can you really list your ten favourite movies?

1. Seven Samurai
2. Bringing Up Baby
3. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
4. Manhattan
5. The Philadelphia Story
6. An Actor's Revenge
7. La Grande Illusion
8. The Searchers
9. Rashomon
10. Double Indemnity

It doesn't look bad now, but certainly if I had just started from scratch now it wouldn't have been identical. I think everyone recognises that these are entirely temporary.

11. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
12. Annie Hall
13. A Matter Of Life And Death
14. Duck Soup
15. Solaris
16. His Girl Friday
17. In A Lonely Place
18. La Bete Humaine
19. Ghost Dog
20. Sons Of The Desert
21. Rio Bravo
22. Quai Des Brumes
23. Once Upon A Time In The West
24. Being John Malkovich
25. Brazil
26. Rushmore
27. Casablanca
28. Delicatessen
29. La Regle du Jeu
30. Metropolis

I had to do it quickly and let it go, because it does distress me to stop after 30. I am the sort of madman who would much prefer to list a top 300.

Performance
Barbarella
Ken Russell's Gothic
Altered States
Blow Up
Repo Man
Wild Angels
Velvet Goldmine
Josie and the Pussycats
and one more that I probably forget...

no one's mentioned "contempt", "ivan the terrible", "pee wee's big adventure", or "the seventh seal"...i'd even throw in "wings of desire" but i think it would get me mobbed.

Get Carter

The Wicker Man

Robin Hood (Erroll Flynn)

Shane

Germany Year Zero

Brighton Rock

Peeping Tom

High Plains Drifter

The Servant

From Beyond The Grave

My memory is appalling so I've probably left out some I like even more but I certainly like all these very much.

Krystoff Kieslowski is God. David Lynch, Terry Gillingham, Adrei Tarkovsky - Demi gods at the least.

DONNA!!! i hate tom hanks TOO!!! AND i'm a blockhead TOO!!!

millers crossing
shoot the moon
wings of desire
crimes and misdemeanors
spinal tap
five easy pieces
waiting for guffman
a woman under the influence
hana-bi (fireworks)
reanimator

The Red Shoes
Annie Hall
Breakfast at Tiffany's (or maybe Roman Holiday, I can't quite decide)
The Dark Crystal
Surviving Desire
Kicking & Screaming
La Cite des enfants perdus
Office Space

that's all i can list right now with any certainty.

Night of the Living Dead
Tonari no Totoro
Dead Man
Mary Poppins
Amadeus
The Omen
Ghost in the Shell
Gold Rush
Empire Strikes Back
and...
Ikiru! (#1)

1. hot to trot
2. back to school
3. goodburger
4. pcu
5. spaceballs
6. night of the lepus
7. ghostbusters
8. pump up the volume
9. star trek II: the wrath of khan
10. decalogue

That should cover it.

It'd be braver if it was real, of course. I have seen Police Academy 6, but it was not by choice.

slapshot
barton fink
heavenly creatures
it's a wonderful life
amelie
toto the hero
the umbrellas of cherbourg
raising arizona
weird science
mary poppins

Yep. And gloriously bad it is.

.

"don't you fucking look at me!"

Actually - Delicatessen rates too (as basically the only 'comedy' that's ever impressed me as a movie...but it was funny in a dark sort of way that comedies usually are not).

Renoir - Grand Illusion
Renoir - Rules of the Game
Kurosawa - Throne of Blood
Hitch - Vertigo
Truffaut - Jules & Jim
Altman - McCabe & Mrs Miller
Chuck Jones - The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke
Lynch - Mulholland Drive
Cantet - Time Out

Ess Kay, wrong Kurosawa if there such a thing. I know one other person who's seen Songs from the Second Floor and it's one of his favourites too.

Wings of Honneamise
Brazil
Big Lebowski
The Royal Tenenbaums
Real Genius
War Games
Black Hawk Down
Conan The Barbarian
Blade Runner

I am stopping at nine because this way I can reserve number 10 as a wildcard for movies like Robot Carnival or Erik The Viking that have yet to see the light of DVD, movies I have to yet to find a copy of like Delicatessen or Gunhed, and movies I don't quite love yet but which may grow on me.

You are all guilty of blatant hipsterism, BTW

In no order: Vertigo, 2001, L'avventura, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Written on the Wind, Touch of Evil, Stalker, 8 1/2, The Lady Eve, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

no, i can't get past two.

