All-Time Favorite Films!
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(A way to plug a favorite site of mine,
the International Movie Database, at http://www.imdb.com.)
My favorites are listed in reverse alphabetical order
(just because it's kind of embarrassing to start out with
"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and
"Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery"...):
Yoidore Tenshi (Drunken Angel)
Wild West (the 1992 movie)
The Wedding Singer
Velvet Goldmine
Up the Down Staircase
Salut Cousin!
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Kama Sutra
Jesus Christ, Superstar
Ikiru (To Live)
To Have and Have Not
Fiddler on the Roof
The Cowboys
The Buddha of Suburbia (the BBC miniseries)
Brothers in Trouble
The Big Sleep
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
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Mr Ronald O L Tregear
1. Titanic
2. Braveheart
3. Empire Strikes Back
4. Star Wars
5. Forrest Gump
6. Rear Window
7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
8. Dirty Harry
9. Goodfellas
10. Wedding Singer
However, I must say recently have seen a movie at the pictures which is
fast becoming one of my favourites. Might have to wait to see it on video.
The movie is Ever After. An excellent piece of light entertainment. After
seeing a lot of good films the last two or three places are difficult to
determine. Titanic is well and truly the best picture I have seen.
Like to any other peoples favourite movies. E-mail me on
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Michael
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> My All Time Favourite Films are as follows:
> 1. Titanic
> 2. Braveheart
> 3. Empire Strikes Back
> 4. Star Wars
> 5. Forrest Gump
> 6. Rear Window
> 7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
> 8. Dirty Harry
> 9. Goodfellas
>10. Wedding Singer
<snip>
> Titanic is well and truly the best picture I have seen.
Please God tell me you're 14 years old.
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Erin
Empire of the Sun
The English Patient
The Thin Red Line
My Own Private Idaho
Erin
Karl Rackwitz
Hallo, my favourite films are
1. Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1987)
2. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1979)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1965-68)
6. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet, 1962)
7. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1961/62)
8. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
9. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
10. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
Karl Rackwitz
PATRICIA E BRIEN
Karl, yours is the best list on there by far.
Karl Rackwitz
>
> Karl, yours is the best list on there by far.
Thanks, Patricia!
bb...@pop.mpls.uswest.net
My favorites (in no particular order after the top four):
1. Casablanca
2. Network
3. Citizen Kane
4. The Singing Dectective (BBC mini-series)
5. James Whales' Frankenstien
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. The Maltese Falcon
8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
9. Brazil
10. The Philadelphia Story
11. The Right Stuff
12. King Kong (the original)
13. Notorious
14. Flight of the Phoenix
15. The Wild Bunch
16. Local Hero
17. Vertigo
18. Charade
19. Singing in the Rain
20. North by Northwest
21. Annie Hall
22. Westside Story
23. Anything by Monty Python
24. Almost anything with W.C. Fields or the Marx Brothers
25. Educatng Rita (a sentimental choice)
26. Die Kinder (a BBC mini-series)
27. A Streetcar Named Desire
And my favorite contemporary (1990s) pix:
28. The Usual Suspects
29. L.A. Confidential
30. The Commitments
Jesse Hassenger
>1. Titanic
>2. Braveheart
>3. Empire Strikes Back
>4. Star Wars
>5. Forrest Gump
>6. Rear Window
>7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
>8. Dirty Harry
>9. Goodfellas
>10. Wedding Singer
interesting choices, and fairly varied, and i like Empire over Jedi.. but
i'm sorry, I don't get the thing with Braveheart. Big & Epic does not equate
Greatness for me, and I think Braveheart is one of the most
overrated-by-the-filmgoing-public (as well as the Oscars!) in recent memory.
Anyway, here are some of my favorites, no particular order (and as per usual
with me, this is some sort of weird synthesis between "great" and
"favorites", usually leaning more towards favorites):
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Pulp Fiction
Trainspotting
12 Monkeys
It Happened One Night
Annie Hall
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Batman Returns
Natural Born Killers
Chasing Amy
The Truman Show
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Sneakers
Wayne's World
Army of Darkness
From Dusk Till Dawn
and many others.
brwr...@gte.net
Idaho," which I agree is a good movie.
