Just sticking to Criterion titles – without picking the too obvious, like 8 1/2, Third Man, Wild Strawberries & Rashomon:
Billy Liar
Unbearable Lightness of Being
Last Wave
Ashes & Diamonds
Kwaidan
Black Narcissus
Ruling Class
Closely Watched Trains
My Life as a Dog
Woman in the Dunes
Angelo Bombelli, you’re awesome.
Those are FINE films.
And There Will Be Blood is one of my favorites as well.
2001: A Space Odyssey is probably my favorite film.
I watch The Evil Dead and Eraserhead A LOT though.
Eraserhead should be in my top ten, though I don’t know which one to bump out in its place.
10. Sid and Nancy
9. Ghost World
8. M
7. Female Trouble
6. River’s Edge
5. Casablanca
4. Repulsion
3. Eyes Without A Face
2. Dead Ringers
1. Mulholland Drive
This is nearly impossible, because there are so many films I love and also, so many I haven’t seen.
Wow, Angelo Bombelli, amazing list! :)
currently, and kind of in order:
paul thomas anderson’s MAGNOLIA;
the coen brothers’ NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN;
akira kurosawa’s RAN;
jean paul goddard’s CONTEMPT;
michel gondry’s THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP;
terry gilliam’s BRAZIL;
paul thomas anderson’s THERE WILL BE BLOOD;
akira kurosawa’s THE HIDDEN FORTRESS;
wes anderson’s THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS;
kihachi okamoto’s THE SWORD OF DOOM;
honorable mentions:
masaki kobayashi’s HARAKIRI;
lars von trier’s THE ELEMENT OF CRIME;
wes anderson’s THE DARJEELING LIMITED;
bruce robinson’s WITHNAIL AND I;
noah baumbach’s THE SQUID AND THE WHALE;
craig gillespie’s LARS AND THE REAL GIRL;
david fincher’s FIGHT CLUB;
julian schnabel’s THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY;
guillermo del toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH;
akira kurosawa’s KAGEMUSHA
sam peckinpah’s STRAW DOGS;
martin scorcese’s GANGS OF NEW YORK;
spike jonze’s ADAPTATION;
tim burton’s EDWARD SCISSORHANDS;
the coen brother’s THE BIG LEBOWSKI;
christopher guest’s ALMOST HEROES;
stanley kubrick’s FULL METAL JACKET;
raymond bernard’s WOODEN CROSSES;
akira kurosawa’s HIGH AND LOW;
terry gilliam’s TIDELAND;
seth gordon’s THE KING OF KONG;
i agree with 5, list posts are kind of lame, but they can be fun sometimes.
1) Fight Club
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) Vertigo
4) The Godfather (1 & 2)
5) Goodfellas
6) The Battle of Algiers
7) Citizen Kane
8) Dr. Strangelove
9) Strangers on a Train
10) Rushmore
This assignment is too difficult. I find that films are constantly being added and subtracted depending on new material of seen and how much I’ve matured or grown as a film viewer. For so long I called AMERICAN BEAUTY my all-time favorite. But now I’m not even sure it still is in my top 10, possibly not even top 20. What I do find easier, and each year my friends will do this, is compile a list of our top 10 of the current year.
But to humor this thread, I will name 10 films that have been mainstays for me for several years (no particular order):
ANNIE HALL
RUSHMORE
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
THE 400 BLOWS
RAGING BULL
LA STRADA
BADLANDS
THE KING OF COMEDY
THE GENERAL
THE SEVENTH SEAL
Damn. I had to leave off others like:
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
BLADE RUNNER
THE DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY
AMELIE
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Just 10 films is really difficult but I’ll give it a go. This list could change at any give time though. (In no order…)
Bertolucci – The Conformist
Kurosawa – Dersu Uzala
David Lynch – Blue Velvet
Bresson – Mouchette
Cassavetes – Opening Night
Bergman – Persona
Tarkovsky – Stalker
Teshigahara – Woman in the Dunes
Herzog – Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Antonioni – L’Avventura
I wanted Kieslowski’s Dekalog in there, but that is 10 films in itself :(
1.Pulp Fiction
2.8 1/2
3.2001: A Space Odyssey
4.Godfather 1&2
5.Fight Club
6.American Beauty
7.Sanjuro/Yojimbo
8.Pather Panchali
9.Amelie
10.Shawashank Redemption
Day for Night, Contempt, Pierrot le Fou, Battle of Algiers, In the mood for love, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Company, Lives of others, zodiac missed the list by a fraction.
Its tough to do an improptu list but I guess thats what a favorite movie list is all about
I will do my 10 favorite:
1. Dr. Strangelove
2. The 400 Blows
3. Rushmore
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Vertigo
6. The Big Lebowski
7. Before the Rain
8. Cinema Paradiso
9. Casablanca
10. Annie Hall
In no order :
La Dolce Vita
The Dekalog
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
The Rules of the Game
Casablanca
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
The Seventh Seal
Raging Bull
Los Olvidados
Ugetsu
another list of top ten films in no order:
Citizen Kane
Children of Paradise
Vertigo
Weekend
Jules and Jim
Lawrence of Arabia
The Thief of Bagdad(1924)
Seven Samurai
The Passion of Joan Of Arc
Persona
as this is going to be my very first post here, i inevitably found the top 10 list and started writing titles down to expand my ever growing movie collection. another thing that intrigues me is that everyone gets worked up over what the “top 10” should include. i’ve always only ever considered my top 10 as my favorite, can’t miss, movie experiences, or simply, the movies that mean the most to me. so here’s my list and hopefully, i’ll get to know some of you fellow cinephiles all the better.
10.Miller’s Crossing
9.There Will Be Blood
8.The Last Picture Show
7.Wild Strawberries
6.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5.Rear Window
4.The Bicycle Thief
3.Citizen Kane
2.2001: A Space Odyessy
and this should never be left out of anyone’s list ever
1.The Godfather 1+2(i personally prefer 1 to 2, but you have to include both, good thread topic though)
I don’t have a set top anything, so I’ll go with the ‘first thought best thought’ method:
Sansho The Bailiff
L’Avventura
Floating Weeds
Mysterious Object At Noon
Cleo From 5 To 7
Godfather 2
Throne Of Blood
Aparajito
Harakiri
Yi Yi
These all mean a lot to me – I’m always very impressed by the complexity of what is technically achieved in these films, and I also connect to the stories in many ways.
Dr Strangelove, The Big Heat, Charulata, Rashomon, Breathless, Being There, Five Easy Pieces, Wild Strawberries, after life, Death By Hanging are all films that – on some other day – might make a top ten
I agree that this is a terribly hard decision to make, so I’ll throw out a few that I wactch constantly:
Dancer In The Dark – Lars Von Trier
The Shining – Stanley Kubrick
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky
Persona – Ingmar Bergman
There Will Bel Blood – PT Anderson
Wings Of Desire – Wim Wenders
Hana-bi – Takeshi Kitano
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest – Milos Forman
Rushmore – Wes Anderson
Fitzcaraldo – Werner Herzog
Nosferatu – FW Murnau
Chunking Express – Wong Kar Wai
The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodore Dryer
Fargo – Coen Brothers
Survive Style 5+ – Gen Sekeguchi
Nobody Knows – Koreda Hirokazu
Sorry, I could go on all day as well as most of you
I haven’t seen nearly enough classic films yet, but I’m still working on that.
1. Magnolia
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. 8 1/2
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Children of Men
6. Pan’s Labyrinth
7. Chinatown
8. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
9. Fight Club
10. Alice in Wonderland
10. Stranger Than Paradise
9. Love In The Afternoon
8. In The Mood For Love
7. Metropolis
6. Bicycle Thieves
5. La Strada
4. Mon Oncle Antoine
3. L’Avventura
2. Playtime
1. The Rules Of The Game
Eyes Wide Shut
Annie Hall
Funeral Parade of Roses
8 1/2
Ocean’s Trilogy
Bottle Rocket
Ivan’s Childhood
Down By Law
Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie
Searching for Bobby Fischer
This list will change in ten minutes.
Well, I typed a brilliant response…and when I hit the POST button, I realized I had totally lost my signal and it all went bye bye.
Rest assured, you would have been amazed. sigh
I’d do it all over again if I hadn’t spent 30 minutes scouring my DVD collection to make up a great list…
In chronological order:
1. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
2. Caught (Ophuls)
3. Ugetsu monogatari (Mizoguchi)
4. Written on the Wind (Sirk)
5. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
6. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
7. Playtime (Tati)
8. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy)
9. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
10. Cache (Haneke)
10. Persona
9. A Clockwork Orange
8. The Searchers
7. Citizen Kane
6. On the Waterfront
5. The Godfather (I and II)
4. Rashomon
3. Taxi Driver
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
1. Vertigo
10. Persona
9. A Clockwork Orange
8. The Searchers
7. Citizen Kane
6. On the Waterfront
5. The Godfather (I and II)
4. Rashomon
3. Taxi Driver
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
1. Vertigo
1.Children of Men + Solaris(Tarkovsky)
2.Three Colors:Blue, Three Colors: White, Three Colors: Red
3.Fanny and Alexander
4.Little Miss Sunshine
5.The Ice Storm
6.Doctor Zhivago
7.The Double Life of Veronique
8.Stalker
9.The Silence
10.The Shining
and yes there are thirteen movies in my “top 10”.
Ikiru
The 400 Blows
Apocalypse Now
Paths of Glory
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather Parts I and II
The Conversation
The Seven Samurai
Play Time
Taxi Driver
Something like that anyway.
