dreams

21. The Royal Tenenbaums
22. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
23. Shoot the Piano Player
24. Red
25. Citizen Kane
26. Wings of Desire
27. Schindler's List
28. City Lights
29. The Big Sleep
30. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

31. Mon Oncle
32. The Big Lebowski
33. Late Spring
34. Grand Illusion
35. Wild Strawberries
36. The Double Life of Veronique
37. Sullivan's Travels
38. East of Eden
39. Once Upon a Time in the West
40. No Country For Old Men

41. Trouble in Paradise
42. Rashomon
43. Notorious
44. The Paths of Glory
45. Bringing Up Baby
46. Stardust Memories
47. Double Indemnity
48. Vertigo
49. Return of the Jedi
50. Young Frankenstein

51. Seven Samurai
52. Winter Light
53. Army of Shadows
54. It's a Wonderful Life
55. 2001: A Space Odyssey
56. Some Like It Hot
57. The Nightmare Before Christmas
58. Children of Men
59. The Godfather
60. Wonder Boys

61. The Lady Vanishes
62. Tokyo Story
63. Holiday
64. JFK
65. Adaptation
66. Stolen Kisses
67. In the Mood for Love
68. Swing Time
69. The Searchers
70. Brazil

71. My Man Godfrey
72. Fargo
73. Blade Runner
74. Minority Report
75. Kicking and Screaming
76. Johnny Guitar
77. Green For Danger
78. Nights of Cabiria
79. A Woman is a Woman
80. LA Confidential

81. Yojimbo
82. La Dolce Vita
83. The Maltese Falcon
84. The Conformist
85. Annie Hall
86. Elevator to the Gallows
87. Pride & Prejudice
88. The Princess Bride
89. North by Northwest
90. Pygmalion

91. Apocalypse Now
92. Rififi
93. Toy Story / Toy Story 2
94. Network
95. Bonnie and Clyde
96. On the Waterfront
97. Saving Private Ryan
98. Almost Famous
99. The Last Picture Show
100. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[dreamdead]

The bottom 50 gets much newer, but I rather like it. :)

1. My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer, 1970)
2. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
3. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
5. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
6. I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
7. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
8. Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
9. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
10. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)

11. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
12. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
14. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)
15. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
16. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
17. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
18. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
19. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
20. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

21. A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
22. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
23. A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer, 1992)
24. Ordet (Carl Theodore Dryer, 1955)
25. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
26. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
27. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
28. Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
29. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
30. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)

31. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
32. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
33. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
34. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
35. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai, 2004)
36. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
37. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992)
38. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
39. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
40. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)

41. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000)
42. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
43. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey 1937)
44. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
45. All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost, 1990)
46. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
47. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
48. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
49. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
50. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)

51. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
52. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999)
53. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
54. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
55. La Promesse (Dardenne Brothers, 1996)
56. All that Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
57. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
58. The Green Ray/Summer (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
59. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
60. 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)

61. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003)
62. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
63. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
64. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
65. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
66. The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
67. Shame (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
68. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
69. Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
70. Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin, 2003)

71. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)
72. Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, 2002)
73. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
74. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
75. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)
76. Pandora’s Box (W.B. Pabst, 1929)
77. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
78. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980)
79. Disciples of the 36th Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang, 1978)
80. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)

81. The Boxer from Shantung (Cheh Chang and Hsueh Li Pao, 1972)
82. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
83. My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999)
84. Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937)
85. Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)
86. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
87. Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, 2006)
88. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
89. The Draughtman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
90. Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2000)

91. Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
92. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
93. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
94. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
95. Edward II (Derek Jarman, 1992)
96. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945)
97. Exiled (Johnny To, 2006)
98. Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
99. The Intruder (Claire Denis, 2006)
100. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green, 2003)

[Sycophant]

I like how Amensiac's John McCain-related posts around page 2 of this thread have been deleted and it now looks like I'm kinda schizophrenic.

I think out of all these lists, I'm going to cure my deficiencies in Dreamdead's list first.

[dreamdead]

I think out of all these lists, I'm going to cure my deficiencies in Dreamdead's list first.

Up high!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WnVj5Ui42hE/SFh2TthsDqI/AAAAAAAAAT4/9KtUTN7E1OQ/S220/youaremyfriend.png

[Qrazy]

Someone with a lot of time on his (or her, but lets not kid ourselves) hands could compare these lists and generate an index of similarity in taste for all the posters here.

I nominate anyone but me.

Someone should also compile a meta-list which groups all the 100's together in one larger list removing the films which overlap.

[transmogrifier]

Someone should also compile a meta-list which groups all the 100's together in one larger list removing the films which overlap.

Actually, I'm working on both. It may take a while for the formatting of the lists, but the sorting should be easy.

PS So get your lists in if you want your taste to be summed up numerically in comparison to random strangers on a messageboard!

[Sycophant]

That's good news, trans. Glad you said that, else I was probably going to start up a spreadsheet when I got home from work tonight.

[transmogrifier]

That's good news, trans. Glad you said that, else I was probably going to start up a spreadsheet when I got home from work tonight.


My class got cancelled this morning, so I gotta do something. Though I'm gonna go watch Liverpool draw on TV in 20 minutes, so don't be expecting anything to prompt. I'll wait for a few more lists as well.

[Qrazy]

Actually, I'm working on both. It may take a while for the formatting of the lists, but the sorting should be easy.

PS So get your lists in if you want your taste to be summed up numerically in comparison to random strangers on a messageboard!

Nice one. Good man.

Dunno if I'll have time to put a list together since I've never compiled one and I don't want to forget anything. If you give the compiling a few more weeks then maybe.

[Ezee E]

I'll continue to try and work out a half-arsed 90

[ThePlashyBubbler]

Actually just compiled one recently with some friends. Here was my list.

1. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
2. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
3. That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks, 1996)
4. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
5. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
6. The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
7. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
8. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
9. Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983)
10. The Thin Red Line (Terrance Malick, 1998)

11. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
12. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
13. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992)
14. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
15. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
16. Hannah and her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)
17. F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1974)
18. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2001)
19. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai, 2005)
20. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)

21. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
22. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
23. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
24. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
25. Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
26. Le Samurai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
27. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
28. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
29. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
30. A.I. (Steven Spielberg, 2001)

31. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
32. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980)
33. George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000)
34. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
35. Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991)
36. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
37. Stop Making Sense (Jonathon Demme, 1984)
38. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
39. Masculin-Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
40. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963)

41. Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley, 1990)
42. Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000)
43. The Great Muppet Caper (Jim Henson, 1981)
44. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
45. Explorers (Joe Dante, 1985)
46. Femme Fatale (Brian de Palma, 2002)
47. Dog-Day Afternoon (Sydney Lumet, 1975)
48. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2002)
49. Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
50. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

51. Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg, 1971)
52. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 1980)
53. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
54. The Emperor’s New Groove (Mark Dindal, 2000)
55. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Duren, 1943)
56. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)
57. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2002)
58. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
59. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
60. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)

61. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Sam Jones, 2002)
62. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
63. The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
64. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
65. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
66. The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, 1993)
67. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
68. Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen, 1997)
69. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
70. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)

71. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
72. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1998)
73. The Brave Little Toaster (Jerry Rees, 1987)
74. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
75. Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, 2006)
76. La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)
77. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green, 2003)
78. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppolla, 1974)
79. Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
80. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)

81. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991)
82. American Pop (Ralph Bakshi, 1981)
83. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 1984)
84. Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi, 1987)
85. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
86. Help! (Richard Lester, 1965)
87. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987)
88. Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
89. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
90. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)

91. TRON (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
92. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
93. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990)
94. Female Trouble (Jon Waters, 1974)
95. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
96. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971)
97. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)
98. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Richard Lester, 1966)
99. The Wild Child (Francois Truffaut, 1970)
100. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones, 1975)

[transmogrifier]

Nice one. Good man.

Dunno if I'll have time to put a list together since I've never compiled one and I don't want to forget anything. If you give the compiling a few more weeks then maybe.

I can always add other lists on as they come in. It'll be relatively easy once the database is set up.

[lovejuice]

Actually, I'm working on both. It may take a while for the formatting of the lists, but the sorting should be easy.

PS So get your lists in if you want your taste to be summed up numerically in comparison to random strangers on a messageboard!

we have a deadline this? i'm semi-working on my list right now.

[D_Davis]

I can always add other lists on as they come in. It'll be relatively easy once the database is set up.

Could you work on some kind of equation that calculates the coolness and hip-factor of each list?

[transmogrifier]

we have a deadline this? i'm semi-working on my list right now.

No deadline - it'll be an on-going project (plus any deadline is a deadline for me, and eh....). Take your time. I'll give warning when I'm about to reveal the first suite of results, so people can rush lists in if they want to be included.

[transmogrifier]

Could you work on some kind of equation that calculates the coolness and hip-factor of each list?

Yes. I will use my list as the baseline for ultimate hipness (1.0) and then judge every other list with respect to that, down to completely unhip (0.0)

If anyone has any better ideas, I'll be happy to pretend to entertain them before sticking with my own concept.

[D_Davis]

Yes. I will use my list as the baseline for ultimate hipness (1.0) and then judge every other list with respect to that, down to completely unhip (0.0)

If anyone has any better ideas, I'll be happy to pretend to entertain them before sticking with my own concept.

So long as it's scientifical.

[transmogrifier]

Oh, and a request for those who post their lists from now on - please post it in order but DON'T number them at the start. You can put years and directors if you want.

[MadMan]

The Top 10 and bottom 10 are the easiest to figure out. Well, at least I thought they were. Its 80 other movies to sort through that make a Top 100 more work than it should be. But yeah I figured its finally time to throw together some kind of list. At least I'm not trying to figure out my Top 100 favorite films, which is harder. Well, unless your Top 100=your Top 100 favorites, I suppose.

[Sycophant]

...What top 100 are you actually trying to assemble, MadMan?

[Winston*]

Your top 100 is your top 100 favourite films MadMan. It's not something else

[Qrazy]

I can always add other lists on as they come in. It'll be relatively easy once the database is set up.

Sounds good.

