Difficult to say with these lists whether you're voting for your favourites or the most "important", i.e. someone else's favourites...anyway, these are probably the 10 films I like to watch the most
Carnival Of SoulsKwaidanThe Seventh SealThe Third ManSpirited AwayTetsuo : The Iron ManA Canterbury TaleThis Is Spinal TapThe Thing2001 : A Space Odyssey
― the same relation to machines as that which machines have to man (Matt #2), Sunday, 12 September 2010 19:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
clemenza tarantino had the proposal as one of his best movies for last year (and shame on me for watching it as a result).
― balls, Sunday, 12 September 2010 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ugetsu Monogatari (Japan, 1953)Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (USA, 1954)Psycho (USA, 1960)Persona (Sweden, 1966)Mouchette (France, 1967)Out 1: Noli me tangere and Out 1: Spectre (France, 1971) La Maman et la Putain (France, 1973)Suspiria (Italy, 1976)Dawn of the Dead (USA, 1978)The Shining (USA, 1980)
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
really liked your list till i got to Suspiria, and started wtf'ing?
― Zeno, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
Such bright people inexplicably fond of arty, dull horror.
alternate ballot for the crapped-on comedy:
the Chaplin Mutual shortsYou're Darn Tootin' (Laurel & Hardy)Trouble in ParadiseDuck Soup (Marxes/McCarey)The Bank DickThe Miracle of Morgan's CreekSon of PalefacePlaytimeFemale TroubleA Private Function (Mowbray/Bennett/Palin/Smith)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
ward fowler and dr morbius' main list are both v good
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
well, they are dull.
― Zeno, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
absolutely haven't seen enough films to do a list like this
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
DUDE YOU ONLY NEED TO HAVE SEEN 10
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i haven't seen that many films, my concentration levels are usually pretty bad. films i didn't bothering watching til the end even tho i actually liked in most instances could easily be an entrant here.
the godfather part IIfuneral parade of rosessatantangoshort cutspickup on south streethiroshima mon amourflowers of shanghaithe exterminating angelf for fakea canterbury tale
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
for shame
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok fine but bear in mind my list in a year's time will be RADICALLY different
also I'm discounting films like Network and w/e because it's basically not one of the 10 greatest films ever, even if it is chemically-engineered to make me slaver
That Obscure Object Of Desire La RondeAlphavilleMulholland DrRear WindowThe Rules Of The GameThe Discreet Charm Of The BourgeoiseThe Exterminating AngelThe ConformistNight Of The Hunter
^^^boring
Would watch movies with Zeno and balls tbh
oh lol @ nakh NOT FINISHING The Exterminating Angel
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
also F for Fake is in my next 10 (as are Ugetsu Monogatari and Pierrot Le Fou of stuff already named)
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
was more sad at him not finishing Canterbury Tale tbh
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
awful confession of my own: fell asleep during His Girl Friday
I was tired ok
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:42 (40 seconds ago)
yeah but u probably grew up in the olden days when there were trams and tea clippers and patience was necessarily more ecouraged
also i can watch those films any time if i can actually pay attention
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am interested in the beauty and therapeutic value of "boredom", this is true.
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
the godfather part II -- dude really?funeral parade of roses -- had to google thissatantango -- not my kind of thing short cuts -- it's okpickup on south street -- it's ok but not a big dealhiroshima mon amour -- dude really?flowers of shanghai -- yeah... not easythe exterminating angel -- i like it well enoughf for fake -- (sheepish) not seena canterbury tale -- dude really?
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i mean i love a lot of rly long/boring films if i can actally concentrate, tho on another day i can't even finish a samuel fuller film (and i love samuel fuller films)
it's not like living in a provincial town in the 70s and waiting years for a mizoguchi retrospective, you can watch dvd/blurays whenever
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
pre-1930
IntoleranceThe Passion of Joan of ArcThe NavigatorNosferatuGreedEasy StreetThe Last LaughSafety LastMikaelCops
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
hiroshima mon amour -- dude really?
no shame in that being in a top 10
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't see how zeno's list is any more exciting than morbs' or ward f's
― post below to show ur support for I love football separatism (cozen), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think the "dull" comment was in re: Morbs's snipe at horror flicks
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
ah I see, apols
― post below to show ur support for I love football separatism (cozen), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, i forgot the sacred "xpost"
― Zeno, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
totes -- i was dude-reallying his failure to stay awake through it
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
or have i misunderstood
hmm
didn't fall asleep just stopped watching (as w/ the others i listed)
i'm guesing the misreading was gukbe's not yrs
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
id definitely include a resnais. not sure which.
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, my misreading. thought you were saying that there were others you didn't make it through that could make the list, then i thought mayne was being all wtf
got it wrong. carry on, gentlemen.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
is this Pasolini's Caterbury Tale being listed?
― jed_, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Powell and Pressburger.
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pasolini's is in the plural iirc
also damn i shd probably have had Gospel According to St Matthew in my list going toe to toe with Simon
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'd normally come on here and give my...less than enthusiastic appraisal of F Is for Fake, but acoleuthic voted for it, so I'd better not open that door.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
dude your vendetta is fucking ludicrous and also I didn't put it in my top 10, learn to read
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
also feel fucking free to say what you want to say, I'm not gonna bite your fucking head off
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oops--it was someone else, not acoleuthic. So: I saw it last winter for the first time and thought it was sad. (Sorry.) Bad-sad, not good-sad. Except for a short passage where he got very Ambersons-like nostalgic, which was good-sad. I know it has a major following.
Charming as ever.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Considering a thread called "Surprise Beef" y/n?
― Eejit Piaf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
clemenza you should be honoured as nowadays you're the only ilxor of the many thousands who post to this site whom I'm compelled to speak to in anything like this fashion
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Duly honoured. And as a major Godfather fan, I love being involved in a vendetta!
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah um don't take it too far, I have so many films to see before I die
― acoleuthic, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Out 1: Noli me tangere"
Amazing, but Size does matter.
should get a tv screening. (along with a re-run of Berlin Alexanderplatz)
― Zeno, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'm about an hour into Singin In The Rain and this is honestly one of the most joyous, purely entertaining films I've ever seen. Face is aching from grinning.
If ever a film deserved to have the 'see before you die' designation..
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
you millennials, with you posting mid-film!
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
r
it's good! it's even better if you stop reading the web btw.
xp lol
― caek, Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's exceedingly cute and well-executed. Other MGM musicals are deeper.
xxxp
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sorry I just had to take a little break to recover and take stock from how much I was enjoying it...
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
...and where better to spend it than an ILM film thread.
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:19 (2 years ago) Permalink