what are your top ten favourite films? - 8½ (1963) Discussion

[–] victor_now75 18 years ago

I personally loved 14 movies:

1)Jesus Christ Superstar (2000)
2)Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)
3)The Godfather (1972)
4)The Apartment (1960)
5)Casablanca (1942)
6)North by Northwest (1959)
7)Apocalypse Now - Redux (2001)
8)Dogville (2003)
9)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
10)Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
11)Cocktail (1988)
12)Toy Story (1995)
13)White Palace (1990)
14)High Fidelity (2000)

And of course special mentions in chronological order of:

- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Gilda (1946)
- All the King's Men (1949)
- Los Olvidados (1950)
- Scaramouche (1952)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Rear Window (1954)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Women in Love (1969)
- Patton (1970)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Star Wars (1977 - 83)
- Oh God (1977)
- Being There (1979)
- Alien (1979)
- The Shining (1980)
- Das Boot (1981)
- Stripes (1981)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Brazil (1985)
- The Fly (1986)
- The Abyss (1989)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
- Speed (1994)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- The Puppet Masters (1994)
- Seven (1995)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Heat (1995)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- Before Sunrise (1995)
- Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
- Shine (1996)
- Titanic (1997)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Cube (1997)
- Dark City (1998)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Run Lola Run (1999)
- A Simple Plan (1998)
- Magnolia (1999)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Battle Royale (2000)
- My Sassy Girl (2001)
- Monsters Inc (2001)
- Minority Report (2002)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- The Last Samurai (2003)
- Identity (2003)
- Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2004)
- Brotherhood of War (2004)
- Der Untergang (The Downfall) (2004)
- Saw (2004)
- Sideways (2004)
- Sin City (2005)
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- A History of Violence (2005)
- Babel (2006)
- The Last King of Scotland (2006)
- Hot Fuzz (2007).

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[–] xXRedrumXx 18 years ago

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Winter Light
Andrei Rublev
Modern Times
Mulholland Drive
2001: A Space Odyssey
Goodfellas
Stroszek
8 1/2
Amarcord
Taxi Driver
Ran
400 Blows

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[–] PeppyDora 18 years ago

My favorites, thanks for reading!

-"8 1/2" (1963) (Fellini's marvel, and, ah, Marcello!)
-"Cave of the Yellow Dog" (2005) (a little German film about a girl, her dog and Buddha somewhere in Mongolia - beautiful)
-"Sullivan's Travels" (1941) ("a true canvas of the suffering of humanity ... with a little sex in it" from Preston Sturges)
-"Lifeboat" (1944) (Hitchcock's most under appreciated work- life, lust and murder aboard a dingy in the Atlantic)
-"Un homme et una femme" (1966) (A love story, what can I say ... sweet, stylized film, memorable music and Anouk Aimee)
-"Miller's Crossing" (1990) (Don't care much for gangster movies, but could watch this one over and over for John Turturro and Albert Finney- awesome script and cast)
-"Howard's End" (1992) (upper middle-class British twits snub the fabulous Schlagel sisters in 1910s to a beautiful score and cool film editing. Great story, acting, Emma Thompson, cast)
-"Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) (three words: Maria Falconetti's eyes)
-"Impromptu" (1991) (Racy novelist Madame George Sand wears the pants in 1830s France and chases poor Chopin around the country- hilarious with outstanding cast)
-"Rashomon" (1950) (I'd watch this just for the scene of the spirit conjurer)
-"Rang-e khoda (The Color of Paradise)" (1999) (A man wants to abandon his blind son to marry again, but grandma won't have it- beautiful story and Iranian countryside)

Just a few more ...
"The Bicycle Thief" (1948)
"Cool Hand Luke" (1967)
"Lucia y el sexo" (2001)
"Faust" (1926, Murnau)
"The Hours" (2002, )
"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974)
"Fanny och Alexander" (1982)
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
"Dead Ringers" (1988)

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[–] toshiro-mi-fune 18 years ago

In no particular order:

8 1/2: Fellini

La Dolce Vita: Fellini

Battleship Potemkin: Einenstein

Ikiru: Kurosawa

Seven Samurai: Kurosawa

Rashomon: Kurosawa

The Battle of Algiers: Pontecorvo

Vertigo: Hitchcock

Tokyo Story: Ozu

Ugetsu Monogatari: Mizoguchi

Others that deserve honourable mention: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy), Pather Panchali (Ray), Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone), Samna no aji (Ozu), Raging Bull (Scorsese), M (Lang), Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen), Machuca (Wood) and The Army of Shadows (Melville)

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[–] echo_marychain 18 years ago

Not in any particular order I've listed the 75 movies I care about:

