name your favourive movies. Maximum 40 titles
Here are mine (in random order):
Jaws (1975)
Highlander (1986)
Star Wars: the empire strikes back (1980)
Heat (1995) with Robert De Niro
Breakdown (1997) with Kurt Russel
The Exorcist (1973)
Raiders of the lost Ark (1981)
James Bond: For your eyes only (1981)
The Texas chainsaw massacre (1974)
Bruce Lee: Fist of Fury (1972)
The Pit (aka Teddy) (1981) (I saw this one when i was a child, never since)
The Thing (1982)
The Fog (1980)
First Blood (1982) with Stallone
Class of 1984
Shock Waves (1976)
The Exterminator (1980)
Mad Max 2 (the road warrior) (1981) with Mel Gibson
Dead and Buried (1981)
Magic (1978) with Anthony Hopkins
Westworld (1973)
Terminator (1984)
Rocky 3 (1983)
Die Hard (1988)
Predator (1987)
Stakeou (1987) with Emilio Estevez
The Dirty Dozen (1968)
Cocktail (1988) with Tom Cruise
Basic Instict (1992)
Extreme Measures (1996) with Hugh Grant
The Edge (1997) with Anthony Hopkins
Nattevagten (1994) danish thriller
OK, first of all, a limit of 40 titles is a bit restrictive. I would prefer to be able to name about 100 titles. A limit of 40 means that the list will be a bit arbitrary, and several worthy candidates won’t make it. That said, here goes, I guess, in a pretty much random order:
Fellini - 8 1/2
Fellini - La Dolce Vita
Bergman - Scenes From a Marriage
Bergman - Summer With Monika
Bergman - The Seventh Seal
Antonioni - Blow-Up
Kieslowski - The Three Colors trilogy
Kieslowski - La Double Vie De Véronique
Chaplin - Modern Times
Chaplin - City Lights
Chaplin - The Great Dictator
Chaplin - The Kid
Godard - A Bout de Souffle
Godard - Vivre sa Vie
Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Hitchcock - Psycho
Hitchcock - Vertigo
Hitchcock - Rear Window
Marx Brothers - Duck Soup
Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard
Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove
Wong Kar-Wai - Chungking Express
Wong Kar-Wai - In the Mood for Love
Kurosawa - Throne of Blood
Buster Keaton - The General
Tykwer - Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
Kaurismäki - Drifting Clouds
Fritz Lang - M
Fritz Lang - Metropolis
Tarkovskij - Stalker
Truffaut - Les Quatre-Cents Coups
Resnais - L’Année dernière à Marienbad
Howard Hawks - The Big Sleep
Tsai Ming-Liang - What Time Is It There?
Casablanca
Eisenstein - Battleship Potemkin
Siegel - Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Wilcox - Forbidden Planet
Singin’ In The Rain
Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas
Caveats: Tykwer’s “Der Krieger und die Kaiserin” might seem like an odd choice, but I just saw it recently and I liked it a lot, so it’s in. Next week it might not be. Also, I’m not sure about a couple of the others, especially “Paris, Texas”… but I’m putting it in anyway, because… well, just because I feel like it. Also, I’ve cheated: I’m counting Kieslowski’s “Three Colors” trilogy as one entry instead of three. That way I’m able to sneak a couple more entries onto the list. So, hey, sue me.
