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Elliot think you ought to look back a bit more than the ones you have quoted you just dont know what you are missing !!!

 

You're right John, but I am slowly working my way through the ages...Backwards.

I'm a fan of what Alfred Hitchcock and Akira Kurosawa I've seen too.

 

Top 5 before 1980 you ask?

Hm...

5: Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa (1950)

4: Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet (1975)

3: Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)

2: North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

1: Torn Curtain - Alfred Hitchcock (1966)

 

Urr yeah something along those lines.

But I agree I'm missing out, so far I've only been through the bigger names.

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Geez... there are an awful lot of art films in these lists? Either people are just trying to be impressive and pretentious, or the state of cinema isn't as bad off as I thought? <_< Makes me wonder why more "Andre Rublev's" aren't funded on a day-to-day basis?

 

General Public be damned, I guess... Would write more, but I have to get back to reading "Finnegan's Wake" and going to MOMA on a daily basis. :lol:

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That's funny Greg! Coming from someone who's last three posts were about Lattes > Roast beef, "Caravaggio, Goya, etc." (on the subject of inspirational painters) and an Uncle who's the CEO of "a paint company". Now who's arty! ha ha ha.

 

STALKSTALKSTALK. :lol:

 

so <_< to you too.

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5 Favs? Impossible to list. But here goes 5 that have to be in my top 15. I'm going to eliminate kubrick from contention otherwise there wouldn't be anyone else's movies up here : )

 

The Long Goodbye

 

Images

 

Gallipoli

 

The Last Wave

 

If....

 

Britannia Hospital

 

Invasion of The Body Snatchers (Kaufman's '78 remake)

 

Don't Look Now

 

The Conversation

 

Blow Out

 

Blow Up

 

Sword of Doom

 

Samurai Assassin

 

Harikiri

 

Night Moves

 

The Passenger

 

Klute

 

 

oops... sorry I can't help it, I've got twenty-seven fingers on each hand...

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I saw the classic 'Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il' and I didn't like it at all. Too cheesy. :lol:

But yeah I'll check out some John Sturges stuff, I've heard of him.

 

'Pulp Fiction' is in your top eight, yet 'Il, Bouno, il Brutto il Cattivo' is too cheesy.

 

Well, it's a fine Parmigiano Reggiano with some gorganzola on the side.

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1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)

2. Il Conformista (Bertolucci)

3. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)

4. No Country for Old Men (Coen brothers)

5. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder)

 

No perticular order really, and it probably changes from week to week.

There's a lot of movies that I love, but these seem to awake something abstract and unusual in me.

 

My own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) maybe should be there aswell, with or without Keanu Reeves. Really don't like that guy.

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A mix of my "tops" and my "favorites".... off the top of my head.....

 

Casablanca

The New World

The Thin Red Line

Braveheart

In the Mood for Love

Star Wars Trilogy

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Baraka

Notorious

Citizen Kane

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Hey Jon-Herbert,

 

I'm glad you mentioned Rumble Fish. I had the soundtrack on vinyl and lost it in the sands of time. You can't get it anymore. It never got knocked over to CD as far as I can tell.

 

 

I promise, man... it's not a "rickroll".

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has anyone mentioned any Kurosawa films?

Speaking of Kurosawa, "Seven Samurai" on TCM tonight ...

 

That's my list. Not only my favorites but probably or at least some of my most frequently watched movies (sorry, couldn't list only five).

 

1954 - Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock

1956 - A Man Escaped - Robert Bresson

1962 - My Life to Live - Jean Luc Godard

1962 - Knife in the Water - Roman Polanski

1962 - The Trial - Orson Welles

1963 - The Silence - Ingmar Bergman

1971 - The French Connection - William Friedkin

1977 - Eraserhead - David Lynch

1984 - Stranger than Paradise - Jim Jarmusch

1989 - Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee

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Wow. Gotta say I hate a lot of these films. Love a lot of others. Haven't seen a bunch of these obscure titles, and well, what else is new?

 

I don't have a list. It would all depend upon what day it is, what mood I'm in, and a whole lot of other factors.

 

Perhaps it's time for an 'I hate these films list?' That would be easier to compile.

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Top 5, eh? Well, here goes...

 

#1 Rear Window

#2 Casablanca

#3 Star Wars

#4 Arsenic and Old Lace

#5 North By Northwest

 

In case it interests you, I saw Rear Window for the first time in my life 2 days ago! I've never seen a movie that made me go "That's definitely gonna be on my top 5 list," this one did.

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I feel like I have a relatively stable list, in no particular order:

 

Stalker

2001

Lawrence of Arabia

Gangs of New York

Children of Men

 

It's hard to exclude so many classics and good directors, but this is a list of my favorite films, and not the top five best films ever (ie a list that might have some Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, or even Kar Wai Wong, etc).

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