your favorite movies (of all time)

I searched ILX and the closest I could find was 'your favorite movie', but kenan's thread was a little too specific

Ultimately I'm looking for new movies to watch so please list some of your favorites and indicate the genre and year they were released. And if you want to write a short blurb about the movies feel free to do so

Thanks, I look forward to watching more good movies and upping my geek credentials

The Maltese Falcon, 1940's, film noir.

nobody tells the truth, all the performances are great, the script is bewilderingly smart and sassy. it's got its own threads if you want more info.

i was shattered by the last vignette from the movie nine lives (the glenn close part). unforgettable moviemaking, and very subtle. otoh, also unbearably sad.

bottle rocket

Seven Samurai, but if that seems too long and slow, try Yojimbo.

Blue Velvet (1986)- contemporary 'film noir,' directed by David Lynch, Brazil (1985)- dystopian future, directed by Terry Gilliam, 12 Monkeys (1995)- also Terry Gilliam, probably the reason I have an irrational love for Bruce Willis.

Apologies if you've seen all of these! I know they're not very obscure.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Sound of Music
The Day of the Jackal
Young Frankenstein

xp no apologies mate, your favorites don't have to be obscure

I'm Gonna Get You Sucka
Amadeus
The Life of Brian
High Fidelity

LAUGH 'TIL IT BLURTS. Romantic Comedy, 1993. Two aspiring young comedians find romance at a comedy camp, but must overcome a fundamental difference revealed by a joke that accidentally reveals too much.

THE CAN MAN. Documentary, 1989. When a soup factory employee's house is destroyed in a floor, a man spends years building a new house entirely from scraps of tin cans salvaged from the factory.

OVER THE PURPLE BRIDGE. Foreign, 1997. A gang of Vietnamese war criminals terrorizes a nearby village until a determined group of children summons the courage to take matters into their own hands and send the bad men back 'over the purple bridge.'

THE SOONER THE BETTER. Comedy, 1972. A con-man grifts his way through a central Oklahoma farming community until realizing he's taken more than he can bargain for.

WHO DID THIS TO ME. Drama, 2005. A woman risks life and limb to discover the identity of the person who did it to her.

JUNGLE JOHN'S BURGER SAFARI. Comedy, 1998. When a Chicago restaurateur is forced to close up shop, strange circumstances lead him to re-open in the unlikeliest of locales: Sub-Saharan Africa!

whoops meant to type "flood" but "floor" came out, tee hee

Le Samourai - Crumbling Assassin navigates cops and betrayal in colourfully grey Paris.
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset - Sometimes douchey duo grapple with youth and ageing in gorgeous European locales.
Days of Heaven - Love Triangle Tragedy held at arm's length in turn of the century Texas where nature indifferently swallows whole the problems of puny mortals.
Kings and Queen - French people doing French things.
Touch of Evil - Film so good it overcomes Charlton Heston playing a Mexican in richly photographed border town where Marlene Dietrich gets the best last line of any film ever.
The Werckmeister Harmonies - Life, the Universe, and Civil Unrest are explored in a small Hungarian town via extended takes, a dead whale, and the local idiot.
Die Hard - Working class impotent regains masculinity, wife by pwning 80s corporate culture and terrorists in sharp suits.
Diary of a Country Priest - Catholic priest mopes through hostile village while grappling with faith and mortality.
Brief Encounter - Stiff Upper Lips tremble at the sight of WWII English housewife malaise.

Seven Samurai, but if that seems too long and slow, try Yojimbo.
― Brad C.

I really do love Seven Samurai. I have affinity for many long atmospheric movies

For instance one of my favorites is The Big Blue (le grand bleu) - a long Luc Besson drama from 1988 about a diver championship (I think I saw the director's cut)

And while I'm listing movie's I love
Ran (1985) - Japanese war drama
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007) - Mongolian war drama

(I've only seen all the movies I listed in this post once. I wonder if my opinion would change if I watched them more than once)

• Diary of a Country Priest (1951) dir. Robert Bresson — existential drama
• Sunrise (1929), dir. F.W. Murnau — silent melodrama with gorgeous set pieces
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946), dir. Michael Powell — warm hearted love story half technicolor half b&w
• The Mirror (1975), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky — dreamy, moving from one narrative thread to another, roughly autobiographical. Tough to get on one viewing
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1975), dir. Nicolas Roeg — fractured sci-fi w/ David Bowie as an alien
• The Conformist (1970), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci — prob the best looking film ever made
• Le Samouraï (1967), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville — steely grey french gangster flick w/ Alain Delon as a doomed hitman. Makes you want to slink around back alleys wearing a fedora.
• Ordet (1955), dir. Carl Dreyer — metaphysical family drama, just keeps ratcheting up the sad level throughout the whole thing, I've never cried so much from one movie.
• Late Spring (1949), dir. Yasujiro Ozu — meditative family drama (seeing a pattern?), tender and beautiful

corey, you and i should talk/have beer.

ha for real!

Videodrome - 1983 - Came out the year I was born, I would say it defines my generation and is probably the highlight of 80's Cronenberg.

The Thing - 1982 - John Carpenter's magnum opus. Still my pick for "scariest movie ever."

Blade Runner - 1982 - A perfect film, IMO, especially the director's cut.

Ed Wood - 1994 - One of Johnny Depp's finest performances, Martin Landau is amazing in it too. The lines and gags in this movie are great and its pathos is refined and doesn't resort to melodrama.

Dawn of the Dead - 1978 - The finest zombie movie to ever be filmed.

Wet Hot American Summer - 2001 - Probably my all time favorite comedy. You can see it like 5 times before you catch all the jokes. Definitely gets better with rewatching.

Thats some... I have other favorite movies, like Ghostbusters and Tron, that I am attached to more for childhood nostalgia than anything else. Ghostbusters is pretty damn good though...

M - serial child murdered is hunted down by a city's career crooks; darkly comic police procedural with satirical undertones
Mishima: a Life in 4 Chapters - biography of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima which interweaves three of his novels with a recreation of his last day; super-stylized visuals meet Philip Glass's best movie score
Simon del Desierto - Saint Simon Stylites is tempted by the Devil, mostly disguised as a saucy schoolgirl; features a tremendous joke about some dude's arm and my favourite ending of any movie ever
Ong-bak - Tony Jaa fucking rules

Wet Hot American Summer - 2001 - Probably my all time favorite comedy. You can see it like 5 times before you catch all the jokes. Definitely gets better with rewatching.

ha maybe so. i watched it .5 times without getting any.

love Mishima's novels and Schrader's book on "Transcendental Style" (even if it's a bit dated and forces a framework of an overriding aesthetic narrative onto varied oeuvres) is an interesting read but I've still never seen that. Need to see Simon too. xp

Capturing the Friedmans – I rented this on DVD and watched it enraptured, then watched all the extras and my mind was even more blown, so I bought the DVD right after renting it. Since then, I have tried to show it to over ten people, all of whom have fallen asleep. SO if you want to be really interested OR fall asleep immediately, this movie will probably do one of those things for you.

