The List Thread

[MadMan]

Because we need one. No, scratch that: because I wanted to make one. Also, I jacked this idea from The Corrierino.

I'll kick it off with something I just drew up merely two minutes ago:

The Worst Movies I've Ever Seen:

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/manos/manos1.jpg

1. Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
2. I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
3. Caligula (1979)
4. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
5. Stepmom (1998)
6. Pearl Harbor (2001)
7. Faces of Death (1978)
8. Batman & Robin (1997)
9. Anacondas: The Hunt For the Blood Orchid (2004)
10. The Wicker Man (2006)
11. Stuart Little (1999)
12. Cheaper By The Dozen (2003)
13. Down To Earth (2001)
14. The Sound of Music (1965)
15. Garfield (2004)
16. The Skydivers (1963)
17. Volanco (1997)
18. Psycho (1998)
19. Mr. Deads (2002)
20. Grease (1978)

[Dukefrukem]

Sad to see Volanco on there. That's a guilty pleasure of mine and I like Jones as the leader. Much like US Marshalls.

[Spinal]

Sad to see Volanco on there.

These are only Madman's Worst movies. Some of them might be his favorites.

[Thirdmango]

every day I log onto netflix I get such an urge to watch Caligula. Someday I'll watch it, someday.

[MadMan]

These are only Madman's Worst movies. Some of them might be his favorites.That would only be funny if it were true. I hate every movie on that list.

Thirdmango don't be in any rush to watch Caligula. Its a piece of shit movie.

Duke Volcano sucks so hard it doesn't even have a proper or good volcano.

[Dukefrukem]

Yeh but Jones makes that movie awesome. That volcano only wants you think there will be a good volcano in the movie. The journey is the best part. Plus there is a 1.5 second shot of the volcano at the very end of the movie. That's good enough.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Favorite spellings for Volcano:

1. Volanco
2. Voclano
3. Vlocano
4. Vaul Kano
5. Dante's Peek

[transmogrifier]

Top 10 Directors According to the Average Score for their Films According to Me

1. Paul Thomas Anderson
2. David Fincher
3. Peter Greenaway
4. Paul Greengrass
5. Sergio Leone
6. Michael Mann
7. Michael Powell
8. John Sayles
9. Pedro Almodovar
10. Akira Kurosawa

[MadMan]

Yeh but Jones makes that movie awesome. That volcano only wants you think there will be a good volcano in the movie. The journey is the best part. Plus there is a 1.5 second shot of the volcano at the very end of the movie. That's good enough.The thing is, if there had been a halfway decent volcano than the movie wouldn't have featured as much awful dialogue, cliched moments, and as much bad acting as it did. I'll give Don Cheadle, Anne Heche and Tommy Lee Jones credit, though-they give it their best shot. Me, I would have phoned it in the minute I realized the movie was crap.


Favorite spellings for Volcano:

1. Volanco
2. Voclano
3. Vlocano
4. Vaul Kano
5. Dante's Peek:lol:

Cool list, trans. I never thought about doing that before.

[MadMan]

Top 10 Favorite Musicals

http://www.realmovienews.com/movieimages/2816/2832/2832_968_still_16_f.jpg

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2. All That Jazz (1979)
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999)
4. Marry Poppins (1964)
5. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
6. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
7. An American Tale (1986)
8. Chicago (2002)
9. The Music Man (1962)
10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

I left out some Disney films because I'm not certain if they can be called musicals or not.

[Spinal]

2. All That Jazz (1979)
6. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)


Sweet.

[transmogrifier]

Cool list, trans. I never thought about doing that before.

If I were to make a list of my favorite directors, it would probably only contain five from that list: Anderson, Fincher, Leone, Mann and Powell.

To them, add Allen, Altman (my #1), Peckinpah, Sam Fuller and Billy Wilder. Or something like that.

