Hi everyone, for the past year I’ve started getting into film, and in the past few months have started seriously getting into film, watching what are considered to be some of the greatest movies, but I need some suggestions for movies to watch. I’m going to post a huge list of everything I’ve seen and want to see, but I need more movies. I like to get a nice variety in what I watch and I’m always open to new things. I’ve tried using lists and such, but there’s so many movies it’s hard to choose which ones I want to watch. So if anyone could help me add some more movies from different directors and such to my list, I’d really appreciate it :) This list also sort of shows how my taste has evolved and such.
Everything I’ve Seen
Citizen Kane 5/5
The Manchurian Candidate 4/5
Lawrence of Arabia 5/5
2001: A Space Odyssey 5/5
A Clockwork Orange 3/5
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 5/5
Barry Lyndon 3.5/5
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 5/5
Apocalypse Now 5/5
No Country for Old Men 5/5
The Shawshank Redemption 3/5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 5/5 I want to watch another Capra
Das Boot 3.5/5
Jaws 4/5
The Godfather 5/5
Gandhi 4/5
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 5/5
The Silence of the Lambs 5/5
Amadeus 5/5
Raging Bull 5/5
Monty Python’s Life of Brian 4/5
In the Heat of the Night 3/5
The Pawnbroker 4/5
Forrest Gump 2/5
Rain Man 2/5
Casablanca 5/5
King Kong 3/5
The Last Emperor 3/5
The Ten Commandments 2/5
Annie Hall 5/5
The Best Years of Our Lives 2.5/5 I wasn’t impressed with this one, but I want to watch more Wyler though.
Reds 3/5
Chinatown 5/5
Pulp Fiction 5/5
A Streetcar Named Desire 5/5
Goodfellas 5/5
Fargo 5/5
Blade Runner 5/5
The Producers 3/5
Taxi Driver 5/5
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 5/5
Seven Samurai 5/5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 5/5
Bonnie and Clyde 4/5
Kill Bill Vol. 1 3/5
Kill Bill Vol. 2 3/5
Clerks 2.5/5
Blue Velvet 5/5
The Godfather: Part II 5/5
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 5/5
The Big Lebowski 5/5
The Usual Suspects 2/5
Mulholland Dr. 5/5
Dog Day Afternoon 3/5
Memento 3.5/5
Ed Wood 4/5
Princess Mononoke 5/5
Magnolia 3/5
The Sixth Sense 3/5
Manhattan 5/5
Fight Club 1/5 I thought the movie was uneven, and weird for the sake of being weird.
Unforgiven 5/5
The Matrix 2/5
Boogie Nights 5/5
Crash (2004) 1/5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 3/5
Blow-Up 3.5/5
American Beauty 4/5
Pan’s Labyrinth 5/5
The Lives of Others 3/5
Requiem for a Dream 3/5
Mystic River 4/5
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 3/5
American History X 3/5
City of God 5/5
Children of Men 3/5
Rushmore 4/5
The Prestige 2/5
Once Upon a Time in the West 5/5
L.A. Confidential 3/5
Rosemary’s Baby 4/5
Network 5/5
Seven 3/5
The Abyss 4.25/5
The Exorcist 3/5
Amores perros 4/5
The Wild Bunch 4/5
Oldboy 3.5/5
Spirited Away 5/5
On the Waterfront 5/5
The Deer Hunter 4/5
The Thing 4/5
Short Cuts 4/5
Reservoir Dogs 3/5
Traffic 2.5/5
Lost in Translation 3/5
21 Grams 2.5/5
12 Angry Men 5/5
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3/5
After a run of disappointments I begin to step up the ante and get into better films.
Sunset Boulevard 5/5
Solaris 5/5
Taste of Cherry 5/5
Rashomon 5/5
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 5/5
The Bicycle Thief 5/5
La Dolce Vita 5/5
The 400 Blows 4/5
The Seventh Seal 5/5
Nashville 5/5
Eraserhead 3/5
Five Easy Pieces 5/5
Do the Right Thing 4/5
Hitchcock’s Voyeurism Trilogy 5/5
Rear Window
Vertigo
Psycho
Kieślowski’s Three Colors Trilogy 4.5/5
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: White
Three Colors: Red
Midnight Cowboy 5/5
Chungking Express 4/5
Metropolis 5/5
Wild Strawberries 5/5
The Conversation 5/5
The Crowd 4/5
The Rules of the Game 5/5
8 ½ 5/5
Tokyo Story 5/5
A Woman Under the Influence 5/5
Dead Ringers 5/5
The Thin Red Line
Breathless 4/5
Stranger Than Paradise 4/5
The Piano 5/5
Safe 4/5
Aguirre, the Wrath of God 5/5
Woman in the Dunes 5/5
Here’s what I haven’t watched, but I’m 100% sure I want to.