Say Anything
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Home Alone
A Guy Named Joe
Swingers
The Wedding Singer
Labyrinth
Dead Man Walking
Cosi
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Note that I've seen way way too few movies, especially of the European, Japanese and silent varieties, so this is totally provisional and ill-informed. But, for now:

1. The Right Stuff
My all-time favorite. Perhaps because I saw it at an impressionable age, but it holds up. Its got it all: an epic that often feels intimate, fine drama and broad comedy, wonder and fun, history and fiction, marriage and male-bonding, tradition and punk, airplanes and horses, Debussy and "Rocket in My Pocket", a fabulous ensemble cast and Ed Harris' great performance.

2. Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
The greatest filmmaker, afaic. No one else has come as close to using the medium to create visual art that expresses ideas. And few have thought as hard. If I have to pick one, it's Full Metal Jacket, which I think is the best expression of his humanism, his celebration of intelligence, and his humor. But I love everything from 2001 on (haven't seen the earlier ones much). I find Eyes Wide Shut, which I don't yet understand as I do some of his others, utterly compelling. A.I. is fascinating too.

3. Hitchcock (Rear Window)
The great entertainer, who also had things to say, both especially true when he focused on men and women. Rear Window is my favorite of his, and also I think his best/testament film, but I can't deny the first 2 hours of North By Northwest.

4. Kurosawa (High and Low)
It's been awhile since I've seen many of his movies, and there are one or two I've never seen (Ikiru, notably), so I'm not sure exactly what I like about them. I think it's his direction first and his moral investigations second (his attitudes not so much). I think this beautiful-looking one is my favorite, but I haven't seen The Seven Samurai or Ran lately. I also like Dersu Uzala.

5. Jarmusch (Ghost Dog)
I'm outwardly nothing like Jarmusch, but feel like his is the sensibility closest to mine of any filmmaker. Not just because he loves music (among other things) so much. Maybe because he's a night person. I love his dry passion, his magic realism, his hypnotism, the visual sense that is equal parts cool and beauty, and the way he gives character to politics. Picking a favorite for him is hard. Dead Man is probably his great movie, but Ghost Dog does some of the same things in a context that connects more personally for me (even tho in theory it would be the former). And Night on Earth is my sentimental favorite.

6. A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles' personas, both idealized and alluded to in this movie, were almost as exciting as their music, much of the best of which is here. Helped out by Richard Lester, they call convention on its shit, while never being less than as civilized and nice and charming as their elders are supposed to be. They're funny. They rock 'n roll. They create melodies that transcend rock 'n roll. They know joy and look for something more. This is one of the things that defines the '60s for me. And it looks great.

7. Tati (Les Vacances de M. Hulot)
I love him for his silent movie approach, his location of humor in the familiarly different (apologies to Ebert), and his Franche-ness. Also, he's so painterly. Hulot is my favorite for now, but Rosenbaum's essay on Playtime (which I might have seen ages ago, but can't remember) suggests it might change when I get around to that one.

8. Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing)
Spike's greatest gift is in revealing the interstices of a community. Celebrating them, too, which isn't so common in this era. And showing their complications, which are given epic dimension in Do the Right Thing, appropriate t a thoughtful investigation into a central problem of the larger American community. A great film. And his team helps put together some of the most visually and sonically elaborate movies of his time. I love how they experiment in Mo' Better Blues. The performances in that weaker movie, especially from the great Wesley Snipes, also reveal what Spike can draw from his impressive casts. His Crooklyn, equally flawed, reveals the demanding sentimentality at his heart.

9. Gordon Willis (Manhattan)
This is cheating a bit - his rich but subtle cinematography may be the best thing about two of my favorite movies that I concede have weaknesses: the other one being All the President's Men. Oh, and in addition to a whole slew of Woody's, he also shot a few noted movies about the mob featuring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.

10. Days of Heaven
Maybe the closest thing to pure cinema outside of (including?) Kubrick - one you can just feel. Also maybe the best-looking color movie ever.

11. Casablanca
The greatest ensemble cast, an exotic setting, everyone gets to be on the side of the good guys while vicariously experiencing the cleaned-up bad, definitive tough-guy sacrifice, and Dooley Wilson's "As Time Goes By" collaborate to define movie romance. The more 'realistic' The Third Man, which gets you Welles and Vienna and exhaustion, is a close competitor, but I'd rather be Bogie than Joseph Cotten.

