*movies injoy
Submitted by Feif Umgotnn on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 12:50
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- ~ I have only seen the film once, I have seen a lot of films only once, and it is difficult to get repeat viewing since it takes hours and there are 100s of films that I have never seen.
- * Movies I plan to watch again for clarification
- abdeit cielsnrhtht
- 1. Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) – what do we do?
- 2. Alfred Hitchcock: North By Northwest (1959)
- 3. Richard Linklater: Dazed And Confused (1993) – there are too many great quotes, here is one:
- Are you cool man?
- Like how?
- Okaaayyy….
- 4. *Orson Welles: Touch Of Evil (1958) – opening scene
- 5. Ingmar Bergman: Persona (1966)
- 6. Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- 7. Woody Allen: Annie Hall (1977)
- 8. The Marx Brothers: A Day at the Races (1935) – the first Marx Brothers movie i saw and i have not stopped laughing since!
- 9. Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - "Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
- 10. *Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru [To Live] (1952)
- 11. ~*Vittorio De Sica: Ladri di biciclette [Bicycle Theives/The Bicycle Thief] (1948)
- 12. Ridley Scott: Blade Runner (1982)
- 13. *Federico Fellini: 8 ½ (1966)
- 14. *F.W. Murnau: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
- 15. ~*Shōhei Imamura: The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
- The cycle of life and death, in nature and humanity, and humanity as nature. Nature’s descent into itself and the ensuing regeneration.
- 16. ~Terrence Malick: Days of Heaven (1978)
- 17. The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup (1933)
- 18. *Krzysztof Kieślowski: Trois couleurs: Rouge [Three Colors: Red] (1994) – * with Blue and White
- 19. Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- 20. Woody Allen: Manhattan (1979)
- 21. Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
- 22. Carol Reed: The Third Man (1949)
- 23. Robert Zemekis: Forrest Gump (1994)
- 24. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones (& the rest of Monty Python): Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- 25. Kevin Smith: Mallrats (1995)
- 26. ~*Sergio Leone: C'era una volta il West [Once Upon a Time in the West] (1968)
- 27. Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali: Un chien andalou [An Andalusian Dog] (1929) – youtube –> part 1, part 2
- 28. Trey Parker: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
- 29. Joel & Ethan Cohen: Fargo (1994)
- 30. Mike Judge: Office Space (1999)
- 31. Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction (1994)
- 32. ~*Andrei Tarkovsky: The Mirror (1974)
- 33. Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times (1936)
- 34. Jim Jarmusch: Dead Man (1995)
- 35. ~*Roman Polański: Repulsion (1965)
- 36. Akira Kurosawa: Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) (1954)
- 37. David Lynch: Mulholland Dr. (2001)
- 38. Ted Demme: Blow (2001)
- 39. Luc Besson: Leon: The Professional (1994)
- 40. ~Wim Wenders: Der himmel über Berlin [Wings of Desire] (1987)
- 41. Buster Keaton: The General (1927)
- 42. Víctor Erice: El Espíritu de la colmena [The Spirit of the Beehive] (1973)
- 43. ~Harmony Korine: Gummo (1997) – as great as you may have heard
- 44. ~Ingmar Bergman: Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (1968) – a good companion for Persona
- 45. Mel Stuart: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
- 46. Ingmar Bergman: Smultronstället [Wild Strawberries] (1957)
- 47. ~Erich von Stroheim: Greed (1924)
- 48. Elia Kazan: On The Waterfront (1954) – “The Contender” speech
- 49. Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- 50. ~*Ingmar Bergman: Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (1957)
- 51. Joel & Ethan Cohen: The Big Lebowski (1998)
- 52. Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven (1992) – “deserve’s got nuthin’ to do with it”
- Essential for all to see
- 53. Michael Curtiz: Casablanca (1942)
- 54. ~*Jean Renoir: La grande illusion [The Grand Illusion] (1937)
- 55. ~Mike Figgis: Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- 56. Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window (1954) – in spite of Jimmy Stewart
- 57. ~*Theo Angelopoulos: Ο Θίασος/O Thiassos [The Travelling Players] (1975)
- 58. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (1941)
- 59. ~*Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali: L' âge d'or [The golden age] (1930)
- 60. ~*Fritz Lang: Metropolis (1927)
- 61. ~*Terry Gilliam: Brazil (1985)
- 62. ~John Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- 63. Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho (1960)
- 64. Mel Brooks: Young Frankenstein (1974)
- 65. Emir Kusturica: Underground (1995)
- 66. Christopher Nolan: Memento (2000) – great, the first time
- 67. Michael Mann: The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
- 68. ~David Lynch: Blue Velvet (1986)
- 69. ~Jean Renoir: La règle du jeu [The Rules of the Game] (1939) – Renoir is a pretty good actor too
- 70. ~Yasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Story (1953)
- 71. ~John Cassavetes: A Woman Under the Influence (1974) – fantastic performance by Gena Rowlands
- 72. ~Carl Theodor Dreyer: La passion de Jeanne d'Arc [The Passion of Joan of Arc] (1928)
- 73. ~George Stevens: A Place in the Sun (1951)
- 74. ~*F.W. Murnau: Der letzte Mann [The Last Laugh] (1924)
- 75. ~Charlie Chaplin: City Lights (1931)
- 76. ~Peter Greenaway: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
- 77. Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- 78. George Roy Hill: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)
- 79. Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now (1979)
- 80. David Fincher: Fight Club (1999)
- 81. Stephen Frears: High Fidelity (2000)
- 82. Orson Welles: F For Fake (1974)
- 83. ~Robert Altman: Nashville (1975)
- 84. The Marx Brothers: Animal Crackers (1930)
- 85. ~Andrei Tarkovsky: Солярис [Solaris] (1972)
- 86. ~Sergio Leone: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] (1966)
- 87. ~Alexander Dovzhenko: Земля [Earth] (1930)
- 88. ~Fritz Lang: M (1931)
- 89. ~Victor Sjöström: Körkarlen [The Phantom Carriage] (1921)
- 90. ~Sergei Eisenstein: Броненосец Потёмкин [Battleship Potemkin] (1925)
- 91. Mel Brooks: Spaceballs (1987)
- 92. ~Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone: Our Hospitality (1923)
- 93. ~Henri-Georges Clouzot: Les diaboliques (1955)
- a good companion film to Hitchcock’s 50’s suspense films: Rear Window, North By Northwest, Vertigo
- 94. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) – youtube -> part 1, part 2
- Essential for me
- 95. Terrence Malick: The Tree of Life (2011) – you may not LOVE it, and I may be a sucker for stuff I cannot quite explain, but I love it nonetheless.