[Qrazy]

The Top 10 and bottom 10 are the easiest to figure out. Well, at least I thought they were. Its 80 other movies to sort through that make a Top 100 more work than it should be. But yeah I figured its finally time to throw together some kind of list. At least I'm not trying to figure out my Top 100 favorite films, which is harder. Well, unless your Top 100=your Top 100 favorites, I suppose.

Yeah...

Why is the bottom 10 easy to figure out?

[Sycophant]

MadMan, have you seen exactly 100 movies?

[Qrazy]

I bet I could do a top 500 but I doubt I'd be able to do a top 1000 of films I really love. The quality would start getting spotty.

[D_Davis]

I bet I could do a top 500 but I doubt I'd be able to do a top 1000 of films I really love. The quality would start getting spotty.

I could do 500, but I doubt the order would mean much past 100.

[Qrazy]

I could do 500, but I doubt the order would mean much past 100.

I don't think the order would even mean much in my top 100. In a 100 or a 500 films would probably be interchangeable by about 20 places or so.

[Qrazy]

I could do 500, but I doubt the order would mean much past 100.

Btw I mentioned it briefly a while back but I don't think you saw and/or responded. But anyway the anime series Now and Then, Here and There (13 eps). For some reason it strikes me as right up your alley in terms of animation style but content as well. It's a good, powerful series.

[transmogrifier]

PS for listmakers. No cheating: no ties, no trilogies tied together. If you do this, I will split them up and drop the corresponding number of films off the end of the list.

[Yxklyx]

01 Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini)
02 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
03 Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
04 Lord of the Rings (2001-2003, Peter Jackson)
05 Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
06 Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)
07 Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton)
08 Run Lola Run (1998, Tom Tykwer)
09 Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
10 Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

11 The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)
12 Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
13 Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze)
14 Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
15 Blood Simple (1984, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
16 Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
17 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)
18 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
19 The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
20 The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)

21 Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
22 Songs from the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson)
23 Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
24 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
25 8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
26 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
27 The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
28 Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
29 L' Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
30 Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski)

31 Dangerous Liaisons (1988, Stephen Frears)
32 North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
33 Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)
34 The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
35 Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961, Agnès Varda)
36 Planet Terror (2007, Robert Rodriguez)
37 M (1931, Fritz Lang)
38 Romeo and Juliet (1968, Franco Zeffirelli)
39 Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
40 Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)

41 Quadrophenia (1979, Franc Roddam)
42 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
43 Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
44 Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
45 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, Martin Scorsese)
46 Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
47 Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
48 The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
49 The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
50 The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick)

51 Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
52 Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
53 Heavenly Creatures (1994, Peter Jackson)
54 Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
55 The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
56 Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau)
57 Se7en (1995, David Fincher)
58 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)
59 Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
60 Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)

61 Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff)
62 The Heart of the World (2000, Guy Maddin)
63 3-Iron (2004, Ki-duk Kim)
64 Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
65 His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
66 Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
67 Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
68 Catch-22 (1970, Mike Nichols)
69 Hukkle (2002, György Pálfi)
70 Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)

71 The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)
72 Being There (1979, Hal Ashby)
73 Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel)
74 It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
75 Barton Fink (1991, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
76 Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
77 Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch)
78 Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
79 Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
80 Young and Innocent (1937, Alfred Hitchcock)

81 Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
82 The Set-Up (1949, Robert Wise)
83 Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
84 What's Up, Doc? (1972, Peter Bogdanovich)
85 The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
86 Our Hospitality (1923, John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton)
87 Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Schaffner)
88 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, Mervyn LeRoy)
89 Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
90 The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

91 Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
92 A Zed and Two Noughts (1985, Peter Greenaway)
93 Twelve Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)
94 Pi (1998, Darren Aronofsky)
95 The Andromeda Strain (1971, Robert Wise)
96 Yellow Submarine (1968, George Dunning)
97 Nurse Betty (2000, Neil Labute)
98 Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich)
99 The Saddest Music in the World (2003, Guy Maddin)
00 Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)

[Sycophant]

Good-bye,


98. In the Company of Men (Labute, 1997, USA)
99. A Goofy Movie (Lima, 1995)
100. Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak, Hong Kong)
:sad:

[Qrazy]

Good-bye,

:sad:

You didn't need those.

[D_Davis]

Btw I mentioned it briefly a while back but I don't think you saw and/or responded. But anyway the anime series Now and Then, Here and There (13 eps). For some reason it strikes me as right up your alley in terms of animation style but content as well. It's a good, powerful series.

Yes - I forgot to comment. I've seen the first DVD of this and quite liked it. Thank you for reminding me to check out the rest. It's been a long time, but I remember what I saw fondly. The art was especially good.

[The Mike]

PS for listmakers. No cheating: no ties, no trilogies tied together. If you do this, I will split them up and drop the corresponding number of films off the end of the list.


Whew. Good thing my tie is at the bottom of the list. :twisted:

[Qrazy]

Yes - I forgot to comment. I've seen the first DVD of this and quite liked it. Thank you for reminding me to check out the rest. It's been a long time, but I remember what I saw fondly. The art was especially good.

It's all on youtube if you want to see it sooner rather than later.

Can also watch it here.

http://tv.blinkx.com/show/now-and-then-here-and-there/jOFQkSztyQB22-u4JwMAW1JiQx1tFvx3vxeDCLbLQrw

[Spinal]

PS for listmakers. No cheating: no ties, no trilogies tied together. If you do this, I will split them up and drop the corresponding number of films off the end of the list.

Typically I agree with this theory. I make only one exception, which is the Up documentaries. I don't think it makes sense to pick one out of the group.

However, I think it's silly to group together Leone's trilogy as one entry or count the first two Godfather films, but then ignore the fact that a third film was made.

[transmogrifier]

Typically I agree with this theory. I make only one exception, which is the Up documentaries. I don't think it makes sense to pick one out of the group.

However, I think it's silly to group together Leone's trilogy as one entry or count the first two Godfather films, but then ignore the fact that a third film was made.

Fair enough.

[Qrazy]

Fair enough.

Also it probably goes without saying but The Decalogue, Berlin Alexanderplatz and similar ventures should be counted as one. I wonder if someone counted The Godfather as the TV version they released if that would count as one.

[Ezee E]

1. Goodfellas
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Shining
4. Aliens
5. Godfather Part II
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. The Exorcist
8. Children of Men
9. Amadeus
10. Raging Bull

11. The Fly
12. The Deer Hunter
13. Eyes Wide Shut
14. Psycho
15. JFK
16. Taxi Driver
17. Amelie
18. Passion of Joan of Arc
19. Kill Bill
20. Dog Day Afternoon

21. Godfather: Part I
22. Once Upon a Time In America
23. Leon: The Professional
24. Seven
25. Barton Fink
26. El Topo
27. Scream
28. Field of Dreams
29. The Thing
30. Three Kings

31. Touch of Evil
32. Do The Right Thing
33. Citizen Kane
34. The Searchers
35. Ghostbusters
36. The Hustler
37. The Empire Strikes Back
38. A Clockwork Orange
39. Wizard of Oz
40. Minority Report

41. The Bicycle Thief
42. There Will Be Blood
43. Pulp Fiction
44. Jackie Brown
45. Toy Story
46. Bus 174
47. High & Low
48. Terminator 2
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest

50. American Psycho
51. Scarface
52. Battle Royale
53. Blade Runner
54. Leaving Las Vegas
55. Groundhog Day
56. It's A Wonderful Life
57. Apocalypse Now
58. Playtime
59. Bill Cosby: Himself

60. The General
61. Casino
62. The Departed
63. Heat
64. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
65. Magnolia
66. Texas Chain Saw Massacre
67. A Christmas Story
68. Sunset Blvd
69. Master of the Flying Guillotine

70. The Shawshank Redemption
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
73. The 25th Hour
74. City of God
75. Dumb and Dumber
76. All That Jazz
77. Pickup on South Street
78. Fitzcarraldo
79. Night of the Hunter

80. No Country for Old Men
81. The Dark Knight
82. Hoop Dreams
83. After Hours
84. Irreversible
85. Throne of Blood
86. Alice in Wonderland
87. Five Deadly Venoms
88. Cries & Whispers
89. Oldboy

90. Something Wild
91. Baraka
92. Days of Heaven
93. Alien
94. Aguirre, Wrath of God
95. The Big Lebowski
96. Misery
97. Casablanca
98. Richard Pryor: Here and Now
99. The Matrix
100. The Apartment

[megladon8]

I can't pick one of the Leone trilogy.

I love them all.

[balmakboor]

I can't pick one of the Leone trilogy.

I love them all.

So include all three. I'm the only fool who restricted his list to one film per director.

[megladon8]

So include all three. I'm the only fool who restricted his list to one film per director.


Yeah but I mean, I can't decide which I like better than each other, or where they would each place.

Same with the Star Wars original trilogy. I like them all equally.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Yeah but I mean, I can't decide which I like better than each other, or where they would each place.

Same with the Star Wars original trilogy. I like them all equally.

So just list them as such:

57-59. The Leone Trilogy

Then you don't have to worry about ordering them.

[megladon8]

So just list them as such:

57-59. The Leone Trilogy

Then you don't have to worry about ordering them.


Sometimes I wish you weren't so smart.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Sometimes I wish you weren't so smart.

Please pass this along to my wife.

[megladon8]

Please pass this along to my wife.


:lol:

"Take my wife! Please!"


Edited for trans' sanity. (http://match-cut.org/showpost.php?p=141968&postcount=31)

[Raiders]

KF ain't so smart. Any fool knows it should be called "The Man With No Name trilogy."

[Kurosawa Fan]

KF ain't so smart. Any fool knows it should be called "The Man With No Name trilogy."

Psh. I was only going by what others had called it in the thread. I was smart enough not to confuse things by changing the name mid-conversation.

[D_Davis]

I had trouble picking which installment of the Witch Board and Police Academy franchises to include on my list, so, in fairness to all involved, I decided to leave them off entirely.

[Qrazy]

I had trouble picking which installment of the Witch Board and Police Academy franchises to include on my list, so, in fairness to all involved, I decided to leave them off entirely.

Somewhere Bobcat Goldthwait is weeping.