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be released on video, right?
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"Mr Ronald O L Tregear" <dink...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> My All Time Favourite Films are as follows:
>
> 1. Titanic
> 2. Braveheart
> 3. Empire Strikes Back
> 4. Star Wars
> 5. Forrest Gump
> 6. Rear Window
> 7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
> 8. Dirty Harry
> 9. Goodfellas
> 10. Wedding Singer
>
> However, I must say recently have seen a movie at the pictures which is
> fast becoming one of my favourites. Might have to wait to see it on video.
> The movie is Ever After. An excellent piece of light entertainment. After
> seeing a lot of good films the last two or three places are difficult to
> determine. Titanic is well and truly the best picture I have seen.
> Like to any other peoples favourite movies. E-mail me on
> smiley...@hotmail.com
> Michael
>
> brwr...@gte.net wrote in message <78okpm$83a$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
Dennis
1)Gone With The Wind
2)Gilda
3)Now Voyager
4)Rear Window
5)Dark Victory
6)Casablanca
7)The Maltese Falcon
8)An Affair To Remember
9)Anastasia(Ingrid Bergman's)
10)The King & I
11)The Women
12)All About Eve
13)Since You Went Away
14)From Here To Eternity
15)Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
I could probably list at least another 100.
Ceilidance
1. meet john doe
2. schindler's list
3. rear window (hitchcock)
4. north by northwest
5. bringing up baby
6. pride of the yankees
7. emma
8. suspicion
9. breakfast at tiffany's
10. the sound of music
11. my fair lady
12. an american in paris
13. singing in the rain
14. the philadelphia story
15. charade
could definitely go on......
wasa...@hotmail.com
1. Brazil
2. Chinatown
3. Do the Right Thing
4. Ran
5. The Conversation
6. Kiss of the Spider Woman
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Barton Fink
9. The Blues Brothers
10. Total Recall
-Bill
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> here is my list of favourite films -
> (no real order - although 'Once
> Upon a Time in America' is the film
> on my list that I could sit through
> again and again ad infinitum)
> Once Upon a Time in America
> Chinatown
> Citizen Kane
> Casablanca
> Andrei Rublev
> The Seventh Seal
> Mean Streets
> The Searchers
> The Gold Rush
> The Godfather Part II
> Seven Samurai
> Alexander Nevsky
> This is Spinal Tap
Not a bad list, with the exception of "Alexander Nevsky," which is my least
favorite Eisenstein film. I would have gone with either "October" or the first
half of "Ivan the Terrible."
And I could never sit through "Andrei Rublev," but that's probably my problem.
Droog80
Ross Mandell
Casablanca
Duck Soup
The Road to Morocco
The Son of paleface
The Sorrow and the Pity
The Roaring Twenties
Angels with Dirty Faces (I say he died yellow, no way! he was trying
to impress the kids)
Tootsy
A Hard Day's Night
Top Hat
Nosfertu (the origional)
Star Wars
The Producers
I'm Alright Jack
Being There
La Grand Illusion
Its A Wonderful Life
Meet John Doe
The African Queen
The Godfather
Michael Chen
1. Schindler’s List
2. The Manchurian Candidate
3. Patton
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Ran
6. The Usual Suspects
7. Casablanca
8. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
9. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
10. North by Northwest
11. *The English Patient
12. Glory
13. Gandhi
14. It’s a Wonderful Life
15. Braveheart
16. Dr. Strangelove
17. Gettysburg
18. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
19. Citizen Kane
20. All About Eve
21. Vertigo
22. The Shawshank Redemption
23. Annie Hall
24. The Sound of Music
25. Lorenzo’s Oil
26. The Apartment
27. The Big Sleep
28. It Happened One Night
29. Manhattan
30. Forrest Gump
(31.) Star Wars Trilogy (I don't really like any one of them)
Currently, I could name another 117 films as my favourites, as well as 2 TV
films.