12. Patton
A movie of political theory, about the role of individuals and nations in collective systems, it also loves history to no end and features cinematography commensurate in scale with its subjects. And, oh yeah, one of the great screen performances.

13. Gene Kelly (Singin in the Rain)
For his dancing, of course, which understood jazz without disrespecting classicism, and was distinctly American. Not his acting, but maybe his direction, which combined with the choreography to define an athleticism (masculinity?) that had everything to do with love of movement, but very little to do with macho. None of his movies is great. Singin' in the Rain is surely the best, but I've always had a hometown thing for On the Town, and An American in Paris probably has the best songs and dancing.

14. David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
His sensibility isn't always mine. I actively dislike Wild at Heart and can't handle much of Blue Velvet or Lost Highway. But when his surrealism serves to reflect on a world I recognize, I love his outsider fascination. Twin Peaks is where he first hit me, connecting on the levels of both the Pacific Northwest and culture clash. And I love the Straight Story, which refreshes American ideals by revealing their strangeness, and also gets you Freddie Francis, Angelo Badalamenti's fake Copland, and the wonderful Richard Farnsworth, who I'd loved since The Natural and Anne of Green Gables. But Mulholland Drive, where he confronts what he clearly knows - pain and loss and the terrors of naivete - and plays with form more successfully than the other 90s directors who did so, is his great movie so far.

15. Sidney Lumet (Running on Empty)
Responsible for three of my favorites, the others being 12 Angry Men (his great film) and Network, part of what I like about him is his political identity, which resonates with my New York liberal secular-Jewish upbringing. But I can appreciate him beyond that for the subtlety of his choices, such as the slow descent of the camera from above eye-level to below in 12 Angry Men. And the circumstantial evidence is enough for me to deem him one of the great directors of actors.

16. Local Hero
Bill Forsyth's magic realist city mouse story isn't just a fairy tale, because it reveals that it's the city mice who look to the skies and country mice who will sell out (apologies to All Movie Guide). And it's not merely cynical because it empathizes with both. And it gets you the great Burt Lancaster. Field of Dreams fulfills some of the same functions as this movie and could easily fit here.

17. John Badham (Saturday Night Fever)
He's here for his coming-of-age epics, the other one being Wargames, which are smarter than their subjects without condescending to them. Like many of my favorites, they subsume ideas in grand entertainment, which he does on the level of Spielberg, but without the forced sentimentality. And I love the temporal color of his movies: Wargames nails the Reagan years as well as Saturday Night Fever evokes the mass-culture disco moment.

18. To Fly!
IMAX RoXor

19. Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line?)
A fascinating 'documentarian' because he listens so well to people others don't, and has enough curiousity/perversity to select the right subjects. I haven't seen my choice in years, and was more impressed with Philip Glass at the time than I am now, so it might be Fast, Cheap and Out of Control or A Brief History of Time when I see those for the first time or in full, respectively.

20. Richard Linklater (Tape)
Almost as much as John Sayles, I find it hard to call him a filmmaker, because, even though he's making all sorts of interesting directorial choices (unlike John Sayles), he's chiefly interested in dialogue. My choice for him is essentially a stage play on digital video. But he asks all sorts of good questions. And his mise-en-scene is always appopriate to the conversation.

Midnight Movie: Dude, Where's My Car
The world didn't ask for a Beckett-inspired stoner comedy about saving the universe and a sub-compact car that also has gender politics, Adidas jumpsuits, and facts known only to those who have worked in zoos, but I'm sure glad it got one.

Hana-Bi.
The Piano.
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
Alien.
Ronja Rövardottar.

temporary:

The Apartment.
Cheung fo.
Fellini Satyricon.
Funeral in Berlin.
Naked.

1. Blade Runner
2. Black Narcissus
3. Hana-bi
4. Mephisto
5. Kwaidan
6. Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
7. La Haine
8. The Seventh Seal
9. Suspiria
10. My Beautiful Laundrette

Can I do a top hundred please?

http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~beu1/Movie List.htm

The other six, right now: Last Temptation of Christ, Sunset Boulevard, Three Kings, LA Story, Poltergeist, and Almost Famous.

