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My favourite 50 films.

1. Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
2. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
3. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
4. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
5. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
8. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
9. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
10. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
11. Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
12. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
13. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
14. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
15. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
16. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
17. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
18. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
19. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
20. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
21. Marketa Lazarová (František Vláčil, 1967)
22. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
23. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
24. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
25. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
26. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
27. The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
28. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
29. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
30. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
31. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
32. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
33. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
34. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)
35. Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
36. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
37. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
38. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
39. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
40. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
41. Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
42. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
43. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969)
44. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
45. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
46. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
47. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
48. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
49. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)
50. Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola, 2003)

I´ve basically made this list to sort of back up my preferences so that if by chance I decide to make another one in the future I can use it as a comparison material.
Admittedly, after the first 20 or so the order is a bit arbitrary and I´ve probably cut some films from directors already present to make place for the ones who were not.

So, what´s your top10/top20/top50/top1000 films?

Yikes, that's too many. How bout just a top ten or five..... :lol:

DeepO said:

1. Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
2. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
3. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
4. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
5. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)

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Ok, my top 5, heh.

Seemed like a topical thing, with all those games shifting
into cinematic narrative, and all .

Holy moo, DeepO -- if I had the energy to put together a top 50 list, it'd be damn near identical to yours. There were a few there that I haven't seen; since our tastes are so similar, I'll have to run off and watch them ASAP.

There are a few that would've made my list that aren't on yours, though:

Repo Man (Alex Cox)
Man Without A Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
City of Lost Children (Jeunet & Caro)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro)

(And yeah, I have a very soft spot for the original Star Wars trilogy.)

None of them would be on any list of mine, but then Sound of Music would be somewhere near the top!!

I know a guy in the German section of the Larian forum who would be ideal for discussing this here ... But I don't think he can write Englisch ...

lol, i have only seen about 5 movies from your list. though i've seen all of Sergio Leone movies starring Clint Eastwood.

I have seen about 1/4 of those.

Bicycle Thieves was really good, saw it in the sixties at school.

I would put some more Monty Phytons in there besides Brian and Brazil. How about 12 monkeys and the meaning of life?

Edit: would also put Koyaanisqatsi in and some more Tarkovskys. Otherwise I fully support your list.

Somehow it seems like it would be more useful to have a 'post your top 10' than a 'discuss mine' ...

In general I find list-threads useless. But that's just me.

Well, if you find a list which is simular to your taste, and you haven't seen or heard of one of the things in the list, it might give you an idea of something to watch. Like if did for PJ earlier, so I do not think they are completely useless.

i tend to use lists like these as a guide, to see what i have been missing.

lanux128 said:

i tend to use lists like these as a guide, to see what i have been missing.

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Same for me, and as such it is very useful IMHO.

I've seen ca. half of these movies. Extremely high quality collection, I didn't notice any mediocre movie. Not much would of it would make it into my top 50 though.

I've seen most of those and like the majority of them quite a bit. I make no claim to have highbrow film tastes ... in my 50 there would definitely be some Star Wars, Real Genius, more Woody Allen & Marx Brothers and such ... and Studio Gibli as well,

In no order:

1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Predator
4. Terminator
5. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
6. For a Few Dollars More (El Indio is one of my favorite villains)

Um... I'm pretty shallow, but there.

Thanks for the list, DeepO! You've added a few movies to my netflix queue

@Thoth - Those are also some of my favorite movies. I haven't seen the last two somehow, though. They're buried somewhere on my netflix queue.

there's no bunuel, resnais, or pasolini. our lists would look very different.

Sorry for starting the thread in a manner implying it has to be about my list.
I basically wanted to start a thread similar to the "Top 10 CRPGs of all time " one but was in a sorta silly mood (I´ve returned from my friend´s birthday celebration shortly beforehand, eh) and thought discuss! will cut it.

So, please feel free to post your favourites too.

Prime Junta said:

Holy moo, DeepO -- if I had the energy to put together a top 50 list, it'd be damn near identical to yours. There were a few there that I haven't seen; since our tastes are so similar, I'll have to run off and watch them ASAP.

There are a few that would've made my list that aren't on yours, though:

Repo Man (Alex Cox)
Man Without A Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
City of Lost Children (Jeunet & Caro)
Delicatessen (Jeunet & Caro)

(And yeah, I have a very soft spot for the original Star Wars trilogy.)

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I´m gonna see Repo Man ASAP, the other four are all great.
I really like the original Star Wars too, especially Empire which almost made it.

txa1265 said:

Somehow it seems like it would be more useful to have a 'post your top 10' than a 'discuss mine' ...

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Definitely. As I said, it was basically an accident I´ve started it this way .
I´ve edited the first post.

GothicGothicness said:

Well, if you find a list which is simular to your taste, and you haven't seen or heard of one of the things in the list, it might give you an idea of something to watch. Like if did for PJ earlier, so I do not think they are completely useless.

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Yep, that´s what I think too.
But I understand it may seem useless, especially when there´s no reasoning behind the choices.

txa1265 said:

I've seen most of those and like the majority of them quite a bit. I make no claim to have highbrow film tastes ... in my 50 there would definitely be some Star Wars, Real Genius, more Woody Allen & Marx Brothers and such ... and Studio Gibli as well,

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Yep, Woody Allen made about 20 great films, or so, would it be top 100, I´d certainly put there at least Sleeper, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors and A Midsummer Night´s Sex Comedy (which seems to be generally a bit underrated, I just love its poetic atmosphere and Mendelssohn soundtrack).

Same goes for Studio Ghibli which is incredibly consistent in putting out films of great quality.
Miyazaki´s Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away would certainly be there.

Thoth said:

In no order:

1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Predator
4. Terminator
5. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
6. For a Few Dollars More (El Indio is one of my favorite villains)

Um... I'm pretty shallow, but there.

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Oh, those are all great too.
From a Man with No Name trilogy, my favourite is probably For a Few Dollars More.
It seems to be somewhat overshadowed by the other two but it has imo best written dialogues, chemistry between Eastwood and Van Cleef is incredible and yeah, El Indio rules.

spars said:

there's no bunuel, resnais, or pasolini. our lists would look very different.

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I´m not sure why but I somewhat neglected these three. I´ve seen Saló which was a bit too much for me.
However Resnais´ Night and Fog left me completely stunned and Andalusian Dog is amazing.

What would be your recommendations from these three?