Derek Dubery
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Casablanca
The Princess Bride
To Catch a Thief
The Mark of Zorro
To Have and Have Not
The Adventures of Don Juan
Star Wars
Four Weddings and a Funeral
My Favourite Year
(Just saw "Shakespeare in Love" and I was very tempted to add that to my
list)
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junk
the usual suspects
slingblade
glengarry glen ross
la vita è bella (life is beautiful)
jared dean
ju...@anv.net
kickedi...@hotmail.com
Fugitive Glory Henry Fool Immortal Beloved (Rudyard Kipling's) The Jungle
Book Kicked in the Head Let Him Have It Mr. and Mrs. Bridge Napoleon Ordinary
People The Princess Bride Quiz Show Rhythm Thief The Saint of Fort Washington
Trees Lounge The Underneath Vincent & Theo Walking & Talking X--- uh--(ok,
I'm stuck here) Young Love, first Love (it wasn't that bad, and there aren't
many other Y films!) Zebrahead
I like many other films with these letters, too. Those are just some
recommendations. Thoughts?:)
Tammy
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/weareallwinners/
armi...@my-dejanews.com
The Searchers
The Seventh Seal (1956)
Citizen Kane
Paths of Glory
Nosferatu
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Ususal Suspects
It's a Wonderful Life
Frankenstein
armi...@my-dejanews.com
> Hallo, my favourite films are
>
> 1. Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1987)
> 2. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
> 3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
> 4. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1979)
> 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1965-68)
> 6. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet, 1962)
> 7. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1961/62)
> 8. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
> 9. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
> 10. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
>
> Karl Rackwitz
>
I take it you like Lumet!
Arminius
The dead travel fast.
ArchObler
Here are my all-time favorites!
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
3. Our Hospitality (1923)
4. Rear Window (1954)
5. The Seven Samurai (1954)
6. Taxi Driver (1976)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
8. The Third Man (1949)
9. Gone With the Wind (1939)
10. City Lights (1931)
11. JFK (1991)
12. Citizen Kane (1941)
13. The Godfather (1972)
14. Secrets and Lies (1996)
15. Schindler's List (1993)
16. A Night at the Opera (1935)
17. King Kong (1933)
18. M (1931)
19. Sunrise (1927)
20. Dumbo (1941)
AdamFriday
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Blade Runner, The Director's Cut (1982)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- GoodFellas (1990)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Adam
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I can't wait to see "Still Crazy," a "comedy about a '70s British rock
band..." (quote from the Washington Post). The reviews all say it's great!
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PATRICIA E BRIEN
Rules of the Game
Rear Window
Citizen Kane
Wild Strawberries
The Bicycle Thieves
La Grande Illusion
The Third Man
Lawrence of Arabia
8 1/2
Jules et Jim
Sunset Boulevard
The Seven Samurai
City Lights
The 400 Blows
La Strada
The Searchers
Bonnie and Clyde
M
Vertigo
2001: A Space Odyssey
----Lue Baynes
Andrew Nixon
Andrew
The African Queen
American Graffiti
And Then There Were None
The Birds
Boyz N the Hood
The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather
The Godfather II
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Hustler
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jaws
Lifeboat
North By Northwest
Platoon
Psycho
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
Return of the Jedi
Rocky
Stand By Me
Star Wars
The Sting
Strangers on a Train
The Terminator
To Have and Have Not
Treasure of Sierra Madre
The Untouchables
Vertigo
Massine Davis
imitation of life
east of eden
cat on a hot tin roof (taylor & newman)
7 brides 4 7 brothers
an american in paris (gene kelly)
towering inferno
usual suspects
devil's advocate
oh yeah, and all the fine young cannibals (natalie wood & robert wagner);
which by the way, would anyone know where I could find a copy of this one?
John Pestka
Alien
Glory
Star Wars
Schindler's List
It's a Wonderful Life
jlp
Melanie Hannam
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Rainmaker
The Misfits
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Tombstone (only for Val Kilmer's Doc)
Bell, Book and Candle
Harvey
El Dorado
Once upon a Time in America
The Virginian (Gary Cooper)
Never said these were the "best" or anything, just my favourites...