[Bosco B Thug]

98. The Birds (1963)
99. Death Proof (2007) I've just gotta say, that's a beautiful pair you've got there.

It's hard to pick what to comment on in this thread, but these two lines together like that just irradiate out from the screen. And bolded. Oh man.

I'm totally gonna attempt this soon. It's gonna be embarrasingly noobish, though, I'm gonna end up listing several from single directors. We'll see.

[transmogrifier]

I'm gonna end up listing several from single directors. We'll see.


That's good though; I'd prefer a basic, no limitations favorite 100 to compile, with no artificial constraints.

[Mysterious Dude]

Personally, I think the difference made by a few ties is negligible.

My favorite part of this thread so far:

I could never do this.

OK here's my list.
Never: It now lasts just over twelve hours.

[balmakboor]

That's good though; I'd prefer a basic, no limitations favorite 100 to compile, with no artificial constraints.

I should add something about my "artificial constraint" of one film per director. I didn't start out with that constraint, but I noticed that I had a top 25 that came easily (and without any director duplications) and then about 300 other movies that were pretty much tied in my mind. I had to whittle it down somehow. Then I remembered that "one per director" was a criteria that was used by Paul Schrader when he did his pantheon thing in Film Comment a while back and the idea stuck.

In any case, it would drive me crazy to figure out which Ozus to include. I've seen 15 and love them all pretty much equally. I'm not even sure I picked the right one with Tokyo Story. I usually just go with it because it seems to me his most ambitious. But, as I already mentioned, I just re-watched Tokyo Chorus and it is every bit as perfectly delightful.

[Mysterious Dude]

It's a good rule, but if I had to choose between M and Metropolis, it would just wreck me.

[transmogrifier]

I should add something about my "artificial constraint" of one film per director. I didn't start out with that constraint, but I noticed that I had a top 25 that came easily (and without any director duplications) and then about 300 other movies that were pretty much tied in my mind. I had to whittle it down somehow. Then I remembered that "one per director" was a criteria that was used by Paul Schrader when he did his pantheon thing in Film Comment a while back and the idea stuck.

In any case, it would drive me crazy to figure out which Ozus to include. I've seen 15 and love them all pretty much equally. I'm not even sure I picked the right one with Tokyo Story. I usually just go with it because it seems to me his most ambitious. But, as I already mentioned, I just re-watched Tokyo Chorus and it is every bit as perfectly delightful.

Yeah, I can understand it, but as someone more interested in lists, stats and trends than is healthy, I like to compare director choices as well; who is a booster, who doesn't have a famous director represented in all other lists etc. It's interesting to me.

Plus of course, it makes the final ranking of Top 50 films more rigorous, and a comparison of your taste with others more useful. But I'm not going to ditch your list or anything :)

[transmogrifier]

Oh yeah, coming soon (maybe in the next day or two) will be stats showing how much your list overlaps with other posters, and a ranking showing who is the "Voice of Match-Cut" - the person with the most total overlaps with other posters.

[D_Davis]

Oh yeah, coming soon (maybe in the next day or two) will be stats showing how much your list overlaps with other posters, and a ranking showing who is the "Voice of Match-Cut" - the person with the most total overlaps with other posters.

Ah yes, the corporate shill award!

[transmogrifier]

Ah yes, the corporate shill award!

There is also the Armond White "None of You Know Anything about Anything Iconoclasm Award" for least overlap.

[Kurosawa Fan]

My list. Hopefully I got it in on time:

Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam & Jones, 1975)
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967)
In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)
Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001)
Baby Doll (Kazan, 1956)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989)
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957)
The Big Lebowski (Coens, 1998)
Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
The Great Escape (Sturges, 1963)
Pride & Prejudice (Wright, 2005)
Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945)
The Circus (Chaplin, 1928)
The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998)
Baseball (Burns, 1994)
A Bug’s Life (Stanton, 1998)
The Graduate (Nichols, 1967)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
Rififi (Dassin, 1955)
The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
Fargo (Coens, 1996)
Rushmore (Anderson, 1998)
Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
M (Lang, 1931)
Stardust Memories (Allen, 1980)
F for Fake (Welles, 1974)
Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
The French Connection (1971)
Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
High Fidelity (Frears, 2000)
Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)
In Cold Blood (Brooks, 1967)
The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Alien (Scott, 1979)
JFK (Stone, 1991)
Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)
Le Boucher (Chabrol, 1970)
The Last Detail (Ashby, 1973)
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Arnold, 1954)
Touching the Void (Macdonald, 2003)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (Malle, 1987)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998)
Faithless (Ullmann, 2000)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Berlinger & Sinofsky, 1996)
The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999)
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
In the Bedroom (Field, 2001)
Violent Cop (Kitano, 1989)
The Thing From Another World (Hawks, 1951)
Chushingura (Inagaki, 1962)
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu, 1978)
Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
Le Trou (Becker, 1960)
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
Destry Rides Again (Marshall, 1939)
Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)
Airplane! (Abrahams & Zucker, 1980)
Election (Payne, 1999)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951)
Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)
Limbo (Sayles, 1999)
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
Small Soldiers (Dante, 1998)
Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)
Zelig (Allen, 1983)
Sweet Sixteen (Loach, 2002)
Hoop Dreams (James, 1994)
Evil Dead 2 (Raimi, 1987)
Waiting for Guffman (Guest, 1996)
Bloody Sunday (Greengrass, 2002)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman, 1943)
Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)

[balmakboor]

My list. Hopefully I got it in on time:

Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam & Jones, 1975)
Le Samourai (Melville, 1967)
In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)
Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1971)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001)
Baby Doll (Kazan, 1956)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989)
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957)
The Big Lebowski (Coens, 1998)
Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)
On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
The Great Escape (Sturges, 1963)
Pride & Prejudice (Wright, 2005)
Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945)
The Circus (Chaplin, 1928)
The Celebration (Vinterberg, 1998)
Baseball (Burns, 1994)
A Bug’s Life (Stanton, 1998)
The Graduate (Nichols, 1967)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
Rififi (Dassin, 1955)
The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
Fargo (Coens, 1996)
Rushmore (Anderson, 1998)
Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
M (Lang, 1931)
Stardust Memories (Allen, 1980)
F for Fake (Welles, 1974)
Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
The French Connection (1971)
Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
High Fidelity (Frears, 2000)
Ratcatcher (Ramsay, 1999)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)
In Cold Blood (Brooks, 1967)
The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Alien (Scott, 1979)
JFK (Stone, 1991)
Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)
Le Boucher (Chabrol, 1970)
The Last Detail (Ashby, 1973)
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
The Twilight Samurai (Yamada, 2002)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Arnold, 1954)
Touching the Void (Macdonald, 2003)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (Malle, 1987)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998)
Faithless (Ullmann, 2000)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Berlinger & Sinofsky, 1996)
The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999)
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
In the Bedroom (Field, 2001)
Violent Cop (Kitano, 1989)
The Thing From Another World (Hawks, 1951)
Chushingura (Inagaki, 1962)
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock, 1938)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu, 1978)
Before Sunset (Linklater, 2004)
Le Trou (Becker, 1960)
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
Destry Rides Again (Marshall, 1939)
Onibaba (Shindo, 1964)
Airplane! (Abrahams & Zucker, 1980)
Election (Payne, 1999)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock, 1951)
Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)
Limbo (Sayles, 1999)
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
Small Soldiers (Dante, 1998)
Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)
Zelig (Allen, 1983)
Sweet Sixteen (Loach, 2002)
Hoop Dreams (James, 1994)
Evil Dead 2 (Raimi, 1987)
Waiting for Guffman (Guest, 1996)
Bloody Sunday (Greengrass, 2002)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman, 1943)
Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)

Checks the first letters for any funny business. Nope. No funny business.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Checks the first letters for any funny business. Nope. No funny business.

:lol:

Unless I secretly know Russian, I'd say you're safe.

[Spinal]

Any fool knows it should be called "The Man With No Name trilogy."

Never understood that label because all of Eastwood's characters have a name.

[Raiders]

Never understood that label because all of Eastwood's characters have a name.

Nicknames, but we don't ever know his real name. He has no identity in any of them. He represents an archetype more than any real human being.

I suppose it is more traditionally called "The Dollars Trilogy."

[Spinal]

Nicknames, but we don't ever know his real name. He has no identity in any of them. He represents an archetype more than any real human being.

Ah, that makes sense.

[Rowland]

I don't think I could make a top 100 if I tried. Sure, I've seen weeeell over 100 films, but shit, I just don't feel confident enough with my past viewings over previous years to develop a definitive top 100. My taste evolves and repeat viewings change my opinions of movies enough so that I don't trust myself to make a top 100. *shrug*

[transmogrifier]

I don't think I could make a top 100 if I tried. Sure, I've seen weeeell over 100 films, but shit, I just don't feel confident enough with my past viewings over previous years to develop a definitive top 100. My taste evolves and repeat viewings change my opinions of movies enough so that I don't trust myself to make a top 100. *shrug*


You should do it anyway just so you can say you played a part in Match Cut's version of 1000 films you should see before you die.

[jesse]

My taste evolves and repeat viewings change my opinions of movies enough so that I don't trust myself to make a top 100. *shrug* That's personally what I find appealing about making lists like these--I love looking back and tracking how my cinematic have evolved over time, see what my obsessions were at a certain period of time, etc.

[balmakboor]

That's personally what I find appealing about making lists like these--I love looking back and tracking how my cinematic have evolved over time, see what my obsessions were at a certain period of time, etc.

That reminds me that I've been posting top 10s to Senses of Cinema for seven years. So, here is how my top 10 has evolved (devolved) over the years.

So go for it. Rate and rank my top 10s and tell me if my tastes have improved or gone straight to hell.