[MadMan]

Sweet.I created this list so that I can refute the fact that despite my dislike of many musicals I don't completely hate the genre. There were many others that could have been featured, too. I still love Cannibal: The Musical. In fact, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are really good at coming up with that sort of thing-if they ever do another movie it should be another comedy musical. And of course there is this amazing song that is my favorite from South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut:

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If I were to make a list of my favorite directors, it would probably only contain five from that list: Anderson, Fincher, Leone, Mann and Powell.

To them, add Allen, Altman (my #1), Peckinpah, Sam Fuller and Billy Wilder. Or something like that. That's a pretty great list. I've sadly never seen a movie from PT Anderson, but that's due to me wanting to go through his filmography from the beginning, and I would have to go back to DVD only/IV for Netflix to be able to rent Hard Eight since I can't find it anywhere else for some reason.

[Dukefrukem]

Top 10 Favorite Musicals

http://www.realmovienews.com/movieimages/2816/2832/2832_968_still_16_f.jpg

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2. All That Jazz (1979)
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999)
4. Marry Poppins (1964)
5. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
6. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
7. An American Tale (1986)
8. Chicago (2002)
9. The Music Man (1962)
10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

I left out some Disney films because I'm not certain if they can be called musicals or not.

Chicago is too low. But otherwise a near perfect list. I personally would replace An American Tale with West Side Story.

[Li Lili]

Ok...
Top 10 Chinese films with Chinese female leading characters

I tried not to add any HK films - I would write down because too many of them - but I added at least 2 of them (The 14 Amazons and Wild wild Rose)

1. The Goddess with Ruan Lingyu (1933, Wu Yonggang)
2. Street Angel with Zhou Xuan (1937, Yuan Muzhi)
3. Daybreak with Li Lili (Sun Yu, 1932)
4. Springtown in Small Town with Wei Wei (1948, Fei Mu)
5. Suzhou River with Zhou Xun (2000, Lou Ye)
6. The Red Detachment of Women as a female group (1961, Xie Jin)
7. The Blue Kite with Lu Liping (1993, Tian Zhuangzhuang)
8. Red Sorghum with Gong Li (1987, Zhang Yimou)
9. Wild Wild Rose with Grace Chang (1960, Wang Tianlin)
10. 14 Amazones with all the very famous female actresses of the SB (1972, Ching Gong, Tung Shao Yun)

[Morris Schæffer]

Yeh but Jones makes that movie awesome. That volcano only wants you think there will be a good volcano in the movie. The journey is the best part. Plus there is a 1.5 second shot of the volcano at the very end of the movie. That's good enough.

"Lava? In L.A?!"

Jones' deadpan delivery is hilarious.

[Fezzik]

Top 10 Favorite Musicals

http://www.realmovienews.com/movieimages/2816/2832/2832_968_still_16_f.jpg

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2. All That Jazz (1979)
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999)
4. Marry Poppins (1964)
5. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
6. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
7. An American Tale (1986)
8. Chicago (2002)
9. The Music Man (1962)
10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

I left out some Disney films because I'm not certain if they can be called musicals or not.

No Singin' in the Rain? Oversight or didn't you like it that much?

[Morris Schæffer]

Top three stupidest misspelled names by random internet dorks:

1 - Ian McKellan
2 - Wolfgang Peterson
3 - Steven Spielburg

[Dukefrukem]

"Lava? In L.A?!"

Jones' deadpan delivery is hilarious.

because you made me post this...

"That lake was 62 degrees yesterday today it's up to 68?"

Jones: "It's a sunny day"

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The teaser is great too

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[Morris Schæffer]

Music from Aliens' "Bishop's Countdown" I recall from the trailer.

EDIT: Ah there it is. :)

"The Coast is toast." Gold!

[Irish]

1. Paul Thomas Anderson

Maaaaaaaan, I really love the rest of your list but this guy's appearance & prime placement just mystifies me.

[Derek]

Maaaaaaaan, I really love the rest of your list but this guy's appearance & prime placement just mystifies me.

