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

[–] enzio-1 19 years ago

1) Otto e Mezzo (1963) - Federico Fellini
2) Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
3) The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola
4) Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) - Ingmar Bergman
5) The Godfather Part II (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola
6) All About Eve (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiwicz
7) The Browning Version (1951) - Anthony Asquith
8) Dolce Vita, La (1960) - Federico Fellini
9) Rashomon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa
10) Rebecca (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock

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[–] blackrubric 19 years ago

In no particular order:

Excalibur (1981) - Boorman
Singin' In The Rain (1952) - Kelly/Donen
Amadeus (1984) - Forman
Taxi Driver (1976) - Scorsese
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) - Leone
Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949) - Hamer
Winter Light (1963) - Bergman
The King of Comedy (1983) - Scorsese
It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - Capra
Shall We Dance (1937) - Sandrich

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[–] dmongelli4 19 years ago

stalker-tarkovsky
81/2-fellini
a clockwork orange-kubrick
la notte-antonioni
oldboy-park
persona-bergman
the passion of jeanne d'arc-dreyer
dancer in the dark-von trier
belle de jour-bunuel
the last laugh-murnau

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[–] berutkowski 18 years ago

8 1/2
The Godfather
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
La Strada
Fallen Angels
Gummo
Blow Up
Paths of Glory
Do The Right Thing

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[–] Karpathian 19 years ago

1. A Clockwork Orange (dir: Stanley Kubrick)
2. Amadeus (dir: Milos Forman)
3. Dolce vita, La (dir: Federico Fellini)
4. Pianiste, La (dir: Michael Haneke)
5. Femme infidèle, La (dir: Claude Chabrol)
6. Wuthering Heights (dir: William Wyler)
7. Casablanca (dir: Michael Curtiz)
8. Breaking the Waves (dir: Lars von Trier)
9. Eraserhead (dir: David Lynch)
10. Psycho (dir: Alfred Hitchcock)

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[–] fsrsk2 19 years ago

1. Some Like It Hot
2. Casablanca
3. Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty"
4. The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Field of Dreams
6. Alien
7. Psycho (The original directed by Hitchcock.)
8. Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers)
9. The Maltese Falcon (the one with H. Bogart)
10. Is a toss up between Annie Hall and The Graduate

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[–] Xcritic 19 years ago

I was just doing this on my computer, it's fun.
1. The Rules Of The Game(Renoir)-
La Dolce Vita(Fellini)
3. 8 1/2(Fellini)-
Les Enfants Du Paradis(Carne)
5. The Man With the Movie Camera(Vertov)-
Pather Panchali(Ray)
7. Seven Samurai(Kurosawa)
8. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc(Dryer)
9. La Grande Illusion(Renoir)-
Amarcord(Fellini)

And here's ten more

11. Au Hasard Balthazar(Bresson)-
2001: A Space Odyssey(Kubrick)
13. L'Atalante(Vigo)-
Chinatown(Polanski)
15. On the Waterfront(Kazan)
16. Ugetsu Monagatari(Mizoguchi)-
Raging Bull(Scorsese)-
Citizen Kane(Welles)
19. Vertigo(Hitchcock)
20. Ran (Kurosawa)

There, that's probably mine, although I'm soon to see the Godfather's, Taxi Driver, La Strada, Le Mepris and Ordet, so that could affect my list dramatically.

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[–] beavery4188 19 years ago

Link:

http://www.ymdb.com/beavery/l29856_ukuk.html

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[–] DustinFulgencio 19 years ago

These aren't in any particular order, and 8 1/2 isn't on the list because it's not one of my favorite films. I liked it, and LOVED the way it was shot, though.

Network
Apocolypse Now
The Godfather (I and II)
Midnight Cowboy
The Last Picture Show
Koyaanisquatsi
Dreams (forget the Japanese title)
Dr. Strangelove
Giant
Casino
Goodfellas
Dogville
The Hudsucker Proxy

That's more than ten, but so what.

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[–] yrnotamanda 19 years ago

well, good to see some people didn't forget rebecca,

it would also seem that lubitsch is no longer in the public's thoughts.
anyway
HERE ARE eight and a half OF MINE:
in no particular order

1.the palm beach story (can't get enough of that, see sig "what a bunch of sissies...)

2.stolen kisses (antoine part III rocks....it's like the graduate but less focused!!!)

