The nuILx Poll of All-Time Greatest Movies

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Boringly obvious, in vaguely chronological order, and too long by half, but anyway....

Intolerance
L'Atalante
It's A Gift!
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Dumbo
The Palm Beach Story
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Big Sleep
Notorious
Ugetsu
Lola Montes
High and Low
Marnie
Pierrot Le Fou
F For Fake
The Long Goodbye
Up!
God Told Me To
Blue Velvet
Fallen Angels

― James Blount, Friday, 16 August 2002 06:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Um, comments:

It's A Gift! - Whatta Asshole!

Dumbo - best Disney flick, with great seperation-from-mother anxiety (better than Bambi, which keeps the action offscreen like Sophocles or something), great universal aspiration (the ability to fly), and fine enough moral (believe in yourself, pre-1970s). And a mouse gets drunk in it.

The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler in the house! I knew I HAD to include Notorious and I think The Big Sleep is a better movie than Notorious (they came out the same year, I think), so it makes the list. Plus, unlike The Maltese Falcon or Casablanca, it doesn't end with Bogart having to sacrifice the girl on principle. The Long Goodbye's my favorite Altman, and somehow Elliot Gould's Marlowe has seemed to have more in common with Bogart's than say Robert Mitchum's. Plus this is the one great Altman movie (well, until Gosford Park anyway) where the cynicism and misanthropy crack just enough to glimpse the wounded angry idealist underneath. And - Arnold Schwarzneggar!

Notorious and Marnie - Okay, Vertigo's the better movie maybe but Marnie somehow seems less clunky (the psychology isn't quite so archaic) and more extreme and bizarre. It's barely a thriller - there's a great setpiece of a heist a little ways into it - but mostly it's just Hitch torturing poor Tippi Hedren. The culmination of his misogyny - it was all downhill from here on out. Notorious has Cary Grant AND Ingrid Bergman for Chris'sake.

F For Fake - Welles' last finished movie, although he couldn't have known it at the time, and it manages to close the circle with "War of the Worlds" and Orson Welles, Magician (which he trotted out on 'I Love Lucy') while holding it's own with Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, et. al

Up! - It's got a strap-on AND a Greek chorus, what more could you want? Plus, better CB humor than anything in the Burt Reynolds canon. Oh, and big titties.

Blue Velvet - "Heineken? Fuck that shit - Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

L'Atalante and Fallen Angels - Happiest Endings Ever!

― James Blount, Friday, 16 August 2002 06:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

not preferential order, its hard enough for my brain to list...here goes
Stalker
Dolly-(russian)
Fallen Angels
A christmas Story -whoever said that previously, thanks.
Gong Li
Devil at your heels-(that title sounds wrong- if you like documentary and hubris search this out)
Ice Storm
Les amants du pont neuf
thats only 8. shit *goes to take memory drugs*

― jeskam, Friday, 16 August 2002 13:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Crying Game
Fite Club
Blade Runner
Interview with a Vampire
Biloxi Blues
Out of Site
Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone
that StarTrek movie with the sexy borg
Armageddon
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
About A Boy
The Last Starfighter
Dune

― toraneko, Friday, 16 August 2002 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wrote: "11. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' ~ Nic Roeg 1975"

My mistake, Peter Weir directed 'Picnic'. Can't believe none of you noticed. Shame on you all.

― DavidM (DavidM), Saturday, 17 August 2002 10:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

ferris Bueller's day off
The Simpsons episode where Homer stops going to church on Sundays
Usual suspects
Raging Bull
The televisation of the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics
Bring it on
Roman Holiday
Grosse Point Blank
National Lampoon's European vacation
the filming of the penalty shoot-out in Rome when Bruce Grobelaar did his bendy legs routine.

― chris (chris), Saturday, 17 August 2002 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Casino

Wonder Boys

Midnight Run

Fargo

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

GoodFellas

The Devil and Daniel Webster

McCabe & Mrs Miller

Manhattan

Vertigo

(runners-up: The Godfather/Rear Window/Some Like It Hot/The Big Sleep/The Man Who Would Be King/You Can Count on Me/This Is Spinal Tap/The Taking of Pelham 123/Mighty Aphrodite/The Apartment/M/The Man Who Fell to Earth/The Lady Vanishes/The 39 Steps/Jaws/Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore/Gattaca/Duck Soup/The Conformist/Rope/The Hard Way/Topsy Turvy)

― james bennet, Saturday, 17 August 2002 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh, and I meant to include The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, one of the most beautiful, subtle, and poignant films ever made.