March-April 2002
1. Apocalypse Now Redux
2. Vertigo
3. An Autumn Afternoon
4. Raging Bull
5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
6. Bande Ã* Part
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. Rashomon
9. Sherman's March
10. The State of Things

April-June 2005
1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. Gangs of New York
3. Early Summer
4. Eraserhead
5. Opening Night
6. Whity
7. Even Dwarfs Started Small
8. Slacker
9. Lolita
10. The Wrong Man

April-June 2007 (alphabetical)
A Canterbury Tale
Day of the Dead
F for Fake
Gabbeh
Gummo
Martha
My Own Private Idaho
Playtime
Slacker
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

March 2009 (now)
1. Slacker
2. I am Cuba
3. The Fountain
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Barry Lyndon
6. Sans Soleil
7. WR: Mysteries of the Organism
8. Tokyo Story
9. Pierrot le fou
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[jamaul]

I'm currently working on my top 100 right now, in hopes to post it this weekend. The way I did it was I took the 250 or so movies archived on my netflix with a 5-star rating and narrowed it down to about 150 choices listed in word. I then narrowed those down by 50 into my top 100, in alphebetical order. I then worked backwards, awarding all the films to be removed for my bottom 10 with a value of '10.' Everything in the 80s would be awarded a '9' and then so forth up until my top ten, each awarded a '1.' I have them categorized now in ten groups of ten. Now I just need to award them each with a numerical demonination from 1-100 and I'll have my list. I will probably finalize it with capsule entries before the end of the year. Here are some fun facts about my list though to get everyone pumped*:

Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese are tied for most films on the list: 4

David Lynch, Luis Bunuel and Akira Kurosawa each have: 3

Paul Thomas Anderson is the youngest director on my list with more than one entry: 2

There are 9 movies from this decade on my list. The highest one is in the top ten.

The highest movie from the 90s on my list is actually Unforgiven, but it’s in the 30s.

A whopping SEVEN out of the top ten movies were made in the 60s.

The most recent entries on the list are from 2007: There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men.

My top ten has: 3 English-language movies, 2 French, 2 Italian, 1 Spanish, 1 Swedish and 1 Japanese




*I didn't actually think anyone was really "pumped" for my list, nor did I believe these irrelevent "facts" were actually "fun".

[balmakboor]

Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese are tied for most films on the list: 4[/SIZE]

Yeah, this'll be a truly unique list.

Just kidding. Really. ;)

Glad to see There Will Be Blood getting some good attention. The more I think about it the more I love it. For me, it stands so far above Anderson's other work it isn't funny.

[jamaul]

Yeah, this'll be a truly unique list.

Just kidding. Really. ;)

Glad to see There Will Be Blood getting some good attention. The more I think about it the more I love it. For me, it stands so far above Anderson's other work it isn't funny.

No, I know it's not something that will distinguish my list at all. I made a decision that I would NOT limit myself to one film per director. Kubrick and Scorsese are two of my favorites, and I realized there were four from each I simply could not live without. I think my favorite Scorsese film may come as a surprise, though. I always credit Taxi Driver as the film that has inspired my creative sensiblities more than any other film, but it's not in my top ten, and it's not the highest Scorsese film on my list.

TWBB is the second highest film on my list from the '00s. And it's pretty damn high up. I've watched it about 5-10 times since it opened, and that is simply UNHEARD of for me. I rarely watch even the movies I LOVE more than a couple of times in the span of a couple of years. TWBB flew up the ranks very quickly.

[balmakboor]

No, I know it's not something that will distinguish my list at all. I made a decision that I would NOT limit myself to one film per director. Kubrick and Scorsese are two of my favorites, and I realized there were four from each I simply could not live without. I think my favorite Scorsese film may come as a surprise, though. I always credit Taxi Driver as the film that has inspired my creative sensiblities more than any other film, but it's not in my top ten, and it's not the highest Scorsese film on my list.

TWBB is the second highest film on my list from the '00s. And it's pretty damn high up. I've watched it about 5-10 times since it opened, and that is simply UNHEARD of for me. I rarely watch even the movies I LOVE more than a couple of times in the span of a couple of years. TWBB flew up the ranks very quickly.

If I hadn't placed a restriction on mine, I think Kubrick and Scorsese would've placed about three each. I'll be comparing yours to mine:

1. Barry Lyndon
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Eyes Wide Shut

1. Taxi Driver
2. Raging Bull
3. GoodFellas

I think Fassbinder, Ozu, and Powell (ooh, big surprise) would've topped both though.

[baby doll]

What the hell...

1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
2. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (D.W. Griffith, 1916)

3. Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921)
4. Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang, 1924)
5. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
6. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
7. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
8. Spies (Fritz Lang, 1928)

9. City Lights: A Comedy Romance in Pantomime (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
10. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
11. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
12. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
13. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
14. Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)
15. La Grande illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
16. La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)

17. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
18. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
19. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
20. Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)
21. Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944-46)
22. La Belle et le Bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
23. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
24. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
25. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
26. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
27. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
28. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)

29. Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1950)
30. Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
31. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
32. Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati, 1953)
33. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
33. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
34. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
35. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
36. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
37. Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)
38. Mon oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958)
39. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959)
40. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)

41. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
42. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
43. L'Année dernière Ã* Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
44. Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
45. Cléo de 5 Ã* 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
46. L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
47. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
48. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
49. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
50. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
51. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
52. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
53. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
54. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
55. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
56. Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
57. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

58. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
59. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
60. Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó, 1972)
61. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
62. Vérités et mensonges (Orson Welles, 1974)
63. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
64. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
65. Cet obscur objet du désir (Luis Buñuel, 1977)
66. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
67. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
68. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)

69. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
70. The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
71. Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
72. A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
73. Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1986)
74. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

75. The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1993)
76. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
77. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1996)

[soitgoes...]

Uncanny how your films descend in greatness as the years progress. ;)

[baby doll]

Uncanny how your films descend in greatness as the years progress. ;)Well, obviously I didn't list them preferentially.

[soitgoes...]

Well, obviously I didn't list them preferentially.Hence the wink. :|

[Philosophe_rouge]

60 will have to do for now :/

1. The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948)
2. Catch-22 (Nichols, 1970)
3. Jules et Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
4. Cluny Brown (Lubitsch, 1946)
5. The Awful Truth (McCarey, 1937)
6. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)
7. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
8. To be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)
9. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
10. Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959)
11. Sunset Blvd. (Wilder, 1950)
12. Baby Doll (Kazan, 1956)
13. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
14. Laura (Preminger, 1944)
15. Odd Man Out (Reed, 1947)
16. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
17. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
18. Pandora’s Box (Pabst, 1929)
19. The New World (Malick, 2005)
20. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)
21. Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)
22. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
23. I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell & Pressburger, 1945)
24. Meet Me in St. Louis (Minelli, 1944)
25. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
26. Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle, 1948)
27. Exotica (Egoyan, 1994)
28. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds (Miyazaki, 1984)
29. Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai, 1959)
30. Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1949)
31. State Fair (Lang, 1944)
32. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger, 1943)
33. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
34. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991)
35. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
36. Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1946)
37. The Thirty Nine Steps (Hitchcock, 1935)
38. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan, 1997)
39. No Country for Old Men (Coens, 2007)
40. The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999)
41. Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges, 1948)
42. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
43. Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
44. Gun Crazy (Lewis, 1950)
45. Stella Dallas (Vidor, 1937)
46. The Good the bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
47. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer, 1970)
48. L'Homme qui plantait des arbres (Back, 1987)
49. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
50. F For Fake (Welles, 1974)
51. An American in Paris (Minnelli, 1951)
52. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
53. Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges, 1941)
54. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
55. A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger, 1944)
56. The Curse of the Cat People (Wise & von Fritsch, 1944)
57. Little Women (Cukor, 1933)
58. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
59. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
60. The Set-Up (Wise, 1949)
61. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)

[jamaul]

01. 2001: A Space Odyssey (68, Kubrick)
02. Playtime (67, Tati)
03. Persona (Bergman, 66)
04. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 63)
05. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 60)
06. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 54)
07. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 66)
08. Nashville (Altman, 75)
09. Viridiana (Bunuel, 61)
10. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 01)
11. Citizen Kane (Welles, 41)
12. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 39)
13. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 88)
14. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog, 72)
15. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 62)
16. Week End (Godard, 67)
17. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 79)
18. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 58)
19. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 79)
20. Days of Heaven (Malick, 79)
21. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 80)
22. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 75)
23. The Godfather (Coppola, 72)
24. The Shining (Kubrick, 80)
25. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Altman, 71)
26. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 76)
27. City Lights (Chaplin, 31)
28. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 53)
29. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 07)
30. The Decalogue (Kieszlowski, 88)
31. Blade Runner (Scott, 82)
32. The Searchers (Ford, 56)
33. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 60)
34. Touch of Evil (Welles, 58)
35. Unforgiven (Eastwood, 92)
36. The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, 62)
37. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovski, 69)
38. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 59)
39. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 80)
40. Ran (Kurosawa, 85)
41. Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 55)
42. Ordet (Dreyer, 55)
43. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 53)
44. Satantango (Tarr, 94)
45. M (Lang, 31)
46. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 98)
47. La Jetee (Marker, 62)
48. The Up Series (Apted, 64-05)
49. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 74)
50. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 98)
51. In the Mood for Love (Kar-Wai, 00)
52. Red (Kieszlowski, 94)
53. F for Fake (Welles, 74)
54. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 84)
55. The Third Man (Reed, 49)
56. The General (Bruckman/Keaton, 27)
57. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 80)
58. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 81)
59. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 90)
60. Manhattan (Allen, 79)
61. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 95)
62. Breathless (Godard, 60)
63. Casablanca (Curtiz, 42)
64. Performance (Cammel/Roeg, 70)
65. The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel, 74)
66. Natural Born Killers (Stone, 94)
67. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 52)
68. Inland Empire (Lynch, 06)
69. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 82)
70. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (Huston, 48)
71. Le Samourai (Melville, 67)
72. Notorious (Hitchcock, 46)
73. In a Lonely Place (Ray, 50)
74. Yi Yi (Yang, 00)
75. Chinatown (Polanski, 74)
76. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 01)
77. Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 71)
78. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 88)
79. Boogie Nights (Anderson, 97)
80. No Country For Old Men (Coen/Coen, 07)
81. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin, 47)
82. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 48)
83. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 89)
84. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 99)
85. The Conformist (Bertolucci, 70)
86. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger, 43)
87. Underground (Kusturica, 95)
88. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 86)
89. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 66)
90. O Lucky Man! (Anderson, 70)
91. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 73)
92. Brazil (Gilliam, 85)
93. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 66)
94. JFK (Stone, 91)
95. Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 73)
96. Rio Bravo (Hawkes, 59)
97. Adaptation (Jonze, 02)
98. Heat (Mann, 95)
99. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 01)
00. Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 68)

[transmogrifier]

Almost there (formatting titles is the least rewarding experience of my life).