Yeah, it's pretty crazy to see someone so unheralded is atop his list. Your mystification is completely justified. Maybe he's trolling?

[D_Davis]

The Five Worst Films I've Seen that aren't MST3K Caliber

1. Stealing Beauty
2. Me and You and Everyone We know
3. Free Enterprise
4. What Time is it There?
5. Silent Hill

[Derek]

4. What Time is it There?

The Tsai Ming-Liang!? That's his best!

If you thought Me and You and Everyone We Know, which I actually like, was annoying affected, try out The Future. Your head may explode.

[D_Davis]

The Tsai Ming-Liang!? That's his best!


Wow! Now that's saying something.

[transmogrifier]

The Five Worst Films I've Seen that aren't MST3K Caliber
1. Stealing Beauty


Boo. I love that film.

[Dukefrukem]

Top 10 Horror Movies of All Time

1. John Carpenter's The Thing
2. Alien
3. Night of the Living Dead (1969)
4. The Descent
5. The Birds
6. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror
7. Jaws
8. King Kong
9. High Tension
10. Bride of Frankenstein



Top 10 Horror Movies of 2009

1. Drag Me to Hell
2. House of the Devil
3. Thirst
4. Pandorum
5. The Fourth Kind
6. The Horde
7. The Unborn
8. Underworld: Evolution
9. Friday the 13th
10. Survival of the Dead

[transmogrifier]

I didn't even know there were 10 horror films released in 2009.

[MadMan]

Top 10 Horror Movies of All Time

1. John Carpenter's The Thing
2. Alien
3. Night of the Living Dead (1969)
4. The Descent
5. The Birds
6. Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror
7. Jaws
8. King Kong
9. High Tension
10. Bride of Frankenstein
I've only seen JC's The Thing (100), Alien (100), NOTLD (100), The Birds (85), Nosferatu (100), Jaws (100); which Kong Kong do you mean-the 1933 version or the 2005 version? I've only seen the 33 one, which gets a 90. And that's about it. Good list there.

I'm woefully behind on 2000s horror viewings, although I have seen enough to make a halfway decent list that's featured on my second blog.


Top three stupidest misspelled names by random internet dorks:

1 - Ian McKellan
2 - Wolfgang Peterson
3 - Steven Spielburg#3 for me :lol:


No Singin' in the Rain? Oversight or didn't you like it that much?I haven't seen it.


Chicago is too low. But otherwise a near perfect list. I personally would replace An American Tale with West Side Story.I haven't seen West Side Story, aside from a clip of the guys dance fighting, which resulted in me laughing. Not a good sign.

Typically if a movie didn't make a list of mine and its either famous or well regarded, there is a good chance I didn't see it. Of course in the case of The Sound of Music or Grease there is also the possibility that I really didn't like it at all.

Great to see this thread taking off. Of course you all realize this will result in me making more threads ;)

[Dukefrukem]

33 Kong. And I think I can go back through my list and find my top 10 horror movies of any year from 1974-2011

Pick a year!

[Ezee E]

33 Kong. And I think I can go back through my list and find my top 10 horror movies of any year from 1974-2011

Pick a year!
'95

[Russ]

Top 40 favorite animated films (that don’t include Disney, Pixar or Miyazaki)

1. The Man Who Planted Trees
2. Mind Game
3. 5 Centimeters Per Second
4. Metropolis
5. The Secret of Kells
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
7. The Illusionist
8. Allegro non Troppo
9. Fantastic Planet
10. Night on the Galactic Railroad
11. Feherlofia
12. The King and the Mockingbird
13. The Story of the Fox
14. Persepolis
15. Cat Soup
16. Tekkonkinkreet
17. Coraline
18. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
19. Watership Down
20. Asparagus / Joy Street / El doctor
21. Yellow Submarine
22. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
23. Tales From the Far Side I & II
24. Kirikou and the Sorceress
25. The Triplets of Belleville
26. Genius Party / Genius Party 2
27. The Plague Dogs
28. Whisper of the Heart
29. My Dog Tulip
30. The Thief and the Cobbler (Recobbled version)
31. Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor
32. Grave of the Fireflies
33. Akira
34. The Iron Giant
35. Vampires in Havana
36. A Town Called Panic
37. Paprika
38. The Nightmare Before Christmas
39. Coonskin
40. Sophie’s Place

