What are your Top Three Favourite Films?

What are your Top Three Favourite Films?

mostly cos i want to watch something really good tonight as I'm a bit poorly and I'm beyond inspiration.

You should see these Before You Die of All Time

Vertigo
Once Upon a Time in the West
Playtime

Mishima
M
Hawk the Slayer

nah fuck knows tbh

pretty sure we've done this:

Poll-ice Academy

Rear Window
The Spirit of the Beehive
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Double Life Of Veronique
Asoka
Lilya 4-Ever

The Third Man
Chungking Express
Goodfellas (if we're being honest)

Brazil
Performance
Happy Together

The order shuffles around, but it usually comes down to Nashville, Rosemary's Baby, and the first two Godfathers.

rear window
Third man
Maltese falcon

robocop
texas chainsaw massacre
something with bill murray in it before his face became frozen in sad-clown face

stripes

i'll go with caddyshack because then i get a murray/dangerfield two-fer

La Jetee
Nashville
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

harsh on chase, kind on rodney tbh

see though now i AM thinking stripes because of john candy.

digging all the chainsaw love on this thread so far tbh

the thing
robocop
manhattan

Paris, Texas
Dark City
Groundhog Day

duck dodgers in the 24 1/2th century
little red riding rabbit
bugs and thugs

godfather 3
Police academy 6
Rocky and bullwinkle, either

I seriously can't pick top lists like this because they change every day. I could probably do a top 10 but the order within that would vary wildly depending on my mood. In fact, even thinking about having to pick 3 sort of stresses me out. What if I pick incorrectly?!

I was going to just list them in bunches of three every now and then.

you get thrown in the stockade.

pick the quickest top 3 you can

Right this minute, and this has probably been colored somewhat by reading other people's responses, my top three would be

1. Goodfellas
2. The Thing
3. Before Sunrise

BUT WHICH THING

:o

No falcon

the 13th Floor
Der Himmel über Berlin
Lost Highway

lol

But now I think maybe The Maltese Falcon should have been in there too because it's definitely top 5. Fuck. Also are these just what we love or what we think are genuinely great movies because those are two wildly different things sometimes. I hate shit like this. It's why I don't do lists like this ever.

lol Darragh - I'm surprised you would remember that. :)

To Have and Have Not
Chinatown
Almost Famous

Who started this? Three isn't enough. Pulp Fiction. Fuck. I need to lie down now.

i went by movies i'd want to see one more time before i died. i mean...i love fassbinder, but if a giant comet is headed toward earth and i had to choose, i know i'm watching robocop over berlin alexanderplatz.

National Lampoon's European Vacation

There that's 5.

6

damn

Philadelphia Story
Blade Runner
A Matter of Life and Death

yeah im just going with movies i know i could watch any time, anywhere and always be delighted by them

BUT WHICH THING

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

hawks version is the thing *from another world*

:I

today im having:

the long goodbye
l'eclisse
red shoes/p much any 1940s P&P

blade runner
All about eve
Bringing up baby

miller's crossing

ken burns' "jazz"

Ordet
A Matter of Life and Death
L'Argent (1983)

vertigo
sansho dayu
l'avventura

Pi
Pan's Labyrinth
Alphaville

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Crash (Cronenberg)
The Thin Red Line

Quick pick top three:

Wise Blood
Threads
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Alien
Aliens
Blade Runner

Trois Couleurs: Bleu
Blue Velvet
The Blues Brothers

blade runner
dazed & confused
the room

The Wicker Man
Mulholland Drive
Los Amantes del Circular Polar

over the edge
the warriors
84 charing cross road

i so love the fact that threads made someone's top three. (if it's the threads i'm thinking of.)

today anyway. over the edge always number one. but as anyone who knows me on ilx knows, i got all kinds of faves.

Fargo
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Big Lebowski

on my blog i have this and i've never changed it so i guess its a good representation:

Favorite Movies
Over The Edge The Warriors 84 Charing Cross Road Living Dead Girl Ruby In Paradise anything starring The Rock An Angel At My Table.