Any other lists to add?

[MadMan]

I managed to start ordering my list, but I highly doubt I'll get it posted in time. So far all I have is the Top 10 and the Bottom 21, and I'm not sure either one really works. Meh.

[B-side]

No way I could do 100, so this will have to do:

1. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
2. In a Year With 13 Moons (Fassbinder, 1978)
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
Passion of Anna (Bergman, 1969)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
F for Fake (Welles, 1974)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)
Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
The Wayward Cloud (Ming-Liang, 2005)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
Opening Night (Cassavetes, 1977)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
Dancer in the Dark (Trier, 2000)
Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
Young Frankenstein (Brooks, 1974)
Breaking the Waves (Trier, 1996)
On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)

1 and 2 are ordered, the rest are mixed, if it makes a difference.

[transmogrifier]

I managed to start ordering my list, but I highly doubt I'll get it posted in time. So far all I have is the Top 10 and the Bottom 21, and I'm not sure either one really works. Meh.

Just do it. Do it now.

[MadMan]

Just do it. Do it now.Aside from the obvious desire to procrastinate, I actually do want to think about the whole thing at least a little.

[Beau]

I have seventy five!

(1) The Rules of the Game
(2) Eight and a Half
(3) The Conformist
(4) The Passion of Joan of Arc
(5) Blade Runner
(6) La Dolce Vita
(7) Alphaville
(8) Throne of Blood
(9) Stalker
(10) Celine and Julie Go Boating
(11) Syndromes and a Century
(12) Ashes and Diamonds
(13) Citizen Kane
(14) L’Avventura
(15) The Third Man
(16) L’Eclisse
(17) Outer Space
(18) 2001: A Space Odyssey
(19) Still Life
(20) Tokyo Story
(21) Apocalypse Now
(22) Wings of Desire
(23) Umberto D
(24) Princess Mononoke
(25) The Spirit of the Beehive
(26) George Washington
(27) In the Mood for Love
(28) The Empire Strikes Back
(29) Landscape in the Mist
(30) Le Trou
(31) Suspiria
(32) Koyaanisqatsi
(33) Eaux D’Artifice
(34) Bicycle Thieves
(35) Aliens
(36) L’Argent
(37) Touch of Evil
(38) Fanny and Alexander
(39) The Battle of Algiers
(40) Jules and Jim
(41) L’Atalante
(42) Hedgehog in the Fog
(43) Satantango
(44) Persona
(45) Hiroshima, Mon Amour
(46) Punch-Drunk Love
(47) Vertigo
(48) La Cienaga
(49) Back to the Future
(50) Ikiru
(51) M
(52) Au Hasard Balthazar
(53) Grand Illusion
(54) My Life to Live
(55) Sunrise
(56) Blissfully Yours
(57) Time of the Wolf
(58) Los Olvidados
(59) Vive L’Amour
(60) The Decalogue
(61) Millenium Mambo
(62) The Naked Island
(63) Cinema Paradiso
(64) Army of Shadows
(65) Duck Soup
(66) Taxi Driver
(67) High and Low
(68) The Dreamers
(69) Eraserhead
(70) Spirited Away
(71) Cache
(72) Playtime
(73) Metropolis
(74) Dream Work
(75) The Tulse Luper Suitcases

I suppose that, for now, we can add one movie:

(76) A.I: Artificial Intelligence

[Qrazy]

I have seventy five!

(1) The Rules of the Game
(2) Eight and a Half
(3) The Conformist
(4) The Passion of Joan of Arc
(5) Blade Runner
(6) La Dolce Vita
(7) Alphaville
(8) Throne of Blood
(9) Stalker
(10) Celine and Julie Go Boating
(11) Syndromes and a Century
(12) Ashes and Diamonds
(13) Citizen Kane
(14) L’Avventura
(15) The Third Man
(16) L’Eclisse
(17) Outer Space
(18) 2001: A Space Odyssey
(19) Still Life
(20) Tokyo Story
(21) Apocalypse Now
(22) Wings of Desire
(23) Umberto D
(24) Princess Mononoke
(25) The Spirit of the Beehive
(26) George Washington
(27) In the Mood for Love
(28) The Empire Strikes Back
(29) Landscape in the Mist
(30) Le Trou
(31) Suspiria
(32) Koyaanisqatsi
(33) Eaux D’Artifice
(34) Bicycle Thieves
(35) Aliens
(36) L’Argent
(37) Touch of Evil
(38) Fanny and Alexander
(39) The Battle of Algiers
(40) Jules and Jim
(41) L’Atalante
(42) Hedgehog in the Fog
(43) Satantango
(44) Persona
(45) Hiroshima, Mon Amour
(46) Punch-Drunk Love
(47) Vertigo
(48) La Cienaga
(49) Back to the Future
(50) Ikiru
(51) M
(52) Au Hasard Balthazar
(53) Grand Illusion
(54) My Life to Live
(55) Sunrise
(56) Blissfully Yours
(57) Time of the Wolf
(58) Los Olvidados
(59) Vive L’Amour
(60) The Decalogue
(61) Millenium Mambo
(62) The Naked Island
(63) Cinema Paradiso
(64) Army of Shadows
(65) Duck Soup
(66) Taxi Driver
(67) High and Low
(68) The Dreamers
(69) Eraserhead
(70) Spirited Away
(71) Cache
(72) Playtime
(73) Metropolis
(74) Dream Work
(75) The Tulse Luper Suitcases

I suppose that, for now, we can add one movie:

(76) A.I: Artificial Intelligence

Why don't you add 24 more to make Trans's job easier.

[Izzy Black]

Here's 20 that is not ranked:

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994)
L'Année dernière Ã* Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (Godard, 1962)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
Zui hao de shi guang (Hou, 2005)
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Trys dienos (Bartas, 1991)
Soy Cuba (Kalatozov, 1964)
La Belle noiseuse (Rivette, 1991)
A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Carax, 1991)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1970)
Le Temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust (Ruiz, 1999)
Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
Wavelength (Snow, 1967)
Cléo de 5 Ã* 7 (Varda, 1962)

[Beau]

Why don't you add 24 more to make Trans's job easier.

How much time do I have? I'll try to rectify the... blank spots.

[B-side]

How much time do I have? I'll try to rectify the... blank spots.

Apparently it's ongoing, so you have as much time as you want.

[Beau]

Apparently it's ongoing, so you have as much time as you want.

Cool. I'll try to do it this evening.

[Amnesiac]

Wavelength (Snow, 1967)

I wouldn't mind hearing your reasons for including this one.

[Beau]

Complete List:

(1) The Rules of the Game
(2) Eight and a Half
(3) The Conformist
(4) The Passion of Joan of Arc
(5) Blade Runner
(6) La Dolce Vita
(7) Alphaville
(8) Throne of Blood
(9) Stalker
(10) Celine and Julie Go Boating
(11) Syndromes and a Century
(12) Ashes and Diamonds
(13) Citizen Kane
(14) L’Avventura
(15) The Third Man
(16) L’Eclisse
(17) Outer Space
(18) 2001: A Space Odyssey
(19) Still Life
(20) Tokyo Story
(21) Apocalypse Now
(22) Wings of Desire
(23) Umberto D
(24) Princess Mononoke
(25) The Spirit of the Beehive
(26) George Washington
(27) In the Mood for Love
(28) The Empire Strikes Back
(29) Landscape in the Mist
(30) Le Trou
(31) Suspiria
(32) Koyaanisqatsi
(33) Eaux D’Artifice
(34) Bicycle Thieves
(35) Aliens
(36) L’Argent
(37) Touch of Evil
(38) Fanny and Alexander
(39) The Battle of Algiers
(40) Jules and Jim
(41) L’Atalante
(42) Hedgehog in the Fog
(43) Satantango
(44) Persona
(45) Hiroshima, Mon Amour
(46) Punch-Drunk Love
(47) Vertigo
(48) La Cienaga
(49) Back to the Future
(50) Ikiru
(51) M
(52) Au Hasard Balthazar
(53) Grand Illusion
(54) My Life to Live
(55) Sunrise
(56) Blissfully Yours
(57) Time of the Wolf
(58) Los Olvidados
(59) Vive L’Amour
(60) The Decalogue
(61) Millenium Mambo
(62) The Naked Island
(63) Cinema Paradiso
(64) Army of Shadows
(65) Duck Soup
(66) Taxi Driver
(67) High and Low
(68) The Dreamers
(69) Eraserhead
(70) Spirited Away
(71) Cache
(72) Playtime
(73) Metropolis
(74) Dream Work
(75) The Tulse Luper Suitcases
(76) A.I: Artificial Intelligence
(77) Paris Belongs to Us
(78) The Terrorist
(79) Father and Daughter
(80) Zero for Conduct
(81) Life on a String
(82) Seduced and Abandoned
(83) Trouble Every Day
(84) Sunset Boulevard
(85) Kin-Dza-Dza
(86) Paths of Glory
(87) Brazil
(88) Sur
(89) The Thing
(90) A Clockwork Orange
(91) Esperando la Carroza
(92) Fires of the Plain
(93) Breathless
(94) Father and Son
(95) Dr. Strangelove
(96) Peeping Tom
(97) Earth
(98) Pixote
(99) Satiemania
(100) The Umbrella's at Cherbourg

[transmogrifier]

Because I'm partway through posting the list, I'll complete that then add any extra lists at the end and present the final positions.

[soitgoes...]

Complete List:

(63) Cinema Paradiso
(82) Cinema Paradiso

;)

[Beau]

;)

I really liked it! :)

I caught on to that, though, and added Pixote.

[Beau]

Because I'm partway through posting the list, I'll complete that then add any extra lists at the end and present the final positions.

Yeah, sorry for the lateness. I haven't been around here for months, so I didn't know about your list-gathering.