- 96. ~*Krzysztof Kieślowski: Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colors: Blue) (1994) - * with Red and White
- 97. The Marx Brothers: A Night At The Opera (1935)
- 98. ~Jean Renoir: Boudu sauvé des eaux [Boudu Saved from Drowning] (1932)
- 99. Kevin Smith: Clerks (1994)
- 100. Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- 101. ~Alfred Hitchcock: Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- 102. Roman Polański: Chinatown (1974)
- 103. William Wyler: Roman Holiday (1953) – mostly because of Hepburn
- 104. ~*Marcel Carné: Les enfants du paradis [Children of Paradise] (1945)
- 105. ~David Lynch: Lost Highway (1997)
- 106. ~Charlie Chaplin: Limelight (1952)
- 107. Darren Aronofsky: Requiem For A Dream (2000)
- 108. Hal Ashby: Harold and Maude (1971)
- 109. Howard Hawks: Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- 110. Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity (1944)
- 111. ~Akira Kurosawa: Yojimbo (1961)
- 112. ~Jerzy Skolimowski: The Shout (1978)
- 113. ~Jerzy Skolimowski: Deep End (1970)
- 114. Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- 115. Sam Raimi: Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness (1992)
- 116. Robert Zemeckis: Who Framed Roger Rabbitt (1988)
- 117. Steven Spielberg: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- 118. ~Akira Kurosawa: Rashoman (1950)
- 119. The Marx Brothers: Horse Feathers (1932)
- 120. ~Woody Allen: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- 121. Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather (1972)
- 122. ~Andrzej Żuławski: Possession (1981) – This is certainly a fucked up film, thanks Elston, I think
- 123. ~Sam Peckinpah: Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
- 124. ~Woody Allen: Deconstructing Harry (1997)
- 125. Guy Richie: Snatch. (2000)
- 126. ~*Luis Buñuel: Belle de Jour (1967)
- 127. ~Woody Allen: The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
- 128. ~Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator (1940)
- 129. Miloš Forman: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
- 130. Josef von Sternberg: Der blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (1930)
- 131. ~Alfred Hitchcock: The Birds (1963)
- 132. Michelangelo Antonioni: Blow-Up (1966)
- 133. ~Woody Allen: Zelig (1983)
- 134. ~John Huston: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- 135. Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche, New York (2008) - On Exactitude of Science (Borges, 1946)
- 136. ~Woody Allen: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
- 137. ~Robert Altman: M*A*S*H (1970)
- 138. Mike Nichols: The Graduate (1967)
- 139. Lars von Trier: Europa (1991)
- 140. Nicholas Ray: Rebel Without A Cause (1955) - “you gotta do something” (Buzz)
- 141. Tod Browning: Freaks (1932)
- 142. Sam Raimi: The Evil Dead (1981)
- 143. Disney: The Lion King (1994)
- 144. Richard Kelly: Donnie Darko (2001)
- 145. Penelope Spheeris (Chris Farley): Black Sheep (1996)
- 146. Peter Segal (Chris Farley): Tommy Boy (1995)
- 147. Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- 148. Joe Dante: The ‘Burbs (1989)
- 149. ~Georg Wilhelm Pabst: Die Büchse der Pandora [Pandora's Box] (1929)
- 150. ~Dziga Vertov: Man With A Movie Camera (1929)
- 151. ~Charles Reisner (Buster Keaton): Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
- 152. John Ford: The Searchers (1956)
- one of the most beautiful films I have seen, but I can barely stand the acting—I’m not a fan of the duke - 153. ~Charlie Chaplin: The Gold Rush (1925)
- 154. ~George Stevens: Giant (1956)
- 155. ~Howard Hawks: Rio Bravo (1959)
- 156. Theo Angelopoulos: The beekeeper (1986)
- 157. ~Jim Jarmusch: Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
- 158. ~Albert Lamorisse: Le Balloon rouge [The Red Balloon] (1956)
- 159. ~Terrence Malick: The Thin Red Line (1998)
- 160. D. A. Pennebaker, edited by/with? Bob Dylan: Eat The Document (filmed in 1966, no official release that i know of)
- Very good
- 161. Terrence Malick: Badlands (1973)
- 162. ~Orson Welles: The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
- 163. ~John Huston: African Queen (1951)
- 164. ~Emir Kusturica: Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
- 165. ~Stanley Kubrick: The Shining (1980)
- 166. ~Federico Fellini: La strada (1954)
- 167. Peter Weir: The Truman Show (1998)
- 168. ~Bruce Brown: The Endless Summer (1966)
- 169. ~Don Siegel: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- 170. ~Stanley Kubrick: Barry Lyndon (1975)
- 171. Tim Burton: Batman (1989)
- 172. ~Federico Fellini: La dolce vita (1960)
- 173. ~Luis Buñuel: El ángel exterminador [The Exterminating Angel] (1962)
- 174. George Miller: Mad Max 2 [The Road Warrior] (1981)
- 175. Joel Schumacher: Falling Down (1993)
- 176. ~Marc Webb: (500) Days of Summer (2009)
- 177. ~Budd Boetticher: Ride Lonesome (1959)
- 178. Disney: Fantasia (1940)
- 179. ~Majid Majidi: رنگ خدا [The color of paradise] (1999)
- 180. Edward Sedgwick (Buster Keaton): The Cameraman (1928)
- 181. Rob Reiner: This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- 182. Kevin Smith: Dogma (1999)
- 183. ~Woody Allen: Midnight in Paris (2011)
- 184. John Carpenter: Big Trouble in Little China (1986) – yes I know this is a stupid movie, it is very good at being stupid.
