Your Top 20?

[TheKanga]

In no particular order, that's to hard!

• 2001: A Space Oddysee
• Spirited Away
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Memento
• Inception
• Donnie Darko
• Mulholland Drive
• Oldboy
• Days of Being Wild
• In The Mood For Love
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• A Clockwork Orange
• Princess Mononoke
• Laputa: A Castle in the Sky
• Inglorious Basterds
• Days of Heaven
• Before Sunrise
• The Big Lebowski
• Gattaca
• Se7en

 

[Marlowe]

Off the op o' my head (bound to leave a few good faves out):

- The Big Lebowski
- North by Northwest
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- The Matrix
- Dazed and Confused
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Goodfellas
- Die Hard
- Caddyshack
- Easy Rider
- The French Connection
- Miller's Crossing
- Braveheart
- This is Spinal Tap
- Dr. Strangelove
- Spirited Away
- Shaun of the Dead
- The Incredibles
- Hard Boiled
- Full Metal Jacket

 

[bradrowe#32]

No particular order;

The Untouchables
The 25th Hour
Rounders
Badlands
Good Will Hunting
Big Fish
There Will Be Blood
Rushmore
High Fidelity
Gone Baby Gone
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
In Bruges
Sideways
Tin Cup
Dogma
The Wrestler
He Got Game
Any Given Sunday
Half Nelson
Lars And The Real Girl

 

[Red Black and Blue]

1. Casablanca
2. Pans Labyrinth
3. The Untouchables
4. Gladiator
5. Once Upon A Time In The West
6. The Sting
7. In Bruges
8. Snatch
9. Se7en
10. Rio Bravo
11. Strangers on a Train
12. Sleepers
13. North by Northwest
14. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
15. Quills
16. Inglorious Basterds
17. Platoon
18. The Trouble with Harry
19. LA Confidential
20. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Subject to change time I remake it.

 

[CURVE]

Here are my top 20 films:

1. Three Colours Red
2. Double Life Of Veronique
3. Pandora's Box (Silent)
4. Diary Of A Lost Girl (Silent)
5. Once Upon A Time In The West
6. The Good The Bad & The Ugly
7. Belle De Jour
8. Repulsion
9. M (1931)
10. Sweetheart (Toutes Peines Confondues) (1992)
11. Rear Window (1954)
12. Sandra Of A Thousand Delights
13. Double Indemnity
14. La Femme Nikita
15. The Vanishing (Spoorloos)
16. Delusion (1991)
17. Gettin' Square
18. Thunderball
19. The Girl With A Suitcase
20. Exotica

Most are European, but there are a couple from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

 

[Roobs321]

Nice list

Im somewhat suprised to see Once Upon a Time in the West being near the top of 3-4 lists so far. Good to see.

 

[Roobs321]

My list of favourite films has slightly changed (and considerably expanded) over the last 2 years since my last post in this thread. A lot of the below need a rewatch, and this list does not necessarily make claims that these are the greatest films, but at the moment I would have it something like this.

1. Alien (Scott, 1979)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
3. Brief Encounter (Lean, 1945)
4. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
5. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979) - original cut
6. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
7. Her (Jonze, 2013)
8. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
9. Fanny & Alexander (Bergman, 1982) - TV version
10. Runaway Train (Konchalovsky, 1985)

11. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
12. Bladerunner (Scott, 1982)
13. Salvador (Stone, 1985)
14. The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
15. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
16. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
17. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
18. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
19. Duck, You Sucker/A Fistful of Dynamite (Leone, 1971)
20. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)

21. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
22. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
23. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
25. The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
26. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980) - international cut
27. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran, 1993)
28. Children of Men (Cauron, 2006)
29. The Master (Anderson, 2012)
30. Midnight Express (Parker, 1978)

31. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
32. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
33. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
34. Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968)
35. Akira (Otomo, 1988)
36. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)
37. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
38. Alien3 (Fincher, 1992)
39. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
40. Carlito's Way (De Palma, 1993)

41. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
42. Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh, 2008)
43. Thief (Mann, 1981)
44. Bright Star (Campion, 2009)
45. Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
46. Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983)
47. The Childrens Hour (Wyler, 1961)
48. The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)
49. Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990)
50. Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)

51. Wake in Fright (Kotcheff, 1971)
52. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
53. Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley, 1992)
54. Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959)
55. The Godfather Part III (Coppola, 1990)
56. The Abyss (Cameron, 1989)
57. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
58. Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski, 1993)
59. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
60. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)

61. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)
62. Milk (Van Sant, 2008)
63. Terms of Endearment (Brooks, 1983)
64. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
65. The House of Sand (Waddington, 2005)
66. A Single Man (Ford, 2009)
67. Yentl (Streisand, 1983)
68. Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
69. Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970)
70. Miller's Crossing (Coen, 1990)

71. Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968)
72. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
73. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
74. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
75. Mulan (Bancroft/Cook, 1998)
76. The Pope of Greenwich Village (Rosenberg, 1984)
77. Das Boot (Peterson, 1981)
78. Sleeping Beauty (Geronimi, 1959)
79. Days of Wine and Roses (Edwards, 1962)
80. Gallipoli (Weir, 1981)

81. Hunger (McQueen, 2008)
82. The Lives of Others (Von Donnersmarck, 2006)
83. The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen, 2001)
84. No Country for Old Men (Coen, 2007)
85. Gravity (Cauron, 2013)
86. All About My Mother (Almodovar, 1999)
87. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1953)
88. Mad Max (Miller, 1979)
89. Three Colors: White (Keislowski, 1994)
90. Titanic (Cameron, 1997)

91. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
92. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
93. Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
94. Three Colors: Red (Keislowski, 1994)
95. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
96. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
97. Nine 1/2 Weeks (Lyne, 1986)
98. Secrets & Lies (Leigh, 1996)
99. Tabu (Gomes, 2012)
100. 12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013)

101. Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale/Wise, 1991)
102. Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939)
103. Charulata (Ray, 1964)
104. The Last Wave (Weir, 1977)
105. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Avnet, 1991)
106. Body Heat (Kasdan, 1981)
107. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
108. Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
109. How Green Was My Valley (Ford, 1941)
110. The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986)

111. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
112. The Big City (Ray, 1963)
113. Pi (Aronofsky, 1998)
114. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
115. A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956)
116. Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
117. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
118. Bernie (Linklater, 2012)
119. Boy (Oshima, 1969)
120. The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008)

121. Under the Skin (Glazer, 2014)
122. Scenes From a Marriage (Bergman, 1973) - TV version
123. Diner (Levinson, 1982)
124. Antichrist (Von Trier, 2009)
125. The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983)
126. The Home Song Stories (Ayres, 2007)
127. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)
128. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
129. Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
130. City of God (Meirelles, 2002)

131. The Mission (Joffe, 1986)
132. The Year My Voice Broke (Duigan, 1987)
133. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
134. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
135. Badlands (Malick, 1973)
136. A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
137. Frailty (Paxton, 2001)
138. Shame (McQueen, 2011)
139. Like Father, Like Son (Kore-eda, 2014)
140. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)

141. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
142. Dancer in the Dark (Von Trier, 2000)
143. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen, 2013)
144. Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)
145. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
146. The Double Life of Veronique (Keislowski, 1991)
147. Naked (Leigh, 1993)
148. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Zeffirelli, 1972)
149. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
150. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)

151. All the President's Men (Pakula, 1976)
152. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
153. United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)
154. Fargo (Coen, 1996)
155. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954)
156. Great Expectations (Lean, 1946)
157. Some Came Running (Minnelli, 1958)
158. Breaking the Waves (Von Trier, 1996)
159. Steel Magnolias (Ross, 1989)
160. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)

161. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi, 1959)
162. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Kobayashi, 1959)
163. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Kobayashi, 1961)
164. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
165. Candy (Armfield, 2006)
166. Cyclo (Tran, 1995)
167. Naked Lunch (Cronenberg, 1991)
168. The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass, 2004)
169. Vigil (Ward, 1984)
170. Star 80 (Fosse, 1983)

171. The Big Country (Wyler, 1958)
172. Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1954)
173. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu, 2007)
174. WALL-E (Stanton, 2008)
175. Vera Drake (Leigh, 2004)

HM: Still Walking, Funny Games (1997), Pulp Fiction, Modern Times, The Social Network, The Last Emperor, Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World, Lawrence of Arabia, Farewell My Concubine, Barton Fink, Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Neighbor Totoro, The Seventh Continent, Michael Clayton

 

[djrossie16]

We should do a bigfooty contest "suggest a film to crack Roobs top 200" It can go for a year and we can allocated points for every film you get in lol.

 

[Seeds]

Reading these lists and having seen most at the top makes me realise that movies are an overrated form of entertainment. Good tv shows are far more enjoyable then movies.

 

[JD11]

I can't order them:

• Before Sunrise
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Pulp Fiction
• Dr Strangelove
• Rosencrantz + Guilderstern Are Dead
• Slacker
• Amelie
• Manhattan
• Office Space
• Taxi Driver
• There Will Be Blood
• Waking Life
• Donnie Darko
• 12 Angry Men
• Fargo
• Zodiac
• Into The Wild
• The Eighth Day
• Bad Santa
• In The Loop

I always go for sentiment over objectivity.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Taxi Driver, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs. They're my five.

 

[placebo]

Epic list Roobs. Good shit.