Karl Rackwitz
>
> > Hallo, my favourite films are
> >
> > 1. Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1987)
> > 2. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
> > 3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
> > 4. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1979)
> > 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1965-68)
> > 6. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet, 1962)
> > 7. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1961/62)
> > 8. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
> > 9. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
> > 10. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
> >
> > Karl Rackwitz
> >
>
> I take it you like Lumet!
>
> Arminius
>
> The dead travel fast.
>
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You're right. Sidney Lumet is one of my favourite directors, although
some of his recent films have been disappointing. But I could list 10
masterpieces directed by him. And that's what counts for me.
I also love the work of Scorsese, Hitchcock, Welles, Kubrick, Truffaut,
de Sica, Fellini, Wilder, Coppola, Malle and many others.
Bye,
Karl
Alex Crouvier
> You're right. Sidney Lumet is one of my favourite directors, although
> some of his recent films have been disappointing. But I could list 10
> masterpieces directed by him. And that's what counts for me.
> I also love the work of Scorsese, Hitchcock, Welles, Kubrick, Truffaut,
> de Sica, Fellini, Wilder, Coppola, Malle and many others.
>
> Bye,
>
> Karl
Truffaut? What's so good about this French poser? Where is Renoir,
Cocteau, Melville (his LE SILENCE DE LA MER is the origin of the New
Wave), Tati, Franju, Chabrol? Stop quoting from your Film 101 Textbook.
Malle is a minor Frenchie (but I love his overheated, generally trashed
DAMAGE).
Scorsese (along with Spielberg and Lucas) is a movie-boy (Still love his
"inspired-by-old-movies" films). Scorsese thinks that he is making "art'
with CASINO when I caught him celebrating the gangsters here like he did
in his seedier, more "truthful than GODFATHER" paen to hoods and their
macho behavior. Coppola is an arrogant, often delusional prick. After
THE GODFATHER, he makes nothing else of note. APOCALYPSE NOW is a
glorious failure. He wants to be Michael Corleone, Kurtz, and Dracula, a
lot of people think he is Michael Corleone. Another movie-boy who could
be more. He is in love with himself. Somebody should make a hallucigenic
film out of this guy's disturbed psyche. Abel Gance is his hero.
Fellini is another delusional, creatively deprived "artist." He thought
that by making a film about clueless director would allow him to get
away with hs own complete lack of creativity. His work took a nose dive
with 8 1/2 onwards.
Kubrick is one creepy misanthrope. He thinks he is Alex Lagrange. His
best post-DR STARNGELOVE film is THE SHINING, a concise, more pointed
exploration of the themes in of 2001 and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
If you want to talk about American masters, you have to at least mention
Ford, Hawks, Lubitsch, and Keaton. And where the hell are the gods?
Griffith, and Murnau? Where are the Japs? Prejudice?
Karl Rackwitz
If you read what I wrote, you'll notice that the directors I mentioned
are only a few of m a n y directors I like. What I've seen from Jean
Renoir, Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch and John Ford, is clearly excellent
too. The people I listed are my personal favourites now. That doesn't
mean that these are the eleven best directors of all time. I wouldn't be
so pretentious to say so because I'm 24 years old and haven't seen all
great films. I'm sure there are master directors whose work is still
completely unknown to me. But that's exciting. I eagerly await getting
to know their work (the work of D. W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, F. W.
Murnau, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Tati, Roberto
Rossellini...).
I have absolutely no prejudices against them. You should ask yourself if
you have prejudices against Truffaut, Malle, Scorsese, Coppola, Fellini
and Kubrick. They have invested a lot of creativity to make works of
cinematic art. Isn't it pretentious how you spoke about them?
You don't know what's good about Francois Truffaut? See "Jules et Jim".
You call Malle a "minor Frenchie"? T h i s sounds as if it came from a
"Film Textbook". For me, "Atlantic City, U.S.A." and "Au revoir les
enfants" are really great films.
Scorsese is a consistently brilliant director ("Raging Bull", "Taxi
Driver", ...).
I can't agree with what you said about Coppola either. In my opinion,
"The Conversation" is even a greater picture than "The Godfather".
