101 Favorite Films
Submitted by ejones on Sun, 09/25/2005 - 06:25
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- Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
- L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
- Once upon a time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
- His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
- Once upon a time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
- The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
- Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
- The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
- The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
- Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1997)
- Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
- Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
- Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)
- Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
- Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
- There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson, 2007)
- 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
- Lola (Jacques Demy, 1962)
- The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
- The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
- Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, 1961)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962)
- Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
- Three Colors: Blue (Krysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
- Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson, 1997)
- Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
- Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
- O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
- In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
- The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
- Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
- The Godfather, Part I and II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-1974)
- The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1974)
- Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967)
- Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet, 1981)
- Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
- The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
- Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
- The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
- Don’t Look Now (Nic Roeg, 1973)
- Leolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1993)
- The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
- Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
- The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998)
- Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
- The Treasure of the Sierre Madre (John Huston, 1946)
- Three Colors: Red (Krysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
- Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
- The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)
- This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
- Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975)
- La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1961)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
- Nashville (Robert Altman, 1976)
- Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
- Masculin-Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
- Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980)
- Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2004)
- The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
- It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
- Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
- It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1954)
- 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976)
- Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, 1973)
- Y tu mama tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)
- Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
- Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
- Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990)
- Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
- Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932)
- Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol, 1970)
- Songs for the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
- Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1967)
- Cutter’s Way (Ivan Passer, 1981)
- Night of the Hunter (Robert Laughton, 1955)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
- The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
- The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
- Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
- The State of Things (Wim Wenders, 1982)
- Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1981)
- Plan 9 from Outer Space (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
- Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
- Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
- Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990)
- Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
- Red Riding Trilogy (Anand, Marsh, Tucker, 2009)
if this is in any sort of order, I'm glad to mark it 2 on listology who think OUATITW is number 1. always great to see more and more people who love leone's films. i guess you could say i'm a bit obsessed with them.
Well, if you're going to be obsessed with a filmmaker, Leone isn't a bad choice. I have noticed that more and more people are becoming aware of his work, and I think that's because of DVDs. The visuals are so important in his films that you can't really appreciate them without seeing them under the best possible conditions. I personally used to think
OUATITW was pretty bad until the DVD came out.
Did you put Platoon? That was a great film by Oliver Stone. And Saving Private Ryan? I should have looked more carefully, but I'm in a rush. The Godfather should have been around the top ten.
WOW! To see Henry Fool so high and seeing Leolo and Holy Mountain on there is AMAZING! Nice varied list. It seems you stick true to your opinions, but at the same time value the masterpieces that are out there.
Seems, like me, youre a big Hartley fan. Simple Men, Surviving Desire, and Unbelievable Truth are the only ones I havent seen of his. Not too fond of Girl From Monday or No Such Thing but the rest of it is superb! Id be curious to find out what you thought of Fay Grim? I thought it was an absolute masterpiece. I never thought such a belated sequel could be that amazing nor did I think that anything could match the awesomeness that was Henry Fool. I admit, I really missed seeing TJR in every scene, but Parker Posey blew me away!
Take a look at my top lists and let me know what you think when you get the chance. :)
Yeah, I'm a big Hartley fan, though I only got into his films this summer. Fay Grim was the first I saw, and I enjoyed it a lot, especially Parker Posey's performance, but I can't say I was a big fan of it. I guess the whole spy-movie format seemed outside of Hartley's strengths to me.
Unbelievable Truth is very hard to find, though I'd love to see it sometime, and Simple Men is superb. Between Henry Fool, which has an epic quality, and Trust, which is beautiful but also painful to watch, the film has a kind of tranquility which I really enjoy.
I like your choice of The Quiet Earth as the best movie for 1985, and your incorporation of genre movies as a whole, rather than just the standard Oscar winners and official classics.
I guess Im all about the genre movies. You could never catch me watching Crash (the newer one, not the Cronenberg goodness) or something like Atonement or Million Dollar Baby or Cinderella Man. Totally NOT my thing. Over the top, tear-at-the-heartstrings pieces that are made just with SAG and the Oscars in mind. Those people have lost the art of filmmaking as an art. Its all about which paint-by-the-numbers with a fresh face can I make and have a shot at the Oscars for. Its ridiculous. The last time I paid attention to the Oscars was when Lynch was nommed for Mulholland Dr. and Amelie for best foreign. Fuck originality, right? American Beauty and Gladiator were films that I agreed with the academy on, but thats rare.
It would have been SO much better had you seen Henry Fool first methinks. But Im glad youve gotten into Hartley. I wish more people would discover him. I highly recommend you wait a little bit and give Fay Grim another viewing. Its more awesome than you think ;)
Thanks for the compliments on my list!
Interesting list. Haven't seen much of your top 10, but Once Upon a Time in America was surprisingly good.
I really like this list. Spirit of the Beehive is on it's way from Netflix, so I'll let you know what I think of it.
I dig your favorite films list too- it's nice to see less expected choices like "Three Women" and "Underground" that don't pop up on lists like the AFI Top 100.