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Spinal
01-20-2008, 06:29 AM
Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. You may edit your post freely up until the time that I lock the thread, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before locking the thread.

You may begin now.

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Spinal
01-20-2008, 06:42 AM
Fun Facts for the year 1990:

* Washington DC mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

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* James "Buster" Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson to claim the World Heavyweight Boxing crown.

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* Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

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* East Germany and West Germany reunify.

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* The first known World Wide Web page is written.

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Spinal
01-20-2008, 06:44 AM
1. Miller's Crossing
2. The Grifters
3. Dreams
4. La Femme Nikita
5. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Mr. Valentine
01-20-2008, 06:49 AM
1. Goodfellas
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Boiling Point
5. Wild at Heart

Honorable Mention: Troll 2

Kurious Jorge v3.1
01-20-2008, 06:55 AM
1. Twin Peaks Pilot
2. Trust
3. Archangel
4. Life is Sweet
5. To Sleep With Anger

Derek
01-20-2008, 07:52 AM
1) Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
2) Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
3) Trust (Hal Hartley)
4) Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
5) Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)

Sycophant
01-20-2008, 08:19 AM
1. Bullet in the Head
2. Wild at Heart
3. My Mother's Castle
4. My Father's Glory
5. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Runners-up: Boiling Point, Miller's Crossing

soitgoes...
01-20-2008, 08:50 AM
1. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
2. Dances with Wolves (Costner)
3. Close Up (Kiarostami)
4. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard)
5. Total Recall (Verhoeven)

Velocipedist
01-20-2008, 09:19 AM
A tough one.

1. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
2. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Archangel (Guy Maddin)
4. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
5. I Hired a Contract Killer (Aki Kaurismäki)

Honorable mentions:

6. Larks on a String (Jir* Menzel)
7. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
8. The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki)

It's sad to not see the Kaurismäki movies on the lists prior to mine, as 1990 was a great one-two punch year for him.

I need to see Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead right now!

soitgoes...
01-20-2008, 09:27 AM
It's sad to not see the Kaurismäki movies on the lists prior to mine, as 1990 was a great one-two punch year for him.If only he had more films released on Region 1 DVD. I know there are other ways of seeing his work, but well, I just haven't yet.


I need to see Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead right now!
Please do. Its pretty great.

MadMan
01-20-2008, 09:28 AM
1. Dances With Wolves
2. Total Recall
3. Arachnophobia
4. Quigley Down Under
5. Goodfellas

Even though I haven't seen a good many films from this year, I actually had to think about I dig most of the films I have seen from this year a good deal. Rescuers Down Under and The Hunt For Red October would be my honorable mentions for this year.

Boner M
01-20-2008, 10:59 AM
1. Pump up the Volume (Moyle)
2. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
3. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante)
4. Life is Sweet (Leigh)
5. Miami Blues (Armitage)

Fifth place could easily be replaced with any of the following: Trust, The Reflecting Skin, Tremors, The Grifters, Metropolitan, Miller's Crossing, To Sleep With Anger and Riff-Raff. Negligible year.

transmogrifier
01-20-2008, 10:59 AM
1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
4. Quick Change
5. GoodFellas

Russ
01-20-2008, 01:01 PM
1. Twin Peaks Pilot
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Archangel
4. Wild at Heart
5. Jacob's Ladder

Llopin
01-20-2008, 01:30 PM
3. Violent Cop (Kitano)

1989.

1. Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Milou en Mai (Louis Malle)
3. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
4. Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano)
5. ¡Ay, Carmela! (Carlos Saura)

Mysterious Dude
01-20-2008, 01:33 PM
1. Edward Scissorhands
2. Nikita
3. Dick Tracy
4. My Father's Glory
5. My Mother's Castle

Eh, I hate this year.

odditie
01-20-2008, 02:43 PM
1. Close-Up
2. Dreams
3. Miller’s Crossing
4. Goodfellas
5. Home Alone

Heh, ran out of gas after the 4th film...