If it's the nuclear war Threads, I fully co-sign

xxxp

except that southland tales thread reminds me that i couldn't watch that whole movie so i might have to change my opinion of The Rock.

All The President's Men
The Conversation
The Parallax View

(perfect all-nighter these three)

i so love the fact that threads made someone's top three. (if it's the threads i'm thinking of.)

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:48 PM (4 minutes ago)

If it's the nuclear war Threads, I fully co-sign

xxxp

― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:50 PM (2 minutes ago)

Yup, the nuclear bomb hits Sheffield Threads, indeed.

threads
testament
the day after

j/k the day after is fucking terrible

Being John Malkovich
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Stranger Than Paradise

STAN!

Distant Voices, Still Lives
Come and See
Grey Gardens

today, anyway

transporter
transporter 2
transporter 3

i can hang with that list.

21st-century edition:

mulholland drive
bad santa
spirited away

Aw, is The Day After really bad? We had a 'nuclear winterval' film day last Christmas with Threads and The War Game, and were looking for some more social realist type nuclear holocaust films for this year.

oh, and crank 2

21st-century edition:

mulholland drive
bad santa
spirited away
and several others probably

the day after is pretty tv movie of the week-y acting-wise but it's definitely bleak for a tv movie of the week. though nowhere near as bleak as threads.

i did see it back when it came out when i woulda been like five (lol thanks mom) and it scarred me for life.

The Long Goodbye
Alien
California Split

Kind of wanted to say Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice instead of Alien, for Gould's sake.

21st century edition:

Munich
Inland Empire
Tropical Malady

i love every doomsday movie. except for southland tales. day of the triffids is prob one of my fave movies.

we had to watch the day after for school. and talk about it...the day after.

ENBB - ok ok, I'll stop :-)

alternately:

stalker
jeanne dielmann
late spring

Magnolia
The Great Escape
Before Sunset

Based on films I've bought on DVD and actually watched more than once:

Revenge of the Sith
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Transformers (1986)

i inherited my mom's love of end-of-the-world movies for sure. she lent me her copy of the stand when i was like 10 without a thought that "killer flu" might wig out a third grader the next time he gets the sniffles.

Based on "if they're on TV, I'll watch for a while"

Armageddon
Wall-E
Deja Vu

Alien
Massive tussle of classic sci-fi movies for second place
The Third Man

i don't know if i actually have a "favorite" movie that came out in the last ten years or so. george washington, maybe. collected works of jason statham doesn't really count as a movie.

21st century edition is harder! It's easy to know I love Aliens, it's my Moxie. Harder to know how I'll feel about these Cherry Drs Pepper when the novelty wears off.

Synecdoche New York
Ju-On
Inland Empire

in terms of actual viewings

the fifth element
empire strikes back
jurassic park

Based on "if I were trying to impress you with my fancy film taste"

Ikiru

can't think of any more for this list.

terrible and/or cheesy "epics" i will watch straight through every damn time if theyre on pay cable

braveheart
jfk
okay anything by oliver stone really

i mean days of heaven is top five or whatever fave of mine but thin red line really isn't. or the other one. haven't seen the new one yet.

"terrible and/or cheesy "epics" i will watch straight through every damn time if theyre on pay cable"

all of them

i hated fifth element. i hate chris tucker so much though. milla i love now. not then though.

jfk is like "whatever $10 can buy you at taco bell" of movies

Oh Scott, no! I love that movie so much.

re fifth element: keep in mind I was 9 years old in 1995

kuffs

IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW OLD YOU WERE - FIFTH ELEMENT IS AWESOME.

alien(s)
the bourne identity
my neighbor totoro

I totally saw Kuffs in the theater.

i can't help but feel like if your fave movies have anything to do with spike jonzzzzzz or spofia co[pula then you have given up on life or somethhing or you are in death cab for cutie or something but i;m old and bitter.

