can you really list your ten favourite movies?

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i find it incredibly difficult to do this, as then i will recall another great flick and my list has to be amended, or a new one comes out ( though not lately ).

― donna (donna), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:29 (twenty-four years ago)

Everyone does that, but at any given time I can do some sort of list that I'm not too disgusted by. It's not long ago that I was asked for such a list. I gave this:

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.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:35 (twenty-four years ago)

mmm true but even with that in mind i just find it hard to choose 10.
somedays its more, somedays its less.

― donna (donna), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:39 (twenty-four years ago)

it's impossible for me. but about half martin's list are titles i mention a lot...

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 20 September 2002 19:41 (twenty-four years ago)

i mean to say that depending on the mood it can be hard to either add or omit certain ones.
i think i have about 20

― donna (donna), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:41 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, that was the top of a top 30. It continued with:

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.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:43 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah, but tom hanks annoys me now so philadelphia story though a great movie has lost its thing for me. does that happen to anyone else? the actor becomes an irritant so a fab movie goes funny in your mind?

― donna (donna), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:43 (twenty-four years ago)

hahaha see martin its addictive once you start hey.

― donna (donna), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:44 (twenty-four years ago)

and where on earth did i get philadelphia story from? i am losing it. sorry

― donna (donna), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:45 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, because I am so film deaf that I probably only like 10 movies. In no order:

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...

― kate, Friday, 20 September 2002 19:45 (twenty-four years ago)

i just dont like tom hanks

― donna (donna), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:46 (twenty-four years ago)

The Philadelphia Story is an old polished gem starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart - a rather better cast than Philadelphia with Tom Hanks.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:48 (twenty-four years ago)

you mean where'd you get hanks from ? from philadelphia...

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.

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 20 September 2002 19:50 (twenty-four years ago)

i know martin. i am having a crap day and its only 9am here. doesnt look good for me does it. :-(
andi love grant, hepburn and stewart. *sigh*

― donna (donna), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:52 (twenty-four years ago)

1. my neighbor totoro
2. the rules of the game
3. mitchell (mst3k version or original)
4. ikiru
5. citizen kane
6. goodfellas
7. dr. strangelove
8. 8 1/2
9. mod fuck explosion
10. goldfinger

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:08 (twenty-four years ago)

martin you missed one

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:26 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, Mark - in fact I prepared that list only days before you explained to me why Queen Of The Damned is the greatest film ever. I'll get my next list right.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:28 (twenty-four years ago)

In no particular order:

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.

― David (David), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:34 (twenty-four years ago)

ommision on my part- "the scarlet letter" with demi moore and gary oldman. one of my exes would never forgive me...

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 20 September 2002 20:36 (twenty-four years ago)

Fingers
Meet The Feebles
The Wickerman
Putney Swope
Natural Born Killers
Brazil
Blue Velvet
Death Race 2000
Easy Rider
Taxi Driver

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 20 September 2002 20:53 (twenty-four years ago)

Vertigo
From Here to Eternity
Seventh Seal( the Igmar Bergman version)
Taxi Driver
Godfather(I & II)
The Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
Diabolique( the original)
Fast Times at Richmont High
The Gods Must Be Crazy I

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:21 (twenty-four years ago)

Alphaville
Double Indemnity
Eraserhead
Fallen Angels
Hana-bi
Man Bites Dog
Meshes of the Afternoon
Taxi Driver
Tetsuo the Iron Man
Un Chien Andalou

― Honda, Friday, 20 September 2002 22:36 (twenty-four years ago)

1. White
2. Red
3. Blue
4. Blue Velvet
5. Kolya
6. Brazil
7. Vertigo
8. Memento
9. Dune
10. Solyaris

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

― debaser (debaser), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:44 (twenty-four years ago)

debaser - have you seen kieslowski's posthumous offering 'heaven'? a tragedy that the hell and purgatory parts of the trilogy will never be seen i think...

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

― jayne (jayne), Friday, 20 September 2002 22:49 (twenty-four years ago)

today's list

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

― dan (dan), Friday, 20 September 2002 23:11 (twenty-four years ago)

hmmmm...

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.