Weeping_Guitar
01-20-2008, 03:00 PM
1. Miller's Crossing
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Goodfellas
4. Metropolitan
5. The Godfather Part III

Kurosawa Fan
01-20-2008, 03:05 PM
1. Miller's Crossing
2. Misery
3. Goodfellas
4. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
5. Troll 2

Grouchy
01-20-2008, 03:17 PM
1. Goodfellas
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Átame (Tie me up, tie me down)
5. Wild at Heart

My list is the same as Mr. Valentine, except for the 4th spot.

Philosophe_rouge
01-20-2008, 03:50 PM
1. Miller's Crossing
2. Goodfellas
3. Dances with Wolves
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. Misery

DSNT
01-20-2008, 04:03 PM
1. Goodfellas
2. Jacob's Ladder
3. Wild At Heart
4. Dances With Wolves
5. Mo' Better Blues

Ezee E
01-20-2008, 04:04 PM
1. Goodfellas
2. Dick Tracy
3. Jacob's Ladder
4. Misery
5. Edward Scissorhands

Mr. Valentine
01-20-2008, 04:15 PM
this thread is reminding me how much i hate Dick Tracy.

Gizmo
01-20-2008, 04:18 PM
1. Goodfellas
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Nikita
4. Dances with Wolves


uh, I can't really justify putting up any others, but if you need 5 go with Dick Tracy.

Yxklyx
01-20-2008, 04:44 PM
1. Twin Peaks Pilot (David Lynch)
2. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
3. Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
4. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
5. Archangel (Guy Maddin)
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6. The Comb (Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay) [short]

I included #6 in case the Twin Peaks pilot does not qualify.

Eleven
01-20-2008, 04:46 PM
1. Close Up
2. An Angel at My Table
3. Miller's Crossing
4. Goodfellas
5. Edward Scissorhands

HM: Jacob's Ladder, Nikita, and Wild at Heart.

Yxklyx
01-20-2008, 04:52 PM
2. Trust
4. Life is Sweet


Darn, have yet to track down either of these.

Melville
01-20-2008, 05:16 PM
1. Close-Up (Kiarostami)
2. Archangel (Maddin)
3. Wild at Heart (Lynch)
4. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
5. Miller's Crossing (Coens)

Watashi
01-20-2008, 05:26 PM
1. Miller's Crossing
2. Goodfellas
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Total Recall
5. Alice

I've only seen a whopping 8 movies from this year.

Raiders
01-20-2008, 05:51 PM
1. Close-up
2. To Sleep With Anger
3. Miller's Crossing
4. The Grifters
5. The Reflecting Skin

Spinal
01-20-2008, 05:52 PM
uh, I can't really justify putting up any others, but if you need 5 go with Dick Tracy.

I'd rather count four films you really like than force to include a fifth you don't. For future reference, let's say that lists require a minimum of three films and that all films listed should be stuff you have genuine appreciation for.

Raiders
01-20-2008, 05:53 PM
This thread is reminding me how much I hate Wild at Heart.

Spinal
01-20-2008, 05:57 PM
I included #6 in case the Twin Peaks pilot does not qualify.

As we go through these years, I am going to try to be as inclusive as possible. If a legitimate argument can be made, I'm probably going to allow it and just let voters decide whether it makes the final list or not. Personally, it doesn't feel right to me to include it, but I am not going to dictate that you can't.

Velocipedist
01-20-2008, 06:54 PM
This thread is reminding me how much I hate Wild at Heart.


I'd rather count four films you really like than force to include a fifth you don't. For future reference, let's say that lists require a minimum of three films and that all films listed should be stuff you have genuine appreciation for.

This thread is reminding me how bad 1990 was. Even though I like all of the eight movies I listed, I wouldn't rate Wild at Heart with more than a 7.5.

MadMan
01-20-2008, 07:55 PM
Oh and looking at this year I realize just how much 2000>1990, even though this year had Goodfellas.

soitgoes...
01-20-2008, 08:46 PM
1989.

Fixed.

Spinal
01-20-2008, 10:35 PM
What was on the radio in 1990?

Top ten pop songs of 1990:

1. Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
2. Madonna - "Vogue"
3. Deee-Lite - "Groove Is In the Heart"
4. Mariah Carey - "Vision Of Love"
5. M.C. Hammer - "U Can't Touch This"
6. Janet Jackson - "Escapade"
7. Digital Underground - "The Humpty Dance"
8. Faith No More - "Epic"
9. Bell Biv Devoe - "Poison"
10. Heart - "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You"

source: about.com

Mysterious Dude
01-20-2008, 10:40 PM
Huh. I didn't realize Mariah Carey was that old.

