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Russ
01-01-2008, 06:42 AM
Top 5 movies with little or no dialog
Assuming not silent:

Begotten
Silent Movie
Allegro non troppo
Cat Soup
Dementia

Next: Top five 'Road' films...

chrisnu
01-01-2008, 07:52 AM
Next: Top five 'Road' films...
They Live by Night
Two-Lane Blacktop
Taxi Driver
The Straight Story
Old Joy

Next: Top five explosions!

balmakboor
01-01-2008, 02:11 PM
The Death Star
Biker blows up in Raising Arizona
Ending of Zabriske Point
The opening of GoodFellas
John Cassavetes in The Fury

Top 5 films based on The Bible

DSNT
01-01-2008, 02:19 PM
Last Temptation of Christ
The Life of Brian
Intolerance
The Prince of Egypt
Jesus Chrust Superstar

Best Propaganda Film.

Russ
01-01-2008, 02:26 PM
Do Michael Moore's "documentaries" count? ;)

DSNT
01-01-2008, 02:47 PM
Do Michael Moore's "documentaries" count? ;)
Heh, sure. Guess it's all subject to interpretation, but I was thinking of the WWII types of films.

Raiders
01-01-2008, 08:26 PM
Best Propaganda Film.

I don't know that these are "banner waving" pieces of agit-prop, but nonetheless they all have a very obvious intention:

I Am Cuba
Earth
This Land Is Mine
The War Game
49th Parallel


Best documentaries, to make an easy one

Spinal
01-01-2008, 08:33 PM
Best documentaries, to make an easy one

1. The War Game
2. Grey Gardens
3. The Atomic Cafe
4. Baseball
5. The Up Documentaries

Best films with an appearance by a dinosaur or other prehistoric beast

origami_mustache
01-01-2008, 10:00 PM
1. King Kong (1933)
2. Godzilla (1954)
3. Jurassic Park
4. Fantasia
5. The Land Before Time

best dark comedies

Russ
01-01-2008, 10:11 PM
1. Harold and Maude
2. The Loved One
3. Eating Raoul
4. Welcome to the Dollhouse
5. Heathers

Next:

Top 5 worst films from the best directors. Example: I might say Hook, but I know it has some fans, so I won't go there. :twisted:


EDIT: Forgot Dr. Strangelove. D'oh!

baby doll
01-01-2008, 10:30 PM
Top 5 worst films from the best directors.

Robert Bresson, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Jean-Luc Godard, Une femme est une femme (1961)
Federico Fellini, Ginger and Fred (1986)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bolwieser (The Stationmaster's Wife) (1977)
Fritz Lang, Woman in the Moon (1929) (although I've never finished it)

Sven
01-02-2008, 12:56 AM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bolwieser (The Stationmaster's Wife) (1977)
Fritz Lang, Woman in the Moon (1929) (although I've never finished it)

:evil: :evil: :evil:

Category, boy!

Grouchy
01-02-2008, 01:07 AM
Top 5 worst films from the best directors.
1. Topaz
2. Spartacus
3. The Color of Money
4. The Ladykillers
5. Lolita

Top 5 superhero films.

Sven
01-02-2008, 01:17 AM
1. Topaz
2. Spartacus
3. The Color of Money
4. The Ladykillers
5. Lolita

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

I do agree about Color of Money, though.

bac0n
01-03-2008, 02:28 PM
Top Five Superhero Films

5. Hellboy
4. X2: X-Men United
3. Spiderman 2
2. Batman Begins
1. Superman

Next: Top Five Black & White Films Created After the Advent of Color

megladon8
01-03-2008, 02:33 PM
Top Five Superhero Films

5. Hellboy
4. X2: X-Men United
3. Spiderman 2
2. Batman Begins
1. Superman


...wow...I feel like you know me so well...

Grouchy
01-03-2008, 02:49 PM
Top Five Superhero Films

5. Hellboy
4. X2: X-Men United
3. Spiderman 2
2. Batman Begins
1. Superman

Next: Top Five Black & White Films Created After the Advent of Color
1. Raging Bull
2. 8 1/2
3. Psycho
4. Manhattan
5. The Man who wasn't there

Top 5 Noirs (remember the genre existed until 1958 and Touch of Evil, then it's neo-noir!)

Raiders
01-03-2008, 03:25 PM
Top 5 Noirs

Kiss Me Deadly
The Tall Target
M (1951)
Gun Crazy
Pickup on South Street

Top five "Herzog waxes poetic about nature" films

Dillard
01-03-2008, 04:32 PM
Top five "Herzog waxes poetic about nature" films

1. Grizzly Man
2. Aguirre
3. Signs of Life
4. Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
5. Stroszek

I haven't seen everything yet, so I'm sure there are more obvious inclusions. Number 5 is a throw-in, although, there is something poetic about the desolate winter landscapes of Wisconsin!

Top five blazing/raging intense, scene-feasting performances by an actor/actress.

Reference HerrSchreck's post 12 down on page 8 of the Criterion TWBB thread (http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4570&start=175) about DDL's performance if needed.

Russ
01-03-2008, 04:35 PM
I was going to add Encounters at the End of the World, which I havent seen yet, but c'mon..he talks about penguins...having nervous breakdowns...