A Christmas Story (1983)
Aliens (1986)
All About Eve (1950)
Amadeus (1984)
Best in Show (2000)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Fargo (1996)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Goodfellas (1990)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Jaws (1975)
Local Hero (1983)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Rebecca (1940)
Snatch (2000)
Star Wars (1977)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Birds (1963)
The Color of Money (1986)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Flamingo Kid (1984)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
The Haunting (1963)
The Mummy (1999)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Straight Story (1999)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Unforgiven (1992)
Untitled (Almost Famous, Bootleg Cut) (2000)
Wall Street (1987)
Band of Outsiders
Night of the Shooting Stars
In a Lonely Place
Bicycle Thief
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Diabolique (original, natch)
Rififi
Wicker Man
Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Elevator to the Gallows
City of God
Bloody Sunday (the Irish one)
10 Rillington Place
Day of the Jackal
Going Places
Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
Play it as it Lays
Ali: Feat Eats the Soul
Le Voyou
Battle of Algiers
Bob Le Flambuer
Casque D’or
Dance with a Stranger
Scarface (1932)
This Sporting Life
Princess & the Warrior
A Taste of Honey
3 Women
The Seven-Ups
The Sicilian Clan
Lord Love a Duck
Pretty Poison (1968)
This is Spinal Tap
The Hudsucker Proxy
Last Picture Show
Petulia
Croupier
Frenzy
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Off the top of my head…I tried to order them by preference, but decided to just list them in reverse chronological order instead:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-03; basically one long-ass movie broken up into three sections)
L.I.E. (2001)
Fight Club (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
Run Lola Run (1998)
The Full Monty (1997)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Short Cuts (1993)
Noises Off! (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Defending Your Life (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (1990)
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)
Heathers (1989)
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1988)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Hope and Glory (1987)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Withnail & I (1987)
Aliens (1986)
After Hours (1985)
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
The Killing Fields (1984)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Silkwood (1983)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior; 1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Airplane! (1980)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Up in Smoke (1978)
Star Wars (1977; non-SE version, Greedo shoots first and all that)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
I actually hard a hard time thinking up a lot - only 35 here.
While the ones at the top are in rank of preference, the other groups are pretty much at an equal level, in two groups.
Faraway, So Close!
Love Letter (1995, Japan)
Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ran (1985)
Star Wars
Brazil (1985)
Bridge on the River Kwai
Airplane!
A Clockwork Orange
A Midnight Clear
Singin’ In the Rain
Jean de Florette
The Seventh Seal
The Shining
Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring
Duck Soup
Real Genius
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Mission (1986)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Wild Bunch
The Muppet Movie
Good Bye, Lenin!
Three Kings (1999)
The Road Warrior
Grave of the Fireflies
Ikiru (1952)
The Princess Bride
All Quiet on the Western Front
Vertigo
Casablanca
East of Eden
A Room with a View
My Favorite Movies, roughly in order or preference within each category. The hyperlinked titles take you to a full-length reviews that I wrote. Just click and scroll down if you are interested…
Chinese/Hong Kong
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Comrades, Almost a Love Story
The Bride with White Hair A Chinese Torture Chamber Story Wing Chun
Naked Killer
Sex & Zen II
Erotic Ghost Stroy III
Hard Boiled
Drunken Master II
Fist of Legend Flying Dagger
Hard Boiled
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
Infernal Affairs
The Killer
Mr. Vampire
Police Story III (aka Supercop)
Sex & Zen
non-Asian
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Mullholland Dr.
Goodfellas
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Citizen Kane
Clockwork orange
Mad Max thunderdome
Blazing saddles
Apocalypse Now
Bridge on River kwai
Ran
7 wsamurai
Life of Brian
Kill Bill
Reservoir Dogs
On the waterfront
Taxi Driver
The Graduate
Cuckoos Nest
Jaws
maltese falcon
Platoon
Godfathers
O Brother where art thou
Easy Rider
Deerhunter
Papillion
Pulp Fiction
Treasure Sirra Madre
tHE tHING 1956
Amadeus
Caddy shack
Jazz singer
Frankenstien
Dracula 1931
Silence of the Lambs
American Graffitti
Star Wars
Life of Brian
Ok lets fight. Speed
It did not pretend to be art or a message movie. It had Sandra Bullock good in her role .Dennis Hopper.Perfect. ok Keneau Reeves not so good. But every second was useful. it built all the way.It was an exciting and didnt waste a second. So I liked it a lot.
