Top 25 Favorite Movies

[Harry Lime]

shit i already want to change my list.

Yeah I'm hesitant to dive right in.

[bada]

Dark Crystal
Big Trouble in Little China

these are so good....

[The Argonaut]

do documentaries count?

Of course! Grey Gardens, Dark Days, Dear Zachary, and Stop Making Sense were all contenders for my list.

[daft twat]

The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
The Naked City (Dassin, 1947)
Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957)
L'avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
The Killers (Siegel, 1964)
Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966)
Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)
Je t'aime je t'aime (Resnais, 1968)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
F for Fake (Welles, 1972)
California Split (Altman, 1974)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
Being There (Ashby, 1979)
Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
My Dinner with Andre (Malle, 1981)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
Ishtar (May, 1987)
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991)
Naked (Leigh, 1993)
The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999)
In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
Va Savoir (Rivette, 2001)
Only God Forgives (Refn, 2013)

That's a damn fine list. Bigger Than Life was one of the last eliminations from my own list. I like your inclusion of California Split, too. I really love the play between those two characters. It might be my favorite Altman movie. I don't hear about it much, compared to his other movies.

Point Blank was this close to being on my list.

Honest truth, Point Break was nearly on my list, and I got a little excited when I misread your post. "If you want the ultimate thrill you have to be willing to pay the ultimate price."

[Harry Lime]

Aw what the hell, off the top of my head:

The Public Enemy (1931)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
The Third Man (1949)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
The Hustler (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Haunting (1963)
The Graduate (1967)
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
2001: A Space Odyseey (1968)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Exorcist (1973)
Stalker (1979)
Oridinary People (1980)
Brazil (1985)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
Ken Burns' Baseball (1994)
Moon (2009)
The Tree of Life (2011)

[Harry Lime]

I totally forgot All the President's Men. You see I can't fucking do this.

[@SkitchP]

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I don't know you swan, but you and I are going to get along just fine.

[The Argonaut]

I totally forgot All the President's Men. You see I can't fucking do this.

I use http://www.icheckmovies.com to keep track of what I've seen, what I liked, and sometimes to find what I want to see next.

[Harry Lime]

I totally forgot All the President's Men. You see I can't fucking do this.

I use http://www.icheckmovies.com to keep track of what I've seen, what I liked, and sometimes to find what I want to see next.

Yeah I should use that.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I forgot about Dark Crystal, damn.

[Harry Lime]

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononho ... i-and-more

Cinematographer Roger Deakins' Top 10 movies:

1. The Wild Bunch
2. Come and See
3. La Dolce Vita
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. The Godson
6. Army of Shadows
7. Once Upon a Time in the West
8. Rocco and his Brothers
9. The Passenger
10. Paris, Texas

[doug rr]

Not sure I can do this..at least not 25

jaws
caddyshack
apocalypse now
day of the jackal
dog day afternoon
panic in needle park
wizard of oz
shawshank
amityville horror
exorcist
dirty harry
full metal jacket
deer hunter
ratatouille
endless summer
original planet of the apes
3 days of the condor
a river runs through it


so many more I cant think of now

[Norah]

here are some off the top of my head that would find their way onto my list:

dr strangelove
the sound of music
jaws
jurassic park
happy gilmore
vanilla sky
shawshank
kingpin
pulp fiction
the godfather
the godfather part 2
the lion king
clerks

i know i'm forgetting plenty

[Harry Lime]

I totally forgot All the President's Men. You see I can't fucking do this.

And Castaway & Zodiac

[Soma.]

I'm going to take entirely too long to do this. How do you guys compile a list without feeling it could be better 5 minutes later?

[epilogue]

I'm going to take entirely too long to do this. How do you guys compile a list without feeling it could be better 5 minutes later?

Just write it and think about it later.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I'm going to take entirely too long to do this. How do you guys compile a list without feeling it could be better 5 minutes later?

Right? What do they think this is? Ranking shit in PJ chat?

[red calzolaio]

A Prophet (Audiard, 2009)
Sin Nombre (Fukunaga, 2009)
Even the Rain (Bollain, 2010)
The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
Point Blank (Cavayé, 2010)
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Padilha, 2010)
Vengeance (Johnnie To, 2009)
Aftershock (Feng, 2010)
Flame and Citron (Ole Christian Madsen, 2008)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Loach, 2006)
Soo: Revenge for a Twisted Fate (Sai, 2007)
Mother (Bong, 2009)
The Salton Sea (Caruso, 2002)
The Chaser (Hong-jin Na, 2008)
Angel of Evil (Placedo, 2010)
Mesrine: Part 1 & 2 (Richet, 2008)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch

[Orpheus]

I love The Wind that Shakes the Barley, great pick.

[fishbob]

I dunno what I'd say for 25, there's too many that I've either gotten over or just don't really love enough. This is as good as my list gets:

1. Blues Brothers
2. Fellowship of the Ring
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Monty Python's Meaning of Life
5. Shawshank Redemption

Plenty of kid's movie classics would be up there too like Lion King, Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory