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    Posted: April 06 2007 at 08:08
Well, quite easy (yet I couldn't find this thread elsewhere). You just have to list 10 FILMS you should bring about on a desert island.
 
Here's my list:
- "The Innocents" by Jack Clayton
- "Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes" by Werner Herzog
- "Jeder für sich, Gott gegen alle" by the same guy as above
- "Suspiria" by Dario Argento
- "Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte" by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- "8 1/2" by Federico Fellini
- "The Color Purple" by Stephen Spielberg
- "The Haunting" by Robert Wise
- "Monsters Inc." by ???
- "Some like it Hot" by Billy Wilder
 
Now it's your turn! Bye Bye
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 08:22
mine are:

The Godfather Trilogy
LOTR Trilogy
Gladiator
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
Green Miles
Infernal Affairs
Love Actually
Braveheart
Scarry Movie (1-4)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 08:33
10 films, eh? Well here it goes:

  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • Scaramouche
  • King Kong (Peter Jackson version)
  • Band of Brothers Box Set (a mini-series of 12 episodes - not really a film)
  • Gladiator
  • Godfather Trilogy
  • LOTR Trilogy
  • Black Sheep
  • Beverly Hills Ninja
  • Tommy Boy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 09:06
When I exclude the LOTR trilogy, mine are:

  • Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (made in 1966 but i still love the razor sharp dialogues in this movie)
  • The English Patient
  • Seven Years In Tibet
  • Babe
  • Jaws
  • The Full Monty
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Once Upon A Time In The West
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Rosemary's Baby


But I would like to choose so many more films (after all on a desert island I think I would need more comedy).

BTW Paolo, I think the director of "Monsters, Inc" is Peter Docter.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 09:06
  • Gettysburg
  • LOTR Trilogy
  • Threads
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • 28 Days Later
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • American History X
  • Still Crazy
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Gladiator

Something like that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 12:22
1. Indiana Jones
2. Back to the Future
3. Jaws
4. Bananas
5. The Meaning of Life
6. The Wall
7. The Toxic Avenger
8. Office Space
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 13:45
Mean Streets
Waiting For Guffman
Dumb and Dumber
Yojimbo
Good Bad and the Ugly
No Direction Home
The Killing
Pan's Labrynth
Jackie Brown
Snake in the Eagle's Shawdow


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 13:46

Can't decide!!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 16:31
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Godfather I & II
Amadeus
Unforgiven
Once Upon A Time In The West
All About Eve
Bicycle Thieves
Schindler's List
All Quiet On The Western Front
 
 
...will there be electricity on the island, or should we just sit and read the liner notes?? Big%20smile


Edited by fandango - April 06 2007 at 16:33
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 16:53
Originally posted by kazansky kazansky wrote:

mine are:

The Godfather Trilogy
LOTR Trilogy
Gladiator
Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
Green Miles
Infernal Affairs
Love Actually
Braveheart
Scarry Movie (1-4)
 
Hey!!! This is 17 films!!!!AngryLOL
 
 
My list:
 
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Pt II
3. The Godfather Pt. III
4. Goodfellas
5. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
6. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
5. Nixon
6. El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
6. Amadeus
7. The Man who shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
8. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
9. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
10. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Sergio Lione)
 
and extra ones:
 
11. Nosferatu 1921 (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)
12. Nosferatu The Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
13. Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher 1958)
14. Bram Stoker's Dracula (F.F. Coppola)
15. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale 1935)
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2007 at 17:17
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones)
Mies vailla menneisyyttä (Aki Kaurismäki)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2007 at 04:45

Dear Fandango,

can you remember "Soylent Green", when the old man sat on a bicycle and had a lot to do with its dynamo?Smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2007 at 04:51
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by kazansky kazansky wrote:

mine are: The Godfather Trilogy LOTR Trilogy Gladiator Enemy at the Gates Saving Private Ryan Green Miles Infernal Affairs Love Actually Braveheart Scarry Movie (1-4)

 

Hey!!! This is 17 films!!!!AngryLOL


well, considering the Trilogies are come as collector edition sets
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2007 at 04:55
The Bicycle Thieves
The Red Balloon
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Manon de Sources
Jean de Florette
Lavender Hill Mob
Don't Look Now
The Player
Short Cuts
Blow Up


Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2007 at 13:48
Originally posted by paolo.beenees paolo.beenees wrote:

Dear Fandango,


can you remember "Soylent Green", when the old man sat on a bicycle and had a lot to do with its dynamo?Smile



Well, I can remember it. With his bicycle he (Edward G. Robinson I think) provided himself with the electricity he needed.
I've seen Soylent Green twice. The first time was about 30 years ago. At the time I was very impressed by this film. A year ago I watched it for the second time. Sadly enough I didn't like it as much as 30 years ago. Maybe I should leave memories like this one in the past.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2007 at 17:34

During a cineforum I let some students (15 to 19 yo) watch "Soylent Green" and they were quite impressed. It was not only the desperate ending, but also scenes such as the rebellion put down with the bulldozers to impress them... and me as well. I find many issues in that film still quite topical.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2007 at 17:49
Originally posted by paolo.beenees paolo.beenees wrote:

During a cineforum I let some students (15 to 19 yo) watch "Soylent Green" and they were quite impressed. It was not only the desperate ending, but also scenes such as the rebellion put down with the bulldozers to impress them... and me as well. I find many issues in that film still quite topical.



Yes, you're right about the many issues in the film. It's alarming that these issues (overpopulation, famine, violence, corruption, exhaustion of fossile energy resources) are still actual and even worse in the world of today.
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