My favorite movies

only ten this time...

Do you have too much spare time on your hands or something? 
Hard for me to choose between my top two there: Mulholland Drive or Young Fronkenstine.
Hare Krishna's dude.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 21 2007 at 21:36

Slartibartfast wrote: Do you have too much spare time on your hands or something?

...no... why would you think that?

1800iareyay wrote: Out of these choices, I have to take the nerd's way out and pick Empire. It's higher in my top ten than Clockwork Orange, and I've seen this movie far too many times to count. My top ten: 1. Dr. Strangelove 2. Apocalypse Now 3. Sin City 4. Blazing Saddles 5. Pulp Fiction 6. Empire Strikes Back 7. This Is Spinal Tap 8. Brazil 9. A Clockwork Orange 10. Chasing Amy

Excellent movies you have there!!! ...maybe Chasing Amy is not of my personaly taste, but then again Smith is not one of my favorite directors.

1800iareyay wrote: el böthy wrote: maybe Chasing Amy is not of my personaly taste, but then again Smith is not one of my favorite directors. As a slacker, I identify with Smith's movies, and CA holds a special place because I saw it at a time when I could identify with Ben Affleck's character. Anyone who thinks he's a bad actor because of all the internet hate should watch this film. He and Joey Lauren Adams are incredible, especially Adams, who gives a hell of a raw performance. Dogma is the funnier film and I love the message that faith and not the rules of organized religion are the path to Heaven, but Chasing Amy made me confront the insecurities that Affleck's character (and Smith himself) felt. Smith is certainly not flashy with a camera, but his scripts are golden and the simple shooting style fits the dialogue-driven films. Too many comedies these days feature all sorts of camera work that makes no sense.

All true!

My 10 favorites:

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (Fritz Lang)
Don`t Look Now! (Nicolas Roeg)
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
Montana Sacra (Alejandro Jodorowski)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Viva la Muerte! (Fernando Arrabal)
Belles de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
De Wissewlwachter (Jos Stelling)
Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)

this list may be subject to change at any time; these are just 10 movies that come to my mind right now. some of them are not well known ones; I definitely am not the woman for Hollywood bulls**t

BaldJean wrote: My 10 favorites: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa) M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (Fritz Lang) Don`t Look Now! (Nicolas Roeg) Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski) Montana Sacra (Alejandro Jodorowski) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) Viva la Muerte! (Fernando Arrabal) Belles de Jour (Luis Buñuel) De Wissewlwachter (Jos Stelling) Week End (Jean-Luc Godard) this list may be subject to change at any time; these are just 10 movies that come to my mind right now. some of them are not well known ones; I definitely am not the woman for Hollywood bulls**t

M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder? I always thought the name was M von Mörder. When I had to see the movie I got very confused, for some reason the translation in spanish is M el vampiro (M: the Vampire)... until the last second I was looking for a vampire, what a stupid translation!

Reasently I had to give an oral exam about a genre, an era or a filmaker of my choive between the beginings of cinema and the ´60. I chose Orson Welles, so I had to watch pretty much all of his movies (I did however not watch Chimes at midnight). What do you think of the rest of his filmography? Personally I like The Trial quite a lot, and think his version of Othelo was quite good, but nothing compares to Citizane Kane... I sound like a broken record, but its true...

I have yet to watch more Kurosawa, but what I have seen, the 7 samurais and that one about a doctor that breaks half the towns arms jejeje, did not impress me. But japanese cinema rarely impresses me, I find it... well, funny, I cant take them seriously. I know its a diferent kind of movie making, but ...its just not for me.

Godard is a filmaker I want to get into, for the Nouvelle Vague is quite interesting, at least in paper. Breathless is very good, but Made in USA I found terribly boring, any sugestion? Apart from Week end?


Edited by el böthy - December 26 2007 at 10:54

el böthy wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: el böthy wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Do you have too much spare time on your hands or something?  ...no... why would you think that? I apologize for insinuating that, apparently you have just enough time on your hands.    Me, I could use a little more... I study Films, it´s not that I have free time to watch movies, more than I have to!

I see, well as long as they don't have to prop your eyelids open.

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Great list, böthy... Just classics!!!! My favourite is Clockwork Orange, a raw portrait of our times...