The Conformist
Viridiana
S. Ray’s Apu Trilogy
Pather Panchali
Aparajito
The World of Apu
L’Avventura
Persona
The Third Man
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Sansho the Bailiff
Days of Heaven
Andrei Rublev
L’Atalante
All About Eve
Talk to Her
The General
Written on the Wind
Au Hasard Balthazar
Laura
Greed
Here I’ve begun to run out of ideas, as you can see I’m sort of OCD with the variety of movies and directors, but I don’t feel I have enough variety and I’m alienating a lot of genres, this is where I need help getting suggestions. Thanks :)
The Searchers
Duck Soup
The Wages of Fear
Grand Illusion
Nathan, I should reword my post, I’m not having trouble finding films, just having trouble finding a set of different types of films, I feel I tend to get boxed in with one type of genre and directors and such.
I saw it Saturday night and it was good, not great, not bad, but good. It felt like Tarantino was trying to grow up but couldn’t get past himself and do so. The Basterds felt tacked on, only there because he thought the idea was funny. Maybe he should try directing someone else’s script for once. Cristoph Waltz was amazing though.
Let me put it this way, in today’s world where we have the technology to make a film as crisp and good-looking as possible we should take advantage of that technology, yet at the same time we must try to preserve the authenticity of the film. There needs to be a middle ground.
I’m not sure if anyone is taking requests, but could somebody do covers for Blow-Up and Greed? I’m curious to see what would come out. There’s so much talent here!
Five Easy Pieces, as far as I can find Rafelson never amounted to much after that film. Do the Right Thing is another. Am I the only one that found Das Boot overrated?
Tarantino is overrated, I will grant him one thing he has talent, but he has been unable to channel it since Jackie Brown. His films are far too sophomoric and self-indulgent. He needs to grow up.
Wes Anderson is another, I’ve seen Rushmore and The Life Aquatic, but Anderson suffers the same problem Tarantino does. He has talent but he’s too full of himself.
I’ve seen Breathless and Pierrot Le Fou. Breathless is a great intro but Pierrot is a masterpiece. I have Contempt and Alphaville on my list of films to see.
As for Godard being an ass hole, aren’t most artists pretentious dicks in real life?
Hey everyone, been a while since I’ve posted anything. I made this post on IMDb, essentially the same post but it’s updated with more films I added: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/thread/147200927?d=147200927#147200927
I’m still looking to get a large list together, I’m good when it comes to directors whose work I’ve seen, but I’m having trouble finding films by directors I haven’t, and even just random films. Just trying to get a lot to watch.
What I’d like to know is why Francis Ford Coppola has gotten his panties in a bunch about Napoleon, if he claims to love the film as much as he says why does he care so much? He’s acting like the film is a goldmine, and I highly doubt a mainstream audience is going to flock to see a five hour silent film.
Seeing as my last two topics were about films that needed DVD releases, here’s my question: what movies are not on DVD that should be? Right now for me Greed is the big one, it’s such a great film that deserves a DVD but alas.
Few others:
The Apu Trilogy
The Travelling Players
Shanghai Express
Red Desert and Safe
Letter From an Unknown Woman
The Crowd
The Wind
Mulholland Drive, In the Mood For Love, There Will Be Blood, Spirited Away, and City of God should be in the Top 10 at least. Crash shouldn’t even be on here. Oh well, what are you going to do?
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Film Buff in Training, Need Some Suggestions over 3 years ago
Hi everyone, for the past year I’ve started getting into film, and in the past few months have started seriously getting into film, watching what are considered to be some of the greatest movies, but I need some suggestions for movies to watch. I’m going to post a huge list of everything I’ve seen and want to see, but I need more movies. I like to get a nice variety in what I watch and I’m always open to new things. I’ve tried using lists and such, but there’s so many movies it’s hard to choose which ones I want to watch. So if anyone could help me add some more movies from different directors and such to my list, I’d really appreciate it :) This list also sort of shows how my taste has evolved and such.
Everything I’ve Seen
Citizen Kane 5/5
The Manchurian Candidate 4/5
Lawrence of Arabia 5/5
2001: A Space Odyssey 5/5
A Clockwork Orange 3/5
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 5/5
Barry Lyndon 3.5/5
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 5/5
Apocalypse Now 5/5
No Country for Old Men 5/5
The Shawshank Redemption 3/5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 5/5 I want to watch another Capra
Das Boot 3.5/5
Jaws 4/5
The Godfather 5/5
Gandhi 4/5
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 5/5
The Silence of the Lambs 5/5
Amadeus 5/5
Raging Bull 5/5
Monty Python’s Life of Brian 4/5
In the Heat of the Night 3/5
The Pawnbroker 4/5
Forrest Gump 2/5
Rain Man 2/5
Casablanca 5/5
King Kong 3/5
The Last Emperor 3/5
The Ten Commandments 2/5
Annie Hall 5/5
The Best Years of Our Lives 2.5/5 I wasn’t impressed with this one, but I want to watch more Wyler though.