HM: Angel’s Egg

I still havent seen:

The Last Unicorn
The Brave Little Toaster
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Perfect Blue

[Watashi]

The Iron Giant is way too low.

[Ezee E]

Five Favorite Soccer Teams (Some of this is due to success or fun on FIFA):
1)Tottenham
2)Anzhi Makhachkala
3)Inter Milan
4)Napoli
5)Borussia Dortmund

[Ezee E]

Five Favorite Soccer Players:
1)Samuel Eto'o
2)Gareth Bale
3)Hulk
4)Emmanuel Adebayor
5)Maicon

[Spinal]

I doubt that I've seen 10 good horror movies in any given year.

[Gizmo]

I doubt that I've seen 10 good horror movies in any given year.

If you've seen any 10 you could make a top 10 out of it.

[Winston*]

Have you seen Adam Elliot's stuff, Russ?

[Russ]

Have you seen Adam Elliot's stuff, Russ?
Sadly, no. Looking at his IMDb credits, it appears to be similar to Nick Park? (I'm also woefully underexposed to the Wallace and Gromit shorts).

I shall seek his material out. Thanks!

[Dukefrukem]

'95

Bad year for horror. Although 1995 also has three movies in my top 100 (The Usual Suspects, Ghost in the Shell and Seven)

1. Seven
2. In the Mouth of Madness
3. Tremors 2
4. Species
5. Screamers
6. Lord of Illusions
7. Village of the Damned
8. The Mangler
9. Candyman: Farewell to Flesh
10. Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Next Generation

[MadMan]

I don't consider Se7en horror, although its pretty damn close. I believe that 1981 is the year I've seen the most horror movies from, with 12.

[Dukefrukem]

Top 40 favorite animated films (that don’t include Disney, Pixar or Miyazaki)

1. The Man Who Planted Trees
2. Mind Game
3. 5 Centimeters Per Second
4. Metropolis
5. The Secret of Kells
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
7. The Illusionist
8. Allegro non Troppo
9. Fantastic Planet
10. Night on the Galactic Railroad
11. Feherlofia
12. The King and the Mockingbird
13. The Story of the Fox
14. Persepolis
15. Cat Soup
16. Tekkonkinkreet
17. Coraline
18. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
19. Watership Down
20. Asparagus / Joy Street / El doctor
21. Yellow Submarine
22. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
23. Tales From the Far Side I & II
24. Kirikou and the Sorceress
25. The Triplets of Belleville
26. Genius Party / Genius Party 2
27. The Plague Dogs
28. Whisper of the Heart
29. My Dog Tulip
30. The Thief and the Cobbler (Recobbled version)
31. Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor
32. Grave of the Fireflies
33. Akira
34. The Iron Giant
35. Vampires in Havana
36. A Town Called Panic
37. Paprika
38. The Nightmare Before Christmas
39. Coonskin
40. Sophie’s Place

HM: Angel’s Egg

I still havent seen:

The Last Unicorn
The Brave Little Toaster
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Perfect Blue

This is a great list. I haven't seen many of these. Adding to Netflix queue...

[soitgoes...]

Top 40 favorite animated films (that don’t include Disney, Pixar or Miyazaki)
Have you seen any of Aleksandr Petrov's films?

[dreamdead]

Taking a cue from Matt Zoller Seitz's Movies for a desert island (http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/movies_for_a_desert_island/), including one season of a tv show and a short...

