After the Thin Man (1936)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Lady from Shanghai, The (1947)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Notorious (1946) 10
Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928)
Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Intolerance (1916)
Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
Ilsa - it’s funny you chose Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957). I was torn between that and “Videodrome” for number 10 on my list !!! Truly, Ingmar Bergman’s Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) is an honest introspective vision of Kierkegardian existentialism as portrayed against the backdrop of a plague-ridden Europe. No doubt you found it (as did I) to be a thinly-veiled autobiography of the Director’s struggling to find meaning and fulfillment in a morass of hypocrisy, materialism and corruption such as the world was then as it is now.
But then I said "Bergman ? Shmergman!!! " I’m going with “Videodrome”.
(Figured I’d add that addenda just for another peak into the complex personality of the wolf_meister.
True story - many year’s ago, I was over a neighbor’s house, someone was surfing though the TV channels and stopped at a movie. Everybody said they didn’t know what the movie was. I said “I don’t think I’ve ever seen this movie” to which someone quickly replied - “then it must be good !!!”
The Freud in me reads your movie list and realizes you must have an intense desire to sleep with your mother.
The Eliza in me wants me to ask if you are sure these are your top ten movies.
The fortune cookie in me promises a fruitful day in your relationships with these ten movies.
However the rest of me thinks this is a very sound list of favorite movies showing a depth of character and charm rarely matched. Or some equally worthless bs.
Reading over this list I find an intense contradiction in your personality, loving the epic story of Gone with the Wind yet also finding joy in Pulp Fiction and Austin Powers, it is my supposition that your personality often conflicts over love and humor, never sure to make the sexy comment or crack a joke.
Looking at your choices of The Graduate and Close Encounters, I realize both lead actors are relatively short and can obviously draw a lure to power over men, as exhibited by your love for Dreyfuss and Hoffman.
And the Freud in me is absolutely positive you should seek help for your lusting after your mother.
No, wait! She is a member of a close knit family with deep seated differences in a small Louisiana parish where her black boyfriend iced a hood after throwing a fight and getting raped by the boys from Deliverance who had strained relations with their fathers in the Deep South, where the locals are mysteriously drawn to a rural location by a large mountain where cross dressing jazz musicians are trying to seduce their daughter’s boyfriend, a swinging 1960’s hipster with bad teeth.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
The Ritz (1976)
Near Dark (1987)
Labyrinth (1986)
Aliens (long version) (1986)
My Sister Eileen (1942)
The Great Escape, (1963)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Closet Land (1991)
Uncanny! Being on your couch leaves me feeling all psychologically nekkid and exposed-like… :eek:
How you doin’?
Now that’s just gross, you freak!
Many thanks, Dr. Ronin. You’ve done a fine job at turning me into a loose, silly, domineering, Oedipal lesbian. Now, if you’ll kindly just keep it to your damn self!
After the Thin Man (1936)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Lady from Shanghai, The (1947)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Notorious (1946) 10
Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928)
Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Intolerance (1916)
Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
It is obvious to me that you are my first husband. Everything on your list is a double entendre!
Breakfast at Tiffany’s? You whore! You think I will ever forget what you did to my cat or what you and Madge were doing in the powder room at the party?
Or the affair with Joan? You mumbled her name in your sleep for months…“Zhoan, Zhoan…” in that stupid fake accent. :rolleyes:
I remember how you stalked Marlene like a hunter until she refused to even open her curtains or answer her phone. And I remember how after she died you won’t come off of the train for months and months until interpol recognized your disguise in that black dress.
How could I – a mere American woman – ever be good enough for you? It was the Belgians, the Germans, the French, the Swedes…
But finally, you’ve become nothing but a morbid necrophiliac in your old age, deary! I’ve out lived them all!!
Your final reference using your usual derogatory taunt for me along with the year of my birth was the dead giveaway.
With the expected disclaimer as to the semi-randomness of the order:
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[li]All That Jazz[/li][li]Hedwig and the Angry Inch[/li][li]The Producers[/li][li]The Godfather, I[/li][li]The Godfather, II[/li][li]The Gay Divorcee (Fred and Ginger)[/li][li]The Boy Friend (Ken Russell; Twiggy and Tommy Tune)[/li][li]Sunset Blvd.[/li][li]All About Eve[/li][li]Ball of Fire[/li][/ol]
twickster likes control (Godfather I, II*) and can get gangsta’ when angry but when you look at all the older films on the list, you’ll realize she really wants life to be like it used to be; simple, easy, and with values that mean something. An old-fashioned gal at heart is our twickster.
My list: not in order except for the LOTR films