Steamboat Bill Jr. – A silent so you can't look at your knitting! Excessively handsome man sadly busts dad out of jail, encounters weather apocalypse, dodges house facades. IMO it is Buster's funniest!

Fantastic Planet aka La Planète Sauvage – Extra beautiful hand-drawn animation, great organic/trippy soundtrack, sort of silly plot about aliens who have people-like creatures as pets.

Who did you "side with" after the Friedmans? Or, more plainly, who did you believe? I found the father and son infuriating; I was with the mother all the way.

ha maybe so. i watched it .5 times without getting any.

lol yup

movie is MAD OVERRATED

I was pretty sure the kid was innocent. The dad definitely had something going on but I really doubt everyone in that computer class was a victim. I am obsessed with the multi-victim multi-offender court case zeitgiest so the movie was really fascinating to me. Esp. all the extras like transcripts of the cops' interviews with kids from his computer class.

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Actually, it was the other son who drove me up the wall, not the one who was charged. The computer class was murky, agreed. But placed next to what you factually knew to be true about the father, I wasn't sure how much that mattered. Fascinating film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ronaldsay_child_abuse_scandal#Inquiry

Don't know if you've heard about this case, Abbott.

As far as I know there have been precisely no proven cases of ritual abuse anywhere in the world ever?

Tetsuo : The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1990) - Japanese salaryman begins to mutate into scrap metal.
Carnival Of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962) - very odd, very low budget dreamy horror. Imagine Roger Corman directing from a script by Jean Cocteau.
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) - depressed, terminally ill Swedes mope around a hotel. Better than it sounds. Features midgets.
Aguirre : The Wrath Of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) - Klaus Kinski leads Spanish conquistadors up the Amazon in search of El Dorado. Doesn't quite go according to plan.
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964) - not sure how to describe this one.

Big Trouble in Little China for me. My Wife and I put it on regularly as our "falling asleep" movie. I came to this movie in the last couple years. I love how many movies from the 80s take place in the rain. Do movies even do that anymore?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51811F53EYL.jpg

That movie's shit tho iirc

Trying to come up with a list of favorite movies feels random at best, but here's a few that immediately come to mind:

All About Eve
Rosemary's Baby
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Manhattan
Grizzly Man
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Tom Dowd and the Language of Music
The Last Detail
Alien
Love and Death

"Devil and Daniel Johnston" is one of my #1 "makes me cry like a baby" movies.

"eclipse" by antonioni

"A Woman of the World" 1925 romantic comedy featuring Pola Negri and Chester Conklin. An italian countess, appalled by her cheating lover, moves to hick american town and stays with her hick american cousin to get over it. The local D.A. thinks she is a fancy hooker and tries to run her out of town. The countess and the D.A. wind each other up something rotten, but are attracted to each other too. At the end, the countess flogs the D.A. with a horsewhip, following which he proposes marriage to her. Very funny in places, appealing characters, somewhat perverse too. Absolutely great from beginning to end. Negri resembles a blowsy, older version of siouxsie and is madd hott.

"Bare Knees" rare surviving genuine "flapper film" - 1928 - starring former child actress Virginia Lee Corbin, a bunch of interchangable '20's good-looking young guys and Jane Winton. A str8-laced couple, on the wife's birthday, are surprised when her wild, lawless flapper girl younger sister arrives out of the blue. Starts off as a dorky fish-out-of-water comedy, then suddenly does a flip about 20m in, pulls the may out of under your feet and turns into a serious and very good drama on jazz-era sexual morality. Great performances, characters & situations are v recognisable & identifiable with, despite the film being like 82 years old or something.

"Gold Diggers of 1933" classic depression-era Busby Berkeley musical. Trio of chorus girls are on their uppers after the show they're about to perform in gets pwned by debt collectors. Great, snappy pre-code WB dialog, amazing berkeley musical numbers, the film is so tightly edited that it's like having a story fired at you from a machine-gun. this is poss my favorite ever film.

"The Red-Headed Woman" - prurient pre-code trash starring Jean Harlow as a low-down, marriage wrecking gold-digger, completely amoral from beginning to end, the final scene shows Harlow's character, having screwed over a bunch of lamer guys, and having shot one of them, happy and living it up with her rich sugar-daddy in France, with her lover in attendance, working as her chauffeur.

In no order:

My Own Private Idaho
Trouble in Paradise
Tootsie
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Early Summer
Anatomy of a Murder

Will supply blurbs on request.

http://i.imgur.com/b4pP7.jpg

Abbott, im a huge fan of Capturing the friedmans too. there are so many unbelievably captivating moments imo

Pash's film picks are always top notch btw

"Devil and Daniel Johnston" is one of my #1 "makes me cry like a baby" movies.

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt)

really? i liked the movie a lot, and i think i did get emotional at one point, but not in a way that left a lasting impression for that reason.

It's related more to personal fears/reasons than anything.

the final scene shows Harlow's character, having screwed over a bunch of lamer guys, and having shot one of them, happy and living it up with her rich sugar-daddy in France, with her lover in attendance, working as her chauffeur.

That sounds amazing!

well, that daniel johnston movie was certainly raw and real.

sometimes i get emotional at scenes where i know i'm being cynically manipulated. ex. a: that scene from the otherwise execrable movie crash (the one involving a child, and i'll say no more). i kicked myself for getting so weepy-ish at that scene.

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Something Wild - Teenage rape victim in New York runs away from home and forges a strange connection after being held captive by an alcoholic mechanic.
Tokyo Drifter - Gangland tale in eye-popping technicolor madness.
Shoot the Piano Player - Underrated (?) Truffaut.

Something Wild def in my top fifty.

soundtrack by Morton Feldman!

i had capturing the friedmans out from the library once and watched ten minutes before turning it off, feeling really prurient and awkward. maybe you have to persevere through the setup to get to the human bit?, i don't know? i will try again.

not sticking to my guns on this, but here's five faves:
pickpocket, robert bresson
gates of heaven, errol morris
the double life of veronique, krystof kieslowski
tabu, fw murnau
f for fake, orson welles

holy mountain
crumb
fargo
annie hall

Alfred, I want blurbs!

The Thing (1982) - The best sci-fi/horror hybrid of all time, narrowly edging Alien. Everything in the movie, little and big, is top notch - the acting, the score, the effects, even the dog is a great actor. And it makes you think about stuff too! Just a really cool, funny, scary movie.

