MY TOP TEN FILMS EVER MADE

Post by **crimsonson** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:33 pm

For the moment

Unforgiven
Chungking Express
Rushmore
Fallen Angels
Tu Mama Tambien
Woman in the Dunes
Harakiri
Airplaine/Naked Gun
Radio Flyer
A Perfect World
Raging Bull

I left out Euro films just to piss off people ;) [Asia and Latin America is the most interesting for me right now].

Post by **tbruegg** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:29 am

my favourites:

the swimmer
blow up
odyssey 2001
star wars
blade runner
colour of money
AmÃƒÂ©lie de Montmartre
big lebowski

Post by **jean** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:46 am

ten, eh.. hard to pick, it depends on my mood in the moment. And interesting to see what others like, in every list at least one film that I would consider pure torture to sit through a second time

and so will my list contain at least one (ore more) total nightmares for others 8)

french connection
chien andalou
der blaue engel
quai des brumes
the day of the jackal
sunset boulevard
jeux interdits
orfeu negro
zemlya (earth)
breakfast at tiffanys

hmm.. why do I feel this urge to try not to lean towards a genre or time or culture.. left out the 80s and 90s, but not on purpose, just couldn't make up my mind

Post by **Mr. Apathy** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:40 pm

in no real order

Star Wars: the empire strikes back
Fight Club
Barry Lyndon
Elephant
Goodfella's
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Clockwork Orange
Lawrence of Arabia
Road Warrior

I'm sure this will change in a few minutes, I just noticed i left out mel brooks films, only one fincher, no kurosawa, only two kubrick... 10 is just two few...

Post by **JGrube** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:18 am

With regard to Birth of A Nation, I think the key word here is: EDITING.
I don't personally put BOAN in my top ten, but it is undeniably a huge milestone in film editing, which evolved very severely during this time period. The Russians were really influential in this, i.e. Battleship Potemkin, which IS one of my top ten. The particularly attention-grabbing thing that Griffith did was the cutting together of shots which showed several events unfold simulntaneously in different locations. I think this is what is meant by "multiple intercut settings".

This may not be everyone's criteria, but editing is really a huge factor to me in film. I'm pretty heavily from the Kuleshov/Eisenstein school of thinking. Anyway, just my two cents.

Jason

Post by **JGrube** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:40 am

Well Ok, since I've opened my big mouth on this thread, I suppose I should at least reply to the original post and put in my 10. As with most of you, ten just isn't enough, so these are my top ten that I'm not forgetting about right now:

Barry Lyndon
Battleship Potemkin
The Big Sleep
Lost Highway
Dead Man
The General
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Ninth Gate
Ran
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Yeah, now that I look, there's about a hundred more. So many films, oh well, here's a good cross-section at least.

Jason

Post by **sufian** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:58 am

In no particular order:

American Beauty
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Psycho
Labrynth
Shawshank Redemption
The Pianist
Naseeb (from Bollywood)
Snatch
Beauty and the Beast

Post by **Plastik** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:21 am

Just what come to mind and not in any particular order:

Three Colours Blue
Three Colours Red
Battleship Potemkin
In the mood for Love
Raging Bull
Underground
Black Cat White Cat
Fellini's Roma
Taxi Driver
City of Lost Children

Post by **Lucas Lightfeat** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:05 pm

In no particular order, and surely incomplete:

Black Cat White Cat
Rushmore
Election
Festen
Andrei Rublev
Fanny and Alexander
Nights of Cabiria
Seven Samurai
You Can Count On Me
Withnail & I

Some will withstand the test of time better than others, but that's not the point - the point for me is coming away from the film feeling after seeing it for the first time and feeling that it just has to go in your top 10. I can't watch Andrei Rublev or Fanny and Alexander anymore, but when I first saw them, WOW, did I love them! All the others are multi-watchers, and my love for them grows and grows.

Lucas

Post by **fritzcarraldo** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:40 pm

apocalypse now - coppola
aguirre - werner herzog
cobra verde - werner herzog
salo - pasolini
theoreme - pasolini
porcile - pasolini
idade da terra - glauber rocha
deus e o diabo - glauber rocha
antonio das mortes - glauber rocha
solaris - tarkovsky

Post by **moviemat** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:49 pm

OK Here goes I've never made a list before but...