Run Lola Run might bump one of those out, but I've only seen it once.

yeah, it always changes...................................

woo! someone likes my list. would that you were a girl.

i'm already regretting leaving off my cousin vinny.

Spirited Away
Dressed To Kill
The Haunting ('60s version, DEAR GOD not the '90s)
Cabaret
The Seven Samurai
High Fidelity
The Godfather
The Godfather, Pt. 2
Used Cars
Animal House

Anyone like Wizards?

Nightmare Before Christmas
Men in Black
Saving Silverman
High Fidelity
Better Off Dead
Renaissance Man
Dave

Dr. Strangelove
Eraserhead
Saratossa Manuscript
The Last Unicorn
City of Lost Children
Labyrinth
Back to the Future
Requiem for a Dream
Seventh Seal
Seven Samuri
Bicycle Thief
Baran
Kurosawa's Dreams
Ghost Dog
eXistenZ
Last Year at Marienbad
Los Ovidados
Princess and the Warrior
Dead Man
Heat

Started it, put it in the wrong box when I moved, and never saw the book again. Someday, though.

Eternals:

1. Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard
2. The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni
3. L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni

Those three will probably always be in my top ten.

Temporal:

4. Performance, Donald Cammell
5. Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese
6. La Luna, Bernardo Bertolucci
7. Two-Lane Blacktop, Monte Hellmann
8. Repo Man, Alex Cox
9. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Sam Peckinpah
10. A Little Romance, George Roy Hill

Contenders: The Warriors, The Wanderers, THX-1138, Across 110th Street, Rollerball(the old one), The Deer Hunter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, and last but not least a mindblowing film called Sans soleil by Chris Marker.

la nuit americaine
la belle et la bete
koyaanisqatsi/powaqqatsi
diva
a clockwork orange
chappaqua
yume
chungking express
weekend
awara

it was very beautiful to see powaqqatsi with live accompaniment
by philip glass & ensemble. same for la belle et la bete, but
with sung parts!

Oops, I meant except for A Clockwork Orange

I can no longer pick a top ten because I just have too much shit I like to watch over and over again now. Oh well.

Taxi Driver, Brazil, Blade Runner, Tron, The Black Hole, French Connection, Behind Enemy Lines, Royal Tenebaums, Black Hawk Down, most any of the Sean Connery bond films and a lot of the Roger Moore ones, Sum of All Fears, Bourne Identity, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, The Transporter, Fifth Element, Where Eagles Dare, Kelley's Heroes, man, it just keeps going. I can't name ten at all.

The Long Goodbye
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Palm Beach Story
M
Double Indemnity
Chungking Express
Swing Time
His Girl Friday
Chinatown
Badlands

Barry Lyndon
Rashomon
The Apartment
Barton Fink
Don't Look Back
Vertigo
The Ladykillers
The Hudsucker proxy
Dr Strangelove
The Bridge on the river Kwai
The Conversation

Spirited Away
Pootie Tang
Old School
Run Lola Run
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
City of Lost Children
can I count them thur Lord of the Rings movies as one movie? I hope so, cuz I'm gonna.
Donnie Darko
Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

Hana-Bi.
The Piano.
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
Alien.
Ronja Rövardottar.

Yep, still eternal.

The new temporaries are :

Cure
City of God
Lethal Weapon 4
Le Casse
Help!

Sunrise
North by Northwest
Mulholland Drive
Lost In Translation
Faces
Election
Adaptation
Buffalo '66
Knife In The Water
Fallen Angels

1.  Pump Up The Volume
2.  Some Kind Of Wonderful
3.  Velvet Goldmine
4.  9 1/2 Weeks
5.  A Star Is Born (the 1920s version)
6.  The Glenn Miller Story
7.  Steel Magnolias
8.  Real Genius
9.  Shallow Grave
10. Peter's Friends

Laugh at most of the mentions on the list. Go right ahead. ;)

Dee likes 9 1/2 Weeks?!

At this point I hope I haven't seen my 10 favorites yet...

1 The Stunt Man, Richard Rush
2 Der Blaue Engel, Josef von Sternberg
3 Invasion of the Bee Girls, Denis Sanders
4 The Warriors, Walter Hill
5 Shane, George Stevens
6 Cool Hand Luke, Stuart Rosenberg
7 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Joseph Sargent
8 Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow
9 The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Peter Yates
10 Sleeper, Woody Allen

Above is a list. Those are 10 for the desert island.