Sorry, I cannot give only ten. It would be an injustice. Therefore, I’m going to give my top forty ranks of the films I’ve given scores of “100” and the occasional “99” to on Criticker.com. This was virtually impossible to do and virtually all these films are tied on number one (and I do mean this), but…
40. “Chicago” (Rob Marshall, 2002)
39. “Lilo and Stitch” (Chris Sanders & Dean Deblois, 2002)
38. “The Little Mermaid” (Ron Clements & John Musker, 1989)
37. “The Sixth Sense” (M. Night Shyamalan
36. “Welcome to the Jungle” (Jonathon Hensleigh, 2007)
35. “Dawn of the Dead” (George Romero, 1978)
34. “Lady and the Tramp” (Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske)
33. “The Wizard of Oz” (Victor Fleming)
32. “Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975)
31. “[rec]” (Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza, 2007)
30. “The Princess Bride” (Rob Reiner, 1989)
29. “The Last House on the Left” (Wes Craven, 1972)
28. “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad” (David Zucker, 1988)
27. “Once Were Warriors” (Lee Tamahori, 1994)
26. “The Descent” (Neil Marshall, 2005)
25. “The Long Kiss Goodnight” (Renny Harlin, 1996)
24. “Eyes Wide Shut” (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
23. “Airplane!” (David Zucker & Jerry Zucker & Jim Abrahams, 1980)
22. “Ed Wood” (Tim Burton, 1994)
21. “Deliverance” (John Boorman, 1972)
20. “Mysterious Skin” (Gregg Araki, 2004)
19. “Open Water” (Chris Kentis, 2003)
18. “Cube” (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)
17. “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
16. “The Evil Dead” (Sam Raimi, 1981)
15. “The Exorcist” (William Friedkin, 1973)
14. “Grimm Love” (Martin Weisz, 2006)
13. “Irreversible” (Gaspar Noe, 2002)
12. “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1972)
11. “28 Days Later” (Danny Boyle, 2002)
10. “Million Dollar Baby” (Clint Eastwood, 2004)
9. “Mulholland Drive” (David Lynch, 2001)
8. “May” (Lucky McKee, 2002)
7. “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
6. “The Lion King” (Rob Minkoff & Roger Allers, 1994)
5. “Suspiria” (Dario Argento, 1977)
4. “Session 9” (Brad Anderson, 2001)
3. “The Blair Witch Project” (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, 1999)
2. “The Shawshank Redemption” (Frank Darabont, 1994)
1. “Kill Bill” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
I’m actually going to try this, give it a real shot:
1) Chungking Express – Wong Kar Wai
2) Crash – David Cronenberg
3) 8 1/2 – Frederico Fellini
4) Six Moral Tales – Eric Rohmer (I know, I know, but I consider them all episodes of one film)
5) Last Year at Marienbad – Alain Resnais
6) Celine and Julie Go Boating – Jacques Rivette
7) La Notte – Michaelangelo Antonioni
8) Aguirre, the Wrath of God – Werner Herzog
9) The Mirror – Andrei Tarkovsky
10) Repulsion – Roman Polanski
Honorable Mentions:
The Third Man – Carol Reed
Pierrot le Fou – Jean-luc Godard
Breathless – JLG
INLAND EMPIRE – David Lynch
Eraserhead – DL
High Fidelity – Stephen Frears
The Decalogue – Krystof Kieslowski
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – FW Murnau
The Fall of the House of Usher – Jean Epstein
Persona – Ingmar Bergman
F for Fake – Orson Welles
Brand Upon the Brain! – Guy Maddin
All of Terence Malick’s films
2046 and Wong’s films during the 90s
and quite a few more…
THE 400 BLOWS
TROIS COULEURS
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS
THE RULES OF THE GAME
LAST TANGO IN PARIS
MASCULIN-FEMININ
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN
I VITELLONI
MANHATTAN
1) “The Dark Knight”
2) “No Country for Old Men”
3) “Children of Men”
4) “Rushmore”
5) “The Royal Tenenbaums”
6) “The Life Aquatic”
7) “A Clockwork Orange”
8) “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
9) “Kill Bill vol. 1-2”
10) “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”
1) The Graduate (Nichols)
2) Annie Hall (Allen)
3) Videodrome (Cronenburg)
4) Robocop (Verhoeven)
5) The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)
6) Weekend (Godard)
7) Lucifer Rising (Anger)
8) Cleo From 5 to 7 (Varda)
9) Time Bandits (Gilliam)
10) Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
Honorable Mention: The Hudsucker Proxy (Coen)
Colton Bose
Roughly…
1) Barton Fink
2) Vivre sa vie
3) F for Fake
4) Los Olvidados
5) Notorious
6) Barry Lyndon
7) His Girl Friday
8) The Searchers
9) Happy Together
10) A Woman Under the Influence