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

[–] a_delarge 20 years ago

It's difficult to name only ten, but let's have a try...

1. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Kubrick
2. 8½ (OTTO E MEZZO), Fellini
3. VERTIGO, Hitchcock
4. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, Lean
5. BARRY LYNDON, Kubrick
6. GODFATHER PART II, Coppola
7. C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST, Leone
8. WILD STRAWBERRIES, Bergman
9. ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, Leone
10. CITY LIGHTS, Chaplin

...and many others as Apocalypse.Now, 400 Blows, Rules of the Game, Citizen Kane, Chinatown, Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey...

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[–] explosions_in_the_sky 20 years ago

your list is awesome, alex delarge.

1. Elling- Petter Næss
2. Wild Strawberries- Ingmar Bergman
3. Gandhi- Richard Attenborough
4. Manhattan- Woody Allen
5. Lawrence of Arabia- David Lean
6. A Clockwork Orange- Stanley Kubrick
7. City Lights- Charlie Chaplin
8. The 400 Blows- François Truffaut
9. Buddy (2003)- Morten Tyldum
10. La Dolce Vita- Federico Fellini

buddy is norwegian, not the stupid monkey one.
theres a lot of others that I havent put here, for obvious reasons.

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[–] deadbunny28 14 years ago

best list ive read so far sir alex delarge ^^...

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[–] devdutt3vedi 20 years ago

My All time favourites
1) Otto E Mezzo by Federico Fellini
2) La Notte by Michelangelo Antonioni
3) Fa yeung nin wa by Wong-Kar Wai
4) Vivre Sa Vie: Film en deuz tableux by Jean-Luc Godard
5) Close-up by Abbas Kiarostami
6) Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
7) Blow-Up by Michelangelo Antonioni
8) Le Notti di Cabiria by Federico Fellini
9) Hable con Ella by Almodovar
10) Children Of heaven by Majid Majidi

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[–] filippobardazzi 20 years ago

In scattered way:

Blade Runner
Eraserhead
Mulholland Dr.
8and a half
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
The man who wasn't there
The big Lebowski
A clockwork orange
Shining
One flew over the cuckoo's nest

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[–] romeothello 20 years ago

nice selection..

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[–] barrylyndon114 20 years ago

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Ran (Kurosawa)
A Clockwork Orange (Kurbick)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
Stray Dog (Kurosawa)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
City of God (Meirelles)
Pi (Aronofsky)
Duel to the Death (Tung)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
Sanjuro (Kurosawa)
Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
Once Upon A Time in the West (Leone)
The Killer (Woo)
Madadayo (Kurosawa)
Dreams (Kurosawa)
The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa)

All of those were in no order, but my #1 movie of all time is Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.

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[–] BITELCHUS 20 years ago

1. El Hijo del Cura (Ozores)
2. El Cura ya tiene hijo (Ozores)
3. Los Energéticos (Ozores)
4. La Reunión (Aparicio)
5. Di que Si (Calvo)
6. El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y Pocholo (Cavestany)
7. Que vienen los socialistas (Ozores)
8. Critical Care (Lumet)
9. Kill Bill 1&2 (Tarantino)
10.Police Academy 6 (Bonerz)
11.Un homme et una femme (Lelouch)
12.Que tia la C.I.A. (Ozores)

Well... perhaps a very personal list?

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[–] Drunken_Pumpkin 20 years ago

My Personal Favorites:

1. Good Burger
2. Crossroads
3. S.W.A.T.
4. Dirty Dancing
5. Red Dawn
6. The Brown Bunny
7. XXX
8. Nell
9. Gladiator
10. 81/2

Don't you love that scene in Gladiator where Chloe Sevigny goes down on Russel Crowe?

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[–] Fidelio-3 20 years ago

My Top 3:

8 1/2
Der Himmel Uber Berlin
Gates of Heaven

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[–] mollas 20 years ago

1. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
2. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
4. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
5. On the Waterfront (Kazan)
6. The Graduate (Nichols)
7. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
8. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
10. Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg)
11. Psycho (Hitchcock)
12. Do The Right Thing (Lee)
13. The Exorcist (Friedkin)
14. The Great Escape (Sturges)
15. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
16. Spoorloos (Sluizer)
17. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
18. The Shining (Kubrick)
19. This is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
20. 8 1/2 (Fellini)

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[–] powdered_toast_man 20 years ago

1) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966-Sergio Leone)
2) eyes without a face (1959-Georges Franju)
3) fear and loathing in las vegas (1998-Terry Gilliam)
4) a clockwork orange (1971-Stanley Kubrick)
5) yojimbo (1961-Akira Kurosawa)
6) the seven samurai (1954-Akira Kurosawa)
7) requiem for a dream (2000-Darren Aronofsky)
8) Dracula (1931-Tod Browning)
9) straw dogs (1971-Sam Peckinpah)
10) pulp fiction (1994- Quienton Tarintino)

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

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[–] Merkin4pres64 17 years ago

My Top Ten
1. nuovo cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso)- Guiseppe Tornatore
2. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
3. Goodfellas - Martin Scorcese
4. The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer
5. Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe

the second half of my top has yet to be organized, but these are included:
The Graduate - Mike Nichols
Sunset Blvd. - Billy Wilder
Y tu mama tambien (And Your Mother, Too) - Alfonso Cuaron
Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick (greatest director of all time)
(my tenth film to be determined)

FYC: Juno for Best Picture.