Spinal
01-20-2008, 11:03 PM
Huh. I didn't realize Mariah Carey was that old.

That was her first big hit, I believe.

origami_mustache
01-20-2008, 11:08 PM
1. Goodfellas
2. Jacob's Ladder
3. Miller's Crossing
4. Nikita
5. The Godfather Part III

I need to see Dreams and Close-Up.

ledfloyd
01-21-2008, 12:29 AM
1. Goodfellas
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Troll 2
4. Wild at Heart
5. Home Alone

what a terrible year.

Lucky
01-21-2008, 02:55 AM
1. Metropolitan
2. Goodfellas
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. La Femme Nikita
5. Misery

megladon8
01-21-2008, 03:15 AM
1.) Goodfellas
2.) Edward Scissorhands
3.) Total Recall
4.) La Femme Nikita
5.) Home Alone

Rowland
01-21-2008, 03:26 AM
1. Goodfellas
2. Bullet in the Head
3. Jacob's Ladder
4. Miller's Crossing
5. Tremors

Runner-ups: Twin Peaks Pilot, The Hunt for Red October, The Witches

Guilty Pleasures: Predator 2, Days of Thunder

Worst: Revenge

Spinal
01-21-2008, 04:18 AM
The following television programs premiered in 1990:

Mr. Bean (UK)
Twin Peaks
In Living Color
Wings
Northern Exposure
Law and Order
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Cop Rock
Beverly Hills 90210

The highest rated television programs for 1990 were:

The Cosby Show
Roseanne

Winston*
01-21-2008, 04:23 AM
1. The Grifters
2. Life is Sweet
3. Goodfellas
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. Miller's Crossing

Yum-Yum
01-21-2008, 10:33 AM
1. Pump Up the Volume
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Metropolitan
5. Trust

origami_mustache
01-21-2008, 10:42 AM
Not going to lie I was tempted to rank Kindergarten Cop over The Godfather III

Yxklyx
01-21-2008, 12:25 PM
As we go through these years, I am going to try to be as inclusive as possible. If a legitimate argument can be made, I'm probably going to allow it and just let voters decide whether it makes the final list or not. Personally, it doesn't feel right to me to include it, but I am not going to dictate that you can't.

Actually, Twin Peaks Season 1 could be viewed as a miniseries at only 8 hours. The Decalogue is longer and some people will probably put up votes for von Trier's The Kingdom when we get around to it - that one has a very similar structure to Twin Peaks Season 1 though it's only about 5 hours long.

Llopin
01-21-2008, 02:09 PM
Some Kool Albums That Were Released in 1990

AC/DC:The Razor's Edge
Billy Bragg:The Internationale
Bob Mould:Black Sheets Of Rain
Cocteau Twins:Heaven Or Las Vegas
Connells:One Simple Word
Cranes:Inescapable
Fugazi:13 Songs
Guided By Voices:Same Place The Fly Got Smashed
Lush:Gala
Megadeth:Rust In Peace
Napalm Death:Harmony Corruption
Neurosis:The Word As Law
Posies:Dear 23
Public Enemy:Fear Of A Black Planet
Ride:Nowhere
Sebadoh:Freed Weed
Slayer:Seasons In The Abyss
Sonic Youth:Goo
The Dwarves:Blood, Guts And Pussy
The Flaming Lips:In A Priest Driven Ambulance
The La's:The La's
The Replacements:All Shook Down
They Might Be Giants:Flood
Yo La Tengo:Fakebook

DSNT
01-21-2008, 02:18 PM
Amazing year for music, not so much for movies.

Spinal
01-21-2008, 06:28 PM
1990 in sports:

* Detroit Pistons win the NBA Finals.

* The Cincinnati Reds sweep the Oakland A's in the World Series.

* Tour de France - Greg Lemond of the United States.

* Super Bowl XXIV - San Francisco 49ers won 55-10 over the Denver Broncos.