The Straight Story
Wonder Boys
Last Night
Full Metal Jacket
Three Kings
Cool Hand Luke
Dazed & Confused
Kiss Me Deadly
Sleepy Hollow
The Anniversary Party

Yeah, this movie is soo beautiful. It never gets old, and I just saw it again recently, so it would probably be higher in my list. Actually that list is a year old and mine today would be different. One thing is I would agree with Ally and put "Children of Paradise" at the top.

Red
Thin Red Line
Heat
Legally Blonde
Ran
Oscar & Lucinda
Spirited Away
Cries and Whispers
Seventh Seal
Titus

no order

the last picture show (bogdanovich)
hiroshima mon amour (resnais)
my life to live (godard)
diabolique (clouzot)
casablanca (curtiz)
the big sleep (hawks)
blue velvet (lynch)
vertigo (hitchcock)
chinatown (polanski)
the passion of joan of arc (dreyer)

what?! no bunuel, kurosawa, ford, spike lee, woody allen, tarantino.
no sunrise? christ.
ten isnt enough

How Green Was My Valley
The Long Voyage Home
Young Mr. Lincoln
They Were Expendable
My Darling Clementine
Drums Along the Mohawk
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Searchers
The Informer

Jaws
Donnie Darko
Magnolia
The Godfather
La Jetée
A Matter Of Life & Death
Koyaanisqatsi
The Big Lebowski
Grosse Point Blank
The Lord Of The Rings

More

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Battle Royale
Fargo
Waking Life
Se7en
Withnail & I
Pleasantville
Brotherhood Of The Wolf
Being John Malkovich
An American Werewolf In London
Being There
Amadeus
Hard Boiled
Memento
South Park The Movie
Amores Perros
Seven Samurai
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shawshank Redemption
Heat

an impulsive current list:

Il Gattopardo, Dead Man, The Thin Red Line, McCabe and Mrs Miller, John Huston's The Dead, North By Northwest, The Player, Chinatown, The Last Waltz, Jaws, Wargames, Stalag 17, Swingers, My Cousin Vinny, Box of Moonlight, City of Hope, Thunderheart, Point Break, 8 Mile, Bulworth, American Pie 2, Husbands and Wives, The Lavender Hill Mob, Gideon's Trumpet, Gleaming the Cube

1. Mulholland Drive
2. My Dinner With Andre
3. Slums of Beverly Hills
4. Dazed and Confused
5. Paris, Texas
6. The Piano
7. Jacob's Ladder
8. Amadeus
9. Barry Lyndon
10. Time Bandits

glaring omission: vertigo

Baseketball
Stepbrothers
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Ghostbusters
This is the End
History of the World Part One
The Matrix
Phenomenon
Game Change
Fifty Shades of Grey

Yes

Better than Ross's, tbh

No hate Ross. Amadeus sunk you.

No Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, no credibility imo.

The Wickerman
Children of Men
Kill List
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense*
Spirited Away
Mulholland Drive
Hunt For The Wilderpeople
Happy Go Lucky
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
Brazil

* do documentaries and music films count?

Not ones about talking heads, no

Let the record show that I approve of yr list, which probably means it's filthily milquetoast

1. Satantango
2. Der Letzte Mann
3. Pierrot le Fou
4= The Love Eterne
4= Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
6. Shoah
7. Pather Panchali
8. L'Eclisse
9. Ugetsu Monogatari
10. Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Fuck off, digby at ten. Top five movie in anyone's reckoning

On latest rewatch it didn't quite have the emotional heft I remembered, so I moved it down a couple spots to make room for The Love Eterne.

today:

Black Girl
Duck Soup
Fires on the Plain
The King of Comedy
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
The Mirror
A Moment of Innocence
Sherlock Jr.
2001: A Space Odyssey

Choosing to interpret 'favorite movies' as 'movies you most enjoy watching and will watch pretty much whenever' not 'movies you think are the best movies but that you maybe watch more sparingly' (although there's certainly some overlap):

Ghostbusters
Boogie Nights
The Muppet Movie
The Great Muppet Caper
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Dazed and Confused
Robocop
The Long Goodbye
Creepshow
The Man With Two Brains

Having only recently watched House/Hausu, I could easily see it sneaking its way into the top ten.