Crumb (1994) - Mesmerizing documentary about R. Crumb and his family. The portrait of his brother, Charles Crumb, is devastating. R. Crumb's kind of a sick weirdo, but at the same time you come away amazed that he turned out so well compared to the rest of his family. Anyone who comes from a really dysfunctional family will probably find it easy to relate to.

I dunno, that's all I can think of.

I remember when I first saw "Crumb," the next day I explained to my friend how it made me feel. "It made me feel like drawing is a really great and powerful thing to do, but also really fun and exciting," just jabbered on for 10 minutes straight about art and ideas, and how I drew pictures all afternoon because of it. She said, "That's called inspiration."

holy mountain
crumb
fargo
annie hall

― johnny crunch

Which Holy Mountain? I'm assuming Jodorowsky, but you never know.

Crumb is fantastic, def. getting it when I make a Criterion order in the next few days.

yea jodorowsky. whats the other 1 ?

I haven't seen that Crumb documentary in a long while, it is incredibly good, I think maybe one of the best documentary films ever made.

It's a Fanck movie, starring Leni Riefenstahl!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016953/

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Capturing the Friedmans was fascinating, but left me feeling pretty queasy. Don't think I'd ever want to watch it again.

Crumb is also fascinating/horrifying, but in a much different way. That I would like to see again.

Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Nosferatu (Werner Herzog)
Blade Runner: Final Cut
Terminator
The Warriors
Wild Zero
Sonatine
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

That's a top ten off the top of my head. I don't understand film really.

my "picks" section at work includes:

Brazil
Flesh + Blood
In a Lonely Place
All the Real Girls
Citizen Ruth
Stroszek
The Fog of War
F for Fake
Seven Beauties
Hard Core Logo

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Oh yeah I don't know when any of those were released. Genres er:

SF
SF
SF
Horror
SF
SF
Gang War
Bizarro Japanese film
Takeshi Kitano
Horro

My favorite part of Crumb is when you see the insane evolution of Charles' art, culminating in a comic where the panels are filled with giant word bubbles that literally crowd the illustrations off the page. I think back on it whenever I read an overly talky comic.

woops, forgot the genres/years

Brazil - dystopian SF with a comic edge, 1984
Flesh + Blood - Verhoeven's rapey fantasy/action flick, 1987
In a Lonely Place - brutally cynical noir, 1950
All the Real Girls - Sadsack indie drama, 2003
Citizen Ruth - Abortion satire, 1996
Stroszek - Herzog's take on the American Road Movie, 1977
The Fog of War - Errol Morris at his best, 2004
F for Fake - Orson Welles eats the world, 1973
Seven Beauties - pitch-black comedy/war movie/sex farce, 1975
Hard Core Logo - very Canadian mock rock doc, 1996

favorite movies is hard. there are so, so many. some i like and would watch anytime:

the philadelphia story (1940) - wonderful romantic comedy w/ cary grant, katherine hepburn, jimmy stewart: the perfect movie, really
bande à part (1964) - goddard flick about men, women and crime, another romantic comedy, though not what that phrase suggests
once upon a time in the west (1968) - sergio leoni "spaghetti western", maybe the most epic epic i've ever seen
in the mood for love (2000) - wong kar wai film about love at a distance, breathtaking
valerie and her week of wonders (1970) - surreal czech film about a young girl's coming of age, and witches, and mysterious weirdness of every sort
sunset boulevard (1950) - billy wilder detective drama/poison pen letter to hollywood, lynch claims it as an influence and you can see why
the third man (1950) - carol reed or orson welles? doesn't matter, amazing film either way.
the royal tenenbaums (2001) - anderson stan, what can i say?
phenomena (1985) - seriously unhinged horror fairy tale from dario argento, bizarre is a vast understatement
my winnipeg (2007) - guy maddin's mock autobiographical tour of a highly fictionalized winnipeg, funny, personal and very odd
repo man (1984) - alex cox's cult punk comedy, fell in love with it as a kid and it still makes me laugh every time i see it
last year at marienbad (1961) - glorious alain resnais film about memory and loss, mysteries in an old hotel, time that can't be regained
three crowns of the sailor (1981) - raoul ruiz, best movie i've ever seen, no lie
excalibur (1981) - overheated treatment of la morte d'artur from john (zardoz) boorman, another product of my misspent youth
fat city (1972) - crushing john huston flick about failing slowly in a nowhere town, amazing performance from a young stacey keach
daughters of darkness (1971) - dreamlike vampire movie set (like last year at marienbad) in a grand old hotel, gorgeous
playtime (1967) - jaques tati lost in a mies van der rohe labyrinth, one of the most amazing pieces of set design i've ever seen, plus funny
the book of kells (2009) - just saw this, so i've got no perspective on it, but instantly one of my favorite animated/children's films
the red shoes (1948) - just watch it

Excessively handsome man sadly busts dad out of jail, encounters weather apocalypse, dodges house facades.

Abbbottt this is genius. I would also recommend Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr.

Lots of my favorites have been mentioned but these are also great:

The Lady Eve (1941) - Preston Sturges. Romantic comedy, but if your impression of that genre has been formed by contemporary movies please reevaluate. (see also Ninotchka, The Shop Around the Corner, and Trouble in Paradise)

The Battle of Algiers (1966) - Genre? Realism I guess? It's definitely not a war film.

Rules of the Game (1939) - Jean Renoir. Utterly sublime. Like Citizen Kane it has kind of an intimidating reputation but it's loads of fun.

Some more :

Quatermass And The Pit (1967) - ghostly happenings in London's east end are revealed to be of extraterrestrial origin. Science fiction that's almost overburdened with weird, original ideas, i.e. unlike contemporary SF films.
The Swimmer (1968) - allegorical strangeness in upper-middle class suburbia, as swimwear-clad Burt Lancaster appears out of nowhere and resolves to "swim home" via his neighbours pools. The final scenes are astonishingly powerful.
Woman Of The Dunes (1964) - more allegorical goings-on, this time in Japan. A man becomes trapped in a hole wherein resides a woman who spends her days shovelling sand to avoid being buried. Amazing avant-garde score by Toru Takemitsu.
The Wages Of Fear (1953) - desperate French dudes drive a cargo of explosives over the mountains in South America somewhere. Existential!
Ikiru (1952) - Kurosawa's best non-samurai film, in my opinion. An unfulfilled man searches for meaning in his life before he dies. Moving and emotional without lapsing into sentimentality.

a taste of honey
gold diggers of 1933
an angel at my table
my man godfrey
daisies
fanny and alexander
a serious man
diabolique

Some of my faves have been mentioned too, so I'll try to weed out repeats

Down By Law: Tom Waits! My favorite Jim Jarmusch movie, the soundtrack is gorgeous, it's funny, strange, weird & kinda beautiful. Also stars Roberto Benigni before I got annoyed with him.

