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

[–] jack_skellington_ 17 years ago

Always changing, as I'm always catching up on my film history. Right now?

Citizen Kane
Rashomon
Children of Men
Metropolis
Bonnie and Clyde
Roma, citta aperta (Rome, Open City)
A bout de souffle (Breathless)
8 1/2
Pulp Fiction
The Lord of the Rings

And I would like to mention Battleship Potemkin, A Clockwork Orange, The Seventh Seal and Apocalypse Now.

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[–] larrypunk 17 years ago

1)The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick)
2)Freedy Got Fingered (Tom Green)
3)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
4)Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron)
5)The Matrix ( Larry and Andy Wachowsky)
6)As Good as it Gets (James L. Brocks)
7)Akahige (Akira Kurosawa)
8)Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
9)The Hurricane (Norman Jewinson)
10)Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)

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[–] ofcnd08 17 years ago

1. The Big Lebowski
2. American Beauty
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Godfather
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. Magnolia
7. The Shining
8. 8 1/2
9. The Godfather II
10. Manhattan

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[–] bsred89 17 years ago

mine are

1 The Graduate
2 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
3 Bonnie and Clyde
4 Almost Famous
5 Big Fish
6 Casablanca
7 American Graffiti
8 Chinatown
9 To Kill a Mockingbird
10 A Streetcar Named Desire

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[–] richsass 17 years ago

1. Chinatown
2. Memento
3. Asphalt Jungle
4. Usual Suspects
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Third Man
7. Godfather II
8. True Confessions
9. Pyscho
10. Sweet Smell of Success

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[–] suporchin 17 years ago

1. Jaws
2. Gladiator
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Seven Samurai
5. Shawshank Redemption
6. Schindlers List
7. Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
8. Lost in Translation (I can't help it, a lot people don't like this, but I can't help it.
9. Amelie
10. All the Presidents Men

Its a little new movie heavy, but these movies are also probably the ones that also affected me the most when I first saw them.

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[–] timmyc-1 17 years ago

At the moment it is:

1: 8½
2: Casablanca
3: On the Waterfront
4: Taxi Driver
5: American Beauty
6: Double Indemnity
7: Amélie
8: Fight Club
9: Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies)
10: Oldboy

Apart from my top 3 which is constant the rest is changing continuosly.

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[–] shiggsyo 17 years ago

Just as everyone else has said, my list changes constantly, but these are the ten films that I think are the best:

1. 8 1/2
2. Seven Samuri
3. Battleship Potempkin
4. Citizen Kane
5. The Seventh Seal
6. The Godfather
7. Paths of Glory
8. Rashomon
9. Sunset Boulevard
10. 2001: A Space Odessey

Numbers 1-4 are in a pretty much set-in-stone order, but 5-10 can change.

These films just missed the final cut:
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
La Dolce Vita
Wild Strawberries
Vertigo

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[–] MidNight00015823 17 years ago

1. Sunset Boulevard [Wilder]
2. Dr. Strangelove [Kubrick]
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey [Kubrick]
4. The Godfather Part II [Coppola]
5. The Godfather [Coppola]
6. Goodfellas [Scorese]
7. Pulp Fiction [Tarantino]
8. 8 1/2 [Fellini]
9. The Seventh Seal [Bergman]
10. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly [Leone]

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[–] oacmgm 17 years ago

Lawrence of Arabia
The Night of the Hunter
Lost in Translation
La Dolce Vita
Casablanca
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Third Man
Sherlock Jr.
Dr. Strangelove
Wild Strawberries
Le Samourai
Trainspotting
Rushmore

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[–] thenupollution 17 years ago

8 1/2
The Apartment
Rear Window
Brazil
There Will Be Blood
Primer
Casablanca
A Clockwork Orange
Annie Hall
Bottle Rocket/Rushmore

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[–] Alexis_Zorba 17 years ago

8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
La montana sagrada (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
Le regle de jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Sherlock JR (Buster Keatonm, 1924)
Shichinin no samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Offret (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Little big man (Arthur Penn, 1970)
Alexis Zorbas (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964)

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[–] beanz_meanz_hindz 16 years ago

Top 10:-

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Sátántangó
4. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
5. The Third Man
6. Koyaanisqatsi
7. Barry Lyndon
8. Stroszek
9. Vertigo
10. Trois couleurs: Rouge

Special mentions:-

Psycho
Rushmore
Seven Samurai
La Dolce Vita
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Andrei Rublev
Twelve Monkeys / La Jetée (tie)
A Clockwork Orange
Mulholland Drive
Les Diaboliques
The Matrix
Fargo
M
Peeping Tom
Ratcatcher
The Thing (Carpenter version)

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[–] oacmgm 17 years ago

This is perhaps the tenth time I've seen one of these list threads!
Oh well.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Night of the Hunter
3. 8 1/2
4. La Dolce Vita
5. The Third Man
6. Lost in Translation
7. Casablanca
8. Sherlock Jr.
9. Le Samourai
10. Wild Strawberries
11. The Bridge on the River Kwai
12. Dr. Strangelove
13. Notorious
14. Blow-up
15. The Apartment

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[–] tolucajimmy1190 17 years ago

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Sunset Blvd.
3. 8 ½
4. Network
5. Pulp Fiction
6. The Seventh Seal
7. Annie Hall
8. Duck Soup
9. The Third Man
10. Boogie Nights

Honorable Mention:
The Apartment
The Maltese Falcon
Blow-Up
Fargo
City Lights
Citizen Kane

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