2ks sthing like

eureka
russian ark
collateral

i have watched kuffs like five times in the last year

hhahaha <3

and every time it's like "if this got greenlit i'm just not trying hard enough"

yeah i saw fifth element at the movies and i loooooooove bruce to death and will watch him in anything and i pretty much love all sci-fi but i didn't like it much and i can't listen to chris tucker speak cuz he makes me want to cry.

i love eureka too. what a movie.

yes

i can't help but feel like if your fave movies have anything to do with spike jonzzzzzz or spofia co[pula then you have given up on life or somethhing or you are in death cab for cutie or something but i;m old and bitter.

― scott seward, Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

adaptation is hilarious and awesome, i'd totally consider it for my 21st century list

yeah i would consider a vote for adaptation a vote for kaufman but some people might be equally put off by that

Gah, I always meant to watch Russian Ark but completely forgot about it.

amurrican edition

intolerance
the killers (siodmak)
days of heaven

though dude himself no favors for me with synblechdoche

the last five years or so i have gone off old man deepend and i will watch any john wayne movie at any hour of any day. and when i was younger i mean come on john wayne really? but he made like five million movies and i will watch every one of them given a chance. so soothing in a way. and so wrong too. but i find his body of work probably more fascinating - for many reasons - than just about anyone i could think of at the moment. its like the history of wrongness and bloodshed and the gingham industry all rolled up into one pig hearted chain-smoking freak who just happened to look a whole lot like my scary grandfather.

your vote for adaptation should really just go to its a mad mad mad mad world or something. i dunno. or a monty python movie. it was clever though.

or airplane. vote for airplane instead.

I'm not sure you get to throw the giving-up-on-life stone.

i can do whatever i want. its the internet!

penitentiary III is better than adaptation. that's all i know. no lie. its a better movie.

84 charing cross road

love that you love this, scott.

should in all sensibleness & to fend off regret postpone this until further thought, but, off the top of my head:

gates of heaven
the double life of veronique
pickpocket

but yeah 3 picks is just incredibly brutal, & even more so if you were just looking for recommendations!, dog latin. if i was gonna recommend three glitzy films to watch for distraction then: f for fake, they live by night & a moment of innocence

my non-cartoon top 3:

a taste of honey
gold diggers of '33
an angel at my table

your vote for adaptation should really just go to its a mad mad mad mad world or something. i dunno. or a monty python movie. it was clever though.

― scott seward, Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:24 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or airplane. vote for airplane instead.

― scott seward, Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:25 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

all 21st century classics

love a taste of honey

pulp edition

The Hidden
One-Armed Boxer 2
Problem Child 1-3

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Twelve Monkeys
The Road

airplane is legit, but IAMMMMW really isn't. i've probably seen it more times than 'adaptation' which is hilares.

rio bravo
Unforgiven
For a fistful of dollars

didn't IAMMMMW tank even in its own era?

van damme edition

bloodsport
hard target
jcvd

mad mad world is shitty and nobody liked it even in the 60s

one day i will watch the uncut verzh of Hard Target, i've heard it's out there

xp yeah i mean i fucking love Phil Silvers and even he's shit in that movie

"Films I have had the most love for over my life"

Mulholland Drive
WarGames
Evil Dead II

apparently it did really good box office? jesus the 60s

édition français

diary of a country priest
children of paradise
la guerre est finie

lol this is ridiculous! today it's:
seventeen
come and see
seasons of the year

John Candy Edition

Uncle Buck
Summer Rental
Planes, Trains and Automobiles

sweetie
days of heaven
blue velvet

i don't even know tho

made for tv movies edition

that one where fred savage is ike turner and candace cameron is tina
that one where tori spelling plays a con woman
one of the amy fisher ones

tape store, i chose come and see too!