Withnail & I: it's just so fucking funny and sad. I could watch it a hundred more times and it would be like the first time.

Chopper: I think this is more homesickness than anything. I dont have a lot of time for the irl Chopper (loudmouth Australian ex-con), but there's just something about the movie i keep going back to. Eric Bana is so spot on, I love watching him. Plus the humour is something I really miss being away from home, maybe that's what I'm attached to. It's a creepy sorta movie to love, but, shrug.

Zodiac - (the David Fincher movie)
this is the perfect storm of a movie for: true crime nerd; Fincher fan in general; major crush on Robert Downey JR. To me the movie just feels perfect, it does everything right.

Death Proof: chicks, cars, Kurt Russell and real driving stunts & real smashed up cars. I fucking LOVE this.

The Sound of Music: Julie Andrews voice is the sound of me being a little kid. This just makes me happy. See also: West Side Story for the same effect.

Miracle: because Kurt Russell. Hockey. Makes me cry and shut up it's really cool & you cant mess with good sports movies.

this is the closest ilx did on the thread's subject i think:

Pretend you have a ballot for the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's top 10 movies of all time list

CaptainLorax: what are your favourite movies?

Some personal faves from the AFI 100
Lawrence of Arabia, widescreen desert epic, 1962
2001: A Space Odyssey, SF, 1968
Dr. Strangelove, blackest of black comedy, 1964
Rear Window, one-set murder thriller, 1954
The Philadelphia Story and The Third Man already mentioned; seconded on both

Also: Ninotchka, romantic comedy, 1939
The Magnificent Ambersons, drama, 1942

repo man.

reposent!

Yeah cosine on Repo Man, and Third Man too

I guess I need to re-watch "F is for Fake". Saw it about 12 years ago and didn't get it.

Heaven Help Us (1985) - Comedy-drama about Catholic prep school teens in Brooklyn circa 1965
The Legend of 1900 (1998) - Takes place shortly after WWII. Tim Roth plays a piano savant afraid to leave a cruise ship
Suspiria (1977) - Italian artsy horror film by Dario Argento. Takes place at a ballet school.
Battle Royale (2000) - Japanese film. In the future remedial students are put on an island to kill each other because of overpopulation and such
Amélie (2001) - French film. Feel good drama about an quiet quirky young lady
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)- Miyazaki anime about epic stuff that might be a bit snoozey for some people
Polyester (1981) - An delightfully absurd John Waters film (that isn't gross fun like Pink Flamingos) about a quirky family in suburban America

+more Miyazaki, Argento & Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy & kid movies like Brave Little Toaster and An American Tale. Oddly I haven't gotten around to seeing Buster Keaton movies yet - I should do that.

+The Scent of a Woman, Leon The Professional uncut, Apocalypse Now Redux, How To Train Your Dragon, The Great Escape and some stuff yall mentioned. If I can think of a big fav that I'm missing I'll add it later

The Monkees's Head :)

I love American Tail! Though it makes me blub terribly when they sing "Somewhere out there"...

If you liked Suspiria you should see "Shock Treatment." It is a musical starring Jessica Harper, who I believe is very talented at being good-looking. (This is me assuming people watch Suspiria for Jessica Harper, and not because they like Goblin or red paint factories.)

I like spaghetti style horror

I like musicals with hot B actresses.

It would be totally wrong to post about Newsies in this thread because it is genuinely not a good movie. But: I do really love it, you know? I saw it at the right age and gender. If my sister likes a movie a lot it's usually because "it had all the hotties," and that was the case for me watching Newsies at age 10. Plus I love that musicals tried to reanimate themselves in the form of a kid's "unions for orphans" propaganda. If anyone is going to be talking about a film treatment of William Randolph Hearst, it should be this one (just kidding (or am I?)).

by genre is the easiest way for me to pick a few i think

Noir/Crime

The Third Man- Welles is astonishingly charming and evil in this, everything else is very good too.
The Maltese Falcon - as I posted above, crackling dialogue & performances
Blade Runner- great in every way
Brick- obviously not canon, but personally loved every second of this
The Taking of Pelham 123- brilliant turns from Robert Shaw and Walter Matthau make this one
Asphalt Jungle- great early Huston heist flick

Comedy

Young Frankenstein- Brooks' most consistent work, I think. Wilder and Marty Feldman go nuts.
Bringing up Baby- I was forced to watch this a few months ago, amazing dialogue/performances.
Super Troopers- I think you got to be pretty smart to make dumb comedy this good.
Life of Brian- if you prefer Holy Grail you're challoping, or overthinking it.
Kung-Fu Hustle- a perfect movie, could fit into several genres and excels at all of em
Fantastic Mr Fox- if you like wes anderson, and you may not, this is great

Western

Unforgiven- a great cast with great roles
Rio Bravo- pretty much the anti-unforgiven, but it's a big world and there's room for them both
Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns

Drama (? I guess)

City of God- not canon, again, but I love this
Glengarry Glen Ross- can't beat the script for frustrated-testosterone fuelled venom
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- sexiest movie ever, maybe
Godfathers- yeah prob should go in under crime I guess
Rear Window- as good as film-making gets imo
Jaws- shark rubbish, everything else fantastic
No Country for Old Men- mentalist unstoppable force of nature cod-philosophises his way around coen country
Twelve Monkeys/Se7en- good double-bill of mid-90's gritty/quirky detective weirdness imo

Action/adventure

Die Hard- don't really need to ever see another action movie after this I guess
Kill Bill 2- could go under a couple of genres too I suppose. revenge martial arts writ large

too long already, and none of them exactly niche picks so i'll leave it at that

Rio Bravo <3 <3 <3

me posting on this thread would be kinda redundant amirite

had an 'argument' about blade runner tonight

apparently it's aspie shit

like, yeah, but not rly

n e wayz dmac u gotta see more films so u can get CITY OF GOD off yr list

i resolved not to strike any genuine pick ff my list just because of shame, it seemed against spirit of thread.
i have to see more movies, def. d/ling aguirre right now thanks to thread tbh

i did consider throwing joe dirt up there, fwiw- any who thinks tommy boy is superior is str8 off their chops imo

oh, musicals

singin in the rain
seven brides for seven brothers
south park the musical

city of god is p good iirc, but not 'all that'

it's no joe dirt

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - the greatest horror movie (of all time)
The Thin Blue Line - a documentary so convincing (SPOILER), it got a dude pardoned from death row irl.
Knife in the Water - early Polanski, if you like this artwork for the Criterion ed., you will like the film.
Daisies - Czech New Wave precision feminism / A+ surrealistic madness
Martyrs - search ILX horror threads

once upon a time in the west (1968) - sergio leoni "spaghetti western", maybe the most epic epic i've ever seen - seconding this, mainly b/c I love the opening sequence so much.

