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Akira Kar-Wai

about 4 years ago

Okay, I’ve always thought that someone’s favorite movies tell a lot about who they really are, especially if they’re deeply interested in film. Since everyone here loves movies so much I think that this is a pretty basic topic, so here’s mine:

1. Chungking Express – Wong Kar-Wai
2. Breathless – Jean-luc Godard
3. Persona – Ingmar Bergman
4. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock
5. The Third Man – Carol Reed
6. Repulsion – Roman Polanski
7. Blade Runner – Ridley Scott
8. M – Fritz Lang
9. La Jetee – Chris Marker
10. Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola
If you’ve seen all these movies you can pretty much guess that I’m a hopeless romantic, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
So what are your favorites? If you want you can expand the list to top twenty, whatever. I just did top ten because I find it really hard to choose and rank favorites if there are too many.

Jenny Harmon

about 4 years ago

1. Walkabout – Nicolas Roeg
2. Hiroshima Mon Amour – Alain Resnais
3. La Jetee (& Sans Soleil) – Chris Marker
4. The Shining – Stanley Kubrick
5. Breaking the Waves – Lars Von Trier
6. Lady Vengeance – Park Chan-wook

Bryan Nixon

about 4 years ago

Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese
Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola
A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick
Mulholland Dr. – David Lynch
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino
Ran – Akria Kurosawa
La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini
The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock
Jaws – Steven Speilberg

I think this list sums up the types of films that I respond to personally. I really want to see Hiroshima Mon Amour. The Shining is one of my faves too, as are Persona and Dark City. Good choices guys.

Eric Oswald

about 4 years ago

1. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
2. The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran)
3. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
4. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
5. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
8. Zerkalo (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. All About Lilly Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai)
10. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)

Sarah

about 4 years ago

1. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Taxi Driver(Martin Scorese)
3. Blade Runner(Ridley Scott)
4. The English Patient(Anthony Minghella)
5. The Third Man(Carol Reed)
6. Lawrence Of Arabia(David Lean)
7.American Beauty(Sam Mendes)
8.Gone With The Wind(Victor Fleming)
9.Pulp Fiction(Quentin Tarantino)
10.Annie Hall(Woody Allen)
11.2001 A Space Odyssey(Stanley Kubrick)
12. Lost in Translation(Sophia Coppola)
13. Network(Sidney Lumet)

Daniel Kasman

-moderator-
about 4 years ago

For today, I’m going to say:

M (Lang)
Scarface (Hawks)
The Rules of the Game
The Big Sleep
Vertigo
L’Avventura
An Autumn Afternoon
La Jetee
Out 1
Barry Lyndon
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Flowers of Shanghai
Beau Travail

Kim Packard

about 4 years ago

Here are some of my favorite films:

1. Amazing Grace
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. Into the Wild
4. Pride and Prejudice (I actually prefer the British version for television recently broadcasted on PBS)
5. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
6. Pan’s Labyrinth
7. Manufactured Landscapes
8. The Cave of the Yellow Dog
9. Whale Rider
10. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
11. I Love You Rosa (Moshe Mizrahi)
12. Legally Blonde
13. Dead Poets Society
14. Late Spring (Ozu)
15. Chalk
16. Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
17. La regle du jeu (Jean Renoir)
18. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi— I like Miminashi Hoichi)

Juan C.P.

about 4 years ago

Ok. I’ve given this a lot of thought.
Here it goes: Top 3 favorite films EVER.
1. Waterworld (Kevin Costner is the Al Gore of the 90’s)
2. Highlander (I learnt that being immortal could be loads of fun)
3. Glitter (OMG! Mariah Carey is soooo classy on that film)

Akira Kar-Wai

about 4 years ago

Best. List. Ever.

