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« Reply #75 on: August 12, 2006, 10:50:48 AM »

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o lucky man!
a clockwork orange
the europe trilogy by lars von trier
solaris
fitzcarraldo
american psycho
if...
the birdman of alcatraz
cat people
2001
mulholland drive
easy rider
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« Reply #76 on: August 12, 2006, 11:12:37 AM »

Napoleon vu par Abel Gance
Sunrise
Nosferatu (1922 original)
Frankenstein
King Kong (1933 original)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Shootist
The Searchers
Fantasia
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
The General
Intolerance
War Of The Worlds (1953 original)
2001
Robin Hood (1938 Flynn version)
The Trouble With Harry
Citizen Kane
Das Busche Die Pandora
Haxen
National Lampoon's Animal House
Airplane !
Yellow Submarine

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Add Bringing Up Baby and The General to that list and you have a list I could swear by!

Honestly, in my dreams I get a week in the Alan Boyd archives with Alan as host to watch old movies with AGD and Ian.  In my dream of dreams they find the A takes of the Chaplin First National movies and the 10 hour cut of Greed and we get an exclusive preview of that before release....
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Don't forget the 'spider valley' sequence from Kong. And, er, The General is on the list...  Cool
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« Reply #77 on: August 12, 2006, 11:13:56 AM »

Oops -- I thought it was in chronological order at first glance... Embarrassed

Well, how about Sherlock Jr.?
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« Reply #78 on: August 12, 2006, 11:17:17 AM »

Truly, almost any Keaton in his prime would have done -I just have a very soft spot for that one. There's about another two dozen silents I could add without even thinking about it...

Glaring omission - first two parts of The Godfather. Also the first two Weismuller Tarzan films.

Damn - now I'm on a roll. Metropolis, of course...  Way Out West.

And Until September. By no means a classic, or even a good, film... but you get to see Karen Allen naked. Which is really all I ask for in a movie. 
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« Reply #79 on: August 12, 2006, 01:30:02 PM »

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If anyone is interested, "BB An American Family", the John Stamos movie, is going to be on in 30 minutes on VH1 classic at 4:00 mst. 
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« Reply #80 on: May 07, 2012, 09:21:15 AM »

Good thread to revise. I'm going to say (in alphabetical order):

8 1/2
2001: A Space Odyssey
Annie Hall
Barton Fink
Breathless
Defending Your Life
La Dolce Vita
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Hannah and Her Sisters
I'm Not There
Masculin Feminin
Nashville
The Passenger
Persona
Rashomon
Rules of the Game
Rushmore
Shadow of a Doubt
Shoot the Piano Player
Throne of Blood
Umberto D.
Wild Strawberries
A Woman Under the Influence
Young Frankenstein
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« Reply #81 on: May 07, 2012, 02:21:55 PM »

Shawshank Redemption
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Walk Hard
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Star Wars trilogy
Grace of My Heart
That Thing You Do
The King's Speech
Melody
Metropolis
Lolita
My Girl
The Pianist
Anchorman
Black Rain
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« Reply #82 on: May 07, 2012, 02:51:21 PM »

Shoot the Piano Player

THIS film -- Shoot the Piano Player -- is an early Truffaut film, one of his very, very best, and a Great, Great film for the ages.  Starring the one, the only Charles Aznavour!  Wonderful, funny, ironic and very sad, in the French way!

Also, Passenger with a young Jack Nicholson is excellent.
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« Reply #83 on: May 07, 2012, 03:38:37 PM »

Most of my favs have been mentioned bar this one:
Withnail and I

Magnificent.  Check it out.
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« Reply #84 on: May 07, 2012, 05:40:05 PM »

Shoot the Piano Player

THIS film -- Shoot the Piano Player -- is an early Truffaut film, one of his very, very best, and a Great, Great film for the ages.  Starring the one, the only Charles Aznavour!  Wonderful, funny, ironic and very sad, in the French way!

Also, Passenger with a young Jack Nicholson is excellent.


To quote Brian: "Right on!"