Also seconding: Die Hard, Glengarry Glen Ross, Rear Window, M, Battle Royale, Blue Velvet, Grizzly Man, Crumb, Dawn of the Dead, The Good/Bad/Ugly, Alien & others..

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me-- The first 30 minutes are endlessly fascinating to me. Incredibly powerful, one of a kind. Put it on bluray, and fix the audio in the pink room sequence please!
Lost Highway
Rocky IV--I like Stallone's style of directing-- it's ballsy and operatic. Rocky III is also really good (and more traditionally a "good film") but in all honestly I love the fuck out of this ridiculous movie.
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
Die Hard
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Crash (Cronenberg)
Grave of the Fireflies-- this is the most affecting film I've ever seen, but I have a difficult time bringing myself to ever watch it again. Deeply depressing.

Put it on bluray, and fix the audio in the pink room sequence please!

i don't really follow this stuff but this is happening afaik - bluray coming out in italy or something.

Bluray or no, at some point we will hopefully be able to see the HOURS of scrapped fwwm scenes.

Whenever I'm asked what my favourite films are, I always reply with three:

Dr Strangelove
Dazed and Confused
Do the Right Thing

and I was thinking about what connects them. They're all comedies (or nearly so - DTRT is lol funny but I'm not sure if it counts as a comedy) and they all take place in a compressed (for a film) timeframe; Dr strangelove over the course of a night, D&C over 12ish hours, and DTRT over 24 hours. And I guess it's those two things that intersect that makes me love these films.

Obviously the performances and directing and script and so on are top draw in all these films, but that's a reason to admire or like them, not love them. I love them because they present a reality that's almost too real and speaks truth almost too loudly. Truth is a complicated business, so to present all its many facets takes some doing. A comedy, by twisting the expected inside-out, can highlight absudity or underlying truths way more effectively than drama imo, and the compressed timeframe in these films makes the experience more vivid than it would otherwise be.

Saying that, whenever I list my favourite films and don't name Goodfellas, I do feel like I'm challopsing a little.

Some:

"The Thin Red Line:" Elliptical, inscrutable, but always beautiful and ultimately spiritual.

"A Canterbury Tale:" Oddball Powell/Pressburger, but I prefer it to some of the usual P/P suspects (I greatly prefer it to "Red Shoes")

"Starship Troopers:" Broad satire still too subtle for mainstream comprehension. Good double bill with "Robocop," and effects that have aged very well.

"Sunrise:" A beautiful, technical marvel.

"The Conversation:" What a "minor" movie looks like from a major dude on a roll.

"Out of Sight:" Easily one of the most enjoyable movies ever made.

Plus lots of the above, of course. Some movies are just so perfect - "Lawrence of Arabia," "Jaws," "Chinatown" - that it's almost impossible to watch them and not be awed into a stupor at their virtuosity.

Plague Dogs – Martin Rosen adapted the animated film of Watership Down – this is another Richard Adams adaptation. It's the story of two dogs who escape from a vivisection lab, and things basically get worse and worse for them after that. In some fit of sadism, Rosen got rid of the book's deus ex machina/happy ending. I named my last dog after one from this movie, which was kind of stupid: it means this already incredibly sad movie is even more emotional for me.

was watching starship troopers the last week, and you're right josh, the effects are amazingly for the time

aw, abbs- a sad movie about runaway dogs? i dont think i could watch that

it's almost impossible to watch them and not be awed into a stupor at their virtuosity.

Experienced this two nights ago, seeing Nashville (for the 37th time...) on a big screen. The guy that introduced it beforehand surveyed the audience on who was seeing it for the first time; a number of hands went up. I was jealous.

I remember seeing the box cover for Plague Dogs at blockbuster when I was a kid and thinking it looked scary.

"it's almost impossible to watch them and not be awed into a stupor at their virtuosity."

Experienced this two nights ago, seeing Nashville (for the 37th time...) on a big screen.

― clemenza, Sunday, November 7, 2010 9:02 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

experienced this two nights ago, watching eyes wide shut on DVD. such a dumbass for not watching this years ago. buncha critics dumbasses for steering me wrong. final "daylight" resolution a bit too pat, but that's maybe 5 problem minutes out of 160. jaw-dropping movie.

Such a weird movie, "Eyes Wide Shut." Perfect example to me of how virtuosity does not always equal perfection, but its flaws are intriguing, to be sure. The vibe is almost like a domestic-minded "Parallax View" or something, surreal, uber-paranoid and more than a little ridiculous, but effective all the same.

truly dire thread, this one

i dunno, i've enjoyed all the sbanning

Such a weird movie, "Eyes Wide Shut." Perfect example to me of how virtuosity does not always equal perfection, but its flaws are intriguing, to be sure. The vibe is almost like a domestic-minded "Parallax View" or something, surreal, uber-paranoid and more than a little ridiculous, but effective all the same.

yeah, can see as how it's ridiculousness (and it is just that) might be problematic for some, but i love dreamlike, overheated absurdity, especially when delivered with a nightmarish twist: lynch, depalma, argento, etc. EWS definitely delivers on that score. suggests the imaginary intersection of after hours and the holy mountain, nighttime faux-manhattan as an occult chessboard upon which monstrous forces secretly play. polanski being another obvious reference point, at least in terms of exaggerated urban paranoia. genuinely loved it, including cruise, who's never been a favorite of mine.

its it's its...

I like Eyes Wide Shut. It goes a bit Count Floyd during the pagan ceremony, but I find all that stuff creepy anyway. I don't know that it has anything profound to say about sex or marriage or anything else, but it holds my attention the whole way, and it's often great to look at.

truly dire thread, this one

put up or shut up

srsly

i think the easiest way to do this is to separate it by genre and then pull of the IMDb top 200 movies of all time list

Action
The Lord of the Rings Part One - Epic Action Film
The Lord of the Rings Part Two - Epic Action Film, Really Sweet
The Lord of the Rings Part Three - Epic Action Film, WON AN OSCAR
Inception - Epic Action Movie, MINDBLOWER

Comedy
Wedding Crashers - Comedy, funny stuff
Airplane - Comedy, so good, have y'all seen this?

etc.

good list

forgot inception, fuuuuuck awesome movie have you seen it?

that's not putting up or shutting up
xxp

gentle art of onedownmanship

there's no art on this thread

I'm not sure that I understand your complaint.

fine, the davinci code, then

Some more:

Los Olvidados
Summer Hours
The Leopard

You forgot the genre and year, Alfred!

there's no art on this thread

ok, put some on it! jeeeeesus

Summer Hours is lovely.