Elric

about 4 years ago

This list could change daily but these films have all been very influential… in the last couple years I would add “Innocence” and Clare Denis L’intruder which both left me with so many questions and beautiful ideas to take in…

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
2. The Shinning (kubrick)
3. The Mother and the whore (Eustache)
4. Possession (Zulawski)
5. Werkmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
6. Bad Timing (Roeg)
7. Eyes without a face (Franju)
8. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
9. Mouth Agape (Pialat)
10. Woman in the dunes (Teshigahara)

And as a kiwi I must list my Fav. New Zealand film “Vigil” by Vincent Ward.

Owen Puffenb​erger

about 4 years ago

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone)
2. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
4. There Will Be Blood (PT Anderson)
5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
6. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
8. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
9. The Shining (Kubrick)
10. Conan the Barbarian (Miluis)

Mat Taylor

about 4 years ago

1. The Big Lebowski – Coens
2. Goodfellas – Scorsese
3. The Last Waltz – Scorsese
4. Jaws – Spielberg
5. Hard Core Logo – Bruce MacDonald
6. Rio Bravo – Hawks
7. Full Metal Jacket – Kubrick
8. Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels – Ritchie
9. Trainspotting – Danny Boyle
10. The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson

Mat Taylor

about 4 years ago

1. The Big Lebowski – Coens
2. Goodfellas – Scorsese
3. The Last Waltz – Scorsese
4. Jaws – Spielberg
5. Hard Core Logo – Bruce MacDonald
6. Rio Bravo – Hawks
7. Full Metal Jacket – Kubrick
8. Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels – Ritchie
9. Trainspotting – Danny Boyle
10. The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson

Chelsea Rego

about 4 years ago

Today : Cool Hand Luke
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about 4 years ago

In no particular order:

Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (Herzog)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
Der Todesking (Buttgereit)
Persona (Bergman)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Lost Highway (Lynch)
Blue Velvet (Lynch)
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
Repulsion (Polanski)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Jacob’s Ladder (Lyne)
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Suspiria (Argento)
The Big Lebowski (Coen)

And several more I can’t think of at the moment.

harolds​oon

about 4 years ago

1. Back to the Future – Robert Zemeckis
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Michel Gondry
3. In the Mood for Love – WKW
4. Magnolia – PT Anderson
5. Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola
6. Pan’s Labyrinth – Guilermo del Toro
7. Children of Men – Alfonso Cuaron
8. Fight Club – David Fincher

Hmmm.. My list seems out of place.. lol

Didem Kabal Sazak

about 4 years ago

benim favori filmim AMORES PERROS yüzyılın karakter filmidir bence…..ben bu filme aşığım!

Jason Ballant​yne

about 4 years ago

Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998)
Vanishing Point (Richard Sarafan, 1971)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
La Haine (Matthieu Kassovitz, 1995)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)

Mikhail Abrahams

about 4 years ago

1.taxi driver (scorcese)
2.a clockwork orange (kubrick)
3.pans labyrinth(del torro)
4.No country for old men(coen brothers)
5.heat(mann)
6.the departed(scorcese)
7.batman begins(nolan)
8.the pianist(polanski)
9.seven(fincher)
10.in the name of the father(sheridan)

Eli Fox

about 4 years ago

I think I can only really do this by mentioning directors where I don’t know if I have a particular favourite. In no order:

Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev or Nostalghia)
Mizoguchi (Sansho the Bailiff or Story of Late Chrysanthemums)
Hou (City of Sadness or The Puppetmaster)
Ozu (Tokyo Story, The End of Summer or Early Spring)
Renoir (The Grand Illusion, or The Rules of the Game)

Chronological order for some other films that I love:

The Man with a Movie Camera
M
Ivan the Terrible
Rome: Open City
Diary of a Country Priest
Anatahan
Muriel
Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors
Chimes at Midnight
The Travelling Players
Kings of the Road
Berlin Alexanderplatz
El Sur
A Brighter Summer Day (However, Taipei Story, Yi Yi, and The Terrorizers do just trail behind…)
Satantango
Platform
Origin of the 21st Century
Colossal Youth
Syndromes and a Century