3.the bride of frankenstein ("dead good, alive bad")

4.TATI's PLAYTIME (come on people, where's the love)

5.PANdORA'S BOX........sorry is that too germanic and over the top for you people?

6.golddiggers of 33

7.fanny and alexander (the long version of coarse)

the half: w.c. fields's the fatal glass of beer(2 reels - so sort of like a half). god i love that piece of garbage.

and my favorite hitchcock............... 8. MARNIE!!!!
(although if you said rebecca or notorious or 39 steps you were right too.)

oh and one more thing, for all of you above who listed scarface i'm gonna pretend that you meant the hawks version and not that other piece of garbage. when it comes to the movies i like a little singing and a little dancing NOT grizzly chain saw murders.

*beep* it here's #9.

godard's WEEKEND ("my hermes handbag!!!")

what a bunch of sissies, this is supposed to be a gun club not a blasted singing society.

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[–] Pronkjewail 19 years ago

Thanks for asking,

here goes...

1 A Clockwork Orange
2 The Godfather part 2
3 Heat
4 Schindler's List
5 Fight Club
6 Festen
7 Mulholland Drive
8 Once Upon A Time In The West
9 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
10 The Shawshank Redemption

And that's my top ten!

11 Der Untergang

And this is eleven

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[–] MadDave89 19 years ago

no particular order here

2001; a space oddessy
yojimbo
ran
full metal jacket
a band a part
breathless
repoman
redbeard
raging bull
lenny
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[–] evilfather 19 years ago

1.Dancer In The Dark
2.Dersu Uzala
3.Crash
4.Ran
5.Elephant Man
6.Der Untergang
7.Grave Of The Fireflies
8.The Usual Suspects
9.Leon
10.Amelie

DEATH IS CERTAIN , LIFE IS NOT...

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[–] ryankent_afi 19 years ago

10. Once Upon A Time in the West (dir. Sergio Leone, 1968)
9. Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen, 1977)
8. Dancer in the Dark (dir. Lars Von Trier, 2000)
7. The Thing (dir. John Carpenter, 1982)
6. The Evil Dead (dir. Sam Raimi, 1981)
5. Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976)
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone, 1966)
3. A Bout De Souffle (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
2. Blow up (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
1. Ed Wood (dir. Tim Burton, 1994)

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[–] zorohastru 19 years ago

Here it goes

1.Pulp Fiction
2.Vergtimmen/Devil's Eye(Bergman)
3.La dolce vita/Otto E Mezzo(Fellini)
4.Solaris(Tarkovsky)
5.Shichinin no samurai
6.Porcile(Pasollini)
7.Some like it hot
8.The Great Dictator
9.A Clockwork Orange
10.Double Indemnity

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[–] raaesquire 19 years ago

1. 2001: a space odyssey
2. my fair lady
3. the sound of music
4. seven samurai
5. the apartment
6. citizen kane
7. wild strawberries
8. gone with the wind
9. l'avventura
10. singin' in the rain

i know, 8 1/2 isnt on here because i replaced it with l'avventura. maybe that will change after i finish the second part of 8 1/2 today. but it was on there, and when i first saw it, i couldn't believe it. i'd take it over the visuals of star wars any day.

other criteria: i only allowed three foreign films on the list, along with 10 films from 10 directors, not 8 films from one director and 2 from two separate ones. these arent the best choices, but you can't deny these are some of the best damn looking films one will ever see. also, these are my personal favorites. there is no doubt in my mind that citizen kane stands head and shoulders above all of these. otherwise, what kind of film fan would i be?

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[–] ryankent_afi 18 years ago

in addition to my original post on Nov 23 2005 (wow, was it that long ago?!):

Angel Heart
The Deer Hunter
The Dreamers
Chopper
Profondo Rosso
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Heat
Manhunter
Vivre Sa Vie
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Shining

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[–] Tyler_Durden_pt 19 years ago

1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
2. Persona (Bergman)
3. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch)
4. Dogville (von Trier)
5. Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
6. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
8. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
9. Fight Club (Fincher)
10. Blue Velvet (Lynch)

This... is chemical burn.

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[–] sgn852000-1 19 years ago

First of all thank you very Gloriamorin for starting this thread. The diversity of the films represented in this thread helped me make a list of movies that I need to see in the future. Here is my list of top films. Sorry, I cannot keep it down to 10. They are not in any order. I have yet to see the flims of Fassbinder, Visconti, and some other great directors so the list many change after I get a chance to see the films.