Short: Duck Amuck
Season of a TV Show: Community Season Two

Movies:
My Night at Maud's
Ordet
Yi Yi
The Awful Truth
Love and Death
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Punch-Drunk Love
It's a Wonderful Life
All that Jazz
The Shop Around the Corner

[Russ]

Have you seen any of Aleksandr Petrov's films?

D'oh! You know what? I forgot Petrov. And I really like The Old Man and the Sea. Which reminds me, I also forgot to include Yuriy Norshteyn's Tale of Tales and Hedgehog in the Fog. Damn. Normally, I'm somewhat lukewarm on a lot of Russian animation, but those are classics.

Oh well, they'll be on the Top Fifty list. :)

[transmogrifier]

Taking a cue from Matt Zoller Seitz's Movies for a desert island (http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/movies_for_a_desert_island/), including one season of a tv show and a short...

Short: Duck Amuck
Season of a TV Show: Community Season Two

Movies:
My Night at Maud's
Ordet
Yi Yi
The Awful Truth
Love and Death
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Punch-Drunk Love
It's a Wonderful Life
All that Jazz
The Shop Around the Corner

Well, your list is 100 times better than his.

[Thirdmango]

2. Street Angel with Zhou Xuan (1937, Yuan Muzhi)

I just watched this today. Zhou Xuan was so adorable. I instantly fell in love with her.

[soitgoes...]

My 30 favorite Japanese films when limited to one director:

Mind Game (Yuasa)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Harakiri (Kobayashi)
Yearning (Naruse)
The Naked Island (Shindô)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
Red Beard (Kurosawa)
Still Walking (Koreeda)
Be Sure to Share (Sono)
The Story of Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
Memories of Matsuko (Nakashima)
Muddy River (Oguri)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Intentions of Murder (Imamura)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka)
Goyokin (Gosha)
Violent Cop (Kitano)
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
The Twilight Samurai (Yamada)
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa)
Gate of Flesh (Suzuki)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Matsumoto)
Affair in the Snow (Yoshida)
Seisaku's Wife (Masumura)
Sympathy of the Underdog (Fukasaku)
House (Obayashi)
Tampopo (Itami)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Hosoda)
Mr. Thank You (Shimizu)

[Boner M]

I Wish (Koreeda 11) **
Aw man, I was thoroughly charmed by this.

[soitgoes...]

Aw man, I was thoroughly charmed by this.Really? Raiders will be glad to hear. It did nothing for me, but I'm also partly dead inside. The only thing memorable is that incredibly hokey soundtrack, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.

[Li Lili]

I just watched this today. Zhou Xuan was so adorable. I instantly fell in love with her.

Ah I'm so happy !!!!
You're right, she was very adorable ! Very natural, fresh and radiant!

[B-side]

Great But Rarely Mentioned Cinematographers Pt. 1 of 3
*I chose to stick with films I've actually seen as examples

Georgi Rerberg [The Story of Asya Klyachina (Konchalovsky), The Mirror (Tarkovsky), Stalker (Tarkovsky)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfull1.png

Vadim Yusov [Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky), Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky), Solaris (Tarkovsky)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal2.png

Al Ruban [Faces (Cassavetes), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes), Opening Night (Cassavetes)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal3.png

Acácio de Almeida [The Territory (Ruiz), City of Pirates (Ruiz), O Sangue (Costa)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal4.png

Eduard Tisse [Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein), Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein), Ivan the Terrible Pt. I and II (Eisenstein)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal5.png

[B-side]

Great But Rarely Mentioned Cinematographers Pt. 2 of 3
*I chose to stick with films I've actually seen as examples

Minoru Miki [Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi), Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi), The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal6.png

Kazuo Miyagawa [Rashomon (Kurosawa), Miss Oyu (Mizoguchi), Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal7.png

Giorgos Arvanitis [Days of '36 (Angelopoulos), The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos), Fat Girl (Breillat)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal8.png

