I made a list of my favorite 100+ films the other day...

[SadistiK1]

Critique away... Mainly curious what the cinephiles here think (Jeus, Brahman, etc) and maybe can recommend something not on here that I might not have seen.


Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens - F.W. Murnau (1922)
Un Chien Andalou - Luis Bunel (1928)
La Passion De Jeanne D'Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
Dracula - Tod Browning (1931)
M - Fritz Lang (1931)
King Kong - Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
Modern Times - Charles Chaplin (1936)
The Wizard Of Oz - Victor Flemming (1939)
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
Rashamon – Akira Kurosawa (1950)
Strangers On A Train - Alfred Hitchcock (1951)
Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
Seven Samurai - Akira Kurasawa (1954)
Night and Fog - Alain Resnais (1955)
Throne Of Blood - Akira Kurosawa (1957)
The Seventh Seal – Ingmar Bergman (1957)
La Dolce Vita - Frederico Fellini (1960)
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
Eyes Without a Face - Georges Franju (1960)
The Virgin Spring – Ingmar Bergman (1960)
Carnival of Souls – Heck Harvey (1962)
A Knife in the Water – Roman Polanski (1962)
8 1/2 - Fredrico Fellini (1963)
Repulsion – Roman Polanski (1965)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Sergio Leone (1966)
The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo (1966)
Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski (1968)
Night Of The Living Dead - George A. Romero (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West – Sergio Leone (1968)
El Topo - Alejandro Jodorowsky (1970)
The Bird with the Crystal Plummage – Dario Argento (1970)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory - Mel Stewart (1971)
Straw Dogs - Sam Peckinpah (1971)
Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick (1971)
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
Mean Streets - Martin Scorsese (1973)
The Exorcist - William Friedkin (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper (1974)
Chinatown - Roman Polanski (1974)
The Godfather II - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Chinatown – Roman Polanski (1974)
Master of the Flying Guillotine – Yu Wang (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet (1975)
Jaws - Steven Spielberg (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest – Milos Forman (1975)
Salo: 120 Days of Sodom – Pier Paolo Passolini (1975)
Carrie - Brian De Palma (1976)
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976)
The Tenant – Roman Polanski (1976)
Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)
Suspiria - Dario Argento (1977)
Dawn of the Dead – George A. Romero (1978)
Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
The Shining - Stanley Kubrick (1980)
Cannibal Holocaust – Ruggero Deodato (1980)
The Elephant Man - David Lynch (1980)
Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese (1980)
The Beyond – Lucio Fulci (1981)
The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi (1982)
The Thing – John Carpenter (1982)
Scarface - Brian De Palma (1983)
Videodrome – David Cronenberg (1983)
Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985)
La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz (1985)
Ran – Akira Kurosawa (1985)
Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986)
The Fly – David Cronenberg (1986)
The Evil Dead 2 – Sam Raimi (1987)
Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick (1987)
Opera – Dario Argento (1987)
Dead Ringers – David Cronenberg (1988)
Spoorlos (The Vanishing) - George Sluizer (1988)
The Killer - John Woo (1989)
Santa Sangre – Alejandro Jodorowsky (1989)
Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese (1990)
Edward Scissorhands - Tim Burton (1990)
Wild At Heart - David Lynch (1990)
Boys 'N The Hood - John Singleton (1991)
Delicatessen - Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1991)
Naked Lunch - David Cronenberg (1991)
The Silence Of The Lambs - Jonathon Demme (1991)
Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood (1992)
Man Bites Dog - Belvaux, Bonzel, Poelvoorde (1992)
Schindler’s List – Steven Spieldberg (1993)
Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont (1994)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer – Lindsay Anderson (1995)
Fargo - Joel Coen (1996)
Trainspotting – Danny Boyle (1996)
Boogie Nights - P.T. Anderson (1997)
Funny Games – Michael Haneke (1997)
Happiness - Todd Solondz (1998)
I Stand Alone – Gaspar Noe (1998)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Terry Gilliam (1998)
The Blair Witch Project - Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez (1999)
American Beauty – Sam Mendes (1999)
Audition – Takashi Miike (1999)
Battle Royale – Kinji Fukusaku (2000)
Amores Perros - Alejandro González Iñárritu (2000)
Amelie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2001)
Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch (2001)
City of God - Fernando Meirelles (2002)
Irreversible – Gaspar Noe (2002)
Oldboy – Park Chan Wook (2003)
A Tale of Two Sisters – Ji-woon Kim (2003)
2046 – Kar Wai Wong (2004)
The House of Flying Daggers - Yimou Zhang (2004)
Sin City – Robert Rodriguez (2005)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeace – Park Chan Wook (2005)