(re upthroead, for any of you that are into post-apocalypse movies that is the real post-apocalypse film to see)

tv movie edition

riding the bus with my sister
duel
locker room towel fight: the blinding of larry driscoll

upthread*

Hard Boiled (Chow Yun Fat + Tony Leung + John Woo at his absolute peak = the best action move of all time)
Pinocchio (the most beautiful animated film ever)
My Man Godfrey (could put any number of screwball comedies here but i watched Godfrey again this week so right now it's dearest to my heart)

I can't believe I've never actually seen Riding the Bus with My Sister.

okay i missed the part where people would only vote for adaptation in a 21st century list. i don't pay very close attention.

TTRL
the warriors
some short film maybe vertical features remake, bullet in the brain or the animated one from five obstructions

well its not like i would vote for mad mad world either. unless it was for some long-ass movie with a cast of thousands kind of poll. wiat i forget what i was talkign about.,..

I totally saw Kuffs in the theater.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you are not alone.

a hard days night
Cocktail
Hoop dreams

Jacob's Ladder
Fucking Amal
12 Angry Men

Gummo
The King Of Kong
Nowhere

the third man
notorious (hitch not biggie)
dazed and confused

second two are off the top of my head, first has been first for a long time.

mad mad world is unwatchable and unending.

my all-time might look identical to abanana's at the top of this thread; unfuckwithable

21st c:

Gegen Die Wand
Summer Hours
Inglourious Basterds

The Lost Weekend
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Smell of Success (not a Billy Wilder film so possibly an erroneous choice)

Movies I love and have watched a million times and would probably watch again anytime without much prompting:

The Muppet Movie
Boogie Nights
Ghostbusters

tape store, i chose come and see too!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/Screenshot2011-06-19at103222PM.png
!!!

The 'random stack of three DVDs I just noticed across the room that make for a pretty good answer to this question, given the criteria from my previous answer' edition:

Election (Payne)
Being There
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('70s version)

Eraserhead
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
3 Women

Song of Norway
At Long Last Love
Man Bites Dog

Oh favorite! Misread that. Ok then:

Get Off My Foot
I Dood It
Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick

there are no movies good enough for my top 3

movies i should have known better than to watch in a row tonight edition

day after
the war game
threads

brb curling into fetal ball

The Ice Storm
The Sweet Hereafter
Josh and S.A.M.

these were all pretty great, maybe you can netflix em:

Napolean (Kubrick)
To The White Sea (Coens)
Ronnie Rocket (Lynch)

Alien
Blade Runner
Chinatown

kinda funny that ridley scott directed two of my favorite movies and nothing he's done since has done much for me

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

movies i should have known better than to watch in a row tonight edition

day after
the war game
threads

Once again, I feel I must strongly "recommend" Testament, which is easily the most devastating end-of-everything movie I've ever seen. And which no one seems to be aware of, somehow (even though Jane Alexander was nominated for a much-deserved best actress Oscar for her performance as a mother who watches her children all slowly die).

gee VP, you like your black&white urban bummers.

Duck Soup (Marx Bros/McCarey)
2001
The Mirror

Morbs, do you rewatch favorite films often?

Guess that's a good question for everyone, not just Morbs.

My most conservative top 3 movies list would be:

Do the Right Thing
Rear Window
The Night of the Hunter

I remember Andrew Sarris said he'd seen Casablanca too often. I try not to rewatch more than every 2-3 years, but certainly I've seen some a dozen or more times, especially comedies. I will pretty much go see Playtime whenever it shows in a theater. (The Mirror maybe three or four.) I tend not to watch stuff from the last 20-30 years as often; maybe I've seen E.T. and Empire of the Sun 4x each, Close-Up and A Moment of Innocence maybe 3.

Right now:

La ronde
Kiss me deadly
Black Narcissus

(I feel now old enough to watch over and over ONLY my favourite movies)

Deric, Testament was mentioned upthread in the initial conversation re: Threads etc. I've not seen it myself, but will attempt to get it for next nuclear winterval. There's also the Australian one, too, isn't there - um, On The Beach seems to be it from cursory googling.

As for rewatching, yeah, I've seen my three picks a fair number of times, though actually my number one probably the least of the three. My tolerance level for re-watching is fairly low, though, so my 'fair number of times' might not be the same as anyone else's.