In no particular order:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Through a Glass Darkly
3. Manhattan
4. Duck Soup
5. Citizen Kane
6. Paris, Texas
7. No Country For Old Men/Fargo/A Serious Man (can never decide my fave)
8. On The Waterfront
9. Double Indemnity
10. Rear Window


11. Aguirre, Wrath of God
12. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
13. The Seventh Seal
14. Ran
15. Touch of Evil
16. Out of the Past
17. The Third Man
18. Chinatown
19. For All Mankind
20. Autumn Sonata

21. Crimes and Misdemeanours
22. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
23. Eyes Wide Shut
24. La Strada
25. Memories of MUrder
26. City of God
27. In the Mood for Love
28. Annie Hall
29. Wild Strawberries
30. 12 Angry Men

31. Terminator 2
32. Rope
33. The Shining
34. King of Comedy
35. Brief Encounter
36. Chungking Express
37. Zodiac
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
40. Horse Feathers

41. Blue Velvet
42. Persona
43. The Maltese Falcon
44. Psycho
45. Silence of the Lambs
46. Life of Brian
47. Mirror
48. Orpheus
49. Scenes From a Marriage
50. The Apartment

That'll do for now.

 

[RobbyRoy]

7. No Country For Old Men/Fargo/A Serious Man (can never decide my fave)

You filthy cheat! Interestingly, I've found that a lot of big Coen fans tend to rate Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink as their best.

 

[rumply]

A few fav's

Alien (1979)
American Beauty (1999)
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Apocalypto (2006)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Cast Away (2000)
Contact (1997)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Factotum (2005)
Fargo (1996)
Footrot Flats The Dog's Tale (1987)
Goodfellas (1990)
Gran Torino (2009)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
I Am Legend (2007)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Margin Call (2011)
Master and Commander The Far Side of the World (2003)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Papillon (1973)
Scarface (1983)
Sexy Beast (2000)
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Grifters (1990)
The Hustler (1961)
The Killing (1956)
The Shining (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Social Network (2010)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Titanic (1997)
Trainspotting (1996)
Wall Street (1987)

 

[djrossie16]

I can't order them:

Yep i can't either

Also is the Eighth Day that Belgium film? I cracked up when they hijacked that bus and went through the shop lmao. Great film.

 

[Roobs321]

You filthy cheat! Interestingly, I've found that a lot of big Coen fans tend to rate Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink as their best.

To me, they are the ones that benefit the most from rewatch, occasionally I get a specific craving for those two films. There is something beguiling about those two films.

My personal order would be something like;

1. Miller's Crossing
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. No Country for Old Men
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Fargo
7. Barton Fink
8. A Serious Man
9. Blood Simple
10. The rest

Choosing a favourite Coen film is really difficult. There is really very little that separates the top several. That said, there is often a signature self-aware spoof attitude to their films that can be really off-putting and empty in the wrong mood. Their films walk a fine line between genius and parody, yet all their films still manage to find their own distinct personality.

 

[djrossie16]

I like Fargo the tv show better than their films

 

[RobbyRoy]

To me, they are the ones that benefit the most from rewatch, occasionally I get a specific craving for those two films. But I would be lying if I said they were my favourites. Nevertheless, there is something beguiling about those two films.

Agree with your first point, especially for Barton Fink.

At the risk of going to off-topic I'll just throw up my own Coen top 5.

1. No Country For Old Men
2. Fargo
3. Barton Fink
4. Miller's Crossing
5. The Man Who Wasn't There

This reminds me- I've completely forgotten about Inside Llewyn Davis, will have to get around to watching that ASAP.

 

[JD11]

Am I the only one who rates Burn After Reading? It's definetly in my top 5 Coen films.

 

[Roobs321]

I appreciated it a lot more the second time round, but it would still be lucky to make my top 10.

 

[ElitePunter]

A lot of casual plebs in here

 

[Roobs321]

I just rewatched Miller's Crossing, wow, what a perfect gem of a film. Definitely one of the Coen's best, and really shines on rewatch. I think it might just be my new favourite Coen.

 

[djrossie16]

In no particular order my 20 favourites
Lawrence of Arabia
The Godfather
Raging Bull
Once Upon a Time in the West
City of Sadness
Into the Wild
Leaving Las Vegas
Head On (2004)
Hunger
Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
There Will Be Blood
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Days of Being Wild
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
LOTR: The Two Towers
A Heart in Winter (1992)
Lacombe Lucien
Breaker Morant
City of God
Walt With Bashir

 

[placebo]

Some fine films there.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and…Spring is a great film. Deserves more praise.

 

[djrossie16]

Some fine films there.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and…Spring is a great film. Deserves more praise.

Yeah it would probably top the 20 or more high quality modern Korean films i've seen in the last few years. I think if I were to do a top 200 there would be many Korean dramas in there. A genre of film i've really enjoyed over the last few years. After Oldboy I really went out of my way to seek them out and discovered there are many films I would consider better.