[Izzy Black]

I wouldn't mind hearing your reasons for including this one.
Well it's a great film. Specifically in its contributions to narrative and form, and as one of the few films that helped establish cinema as a singular art medium. It explores the relationship that duration and cinematic technique have to film as motion in time, and in the way Beckett formally destroyed narrative in theater, Snow did so for film; the self-referential form itself becomes the content, whereas typical benchmarks of narrative such as characterization, plot, and story are forgone. A remarkable achievement.

A few more favorites... I am going off the cuff here. Never made a formal list before, but here is about 100 (non-ranked). I am sure I am forgetting plenty:

(Edit: Complete list below)

[Qrazy]

Well it's a great film. Specifically in its contributions to narrative and form, and as one of the few films that helped establish cinema as a singular art medium. It explores the relationship that duration and cinematic technique have to film as motion in time, and in the way Beckett formally destroyed narrative in theater, Snow did so for film; the self-referential form itself becomes the content, whereas typical benchmarks of narrative such as characterization, plot, and story are forgone. A remarkable achievement.

A few more favorites... I am going off the cuff here. Never made a formal list before, but here is about 100 (non-ranked). I am sure I am forgetting plenty.

Kudos on Forbidden Games and Cantata.

But two Tony Scott's and no Fellini, Clouzot, Lang, Keaton, Lean, Resnais, etc?

[Boner M]

I found Wavelength to be really unexpectedly engaging, as well as a landmark for the reasons Israfel mentions. The 'ending', when the photo of the waves are finally enveloping the frame, is extremely transporting and becalming.

Also, Beau's list is the best so far.

[jamaul]

The comparisons of Wavenength to the work of Beckett had me intrigued. Unfortunately, I'm not finding the film on netflix.:cry:

Oh, and btw, my list is the best.

[Izzy Black]

Kudos on Forbidden Games and Cantata.

But two Tony Scott's and no Fellini, Clouzot, Lang, Keaton, Lean, Resnais, etc?

Resnais was in my top 10 list some pages back. I could probably use another Resnais. He is a strong favorite. I also had a Fellini on there. Actually I would put Fellini's Cassanova in along with with my La Strada pick, but that is probably it. I do not see any necessity for including Clouzot, Keaton, or Lean, although I could arguably use a Lang. Scott I consider as important as the former. Like I said though, I was going largely on memory. I am forgetting many favorites. Griffith, Vigo, Forman, Linktar, and Chabrol are some immediate names that come to mind.

[Izzy Black]

The comparisons of Wavenength to the work of Beckett had me intrigued. Unfortunately, I'm not finding the film on netflix.:cry:

Oh, and btw, my list is the best.

It is interesting stuff, but the comparison was somewhat nuanced. If you like Beckett, you might be more interested in someone like David Mammet or Béla Tarr.

[Raiders]

I swear Wavelength used to be on YouTube/Google Video.

EDIT: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=55946384480987 62852

[Beau]

Reading
2666, Roberto Bolano

Oh! How is that going? I've taken a break from it around the middle of book four (to read some other south american classics) but I do intend to finish it. I quite love it so far.

[jamaul]

It is interesting stuff, but the comparison was somewhat nuanced. If you like Beckett, you might be more interested in someone like David Mammet or Béla Tarr.

Well, I've seen Satantango (probably the best film of the 1990's, if only because it shatters conventional form more than probably any film I've seen from that decade), and Werkmeister is one hell of a great film. Mammet? -- gosh, I've seen a few of his films, but darnit if I've never looked at it from a Beckett-esque angle.

I actually intend to write a script sometime in the future that is written in the style of Beckett. I wouldn't want to throw the idea out until I copyrighted it, but it's an absurdly twisted concept with the theme of creator-as-sadist.

Examples of Beckett in film, for me, have been The Shining, Persona and The Exterminating Angel.

[Izzy Black]

Complete - should be 100. Added a Lang, Zulawski, Viola, Merhige, and Griffith.


2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994)
L'Année dernière Ã* Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (Godard, 1962)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
Zui hao de shi guang (Hou, 2005)
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Trys dienos (Bartas, 1991)
Soy Cuba (Kalatozov, 1964)
La Belle noiseuse (Rivette, 1991)
A Zed & Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Carax, 1991)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman, 1970)
Le Temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust (Ruiz, 1999)
Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
Wavelength (Snow, 1967)
Cléo de 5 Ã* 7 (Varda, 1962)
Il Deserto Rosso (Antonioni, 1964)
Der Müde Tod (Lang, 1921)
Domino (Scott, 2005)
Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1981)
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Bresson, 1960)
The Last of England (Jarman, 1988)
Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen, 1986)
A Walk Through H (Greenaway, 1978)
October (Eisenstein, 1927)
Gummo (Korine, 1997)
Ordet (Dreyer, 1954)
3 Women (Altman, 1977)
Dekalog (Kieslowski, 1988)
The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957)
Out 1: noli me tangere (Rivette, 1971)
Faust (Murnau, 1926)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II (Eisenstein, 1945 and 1958)
Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1979)
Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
Celine et Julie vont en bateau (Rivette, 1974)
Walkabout (Roeg, 1971)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
The Passing (Viola, 1991)
Sweetie (Campion, 1989)
La Jetée (Marker, 1962)
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999)
Heat (Mann, 1995)
Do The Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)
Jeux interdits (Clément, 1952)
Dogville (Trier, 2003)
F for Fake (Welles, 1975)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1983)
Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1962-64)
L'Important c'est d'aimer (Zulawski, 1975)
Greed (Stroheim, 1925)
My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
The Addiction (Ferrara, 1995)
Demonlover (Assayas, 2002)
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir, 1936)
La Cicatrice intérieure (Garrel, 1972)
Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968)
Flowers of Shanghai (Hou, 1998)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
Szegénylegények (Jancsó, 1966)
The Miracle Woman (Capra, 1931)
To Live (Yimou, 1994)
The Chelsea Girls (Warhol, 1966)
The Blue Angel (Sternberg, 1930)
Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1989)
The Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1928)
Street of Shame (Mizoguchi, 1956)
Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
Cantata (Jancsó, 1963)
Begotten (Merhige, 1990)
Un Chien andalou (Buñuel and Dali, 1928)
L’Inhumaine (L'Herbier, 1924)
Pinocchio (Luske & Sharpsteen, 1940)
L'Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962)
My Brilliant Career (Armstrong, 1979)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
La Belle et la bête (Cocteau, 1946)
Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
On Top of the Whale (Ruiz, 1982)
Dreamwork (Tscherkassky, 2001)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard, 1988–98)
Liebelei (Ophuls, 1933)
Ma nuit chez Maud (Rohmer, 1969)
Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)
Colour of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969)
Ulysses' Gaze (Angelopoulos, 1995)
Gate of Flesh (Suzuki, 1964)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy & Varda, 1967)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
Les Tricheurs (Carné, 1958)
A Star is Born (Cukor, 1954)

[jamaul]

Oh! How is that going? I've taken a break from it around the middle of book four (to read some other south american classics) but I do intend to finish it. I quite love it so far.

It's fantastic. I just finished Part 1 this morning, and I'm in love with Bolano's omnipresent, dry, slightly witty writing approach. The story so far has been very rich and textured, and even when he deviates from the four main characters, the colorful walk-ons are always fascinating. And his dream sequences are great also.

Love his offhanded approach to sex between characters: "That night, they did it. They fucked for three hours, then slept." Or something along those lines. Oh, and the globe-trotting aspect as well -- I can't afford to travel, but with all the European locations, it's like getting to visit these places from my couch.

[Izzy Black]

Well, I've seen Satantango (probably the best film of the 1990's, if only because it shatters conventional form more than probably any film I've seen from that decade), and Werkmeister is one hell of a great film. Mammet? -- gosh, I've seen a few of his films, but darnit if I've never looked at it from a Beckett-esque angle.

Check out Oleanna (1994) from Mammet. He is similar to Beckett insofar as they both share quick, overlapping dialogue and have similar concerns of language. In Oleanna, it is all about language, and how it can be manipulated for persuasion, opportunism, and power, but is ultimately devoid of any real meaningful content. In this sense, Mammet is similar to Beckett in showing the poverty of language, but at least in Mammet, there is some utilitarian value.


I actually intend to write a script sometime in the future that is written in the style of Beckett. I wouldn't want to throw the idea out until I copyrighted it, but it's an absurdly twisted concept with the theme of creator-as-sadist.

Sounds interesting!


Examples of Beckett in film, for me, have been The Shining, Persona and The Exterminating Angel.

Persona I can see, the other two perhaps less so.

[Beau]

It's fantastic. I just finished Part 1 this morning, and I'm in love with Bolano's omnipresent, dry, slightly witty writing approach. The story so far has been very rich and textured, and even when he deviates from the four main characters, the colorful walk-ons are always fascinating. And his dream sequences are great also.

Love his offhanded approach to sex between characters: "That night, they did it. They fucked for three hours, then slept." Or something along those lines. Oh, and the globe-trotting aspect as well -- I can't afford to travel, but with all the European locations, it's like getting to visit these places from my couch.

Is the English translation out yet (a TIME magazine online article seems to say "yes")? Or are you reading the original Spanish? Incidentally, each book stands by itself, has a different style, and a different protagonist. I haven't bumped into the main characters of book one again, or at least, if they return, they must do so after the middle of book four. From now on, you'll be staying in and around Santa Teresa. I don't think you'll mind though, seeing as you'll continue to get plenty of that wonderful, wonderful prose, plenty of strange surreal moments, and plenty of unnerving nightmarish images.

[Izzy Black]

It's Blitz, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Good album, though quite different from their earlier stuff.

[jamaul]

Persona I can see, the other two perhaps less so.


In The Shining and Angel, I see characters who are at the whim and mercy of their respected creators. Beckett's plays are intricate, oblique, indefinable and ultimately, some of the most objectively encompassing works out there. His novels though are somewhat the opposite: as the trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable progresses, Beckett is slowly stripping all of the fundamentals of narrative and writing until finally there is nothing. At will, he reduces his characters to immobility, he surrounds them with ever-closing walls, and continues to feel out all the limitations of literature. It's somewhat parallel to what Joyce did before him, but instead of occupying his pages with characters who are fleshed out and interesting, they are usually characters that are unreliable and occasionally disgusting -- Beckett, unlike Joyce, refuses to develop setting, time and space.