Reds 3/5
Chinatown 5/5
Pulp Fiction 5/5
A Streetcar Named Desire 5/5
Goodfellas 5/5
Fargo 5/5
Blade Runner 5/5
The Producers 3/5
Taxi Driver 5/5
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 5/5
Seven Samurai 5/5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 5/5
Bonnie and Clyde 4/5
Kill Bill Vol. 1 3/5
Kill Bill Vol. 2 3/5
Clerks 2.5/5
Blue Velvet 5/5
The Godfather: Part II 5/5
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 5/5
The Big Lebowski 5/5
The Usual Suspects 2/5
Mulholland Dr. 5/5
Dog Day Afternoon 3/5
Memento 3.5/5
Ed Wood 4/5
Princess Mononoke 5/5
Magnolia 3/5
The Sixth Sense 3/5
Manhattan 5/5
Fight Club 1/5 I thought the movie was uneven, and weird for the sake of being weird.
Unforgiven 5/5
The Matrix 2/5
Boogie Nights 5/5
Crash (2004) 1/5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 3/5
Blow-Up 3.5/5
American Beauty 4/5
Pan’s Labyrinth 5/5
The Lives of Others 3/5
Requiem for a Dream 3/5
Mystic River 4/5
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 3/5
American History X 3/5
City of God 5/5
Children of Men 3/5
Rushmore 4/5
The Prestige 2/5
Once Upon a Time in the West 5/5
L.A. Confidential 3/5
Rosemary’s Baby 4/5
Network 5/5
Seven 3/5
The Abyss 4.25/5
The Exorcist 3/5
Amores perros 4/5
The Wild Bunch 4/5
Oldboy 3.5/5
Spirited Away 5/5
On the Waterfront 5/5
The Deer Hunter 4/5
The Thing 4/5
Short Cuts 4/5
Reservoir Dogs 3/5
Traffic 2.5/5
Lost in Translation 3/5
21 Grams 2.5/5
12 Angry Men 5/5
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3/5
After a run of disappointments I begin to step up the ante and get into better films.
Sunset Boulevard 5/5
Solaris 5/5
Taste of Cherry 5/5
Rashomon 5/5
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 5/5
The Bicycle Thief 5/5
La Dolce Vita 5/5
The 400 Blows 4/5
The Seventh Seal 5/5
Nashville 5/5
Eraserhead 3/5
Five Easy Pieces 5/5
Do the Right Thing 4/5
Hitchcock’s Voyeurism Trilogy 5/5
Rear Window
Vertigo
Psycho
Kieślowski’s Three Colors Trilogy 4.5/5
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: White
Three Colors: Red
Midnight Cowboy 5/5
Chungking Express 4/5
Metropolis 5/5
Wild Strawberries 5/5
The Conversation 5/5
The Crowd 4/5
The Rules of the Game 5/5
8 ½ 5/5
Tokyo Story 5/5
A Woman Under the Influence 5/5
Dead Ringers 5/5
The Thin Red Line
Breathless 4/5
Stranger Than Paradise 4/5
The Piano 5/5
Safe 4/5
Aguirre, the Wrath of God 5/5
Woman in the Dunes 5/5
Here’s what I haven’t watched, but I’m 100% sure I want to.
The Conformist
Viridiana
S. Ray’s Apu Trilogy
Pather Panchali
Aparajito
The World of Apu
L’Avventura
Persona
The Third Man
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Sansho the Bailiff
Days of Heaven
Andrei Rublev
L’Atalante
All About Eve
Talk to Her
The General
Written on the Wind
Au Hasard Balthazar
Laura
Greed
Here I’ve begun to run out of ideas, as you can see I’m sort of OCD with the variety of movies and directors, but I don’t feel I have enough variety and I’m alienating a lot of genres, this is where I need help getting suggestions. Thanks :)
The Searchers
Duck Soup
The Wages of Fear
Grand Illusion
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Film Buff in Training, Need Some Suggestions over 3 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll definitely check those books out :)
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Film Buff in Training, Need Some Suggestions over 3 years ago
Inglourious Basterds? It was okay.
Nathan, I should reword my post, I’m not having trouble finding films, just having trouble finding a set of different types of films, I feel I tend to get boxed in with one type of genre and directors and such.
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Reactions to Inglourious basterds over 3 years ago
I saw it Saturday night and it was good, not great, not bad, but good. It felt like Tarantino was trying to grow up but couldn’t get past himself and do so. The Basterds felt tacked on, only there because he thought the idea was funny. Maybe he should try directing someone else’s script for once. Cristoph Waltz was amazing though.
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Film Buff in Training, Need Some Suggestions over 3 years ago
Thanks for the help guys, and Mike The Usual Suspects is so overrated, glad to see there are others out there that feel the same way.