- 185. Guy Richie: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- 186. Harold Ramis: Groundhog Day (1993)
- 187. ~D. W. Griffith: Orphans From The Storm (1921)
- 188. ~Elia Kazan: Splendor in the Grass (1961)
- 189. ~Darren Aronofsky: π [Pi] (1998)
- 190. Peter & Bobby Farrelly: Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- 191. ~Terry Zwigoff: Crumb (1994)
- 192. ~Buster Keaton: Sherlock Jr. (1924)
- ~Michael Apted & Paul Almond: Up Series (1963, 70, 77, 84, 91, 98, 2005) – Almond directed Seven Up! in 1963 and Apted directed the rest.
- ~David Lynch: Eraserhead (1977)
- ~Tim Burton: Ed Wood (1994)
- ~*Terry Gilliam: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- Terence Young: From Russia With Love (1963)
- Paul Flaherty: Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989)
- Michael Moore: Bowling For Columbine (2002)
- Ian MacNaughton (Monty Python): And Now For Something Completely Different (1971)
- ~Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation (1974)
- ~Fred M. Wilcox: Forbidden Planet (1956)
- ~Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver (1976)
- ~Abel Gance: Napoléon (1927)
- ~Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca (1940)
- ~Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious (1946)
- ~Banksy: Exit through the gift shop (2010)
- ~Barry Levinson: The Natural (1984)
- Bob Clark: A Christmas Story (1983)
- ~Bruce Brown: The Endless Summer II (1994)
- Bryan Singer: The Usual Suspects (1995) – this is worthless to me after the initial viewing because the entire movie is hinged on a twist ending, and those only work once. This is basically shit, but it was so good the first time that I am willing to keep it here. I know, how generous of me.
- ~Buster Keaton: Battling Butler (1926)
- ~Chrisf Smith: American Movie (1999) – this has 2 of the funniest scenes I have ever seen: “The Flyers” and “The Acid” scenes. (I don’t know the name of the scenes, but I am positive about the first one being a good description of the scene, and I am pretty sure that the other involved a discussion of taking acid and going to the hospital.)
- D. A. Pennebaker (Bob Dylan): Don’t Look Back (1967)
- ~Danny Boyle: Trainspotting (1996)
- Dennis Dugan: Happy Gilmore (1996)
- Dennis Dugan: Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
- Disney: The Sword in the Stone ()
- Disney: Pinocchio (1940)
- Disney: Dumbo (1941)
- Disney: Bambi (1942)
- Disney: Alice in Wonderland (1951) – it has been a long time….
