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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #74 - 05/21/14 at 20:19:01
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Bicycle Thief (1948, De Sica)
Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa)
400 coups (1959, Truffaut)
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)
The Conformist (1970, Bertolucci)
Dersu Uzala (1975, Kurosawa)
Stalker (1979, Tarkovsky)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Allen)
Cinema Paradiso (1988, Tornatore)
Kolya (1996, Sverak)
Boondock Saints (1999, Duffy)
Fight Club (1999, Fincher)
Requiem for a Dream (2000, Aronofsky)
Lilya 4-Ever (2002, Moodyson)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Jackson)
City of God (2002, Brazil)
Oldboy (2003, South Korea)
The Lives of Others (2006, von Donnersmack)
Into the Wild (2007, Penn)
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007, Bier)
The Tree of Life (2011, Malick)
  
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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #73 - 05/20/14 at 03:15:51
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My list.

Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)
Get carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
Blade Runner ( Ridley Scott, 1982)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
Bob le Flambeur (jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
2001: A space odysse (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Good, the bad and the ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
High crime(Enzo Castellari, 1973)
Revolver (Sergio Sollima, 1973)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
The third man (Carol Reed, 1949)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1965)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Aliens (David Cameron, 1986)
Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)
Mad Max: The road warrior (George Miller, 1981)
Hands of steel (Sergio Martino, 1986)
The Warriors (Walther Hill, 1979)
For a few dollars more (Sergio Leone, 1965)
A fist full of dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
Once upon a time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
The great silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
Conan the barbarian (John Milius, 1982)
Aguirre, der zorn gottes (Werner Herzog, 1972)
All the colors of the dark (Sergio Martino, 1972)
Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987)
Duel (Stephen Spielberg, 1971)
Jaws (Stephan Spielberg, 1975)
Twin Peaks the complete series (David Lynch, 1990-1992)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
The outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973)
The Sweeney TV-Series (Ian Kennedy Martin, 1975-1978)
The Professionals TV-series (Brian Clemens, 1977-1983)
Bullet in the head (John Woo, 1990)
A better tomorrow (John Woo, 1986)
The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
The seven samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurasawa, 1975)
Blade of the ripper (Sergio Martino, 1971)
Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985)
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
The Wild bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
  
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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #72 - 08/23/13 at 09:49:51
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Markovich wrote on 07/31/13 at 04:09:06:
But I haven't seen Malick's Tree of Life.

I really liked Tree of Life but I'm not particularly fond of Malick's other films.
  
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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #71 - 08/20/13 at 13:55:36
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ruhroh wrote on 08/08/13 at 18:06:43:
Some probably not mentioned here ...

To Live and Die in LA
Paris, Texas
One from the Heart

and my favorite ..

The Big Blue

And, surely already mentioned, Repo Man (yes, I'm a Harry Dean Stanton guy).


I saw The Big Blue years ago and liked it a lot, though I haven't seen any of the others on your short list, I admit!
  
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Reply #70 - 08/08/13 at 18:06:43
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Some probably not mentioned here ...

To Live and Die in LA
Paris, Texas
One from the Heart

and my favorite ..

The Big Blue

And, surely already mentioned, Repo Man (yes, I'm a Harry Dean Stanton guy).
  
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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #69 - 08/08/13 at 09:30:24
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American Beauty is probably my favorite movie of all time.  I'm not arguing that it's the 'best' by any means, but it's by far my favorite.
  
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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #68 - 07/31/13 at 04:09:06
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I went back and reviewed my OP, thinking I might want to revise it somewhat.  But I find that in the two years since posting, my preferences haven't changed.  

It seems that I am somewhat isolated in my appreciation of Terence Malick, but that's understandable.

One movie that I don't think has been mentioned is The Sheltering Sky, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990.  Opinion is about as divided about this as it is about Malick's The Thin Red Line, which is on my list.  Like Malick's film, it is beautiful, poetic and disturbing.  I don't feel at all ashamed of loving it.

Somebody mentioned that not a single film on my list was made in this millennium.  District 9, Neill Blomkamp 2009 and Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin 2012 (this one made since my OP) are the only two that I have seen that I would rank highly.  But I haven't seen Malick's Tree of Life.

@Anthony.R.Brown: I also like Nicolas Cage when he's not playing in an action film.

  

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Reply #67 - 07/28/13 at 13:34:56
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Leaving Las Vegas...Nicolas Cage
  
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Reply #66 - 12/31/12 at 20:13:01
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It's actually based on two of Bordewijk's novels, "Karakter" and the much later "Dreverhaven en Katadreuffe". I only read the former, but I think the movie does it justice.
  