[-Oz-]

Dont like too many movies in the past decade huh?
I couldnt culminate a list of my fav 100 movies. Wouldnt know where to start.

[TruKaos]

solid list, i've seen about half.

i see you like Kubrick, are you not a fan of Dr. Strangelove?

and would you say Suspiria is Argento's best film? i saw it last week and it surpassed my expectations.

[SadistiK1]

Yea Im definitely a Kubrick fan, Dr Strangelove was close to making it, I think Im gonna put Eyes Wide Shut in instead as blasphemous as it is...

And yea, Suspiria is Argentos best, but dont let that stop you from seeing his other work. Id recommend checking these out first: Inferno, Tenebre, Deep Red, Phenomena, and The Bird With the Crystal Plummage.

[Brahman]

i like this list for the most part... quite a few i haven't seen, but most of the ones i have i would rank very highly as well. fine work...

you have chinatown listed twice though



here are a few of my opinions:

thumbs-up

(1) the omission of north by northwest and inclusion of rear window and psycho... or have you not seen it yet?
(2) david lynch's ubiquitous presence (although i would have scratched wild at heart)
(3) city of god - best film of the new millennium, imo
(4) il maestro -
(5) the sensei - have you seen yojimbo or sanjuro?

"eh" to thumbs down

(1) master of the flying guillotine - i looove this film as you can tell by my avatar, but i wouldn't put it anywhere near a top 100 list... even for favorites. you must like it a lot more than i do. how many times have you seen it?
(2) house of flying daggers - didn't really care for it
(3) edward scissorhands - no, just no! , i respect it if it's yours though. i can see how someone might fall for it, but the widespread love is a little over-the-top, imo.
(4) sin city - nowhere near top 100 material... upon reflection of it, i've seen in my own mind the faint parallels to the style of once upon a time in the west, and i may go back and watch it again with that thought... but i doubt it'll make me like it any more than i did the 1st time.
(5) the blair witch project - good film, but didn't strike that much of a chord personally

[SadistiK1]

Funny you mention those Brahman, I was just about to cut out Edward Scissorhandsd, house of flying and blair witch and add Lady Snowblood, Eyes Wide Shut and maybe a few more... Keep in mind this is more of a favorites than a most important or most influential, I dont know nearly enough about film to make one of those...

Havent seen Yojimbo or Sanjuro yet, but theyre definitely on my list to see

[The Jeus]

great list, some underappreciated favorites are on the list: night and fog, knife in the water, etc....i haven't seen most of the horror-type films though.

i've got a top 50 running, it'll stretch to 100 easily though if i add in animated and documentary films....

i'll post it up shortly, or possibly tomorrow

[The Jeus]

alright here it is...always subject to change and reconsiderations, but as of right now:

12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
2001: ASO (Kubrick, 1968)
8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
Adaptation (Jonze, 2002)
Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
The Apostle (Duvall, 1997)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros, 1998)
The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
Body Heat (Kasdan, 1981)
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
Chicken Run (1999)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
City of God (Meirelles, 2002/3)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989)
Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
Duck Soup (Marx Bros, 1933)
The Fog of War (Morris, 2003)
The Front (Ritt, 1976)
Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)
Ghost in the Shell (?)
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly (Leone, 1967)
Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
Hara-Kiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
A Hard Day's Night (Lester, 1964)
High Noon (Zinnemann, 1952)
His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
Hoop Dreams (1994ish)
Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
The Jungle Book (Disney, 1960something)
King of Hearts (de Brocca, 1967)
Knife in the Water (Polanski, 1967)
The Lady Eve (Sturges, 1941)
The Lion King (1994)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Love and Death (Allen, 1975)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (P. Sturges, 1944)
Monty Python and The Holy Grail (Gilliam, 1973)
Mr. Smith Goes to WaShington (Capra, 1939)
My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1949)
My Fair Lady (Cukor, 1964)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki, 1984)
Network (Lumet, 1976)
Night and Fog (Resnais, 1955)
A Night at the Opera (Marx Bros)
Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1953)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest (Forman, 1975)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Wellman, 1943)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)
Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
The Red Shoes (Powell, 1948)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (Nelson, 1962)
Roger & Me (Moore, 1980something)
The Sandlot (Harris, 1992)
Say Anything (Crowe, 1989)
Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman, 1973)
The Searchers (Ford, 1957ish)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1957)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943)
Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)
The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)
Singin in the Rain (Donen, 1952)
Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
The Sting (G.R. Hill, 1973)
Sullivan's Travels (P. Sturges, 1941)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
Tampopo (Itami, 1984)
Tender Mercies (Beresford, 1983)
The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988ish)
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1955)
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Trading Places (Landis, 1983)
Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961)
Waking Life (Linklater, 2001)
When Harry Met Sally (Reiner, 1988)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
Winged Migrations (2003)
Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)
You Can't Take It With You (Capra, 1938)

[Brahman]

Originally Posted by SadistiK1

Funny you mention those Brahman, I was just about to cut out Edward Scissorhandsd, house of flying and blair witch and add Lady Snowblood, Eyes Wide Shut and maybe a few more... Keep in mind this is more of a favorites than a most important or most influential, I dont know nearly enough about film to make one of those...

wrd @ lady snowblood


yeah, i understand what you were trying to do, but it's just that those films i named would be so far away from any favorites list i would make lol... s'cool, can't agree all the time

it's a great list overall, however, and one that will me help look up films i haven't considered


i gotta see this the passion of joan of the arc

read some brief descriptions and seems like something i'd really enjoy

[SadistiK1]

Passion of Joan of Arc is absolutely incredible, probably my favorite silent film (even though I havent seen many). and to The Jeus, there are a ton of movies on that list I have yet to see... I need to start catching up on the classic cinema and stop watching so much cheesy horror and exploitation shit lol

[teq the decider]

Originally Posted by SadistiK1

Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens - F.W. Murnau (1922)
Un Chien Andalou - Luis Bunel (1928)
La Passion De Jeanne D'Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928)
Dracula - Tod Browning (1931)
M - Fritz Lang (1931)

yeah right.

[SadistiK1]

Youre right, its impossible to actually enjoy old movies genius

[teq the decider]

There are around five pre-1935 movies that can be watched today and provide genuine entertainment. You didnt name one of them. Its simply impossible to enjoy watching something like nosferatu in light of progression in the medium. Be honest with yourself.

[The Jeus]

nonsense, that's akin to saying it's impossible to enjoy vivaldi in light of mozart.
nevertheless, two of those 5 pre-1935 movies you speak of better be 'duck soup' and 'blonde cheat' or you're talking foolishness.

[The Jeus]

come on, somebody else post a list...even if it's only a top 10, 20 or 50 or whatever

[Brahman]

answer my question in the other thread, jeus

[TruKaos]

any sort of list like this is hard, i always feel like i'm leaving something out...