― nory (nory), Saturday, 21 September 2002 00:20 (twenty-four years ago)

I like movies! Here are some in no order:

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)

― baktovis, Saturday, 21 September 2002 00:27 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude, where's my cocoon?
There's something about Robocop
Interview with the predator
2001 Dalmatians
The cook, the thief, his wife and her legends of the fall
Saving Private Parts
The Madness of the wedding singer
Autumn in Cape Fear
Blame it on the Exorcist
Sex, Lies and Flubber

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 21 September 2002 00:28 (twenty-four years ago)

buffalo 66
rushmore
run lola run
box of moonlight
say anything
waiting for guffman
an officer and a gentleman
winter sleepers
dune (lynch)
friday

― ron (ron), Saturday, 21 September 2002 00:45 (twenty-four years ago)

1. fifth element
2. city of lost children
3. masculin/feminin
4. amelie
5. everybody's fine
6. wings of desire
7. my neighbor totoro
8. little mermaid
9. kikujiro
10. clue

― nancy b. (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 21 September 2002 00:50 (twenty-four years ago)

of course my real movie list goes something like:

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

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 21 September 2002 01:02 (twenty-four years ago)

in no order, except for vertigo being number one

vertigo
roman holiday
chungking express
edward scissorhands
charade
ran
annie hall
raising arizona
deuce bigalow male gigalo

― jack, Saturday, 21 September 2002 02:27 (twenty-four years ago)

oops, that's 9

i guess out of sight is my 10th...just 10 movies is hard

― jack, Saturday, 21 September 2002 02:29 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Jayne - Haven't seen Heaven yet - it's only just starting here in NZ, but of course I will be going (Twyfer is an apt understudy for Kieslowski). My understanding is that Purgatory and Hell will be made into movies - i.e. Krystoff Piescowski (sp), who was Kieslowski's writing partner on the Three Colours project, was also co-author on the Heaven/Purgatory/Hell trifecta. He's vowed to finish the scripts and they're going with young, hip, arty directors like Twyfer to do the directing.

― debaser (debaser), Saturday, 21 September 2002 02:37 (twenty-four years ago)

It will contain films by Cassavetes, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Lynch... It will also have Repo Man, Rivers Edge and Fast Times At Ridgemont High. If my list contains Rushmore it's probably my list of LEAST fave movies.

― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 21 September 2002 08:26 (twenty-four years ago)

The Front Page
The Big Sleep
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Jerk
Mauvais Sang
Trust
The Moderns
London
Rushmore
Mulholland Dr.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 21 September 2002 15:06 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Dragnet

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 21 September 2002 22:42 (twenty-four years ago)

Eep. I just realised I put 'The Front Page' when of course I meant 'His Girl Friday' (TFP was the Hecht play upon which HGF wuz based - which I had just been reading about). There go my cineaste credentials forever :(

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 21 September 2002 22:53 (twenty-four years ago)

8 1/2
2001: A Space Odyssey
In The Mood for Love
It's a Wonderful Life
Last Year at Marienbad
Top Secret!
The Night Porter
West Side Story
Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo
Apocalypse Now

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 21 September 2002 23:01 (twenty-four years ago)

It's Pat!
Superstar
A Night at the Roxbury
Coneheads
Stuart Saves His Family
Blues Brothers 2000
The Ladies Man
Police Academy 6
Friday the 13th 7
Iron Eagle 2

That should cover it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 September 2002 23:07 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, that's a brave list. Have you seen House Party 3?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 22 September 2002 00:27 (twenty-four years ago)

Alien
Solaris
The Thing (John Carpenter's version)
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
Forbidden Planet
Stardust Memories
The Prophecy
Suspiria
Tremors
Jason & The Argonauts

― Ray M (rdmanston), Sunday, 22 September 2002 01:09 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, that's a brave list.

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 September 2002 01:12 (twenty-four years ago)

There are at least two films of The Front Page too, i.e. ones where the sexes are unchanged from the original - and they're both good movies too. Neither are as good as the magnificent His Girl Friday, though.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:30 (twenty-four years ago)

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 22 September 2002 10:32 (twenty-four years ago)

tough one becuz i don't have a movie/video collection (unlike music) and whenever i tape something i watch it then delete it. so i can nevah remember...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 September 2002 15:50 (twenty-four years ago)

night of the lepus? is that the one with the giant rabbits? that one was pretty great but just missed my list.