1. The Godfather
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Raging Bull
4. Chinatown
5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
6. Taxi Driver
7. Il Postino
8. La Dolce Vita
9. Ladri di Biciclette
10.Memento
11.American Beauty
12.L.A.Confidential
13.Forrest Gump
14.Cinemaparadiso
15.Delecatessen
16.Chung King Express
17.Saving Private Ryan
18.Cida de deus
19.The Graduate
20.Kramer VS Kramer
21.Almost Famous
22.The Sixth Sense
23.As Good As It Gets
24.A Beautiful Mind
25.Platoon
26.What's Eating Gibert Grape
27.On The Waterfront
28.The Usual Suspects
29.The Pianist
30.American History X
31.25th Hour
32.21 Grams
33.Traffic
34.The 39 Steps
35.Schindler's List
36.Big Lebowski
37.Adaptation
38.Shawshank Redemption
39.Come September
40.Good Will Hunting
41.A Clockwork Orange
42.Rear Window
43.Carlito's Way
44.Miu gaan diy
45.Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
46.12 Angry Men
47.Lawrence of Arabia
48.M
49.Sin City
50.Amadeus
51.The Sting
52.The Elephant Man
53.The Deer Hunter
54.The Apartment
55.Ran
56.High Noon
57.Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
58.Batman Begins
59.The Killing
60.Gandhi
61.Gladiator
62.Solyaris
63.The Outlaw Josey Wales
64.Dances With The Wolves
65.8½
66.Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo
67.Garden State
68.To Kill a Mockingbird
69.Twelve O'Clock High
70.Donnie Brasco
71.Crash
72.Munich
73.A History of Violence
74.The Godfather: Part II
75.Laberinto del fauno, El

"You have no idea what you're dealing with,you little asskisser"-Bill Buchanan(24)

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[–] Fotodude 18 years ago

As of now, they're:

1. The Godfather: Part II
2. The Godfather
3. Nuovo cinema Paradiso
4. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Amarcord
7. L'Âge d'or
8. Det sjunde inseglet
9. Once Upon a Time in America
10. The Deer Hunter

My ratings: ***** **** *** ** * ·

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[–] tma2290 17 years ago

I havent seen near as many movies as I need to before my top 10 become real but heres my current.

1.Seven Samurai
2.Once Upon a Time in the West
3. The Third Man
4. On the Waterfront
5. A few Dollars More
6. Yojimbo
7.The Good The Bad, and the Ugly
8.Rear Window
9.Raging Bull
10. Godfather Part 2.

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[–] squallseedre4 17 years ago

Here they are, as of today. Thanks for reading.

1. Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
2. It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
3. Casablanca (1943, Michael Curtiz)
4. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
5. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)
7. Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
8. Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa0
9. La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
10. Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
11. 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
12. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
13. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
14. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
15. Titanic (1997, James Cameron)
16. 8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
18. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman)
20. The Usual Suspects (1995, Brian Singer)

NOTE: I haven't seen as many Bergman as I'd like to, as well as some other films that may come onto my list in the future. Keep a look out if you agree with my tastes (not many people seem to)

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[–] alvaro1404 17 years ago

These are the "top 5":
1 The Lord of the Rings - the return of the king (you may laugh, but its just amazing...)
2 Dogville (Lars von Trier)
3 Gone With the Wind (i'm brazilian and i think this is the greatest film about the USA history)
4 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5 Apocalypse Now

OTHER EXCELLENT FILMS MAY BE:
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
- Sunset Blvd.
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Goodfellas
- Citizien Kane
- Seven Samurai
- Patton
- Grapes of Wrath
- The Seventh Seal
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Being John Malkovich
- Wild Strawberries
- 8 1/2
- Annie Hall
- Vertigo
- Rope
there are many more, but I think it's ok by now...

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[–] Trouter2000 17 years ago

Never done a favorites list, but the greatest films of all time (in order) are these:

1-Ran:1985, Akira Kurosawa
2-Stalker:1979, Andrei Tarkovsky
3-Tokyo Story:1953, Yasujiro Ozu
4-The Passion of Joan of Arc:1928, Carl Theodore Dreyer
5-Vertigo:1958, Alfred Hitchcock
6-Persona: 1966, Ingmar Bergman
7-M:1931, Fritz Lang
8-8 ½:1963, Federico Fellini
9-Apocalypse Now:1979, Francis Ford Coppola
10-The Seventh Seal:1957, Ingmar Bergman

Last film seen: The Seventh Seal (4th viewing) 10/10

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[–] Trouter2000 17 years ago

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? Thats laughable, that film is very thin, featuring a shallow plot and three very cliched and predictable characters. The plot revolves around three guys who basically are not very realistic characters or ones we can relate to, one is ugly one is a good guy and the other is a bad guy. They go to find gold and in the end the good guy wins. It has a thin plot, thin dialog and very thin characters, yet the young people today are treating it like its cinematic brilliance!

I have no idea why people try to pretend that it has any merit alongside films like 8 1/2 or Ran, but for some reason because its enjoyable its the equivalent?! Wake up people it isn't a great film; a fun film thats enjoyable in spots (though it could be shortened by about an hour), but not brilliant. Why do people talk about it like it is? Got to be one of the most overrated films in history.

Last film seen: Ronin Gai 7/10

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[–] Trouter2000 17 years ago

Goodfellas is pretty overrated considering it is many places ahead of Raging Bull, but I'd say The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is more so, considering its over 100 places ahead of Leone's real masterpiece: Once Upon a Time in America.