* College Basketball: UNLV defeats Duke by a record margin to win their first NCAA basketball championship, becoming the first team to score 100 points in the championship game.

* College Football: The Colorado Buffaloes are named the AP Poll champion, while the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are named the UPI Poll champion.

* West Germany won the Football World Cup in Rome, Italy, defeating defending champion Argentina 1-0 in the final.

* Golf: Nick Faldo wins both The Masters and The British Open.

* Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers won 4 games to 1 over the Boston Bruins.

* Canada defeats the United States in the inaugural World Hockey Championship for women.

* Stefan Edberg and Martina Navratilova win at Wimbledon.

* Bronco Nagurski, Tony Conigliaro and Rocky Graziano die.

baby doll
01-21-2008, 08:02 PM
1. Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle)
2. Trust (Hal Hartley)
3. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
4. Le Mari de la coiffeuse (Patrice Leconte)
5. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)

Sycophant
01-21-2008, 08:42 PM
If we're going to be doing many more of these (I do hope so--they're fun), I really ought to get to worok on compiling that list of every film I've seen.

Spinal
01-23-2008, 07:01 AM
Time Person of the Year for 1990: George Bush (the first one)

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soitgoes...
01-23-2008, 08:15 AM
My 6 through 10 for 1990.
6. Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
7. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)
8. Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland)
9. Nikita (Luc Besson)
10. The Grifters (Stephen Frears)

And number 51 would have to be Rocky V (John G. Avildsen). This is the one where you don't think Rocky's gonna have enough stuff to beat his opponent, but in the end he does.

origami_mustache
01-23-2008, 08:25 AM
6. Kindergarten Cop
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
8. Arachnophobia
9. Child's Play 2
10. Home Alone

:lol:

Lazlo
01-23-2008, 11:29 AM
1. GoodFellas
2. Miller’s Crossing
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Vincent and Theo
5. Close-Up

Benny Profane
01-23-2008, 03:38 PM
1. Goodfellas
2. Quick Change
3. Dances with Wolves
4. My Blue Heaven
5. Ghost


That's pretty awful.

Raiders
01-23-2008, 04:56 PM
5. Ghost

Oh come on. You had to have seen at least six films from this year.

Benny Profane
01-23-2008, 05:22 PM
Oh come on. You had to have seen at least six films from this year.

Call it a guilty pleasure? I enjoy watching it when it comes on TNT. I guess I have more fun with it than Miller's Crossing or Edward Scissorhands, which I admire but don't particularly want to ever watch. So that's gotta count for something.

Grouchy
01-23-2008, 06:36 PM
6. Nikita
7. Predator 2
8. King of New York
9. Alice
10. Dreams

MadMan
01-23-2008, 07:53 PM
6-10:

6. The Hunt for Red October
7. The Rescuers Down Under
8. Tremors
9. Die Hard 2
10. Home Alone

Ezee E
01-23-2008, 08:14 PM
Yeah. I, too, like Ghost.

I won't even use the blushing smiley.

Velocipedist
01-23-2008, 08:50 PM
Yeah. I, too, like Ghost.

Ghost was nominated for Best Picture in the 1991 Oscars. We can stop bitching about Juno now.

Raiders
01-23-2008, 08:51 PM
Yeah. I, too, like Ghost.

I won't even use the blushing smiley.

Every time you criticize a film I love, I think I'll repeat this in my head.

Ezee E
01-23-2008, 08:54 PM
Every time you criticize a film I love, I think I'll repeat this in my head.
Aw, come on now. Want to make some pottery?

Spinal
01-23-2008, 09:00 PM
Every time you criticize a film I love, I think I'll repeat this in my head.

For example:


28 Up (Michael Apted, 1985) / **

Spinal
01-24-2008, 04:23 PM
1 more day for this one

koji
01-24-2008, 11:57 PM
1. Miller’s Crossing (Coen Bros.)
2. My Mother's Castle (Yves Robert)
3. My Father’s Glory (Yves Robert)
4 Ju Dou (Zhang)
5. Trust (Hartley)


And:
6 Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
7. Close-up (Kiarostami)
8. The King of New York (Ferrara)
9 Goodfellas (Scorsese)
10. Nikita (Luc Besson)


While this is among the weaker years, 1980 is stacked.