- Disney: The Jungle Book (1967)
- Disney: Aladdin (1992)
- ~D. W. Griffith: Broken Blossoms (1919)
- ~Elia Kazan: A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- ~Frank Capra: The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
- Frank Capra: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
- ~Franklin J. Schaffner: Patton (1970)
- ~George Méliès: A Trip to the Moon (1902)
- Gregor Jordan: Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
- Harold Ramis: Caddyshack (1980)
- ~Irvin Kershner: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- James Brooks: As Good As It Gets (1997)
- Jay Roach: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- ~Jean-Luc Goddard: Pierrot le fou (1965)
- ~Jean Vigo: L’Atlante (1934)
- Jim Abrahams, David Zucker , and Jerry Zucker: Airplane! (1980)
- Joel & Ethan Cohen: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- John Hughes: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
- ~John Huston: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- John McTiernan: Die Hard (1988)
- ~Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris: Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- Jonathan Demme: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- ~Louis Feuillade: Les Vampires [The Vampires] (1915)
- Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas (1990)
- Marx Brothers: The Cocoanuts (1929)
- ~Mel Brooks: History of the World: Part I (1981)
- ~Melvin Van Peebles: Sweet Sweetback's Bad Asssss Song (1971)
- Michael Lehmann: Airheads (1994)
- Mike Judge: Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996)
- Oliver Stone: The Doors (1991)
- Penelope Spheeris: Wayne’s World (1992)
- ~Perry Henzell: The Harder They Come (1973)
- Pierre Coffin / Chris Renaud: Despicable Me (2010)
- ~Richard Lester (The Beatles): A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
- ~Richard Linklater: Slacker (1991)
- Ridley Scott: Alien (1979)
- ~Robert Aldrich: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- ~Robert Aldrich: Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
- Robert B. Weide: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999)
- ~Sam Peckinpah: The Getaway (1972)
- ~Sam Peckinpah: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
- ~Savage Steve Holland: Better Off Dead… (1985)
- ~Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men (1957)
- ~Spike Jonze: Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Spike Jonze: Adaptation. (2002)
- ~Steven Spielberg: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Tamra Davis: Billy Madison (1995)
- Troy Duffy: Boondock Saints (1999)
- Todd Phillips: Old School (2003) – great at being horrible
- ~Woody Allen: Play It Again, Sam (1972)
- ~Woody Allen: Stardust Memories (1980)
- ~Woody Allen: A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982)
- ~Woody Allen: Husbands and Wives (1992)
- ~Woody Allen: Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
- ~Woody Allen: Small Time Crooks (2000)
Pretty good
- Alain Resnais: Night and Fog (1955)
- Alan Parker: Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
- ~Alejandro González Iñárritu: 21 Grams (2003)
- ~Alexander Payne: Sideways (2004)
- ~Alfred Hitchcock: The 39 steps (1935)
- ~Alfred Hitchcock: Suspicion (1941)
- ~Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound (1945)
- ~Alfred Hitchcock: Rope (1948)
- ~Alfred Hitchcock: To Catch A Thief (1955)
- Andy & Larry Wachowski: The Matrix (1999)
- Barry Levinson: Rain Man (1988)
- ~Blake Edwards: A Shot in the Dark (1964)
- Bob Hatchcock: DuckTales: The Movie – Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
- Brian De Palma: Scarface (1983)
- ~Brian De Palma: Carlito’s Way (1993)
- ~Buster Keaton: Go West (1925)
- ~Cameron Crowe: Almost Famous (2000)
- ~Carl Reiner: The Jerk (1979)
- Chris Columbus: Home Alone (1990)
- Clint Eastwood: Mystic River (2003)
- ~Clint Eastwood: Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- David M. Evans: The Sandlot (1993)
- David Fincher: Se7en (1995)
- ~David Russell: Three Kings (1999)
- ~Dennis Hopper: Easy Rider (1969)
- ~Derek Cianfrance: Blue valentine (2010)
- ~Delbert Mann: Marty (1955)
- Disney: The Fox and the Hound (1981)
- Disney: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- ~Don Siegel: Dirty Harry (1971)
- ~Don Siegel: Charley Varrick (1973)
- Ed Harris: Pollock (2000)