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Reply #65 - 12/31/12 at 19:58:51
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Uberdecker wrote on 12/31/12 at 14:08:47:
Hi Mnb,

Have you seen Karakter ? And if so wouldn't you agree it's a worthy candidate ?

No, just read the book. That's fantastic.
  

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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #64 - 12/31/12 at 19:36:20
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Uberdeker, that was indeed a good movie!
  
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Hi Mnb,

Have you seen Karakter ? And if so wouldn't you agree it's a worthy candidate ?
  
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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #62 - 12/31/12 at 13:15:23
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Certainly an original list. Nr.6 made me smile.
  

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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #61 - 12/31/12 at 12:01:12
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Awesome thread.... many good lists here... 

Heres mine (please dont judge too harshly heheh)

1 - Forrest Gump 
2 - One flew over the cuckoos nest 
3 - Frisco Kid 
4 - Jesus Christ Superstar 
5 - Dances with Wolves 
6 - Paint your wagon
7 - Dumb and Dumber 
8 - Gangs of New York
9 - City of God
10 - Curious Case of Benjamin Button 

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11 - Saving Private Ryan
12 - Captain Courageous 
13 - Zorba the Greek 
14 - Apaloosa
15 - The Departed
16 - Into the Wild
17 - Beauty and the Beast (Disney) 
18 - Treasure Planet
19 - Bolt
20 - Lion King

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21 - The Notebook
22 - V for Vendetta
23 - Training Day
24 - We were soldiers
25 - Glory
26 - Castaway 
27 - Braveheart
28 - Tombstone
29 - Soloist 
30 - Cool Hand Luke

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31 - Turner n Hooch 
32 - Kung Fu Panda 
33 - Tarzan (Disney) 
34 - Apocalypto 
35 - Good Will Hunting
36 - American History X
37 - The Good, The bad, & The Ugly
38 - Toy Story 3
39 - Legend
40 - Anchorman

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41 - 3:10 to Yuma
42 - The Patriot 
43 - The Fisher King
44 - Thin Red Line 
45 - Gladiator
46 - Marley and Me
47 - King Kong
48 - Hidalgo
49 - Avatar
50 - Big Fish

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51 - Wedding Crashers 
52 - Snatch
53 - Fight Club
54 - Hell Boy 2
55 - Ratatouille
56 - Secondhand Lions
57 - A Beautiful Mind
58 - The Gods Must Be Crazy
59 - The Dark Knight
60 - Ray

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61 - Black Hawk Down
62 - 40 Year Old Virgin
63 - Repo Men
64 - Going South
65 - Big Daddy
66 - Pans Labrynth
67 - Leon / The Professional 
68 - Count of Monte Cristo
69 - Shutter Island
70 - Inception

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71- Hercules (Disney)
72 - Blood Diamond
73 - Life Aquatic with Steve Zussou
74 - Matrix
75 - Inglorious Basterds 
76 - As Good As It Gets
77 - Aladdin (Disney)
78 - Aviator
79 - Lean on Me
80 - Hell Boy

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81 - Man on Fire
82 - The 6th Sense
83 - Monsters Inc
84 - Blow 
85 - Apollo 13
86 - Street Kings
87 - Incredibles
88 - The Money Pit
89 - The Cable Guy
90 - Devils Advocate

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91 - Rush Hour
92 - Stand and Deliver
93 - Unforgiven
94 - Drillbit Taylor 
95 - Good Luck Chuck
96 - Next Friday
97 - Bronson
98 - Awakenings
99 - Last King of Scotland 
100 - No Country for Old Men
  
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Re: My 20 top movies
Reply #60 - 07/26/12 at 04:08:15
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Jupp53 wrote on 07/25/12 at 18:35:52:
Kateshi Kitano - Hana Bi

The first time seeing this movie the violence did disturb me and I felt its a bad one. The second time I saw the violence as an artial expression and the film seemed to me one of the best movies ever.

Still astounded.


That'll be Takeshi Kitano.
Yup, a great movie, love it. Have seen all his, but this is the only one, sadly, that reaches the higher level. Yes, Hanabi is a beautiful piece. Worth noting too that the artwork in the film is also Kitano's.

Means 'fireworks' btw as the kanji (Chinese ideographs) hana = flower, bi/hi = fire.

Travelling around the area, just across the water, I also suggest:

Oldboy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

Both are masterpieces.
  
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