Jack Torrance is a very Beckettian character. He's locked up in a hotel with all of his shortcomings, flaws, failures and defects, and in come the ghosts of the hotel taunting his mortality. Slowly he is reduced to his basic animalistic urges, becoming a sort of a antithesis of Ape Man to Space Child in 2001.

And in Angel, the characters are inexplicably unable to leave a room, and slowly succumb to their basic, animalistic urges. And why can't they leave? Well, quite simply, because Bunuel won't let them.

[Amnesiac]

Well it's a great film. Specifically in its contributions to narrative and form, and as one of the few films that helped establish cinema as a singular art medium. It explores the relationship that duration and cinematic technique have to film as motion in time, and in the way Beckett formally destroyed narrative in theater, Snow did so for film; the self-referential form itself becomes the content, whereas typical benchmarks of narrative such as characterization, plot, and story are forgone. A remarkable achievement.

Thanks. It's been about a year or so since I last saw it, but I don't remember finding it all that remarkable. I can see how it forgoes characterization, plot, story, etc. However, I'm not entirely sure this is something remarkable. Snow was audacious in his making of this film, I suppose. It's iconoclastic, in a sense... but it's also a bit of an endurance test.

I was similarly, but perhaps to a lesser extent, underwhelmed with Serene Velocity by Ernie Gehr. For whatever reason, perhaps its kinetic quality or shorter running time, I think I found that one to be a little bit more stimulating.

However, I do know that most of these structuralist films are tied to a unique philosophy regarding the cinema. And I have read into that at one point, but I don't remember too much of it right now. I could probably return to such material and find a new perspective from which to appreciate these films. For instance,


"Traditional and established avant garde film teaches film to be an image, a representing. But film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind. It is not a vehicle for ideas or portrayals of emotion outside of its own existence as emoted idea. Film is a variable intensity of light, an internal balance of time, a movement within a given space." ‹Ernie Gehr, January 1971

I suppose comments like this add a layer of intelligibility and intrigue to the films. I know other writings exist on the merit and purpose of these films, but watching them cold didn't really leave me thinking of them as tremendously valuable. It pushes boundaries, and that's good, but I'm not sure if the boundary was pushed to any meaningful affect. I'm sure there are many points out there capable of opposing my assumption, though.

[jamaul]

Is the English translation out yet (a TIME magazine online article seems to say "yes")? Or are you reading the original Spanish? Incidentally, each book stands by itself, has a different style, and a different protagonist. I haven't bumped into the main characters of book one again, or at least, if they return, they must do so after the middle of book four. From now on, you'll be staying in and around Santa Teresa. I don't think you'll mind though, seeing as you'll continue to get plenty of that wonderful, wonderful prose, plenty of strange surreal moments, and plenty of unnerving nightmarish images.

Oh, wow, I'm jealous that you are reading it in Spanish. Nah, I'm just a typical white yank unable to speak any language other than english and pig latin.

That is actually one of the things that intrigues me, that each of the five parts are fairly independant, yet are linked by dark themes of murder. I love how it is looming in the background during Part I and I can't wait to see how it all ties in later in the book. And yeah, once the characters went to Santa Teresa, things started to get inexplicably dark and very weird. I'm looking forward to spending my reading time in this locale, especially in how it so drastically differs from the more organized and civilized France, Spain, Italy, England and Switzerland explored earlier in the novel.

I don't know if you remember these parts, but two of my favorite moments in the novel thusfar were the part in the gallery/cafe where they meet the ex-spy haunted by his dead grandmother. The other was Amalfitano's ridiculous monologue about the unreliablity of Mexican intellectuals, which goes on for 2 1/2 pages, and makes absolutely no sense.

[Izzy Black]

In The Shining and Angel, I see characters who are at the whim and mercy of their respected creators. Beckett's plays are intricate, oblique, indefinable and ultimately, some of the most objectively encompassing works out there. His novels though are somewhat the opposite: as the trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable progresses, Beckett is slowly stripping all of the fundamentals of narrative and writing until finally there is nothing. At will, he reduces his characters to immobility, he surrounds them with ever-closing walls, and continues to feel out all the limitations of literature. It's somewhat parallel to what Joyce did before him, but instead of occupying his pages with characters who are fleshed out and interesting, they are usually characters that are unreliable and occasionally disgusting -- Beckett, unlike Joyce, refuses to develop setting, time and space.

Not sure the distinction between his novels and plays is so clear. His plays, especially his later work, are littered with characters that are stagnated by immobility, repulsion, and failure - that are unreliable and often incoherent. He rids any central story or conflict from his plays and we are left merely with disembodied heads rambling on about the absurdity and meaninglessness of their condition, set against indeterminate metaphysical backdrops and vast nothingness. He breaks down narrative as much with Waiting for Godot and Endgame as he does Molloy and The Unnameable, and arguably more so.


Jack Torrance is a very Beckettian character. He's locked up in a hotel with all of his shortcomings, flaws, failures and defects, and in come the ghosts of the hotel taunting his mortality. Slowly he is reduced to his basic animalistic urges, becoming a sort of a antithesis of Ape Man to Space Child in 2001.

Perhaps. I do not read him as a particularly Beckettian character, though. His failings and shortcomings are less emphasized than his own madness and elusive nature. In other words, Kubrick is more intrigued by the unknowable mind and the unexplainable or original depths of human violence. Beckett is less psychological, I think. Beckett's interests strike me as more philosophical in nature. The psychosis' of his characters, then, are less a matter than their inability to communicate. Beckett is primarily critical of language, religion, tradition, culture, and axiomatic belief systems that have failed human beings; which is to say he is concerned more with meaning than with motive.


And in Angel, the characters are inexplicably unable to leave a room, and slowly succumb to their basic, animalistic urges. And why can't they leave? Well, quite simply, because Bunuel won't let them.

I see Beckett a bit more in Angel, but I do not necessarily picture Beckett as merely the master manipulator - the God complex. He certainly is that, to the extent that his work is fatalist, but it runs much deeper than that. The trappings of his characters' condition have to do with ontological reasons, I gather, as opposed to mere artistic gamesmanship. Bunuel certainly shares more in common with Beckett though than Kubrick in my view.

[Izzy Black]

Thanks. It's been about a year or so since I last saw it, but I don't remember finding it all that remarkable. I can see how it forgoes characterization, plot, story, etc. However, I'm not entirely sure this is something remarkable. Snow was audacious in his making of this film, I suppose. It's iconoclastic, in a sense... but it's also a bit of an endurance test.

Right.


I was similarly, but perhaps to a lesser extent, underwhelmed with Serene Velocity by Ernie Gehr. For whatever reason, perhaps its kinetic quality or shorter running time, I think I found that one to be a little bit more stimulating.

Great film - though less groundbreaking.


However, I do know that most of these structuralist films are tied to a unique philosophy regarding the cinema. And I have read into that at one point, but I don't remember too much of it right now. I could probably return to such material and find a new perspective from which to appreciate these films. For instance,


"Traditional and established avant garde film teaches film to be an image, a representing. But film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind. It is not a vehicle for ideas or portrayals of emotion outside of its own existence as emoted idea. Film is a variable intensity of light, an internal balance of time, a movement within a given space." ‹Ernie Gehr, January 1971

I suppose comments like this add a layer of intelligibility and intrigue to the films. I know other writings exist on the merit and purpose of these films, but watching them cold didn't really leave me thinking of them as tremendously valuable. It pushes boundaries, and that's good, but I'm not sure if the boundary was pushed to any meaningful affect. I'm sure there are many points out there capable of opposing my assumption, though.

Understandable. Yes, I find these films have immense philosophical implications and intellectual value. They contribute a lot to advances in epistemology and the relationship film-viewing has to cognition and sense-experience. I could get really heady here and go off about them, but I could see how they would not work for everyone. They are decidedly academic and arguably too rigorously clinical. Yet, if your interests lie in these areas, they can be immensely rewarding emotional experiences as well. It depends a lot on what you value. Many individuals do not find such academic exercises to be particularly valuable, and I think there is a legitimate argument to be had for this view, even if I am inclined to disagree. We could say, in line with existential thought, that these films say or contribute very little (thought or understanding) to the lived experience. The structuralist and the phenomenologist would argue that elementary sense experience is as intricate and profound as the next thing, but then the debate becomes philosophical and divergent. In other words, I am less bothered by someone disliking Wavelength than someone saying, for example, that L'Avventura is a terrible movie.

[jamaul]

Actually, I think part of the reason I was trying to draw a line between his novels and his plays is that I feel there is a more distinct amount of symbolism, metaphysics and certainly philosophy at work in his plays, making them far more resonant in their human aspect than his novels do. Then again, I've only read Krapp's, Endgame and Godot (<----which I love so much I tried to talk my friends into helping me film it), so I don't really know how radical or similar his work got to that of his novels, which I believe to be profound explorations into the limitations of the written word. I have a very hard time, though, resonating with Watt, Murphy, Molloy, Mercier, Camier, Malone or the charactor of The Unnamable, than I do with Krapp and his squandered existence, or the monotous daily drudge of Estragon and Vladimir, or the complex and disturbing relationship between Hamm and Clov.

My comparisons to The Shining and Angel, you must remember, are subtle and very loose. After reading Beckett, I saw similarities in the creative approach, maybe to the setting and the devolution of the characters, but nothing profoundly obvious. I'm certainly not trying to suggest that they are indeed wholeheartedly Beckettian. No, The Shining is wholly Kubrickian and Angel is absolutely Bunuelian. In fact, we are speaking of a handful of some of the GREATEST and most distinctive artists of the 20th Century. So the strands of similarties are not as resonant as I guess I made it out to sound.

Oh, and It's Blitz is a ton of fun, very dancy, catchy. I'm seeing the YYY's at Coachella next month and I can't wait.