For those French New Wave films, I am more of a Godard guy which might be why I like Piano Player so much - it plays a lot like a Godard film but it also has that Truffaut warmth that Godard's films sometimes lack.

And Nicholson is phenomenal in Passenger, as he is in so many great films from that era, which is my favourite era in American cinema. He is of course incredible in Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and Cuckoo's Nest.

I'd like to see your list.
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« Reply #85 on: May 08, 2012, 12:28:35 AM »

Easy Rider
Birdman of Alcatraz
The Hustler
Vanishing Point
Pulp Fiction
City of God
Downfall
Life Is Beautiful
Blow
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« Reply #86 on: May 17, 2012, 05:53:51 PM »

2001
Eternal Sunshine
Memento
Rear Window
Laura
Spanish Prisoner/House of Games
Hard Day's Night
Crumb
American Beauty
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
The Dresser
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« Reply #87 on: May 18, 2012, 11:56:19 PM »

Napoleon vu par Abel Gance
Sunrise
Nosferatu (1922 original)
Frankenstein
King Kong (1933 original)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Shootist
The Searchers
Fantasia
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
The General
Intolerance
War Of The Worlds (1953 original)
2001
Robin Hood (1938 Flynn version)
The Trouble With Harry
Citizen Kane
Das Busche Die Pandora
Haxen
National Lampoon's Animal House
Airplane !
Yellow Submarine
Max Schreck, the guy who played the vampire Count Orlock in Nosferatu is my great uncle.  Grin
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« Reply #88 on: May 20, 2012, 10:34:25 AM »

The Prestige (and other Christopher Nolan movies)
The Fountain (and other Darren Aronofsky movies)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (and other John Hughes movies)
Almost Famous
Fight Club
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« Reply #89 on: May 30, 2012, 12:55:56 PM »

For me, a great movie is:  how much I get sucked into the story, time, place and characters.  And its replay value.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

This movie is dripping with aesthetic and the characters are like crazy American tall tales.


Then come a lot of obvious, untouchable works of greatness...

The Godfather (probably one of the few "perfect" movies ever made)
Citizen Kane (...the other perfect one)
The Godfather, Part II  (almost perfect, in some ways better, too?  But no Brando.  Cry)
Pinocchio (the greatest hand-drawn animated feat.)
Ocean's 11 (Maybe not "great"...but I can't stop watching it.  It's so damn entertaining.)
Dumb and Dumber
Star Wars (all of it, the whole saga - but the first one's the true "masterpiece.")
Ben Hur (they don't get any bigger than this!)

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...other favs...

Stagecoach
The Searchers
Wizard of Oz
The Third Man
Snow White
King Kong '33
Ratatouille
Alice in Wonderland
Crumb
GoodFellas
The General
Kiss Me Deadly
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« Reply #90 on: May 31, 2012, 01:54:34 PM »

I think that all of my favorites have been mentioned before, aside from Waking Life. It's a bit pretentious and a film that revolves around various conversations, like Coffee and Cigarettes, so it's naturally uneven in quality, but I connected with it for some reason. I haven't watched it in a few years, though, so I'm not sure how dated it would feel now.
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« Reply #91 on: July 11, 2012, 10:13:07 AM »

Saw the new Wes Anderson last night and while it wasn't my favourite, and while he doesn't rank at the top of all filmmakers for me, he's certainly great and maybe the American auteur of our time (the Coen brothers being the "auteurs" of course). Anybody else like his films?
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« Reply #92 on: July 11, 2012, 07:04:58 PM »

Saw the new Wes Anderson last night and while it wasn't my favourite, and while he doesn't rank at the top of all filmmakers for me, he's certainly great and maybe the American auteur of our time (the Coen brothers being the "auteurs" of course). Anybody else like his films?