― james bennet, Saturday, 17 August 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Three votes for Suspiria and even one for Marnie... hooray!!

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 18 August 2002 08:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

My top ten movies are:

that werner herzog film where he says 'a galaxy of chaos hurts my head.'

Caspar Hauser.

Fear eats the soul.

andrei rublev.

abigails party.

the breakfast club.

on the buses. ha ha ha ! no really, i mean the final episode of 'League of Gentlemen.'

a trinh ti min ha documentary about vietnamese women.

no john waters film.

life is sweet.

the episode of 'hancock's half hour' where he goes on a boat and a plane and frightens everyone by talking about it crashing or sinking.

pretty in pink.

― maryann, Sunday, 18 August 2002 09:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

"pretty in pink" is tied equally with "even dwarves start small."

― maryann, Sunday, 18 August 2002 09:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

allowing only individual episodes of tv shows in is like asking them to be movies and then laughing when they fail!

some feature films I like a load: office space, the big lebowski, hannah and her sisters, blade runner, andrei rublev

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 19 August 2002 05:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

VALLEY GIRL, a movie about the importance of using your will and the best blue-eyed Cage performance EVAH - still skinny and "fast-forwarding to the future of acting" (c) his oscar speech years later when accepting an award for seargant piccolo's accordion

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 August 2002 05:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

My favorites:

Dazed and Confused
Animal House
Vacation
Wonderboys
The Dirty Dozen - What a cast
Platoon
Silence of the Lambs
Kicking and Screaming - my favorite of all time
Braveheart
Office Space
Goodfellas
Casino
Easy Money

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dancer in the Dark, Showgirls, Up in Smoke, The Idiots, Gimme Shelter, Freddy Got Fingered, Hills Have Eyes, The Brood, Lost Highway, Caddyshack

― dave q, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

(did you forget salo dave q? or do you really think lost highway is bettah?)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dunno 'bout greatest and dunno a lot about films but these are some I have liked off the top of my head. It's been a while since I watched some of them.

Annie Hall
Citizen Kane (Am I really the first person to vote for this?)
The Hudsucker Proxy
A Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Last Picture Show
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Monty Python & the Quest For the Holy Grail
Slacker
Rear Window
Fast Times At Ridgemont High

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

mark s - watched 'Salo' again recently, seemed very much like an 'Animal Farm'-type rilly obvious (not a bad thing tho) allegory with everybody being symbolic, also seemed like a filmed Restoration comedy or something, but then, I've seen it about 12 times so maybe I'm getting nitpicky. 'Lost Highway' choice based on self-congratulation euphoria on finally 'getting' it (i think?) on 2nd viewing (first time I watched it I practically demanded my money back from the cinema, watched it again and thot 'OK this makes sense now'), so my opinion isn't really to be trusted on this one either

― dave q, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 08:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Filth and the Fury!

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 10:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Manos: The Hands of Fate as interpreted by MST3K = "Filmed on location in a vacant lot."
...
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), August 10th, 2002.

Least surprising choice on the whole thread. ;)

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

There are a lot of people calling Simpsons episodes "movies," when they are sort of not. But, hey, I've probably toyed with the idea of putting a CD-Rom on my list of films ("Immemory").

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

greatest:
tokyo story
hiroshima mon amour
rules of the game
decalogue 1
the passion of joan of arc
persona
earth (silent russian one)
battleship potemkin
vivre sa vie
repulsion

favorite:
hiroshima mon amour
tokyo story
ordet
nashville
ten (the abbas kiarostami one)
through a glass darkly
vivre sa vie
blue velvet
rules of the game
once upon a time in the west

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Eschewing the actual thread question, here are 20 current personal favorites instead of 10 all-time 'greatest':

End of Evangelion
Donnie Darko
Pulp Fiction
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
LOTR: Return of the King
Serpico
Magnolia
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
American Beauty
Akira
The Shining
Lost in Translation
Trainspotting
Blue Velvet
Reservoir Dogs
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now: Redux

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

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