- Edgar Wright: Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- ~Elia Kazan: East of Eden (1955)
- ~François Truffant: Les quatre cents coups [The 400 Blows] (1959)
- ~Frank Capra: It Happened One Night (1934)
- Frank Darabont: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- ~Frank Lloyd: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- ~George Lucas: American Graffiti (1973)
- ~George Miller: Mad Max (1979)
- Guy Hamilton: Goldfinger (1964)
- ~Harmony Korine: Trash Humpers (2009) – wonderfully stupid, and it reminds me of a film that was made for my Spanish class in high school for my group…it didn’t go over well
- ~Hideaki Anno/Kazuya Tsurumaki: Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
- Howard Deutch: The Great Outdoors (1988)
- ~Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday (1940)
- Ivan Reitman: Ghostbusters (1984)
- James Cameron: The Terminator (1984)
- James Cameron: The Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
- James Merendino: SLC Punk! (1999)
- Jay Roach: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
- ~Jean-Luc Goddard: Le mépris [Contempt] (1963)
- ~Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain [Amélie] (2001)
- Jeremiah S. Chechik: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
- Joe Dante: Gremlins (1984)
- John Alvidsen: Rocky (1976)
- ~John Cassavetes: Shadows (1959)
- ~John Cassavetes: Faces (1968)
- ~John Ford: Stagecoach (1939)
- ~John Hughes: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
- John Hughes: Uncle Buck (1989)
- ~John Huston: The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- John Landis: The Blues Brothers (1980)
- John Lasseter: Toy Story (1995)
- John McTiernan: Die Hard: With A Vengeance (1995)
- ~Jonathan Demme: Philadelphia (1993)
- Jonathan Lynn: My Cousin Vinny (1992)
- Judd Apatow: 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
- Julien Duvivier: Pépé le Moko (1937)
- Keenan Ivory Wayans: Scary Movie (2000)
- Kevin Costner: Dances With Wolves (1990)
- ~Kevin Smith: Chasing Amy (1997)
- ~King Vidor: The Big Parade (1925)
- ~Krzysztof Kieslowski: Blanc (1994)
- Larry Clark: Kids (1995)
- ~Lars Von Trier: Dogville (2003)
- Lasse Hallström: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
- ~Mark Osborne/John Stevenson: Kung Fu Panda (2008)
- ~Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets (1973)
- ~Martin Scorsese: The Color of Money (1986)
- Martin Scorsese: Casino (1995)
- ~Martin Scorsese: Gangs of New York (2002)
- ~Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles (1974)
- ~Michael Curtiz: Midred Pierce (1945)
- Miloš Forman: Man on the Moon (1999)
- Oliver Stone: Wall Street (1987)
- ~Orson Welles: The Stranger (1946)
- ~Orson Welles: Mr. Arkadin (1955)
- ~Paul Thomas Anderson: Punch Drunk Love (2002)
- ~Paul Thomas Anderson: There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Penny Marshall: Big (1988)
- ~Peter Jackson: Brain Dead [Dead Alive] (1992) – one of the most twisted movies I have seen
- Pierre Morel: Taken (2008)
- Quentin Tarantino: Kill Bill (2003)
- ~Richard Attenborough: Gandhi (1982)
- Richard Donner: The Goonies (1985)
- ~Robert Joseph Flaherty: Nanook of the North (1922)
- Robert Clouse (Bruce Lee): Enter The Dragon (1973)
- Robert Stevenson: Mary Poppins (1964)
- ~Robert Wiene: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari] (1920)
- Robert Zemeckis: Back To The Future (1985)
- Ron Howard: A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- Sam Mendes: American Beauty (1999)
- Sam Pekinpah: The Wild Bunch (1969)
- ~Sam Raimi: Evil Dead II (1987)
- ~Sergio Leone: Per un pugno di dollari [A Fistful of Dollars] (1964)
- ~Sergio Leone: Per qualche dollaro in più [For a Few Dollars More] (1965)
- ~Sidney Lumet: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- ~Sofia Coppola: Lost In Translation (2003)
- Stephen Surjik: Wayne’s World 2 (1993)
- ~Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- ~Stanley Kubrick: Lolita (1962)
- ~Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Steven Spielburg: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- ~Stuart Rosenburg: Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Tamra Davis: Half Baked (1998)
- ~Terence Young: Dr. No (1962)
- ~Terry Gilliam: 12 Monkeys (1995)
- ~Tim Burton: Vincent (1982)
- Tim Burton: Beetlejuice (1988)
- Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Tim Burton: Batman Returns (1992)