Raymond Reyes

about 4 years ago

1) Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray
2) My Own Private Idaho – Gus Van Sant
3) Swoon – Tom Kalin
4) Pixote – Hector Babenco
5) The 400 Blows – François Truffaut
6) Au Revoir Les Enfants – Louis Malle
7) Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger
8) The City of Lost Children – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
9) Empire of the Sun – Steven Spielberg
10) Grey Gardens – Albert & David Maysles

runners up:
Dusty & Sweets McGee
Who Killed Teddy Bear?
Eraserhead
Dazed & Confused
The Birds

Olivier, Probably

about 4 years ago

1)Wild strawberries
2)The seventh seal
3)The return
4)Persepolis
5)Tanin no kao (the face of another)

T

about 4 years ago

Walkabout – Nicolas Roeg
Don’t Look Now – Nicolas Roeg
Mothlight – Stan Brakhage
The Dante Quartet – Stan Brakhage
The Burning of a Billion Words – Ian Helliwell
The Box – Takashi Miike
La Jetée – Chris Marker
Sans Soleil – Chris Marker
Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger
Gerry – Gus Van Sant
Fury – Fritz Lang
Lost Highway – David Lynch
Hiroshima Mon Amour – Alain Resnais
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance – Park Chan Wook
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick
Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola
La Haine – Mathieu Kassovitz
Akira – Katsuhiro Otomo
L’Humanité – Bruno Dumont

Fei Wui

about 4 years ago

step up

Lindsey Lennox

about 4 years ago

Annie Hall – Woody Allen
Rushmore – Wes Anderson
The Odd Couple – Gene Saks
The Life Aquatic – Wes Anderson
The Big Lebowski – Coen Brothers
12 Angry Men – Sidney Lumet
Buffalo 66 – Vincent Gallo
Kids – Larry Clark
Napoleon Dynamite – Jared Hess
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino

Think in that order, its a hard one to list.

Emre Arslant​urk

about 4 years ago
benim en iyilerim

scarface
pulp fiction
memento
babam ve oglum
papilion
kill bill

Willam

about 4 years ago

1. The Rules of the Game
2. 8 1/2
3. L’ Avventura
4. Vertigo
5. Shock Corridor
6. Hangover Square
7. Fists in the Pocket
8. Elevator to the Gallows
9. The Swimmer
10. The Vanishing (1988)
11. The 400 Blows
12. Peeping Tom
13. Performance
14. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
15. The Lost Weekend

Joshua Hogberg

about 4 years ago

My list changes all the time, so here is how it is today:

1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
2. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
3. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Once Upon A Time in America (Sergio Leone)
5. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
6. Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
7. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
8. 2001 A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
9. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
10. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)

Halim Cillov

about 4 years ago

Being an inconsolable Cinephile I have lots and lots and lots… of favorite films, however here are twenty films that, I think, affected me the most through the years:

The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( Terry Gilliam)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
In the Mood for Love and Chunking Express ( Wong Kar-Wai)
Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( Michel Gondry)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Dogville (Lars Von Trier)
Dark City (Alex Proyas)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani)
Igby Goes Down ( Burr Steers)
Lilja-4-ever (Lukas Moodyson)

Emre Kant

about 4 years ago

Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino
Once Upon a Time in America-Sergio Leone
Blade Runner – Ridley Scott
Hana-bi -Takeshi Kitano
Big Lebowski-Coen Brothers
La Haine – Mathieu Kassovitz
No country for old men-Coen Brothers
Oldboy-Park Chan Wook
Reservoir Dogs -Quentin Tarantino
Sonatine – Takeshi Kitano
Dead Or Alive Series -Takeshi Miike
Goodfellas-Martin Scorsese
Wild Bunch -Sam Peckinpah
Straw Dogs -Sam Peckinpah