Here's some art: 100 Great Avant-Garde Films

Adynata (Leslie Thornton 1983)
Aleph (Wallace Berman 1955-66?)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold 1998)
Amerikanos (Christos Dimas 1999)
Anémic Cinéma (Marcel Duchamp 1926)
L'Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky 1997-1998)
Autumn Fire (Herman Weinberg 1930-33)
Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy 1924)
Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice 1970)
Blow Job (Andy Warhol 1963)
Boston Fire (Peter Hutton 1979)
La Cartomancienne (The Fortune Teller) (Jerome Hill 1932)
Un chant d'amour (Jean Genet 1950)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel 1929)
Chronic (Jennifer Reeves 1997)
Chumlum (Ron Rice 1964)
La Cicatrice intérieure (Philippe Garrel 1972)
Clouds (Peter Gidal, 1969, 10m)
Cobra Mist (Emily Richardson, 2008, 6m)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov 1968)
Colour Flight (Len Lye 1937)
Combat de boxe (Charles Dekeukeleire 1929)
Cul en l'air (Pierre Yves Clouin 1998)
Cybelle (Donald Richie 1968)
Decodings (Michael Wallin 1988)
Dirty (Stephen Dwoskin, 1971, 11m)
Ecce Homo (Jerry Tartaglia 1989)
11 x 14 (James Benning)
A Family Finds Entertainment (Ryan Trecartin 2005)
Family Tyranny (Modelling and Molding) (Paul McCarthy and Mike
Kelley, 1987)
Film Ist (Gustav Deutsch (1998-2004)
Filmpiece for Sunshine (John Luther Schofill, Jr. 1966-1968)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith 1963)
The Flicker (Tony Conrad 1966)
Fly Away Homo (Andrew HIller 1998)
La Fórmula secreta (Rubén Gámez 1965)
From the Notebook of …(Robert Beavers 1971/1998)
Fuses (Carolee Schneemann 1967)
The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, 1976 12m)
Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah, 1986, 61m)
The Hart of London (Jack Chambers 1969-1970)
Images d'Ostende (Henri Storck 1929)
It Wasn't Love (Sadie Benning 1992)
Jack’s Dream (Joseph Cornell c. 1930-1970)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman 1975)
Klipperty Klopp (Andrew Kotting, 1984, 12m)
Kunst Life (Roger Jacoby 1975)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger 1965)
Light Rhythms (Francis Bruguière & Oswell Blakeston, 1931, 6m)
Lost Book Found (Jem Cohen 1996)
Luke (Bruce Conner 1967)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid 1943)
Mirrors Facing Mirrors (Adam Cooley 2010)
Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger 1947)
My Parents Read Dreams I’ve Had About Them (Neil Goldberg 1998)
Near the Big Chakra (Anne Severson 1971)
Nightcats (Stan Brakhage 1956)
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (Tracey Moffatt 1989)
(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton 1971)
Notch (Diane Kitchen 2000)
Notes of an Early Fall (Saul Levine 1976-77)
1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207 (John C. Hecker 1939)
Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
The Passing (Bill Viola 1991)
Pensao Globo (Matthias Müller 1997)
Peyote Queen (Storm De Hirsch 1965)
Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood 1971)
pornfilm (Stephanie Barber 1999)
A Portrait of Ga (Margaret Tait, 1952, 4m)
Pu Pu (Motoharu Jonouchi 1960)
Race d'Ep (Lionel Soukaz 1979)
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard 2002)
La Région Centrale (Michael Snow 1967)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
Report (Bruce Conner 1967)
Roof (Betsy Kalin 1998)
Schuss! (Nicolas Rey 2005)
She Puppet (Peggy Ahwesh 2001)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr 1991)
Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin 1995)
6/64 Mama Und Papa (Kurt Kren 1964)
Sodom (Luther Price 1989)
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (Marguerite Duras 1976)
Sorrows (Gregory J. Markopoulos 1969)
Le souriante Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac 1922)
"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (David Bradley 1940-43)
Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher 1984)
Stuffing (Animal Charm 1998)
Submit To Me Now (Richard Kern 1987)
Symphony for a Sinner (George Kuchar 1979)
Le Tempestaire (Jean Epstein 1947)
Thanatopsis (Ed Emshwiller 1963)
The End (Christopher Maclaine 1953)
This Is It (James Broughton 1971)
Thundercrack! (Curt McDowell 1975)
Tomatos Another Day (James Sibley Watson and Alec Wilder 1930/1933)
Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka 1966)
The Vyrotonin Decision (Matt McCormick 1999)
Wet One (Ian MacTilstra 2008)
Whitney: Mama’s Little Baby (Lawrence Elbert, 2000)
Wind Vane (Chris Welsby, 1972, 8m)

needs more 99 Tribulations

Oh, do you mean Tribulation 99?

there's no way sissy boy slap party can be as good as its title.

Judge for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMoMSX_W3N8

lol @ TS shitting on 100s of personal faves indiscriminately.

Oh, do you mean Tribulation 99?

uhhh yes. self fail.

;)

needs more 99 Tribulations

― Simon H., Sunday, 7 November 2010 21:35 (17 minutes ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=82861#unread

That thread link doesn't work?

Request Access to 77 Borad

"Sissy Boy slap Party" does indeed live up, 100%, to its name.

Some favorite documentaries: Welfare, Crumb, Spellbound, The Heart of the Game, The Stone Reader, Hoop Dreams, Stevie, The War Room, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, A League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Arguing the World, Let's Get Lost, Dying at Grace, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Man on Wire, Tyson, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry...so many the past few years; I'd need to consult a list.

BLUNTLY:

Well, His Girl Friday. It's the most energetic thing ever.

Aguirre: The Wrath Of God

Yeah, and speaking of which, "Burden of Dreams"

Also, "The Decalogue."

xppppppppppp
Tape Store, I'm pretty sure a lot of people picked stuff that isn't on IMDB's top 200 lists so shut up or shut up. But if you want to add your artsy movie picks etc I won't judge them (here at least)

Also if anyone wants to add on to their list/s feel free to do so

ps. I thoroughly enjoyed City of God

Gummo, The King Of Kong, Nowhere, City Of God, Happiness, Ghostbusters, Problem Child 2

The BBS Documentary is long but CRUCIAL if you were into that stuff back in the day. I have such a warm spot in my heart for BBSes i dont think i can judge it too objectively, tho.

naked human hands OTM about Eyes Wide Shut; same reaction from me. critics of the day = barking mad. although actually it seemed to do better with some of the heavyweights than i would have thought ( http://www.metacritic.com/movie/eyes-wide-shut/critic-reviews?dist=positive )

"Gold Diggers of 1933" classic depression-era Busby Berkeley musical. Trio of chorus girls are on their uppers after the show they're about to perform in gets pwned by debt collectors. Great, snappy pre-code WB dialog, amazing berkeley musical numbers, the film is so tightly edited that it's like having a story fired at you from a machine-gun. this is poss my favorite ever film.