M – Fritz Lang (1931)
King Kong – Merian C. Cooper (1933)
Sylvia Scarlet – George Cukor (1935)
Grand Ilusion – Jean Renoir (1937)
Alexander Nevsky – Sergei Eisenstien (1938)
Bringing Up Baby – Howard Hawks (1938)
The Rules of The Game - Jean Renoir (1939)
His Girl Friday – Howard Hawks (1940)
The Philadelphia Story – George Cukor (1940)
Key Largo – John Huston (1941)
Sullivan’s Travels – Preston Sturges (1941)
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941)
Casablanca – Michael Curtiz (1942)
The Magificet Ambersons – Orson Welles (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt – Alfred Hitchcock (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident – William Wellman (1943)
Double Indemnity – Billy Wilder (1944)
Breif Encounter – David Lean (1945)
Notorious – Alfred Hitchcock (1946)
Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950)
The African Queen – John Huston (1951)
The Day The Earth Stood Still – Robert Wise (1951)
On the Waterfront – Elia Kazan (1954)
La Strada – Frederico Fellini (1954)
Strangers on a Train – Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
Rear Window – Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954)
To Catch a Thief – Alfred Hitchcok (1955)
The Bridge on the River Kwai – David Lean (1957)
Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman (1957)
Elevator to the Gallows – Louis Malle (1958)
Touch of Evil – Orson Welles (1958)
Ashes and Diamonds – Andrzej Wajda (1958)
North by Northwest – Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960)
Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
Yojimbo – Akira Kurosawa (1961)
Viridiana - Luis Bunuel (1961)
Jules et Jim – Francois Truffaut (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – John Ford (1962)
Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars – Sergio Leone (1964)
Seven Days In May - John Frankenheimer (1964)
Kwaidan - Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
For a Few Dollars More – Sergio Leone (1965)
Blowup – Michaelangelo Antonioni (1966)
The Producers – Mel Brooks (1966)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Sergio Leone (1966)
Charade – Stanley Donen (1967)
Belle du Jour - Luis Bunuel (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968)
A Fistful of Dynamite – Sergio Leone (1971)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – Mel Stewart (1971)
The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
The Godfather Part II – Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Young Frankenstien – Mel Brooks (1974)
Blazing Saddles – Mel Brooks (1974)
Jaws – Steven Spielberg (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Milos Foreman (1975)
Network – Sidney Lumet (1976)
Annie Hall – Wood Allen (1977)
Suspiria – Dario Argento (1977)
Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
Manhattan – Woody Allen (1979)
The Elephant Man – David Lynch (1980)
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick (1980)
Evil Dead – Sam Raimi (1982)
ET – Steven Spielberg (1982)
National Lampoon’s Vacation – Harold Ramis (1983)
A Christmas Story – Bob Clark (1983)
Scarface – Brian DePalma (1983)
Secret Honor – Robert Altman (1984)
Amadeus – Milos Foreman (1984)
Blue Velvet – David Lynch (1986)
Evil Dead II – Sam Raimi (1987)
Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee (1989)
Goodfellas – Martin Scorcese (1990)
JFK – Oliver Stone (1991)
Aladdin – (1992)
Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis (1993)
Schindler’s List – Steven Spielberg (1993)
Hoop Dreams – Steve James (1994)
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino (1994)
Quiz Show – Robert Redford (1994)
Ed Wood - Tim Burton (1994)
Casino – Martin Scorcese (1995)
Trainspotting – Danny Boyle (1995)
Fargo – Joel Coen (1996)
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson (1997)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Terry Gilliam (1998)
Being John Malkovich – Spike Jonze (1998)
The Big Lebowski – Joel Coen (1998)
There’s Something About Mary – Peter & Bobby Farrelly (1998)
Magnolia – Paul Thomas Anderson (1999)
American Beauty – Sam Mendes (1999)
Amores Perros – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (2000)
Mulholland Drive – David Lynch (2001)
Adaptation. – Spike Jonze (2002)
Y Tu Mama Tambien – Alfonso Cuaron (2002)
City of God – Fernando Meirelles (2003)
Oldboy – Chan woo-park (2003)
Love Actually – Richard Curtis (2003)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Michel Gondry (2004)
Half Nelson – Ryan Fleck (2006)*

*not sure if it makes it in my top 100, it's just the best movie i've seen this year.

i still have a ton of dvds and movies to watch on tivo, so, this is always subject to change.