(My 'best' list would only be a scooch more highbrow than that.)

McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Days of Heaven/Badlands (sorry, cheat)
E.T.
Elephant
Blow Out
Uncle Boonmee
2001
Persona
Stroszek
Sans Soleil

Solyaris
The Wind Will Carry Us
Mulholland Drive
Belle de Jour
8 1/2
Teorema
The Seventh Seal
Beautiful Girls
Don't Look Now
Man of Aran

dilettante alert

Stalker
That Obscure Object Of Desire
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Rules Of The Game
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
Hard To Be A God
Arabian Nights
A Field In England
Celine And Julie Go Boating
The Exterminating Angel

three from Don Luis is NOT overkill I swear

Arabian Nights

Pasolini or Miguel Gomes?

Gomes, albeit I need to see more Pasolini

My next five would contain Liquid Sky, Toni Erdmann and Winter Sleep (alongside Rear Window and The Black Tower), if you're looking for a bit more diversity

Kung Fu hustle
After the Thin Man
Maltese Falcon
West Side Story
Bringing Up Baby
He Got Game
Millers Crossing
Once Upon a Time in The West
The Wizard of Oz
Hoop Dreams

List valid for next twenty minutes then Rio bravo and or quiet man shove in somewhere

Also I've only seen two Tarkovskys but I've determined to only watch them when they're shown at the cinema as kind of life-changing events or w/e

Deems' #1 would be inside my top 30 or 40 probably, it transcends all of its genre confines

Ooooh I forgot Miller's Crossing and Hoop Dreams, my list is invalid.

M
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Kikujiro
Simon del desierto
A Canterbury Tale
The Maltese Falcon
Days and Nights in the Forest
The Gospel According to St Matthew
Problem Child 2
Winstanley

M pretty close to my list too tbh

lists are so arbitrary anyway

Well yeah

Tomorrow I'll see if I can't fit the good the bad the weird in there.

Renaldo and Clara
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Satantango
Out 1: Noli Me Tangere
Fanny and Alexander
From What is Before
Napoléon
24 Hour Psycho
The Clock
Kwaidan

going the "value for money" route there Ward

The Scarlet Empress
Rear Window
All That Heaven Allows
The Night of the Hunter
La Jetee
Gertrud
Night of the Living Dead
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Nashville
Showgirls

Fuckit, french connection.

Renaldo and Clara! I have a bootleg VHS that I started to watch, but it was just so murky I gave up quickly. I really wish someone would sweet-talk the director and re-release...

can you really list your hundred favourite movies?

xpost

A few years ago the Glasgow Film Theatre screened the original UK 35mm release print, which had gained a strange but rather lovely pink tinge after many years in storage. R&C also got a one-off TV screening on good old C4 in the 1980s; think a lot of the bootleg copies in circulation are taken from that broadcast. Initial copies of the 1975 Rolling Thunder bootleg set came with a DVD featuring a couple of the musical numbers from R&C; they looked very good, so I'm guessing at some point there was a 'restoration'.

2 random greats, each by Tarkovsky, Hsai-Hsien, Rosselini and Hitchcock and then chuck in The Exterminating Angel and Paths Of Glory, the jobs a good'un!

A Sporting Life
Pulp Fiction
Mad Max
Goodfellas
Wild Strawberries
Rear Window
Withnail & I
Sweet Smell of Success
One flew over the cuckoos nest
The thing

"He Got Game" is an odd choice, darragh

I've been meaning to see "Liquid Sky" for years, druggy NY punk movies ftw

totoro
7 samurai
rope
trouble in paradise
night at the opera
clockwork orange
tropical malady (or) cemetery of splendor
grand illusion
stalker
wiseman's 'zoo'

are ten that come to mind just now

forgot to include any Kubrick in my ten :-( Maybe swap out Life of Brian for 2001

Really liked seeing He Got Game there. Very underappreciated film, I think, with one of my favourite opening-credit sequences ever.

Shining
American Psycho
Two Lane Blacktop
Warriors
Spinal Tap
Goodfellas
Godfather Pt 1
2001
Clue
Lost in Translation

Think he got game is a complete movie, Lee and Washington at their most powerful, idk hits a sweet spot for me.