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Film Buff in Training, Need Some Suggestions over 3 years ago
I’ve seen a few more films:
The Conformist 4/5
Viridiana 4/5
Pather Panchali 5/5
Aparajito 4/5
I’ve added a few more to my list:
Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast
The Graduate
The Night of the Hunter
Last Year at Marienbad
Battleship Potemkin
I’m also unsure of which version of Greed to watch, should I buy the four hour VHS or the 140 minute one?
Also I want to watch a Fassbinder film, would The Marriage of Maria Braun be a good place to start?
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Film Buff in Training, Need Some Suggestions over 3 years ago
I think it already has been uploaded onto You Tube, I remember seeing it a while back.
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Overrated Movies over 3 years ago
Crash, Crash, Crash, did I mention Crash?
But my vote would have to go with Braveheart, it’s an absolutely god-awful mess, it’s the exact type of mainstream Hollywood tripe I can’t stand.
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No Satyajit Ray??? over 3 years ago
I recently watched The Apu Trilogy and was forced to watch what I assume were bootleg copies online, not the treatment these films deserve.
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How important is a perfect image quality for cinephiles? over 3 years ago
Let me put it this way, in today’s world where we have the technology to make a film as crisp and good-looking as possible we should take advantage of that technology, yet at the same time we must try to preserve the authenticity of the film. There needs to be a middle ground.
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The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers over 3 years ago
I’m not sure if anyone is taking requests, but could somebody do covers for Blow-Up and Greed? I’m curious to see what would come out. There’s so much talent here!
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Masterpieces By Mediocre Directors over 3 years ago
Five Easy Pieces, as far as I can find Rafelson never amounted to much after that film. Do the Right Thing is another. Am I the only one that found Das Boot overrated?
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Most depressing film you have ever seen? over 3 years ago
Persona
Persona
Persona
Persona
Persona
L’Avventura
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Who do you think the most overrated director is? over 3 years ago
Tarantino is overrated, I will grant him one thing he has talent, but he has been unable to channel it since Jackie Brown. His films are far too sophomoric and self-indulgent. He needs to grow up.
Wes Anderson is another, I’ve seen Rushmore and The Life Aquatic, but Anderson suffers the same problem Tarantino does. He has talent but he’s too full of himself.
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just how good is this godard fellow anyway? over 3 years ago
I’ve seen Breathless and Pierrot Le Fou. Breathless is a great intro but Pierrot is a masterpiece. I have Contempt and Alphaville on my list of films to see.
As for Godard being an ass hole, aren’t most artists pretentious dicks in real life?
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YOUR FAVORITE SILENT FILM, PLEASE. over 3 years ago
Greed, it’s not the best silent film by any means but it’s a film I really, REALLY like.
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? over 3 years ago
Anna Karina, hands down.
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Film Buff in Training, Need Some Suggestions over 3 years ago
Hey everyone, been a while since I’ve posted anything. I made this post on IMDb, essentially the same post but it’s updated with more films I added: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/thread/147200927?d=147200927#147200927
I’m still looking to get a large list together, I’m good when it comes to directors whose work I’ve seen, but I’m having trouble finding films by directors I haven’t, and even just random films. Just trying to get a lot to watch.
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The Napoleon DVD over 3 years ago
What I’d like to know is why Francis Ford Coppola has gotten his panties in a bunch about Napoleon, if he claims to love the film as much as he says why does he care so much? He’s acting like the film is a goldmine, and I highly doubt a mainstream audience is going to flock to see a five hour silent film.
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Restored DVD? over 3 years ago
With the restored version having toured is there any news of a DVD release sometime in the near future?
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Petition for Polanski's release online over 3 years ago
Jean-Luc Godard
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Restored DVD? over 3 years ago
That’s great, I’ll be looking froward to it.
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The Greatest Film of the 2000s over 3 years ago
Mulholland Drive or There Will Be Blood
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Which Director Would You Want As Your Father over 3 years ago
Fellini
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Movies Not on DVD, But Should Be over 3 years ago
Seeing as my last two topics were about films that needed DVD releases, here’s my question: what movies are not on DVD that should be? Right now for me Greed is the big one, it’s such a great film that deserves a DVD but alas.
Few others:
The Apu Trilogy
The Travelling Players
Shanghai Express
Red Desert and Safe
Letter From an Unknown Woman
The Crowd
The Wind
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The Times's Top 100 of the decade over 3 years ago
Mulholland Drive, In the Mood For Love, There Will Be Blood, Spirited Away, and City of God should be in the Top 10 at least. Crash shouldn’t even be on here. Oh well, what are you going to do?
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do you buy dvds or just rent them? over 3 years ago
Mostly I rent my movies from Netflix, but if I have to I will buy a movie to see it.
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