Yes, Gus Van Sant’s Elephant.
The only elephant that matters.
1. The Night of the Hunter
2. Ordet
3. Nashville
4. Detour
5. Barry Lyndon
6. A Night at the Opera
7. Days of Heaven
8. Psycho
9. Mulholland Drive
10. Make Way for Tomorrow
11. Sansho the Bailiff
12. The Birds
13. Some Like It Hot
14. Phantom of the Paradise
15. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
16. Gertrud
17. Playtime
18. Bride of Frankenstein
19. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
20. Trouble in Paradise
1. a zed and two noughts (greenaway)
2. poison (haynes)
3. three bewildered people in the night (araki)
4. picnic at hanging rock (weir)
5. elephant (clarke)
6. salo (pasolini)
7. fireworks (anger)
8. my own private idaho (van sant)
9. stroszek (herzog)
10. days of heaven (malick)
11. un chant d’amour (genet)
12. inland empire (lynch)
13. sebastiane (jarman)
14. the passion of joan of arc (dreyer)
15. desperate living (waters)
16. pierrot le fou (godard)
17. persona (bergman)
18. written on the wind (sirk)
19. last night (mckellar)
20. rope (hitchcock)
1. Pulp fiction
2. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
3. Clerks
4. Magnolia
5. Submarine
6. 12 angry men
7. Taxi driver
8. The shining
9. Psycho
10. American beauty
11. Back to the future
12. Amores perros
13. A clockwork orange
14. Manhattan
15. La haine
16. Eyes wide shut
17. Rocky
18. Chasing Amy
19. The roayl tenenbaums
20. Goodfellas
I see at least four lists in this topic which share at least four films in common with my own list.
Ordet and Double Life of Veronique were difficult cuts from mine as well.
1. Humanity and Paper Balloons(Sadao Yamanaka)
2. The Music Room(Satyajit Ray)
3. Drunken Angel(Akira Kurosawa)
4. Yearning(Mikio Naruse)
5. The Human Condition(Masaki Kobayashi)
6. The Golden Thread(Ritwik Ghatak)
7. Floating Clouds(Mikio Naruse)
8. Samurai Rebellion(Masaki Kobayashi)
9. Early Summer (Yasujirô Ozu)
10. The Green Ray(Éric Rohmer)
11. Pale Flower(Masahiro Shinoda)
12. Fires on the Plain(Kon Ichikawa)
13. A Man Escaped(Robert Bresson)
14. Blood is Dry(Yoshishige Yoshida)
15. Pyaasa(Guru Dutt)
16. The Last Laugh(F.W. Murnau)
17. Dr. Strangelove(Stanley Kubrick)
18. Four Nights of a Dreamer(Robert Bresson)
19. Le Cercle Rouge(Jean-Pierre Melville)
20. The Big Lebowski (Coen bros)
My favorites (not the best) at this current moment in time.
1. Videodrome—David Cronenberg
2. Akira—Katsuhiro Otomo
3. The Bride of Frankenstein—James Whale
4. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring—Kim Ki-Duk
5. The Last Wave—Peter Weir
6. Blade Runner—Ridley Scott
7. Princess Mononoke—Hayao Miyazaki
8. The Thin Red Line—Terrence Malick
9. 2001 A Space Odyssey—Stanley Kubrick
10. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari—Robert Wiene
11. Tetsuo the Iron Man—Shinya Tsukamoto
12. There Will Be Blood—Paul Thomas Anderson
13. For All Mankind—Al Reinert
14. The Killer—John Woo
15. Bram Stokers Dracula—Francis Ford Coppola
16. The Dark Knight—Christopher Nolan
17. The Thing—John Carpenter
18. Valhalla Rising—Nicholas Winding Refn
19. Oldboy—Park Chan-Wook
20. The 25th Hour—Spike Lee
How can you put your favorite films in order? Some kind of ranking system? Never understood it.
Anyone picked Casque d’Or yet? It just missed my list and i’d be sorry if noone chose it- deserves more love, imo
1. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
4. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
5. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
6. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7. The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith)
8. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
9. Midnight Run (Martin Brest)
10.Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
11. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Sergio Leone)
12. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
13. Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
14. Apocalypse Now (Francis Coppola)
15. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
16. The Godfather (Francis Coppola)
17. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
18. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
19. Crimes & Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
20. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Yeah we’re up to 612 movies now.
I’m honestly surprised at the responses, their alacrity, and the lack of “Wait, what are you trying to do here again?” I kinda expected more of Llawrence’s responses. So anyway, this thing’s gonna take a while, I can tell.
—PolarisDiB
1. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
4. M (Fritz Lang)
5. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
6. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
7. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
8. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
9. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
10. The Party (Blake Edwards)
11. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer)
12. Breathless (Jean-luc Godard)
13. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
14. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
15. The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophuls)
16. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
17. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
18. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)
19. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
20. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
Had a tough time leaving off Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man, Germany Year Zero, Bicycle Thieves, Eyes Wide Shut, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and some others…
@Polaris
Especially considering every vote is zero sum. ;)
Yeah I’m gonna start dropping movies off the bottom of the list by week 2 of voting, which will cause some early surprises but people’ll get the hang of it.
—PolarisDiB
OK, why not?