It's prob the one most vulnerable to coming off the list tomorrow, but today it's there.

To be replaced by big trouble in little China, or a similarly understated masterpiece super troopers

Super troopers is a better effort at translating sketch style madcap nonsense to a full picture than anything python managed, I think.

FFS deems

I just watched Super Troopers for maybe the 10th time a couple of nights ago. Great anarchic comedy

LITRE OF COLA FOR A COP

steady on miaow

probably too late to swap Amadeus for Wicker Man

Kiki's Delivery Service
The Apartment
Stalker
Stroszek
Tokyo Story
The Rules of the Game
Millers Crossing
It Happened One Night
Rushmore
High and Low

Ah crap I forgot Stroszek

xp Actually scrap Tokyo Story for My Winnipeg.

I forgot any Hitchcocks

which is why non-dilettantes shdnt do this

^ forgetting Vertigo kills me yeah

pickpocket
throne of blood
cluny brown
secrets and lies (or) life is sweet
the shop on the corner
the lady eve
the night of the hunter
all that heaven allows
rear window
ikiru

maybe i need to do the top 100

but what if you shoot for 100 and end up listing 101, then you'll have to do the 1000

prob just best to go watch a movie

Ah shit all about eve

This thread is conspicuously lacking things both Fast and Furious.

happiness of the katakuris
house
paprika
wall-e
the third man
get carter
the red shoes
still walking
it follows
cocteau's beauty and the beast

goddammit

i don't know what my favourites movies are, but I do know i want to watch movies with old Lunch.

Goddammit, fuck, I forgot Dunkirk. Swap it with Shoah.

That's a joke post, right?

ahahaha

this is my new favorite movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ROMuvv1nY

Two Lane Blacktop
The Long Goodbye
Commando
Cobra
Showgirls
River's Edge
Ninja III: The Domination
The Tales of Hoffmann
John Wick
Barry Lyndon

but then no Bunuel/DePalma/Sirk/Death Wish III, etc. just feels wrong. 10 is not enough.

I started compiling a top 100 because of other thread and Cobra made the cut. Good choice.

Superman vs. Batman
Crash
Gone With the Wind
Forrest Gump
Prometheus
Birth of a Nation
Avatar
Funny People
At Long Last Love
Avengers 2

Which crash

my neighbor totoro
do the right thing
an angel at my table
daisies
band of outsiders
the fly (cronenberg)
valerie and her week of wonders
modern times
spirit of the beehive
persona

Which crash

I'm the only who'll say this, but to make Οὖτις's joke-list work, rather than undermine it, I hope it's Cronenberg's.

Oh either way I'd say

Devils on the Doorstep
Ikiru
Exit Smiling
Morgiana
Songs From The Second Floor
Hard To Be A God
Borom Sarret
Pink Narcissus
Daydreams (Bauer)
The Dark Horse

Actually with dog latin & JD repping NZ films strike off The Dark Horse and put in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Οὖτις left off The Shawshank Redemption so it can’t be real. Or it could include Boondocks Saints.

these are 10 movies i like to watch a lot

starship troopers
the shining
the man who knew too much
to have and have not
night of the hunter
the room
the big lebowski
last year at marienbad
spirited away
butch cassidy and the sundance kid

which version of Man Who Knew Too Much? (just out of interest, i love both)

doris day

I Know Where I'm Going!
The Green Ray
The Leopard
Smiles of a Summer Night
It Happened One Night
The Mirror
The General
Kiki's Delivery Service
Mon Oncle Antoine
Eraserhead

First 10 that came to mind in the order I thought of them:

Close-Up
Mulholland Drive
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Sawdust & Tinsel
3 Women
The Piano Teacher
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
King of Comedy
Harakiri

Thought of these. Let's go with:

Possession
Robocop
Mulholland Drive
The Third Man
Maborosi
Safe
2001: A Space Odyssey
Playtime
le Rayon Vert
Goodfellas

good to see people bigging up Kiki's Delivery Service and Hunt for the Wilderpeople - both absolutely lovely films

Wilderpeople was film of the year but I think what we do in the shadows might hang together better..both exceptional tho

i'm glad ikiru is getting so much love; obvs it's a total classic but i didn't know it had immediate modern cred on this board like that

Cobra made the cut. Good choice

Guys, the title is Cobra Woman.