can you really list your hundred favourite movies?

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Well, can you?

Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 July 2017 13:42 (seven years ago)

1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, 1962, France) (s)
2. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero, 1968, USA)
3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman, 1975, USA)
4. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964, Denmark)
5. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, USA)
6. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, 1974, USA)
7. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk, 1955, USA)
8. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA)
9. THE SCARLET EMPRESS (Josef Von Sternberg, 1934, USA)
10. SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, 1995, USA)
11. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker, 1982, France)
12. PINK NARCISSUS (James Bidgood, 1971, USA)
13. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Béla Tarr, 1994, Hungary)
14. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999, Austria) (s)
15. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, 1989, USA)
16. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006, USA)
17. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel, 1965, Mexico) (s)
18. TANGO (Zbigniew Rybczynski, 1981, Poland) (s)
19. WEEK-END (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, France)
20. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir, 1939, France)
21. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, 1980, USA)
22. PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston, 1990, USA)
23. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones, 1953, USA) (s)
24. ALL THAT JAZZ (Bob Fosse, 1979, USA)
25. GREY GARDENS (Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 1975, USA)
26. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick, 2010, USA)
27. UN CHANT D'AMOUR (Jean Genet, 1950, France) (s)
28. FEMALE TROUBLE (John Waters, 1974, USA)
29. M (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany)
30. CARRIE (Brian De Palma, 1976, USA)
31. L'ARGENT (Robert Bresson, 1983, France)
32. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey, 1937, USA)
33. MOMMIE DEAREST (Frank Perry, 1981, USA)
34. TRASH (Paul Morrissey, 1970, USA)
35. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, France)
36. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, UK)
37. LE TEMPESTAIRE (Jean Epstein, 1947, France) (s)
38. DOGVILLE (Lars Von Trier, 2003, Denmark)
39. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962, France)
40. MUNICH (Steven Spielberg, 2005, USA)
41. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium)
42. THE NAKED KISS (Samuel Fuller, 1964, USA)
43. 3 WOMEN (Robert Altman, 1977, USA)
44. L'ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962, Italy)
45. THE LADIES MAN (Jerry Lewis, 1961, USA)
46. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950, USA)
47. LIGHT IS CALLING (Bill Morrison, 2004, USA) (s)
48. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004, Thailand)
49. THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson, 1943, USA)
50. THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (Stan Brakhage, 1971, USA) (s)
51. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, 1999, UK/USA)
52. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK)
53. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, 1973, France/Iran/West Germany)
54. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA)
55. L'AGE D'OR (Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, 1930, France)
56. VALSE TRISTE (Bruce Conner, 1977, USA) (s)
57. PULSE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001, Japan)
58. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden)
59. THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise, 1944, USA)
60. LATE SPRING (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949, Japan)
61. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981, France/West Germany)
62. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Russ Meyer, 1970, USA)
63. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow, 1967, Canada) (s)
64. THE TENANT (Roman Polanski, 1976, France)
65. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010, France/Iran)
66. IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PARTS I & II (Sergei Eistenstein, 1944/1958, USSR)
67. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (R.W. Fassbinder, 1972, West Germany)
68. THE BROOD (David Cronenberg, 1979, Canada)
69. A PAGE OF MADNESS (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926, Japan)
70. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933, USA)
71. I AM CUBA (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, Cuba/USSR)
72. AFTER DEATH (Yevgeni Bauer, 1915, Russia) (s)
73. ADVISE & CONSENT (Otto Preminger, 1962, USA)
74. PANDORA'S BOX (G.W. Pabst, 1929, Germany)
75. TENEBRAE (Dario Argento, 1982, Italy)
76. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich, 1955, USA)
77. YI YI (Edward Yang, 2000, Taiwan)
78. DEATH BECOMES HER (Robert Zemeckis, 1992, USA)
79. THE LIFE OF OHARU (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952, Japan)
80. THE WICKER MAN (Robin Hardy, 1973, UK)
81. FATA MORGANA (Werner Herzog, 1971, West Germany)
82. INSIDE (Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo, 2007, France)
83. YEARNING (Mikio Naruse, 1964, Japan)
84. THE PARALLAX VIEW (Alan J. Pakula, 1974, USA)
85. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirsanov, 1926, France) (s)
86. BIGGER THAN LIFE (Nicholas Ray, 1956, USA)
87. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli, 1944, USA)
88. SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA)
89. STAGE DOOR (Gregory La Cava, 1937, USA)
90. CRIME WAVE (John Paizs, 1985, Canada)
91. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, 1967, France)
92. EVERYTHING WILL BE OK (Don Hertzfeldt, 2006, USA) (s)
93. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg, 1982, USA)
94. HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED (George Kuchar, 1966, USA) (s)
95. HAUSU (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977, Japan)
96. WAITING FOR GUFFMAN (Christopher Guest, 1997, USA)
97. SCORE (Radley Metzger, 1972, USA/Yugoslavia)
98. LOVE ME TONIGHT (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932, USA)
99. EUROPA 51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952, Italy)
100. SPRING BREAKERS (Harmony Korine, 2013, USA)

Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 July 2017 13:45 (seven years ago)

OK, I haven't updated the list in a few years now, admittedly.

Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 July 2017 13:46 (seven years ago)

Now yr talking

jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 July 2017 13:58 (seven years ago)

The answer... is no.

emil.y, Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:01 (seven years ago)

i could but would you pay me for the time?

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:05 (seven years ago)

https://letterboxd.com/jackuzi77/list/best-movies-ever-unranked/

its 127 tho

Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:06 (seven years ago)

compulsive listmaking, all the boys are doing it, make them stop

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:15 (seven years ago)

I probably could. but posting it here, that's another story

brimstead, Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:42 (seven years ago)

there aren't 100 good movies

sleepingbag, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:21 (seven years ago)

you certainly aren't one

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:32 (seven years ago)

ay morbius you accidentally typed some nonsense while attempting to copy/paste my post to the truth bombs thread

sleepingbag, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:35 (seven years ago)


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