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[–] colt_89 16 years ago

1 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
2 - Seven Samurai
3 - 8½
4 - Lawrence of Arabia
5 - Apocalypse Now
6 - Requiem for a Dream
7 - Citizen Kane
8 - No Country for Old Men
9 - Solyaris
10 - Throne of Blood

The top 5 is my 100% top 5, but anything after can change.

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[–] sevendeuce72 16 years ago

As of now, here they are.

1. Casablanca
2. Singin’ in the Rain
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Vertigo
5. The Godfather
6. City Lights
7. The General (1927)
8. Gone With the Wind
9. My Fair Lady
10. La Strada

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[–] gijebri 19 years ago

1. 8 1/2
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Live Flesh
4. The Seventh Seal
5. Stalker
6. The Best of Youth
7. Once upon a time in the West
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Talk to Her
10. 2001

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[–] thatoneguychris 19 years ago

Everyone's gotta have a top 10 right...but I still can't put them in order.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Citizen Kane
The Seventh Seal
Lost in Translation
The 4 Wes Anderson movies (the most recently viewed one is always my favorite)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Ikiru
Taxi Driver
Floating Weeds
and I've always been a sucker for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I'm going to watch 8 1/2 for the first time in about ten minutes though, we'll see if this changes at all.

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[–] psaygin 20 years ago

tough question...

today i'd say (listing somewhat in random order i guess)

brazil
vertigo
sunset boulevard
8 1/2
the big lebowski
mulholland drive
eraserhead
blue velvet
casablanca
suspiria

i am tempted to keep going... but leaving it at 10, this is what i'll put today. many more lynch, argento, hitchcock, fellini, other classics and newer movies i can add...

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[–] kenneth-liberatore 20 years ago

Dark Thrillers are still the best and most intriguing. Any movie that makes me think about it days later... Years Later....

1. Mullholland Drive.
2. Jacobs Ladder
3. Exorcist
4. To Live and Die In LA
5. Angel Heart
6. Donnie Darko
7. Identity
8. Pink Floyd the Wall
9. Memento
10. 8 1/2

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[–] ourang-houtan 20 years ago

American Beauty
Most Perfect Films:

1. Taxi Driver
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Raging Bull
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. 8 1/2
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Fargo
8. My Architect
9. Donnie Darko
10. Requim for a Dream
11. Schindler's List
12. A Clockwork Orange

...and many more I haven't seen yet

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[–] clockwork3 20 years ago

my top 10 films are:
1. the godfather
2. 8 1/2
3. 2001: a space odyssey
4. a clockwork orange
5. the godfather II
6. the 400 blows
7. apocalypse now
8. la dolce vita
9. taxi driver
10. citizen kane

my top 10 favorite directors are:
1. kubrick
2. fellini
3. coppola
4. kurosawa
5. bergman
6. truffaut
7. polanski
8. hitchcock
9. scorsese
10. wilder

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[–] pulpfan92 20 years ago

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Godfather

3. Goodfellas

4. The Usual Suspects

5. Memento

6. Fight Club

7. Se7en

8. Reservoir Dogs

9. Scarface

10. Godfather II

"It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."

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[–] psy_spectre 20 years ago

1. Andrei Rublev
2. Stalker
3. Wings of Desire
4. Dersu Uzala
5. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
6. Three Colors: Blue
7. Hana-bi
8. Seven Samurai
9. Wild Strawberries
10. 2001: A Space Oddisey
11. Taxi Driver

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[–] paique82 20 years ago

1- Magnolia - P. T. Anderson
2- Dancer In The Dark - Lars von Trier
3- The Bicycle Thief - Vittorio De Sica
4- Cria Curvos - Carlos Saura
5- La Strada - Federico Fellini
6- Elephant - Gus Van Sant
7- Aguirre: The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog
8- Persona - Ingmar Bergman
9- Dogville - Lars von Trier
10- Maria Full of Grace - Joshua Marston
11- Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen

Btw, Three Color: Blue was an excellent film. Nice list.

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[–] MENDIETA_40 20 years ago

1.Pulp Fiction
2.Amemlie
3.Seven
4.City of Lost Children
5.Ace Ventura
6.Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
7.Taxi Driver
8.Ammores Perros
9.sideways
10.Delicatessen

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[–] EskimoTshrtSales 20 years ago

in no particular order

1.)The General (1927, Keaton)
2.)Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese)
3.)Andrei Rublev (1966, Tarkovsky)
4.)The Seventh Seal (1957, Bergman)
5.)Lawrence of Arabia (1961, Lean)
6.)L'Atalante (1934, Vigo)
7.)Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Herzog)
8.)L'Avventura (1960, Antonioni)
9.)Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola)
10.)Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)

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[–] SomeTrendyName 20 years ago

1.The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. (1966,Leone)<---Best Film Ever.

2.Taxi Driver.(1976,Scorsese)

3.Pulp FIction.(1994,Tarantino)

4.Do The Right Thing.(1989,Lee)

5.Apocalypse Now.(1979,Coppola)

6.Dawn Of The Dead.(1978,Romero)

7.American Beauty.(1999,Mendes)

8.Raging Bull.(1980,Scorsese)

9.The Shawshank Redemption.(1994,Darabont)

10.Run Lola Run.(1998,tykwer)

You can do something, You can do nothing... Or you can do the right thing.

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