- Tony Kaye: American History X (1998)
- Tom Shadyac: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
- Trey Parker: Imaginationland: The Movie (2008)
- Victor Fleming…: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Walter Hill: Brewster’s Millions (1985)
- ~Warren Beatty: Bulworth (1998)
- ~Wes Anderson: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
- ~Wim Wenders: Paris, Texas (1984)
- ~Woody Allen: Take the Money and Run (1969)
- ~Woody Allen: Sleeper (1973)
- ~Woody Allen: Interiors (1978)
- ~Woody Allen: Radio Days (1987)
- ~Woody Allen: Oedipus Wrecks from New York Stories (1989) – Scorsese’s Life Lessons was okay, but Coppola’s Life Without Zoe was horrible, and should be cut from the film, and thrown into the ocean
- ~Woody Allen: Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
- ~Woody Allen: Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
- Horrible films that have nostalgic value:
- Rod Amateau: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
- William Dear: If Looks Could Kill (1991)
- Films a lot of people love that I seem to be missing out on:
- There may be some others, but these are the ones that stand out
- ~Jean-Luc Goddard: À bout de souffle [Breathless] (1960)
- ~*Orson Welles: Chimes at Midnight (1965)
- ~Michael Cimino: The deer hunter (1978)
- ~Robert Aldrich: Kiss me deadly (1955)
- ~David Leon: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull (1980)
- ~Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo (1958)
- one of the most beautiful films I have seen, but I can barely stand the acting—I’m not a fan of the dukeAuthor Comments:
The most important aspect of this list are which section each film is placed in. I begin trying to rank the films in exact order and I just end up playing musical chairs without any shortage of chairs. Gummo is not far from Grand illusion, in fact it is fucking awesome and Harmony Korine is a great as everyone says he is, and The thin red line is not far from Blue or Clerks as a great film. I may make a pure favorite list: a list of movies that I loved watching and would love to watch again, mostly because I have something in common with the film, e.g. Dazed and confused, Mallrats, Eternal sunshine, or filmmakers I love, e.g. Marx Bros, Woody Allen.
Some films I have not seen in a long time or for some reason I cannot remember them as well as others, but i do not want to start moving films around based on what other people say about them; I am trusting in what I thought at the time.
If you like suspense, I'd highly recommend Zodiac (by David Fincher)
i have grown to love it. i will check it out, though i have about 10 movies in line right now that i have been putting off for a long time, but i will put that one in line with them.
just finished Zodiac and it is a decent new film, but it never had me on the edge of my seat like the ending of Rear Window, or made me jump like Psycho.
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That opening (and ending) shot in The Searchers is one of the all time greats.
I'd love to see your picks in my "Greatest Films Poll"
i haven't seen the film in a long time. but, i do still have it saved on my DVR. i may watch it tonight. and i will check out your poll.
just checked out the poll...i need to see a lot of those movies before i begin to make any sort of opinion. i also need to watch some of my favorites again and pay attention to the specific categories as i watch since i probably do not remember much. i may end up only voting for a few from each category, but i would at least like to know what i am not voting for. if i cannot find the time, i will at least throw in a couple here and there. i haven't watched many movies in a long time--basically just bits of Eternal Sunshine, and Despicable Me!!!!! other than that i cannot find the energy to sit through even great movies like Blade Runner, and Days of Heaven (I REALLY NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN).
Its all good. That poll never gained enough steam anyway : )
ok, I don't know if I when I would have seen some of the films to participate in earnest. I tried to watch Black Narcissus and opted for Frost/Nixon. I couldn't go a minute further than about halfway through Black Narcissus (when they finish the restoration of convent). The technicolor is overstimulating for a boring (first half of a) film.