(like everybody else in no order)

The Harder they Come (or Rockers can't decide)
L'Atalate (1927? Jean Vigo best filmmaker ever)
Le Samourai or le Doulos (melville)
The Dreams that Money can Buy
Shogun Assasin
Dances in the dark
Festen
A bout de Souffle
Ne tirez pas sur le pianiste
Vanishing Point
Bring me the head of alfredo Garcia
La Jettee

is that 12 already? I have to go on:

The best of the lot - He WHo gets Slapped (silent with Lon Chaney)
The Gold diggers of 1933
Black CaT White Cat
Hotel Du Nord
New entry - Uzak
Les Parapluies de Cherboug (The umbrellas of Cherboug)
Death of a burocrat
Sherlock Jnr. (Buster Keaton)
A David Lynch film any one will do.
Robinson in Space
bunny Lake is missing
Harvey
north by North west
Pather Panchali

And Something all experimental filmmakers could see but is very hard to - The Mares Tale, David Larcher (from the london filmmakers coop) it's 3 hours long of experimental optical printing stuff. In the cinema I help to run when we showed it we started with about 30 people (big audienec for us) and ended with 3 whose lives had been changed.

Strangly nearly nothing British. I'm sure there ought to be.

a couple...
Brighton Rock
Room for Romea Brass

I should stop now.

Mat

PS I didn't notice anyone mention The Saddest music in the world on this forum. It seems to be shot almost entirely on S-8, and looks great. Also juging by the things I've read they were really anti-technical useing a whole range of cheap cameras to death one after another.

http://www.sidecinema.com

Post by **Freya** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:20 am

JGrube wrote:
Battleship Potemkin

Now that's an amazing film!

The Ninth Gate

Now that's facinating because I actually like that film (and not only because it stars Mr Depp before anyone suggests it! ;) ) but I always feel guilty to even mention it! ...and I only *like* it!

It's a brave man that puts it in his top ten!

I think most people find the ending unsatisying or something and it does seem to go a bit off he end towards the end but I do like this film.

On the upside I got a free DVD of it because the guy who had it wasn't impressed and no-one else liked it!

Having said that I was recently made to endure china town which I found upsetting and puts me right off seeing anything by Roman Polanski again.

It sems there are certain recurring themes in some of his work that are disturbing given events in his personal life.

Still I wouldn't want to stop him making films, and it has to be said, I'm not very good at forgiving people for terrible deeds.

Maybe I will watch the ninth gate again tho and feel a little happier towards him.

Incidently I think there are some parrallels between 9th gate and eyes wide shut.

love

Freya

Post by **Freya** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:26 am

fritzcarraldo wrote: salo - pasolini

Wow I really respect you! You have honestly watched this more than once?????

I saw it without subtitles and almost felt glad I didn't know what they were saying.

Now this is what Larry Clarks Kids should have been like! I think if you are going to make a film like Kids you have to go all the way and show it like it is! Kids was far too tame.

love

Freya

Post by **Freya** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:37 am

moviemat wrote: PS I didn't notice anyone mention The Saddest music in the world on this forum. It seems to be shot almost entirely on S-8, and looks great. Also juging by the things I've read they were really anti-technical useing a whole range of cheap cameras to death one after another.

http://www.sidecinema.com

It's been mentioned a few times, I have read some interviews with Guy Madden and really felt an affinity with him and what he tries to do in his work. I'm a huge fan of German expressionism too (as is probably apparent) and this man isn't afraid of scratches either!

Even tho it has received mixed reviews I was really excited by this film and really wanted to see it. Bizzarely the cinema here has taken to distributing the advertising booklet for the previous month, so everytime you get it you can see all the films you missed last month.

I had been watching in the Metro (nasty free newspaper) and thought it was getting closer as the film played sheffield, only to discover it was actually heading away from my city having already played!

So now I feel really sad that I may never see it!

I wish I had made the film myself and I've never seen it.
Maybe I will make the trip down to the Prince Charles to catch it.

love

Freya

Post by **Freya** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:45 am

I watched Dancer in the dark, got about half way into it and burst into tears, turned it off and couldn't go back to it for a couple of hours,

...and that was before the bad stuff in the film started to happen!
(You just know terrible things are coming)

It's a really, really harrowing film. I'm not sure why but it's a little like Requium for a dream in that way. (Except the latter is really weird because it's like you have just watched a really creepy horror film and can't wait to get the lights on)

love

Freya