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| marantzo |
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| Betsy, you seem to have a weakness for disturbing films. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:43 pm |
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My Top 10 (subject to change within the next 20 minutes):
City Of God
Monty Python's Search For the Holy Grail
Casablanca
The Wizard Of Oz
Toy Story 2
2001, A Space Odyssey
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Boogie Nights
The Godfather
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:07 am |
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I guess I've waited long enough to post my Top 10, which some may change over the years, but this is the current list and is in no particular order:
JERRY MAGUIRE
REAR WINDOW
THE GODFATHER
ALMOST FAMOUS
THE APARTMENT
GOODFELLAS
TRUE ROMANCE
SCHINDLER'S LIST
THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY
GOOD WILL HUNTING
It's always hard to narrow it down to 10. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:12 am |
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A couple of years ago Schindler's List was my favorite film. Now it's not even on the top ten. I am flexible...or wishy-washy.
In my top 20 are some movies nobody seems to know, but you should check out:
Smile (multi-drama at a teen beauty contest, and hilarious)
Lili (Leslie Caron's first Oscar nomination)
Night Moves (arguably Gene Hackman's best movie) |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:30 am |
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billyweeds wrote: A couple of years ago Schindler's List was my favorite film. Now it's not even on the top ten. I am flexible...or wishy-washy.
In my top 20 are some movies nobody seems to know, but you should check out:
Smile (multi-drama at a teen beauty contest, and hilarious)
Lili (Leslie Caron's first Oscar nomination)
Night Moves (arguably Gene Hackman's best movie)
I see it as flexible.
And I've seen Night Moves (not to be confused with Night Shift). It is an excellent film and a great performance by Hackman. Although, I really liked Hackman in The Firm. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:16 am |
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| billy, man do I agree with your inclusion of SMILE and NIGHT MOVES in your best of list. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:58 am |
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Third Man
Carmen (Spain, '83)
Raging Bull
High Noon
M.A.S.H.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sorrow and the Pity
Local Hero
On the Waterfront
Schindler's List
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:00 am |
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| I should have included ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. It was one of those rare films that went beyond entertainment into the realm of raising my consciousness. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:10 am |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:26 am |
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| I love, love, love Smile. Totally agree, one of the best of the 70's. "...And that girl had a wooden leg." |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:38 am |
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I still have far to many english language films to process in order to make a top 10 list so I'll list, off the top of my head, in no particular order, my 10 favourite foreign language films.
8 1/2
The Seven Samuri
400 Blows
Shoot the Piano Player
Breathless
La Notte
The Burmese Harp
The Music Room
Il Posto
The Red Desert
Wings of Desire
Talk to Me
Woman On the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown
Viridiana
Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman
Fires On the Plain
Wild Strawberries
Virgin Spring
The Seventh Seal
Les Carbinierres
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
Tutti A Casa
I Viteloni
I give up, I couldn't keep it to 10 and there are still many more. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:32 am |
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I hear ya, marantzo. There's no way I can whittle it down, I'm not even trying. My favorite American Film is A Place In The Sun and my favorite French Film is Cléo de 5 à 7. Italian - one of many Fellinis. Spanish - one of many Almodóvars.
We just watched Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) again the other night. Simply brilliant. What a master of sound Monsieur Tati was! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:20 pm |
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| Ehle, did the version you saw of MHH have the ending with the woman on the train looking at a picture of M. Hulot and smiling warmly? The last few times I saw it, tapes etc. they cut that off. I was really pissed. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:41 pm |
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| No. The Criterion Edition's last shot is of his poor little auto pulling away from the hotel with the camera looking towards the beach from the hotel with the street in between. There were no alternate endings, either. Hmmm. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:48 pm |
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| Isn't Mr Hulot a French version of Mr Bean? |
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