I find the visuals intoxicatingly awe-inspiring, like incredibly vivid paintings coming to life before one's eyes - there's really nothing like it that I've seen in film, though The Red Shoes uses a similar kind of cinematography just with totally different subjects, themes and art direction. Maybe you'll watch Black Narcissus again someday and it will work better for you, or perhaps it won't. For me, as the film goes on it gets increasingly compelling. The visuals are indeed a major key to its greatness, as they reflect the otherworldly atmosphere the nuns gradually are being stimulated by and reacting to. If you, the viewer, don't feel that same sensation, I could see how their emotions and reactions would fail to compel.
"The visuals are intoxicatingly awe-inspiring, like incredibly vivid paintings coming to life before one's eyes" - YEP, but I guess I wasn't interested in watching something like that, and I thought the film was a bit flat, but I didn't finish it and I would probably go nuts on a friend if they had stopped halfway through The Third Man; and I ask, "how was Orson Welles", and they say, I thought he did a horrible job of writing and directing that I stopped with Joseph Cotton talking to the wife of some German super...." ME: But, Orson didn't...he was the...Harry...Carol...ants...sewer...Aus...[yell so loud that there is no sound or even the action of me yelling].
I really enjoyed 2 Buster Keaton films this week: Go West and Battling Butler. I have never been a fan of just gorgeous color in films. But, like anything, if it is used well it usually only adds to the experience. Black Narcissus moved like the first Mutiny on the Bounty while looking like the second. It is like Amelie pretty, but pretty boring, though Amelie had more than just color to make it pretty. But, yes, it was very pretty, so is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and that is more entertaining. Narcissus didn't make me think or laugh, or anything, it is the "empty headed" model that you don't want to engage beyond superficiality.
Hmmm Buster Keaton, haven't watched him (outside of Chaplin's Limelight) in forever. Should revisit some of his classics one of these days (The General, Sherlock Jr, etc).
I like your Third Man analogy.
I thought there was quite a bit more to Amelie and Black Narcissus than just the visuals, though those were indeed the most impressive aspects of each.
Ooooooo, you gotta watch Keaton. Even if it is only one film and you hate it, you have to watch it. Chaplin and Keaton are the two biggest stars of the silent era. THIS is a good starter list for the best silent films, though blasphemy to you. Keaton is awesome.
There probably is more to Amelie and Black Narcissus--I was being an ass. I saw Amelie so long ago, and Black Narcissus was not the movie for me at the time. I watched Frost/Nixon instead and I was not impressed with that, so I was just not in the mood.
On-point, as known as he is Keaton tends to fly under the radar. Chaplin tends to get the praise and Keaton falls to the wayside, I'm probably unconsciously guilty of this. Sherlock Jr is incredible.
Amelie, on the other hand, is nothing special. The praise mostly baffles me, but I suppose I can see why it has charmed critics.
Nice to see you Listologing again, Feif. I have a feeling you'd like the criminally underrated David Ball's Honey and Mizoguchi's Story of the Last Chrysanthemums. Not a trace of horror there.
Keaton falls because of celebrity. Chaplin has the outfit and "the Hitler" mustache and Keaton has his stone face. It doesn't help that people do not like old films, let alone b&w films, aned then you add silent to it all...there is only room for so much.
Honey, Story of the last chrysanthemums: I will try to check them out, but I am too slow to movie suggestions. I have loads of films that I have been suggested over the years that I have never gotten to though they are on my computer, or I have rented them (right now, Europa & Breaking the Waves, going on 3 weeks...then there are the Bergman films and the Angelopoulos films).
This is an awesome, comprehensive list btw
Lol, re: Possession
I won't watch that anytime soon, or ever. As you can see, thriller/horror films are not the type I value, or watch, but through the psychotic scenes of Possession a great film shined.
Yea, definitely not everyone's cup-o-tea :)
Can you please vote at my TOP 10 FILMS OF ALL TIME POLL? Or, if you don't feel like it, can I just add your vote per your top 10 above?