What’s to fight about? Fer cryin’ out loud, I’ve got Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death on my list.
Yes, it’s a bad movie. But the actors know it’s a bad movie, and act accordingly. It’s the ultimate B-Movie satire. Plus, it’s got Bill Maher (before he became politically incorrect) and…PLAYMATES!!!
(However, I will never forgive Speed for claiming to drive down the I-10 freeway, when it was clearly the under-construction I-105 freeway. Never mind that they eventually got to the real 105…that just made it worse!!!)
Best? or Favorite? There’s a difference – I can recognize that a movie has outstanding features, yet hate it. And some of my faves are guilty pleasures.
For what it’s worth, these are my favorites, without guilty pleasures like ]Plan Nine: A Man for All Seasons
The Seven Samurai
Spartacus
Forbidden Planet
Lawrence of Arabia
Charade
The Guns of Navarone
Casablanca
A Night at the Opera
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Arsenic and Old Lace
2001: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Maltese Falcon
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Kagemusha
Silverado
Doctor Zhivago
Young Frankenstein
The Day of the Jackal
The Flight of the Phoenix
Star Trek II
Star Trek IV
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
King Kong (1933)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Creator
Metropolis (1927)
The Lost World (1925)
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Terminator
Terminator II
Five Million Years to Earth/Quatermass and the Pit
Enemy From Space/Quatermass II
What’s Up, Doc?
North by Northwest
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Thunderball
For Your Eyes Only
King Kong (2005)
The General
Rear Window
Psycho
Dr. Strangelove
Paths of Glory
Breaker Morant
1776
Fiddler on the Roof
West Side Story
I have many more, but these 40 I’d recommend to all my friends and family:
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[li]2001: A Space Odyssey[/li][li]Akira[/li][li]Amadeus[/li][li]Apocalypse Now[/li][li]Apollo 13[/li][li]Bad ma ra khahad bord (The Wind Will Carry Us, Iranian)[/li][li]Badkonake sefid (The White Balloon, Iranian. I have a special reverence towards these types of Iranian movies that focus on daily life, I spent my early years in Isfahan and watching hem brings back distant, dusty memories!)[/li][li]Baran[/li][li]Barry Lyndon[/li][li]Bend It Like Beckham[/li][li]Das Boot[/li][li]Car Wash[/li][li]Chunhyang[/li][li]Close Encounters of the Third Kind[/li][li]Cooley High[/li][li]Die xue shuang xiong (The Killer)[/li][li]Dolemite[/li][li]East Is East [/li][li]The Exorcist[/li][li]Fail-Safe[/li][li]Faster[/li][li]The French Connection[/li][li]Frenzy[/li][li]Friday [/li][li]Full Metal Jacket[/li][li]Genghis Blues [/li][li]Glory[/li][li]The Godfather Pts I & II (I’ll treat these as one)[/li][li]The Goonies [/li][li]Heat [/li][li]Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters)[/li][li]The Last Dragon[/li][li]Malcolm X[/li][li]Monsoon Wedding[/li][li]My Dog Skip (one of the VERY few movies that made me cry. I’m a sucker for boy-and-his-dog movies.)[/li][li]On Any Sunday (If you want to understand my #1 passion watch this movie, along with Faster)[/li][li]Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away)[/li][li]Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai)[/li][li]Tampopo[/li][li]The Tuskegee Airmen[/li][/ol]
Let’s see, favourites:
Fear Eats The Soul
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Metropolis
Wings of Desire
Funny Games
Weekend
Jules & Jim
Amelie
Big Blue
5th Element
Leon, the Professional
La Femme Nikita
The Double Life of Veronique
Three Colours Red:White:Blue
A Room With A View
Maurice
Withnail & I
Monty Python’s The Holy Grail
Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
Much Ado About Nothing
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Blade Runner
Highlander
Ladyhawke
Willow
Princess Bride
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Spirited Away
Kiki’s Delivery Service
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