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its so difficult to choose
saragossa manuscript is flawless… there are films i love more and better films that have their weak points… this one really doesnt miss a beat
and i really should not have forgotten ‘diva’…
Yi Yi
Since I already posted twice, I might as well add some other ones:
Los Olvidados
Ordet
All About My Mother
Vertigo!
Vertigo!
Three Colors: Blue for me. I am always interested in how film can communicate a person’s internal journey/struggle/story. I think this film does it better than any other I have seen.
The 400 Blows. A masterpiece.
Two films: L.A. Confidential and The Fugitive. Confidential had that perfect set up and moral turn-around right there in the middle. It looked like the bad guys were caught, L.A. was more prosperous and everything was right and then…bam…little thing called truth started to come out. In The Fugitive, the script’s beats were perfectly pitched and the action is so well wound up and executed.
Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain), everything about the film is beautiful.
Mars Attacks Puerto Rico
8 1/2 no doubt.!
8 1/2 no doubt.!
NETWORK
Several, perfect in their own ways:
I agree with the first poster: “Paris, Texas”… also
“Before Sunrise”
“The Station Agent”
“2 Lane Blacktop”
Shane Carruth’s “Primer”
Aaron Katz’s “Quiet City”
Mizoguchi’s “Sansho the Bailiff”, right up to the magisterial and justly famous final shot.
The 400 Blows, certainly. Perhaps Masculin-Feminin, as well.
I’d say “M”, The Wild Bunch, The Hustler and Pierot Le Fou..
Barry Lyndon
closely watched trains
wait…everyone is cheating and adding to their list.
breaking away
blow up
the shining
chungking express
the celebration
A tie between Videodrome, La Haine and Old Boy.
Santa sangre , dead man ,the conformist
Third Man
1. Fargo
2. The Bicycle Thief
3. Sunshine
4. Let the Right One In (after one screening, I said to myself “that was a perfect film”) hopefully it will hold up.
Altman’s Mccabe and Mrs. Miller is the only one that really pops into my head. It’s just so…perfect.
Silence of the Lambs and The Big Lebowski.
I could watch both of those films till the end of times.
First movie that comes up stars across the board…Ikiru. No doubt.
Sunrise (Murnau)
Marcus
City Lights, Seven Samurai or The Apartment. That said, when I hear “perfect” I think of movies that are beautiful and appeal to almost everyone and that doesn’t make them as good as movies that alienate a lot of people in order to make something truer or closer to your life. I like Ace in the Hole more than The Apartment but I wouldn’t think of it as perfect.