Spinal
01-25-2008, 06:24 PM
Results sometime today. I'm going to leave it unlocked for now because I won't be able to get to this until later tonight.

Spinal
01-26-2008, 03:41 AM
#9 (tie)

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Metropolitan

Director: Whit Stillman

Country: USA

In an apartment on Manhattan, friends from the New York upper-class meet to talk about social mobility, play bridge and discuss Fourier's socialism; the cynic Nick, the philosophical Charlie, partygirl Sally and austenite Audrey. They are joined by Tom. His background is much simpler and he is critical of their way of life.

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.

"[Stillman] has written wonderful dialogue, words in which the characters discuss ideas and feelings instead of simply marching through plot points as most Hollywood characters do." -- Roger Ebert

Spinal
01-26-2008, 03:51 AM
#9 (tie)

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Archangel

Director: Guy Maddin

Country: Canada

Lt. John Boles, a one-legged soldier, is assisting the White Russians in the Russian Arctic during World War I. He finds himself in Archangel, a crystalline city of spires and domes, inhabited by some very confused people.

Won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Experimental Film.

"The characters move in a surreal, fogbound atmosphere of hazy unease; this is a place where fuzzy bunnies rain down into the Russian trenches while the German invaders feast on the throats of their slaughtered enemies ... Love it or hate it, this is one film that just doesn't give a damn what you think." -- Marc Savlov

Spinal
01-26-2008, 03:58 AM
#8

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Jacob's Ladder

Director: Adrian Lyne

Country: USA

A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.

The film is viewed by many, including the screenwriter, as a modern interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

"Jacob's Ladder enters into the hallucinations of a desperate mind, and lives there. It evokes a paranoid-schizophrenic state as effectively as any film I have ever seen" -- Roger Ebert

Mysterious Dude
01-26-2008, 03:58 AM
Two movies I haven't seen. This is way better than RT.

Spinal
01-26-2008, 04:09 AM
#7

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Nikita

Director: Luc Besson

Country: France

Nikita is a young woman who commits robbery and murder while on drugs. After her trial, she is not executed or taken to prison, but rather to a school for special operatives.

Anne Parillaud won a César award for Best Actress. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.

"This French movie's a stylistic blast if your sensibilities are -- how you say? -- postpunk. You must also dig cinematic pretentiousness, nihilistic flash and cutting-edge hiposity ... You need, most of all, to love a leggy, murderous woman in black." -- Desson Howe

Raiders
01-26-2008, 04:14 AM
"This French movie's a stylistic blast if your sensibilities are -- how you say? -- postpunk. You must also dig cinematic pretentiousness, nihilistic flash and cutting-edge hiposity ... You need, most of all, to love a leggy, murderous woman in black." -- Desson Howe

That's almost sub-Travers right there. Yeesh.

Yxklyx
01-26-2008, 04:22 AM
Glad to see Metropolitan and Archangel. I found Jacob's Ladder very shallow from what I remember. Nikita was OK and I can see it being here - I might need to rewatch that one.

Rowland
01-26-2008, 04:33 AM
Jacob's Ladder is nearly brilliant just for how successfully it evokes a nightmarishly paranoid and hallucinatory atmosphere. That it resonates politically and spiritually is icing.

Watashi
01-26-2008, 04:35 AM
Jacob's Ladder is the one of the few films that actually scares the crap out of me.

Spinal
01-26-2008, 04:37 AM
#6

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Dances with Wolves

Director: Kevin Costner

Country: USA

An epic film which tells the story of a United States cavalry officer from the Civil War who travels alone into the frontier near a Sioux tribe. He makes friends with the tribe and gradually earns their respect.

Won 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2007, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry

"Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves is a stunning combination of all-American boyishness and sweeping grandeur - it's the movies' first regular-guy epic. It's also one of the movies' most impressive directorial debuts ..." -- Hal Hinson

Raiders
01-26-2008, 04:42 AM
Seriously?

Yxklyx
01-26-2008, 04:44 AM
Seriously?

Shhh. No comment would have been better.