Goodfellas is pretty decent though, and while I wouldn't give it a 10/10, I certainly think it deserves a 9/10.

The Searchers by the way has very complex characters, if a slightly simplistic plot.

Last film seen: Pickpocket 9/10

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[–] Trouter2000 17 years ago

Don't get me wrong, i throughly enjoyed it as well, but what I mean to say is it really doesn't deserve to be in any top 100 list, it doesn't have what it takes. A very fun film? Yes, A Masterpiece in every aspect? Certainly not.

Last film seen: Pickpocket 9/10

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[–] Theo12 16 years ago

trouter your an idiot. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is ones of the best directed, most stylistically original and beautiful films, ever. I would rank Leone amongst the top five film makers ever. Once Upon a Time in America, while a masterpiece, is not his best film. I would rank his films like this:

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Once Upon A Time in The West
Duck, You Sucker
Once Upon A Time in America
For A Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars

Leone never made a bad film. He also created four cinematic masterpieces. I love Kurosawa. Ran is beautiful. It is up there with Leone's films, but it is not Kurosawa's best. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is better than Ran and possibly 8 1/2. La Dolce Vita. There is a film that might be better than the Good The bad and the Ugly.

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[–] tjoyce14150 17 years ago

Lots of great lists here; very astute film fans.
How about these: (in no particular order)
Godfather 1 & 2
Casablanca
8 1/2
Singin in the rain
Cinema paradiso
American beauty
Citizen Kane
Wizard of Oz
Its a wondeful life
Schindlers list

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[–] faraaj-1 17 years ago

Not in any particular order....

Solyaris (Tarkovsky version)
Double Indemnity
Lawrence of Arabia
Amarcord
Seven Samurai
Vertigo
The Long Goodbye (1978)
The Downfall (2004)
The Seventh Seal
La Stanza del Figlio

Along these mean streets walks a man who is not mean himself - neither tarnished, nor afraid...

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[–] space_base 17 years ago

My all-Time favorites are...

1. Raging Bull
2. Goodfellas
3. Amarcord
4. The Battle of Algiers
5. Brief Encounter
6. The Deer Hunter
7. The 400 Blows
8. Short Cuts
9. The Killer
10.Hiroshima Mon Amour

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[–] faraaj-1 17 years ago

Hmm....interesting list.

The first nine are indeed quite all excellent. But, Hiroshima Mon Amour? I know Alain Resnais is well acclaimed for his Nazi camps documentary and for Last Year at Marienbad. But, try as I might I just can't understand his films. Emotionally, I find his films colder than Kubrick. I didn't see all of Hiroshima - I found it too slow and uninvolving - I still have the DVD lying around somewhere. I really wish I could understand the appeal and appreciate this film...

Along these mean streets walks a man who is not mean himself - neither tarnished, nor afraid...

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[–] rojas_tortu 17 years ago

1. Casablanca
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Godfather
4. Pulp Fiction
5. 8 1/2
6. Gone With the Wind
7. Raging Bull
8. Schindler's List
9. CIty Lights
10. Vertigo

Luis Diego Rojas
San José, Costa Rica

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[–] Fotodude 17 years ago

I don't know if I've posted my list here already, but here's the current one:

1. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
3. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
4. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
5. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. L'âge d'or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)
8. Der Himmel über Berlin (Wim Wenders, 1987)
9. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
10. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)

My ratings: ***** **** *** ** * ·

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[–] pulpfiction10 17 years ago

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Goodfellas
3. Platoon
4. Taxi Driver
5. Anchorman
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. Raging Bull
8. The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
9. Flags of our Fathers
10. Con Air

Last movie seen:
Me, Myself, and Irene 8/10

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[–] bur_007 17 years ago

1. The Godfather
2. City of god
3. The Godfather 2
4. 8 1/2
5. Oldboy (Was in the top 3, but the great thing about this film is the greatness of the story when you see it for the first time. The second time you get to appreciate more the work the director and cast have done; great acting, camera-work and music. The third time is good but not that special anymore)
6. Magnolia
7. Goodfellas
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Clockworks orange
10. Spirited away

Top 10 is to little in my opinion so I'll make it a top 20.

11. La strada (Masina's best performance; best actress ever)
12. Mulholland drive
13. Memento
14. American beauty
15. Usual suspects
16. Sin city
17. The Big Lebowski
18. 25th hour
19. Kung-fu hustle (There just has to be a comedy in it; couldn't stop laughing)
20. Sympathy for lady vengeance (Deserves a place in my personal top-20 though not as good as, most of, the others. But I just can't help loving the work of Park Chan-Wook after seeing Oldboy)

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[–] SakowskyBrothers 17 years ago

1.Casablanca
2.City Lights
3.Godfather
4.Sunset Blvd
5.Citizen Kane
6.It's a wonderful life
7.The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
8.Schindler's List
9.Vertigo
10.Star Wars: A new hope

This is my American list based on cinematic experience as well as films that are capable to last the test of time.

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