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Which film has changed your life forever? about 3 years ago

Apocalypse Now, because it was the film that seriously made me interested in the art of film.

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The Greatest Film of the 2000s about 3 years ago

Unranked (except for There Will Be Blood, the only film from this decade that would rank in the top 50 films of all time, in my opinion)
-There Will Be Blood
-Oldboy
-The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
-Memento
-Sideways
-In the Mood For Love
-Children of Men
-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Top Scorsese about 3 years ago

1. Goodfellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. Mean Streets
5. The King of Comedy
6. Casino
7. The Departed
8. Last Temptation of Christ
9. Bringing Out the Dead
10. After Hours

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Top 10 Directors. about 3 years ago

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Akira Kurosawa
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Orson Welles
7. Federico Fellini
8. Yasujiro Ozu
9. F.W. Murnau
10. Martin Scorsese

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Top performances of all time. about 3 years ago

Just a few favorites:
-Daniel Day Lewis-There Will Be Blood
-Dennis Hopper-Blue Velvet
-Faye Dunaway-Network
-Malcolm McDowwell-A Clockwork Orange
-Liv Ullman & Bibi Andersson-Persona
-Vivien Leigh-Gone With the Wind
-Jack Nicholson-The Last Detail
-Sean Penn-Fast Times at Ridgemont High
-Marlon Brando-Apocalypse Now

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Best Westerns about 3 years ago

Top 5 (for now)
1. The Wild Bunch
2. The Searchers
3. My Darling Clementine
4. The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
5. Once Upon A Time in the West

I hate that I have two Fords and two Leones in a row, but that is my top 5.

Honorable Mentions: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Unforgiven, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Stagecoach, Red River, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Rio Bravo, Ride the High Country, The Man From Laramie, The Naked Spur, & many more.

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Film quotes you love about 3 years ago

“It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?”
-Blade Runner

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
-The Wizard of Oz

and one from Chinatown, concerning Nicholson’s cut nose, I believe it goes something like this:
“Does it hurt?”
“Only when I breath.”
-Chinatown

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What Film Are You Most Looking Forward To In 2009? about 3 years ago

-Antichrist
-Shutter Island
-Broken Embraces
-Where the Wild Things Are
-Avatar
-Up
-Inglorious Basterds
-Funny People
-Public Enemies
-Tetro

Those are my very limited predictions, based solely on the directors & casts, of what maybe my top ten films of 2009

I am very disappointed that Tree of Life was moved to 2010.

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What's your Top 10? about 3 years ago

A very rough list, remembering that I have many more films to see.
1. Blade Runner
2. Apocalypse Now
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Night of the Hunter
5. 8 1/2
6. Seven Samurai
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Goodfellas
9. Dazed and Confused
10. Ugetsu

Honorable mentions:
-There Will Be Blood
-Persona
-Amarcord
-Sunrise
-Citizen Kane
-Touch of Evil
-Rashomon

& many, many more.

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3 Favourite Movies From 5 Favourite Directors about 3 years ago

-Stanley Kubrick
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Dr. Strangelove

-Akira Kurosawa
1. Seven Samurai
2. Rashomon
3. Ran

-Jean-Luc Godard
1. Pierrot le Fou
2. Breathless
3. Contempt

-Terrence Malick
1. The Thin Red Line
2. Days of Heaven
3. Badlands

-Martin Scorsese
1. GoodFellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull

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Another off Topic/Your Favorite Albums about 3 years ago

-Let It Bleed
-Remain in Light
-Exile on Main St.
-The Velvet Underground & Nico
-Rubber Soul
-Born To Run
-Dark Side of the Moon
-Odelay
-Revolver
-Electric Ladyland
-The Bends

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TheAuteurs List of the Week 4/26/09: Your 10 Favorite Books about 3 years ago

-On the Road
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
-1984
-The Great Gatsby
-The Catcher in the Rye
-A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
-The Wasteland & Other Collected Poems
-The Lord of the Flies
-The Lord of the RIngs (Trilogy)
-Deliverance

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3 Great Actors You'd Definitely Hangout With. almost 3 years ago

-Marcello Mastroianni
-Jack Nicholson
-Toshiro Mifune

also Jean-Paul Belmondo, Humphrey Bogart, & Orson Welles would all be cool.

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What was the best decade for film? 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, or our present decade? over 2 years ago

My ranking:
1. 60s
2. 70s
3. 50s
4. 40s
5. 20s
6. 80s
7. 30s
8. 00s
9. 90s

Hard to make, but the top 3 are set in stone for me. The 50s-70s were just incredible.