Winton C. Hoch [3 Godfathers (Ford), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Ford), The Searchers (Ford)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal9.png

Tonino Delli Colli [Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone), The Decameron (Pasolini), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal10.png

[B-side]

Great But Rarely Mentioned Cinematographers Pt. 3 of 3
*I chose to stick with films I've actually seen as examples

Ken Kelsch [The Addiction (Ferrara), The Blackout (Ferrara), New Rose Hotel (Ferrara)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal11.png

William Lubtchansky [Nor'west (Rivette), Duelle (Rivette), Frontier of the Dawn (Garrel)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal12.png

Kenneth Anger [Rabbit's Moon (Anger), Eaux d'artifice (Anger), Scorpio Rising (Anger)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal13.png

William H. Daniels [Foolish Wives (Stroheim), Brute Force (Dassin), Winchester '73 (Mann)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal14.png

Edward Klosinski [Illumination (Zanussi), Spiral (Zanussi), Europa (Trier)]

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/SalvadorDali_2010/Miscellaneous/cinbannerfinal15.png

[Spinal]

I love the cinematography for Salo. Good call.

[MadMan]

I love the style of those lists, Brightside.

[baby doll]

'95Just for the hell of it, my top ten for 1995 overall...

1. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
2. La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)
3. Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. Underground (Emir Kusturica)
5. The Neon Bible (Terence Davies)
6. Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung)
7. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
8. Safe (Todd Haynes)
9. Haut bas fragile (Jacques Rivette)
10. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai)

[TripZone]

Can't help but notice Safe and Up Down Fragile aren't at the top.

[transmogrifier]

1995

1. La Haine
2. Les Miserables
3. Seven
4. Smoke
5. Heat
6. 12 Monkeys
7. Dead Man
8. Dead Man Walking
9. The Usual Suspects
10. Fallen Angels

Excellent year.

[Spinal]

1. Welcome to the Dollhouse
2. Dead Man Walking
3. Whisper of the Heart
4. Seven
5. Citizen X
6. Strange Days
7. Richard III
8. Beyond Rangoon
9. Carrington
10. Rob Roy

[baby doll]

Can't help but notice Safe and Up Down Fragile aren't at the top.That's why it's my list and not yours.

[TripZone]

That's why it's my list and not yours.

Oh shiii

[dmk]

Year of the pig!

1 . Babe (Noonan)
2 . Up, Down, Fragile (Rivette)
3 . Dead Man (Jarmusch)
4 . Leaving Las Vegas (Figgis)
5 . A Single Girl (Jacquot)
6 . Underground (Kusturica)
7 . The Wife (Noonan)
8 . Fallen Angels (Kar Wai)
9 . Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
10 . Wild Side (Cammell)


Oh shiiiYeah, him too.

[Spinal]

Year of the pig!


You forgot Gordy!

[MadMan]

1. Seven
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Casino
4. Dead Man
5. Toy Story
6. In The Mouth of Madness
7. Apollo 13
8. Babe
9. Goldeneye
10. Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave

[baby doll]

Top 40 favorite animated films (that don’t include Disney, Pixar or Miyazaki)I'll limit myself to ten:

Arrietty the Borrower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010)
Begone Dull Care (Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren, 1949)
A Colour Box (Len Lye, 1935)
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, 1953)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
Fuji (Robert Breer, 1974)
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963)
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, 2007)
Virile Games (Jan Švankmajer, 1988)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)

[B-side]

I'll limit myself to ten:

Begone Dull Care (Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren, 1949)
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, 1953)
Virile Games (Jan Å*vankmajer, 1988)

:)

[Rowland]

Since the 2011 match-cut award nominations deadline is approaching and I'm still knee-deep in catching up with the year, here are some lists devoted to it.