"Apocalypse Now" may have its minor flaws, but is still one of the more
consistent films about the war in Vietnam.
Federico Fellini has made very important films. (And many good directors
have a weak phase in their careers (see Lumet)).
Kubrick's "Paths of Glory", "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space
Odyssey" are brilliant and, for me, more perfect than "The Shining"
(which is quite good too).
Bye.
Karl Rackwitz (Germany)
Thomas Benton
For some reason, as I was reading this list I remembered one of my all time
favs that seldom, if ever, appears on this NG-They Shoot Horses Don't They?
I thought all the performances were fantastic and it had a great
cast-probably Gig Young's best work. He showed that one doesn't have to
blow up cities to be a totally amoral heavy. Fonda, Sarrazin, York,
Buttons, Dern and Lewis were great, too. I found it to be one of the most
draining experiences I have ever had in a theater. Perhaps a bit off topic,
but I thought I owed it at least a tip of the hat after 30 years.
Christian
bb...@pop.mpls.uswest.net wrote:
> My favorites (in no particular order after the top four):
>
> 1. Casablanca
> 2. Network
> 3. Citizen Kane
> 4. The Singing Dectective (BBC mini-series)
Loved that too, watched it at the time when it aired on
BBC, unfortunatly, never taped it and missed a couple of
episodes. Would love to get my hands on that again, also, I
once read the writer of that series was dying and was
working on another series, he was nearing completion at the
time, anyone know what happened to that? Did he finish it?
Is it being produced?
Jouni Knuutinen
wrote:
>Karl Rackwitz wrote:
>> You're right. Sidney Lumet is one of my favourite directors,
>> I also love the work of Scorsese, Hitchcock, Welles, Kubric , Truffaut,
>> de Sica, Fellini, Wilder, Coppola, Malle and many others.
yoo mentioned...
>
>Truffaut? What's so good about this French poser? Where is Renoir,
>Cocteau, Melville (his LE SILENCE DE LA MER is the origin of the New
>Wave), Tati, Franju, Chabrol? Stop quoting from your Film 101 Textbook.
>Malle is a minor Frenchie (but I love his overheated, generally trashed
>DAMAGE).
>Scorsese (along with Spielberg and Lucas) is a movie-boy (Still love his
>Fellini is another delusional, creatively deprived "artist." He thought
>Kubrick is one creepy misanthrope. He thinks he is Alex Lagrange. His
>If you want to talk about American masters, you have to at least mention
>Ford, Hawks, Lubitsch, and Keaton. And where the hell are the gods?
>Griffith, and Murnau? Where are the Japs? Prejudice?
He wasn't talking about the American masters, he was talking about his
favourite films and film directors.
These are opinions what we're talking about, not exact truths, because
there's no such thing as exact truth. He likes Kubrick, you don't. What's
the big deal? Accept that most people don't have the same opinions as you.
Life will become a lot easier for you...
--
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Mike D.
1: Schindler's List
2: The Breakfast Club
3: Jurassic Park
4: Saving Private Ryan
5: Apollo 13
6: Forrest Gump
7: Wag the Dog
8: Titanic
9: Mr. Hollands Opus
10: Can't Hardly Wait
11: That Thing You Do
12: The Truman Show
13: What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
14: Back to the Future, Part II
15: Independence Day
16: Patch Adams
17: Ed Wood
Gillian L. Smart
2001
seven samuri
fargo
the big lebowski
maltese falcon
HUD
the grapes of wrath
the wages of fear
the bicycle thief
lawrence of arabia
empire of the sun
the big sleep
zorba the greek
the shinning
ran
dr. strangelove
barton fink
this is spinal tap
glengarry-glenross
millers crossing
blue velvet
JimNeibr
in chornological order and NOT including short subjects:
Intolerance (1916)
The Kid (1920)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
The Freshman (1925)
The Kid Brother (1927)
The Circus (1928)
The Crowd (1928)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Min and Bill (1930)
Public Enemy (1931)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
Horse Feathers (1932)
You're Telling Me (1932)
42nd St (1933)
Duck Soup (1933)
The Thin Man (1934)
Sons of the Desert (1934)
It's a Gift (1934)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Way Out West (1937)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
You Can't Take it With You (1938)
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1943)
Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Searchers (1956)
Ladies Man (1961)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
The Patsy (1964)
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The French Connection (1971)
Godfather (1972)
The Last Detail (1973)
Save The Tiger (1973)
Godfather 2 (1974)
Sunshine Boys (1975)
Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Dog Day Afternoon (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
And Justice For All (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
Raging Bull (1980)
Being There (1980)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984 - director's cut only!)