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

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 22 September 2002 17:08 (twenty-four years ago)

One flew over the cuckoos nest
Catch-22
Wild strawberries
Pulp fiction
Naked
Burnt by the sun
Goodfellas
Mad Max
Man bites dog
E.T.

― Michael Bourke, Sunday, 22 September 2002 17:39 (twenty-four years ago)

night of the lepus? is that the one with the giant rabbits?

Yep. And gloriously bad it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 September 2002 20:10 (twenty-four years ago)

1. City Of Lost Children
2. Delicatessen
3. Blue Velvet
4. Jacob's Ladder
5. The Player
6. Naked Lunch
7. Titus
8. Fire Walk With Me
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. The Big Lebowski

"don't you fucking look at me!"

― Frank Booth, Monday, 23 September 2002 22:24 (twenty-four years ago)

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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

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:12 (nine years ago)

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

― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:18 (nine years ago)

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

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:20 (nine years ago)

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

― calstars, Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:29 (nine years ago)

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.

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:47 (nine years ago)

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

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:48 (nine years ago)

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

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 July 2017 14:49 (nine years ago)

FFS deems

― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 20 July 2017 15:54 (nine years ago)

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

― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:33 (nine years ago)

LITRE OF COLA FOR A COP

― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:34 (nine years ago)

steady on miaow

― over-the-counter sexual-harassment products (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:36 (nine years ago)

probably too late to swap Amadeus for Wicker Man

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:05 (nine years ago)

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

― devvvine, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:17 (nine years ago)

Ah crap I forgot Stroszek

― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:22 (nine years ago)

xp Actually scrap Tokyo Story for My Winnipeg.

― devvvine, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:26 (nine years ago)

I forgot any Hitchcocks

which is why non-dilettantes shdnt do this

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:33 (nine years ago)

^ forgetting Vertigo kills me yeah

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:41 (nine years ago)

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

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:46 (nine years ago)

maybe i need to do the top 100

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:46 (nine years ago)

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

― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:48 (nine years ago)

prob just best to go watch a movie

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:51 (nine years ago)

Ah shit all about eve

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:54 (nine years ago)

This thread is conspicuously lacking things both Fast and Furious.

― Mandal Envy (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:57 (nine years ago)

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

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:57 (nine years ago)

goddammit

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:57 (nine years ago)

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

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:07 (nine years ago)

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

― Frederik B, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:07 (nine years ago)

That's a joke post, right?

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:08 (nine years ago)

ahahaha

― imago, Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:17 (nine years ago)

this is my new favorite movie.

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

― scott seward, Thursday, 20 July 2017 22:38 (nine years ago)

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.

― methanietanner, Thursday, 20 July 2017 23:00 (nine years ago)

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

― Mandal Envy (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 July 2017 23:02 (nine years ago)

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

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 July 2017 23:22 (nine years ago)

Which crash

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 July 2017 23:28 (nine years ago)

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

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 20 July 2017 23:49 (nine years ago)

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.

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 July 2017 23:57 (nine years ago)

Oh either way I'd say

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Friday, 21 July 2017 00:06 (nine years ago)

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

― etc, Friday, 21 July 2017 00:06 (nine years ago)

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

― etc, Friday, 21 July 2017 00:07 (nine years ago)

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

― mh, Friday, 21 July 2017 00:20 (nine years ago)

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

― Mordy, Friday, 21 July 2017 00:23 (nine years ago)

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

― over-the-counter sexual-harassment products (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 July 2017 00:26 (nine years ago)

doris day

― Mordy, Friday, 21 July 2017 00:30 (nine years ago)

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

― jmm, Friday, 21 July 2017 00:34 (nine years ago)

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

― woman in the dunes, Friday, 21 July 2017 02:30 (nine years ago)

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

― Chris L, Friday, 21 July 2017 02:46 (nine years ago)

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

― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 21 July 2017 08:08 (nine years ago)

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

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Friday, 21 July 2017 08:52 (nine years ago)

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

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:18 (nine years ago)

Cobra made the cut. Good choice

Guys, the title is Cobra Woman.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 July 2017 14:28 (nine years ago)

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