Match Cut's Movies to See Before You Die (or Get a Girlfriend)

[Qrazy]

This Mulholland Drive argument would have been better if it had taken place via PMs. In it's current form it's alright, but it's not great.

[Spaceman Spiff]

This Mulholland Drive argument would have been better if it had taken place via PMs. In it's current form it's alright, but it's not great.

It also needs more lesbian sex.

[Derek]

This Mulholland Drive argument would have been better if it had taken place via PMs. In it's current form it's alright, but it's not great.

Yeah, it can be kind of annoying when posters get into extended, digressive debates inside a thread when they should've moved to PMs, huh?

[soitgoes...]

It's the tits. Watched it on Friday and again today (it gets better) - a remarkably complex, subtle, strange, tragic condemnation of modern Japan. It's the culmination, both visually and thematically, of everything Oshima's has tackled before, but it's scope is broader and his style perfectly honed and restrained. I knew he had a masterpiece in him, but this exceeded all expectations. Best film I've seen in a long time.

Sweet. Can't wait to read your extended thoughts on this one. I can't remember the last time I saw a score that high in your sig.

[Qrazy]

Yeah, it can be kind of annoying when posters get into extended, digressive debates inside a thread when they should've moved to PMs, huh?

No, I like it a lot. My comment was multi-layered irony and sarcasm. SO THERE.

[Sycophant]

OMG! Multiple layers, like an ogre!

[Qrazy]

OMG! Multiple layers, like an ogre!

Or an onion owned by an ogre.

[MadMan]

OMG! Multiple layers, like an ogre!

I read "Ogre" as "Orgy." My mind's in the gutter 24/7 it seems.

[Qrazy]

I read "Ogre" as "Orgy." My mind's in the gutter 24/7 it seems.

Multiple Entendre! Haha!

[MadMan]

Multiple Entendre! Haha!

It was unintentional, but yeah, sure.

And rep for the Harvey Birdman reference. Phil Ken Sebben is my hero.

[transmogrifier]

Top 20 Directors

1. Stanley Kubrick 72 (7)
2. Alfred Hitchcock 66 (11)
3 =Akira Kurosawa 53 (8)
Steven Spielberg 53 (9)
5. Joel Coen 49 (7)
6. David Lynch 46 (7)
7. Woody Allen 44 (10)
8. Ingmar Bergman 40 (10)
9. Francis Ford Coppola 38 (4)
10. Martin Scorsese 37 (3)
11. Orson Welles 34 (3)
12= Billy Wilder 30 (4)
Federico Fellini 30 (3)
Sergio Leone 30 (4)
Werner Herzog 30 (6)
16= Charlie Chaplin 28 (6)
Robert Altman 28 (7)
18. Terrence Malick 27 (4)
19= Buster Keaton 26 (5)
PT Anderson 26 (4)


I couldn't decide how to calculate this list, but then I thought I'd go with the idea of the top director having the most overall impact on the viewing public, rather than worrying about rankings, ratings or whether they had large or small filmographies. So the number next to the name is simply the number of times that director appeared on a Top 100 list, regardless of the film, and the number in brackets is the number of his (yep, all guys) films that appeared on that master list.

[MadMan]

I'm quite late, but here's my Top 10 for comparrison (eh, what the hell?):

10. Goodfellas (1990)
9. The Gold Rush (1925)
8. The Seventh Seal (1957)
7. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964)
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
5. The Third Man (1949)
4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
1. Apocalypse Now(1979)

Maybe one day I'll make a Top 50. I did make a Top 20 a couple years ago, but it needs tweaking. A Top 100 is too much work :P