Stand By Me (1986)
The River's Edge (1987)
GoodFellas (1990)
Cinema Pardiso (1990)
Unforgiven (1992)
Scent of a Woman (1993
Casino (1995)
This entire list could probably handle about 200 more entries. I do believe
the 30s and 70s are my two favorite decades, while the past two decades are
the least interesting.
Apologies for writing the incorrect year every so often (did this out of my
head) and for not using as many foreign films (I am weak in that area).
Jim
Haya...@webtv.net
some). These are my favorite movies, though not necessarily the
greatest movies of all-time.
Angels with Dirty Faces
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Casablanca
Sullivan's Travels
Double Indemnity
The Glass Key
Stalag 17
Out of the Past
Vertigo
Goodfellas
Slap Shot
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Usual Suspects
Parallax View
Cyrano De Bergerac (Depardieu version)
ach...@netvision.net.il
>I would rather write my 500 favorites but there's no time and space
>so i will give my top 30 for today (because every day i have a different top
>30 list):
>
>the godfather
>the godfather part 2
>the conversation
>ikiru
>ran
>clockwork orange
>paths of glory
>dr.trangelove
>north by northwest
>the general
>once upon a time in the west
>the wild bunch
>rhe searchers
>rosemary's baby
>the player
>short cuts
>goodfellas
>some like it hot
>double idemnity
>a man escaped
>blade runner
>duck soup
>all about eve
>12 angry man
>hana bi
>modern times
>out of the past
>opening night
>invasion of the body snatchers
>ugetsu monogatari
musoyama
wrote:
> In no particular order:
>
> 2001
> seven samuri
yes
> fargo
> the big lebowski
overrated
> maltese falcon
imp genre movie but minor art.
> HUD
great acting by newman, neal, and whoozits?
> the grapes of wrath
a shame compared to the book(didn't see)
> the wages of fear
> the bicycle thief
> lawrence of arabia
yes
> empire of the sun
only the first 30 min.
> the big sleep
nice genre piece
> zorba the greek
cacoyannis's best are stella and girl in black.
> the shinning
> ran
flawed pics by masters
> dr. strangelove
dated
> barton fink
> this is spinal tap
minor
> glengarry-glenross
good movie/ excellent dialogue
> millers crossing
you think the coens are the best? miller was lite stuff
> blue velvet
shit. eraserhead is lynch;s masgteripieice.
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Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
Usual Suspects
Cabaret
It
Out of Sight
The Godfather
Very Bad Things
Satyracon
Elizabeth
Grease
n article <790g2a$rlj$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
armi...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Life is Beautiful
> The Searchers
> The Seventh Seal (1956)
> Citizen Kane
> Paths of Glory
> Nosferatu
> The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
> The Ususal Suspects
> It's a Wonderful Life
> The Silence of the Lambs
> Frankenstein
>
Alex Crouvier
>
> this is so hard to do --
I bet it is. What a xenophobic list. No Renoir, no Ophuls, Mizoguchi,
Murnau, Eisenstein. Imperial arrogance.
Derek Dubery
GREATEST Films I fail to see how it can be "Imperial arrogance" if
someone only chooses films that THEY like!
In article <36BD52...@geocities.com>, Alex Crouvier
<troj...@geocities.com> writes
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JimNeibr
<troj...@geocities.com> writes
>JimNeibr wrote:
>>
>> this is so hard to do --
>
>I bet it is. What a xenophobic list. No Renoir, no Ophuls, Mizoguchi,
>Murnau, Eisenstein. Imperial arrogance.
And I specifically stated why in my post ---
Jim