1. Brazil (Gilliam)
2. Chinatown (Polanski)
3. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
4. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
5. Brand Upon the Brain! (Maddin)
6. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
7. Apocalypse Now! (Coppola)
8. Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
9. Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger)
10. Cache (Haneke)
11. Dogville (Von Trier)
12. Citizen Kane (Welles)
13. Wings of Desire (Wenders)
14. Blade Runner (Scott)
15. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
16. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
17. Traffic (Soderbergh)
18. Zelig (Allen)
19. Burn! (Pontecorvo)
20. The Third Man (Reed)
1) A Brighter Summer Day
2) A City of Sadness
3) The Red Shoes
4) In the Mood for Love
5) Sansho the Bailiff
6) This Life of Mine
7) The Spirit of Beehive
8) Harakiri
9) Wild Strawberries
10) The Aimless Bullet
11) Syndromes and a Century
12) The Double Life of Veronique
13) Landscape in the Mist
14) An Autumn Afternoon
15) The Wind Will Carry Us
16) Platform
17) Still Life (Saless)
18) What Time Is it There?
19) The Road to the Racetrack
20) The Seventh Continent
1. Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
2. The Dead (John Huston, 1987)
3. Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932)
4. Jeanne la Pucelle (Jacques Rivette, 1994)
5. Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2002)
6. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
7. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)-———————————————————
8. The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)
9. My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981)
10. Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Jacques Tati, 1953)
11. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
12. Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski, 2009)
13. Le Dernier Métro (François Truffaut, 1980)
14. Histoire de Marie et Julien (Jacques Rivette, 2003)
15. L’Histoire d’Adèle H. (François Truffaut, 1975)
16. The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955)
17. Power and the Land (Joris Ivens, 1940)
18. La Nuit du Carrefour (Jean Renoir, 1932)
19. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2000)
20. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
1. Last Tango in Paris
2. Star Wars
3. Le Samourai
4. The Whole Shootin’ Match
5. Scorpio Rising
6. Satantango
7. Brazil
8. Vertigo
9. Inglourious Basterds
10. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
11. The Godfather, Parts I & II
12. Waking Life
13. Night and Fog
14. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
15. The Red Shoes
16. Antichrist
17. Aliens
18. Saving Private Ryan
19. Un Chien Andalou
20. Apocalypse Now
@ Polaris
I guess for the heck of it then just go with Pather Panchali . . .
I wasn’t trying to get away with anything though :p just going by Sight and Sounds rules, didnt know if it counted here
@ Polaris DIB
If you can’t include both Godfathers as one, I’ll settle for the original.
Awesome list Black Irish! I like that you listed Suspicion and The Trouble With Harry, two of my favourite Hitchcock films that don’t get enough love.
@ Alex K
There’s several films on your list that easily could have made mine (Blue Velvet, Stalker, Blade Runner in particular).
665 movies.
—DiB
1. Fanny och Alexander (Bergman)
2. The Shining (Kubrick)
3. Manhattan (Allen)
4. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson)
6. Lilja 4-Ever (Moodysson)
7. Persona (Bergman)
8. Bitter Moon (Polanski)
9. Carrie (De Palma)
10. Scener ur ett äktenskap (Bergman)
11. Annie Hall (Allen)
12. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, F.F.)
13. Blade Runner (Scott)
14. Dancer in the Dark (von Trier)
15. Fucking Åmål (Modysson)
16. Lost in Translation (Coppola, S.)
17. E.T. (Spielberg)
18. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
19. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Cameron)
20. Viskningar och rop (Bergman)
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2) Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
3) Citizen Kane (1941)
4) 12 Angry Men (1957)
5) Frankenstein (1931)
6) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
7) The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
8) Up In The Air (2009)
9) Do The Right Thing (1989)
10) Black Swan (2010)
11) Toy Story 3 (2010)
12) Princess Mononoke (1997)
13) Downfall (2004)
14) The Fly (1986)
15) The Matrix (1999)
16) The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
17) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
18) No Country for Old Men (2007)
19) Ed Wood (1994)
20) The Terminator (1984)
Does the order matter?
1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. Big Fish
3. Fargo
4. Inception
5. Jackie Brown
6. Leon
7. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8. No Country for Old Men
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. Once Upon a Time in America
11. Pulp Fiction
12. Spirited Away
13. The Big Lebowski
14. The Godfather (1972)
15. The Godfather: Part II
16. The Great Dictator
17. The Man Who Wasn’t There
18. The Shawshank Redemption
19. The Usual Suspects
20. Zodiac (2007)
@ Chris Grudge
Well, yes, but in order to keep up I’ve already logged your list. The thing is, you want the movies you care about more to be higher on the list because the lower ranked movies will drop off the list over time. In addition to a series of eliminations to cull the so far 650+ movie list to a mere measly twenty, the point structure is also supposed to organize the movies along a heirarchy.
But I’ve already tallied your list and from my own experience, your initial impressions are as good as trying to think through it.
—PolarisDiB
“665 movies.”
…and the final top 20 tally will be counted based on the “films with most votes” analogy?
PolarisDiB
@Kai White:
You listed The Cranes are Flying twice. You may choose one more title, though it will show up after all the others have been listed.
@Uli Cain
Sorry but the Godfathers are and will be counted as three different movies. Would you rather choose one for that position, or have me drop out the bottom two movies on your list?
Alternatively I can count that televised edit of all three together, and it will count as a different “movie” than Godfathers I and II.
@ Santino
Elephant (Clarke) or Elephant (Van Sant)? Thus far I have it labeled Van Sant, please confirm.
@ JP Schmidt
Same as Uli, the Apu Trilogy is three movies so you can either choose one or have the bottom two movies in your list drop off. Your choice.
So far we have 472 titles in competition.
—PolarisDiB