what are your top ten favourite films?

My top 10

The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Godfather (1972)
Casablanca (1942)
Reds (1981)
Rozpusteny a vypusteny (1984)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Braveheart (1995)
Diary of the County Priest (1951)
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

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1.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2.) Once Upon a Time in America
3.) 8 1/2
4.) The Godfather
5.) Barton Fink
6.) The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
7.) Goodfellas
8.) The Big Lebowski
9.) Adaptation.
10.) Ed Wood
11.) La Dolce Vita
12.) Taxi Driver
13.) The Bicycle Thief

I think that's about right...

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8 1/2 - Fellini
La Dolce Vita - Fellini
Ladri di Biciclette - Rossellini
The Godfather trilogy (the first 2)- Copola
Nostalgia - Tarkowski
Apocalypse Now - Copola
400 Blows - Truffaut
A Clockwork Orange - Kubrick
The Belly of an Architect - Greenaway
Possession - Zulawski
Match Point - Woody Allen
Annie Hall - Woody Allen
Le Pierrot Fou - Jean Luc Godard
Dogville - Lars Von Trier
The loves of a blonde - Milos Forman
Le dernier tango a Paris - Bertolucci
Roma - Fellini
Death in Venice - Visconti
Knife in the Water - Polanski
I Viteloni - Fellini
Eyes Wide Shut - Kubrick
Songs from the second floor - Roy Andersson
Trainspotting - Danny Boyle
When the father was away on business - Kusturica
The elelement of the crime - Lars von Trier
Dogville - Lars von Trier
Sideways - Alexander Payne
Evdokia - Alexis Damianos

Tough question!

In terms of all-time personal favorites I'd have to say:

A Hard Day's Night
Ghost World
The Warriors
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Videodrome
Faust [Svankmeyer]
Network
Careful
Ms. 45
The Ruling Class
Repo Man

[that's actually 12. i couldn't narrow it down.]

But working within the established canon of powerful classic films and great directors, I'd go with:

Solaris
Sunset Boulevard
The Blue Angel
Singin' in the Rain
The Virgin Spring
Midnight Cowboy
Battleship Potempkin
M
The Manchurian Candidate
Dracula [starring Bela Lugosi]
and something by Hitchcock and Kubrick--almost all of their movies are good, but they're too obvious to even list...

This is just off the top of my head. Probably a better way to come up with a list like this would be to choose one great film from each genre, one from each decade, and one from each country with a major film industry, then put them all together as a "top 50." That way the results won't be so skewed toward your own times and location like mine here is ["American films from the 60's onward"].

My top ten favourite at this date, sorted by year of release:

Duck soup (Leo McCarey & The Marx Brothers)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Some like it hot (Billy Wilder)
Les 400 coups (François Truffaut)
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
Star Wars trilogy (Lucas, Kershner, Marquand)
Monty Python’s The meaning of life (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)


Some other essential titles to me:

Un perro andaluz (Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí)
To be or not to be (Ernst Lubitsch)
Notorius (Alfred Hitchcock)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
Blow up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Two for the road (Stanley Donen)
Barry Lindon (Stanley Kubrick)
Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
After hours (Martin Scorsese)
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Pedro Almodóvar)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
La ardilla roja (Julio Medem)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Mystic river (Clint Eastwood)
Dogville (Lars Von Trier)
...

city of god
7 grandmasters
city of lost children
the godfather
battle royal
fight club
requiem for a dream
the good, the bad & the ugly
superfly
dancer in the dark.

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