[Izzy Black]

Actually, I think part of the reason I was trying to draw a line between his novels and his plays is that I feel there is a more distinct amount of symbolism, metaphysics and certainly philosophy at work in his plays, making them far more resonant in their human aspect than his novels do. Then again, I've only read Krapp's, Endgame and Godot (<----which I love so much I tried to talk my friends into helping me film it), so I don't really know how radical or similar his work got to that of his novels, which I believe to be profound explorations into the limitations of the written word. I have a very hard time, though, resonating with Watt, Murphy, Molloy, Mercier, Camier, Malone or the charactor of The Unnamable, than I do with Krapp and his squandered existence, or the monotous daily drudge of Estragon and Vladimir, or the complex and disturbing relationship between Hamm and Clov.

I actually find it easy to relate to Molloy and Watt, but you might be correct in your point about his plays. I tend to prefer his stage work, so - there it is.


My comparisons to The Shining and Angel, you must remember, are subtle and very loose. After reading Beckett, I saw similarities in the creative approach, maybe to the setting and the devolution of the characters, but nothing profoundly obvious. I'm certainly not trying to suggest that they are indeed wholeheartedly Beckettian. No, The Shining is wholly Kubrickian and Angel is absolutely Bunuelian. In fact, we are speaking of a handful of some of the GREATEST and most distinctive artists of the 20th Century. So the strands of similarties are not as resonant as I guess I made it out to sound.

Fair enough. I was only trying to point out that I thought there were some closer Beckettian films out there and so I was less sure about your references. All the same, I see no real disagreement.


Oh, and It's Blitz is a ton of fun, very dancy, catchy. I'm seeing the YYY's at Coachella next month and I can't wait.

Ah - very nice. I am still partial to their first album. More postpunkish and guitar-heavy for my tastes. It's Blitz is a fun album though.

[Duncan]

We could say, in line with existential thought, that these films say or contribute very little (thought or understanding) to the lived experience. The structuralist and the phenomenologist would argue that elementary sense experience is as intricate and profound as the next thing, but then the debate becomes philosophical and divergent. I'm not sure I follow this. Are you saying the existentialist and the phenomenologist would argue opposite things? Or am I misunderstanding you?

[jamaul]

I actually find it easy to relate to Molloy and Watt, but you might be correct in your point about his plays. I tend to prefer his stage work, so - there it is.

Well, I think I may love his novels and his plays equally, although I'd love to attend one to see it presented in the context that was intended.


Fair enough. I was only trying to point out that I thought there were some closer Beckettian films out there and so I was less sure about your references. All the same, I see no real disagreement.

No disagreement. But there should be more Beckettian style displayed in modern movies. Artists tend to resent and cheat and hide from their limitations, whereas Beckett thrived on them.


Ah - very nice. I am still partial to their first album. More postpunkish and guitar-heavy for my tastes. It's Blitz is a fun album though.

I like it because it's different. How boring is a musician or group that embodies the same musical style album to album? Have you heard new Franz Ferdinand. It's amazing how similar Tonight is to It's Blitz. Both are the band's third albums, both are major departures, both more beat driven than guitar driven and both are, lucky for me, playing Coachella '09. :P

[Izzy Black]

I'm not sure I follow this. Are you saying the existentialist and the phenomenologist would argue opposite things? Or am I misunderstanding you?

When talking existentialism and phenomenology we are employing some wide umbrellas of thought. I am not necessarily saying one would need to be at odds with the other (so-called existentialists are even at odds with themselves), but that if we had a phenomonologist perhaps in the tradition of Husserl (transcendental phenomenology, intentionality, perception, memory, signification, etc) and Merleau-Ponty, that we might find more relative value in this type of cinema than, say, someone in the tradition of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, or Sartre would. Yes, Sartre was something of a phenomonolgist (existential phenomenology), but not particularly in the tradition of Husserl. I am more invoking the scientific and rigorous analytic tendencies of phenomenology. This is why you have a lot of phenomenological literature on the works of Brakhage and Viola, which you can find in peer-reviewed journals or online journals such as Senses of Cinema. Whereas Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard decried the scientism of the age and the rigorous metaphysics of Hegel, and emphasized moral, emotional, and ontological freedom and choice. Kierkegaard's complaint of Hegel was that he forgot about the "human" in his philosophy. Someone of this school of thought might say the microscopic confines of structuralist-formalism, emptying humanity from the frame and preoccupying itself with the a priori or epistemological investigations of the senses and perception, forgets about the human experience.

[Izzy Black]

Well, I think I may love his novels and his plays equally, although I'd love to attend one to see it presented in the context that was intended.

I have seen all of his major plays. Something riveting about seeing his work on the stage. Then again, it is cutting it close. I love his written work.


No disagreement. But there should be more Beckettian style displayed in modern movies. Artists tend to resent and cheat and hide from their limitations, whereas Beckett thrived on them.

I would have to agree. Cinema is still young and has a long ways to go. Beckett was building on centuries of progression in literature, and found that there was nowhere else to go, so he broke everything down to its elements, and then broke down the elements to ostensibly nothing.


I like it because it's different. How boring is a musician or group that embodies the same musical style album to album? Have you heard new Franz Ferdinand. It's amazing how similar Tonight is to It's Blitz. Both are the band's third albums, both are major departures, both more beat driven than guitar driven and both are, lucky for me, playing Coachella '09. :P

Yep. I like the new Franz album, but I think it was more in their comfort zone than the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album was for them. Less risky, I think. The new Stills album is good and I hear Interpol is working on a new album, not sure if you like either of them.

[Qrazy]

Resnais was in my top 10 list some pages back. I could probably use another Resnais. He is a strong favorite. I also had a Fellini on there. Actually I would put Fellini's Cassanova in along with with my La Strada pick, but that is probably it. I do not see any necessity for including Clouzot, Keaton, or Lean, although I could arguably use a Lang. Scott I consider as important as the former. Like I said though, I was going largely on memory. I am forgetting many favorites. Griffith, Vigo, Forman, Linktar, and Chabrol are some immediate names that come to mind.

Ah k I thought you had combined the two lists and left off Rensais and Fellini. Got ya. And yeah I agree that all five of those others should take precedence over Scott also! :)

[Izzy Black]

Ah k I thought you had combined the two lists and left off Rensais and Fellini. Got ya. And yeah I agree that all five of those others should take precedence over Scott also! :)

Right. Scott is an idiosyncratic choice, I know. But I think time will show his importance even if no one else sees it now. Of course I could be wrong, but this is my view. Also, I am not saying any director or film is necessarily greater than the other here. This is a non-ranked list, and if I added 50 more to that list, it would not be that those 50 are necessarily weaker than the top 100. Most of these picks are based on my strength of memory and knowledge about the film - that is, my ability to articulately defend their selection. Some I can do so better than others. I have many other favorites not included that are vaguer in my mind and are perhaps in need of re-viewings.

[Qrazy]

Right. Scott is an idiosyncratic choice, I know. But I think time will show his importance even if no one else sees it now. Of course I could be wrong, but this is my view. Also, I am not saying any director or film is necessarily greater than the other here. This is a non-ranked list, and if I added 50 more to that list, it would not be that those 50 are necessarily weaker than the top 100. Most of these picks are based on my strength of memory and knowledge about the film - that is, my ability to articulately defend their selection. Some I can do so better than others. I have many other favorites not included that are vaguer in my mind and are perhaps in need of re-viewings.

Fair, just teasing... I'll probably include a few selections when I finally compile my list that will be worthy of badgering as well. The reason I've waited so long to compile a list in the first place is because there are so many films I still wish to see... but I guess it's time to make a preliminary list and just amend it once I've seen said films.

[Izzy Black]

Fair, just teasing... I'll probably include a few selections when I finally compile my list that will be worthy of badgering as well. The reason I've waited so long to compile a list in the first place is because there are so many films I still wish to see... but I guess it's time to make a preliminary list and just amend it once I've seen said films.

I have always described any list I have made (top 10 only prior to this) as forever tentative and always changing. I am very much in the same boat. I never made a top 100 because I considered it to be such a comprehensive task, and especially when there are so many films I have not seen; but when it comes down to it, as I recently discussed with my adviser, this is the case with any true cinephile. There will always be that insatiable need to see more films - no matter how many you have seen - and you will always feel you are leaving out films or directors that you are near certain if you watched you would love, or that you cannot make a fair judgment on a particular film or director without having seeing such and such director or film, and so on. All the same, I have come to look at it more as representing where you are at now in your life, how you define your taste, interest, and self in cinema. It is not so much an objective, definitive list of "The Best Films Ever Committed to Celluloid From All Across The Globe" but rather, "These are the most exemplary achievements and examples of cinema that I have seen in the course of my life." It bespeaks much of one's point-of-view and general experience with the films you have seen rather than some how envincing one's equal assessment with others of all the films one could possibly see. This is part of why I find it so difficult and even unnecessary to rank films.

[Duncan]

When talking existentialism and phenomenology we are employing some wide umbrellas of thought. I am not necessarily saying one would need to be at odds with the other (so-called existentialists are even at odds with themselves), but that if we had a phenomonologist perhaps in the tradition of Husserl (transcendental phenomenology, intentionality, perception, memory, signification, etc) and Merleau-Ponty, that we might find more relative value in this type of cinema than, say, someone in the tradition of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, or Sartre would. Yes, Sartre was something of a phenomonolgist (existential phenomenology), but not particularly in the tradition of Husserl. I am more invoking the scientific and rigorous analytic tendencies of phenomenology. This is why you have a lot of phenomenological literature on the works of Brakhage and Viola, which you can find in peer-reviewed journals or online journals such as Senses of Cinema. Whereas Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard decried the scientism of the age and the rigorous metaphysics of Hegel, and emphasized moral, emotional, and ontological freedom and choice. Kierkegaard's complaint of Hegel was that he forgot about the "human" in his philosophy. Someone of this school of thought might say the microscopic confines of structuralist-formalism, emptying humanity from the frame and preoccupying itself with the a priori or epistemological investigations of the senses and perception, forgets about the human experience.

OK, I follow now. I just thought it was a strange claim since the two fields weave in and out of each other so often. But I get what you're saying and don't really take issue with it.

[balmakboor]

Sometimes I wander into these discussions and walk away thinking too much education is a scary thing.