Spinal
01-26-2008, 04:45 AM
#5

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Wild at Heart

Director: David Lynch

Country: USA

Young lovers Sailor and Lula take off for New Orleans following Sailor's release from prison, with Lula's hysterical mother, a weary detective and a sinister hitman after them.

Winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes. Diane Ladd earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

"Imagine The Wizard Of Oz with an oversexed witch, gun-toting Munchkins and love ballads from Elvis Presley ... Lynch's kinky fairy tale is a triumph of startling images and comic invention." -- Peter Travers

Raiders
01-26-2008, 04:46 AM
The horror...

Rowland
01-26-2008, 04:46 AM
I remember Dances with Wolves boring the shit out of me a decade ago. I can't say I'm in a rush to revisit it.

Wild at Heart is one of the few Lynch movies I haven't yet seen. I should get on that, pronto. I know Ed Gonzalez loves it.

Spinal
01-26-2008, 04:54 AM
#4

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Close-Up

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Country: Iran

Pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf making his next movie, Ali Sabzian enters a well-to-do family in Teheran. The actual people involved in the incident re-enact the actual events, followed by the footage from the actual trial that took place.

Chosen by Les Cahiers du cinéma as one of the year's 10 best pictures. Did not receive American release until December 31st, 1999.

"If Godard was once the giddy Chuck Berry of self-reflexive movie-movie-ness, Kiarostami is the Dylan, moving past the bop and onto the straight goods." -- Michael Atkinson

Spinal
01-26-2008, 05:06 AM
#3

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Edward Scissorhands

Director: Tim Burton

Country: USA

When the local Avon lady attempts one last stop to sell her products, she wanders off to a mansion on top of a large hill. Finding a lonely man named Edward with scissors for hands, she decides to bring him back with her into society.

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup. Features the last screen appearance of Vincent Price.

"Edward Scissorhands is enchantment on the cutting edge, a dark yet heartfelt portrait of the artist as a young mannequin ..." -- Rita Kempley

Spinal
01-26-2008, 05:22 AM
#2

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Miller's Crossing

Director: Joel Coen

Country: USA

Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one gang to get back at the other.

Selected in 2005 by Time as one of the 100 greatest movies since the inception of the magazine. During the writing of the screenplay, the Coens suffered from writer's block, so for three weeks they turned to another project, which eventually became Barton Fink.

"The Coens have tempered their style from the daredevil camerabatics of Blood Simple and Raising Arizona; they now seek the extra fillip of incident and character in the corner of every frame ... [They] are artists too, and their cool dazzler is an elegy to a day when Hollywood could locate moral gravity in a genre film for grownups." -- Richard Corliss

origami_mustache
01-26-2008, 05:23 AM
hmmm am I the only person who has never seen Edward Scissorhands? That could be a pretty safe bet.

Spinal
01-26-2008, 05:32 AM
#1

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Goodfellas

Director: Martin Scorsese

Country: USA

The lowly, blue-collar side of New York's Italian mafia is explored in the crime biopic of wiseguy Henry Hill. As he makes his way from strapping young petty criminal, to big-time thief, to middle-aged cocaine addict and dealer, the film explores in detail the rules and traditions of organized crime.

Joe Pesci won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2005, Total Film named it the greatest film of all time.

"No finer film has ever been made about organized crime - not even The Godfather ... " -- Roger Ebert

Spinal
01-26-2008, 05:35 AM
1. Goodfellas 105.5
2. Miller's Crossing 83.5
3. Edward Scissorhands 63.5
4. Close-Up 38
5. Wild at Heart 30
6. Dances with Wolves 22
7. Nikita 19.5
8. Jacob's Ladder 17.5
9t. Archangel 17
9t. Metropolitan 17

Near Misses:

Total Recall 16.5
Trust 16.5
Pump Up the Volume 15
Twin Peaks Pilot 15
Misery 12
The Grifters 12

Yxklyx
01-26-2008, 06:00 AM
That last Ebert quote is so wrong.

MadMan
01-26-2008, 06:00 AM
Dances With Wolves is actually one of my favorite westerns. Its not a great film and it certainly didn't deserve to win Best Picture, but hey most of the time the Academy gets shit wrong anyways. I'm an un-apologetic Kevin Costner fan damnit :P

Goodfellas is great, and is the second and only other film I've seen off of the list. This is the film that Marty should have won Best Picture and Best Director for. With that in mind I'm somewhat annoyed that Ebert thinks its better than The Godfather. Silly Roger....

