Sekzee: I don’t know how many he did total, but I’ve seen two: The Remains of the Day which was an alright film but nothing special, good performance from Hopkins though.
The other was Howards End which was excellent film in alot of ways. Just about every role was well-cast, the period setting was beautiful, and even the score reminded me of turn-of-the-century style music. I’d definitely recommend it, though Hopkins isn’t the star in this one. ;)
thanks Josh sounds great! ill take aything Hopkins, even his most recent was good (Fracture). Also you should see The Edge if you havent already. Its a good thriller and Both Hopkins and Alec Baldwin are great.
Sekzee: I’ll keep track of The Edge, though I’m not sure when I’ll get to it, I’ve alot of ‘classics’ and directors filmographies to try to bulldoze out of the way. :|
@JOSH S. Ah yes, A Woman is a Woman is a fantastic film. There are so many things that I love about it (it’s opening, use of color, energy etc.). I would expound, but this is a thread about your “Personal top 25”, not A Woman is a Woman. Glad to see there are others that also appreciate it.
Here’s mine:
1) Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)
2) Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
4) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
5) Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
6) Platoon (Stone, 1986)
7) Twelve Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995)
8) Memento (Nolan, 2000)
9) Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1992)
10) La Haine (Kassovitz, 1995)
11) Michael Clayton (Gilroy, 2007)
12) Talk To Me (Lemmons, 2007)
13) La Jetee (Marker, 1962)
14) Being John Malkovich (Jones, 1999)
15) In Bruges (McDonagh, 2008)
16) Big Fish (Burton, 2003)
17) American Gangster (Scott, 2007)
18) Seven (Fincher, 1995)
19) The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
20) Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
21) Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
22) District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009)
23) American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
24) V For Vendetta (McTeigue, 2005)
25) Cidade de Dues (Meirelles/Lund, 2002)
Almosts:
- Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
- Down By Law (Jarmusch, 1986)
- Le Samouraï (Melville, 1967)
- Into the Wild (Penn, 2007)
- The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)
Well, I just realised I listed only 24 on the 3rd page.
Adding Weekend to the list to make it a perfect 25.
John: Well feel free to send me a PM or leave a post on my wall, I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. :)
Found a Microsoft Word Document on my computer, it was my Top 40 List last year. I realized how many movies I saw from last year till now, it’s scary,really.I thought it would be fun to post it here,and the advantage of it on my current list is that it’s far more personal:
1.La Maman et La Putain−Jean Eustache,1973
2.Lilya 4-Ever−Lukas Moodysson,2002
3.Magnolia−Paul Thomas Anderson,1999
4.Douches Froides−Antoine Cordier,2005
5.La Dolce Vita−Federico Fellini,1960
6.Bagdad Café−Percy Adlon,1988
7.Le Mépris−Jean-Luc Godard,1962
8.Spider−David Cronenberg,2003
9. Winter Light−Ingmar Bergman,1962
10.India Song−Marguerite Duras,1974
11.Mulholland Drive−David Lynch,2001
12.Rio Bravo−Howard Hawks,1955
13.The Cook,The Thief,His Wife And Her Lover−Peter Greenaway,1989
14.Ran−Akira Kurosawa,1985
15.Jules et Jim−François Truffaut,1962
16.Do The Right Thing−Spike Lee,1990
17.Z−Costa-Gavras,1969
18.Touchez Pas Au Grisbi−René Clement,1945
19.Barry Lyndon−Stanley Kubrick,1975
20.The Ice Storm−Ang Lee,1997
21. Rope−Alfred Hitchcock,1948
22.Annie Hall−Woody Allen,1976
23. Pierrot le Fou−Jean-Luc Godard,1965
24.Sunset Boulevard−Billy Wilder,1950
25. Pauline a La Plage−Eric Rohmer,1983
26.Taxi Driver−Martin Scorsese,1975
27.The Barefoot Countessa−Joseph Mankiewicz,1954
28. Far From Heaven−Tood Haynes,2003
29.Les 400 Coups−François Truffaut,1959
30.Paranoid Park−Gus Van Sant,2007
31.La Marseillaise−Jean Renoir,1932
32.Ghost World−Terry Zwigoff,2001
33.Jackie Brown−Quentin Tarantino,1997
34.The Elephant Man−David Lynch,1980
35.The Shining−Stanley Kubrick,1981
36.About Schmidt−Alexander Payne,2002
37.Singing in the Rain−Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly,1955
38.The Untouchables−Brian De Palma,1987
39.Traffic−Steven Soderbergh,2000
40. On Connait La Chanson−Alain Resnais,1995
I notice there’s more of a balance of English and non-English language films in your old list than in your ne one. I don’t mean anything by it, but it’s interesting.