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can you name a truly great *foreign* film in the last 5 years... over 2 years ago

Have to agree with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days & Cache, and just by what I’ve heard, I’m expecting A Prophet and The White Ribbon to both be truly great (though I may be let, down, though I doubt it).

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What are your "Guilty Pleasure" films? over 2 years ago

I have a guilty pleasure for Point Break, a film I enjoy with every viewing. Also Con Air, which may be the most ridiculous movie with the worst accent I’ve ever seen, but it’s hilariously bad. I love it.

And if the Apatow & Co films really count as a guilty pleasure, then I fall under that group as well. I love all of those.

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Off Topic - Ten favorite bands / music artists over 2 years ago

In no particular order:
-The Rolling Stones
-The Beatles
-The Who
-David Bowie
-Talking Heads
-The Clash
-Bruce Springsteen
-Bob Dylan
-Stevie Wonder
-Several Motown groups tie for this spot (The Temptations, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops, Martha & the Vendellas)

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top 10 films made since your birth over 2 years ago

1991:
1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
2. The Thin Red Line (1998)
3. Mulholland Drive (2001)
4. Pulp Fiction (1994)
5. No Country For Old Men (2007)
6. In the Mood For Love (2000)
7. Happy Together (1997)
8. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
9. Chungking Express (1994)
10. Magnolia (1999)

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THE AUTEURS BEST OF THE DECADE: FILMS over 2 years ago

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Mulholland Drive
3. No Country For Old Men
4. In the Mood For Love
5. Oldboy
6. Memento
7. Sideways
8. Children of Men
9. Yi Yi
10. Spirited Away

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Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux over 2 years ago

So great to hear Bigger Than Life is getting a Criterion release, I love that film.

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I'd like to see your own lists of 100 most meaningful moments in cinema. over 2 years ago

Not 100, and several have already been stated.

-Anju’s suicide-Sansho the Bailiff
-Ana ignores Holly-The Third Man
-The ending-Chinatown
-The Broadway Melody sequence-Singin’ in the Rain
-The Trevi Fountain-La Dolce Vita
-Truman’s boat breaks dome wall-The Truman Show
-Llorando-Mulholland Drive
-The bowling alley sequence-There Will Be Blood
-The bell casting scene-Andrei Rublev
-The toad in the rain-My Neighbor Totoro
-The crocodile submerging-The Thin Red Line
-The Good gives the dying man his cigar-The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
-Mifune holding the baby by the burning mill-Seven Samurai
-HAL’s death-2001: A Space Odyssey
-Ferdinand’s attempt to put out the fuse-Pierrot le Fou
-Baxter discovers Fran in his bed-The Apartment
-The dying man in the boat-Ugetsu
-The sex on the beach monologue-Persona
-Never Gonna Dance sequence-Swing Time

There are more, but those above came first to mind, so are likely the most important to me.

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I'd like to see your own lists of 100 most meaningful moments in cinema. over 2 years ago

I cant believe I forgot the tavern scene at the end of Paths of Glory, easily, for me, the most powerful sequence Kubrick ever created, despite it not being on the level of his later masterpieces.

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Poll – Appearance of Favorite Films on Profile over 2 years ago

B

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The Making of The Auteurs' Film Canon, Essential 100 Films: What do you think? over 2 years ago

I’m in, though I need to think about it first.

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Your 5 Favourite Directors over 2 years ago

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Jean-Luc Godard
3. Akira Kurosawa
4. Federico Fellini
5. Andrei Tarkovsky

Cheating, but I just cant leave them out:

6. Kenji Mizoguchi
7. Ingmar Bergman
8. Sam Peckinpah
9. Terrence Malick
10. Nicholas Ray

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best year for film - your top ten over 2 years ago

1974

-Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
-The Godfather Pt. II (Francis Ford Coppolas)
-Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
-Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
-A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
-Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
-Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
-The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
-The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
-India Song (Marguerite Duras)

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Your birthday director(s) over 2 years ago

November 19: Gillo Pontecorvo

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what would hitchcock's best film be if you were to discount... over 2 years ago

100% Agree with those who picked Shadow of a Doubt.

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The Auteurs Best of the Decade Poll over 2 years ago

My first list was unfortunate, I should have waited until I had seen Tropical Malady, and rewatched The New World and The Royal Tenenbaums before I sent it. Too late now. All three of them are now in my top ten.

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Was Point Break Amazing or Ridiculous? Can't Remember about 2 years ago

Agree with Katharine. So much fun for me, but if you’re looking for serious insight, you may want to watch something else.

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