81/2 Frederico Fellini
400 Blows Francois Truffaut
Annie Hall Woody Allen
Bicycle Thief Vittorio Di Sica
Breathless Jean Luc Goddard
Citizen Kane Orson Welles
A clockwork orange Stanley Kubrick
Ikiru Akira Kurosawa
L'Aventurra Michelangelo Antonioni
M Fritz Lang
Pather Panchali (the first of the Apu trilogy) Satyajit Ray
Psycho Alfred Hitchcock
Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder
The taste of cherry Abbas Kiarostami

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[–] ladywilde1980 19 years ago

My Top Ten

1. Immortal Beloved ( Gary Oldman rocks my box )
2. Wilde ( the definative Wilde screen treatment)
3. Braveheart ( Just great epic movie making )
4. Kill Bill 1 and 2 ( Uma Thruman and I aren't lovers but we should be)
5. Quills ( naughtiness, corsets, and witty dialouge.. a great film)
6. Hedwig and The Angry Inch ( this movie is awesome.. and the music is intense)
7. Brokeback Mountain ( I love gay cowboys!!!)
8. Sunset Blvd ( GS in all her full out crazy glory...)
9. The Princess Bride ( I heart this movie)
10. ( here is a list of my honorable mentions)
The Big Lebowski, All About Eve, Mildred Pierce, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Raising Arizona ( the Cohen Brothers are amazing)War of the Worlds, True Romance, Of Human Bondage, LOTRs, American Beauty..... I am sure there are more but I can't think of any at the moment.

Love is Love. Period. End of Discussion.

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[–] aymansousa 18 years ago

IMPRESSIVE LIST

5 out of 7 films I saw from your top 10, are in my top 20
I am watching 8 1/2 today

1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola) 9/10
2. Persona (Bergman) 10/10
3. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch) 10/10
4. Dogville (von Trier) want to see it so much
5. Cries and Whispers (Bergman) 8/10
6. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 9/10
8. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
9. Fight Club (Fincher) 10/10
10. Blue Velvet (Lynch) 7/10, needs a rewatch

you got 3 10/10s films from me. I give 10/10 to only 4 films

since I see this similarity in taste
what other films am I going to like? (other recommendations)

I am not sure, but I think I've seen you somewhereon imdb boards and talked to you about The Seventh Seal, sorry if it's not you...

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

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[–] Tyler_Durden_pt 18 years ago

"8 1/2" is great, but you need to watch it with an open mind in terms of what cinema is... and wathc it more than once. If you're into Bergman and Lynch, you should like Fellini, they have many touch points.

Also, if you enjoyed Mulholland Dr and Fight Club, you have a wide range of films that deal with the same themes (and influenced those two films). Persona is one, and some others by Bergman. Also, try Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard", Altman's "3 Women" and Hitchcock's "Vertigo". All great films which will make you enjoy Mullholand Dr. even more (and Inland Empire, if you've watched it).

Also, if you're into "hardcore" chamber cinema, do try Tarkovsky. Bergman used to say he was the best filmmaker ever, and he probably was too.

Dogville is great, think a play from Brecht filmmed with a handycam... but some will say it sucks. It's the thing with people like von Trier, they always get the most extreme reactions. Most greats do.

And yes, I'm the guy from the Bergman board

Last film watched:
Inland Empire by David Lynch - 9/10

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[–] raymon28 19 years ago

1. Playtime (Jacques Tati 1968)

2. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock 1958)

3.8 ½ (Federico Fellini 1963)

4. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner 1980)

5. Jaws (Steven Spielberg 1975)

6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone 1966)

7. City of God (Fernando Mierelles 2002)

8. Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson 2002)

9. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson 2001-2003)

10. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard 1964)

My Name Is Mud

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[–] illuminousgurkin 19 years ago

Mulholland Drive
8 1/2
The Third Man
Steve Zissou's Life Aquatic
Lost Highway
Blue Velvet
The Machinist
A Shot in the Dark
*beep* Amal (a.k.a Show Me Love)
8 Femmes

Have to mention..

Roma, Citta Aperta, Ladri di Biciclette, Amelie, Aimee and Jaguar, Spellbound (Hitchcock) and But,Im a Cheerleader.

Mulholland Drive is for me, head and shoulders above the rest though...a stunningly beautiful piece of cinema and my biggest regret is not seeing it on the big screen.

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