BTW, some of the dates on the list are incorrect. Rio Bravo is ‘59, Taxi Driver is ’76, La Marseillaise is ’38, and Singin’ in the Rain is ’52. :)
I finally have a top 25!
In somewhat order…..
1. Vertigo
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Taxi Driver
5. 8 1/2
6. Dekalog
7. The Godfather
8. Persona
9. Eyes Wide Shut
10. Apocalypse Now
11. East of Eden
12. Annie Hall
13. Through a Glass Darkly
14. Wings of Desire
15. Berlin Alexanderplatz
16. Rashomon
17. Last Tango in Paris
18. Mean Streets
19. Mulholland Dr.
20. Barry Lyndon
21. Ordet
22. Last Year at Marienbad
23. A Clockwork Orange
24. Modern Times
25. Citizen Kane
Through a Glass Darkly eh? Great choice, Drew, I think it’s Bergman’s best.
Eyes Wide Shut is another underrated film of Kubrick I adore.
Now to be meta-, let me rank Drew’s (cause we all love Drew) list in my order of preference.
Apologies to / need to badly see:
3. Fanny and Alexander
6. Dekalog
10. Apocalypse Now
14. Wings of Desire
15. Berlin Alexanderplatz
16. Rashomon
17. Last Tango in Paris
18. Mean Streets
20. Barry Lyndon
21. Ordet
1. Last Year at Marienbad
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. 8 1/2
4. Mulholland Dr.
5. Persona
6. Citizen Kane
7. Vertigo
8. Taxi Driver
9. Eyes Wide Shut
10. The Godfather
11. Annie Hall
12. Modern Times
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. A Clockwork Orange
15. East of Eden
Four films I haven’t seen in Drew’s list: East of Eden,Mean Streets,Vertigo and Berlin Alexanderplatz(Sadly,sadly I can’t afford it, it’s too expensive-175$ in Lebanon, and I only spend this kind of money on lots of box sets, not one and for one big film,too)
1.Through a Glass Darkly
10.Fanny and Alexander
11.Apocalypse Now
12.Wings of Desire
13.Modern Times
14.Annie Hall
15.Taxi Driver
17.2001: A Space Odyssey
18.8 1/2
19.Citizen Kane
2.Last Year at Marienbad
20.The Godfather
21.Rashomon
22.A Clockwork Orange
3.Mulholland Dr.
4.Barry Lyndon
5.Last Tango in Paris
6.Ordet
7.Dekalog
8.Persona
9.Eyes Wide Shut
I find A Clockwork Orange extremely boring and kitsch,and The Godfather really overrated,and for that matter, boring.
Rashomon is on my all-time worst classics list, I hate Kurosawa.
Here´s my personal Top 10 Drew´s list:
1. Through a Glass Darkly
2. 8 1/2
3. Ordet
4. Last Year at Marienbad
5. Fanny and Alexander
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz
7. Vertigo
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Dekalog
10. Taxi Driver
25 favorites, one per director
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Persona (Bergman)
Pather Panchali (Ray)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
Sansho The Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
Les Diaboliques (Clouzot)
Woman In The Dunes (Teshiggahara)
Potemkin (Eisenstein)
Playtime (Tati)
Viridiana (Bunuel)
Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
Sunrise (Murnau)
La Strada (Fellini)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Lawrence Of Arabia (Lean)
Maborosi (Koreeda)
Psycho (Hitchcock)
Repast (Naruse)
Rules Of The Game (Renoir)
The Red Shoes (Powell)
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Dreyer)
Out Of The Past (Tourneur)
Chronological order. One film per director but for one exception.
Foolish Wives (Erich Von Stroheim)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch
L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
Wagon Master (John Ford)
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
Subida al Cielo (Luis Buñuel)
Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls)
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse)
Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)
The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)
I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
Bed & Board (François Truffaut)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer)
L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
À nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
Casino (Martin Scorsese)
Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas)
I wanna revive this thread, I love it too much.