What's the Big Deal?:

Contagion
The Descendants
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Essential Killing
Le Havre
The Help
Hugo
I Saw the Devil
Silent Souls
The Skin I Live In
Stake Land
Winnie the Pooh

Pretty Good But Overrated:

The Arbor
Bridesmaids
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part II
Meek's Cutoff
Midnight in Paris
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Of Gods and Men
Pina
Rango
Senna

Flawed But Worthwhile:

Carancho
Husk
Julia's Eyes
The Mill and the Cross
The Silent House
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
True Legend
Vanishing on 7th Street
We Are What We Are
The Woman

Unfairly Overlooked/Underrated:

Black Death
Circo
The Future
Into Eternity
Polytechnique
Putty Hill
The Robber
Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty
Uncle Kent

[StanleyK]

For whatever reason, the rather random idea of listing ten movies from ten different countries, all under two hours in length (brevity being the soul of wit and all), popped into my head. Not necessarily the best movie, maybe just something I've been thinking a lot about lately. It proved a surprisingly challenging and fun exercise:



Argentina: The Holy Girl (Martel)
Belgium: The Son (Dardennes)
France: Contempt (Godard)
Hong Kong: In the Mood for Love (Wong)
Japan: Hana-Bi (Kitano)
Russia: The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Sweden: Persona (Bergman)
Thailand: Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul)
UK: Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
USA: Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)

[Spinal]

(brevity being the soul of wit and all)

It should be noted that this quote comes from a four-hour play.

[Fezzik]

Movies I've walked out on (or would have if I had not been with friends), in chronological order.


Cool World (1992)
Timecop (1994)
Stargate (1994)**
Spawn (1997)
Lost in Space (1998)
Mr. Deeds (2002)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Electra (2005)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
War Horse (2011)**


** - Actually walked out on

A note about Stargate. I've actually come to like the film quite a bit, but when I saw it in theaters, I remember being in a particularly bad mood and every little thing about it annoyed me. I blame myself for that one, not the film.

[Qrazy]

It should be noted that this quote comes from a four-hour play.

Polonius had ADD.

[soitgoes...]

Favorite pre-1930 features (more or less in order):


The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer 28)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau 27)
La roue (Gance 23)
Sherlock Jr. (Keaton 24)
The Man with the Movie Camera (Vertov 29)
The Patsy (Vidor 28)
The Last Laugh (Murnau 24)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Asquith 29)
Finis terrae (Epstein 29)
The Circus (Chaplin 28)
Lonesome (Fejös 28)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin 25)
The General (Bruckman, Keaton 27)
Intolerance (Griffith 16)
The Phantom Carriage (Sjöström 21)
Couer fidèle (Epstein 23)
Napoléon (Gance 27)
The Cameraman (Sedgwick, Keaton 28)
The Crowd (Vidor 28)
The Last Command (von Sternberg 28)
Les Vampires (Feuillade 15)
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (Murnau 22)
Safety Last! (Newmeyer, Taylor 23)
From Morn to Midnight (Martin 22)
J'accuse! (Gance 19)

[Qrazy]

War Horse (Spielberg 11) *½


It's that bad. :(

[soitgoes...]

It's that bad. :(Spielberg schmaltz ramped up to eye-rolling excess. Oh, and look! There's backlighting!

[Qrazy]

Spielberg schmaltz ramped up to eye-rolling excess. Oh, and look! There's backlighting!

Oh my post meant to have a question mark but I believe you. Still it's the last one I have from him so I'll have to watch it eventually.

[soitgoes...]

Oh my post meant to have a question mark but I believe you. Still it's the last one I have from him so I'll have to watch it eventually.
I still have Amistad to watch. I've saw probably half of it when it first came out, but I haven't been able to muster up the courage for the whole thing.

[Pop Trash]

You forgot Gordy!

Oh man, my lil sister LOVED that movie when she was six.

[Pop Trash]

My top ten of 1995 according to MUBI:

1. Safe
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Before Sunrise
4. Heat
5. Casino
6. Toy Story
7. Seven
8. Dead Man Walking
9. Kicking and Screaming
10. Clueless