...yep, I'm so there.


EDIT: and Burden of Dreams/Fitzcarraldo needs to be on that list.

jesse
01-04-2008, 02:18 AM
Top five blazing/raging intense, scene-feasting performances by an actor/actress. Patty Duke - Valley of the Dolls
Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
Bette Davis - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly Last Summer

Guess I took that more in a camp direction...

Anywho, top five films directed by a female.

megladon8
01-04-2008, 02:42 AM
Anywho, top five films directed by a female.


American Psycho - Mary Harron
Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppolla
Strange Days - Kathryn Bigelow
Ravenous - Antonia Bird
Fat Girl - Catherine Breillat


Wow, I had a hard time with this one, and I'm sure I missed a lot.

Top 5 adaptations which were unfaithful to their source material, yet still good.

Ezee E
01-04-2008, 03:11 AM
American Psycho - Mary Harron
Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppolla
Strange Days - Kathryn Bigelow
Ravenous - Antonia Bird
Fat Girl - Catherine Breillat


Wow, I had a hard time with this one, and I'm sure I missed a lot.

Top 5 adaptations which were unfaithful to their source material, yet still good.
Kubrick owns this topic, so I will avoid it.

jesse
01-04-2008, 03:18 AM
Wow, I had a hard time with this one, and I'm sure I missed a lot. You did. ;)


Top 5 adaptations which were unfaithful to their source material, yet still good. Sticking with texts I've read myself:

Great Expectations (1998) (adaptation: obvious)
Beau Travail (1999) (adaptation: Billy Budd)
The Big Sleep (1945) (adaptation: obvious)
The Fugitive Kind (1959) (adaptation: Orpheus Descending)
'Je vous salue, Marie' (Hail Mary) (1985) (adaptation: The Bible)

Top Five Best Actor Oscar winners.

Spinal
01-04-2008, 07:25 AM
Top Five Best Actor Oscar winners.

1. F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
2. Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
3. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
4. Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
5. George C. Scott - Patton

Top 5 2007 films that really honestly should have been directed by Crispin Glover

Boner M
01-04-2008, 10:32 AM
1. F. Murray Abraham - Amadeus
2. Paul Scofield - A Man for All Seasons
3. Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
4. Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
5. George C. Scott - Patton

Top 5 2007 films that really honestly should have been directed by Crispin Glover
Rep for this juicy topic.

Ratatouille (live action!)
The Golden Compass
The Last Mimzy
Superbad (to bring that slightly phantasmagoric vibe to the forefront)
Across the Universe

Top 5 characters from 50's films that you most want to bed.

Qrazy
01-04-2008, 04:46 PM
1. Juliete Hardy (And God Created Woman)
2. Princess Ann (Roman Holiday)
3. Veronika (The Cranes are Flying)
4. Sugar Cane (Some Like it Hot)
5. Eurydice (Black Orpheus)

Top Five Use of Clocks in Films

Raiders
01-04-2008, 04:49 PM
Top Five Use of Clocks in Films

Do watches count?

origami_mustache
01-04-2008, 04:55 PM
1. Juliete Hardy (And God Created Woman)
2. Princess Ann (Roman Holiday)
3. Veronika (The Cranes are Flying)
4. Sugar Cane (Some Like it Hot)
5. Eurydice (Black Orpheus)

Top Five Use of Clocks in Films
Mine was going to be pretty similar

1. Princess Ann in Roman Holiday
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CAR/CO27~Audrey-Hepburn-in-Roman-Holiday-Posteres.jpg
2. Eri in Crazed Fruit
http://www.criterion.com/content/images/featured_dvd/295_feature_350x180.jpg
3. Veronika in The Cranes Are Flying
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/dbpix/images/13383a.jpg
4. Kathy in Singin' in the Rain
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/75/180px-SingingKathy.jpg
5. Sugar Cane in Some Like It Hot
http://connect.afi.com/images/content/photos/large_13424.jpg



anyways

1. Safety Last
2. High Noon
3. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
4. Little Children
5. The Wizard of Oz

Top 5 montages

Qrazy
01-04-2008, 04:58 PM
Eri looks like a bombshell, need to check out Crazed Fruit... Kathy doesn't quite do it for me... but all in all great libidos think alike.

Kurosawa Fan
01-04-2008, 04:59 PM
Top 5 montages

1. Rocky III
2. Rocky III
3. Rocky III
4. Rocky III
5. Rocky III

Ivan Drago
01-04-2008, 05:14 PM
1. Rocky III
2. Rocky III
3. Rocky III
4. Rocky III
5. Rocky III

No, no, no.

1. Rocky IV
2. Raging Bull
3. Rocky
4. Rocky IV
5. Rocky IV

Qrazy
01-04-2008, 05:18 PM
My other selections:

http://www.virginmedia.com/microsites/movies/slideshow/top-ten-movie-bikinis/img_2.jpg

http://www.channel4.com/film/media/images/Channel4/film/B/black_orpheus_xl_01--film-B.jpg

Pop Trash
05-28-2008, 06:37 PM
I'm kick starting this thread again. Top five characters in 90s films you most want to bed. (I know I'm unoriginal)