Velocipedist
01-26-2008, 07:13 AM
Ah, I'm sad I missed the ongoing rundown.

Well, anyway, Dances with Wolves is a joke.

Spinal
01-26-2008, 07:26 AM
I have still never seen Dances with Wolves and I don't see it happening any time soon.

This list is at the very least kinda interesting. Subpar Lynch and subpar Maddin, but hey, at least it's Lynch and Maddin. I get why everyone loves the Burton film, but honestly, it doesn't rise much beyond the nifty concept for me. Fun Depp performance though.

monolith94
01-26-2008, 03:20 PM
Interesting that no one mentioned Zeferreli's "Hamlet". That would've made my top 5.

Velocipedist
01-26-2008, 03:26 PM
I get why everyone loves the Burton film, but honestly, it doesn't rise much beyond the nifty concept for me. Fun Depp performance though.

In fact, I think its concept is the most uninteresting thing about it. We've seen it all before in the likes of The Elephant Man or The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.

Sycophant
01-26-2008, 05:27 PM
I get why everyone loves the Burton film, but honestly, it doesn't rise much beyond the nifty concept for me. Fun Depp performance though.This opinion could pass as mine for several Burton films for me. Except Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd.

dreamdead
01-26-2008, 05:29 PM
This opinion could pass as mine for several Burton films for me. Except Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd.

Which would then suggest that you don't find much value in Ed Wood. Which would then be blasphemy. Tread carefully, friend.

Sycophant
01-26-2008, 05:39 PM
Which would then suggest that you don't find much value in Ed Wood. Which would then be blasphemy. Tread carefully, friend.Wow. Allow me to correct myself: Ed Wood is his best film and I love it.

Velocipedist
01-26-2008, 05:41 PM
Ed Wood is his best film and I love it.

Absolutely correct.

Duncan
01-26-2008, 06:12 PM
Edward Scissorhands is the only Burton film I really love. Ed Wood is pretty good, but I'm not too enamoured with that one.

Raiders
01-26-2008, 06:31 PM
You are all incorrect. It's all about Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Bosco B Thug
01-26-2008, 07:37 PM
Ed Wood's great and brilliant in chunks (the epilogue's flippancy comes to mind), but I had problems with it that I'd need a rewatch to really grasp. Something like, it's too enamored with its main character - it's the peripheral characters that really provide the biting commentary and that doesn't effectively congeal at the end. I prefer the more cohesively critical satire of 'Edward' or the detached, patently absurd tone of 'Pee Wee's' and 'Beetlejuice.'

MadMan
01-26-2008, 08:41 PM
Interesting that no one mentioned Zeferreli's "Hamlet". That would've made my top 5.That film was well made, but it bored the hell out of me. Just like his version of Romeo and Juliet did back when I saw it in high school. Perhaps both need revisiting though.

Spinal
01-27-2008, 03:39 AM
Interesting that no one mentioned Zeferreli's "Hamlet". That would've made my top 5.

Too bad I think of it mostly as Gibson's Hamlet. Some great supporting performances though.

Mysterious Dude
01-27-2008, 04:00 AM
Zeferreli's Hamlet is completely unmemorable. His Romeo and Juliet is much better.

Yxklyx
01-27-2008, 04:37 AM
Zeferreli's Hamlet is completely unmemorable. His Romeo and Juliet is much better.

I love that Romeo and Juliet adaptation. Some excellent music by the maestro Nino Rota.

Grouchy
01-27-2008, 09:28 PM
That last Ebert quote is so wrong.
Actually, this is one of the few times for me where Ebert is kind of talking some sense. It doesn't make sense to put two masterpieces like Goodfellas and Godfather and say one is better like the other, since they're apples and oranges, but as far as movies about the mob and organized crime, I find Goodfellas simply has more to say about the way the criminal mind actually works and is generally less forgiving and glamourizing. Not to dismiss Godfather at all, but in many ways it's like a Hollywood version of the Marty movie.