Oh favorite! Misread that. Ok then:

Get Off My Foot
I Dood It
Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:49 PM (Yesterday)

looooool

On the Beach = Australian novel? a very American Stanley Kramer film despite the use of Waltzing Matilda.

When it comes to cautionary nuclear tales, I prefer Planet of the Apes (12-15 viewings easily)

I'd never heard of Get Off My Foot, or Max Miller. I wonder if TCM ever shows it.

movies i should have known better than to watch in a row tonight editionday afterthe war gamethreadsbrb curling into fetal ball― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, June 20, 2011 1:23 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

Looking forward to firsthand analysis of the night terrors you experienced.

Srsly dude I watched JUST Threads before bed once and couldn't sleep, and Day After kept me awake too...but in the same night? Dayum...

(Also for anybody who hsn't seen The War Game, it's avail for free on Youtube right now)

Singin' In The Rain
Manhattan
The Servant

I was trying to think of the title of Threads in a bar once, and described it as the British equiv of The Day After. A magnetic songwriting wit quipped "The Day Ahfter."

I wonder who that could've been...

Ha. I went through a phase of wanting to watch Threads every time I stayed up all night, as a post-party come-down thing. I think I may have permanently shattered my psyche.

the australian version would be called "brodie threads" amirite

I work at home and am as likely to put a DVD on for background noise as a CD. It's not the same kind of "watching," but I've played Rio Bravo 40-50 times while writing a novel, and there's a lot of high school textbooks out there that were written with Head or Five Easy Pieces playing.

The Rules of the Game
My Own Private Idaho
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Lawrence of Arabia
__________?
__________?

I'm not critical enough. My top-10 changes with the weather and includes whatever moved me most recently.

ditto but replace LoA with Empire Strikes Back

gee VP, you like your black&white urban bummers.

You know it! This is my favorite genre, as long as there is sparkling dialog.

Bicycle thieves
Die hard
Weekend at Bernie's

Mulholland Dr.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gas Food Lodging

Hausu
2001: A Space Odyssey
Duck Soup

Interesting to see Texas Chainsaw and Eraserhead upthread. Younger me would have agreed (and they might still make my top 25 or so) but for alltime repeated watching:

The Band Wagon
Summer Stock
The Gang's All Here

Hausu

Hell yeah. Great choice.

ya must like plaid skirts

Hausu
Ghost World
Braveheart

Don't Look Now
Woman In The Dunes
The Seventh Seal

wait Eric's being lol here right?

To Kill With Intruige
Desperate LIving
The Adventures of Morisey

Club Paradise
Oscar
Heartbreak Ridge

Just went with the first 3 plaid skirt movies I could think of.

Ugetsu
Los Olvidados
and rotating #3 - tokyo story, duck soup, or ?

Thank you, people, for listing Hausu among your top three favorites. I now feel motivated to un-unwatch my unwatched copy (largely unwatched because I was waiting to watch it with other people, all of whom have expressed a complete lack of interest towards the idea).

ha i should have seen that
xxp

The Band Wagon
Summer Stock
The Gang's All Here

― Duke Manfist: Action Hero (Dan Peterson)

When can we get married?

lol, I know that list is gay as hell for a straight man, but musicals are just about the only film genre I can watch more than 2-3 times.

w/o looking:

days of heaven
rules of the game
bring it on

those films are much better if you look at them.

esp bring it on amirite

I watch my favourites over and over and over again until they're not my favourites anymore. Somewhow, a few survive.

(lol real answer)

No Country for Old Men
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Fresh

the philadelphia story
night of the hunter
three crowns of the sailor

Nights of Cabiria
Repo Man
Dazed & Confused

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Cannibal: The Musical

Thank you, people, for listing Hausu among your top three favorites. I now feel motivated to un-unwatch my unwatched copy (largely unwatched because I was waiting to watch it with other people, all of whom have expressed a complete lack of interest towards the idea).

