sweet, is this the revival of a thread? i’ll come back later with some i’ve seen that i’ve included to my favorites but the most recent i cherish is a defiant masterpiece named City Of Pirates by Raul Ruiz which will also interest you Kenji since it’s a co-production of France / Portugal,a beautiful, elegiac puzzle about manifestations and time-shifts between a woman and her lover, the island (?).
i will also note the luminous On the Silver Globe in spite of it being an incomplete film and the majestic Sur by Solanas, both so bloody amazing films.
well, as it happens i do fancy seeing the Ruiz film- just seen a couple of clips that’s all.
Raging Bull(Scorsese)
Fanny and Alexander(Bergman)
Once Upon a Time in America(Leone)
Blue Velvet(Lynch)
A City of Sadness(Hou Hsiao Hsien)
El Sur(Erice)
Morning Patrol(Nikolaidis)
Cinema Paradiso(Tornatorre)
Hannah and her Sisters(Allen)
The Last Temptation of Christ(Scorsese)
Ran(Kurosawa)
Down By Law(Jarmusch)
Tough Guys Dont Dance
and King Lear
are up there.
Combat Shock
Broadway Danny Rose
She’s Gotta Have It
Henry: serial killer
Up the Academy
Tetsou
Skin Deep
The Charles Bukowski Tapes
to name a few
thanks Den for reminding me Henry, i wanted to mention it as well as Tetsuo.
and yes, the well-known ones need no introduction like Hou’s, Scorsese’s and Rohmer’s, Allens (some are 70’s majors too), Liappa and Muratova films, so many more films to recall.
1- Raging Bull- Scorsese
2- Blade Runner- Scott
3- Elephant Man- Lynch
4- Princess Bride- Reiner
5- Last Temptation of Christ- Scorsese
6- Glory- Zwick
7- Full Metal Jacket- Kubrick
8- Fast Times at Ridgemont High- Heckerling
9- Broadcast News- Brooks
10- Last Exit to Brooklyn- Edel
11- Raising Arizona- Coen Bros.
12- The Shining- Kubrick
13- Another Woman- Allen
14- Adventures of Baron Munchausen- Gilliam
15- Platoon- Stone
Others: Altered States, Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ran, The Verdict, Brazil, Enemy Mine
Wanderers of the Desert
Sans Soleil
Raging Bull
The Horse Thief
Blade Runner
The King of Comedy
Videodrome
Stranger Than Paradise
Taipei Story
Down By Law
Fanny and Alexander
Walker
Bird
Do the Right Thing
Décalogue
Yeelen
L’argent
White Dog
Nostalghia
Tampopo
After Hours
Blue Velvet
Dead Ringers
Wings of Desire
Mystery Train
Ran
The Sacrifice
My Neighbor Totoro
Mon oncle d’Amérique
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Shoah
@ DEN —
Endless Love underrated? Hmmm …
The book was very well written, and very popular to pass around on the ski bus and read Chapter (13? 14?) aloud. Hot-hot-hot!
I would have been 16 when the movie was released, and I remember wanting to like it — Zeffirelli and Brooke Shields, after all — but all I remember about it was that it was a big pile of mess. I haven’t seen it since, though, and I’d love to get another shot before passing any final judgement.
I did make a lot of moves and merry music of my own to the theme song with quite a few “endless-loves-for-at-least-those-moments” over the years!
Brooke owned the 1980s
Fanny and Alexander is my favorite 80’s film by far.
Wings of Desire
The Elephant Man
The Dead
My Life as a Dog
The Decalogue
Ironweed
Broadway Danny Rose
One From The Heart
Raging Bull
Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergio Leone)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman)
Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
The Terminator (1984, James Cameron)
Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma)
Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
Midnight Run (1988, Martin Brest)
Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
The King of Comedy (1983, Martin Scorsese)
Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson)
Cinema Paradiso (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore)
Gandhi (1982, Sir Richard Attenborough)
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
My Left Foot (1989, Jim Sheridan)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Hayao Miyazaki)
A disaster of a decade for Western film, but saved by China, Taiwan, Iran, Eastern Europe, Africa.
Some favourites:
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou)
Blue Velvet (Lynch)
Is it Easy to Be Young? (Podnieks)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
Decalogue (Kieslowski)
Come and See (Klimov)
Ariel (Kaurismäki)
Kenji
The Green Ray
Paris, Texas
Raging Bull
Street of Crocodiles
Brazil
+
My Neighbour Totoro
My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
Once upon a Time in America
Finye
A Short Film about Love
El Sur
Blood
Yeelen
Blue Velvet
Night of the Shooting Stars
Sans Soleil
The Time to Live and the Time to Die
Tale of the Wind
When the Tenth Month Comes
Red Sorghum
Close Up
The Shining