I heart you so much for this.

lorax, i'm not saying everyone here has terrible taste--though god there's a lot of boring choices here--but i love that yr original post claims that, in November of 2010, there's not a thread on ILE for listing yr favorite movies. If I were to take the time to list mine, I'd put them on Eric's much stronger Sight & Sound ballot thread.

but whatever, back to pointless recommendations of Wes Anderson movies \O_O/

^ people who seem not to have figured out how to live

xp - how are they pointless?

are there rly people on ilx who need to be told about the royal tenenbaums? i srsly don't get why this thread exists, it's a very boring list thread

i obv now regret having posted in this thread but on i'm not very good at self-control on the internet

we can end the discussion here probably. :)

Some people don't know what 'Sight & Sound' refers to - like many people who aren't British or movie buffs

Tape Store, I won't stop you if you rather go troll "Eric's much stronger Sight & Sound ballot thread". If you want pointless drama because of differing movie tastes I'm sure there is somewhere on the internet for you. I'd prefer to have this thread be a place where ILXors can list\recommend their favorite movies (of all time) without being subjected to flaming (e.g. Wes Anderson sucks)
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7670/5409797gal.jpg

Just watching Gold Diggers of 1933 for the first time (due to a reference on some ILX thread, dont know which one) and this is a really enjoyable movie!

OMG the light up violins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a7JyCM0fT8

Extending an olive branch from my apparently superior thread. Here's the movies I cite on FB and the list still seems pretty good to me:

Showgirls
The Fury
Do the Right Thing
A Grin Without a Cat
The Ladies' Man
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Tenant
Cannibal Holocaust
Un chant d'amour
Simon of the Desert
All That Heaven Allows
Female Trouble
Women in Revolt
Mommie Dearest
Inland Empire
Barry Lyndon
Ms. 45
Blonde Venus
Grey Gardens
Crime Wave (the Canadian one)

are there rly people on ilx who need to be told about the royal tenenbaums? i srsly don't get why this thread exists, it's a very boring list thread

No, probably not, but this isn't a recommendations thread either, its a PYF. What exactly about the movie lists people have been making have been boring? That its predictable that ilx0rs will love a lot of 80s movies and recent indie films? Some people have posted lists with no movie in it made after like 1940 -- thats pretty non-boring IMO, I know practically nothing about classics and silent films so those are great lists to see.

And you still haven't posted your favorite films, so srsly, how come you think your shit don't stink?

Barry Lyndon

good movie.

I dunno, is there was anything the internet message board was invented for more than lists?

Here's some of my favorites:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Heaven and Earth Magic
The Holy Mountain
Akira
A Hard Day's Night
Animal Crackers, Night @ The Opera, Duck Soup (and most Marx Bros. movies)
Make Me Think
Dog Star Man
The General
Metropolis
Easy Rider
The Shining
Batman Returns
Ballet Mechanique
Brazil
Barry Lyndon
Dr Strangelove
F for Fake
OG War Of The Worlds
Stop Making Sense
Neighbors
Jurassic Park
Ghostbusters
My Neighbor Totoro

Saw Barry Lyndon last night, on an HD TV but through Netflix, and damn it still looked bloody amazing on those open air painting-based shots! Really funny film too, in a dark way.

Some more:

La Bete Humaine (1938)
Holiday (1938)
Midnight (1938)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Thieves Like Us (1974)
L'Argent (1983)
Stop Making Sense (1985)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Irma Vep (1997)
High Art (1998)

The three 1938 films are purely coincidental

*the appearance of three films from '38, that is

Alfred your inclusion of Stop Making Sense just made me think of another David Byrne film that I absolutely love,

True Stories (1986) - Odd bits and pieces about a small Texas town and the people who live there. Its like how David Lynch movies start out, but its like that the whole way through. Full of lovable weirdos. I guess its a comedy.

Crash (Cronenberg) ― Matt Armstrong

a seedy underbelly:

singapore sling (1990)
naked blood (1995)
pink flamingos (1972)
thundercrack! (1975)
lucifer rising (1972)
trouble every day (2001)
sweet movie (1974)
visitor Q (2001)
dementia (1955)
"her flesh" trilogy (1967-'68)

near and dear:

possession (1981)
don't look now (1973)
the tenant (1976)
taxi driver (1976)
the king of comedy (1982)
wise blood (1982)
strangers on a train (1951)
night of the hunter (1955)
mona lisa (1986)
paths of glory (1957)
tetsuo, the iron man (1989)
stalker (1979)
the hour of the wolf (1968)
cries and whispers (1972)
fanny and alexander (1982)
branded to kill (1967)
snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937f)
fantasia (1940)
allegro non tropo (1976)
fantastic planet (1973)
spirited away (2001)
galaxy express 999 (1979)
wings of desire (1987)
the conversation (1974)
ballet mechanique (1924)
bimbo's initiation (1931)
i don't want to sleep alone (2006)
the wayward cloud (2005)
bad guy (2001)
chunking express (1994)
fallen angels (1995)
house (1977)
stacy (2001)
strange circus (2005)
the woods (2006)
singing in the rain (1952)
the life and death of colonel blimp (1951)
the tales of hoffmann (1943)
le million (1931)
the wages of fear (1953)
cat ballou (1965)
the brood (1979)
breaking the waves (1996)
the thin man (1934)
another thin man (1939)
the bride of frankenstein (1935)
my man godfrey (1936)
john carpenter's the thing (1982)
re-animator (1985)
from beyond (1986)
dagon (2001) - more lovecraft-inspired horror from stuart gordon, seriously in contention for my favorite film of all time
evil dead (1981)
evil dead II (1987)
alien (1979)
blade runner (1982)
time bandits (1981)
the pit and the pendulum (1961)

could do this forever. should probably stop.

Crash (Cronenberg) ― Matt Armstrong

My mom taped this once thinking she had taped the oscar winning Crash. So when I started watching it some time after midnight I was quite surprised that an Oscar movie was sort of a softcore porno. I watched all the way through it and some of it was quite intriguing (besides the sex) but I can't remember exactly how it ended. I mostly remember the James Dean crash simulation(?)
― more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 08:35 (1 hour ago)

My friends in college had a film club and on my week to pick the movie I picked Crash. My friend's girlfriend screamed "IT'S JUST SEX!" about 30 minutes in and stormed out.

It REALLY pissed me off when a really shitty movie used the same title. Ugh.

Here are forty-three!