An updated, loose top list, or: movies I think are pretty swell
Paris, Texas (Wenders)
the rest:
3 Women (Altman)
L’Ange (Bokanowski)
Barton Fink* (Coen)
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
Big Time (Blum)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Carmen (Saura)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
The Conversation (FF Coppola)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Svankmajer)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel)
Down by Law (Jarmusch)
Film (Schneider)
Free Radicals (Lye)
The General (Keaton)
The Heart of the World (Maddin)
Heaven and Earth Magic (H Smith)
Hold Me While I’m Naked (G Kuchar)
The Hole (Tsai)
In a Lonely Place (N Ray)
Invasion** (Santiago)
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Jost)
Life of Brian (Jones)
The Man Without a Past (Kaurismaki)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
La Notte (Antonioni)
Peyote Queen (De Hirsch)
Punch-Drunk Love (PT Anderson)
Radio Dynamics (Fischinger)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Paradnajov)
Shock Corridor (Fuller)
Sita Sings the Blues (Paley)
Tale of Tales (Norstein)
Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)
Videodrome (Cronenberg)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Young Frankenstein (M Brooks)
*If I stick to the one-per-director rule, A Serious Man is dangerously close to usurping this one’s place.
**Thanks, World Cup folks!
I’ve barely scraped by with the list from my profile; I unfortunately don’t watch as many films as i’d like.
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
Cloverfield (Reeves, 2008)
Ne touchez pas la hache (Rivette, 2007)
Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)
Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
L’Intrus (Denis, 2004)
Gummo (Korine, 1997)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
Chelsea Girls (Warhol, 1966)
Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954)
Solyaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
The Brown Bunny (Gallo, 2003)
Bamako (Sissako, 2006)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997)
l’humanite (Dumont, 1999)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Korine, 1999)
Buffalo ’66 (Gallo, 1998)
Death by Hanging (Oshima, 1968)
Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2004)
Le temps retrouvé, d’après l’oeuvre de Marcel Proust (Ruiz, 1999)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hsaio-hsien, 2007)
Phantoms of Nabua (Weerasethakul, 2009)
Ma Nuit Chez Maud (Rohmer, 1969)
My Updated List (its 30 now):
1. Vertigo
2. Taxi Driver
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4.. Fanny and Alexander
5. 8 1/2
6. Dekalog
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Apocalypse Now
9. Persona
10. Annie Hall
11. Mulholland Dr.
12. The Red Shoes
13. The Godfather
14. East of Eden
15. Through a Glass Darkly
16. Wings of Desire
17. Berlin Alexanderplatz
18. Rashomon
19. Last Tango in Paris
20. Mean Streets
21. Barry Lyndon
22. Ordet
23. Last Year at Marienbad
24. A Clockwork Orange
25. Modern Times
26. Citizen Kane
27. Cria cuervos
28. The Dreamers
29. Don’t Look Now
30. The Double Life of Veronique
1) Nashville
2) Taxi Driver
3) Pulp Fiction
4) Psycho
5) Star Wars Trilogy
6) Raiders of the Lost Ark
7) Citizen Kane
8) 2001: A Space Odyssey
9) Ran
10) Apocalypse Now
11) The Godfather
12) The Third Man
13) Jaws
14) Dr. Strangelove
15) Vertigo
16) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
17) Young Frankenstein
18) A Hard Day’s Night
19) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
20) The Shining
21) Blazing Saddles
22) City Lights
23) Fight Club
24) Raging Bull
25) Annie Hall
30…criteria: with the exception Red Desert & Lawrence of Arabia, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen these
1) Reds
2) Good Fellas
3) Touch of Evil
4) Guys & Dolls
5) The Manchurian Candidate
6) Annie Hall
7) The Conformist
8) Weekend
9) Red Desert
10) Lawrence of Arabia
11) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
12) Marnie
13) The Disorderly Orderly
14) The King of Comedy
15) Rosemary’s Baby
16) The Brood
17) The Godfather
18) The Godfather II
19) Cabaret
20) Midnight Cowboy
21) Fargo
22) The Devils
23) High Anxiety
24) Klute
25) The Bride Wore Black
26) Dr. Strangelove
27) Advise & Consent
28) Time Stands Still
29) Nashville
30) A New Leaf
I still have a lot more movies to see, and this will probably change a lot but…
1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Faust (Jan Svankmajer)
4. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
5. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
6. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
7. The Mascot (Wladyslaw Starewicz)
8. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
9. Come Drink with Me (King Hu)
10. Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
11. Story of a Prostitute (Seijun Suzuki)
12. Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
13. M (Fritz Lang)
14. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
15. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
16. Symbiopsychotaxisplasm: Take One (William Greaves)
17. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
18. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
19. Time Masters (Rene Laloux)
20. Ashes of Time (Wong Kar Wai)
21. Dirty Ho (Lau Kar Leung)
22. Burning Paradise (Ringo Lam)
23. Last Hurrah for Chivalry (John Woo)
24. 7 Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
25. Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
taxi driver
blue velvet
husbands
bladerunner
chinatown
eraserhead
happiness
shadows
george washington
stroszeck
repo man
coup de grace
a clockwork orange
safe
the shining
the exorcist
clokcers
the education of sonny carson
pee wee’s big adventure
stranger than paradise
ghost dog
the element of crime
gummo
the piano teacher
naked
I think I just doubled my “need to watch list” by reading this thread.