I'm in the habit of if I find out one of my friends have never seen it, I go out of my way to make sure we watch it. This week I rewatched this for maybe now the dozenth time. My friend was tripping and had never seen it. He's a huge anime & psychedelic film nerd so I said before we do this we are getting a projector and this movie will change your life! Yeah, he loved it of course.

Also yay for Duck Soup love. Arguably the best Marx Bros. and if only it had a Chico-playing-piano scene it would be w/o question the best.

The Passenger
The Thin Red Line
Seven Samurai

I wouldnt save it in a fire before those three, but im pretty obsessed with Back to the Future

don't put too much stock in my choices, Godfather/Godfather II probably right but couldn't think of a third. I'm not really a movie buff per se even though I see a lot these days.

the royal tenenebaums
when harry met sally
stop making sense

"did you just call me Coltrane?"

arf!
damn just realised i spelt Tenenbaums wrong.

sweet smell of success
pulp fiction
goodfellas

Apocalypse Now
The Jerk
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

two lane blacktop
repo man
you've got mail

If I had to commit to something at this moment I guess it'd be:

Hiroshima Mon Amour
2001
Manhattan

the only other things that come to mind are Chinatown and Days of Heaven.

Some of these trios are awesome in a "one of these things is not like the other" kind of way.

Citizen Kane
Cool Hand Luke
Chinatown

Those three could have been my list on any other day as could several of the others presented here.

WmC I'm pretty sure that one of Fantasy's was a lie.

yeah, two lane blacktop is pretty overrated.

hmmmm.

star trek 2
videodrome
strozek

shit, the thing and ran might need to squeeze in there somewhere.

Some of these trios are awesome in a "one of these things is not like the other" kind of way.

tbh i think alot of ppl want to show they have good taste but yknow Step Brothers is ace too. maybe thats just cynical projection tho.

mmm Videodrome. have the Criterion collection version of taht

I couldn't think of a third movie and went with the movie I've probably seen the most

hmm actually change my third to Robocop

ok being honest my third movie is werckmeister harmonies, not a great great movie or anything, but probably the last movie I think I sat through all rapt and shit

also that gvs kurt cobain movie was incredible, I thought

a friend keeps dropping rohmer movies by my apt and asking if I ever watch them and I don't is he any good I'm going to do a search right now

Autumn Tale, Le Rayon Vert...

Gonna say:

The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Red Line
D'Est

three is so impossible though. i'm excluding tons of shit that i love at least as much:

dagon
repo man
i don't want to sleep alone

and so on...

excalibur!

aguirre!

femme fatale!

Almost wisest to go highbrow/middlebrow/lowbrow. Like:

D'Est
Husbands and Wives
Fear

Ideal is

Highbrow
Lowbrow
Nobrow

Street of Shame
Totoro
Rashomon

Dawn of the Dead
Stalker
Drumline

(great pick with Dagon, though!)

What did dog latin watch in the end?

tbh i think alot of ppl want to show they have good taste but yknow Step Brothers is ace too. maybe thats just cynical projection tho.

i can't imagine picking things that don't have a kind of transportive quality, that are emblematic of why films are worth watching & why you should watch them. i would pick weirder, more intriguing films over classics most of the time - f for fake over kane (though yknow either is fine) - because the purposes of this list is to be, watch this!, it's interesting + new/different, i think, and because seeing something that's a curveball tends to serve as the motivation to watch more stuff. think people are picking exemplars that demonstrate how watching films can be instructive and intriguing and directional rather than just time-filling.

What did dog latin watch in the end?

― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 11:07 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

Rushmore - hadn't seen it before. Interesting, but not my bag. I think I've given Wanderson a good go and all his films leave me cold. That said, as a Napoleon Dynamite apologist, I can kind of see why anyone who'd seen Rushmore before would be all "ack" @ that film.

Ghostbusters
Big Trouble In Little China
Fresh

eddie murphy -- raw
big trouble in little china (opened this thread to post that, kkvgz)
who's afraid of virginia woolf?

hey dog latin what are your top three films?