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| What'sinaname wrote: | This thread went from lame to awesome.
Blades of Glory
Remember the Titans
Red Heat
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Dogma
Heartbreak Ridge |
remember the Titans, i have that, brillaINT,
and heartbreak ridge, but anything with Clint!
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Bumping this thread ten years on because Sight & Sound just released their once-in-a-decade "greatest films of all time" list, drawn from an international survey of film critics (including – quite unexpectedly – me!):
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time
Here's the top 20 in more digestible form:
| Quote: | 1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
5. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1998)
8. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
9. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov,1929)
10. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
12. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
13. La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
14. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
15. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
16. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
17. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
18. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
19. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
20. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) |
No end of controversy about the top choice, which is a 3+ hour film mostly featuring extended takes of a woman doing housework. I like Akerman's films a lot (I've posted about her here in the past: https://magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?p=1632820), but even I can admit this one is a pretty austere and "difficult" film that a lot of people are going to find as entertaining as watching paint dry. Still, it's a fascinating list, and it's nice to see some other filmmakers get their due for once as opposed to the same old Hitchcock/Welles/Coppola titles.
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The only one of those I've seen is The Searchers
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and that's the only one I haven't seen!  
(Actually, on second glance, I also haven't seen Apocalypse Now  )
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Wow, what a shit list of movies. I guess once in a decade greatest movies means you should only watch them once every ten years. Any sooner is too often.
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Shit because you've seen most of them and didn't like them, or you're just guessing that you wouldn't?
(Funnily enough, I'd be perfectly fine seeing most of my favourite films once per decade! I always worry that I'll grow tired of them if I watch them too often – same goes for listening to favourite songs too much.)
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stui magpie
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| David wrote: | and that's the only one I haven't seen!
(Actually, on second glance, I also haven't seen Apocalypse Now ) |
back in the 70's, every Sunday at Lunchtime there'd be an old Western on TV, I would have seen it a few times while eating Sunday Roast lunch.
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There's another list that that deserves to remain atop of for all eternity!
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I’ve seen 3: david guess which ones!
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Hmm. I'm going to say Singin' in the Rain, Mulholland Drive and ... The Godfather? How many did I get right? 
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Godfather
Apocalypse Now
2001
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I've seen twelve of the films on that list and they are all worthy so I presume the others would be worthy too.
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| stui magpie wrote: | | The only one of those I've seen is The Searchers |
Really? Not even The Godfather?
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| David wrote: | Bumping this thread ten years on because Sight & Sound just released their once-in-a-decade "greatest films of all time" list, drawn from an international survey of film critics (including – quite unexpectedly – me!):
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time
Here's the top 20 in more digestible form:
| Quote: | 1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
5. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1998)
8. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
9. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov,1929)
10. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
12. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
13. La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
14. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
15. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
16. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
17. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
18. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
19. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
20. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) |
No end of controversy about the top choice, which is a 3+ hour film mostly featuring extended takes of a woman doing housework. I like Akerman's films a lot (I've posted about her here in the past: https://magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?p=1632820), but even I can admit this one is a pretty austere and "difficult" film that a lot of people are going to find as entertaining as watching paint dry. Still, it's a fascinating list, and it's nice to see some other filmmakers get their due for once as opposed to the same old Hitchcock/Welles/Coppola titles. |
Interesting list but no “All about Eve” and no “Les enfants du paradis” loses it for me! 7 Samurai is in my top 10 as is Rashomon.
It’s as though one needs by genre that is top 5 by genre as Singing in the rain for song and dance OK but top 20 per se?
Watching a film in the Cinema as well changes the perspective. Top films when viewed in a Cinema as opposed to a TV makes a huge difference to the experience.
Sunset Boulevard remains a wonderful film. Special mention to the Korean Parasites which doesn’t do as well on TV imo.
For me Les enfants du paradis and All About Eve are standouts. Just love them.
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