here are mine:
1. A woman under the influence
2. Night on earth
3. La Femme Nikita
4. Open Hearts
5. Interiors
6. Dracula, Pages From a Virgin’s Diary
7. The cremaster cycle (all of them)
8. Blue Velvet
9. Exotica
10. The vanishing
11. Dimensions of Dialogue
12. Andrei Rublev
13 Bringing out the Dead
14. the seventh Contient
15. Badder Meinhoff Complex
16. Scenes from a marriage
17. Keane
18. julien dokey boy
19. Henry Fool
20. europa
21. Me, you and everyone we know
22. Murmur of the Heart
23.Cría cuervos
24. Festen
25. Talk to her
Mulholland Drive
2001: A Space Odyssey
Pierrot le Fou
Elephant
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Sans Soleil
Stranger than Paradise
The Shining
Paranoid Park
Fargo
Eyes Wide Shut
Stranger Than Paradise
Breathless
Kids
Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Gummo
Precious
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Wild at Heart
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Amelie
Solo Con Tu Pareja
Children of Men
Mostly not in order though..
A bit amateurish given that there is no Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, De Sica, Godard, etc.
Not to mention not a single film by Kubrick or Woody Allen, both among my favourite directors of all time but none the less, this is my ever-changing list, as of today:
25) Mulholland Dr. (2001 D: David Lynch)
24) The Godfather (1972 D: Francis Ford Coppola)
23) Schindler’s List (1993 D: Steven Spielberg)
22) Raging Bull (1980 D: Martin Scorsese)
21) Touch of Evil (1958 D: Orson Welles)
20) Casablanca (1943 D: Michael Curtiz)
19) The Departed (2006 D: Martin Scorsese)
18) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004 D: Michel Gondry)
17) Mean Streets (1973 D: Martin Scorsese)
16) It’s A Wonderful Life (1947 D: Frank Capra)
15) Being John Malkovich (1999 D: Spike Jonze)
14) Rear Window (1954 D: Alfred Hitchcock)
13) Sunset Boulevard (1950 D: Billy Wilder)
12) Some Like It Hot (1959 D: Billy Wilder)
11) Vertigo (1958 D: Alfred Hitchcock)
10) Double Indemnity (1944 D: Billy Wilder)
9) Psycho (1960 D: Alfred Hitchcock)
8) Pulp Fiction (1994 D: Quentin Tarantino)
7) Chinatown (1974 D: Roman Polanski)
6) Citizen Kane (1941 D: Orson Welles)
5) Reservoir Dogs (1992 D: Quentin Tarantino)
4) North By Northwest (1959 D: Alfred Hitchcock)
3) The Third Man (1950 D: Carol Reed)
2) Taxi Driver (1976 D: Martin Scorsese)
1) Goodfellas (1990 D: Martin Scorsese)
My favorite 25 films, in chronological order
SUNRISE ( Murnau )
THE GOLD RUSH ( Chaplin )
ORDET ( Dreyer )
BRIEF ENCOUNTER ( Lean )
A MAN ESCAPED ( Bresson )
LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD ( Resnais )
THE LEPOARD ( Visconti )
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR ( Bresson )
LE MEPRIS ( Godard )
PLAYTIME ( Tati )
OEDIPUS REX ( Pasolini )
WOODSTOCK ( Wadleigh )
PERFORMANCE ( Camell, Roeg )
THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE ( Eustache )
BARRY LYNDON ( Kubrick )
EDWARD MUNCH ( Watkins )
STALKER ( Tarkovsky )
LUNA ( Bertolucci )
IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN ( Antonioni )
MADE IN HEAVEN ( Rudolph )
DEAD MAN ( Jarmusch )
BEYOND THE CLOUDS ( Antonioni, Wenders )
THE SHELTERING SKY ( Bertolucci )
POLA X ( Carax )
THE NEW WORLD ( Malick )
Probably look different next week.
Interesting list, Adam! Glad you have Mother and the Whore on your top list.
That film is amazing…
Ally the Manic Listmaker
@Michel, Yes Le Poulet was great. It’s available on DVD out here in the USA w/Le vieil homme et l’enfant aka The Two of Us. Both are great films. French cinema is definitely my favorite. I think there are too many great films to explore from that country.