Footlight Parade (1933). Museum-quality Busby Berkeley numbers. James Cagney doing not just comedy but song and dance. Joan Blondell slinging some of the snappiest Pre-Code dialogue known to man.

with that being said, i am happy to announce that the 2018 Film Twitter Mock Sight & Sound Poll (i really need a better name, huh) is officially open. @ or DM me with your ballot of the 10 greatest films of all time and then i'll aggregate them. plz RT to spread the word!!!

— nathan e. smith (@trillmoregirls) June 4, 2018

Guess this has been happening for a few years now, and I'm intrigued by the results from last year: https://letterboxd.com/lifewithnopants/list/film-twitter-sight-sound-poll-2017/

1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
3. PlayTime (1967)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5. Mulholland Drive (2001)
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
7. Yi Yi (2000)
8. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
9. Johnny Guitar (1954)
10. Beau Travail (1999)

And my most Film Twitter-est ballot:

Sure, why not ...

MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (McCarey)
LA JETEE (Marker)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Hooper)
FEMALE TROUBLE (Waters)
TANGO (Rybczynski)
SHOWGIRLS (Verhoeven)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Kiarostami)
OUTER SPACE (Tscherkassky)
YI YI (Yang)
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch) https://t.co/5YI6z46vTN

— Eric Henderson (@ephender) June 7, 2018

Duelle at number 20 in that Twitter list is a (pleasant) surprise - it's interesting the way that revivals and restorations can sometimes quite quickly transform the accepted canon of great movies.

The Film Twitter S&S list seems like the logical extension of the "fears" expressed by sourpuss Owen G. in EW after the 2012 list was revealed: http://ew.com/article/2012/08/07/the-sight-and-sound-poll-is-full-of-it/

Navel-gazing to the nth degree; dismissive of what Morbs has taken to defending as not-boring classicism.

(Which it isn't really, fwiw.)

79. Resident Evil: Retribution

alrighty

https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2018/7/9/the-2018-shmight-shmound-poll

Three Lynch in the top 12 is a little much even for me.

Fascinating that the participation exploded so much this time around tho, and how it arguably flattened the results out a bit from the previous couple years.

Torontonians: In the Mood for Love is screening for free at Christie Pits this Sunday.

hah, once again Revenge of the Sith is the only Star Wars

(or the highest anyway, missed Empire at 275)

As an alternative (or an antidote) to the more conventional movies that appear on the list, I’ve decided to make the Shmight & Shmound Alternative 150. This is a version of the list that removes any films that appear on the Sight & Sound list, the IMDB 250, or the AFI Top 100.

Some WTFs here--Carol?! Speed Racer?!?--but also Margaret, Blow Out, The Long Goodbye and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, so by far the more interesting list of the two.

the Twitter generation *is* going to ruin Lynch for me with their smothering obsession.

Speed Racer?!?

a really incredible film

also

=13. THE END OF EVANGELION

fucking hell yeah

(That's on the edited list, fwiw.)

anime, like TV, should be kept forever separate from cinema.

some movies are animated

morbs that is a wild take

(That's on the edited list, fwiw.)

― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, July 10, 2018 12:47 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah, i'm aware, it's just surprising that the edited list resembles so much of my taste

Only Looney Tunes and Stan Brakhage count.

it would seem that a number of these "voters" may not be familiar with female directors aside from Akerman and Denis

God i love PC box-checking sooooooo much

It's back:

ok guys, it's that time again: the 2019 SHMIGHT & SHMOUND POLL, film twitter's 4th annual poll of the best movies ever made. doing things different this year... feel free to still tweet out your ballots, but PLEASE submit them here: https://t.co/E9hNkTlnB6

— nathan escar smith (@trillmoregirls) June 12, 2019

terrible voting population

He said he's already gotten 1,000 ballots so definitely this year's results are going to be terrible. But I did my part:

DAISY KENYON (Preminger)
UN CHANT D'AMOUR (Genet)
DUCK AMUCK (Jones)
THE LADIES' MAN (Lewis)
LA JETÉE (Marker)
UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (Kubelka)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Hooper)
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Yang)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Kiarostami)
OUTER SPACE (Tscherkassky) https://t.co/lIm9irYjty

— Eric Henderson (@ephender) June 14, 2019

I didn't look at what I voted for the prior year, and am surprised there are 4 repeaters.

Can I vote in this poll if I haven't used my twitter account?

i'm tempted to do this but tbh i use ilx to talk about movies more than i use twitter

the Twitter generation *is* going to ruin Lynch for me with their smothering obsession

Yeah, this.

https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2019/7/29/the-2019-shmight-and-shmound-poll

predictably, lotta lynch, lotta pta

Given there were, I understand, more than 1,000 ballots this year, these results aren't anywhere near the disaster I was anticipating.

I know it’s something that frustrates a lot of people who used to get excited about the list, which grows less idiosyncratic as more people vote. I really hope you still find some value in this year’s list. At the very least, even if the top 50 to 100 look like what you’d expect, there are surprises as you go deeper down the list. It’s very exciting to me every year to see new films find an audience: this year, for example, the recently-restored Japanese queer classic Funeral Parade of Roses did extremely well. Yes, your Dark Knights and Shawshanks are here, but so is Speed Racer, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, and Raul Ruiz.

end of eva at 56 - you love to see it

Ha, I don't mind that.

For a couple days last month it was the best film ever.

but so is Speed Racer, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II

wow, i feel represented!

I'm OK with there only being one Lynch in the top 10 this time around, instead of ... was it three last year?

surprised the lords of salem isn't on the alternate 300, it def will be next year given the continual rise in zombie's stock ime

My favourite film dropped from 14 to 154 in the last two years. -_-

don't blame me, i voted for it

About half of the films in the top 50 that I like a lot (and even love) don't belong anywhere near the top 50 films of all-time.

where i ask you is the work of Roscoe Arbuckle?

Who cares?

boomer twitter has its own poll iirc

Is fatty arbuckle a boomer icon?

has better name recog than Brian De Palma i bleeve

https://static-media.fxx.com/img/FX_Networks_-_FXX/262/763/Simpsons_06_04_P5_640x360_312577091667.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/4ii311/what_has_fatty_arbuckle_done_that_i_havent_done/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

https://media0.giphy.com/media/3o6MbbUlUubgilaI8w/source.gif

can't argue with the top 3 films in this, they are among my favorites

I'm happy that The Passion of Joan of Arc was loved so much

would have rated Mirror over Stalker

In the Mood For Love and Jeanne Dielman in the top 10 is great imo

haven't seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet, and still haven't found a way to watch Rohmer's Le Rayon Vert

If you can follow the French, Le Rayon Vert is on Youtube legally right now on the channel ARTE Cinema. Unfortunately without English subs. It is the greatest movie.