You bet I do. Need to see Moonrise Kingdom. I personally rate The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited - the latter just really hit me, as that sort of dysfunctional family/sibling relationship spoke to me. He obviously explores that all the time, but that particular configuration did it for me, I spose.
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« Reply #93 on: July 11, 2012, 07:44:23 PM »

Napoleon vu par Abel Gance
Sunrise
Nosferatu (1922 original)
Frankenstein
King Kong (1933 original)
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Shootist
The Searchers
Fantasia
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
The General
Intolerance
War Of The Worlds (1953 original)
2001
Robin Hood (1938 Flynn version)
The Trouble With Harry
Citizen Kane
Das Busche Die Pandora
Haxen
National Lampoon's Animal House
Airplane !
Yellow Submarine

Haxen is one of my all-time favorite movies! Your taste in film is as good as your taste in music. Grin
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« Reply #94 on: July 13, 2012, 09:56:43 PM »

Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Young Frankenstein
There's Something About Mary
Head
Batman '66
Pulp Fiction
Idiocracy
Anchorman
Superbad
Knocked Up
Forgetting Sarah Marshall/Get Him to the Greek
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Adventureland
40 Year Old Virgin
Funny People
Punch-Drunk Love
Spanglish
Reign Over Me
Star Trek '09/JJ Abrams
Star Trek: The Motion Picture/Wrath of Kahn/3/4/6...5 was a low-budget-in-a-bad-way snoozefest.
Star Wars-New Hope/Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi
Trading Places
Borat
Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season  LOL LOL LOL
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Zach and Miri Make a Porno
Jersey Girl (Despite Afleck's bad acting!!)
(Never really got into Clerks, still have never seen Mallrats or Chasing Amy, or Clerks 2 for that matter)
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
Not Another Teen Movie (GUILTY PLEASURE!! But done much better than "Scary-/Date-/Epic-/Superhero-Movies". The cameos from the actors from the original movies helped to give it a little bit of credibility.)


While I may not have much for serious "taste", and a lot of my favorites are fairly recent, I do tend to avoid the "stupid for the sake of being stupid" stuff.
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« Reply #95 on: October 20, 2012, 02:43:34 PM »

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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« Reply #96 on: October 21, 2012, 12:49:47 AM »

The Tales of Hoffmann
Rhapsody In August
Red Beard
Dersu Urzala
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Ninth Gate
Late Spring
I Was Born But...
Lawrence of Arabia
F for Fake
The Third Man
Porco Rosso
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« Reply #97 on: October 22, 2012, 12:39:15 PM »

How about everyone's most hated movies?

Battlefield Earth - Scientology nonsense + John Travolta's ego = shocking load of crap
The Passion Of The Christ - A snuff film, plain and simple
The Fast And The Furious - An ex-girlfriend insisted that I watch it with her, I knew at that point the relationship was doomed
Jeepers Creepers - Just dreadful
The Phantom Menace - Jar Jar fucking Binks. Jake Lloyd. Everything apart from the lightsaber duel
The Matrix - Utterly ridiculous story line, Reeves can't act and Fishbourne tries to compensate by overacting to the nth degree
Alien vs Predator - Ugh, just ugh
Transformers - An eye-hurting, bewildering sack of shite which was essentially an over-long toy advert. See also parts 2 & 3
Pearl Harbour - To be honest I've never made it through this monstrous historical rape by Michael Bay. Also, f*** off Affleck
Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton is dreadful. How does he get away with casting his wife and his fantasy lover in everyone of his over hyped flicks?
Planet Of The Apes (2001) - Burton again, this time he manges to crap all over a classic and gives us the most nonsensical ending to a film of all time
Furry Vengeance - Saw this while stuck on a 10 hour bus trip in Australia, Brendan Fraser deserves beheading for this useless 'eco-comedy'
Starship Troopers 2: Hero Of The Confederation - I don't know why I watched this when I hated the first one, almost falls into the 'so good it's bad' category

Special mention - Troll 2 - so incredibly bad that it is actually brilliant, anyone who hasn't seen this must check it out.
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« Reply #98 on: October 22, 2012, 02:19:18 PM »

Best part of Troll 2 is when the kid stops his family from eating the tainted food by standing on the dinner table and taking a piss all over their meals!!

As for worst movies, anything with that bug eyed whore Angelina Jolie in it.
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« Reply #99 on: October 29, 2012, 01:29:44 AM »

(I liked Walk the Line only because of Joaquin Phoenix's great acting work)

Walk Hard is a much superior flick.
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