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

[–] imwithstupid_35 19 years ago

the man asked for 10 films people!!! not 25 not 3 but 10!!!!

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[–] johnrobie 19 years ago

So, so hard to do - there are hundreds more but here is my list...for now. I wanted to put down so many - everything from Point Break (I'm serious, I love that film) to Rashamon. Oh, it's like trying to choose between people you love! Impossible! I'd also put just about everything Spielberg has ever directed bar Hook (And I still love that!) down too.

1. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
3. Jean De Florette/ Manon De Source (Claude Berri)
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spileberg)
5. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. All the Presidnet's Men (Alan J. Paukla)
7. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
8. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
9. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
10. The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir)

I'd be here all night trying to pick more....

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[–] freem127 19 years ago

My inept list (in no particular order):

Harold and Maude
Virgin Suicides
Sunset Blvd
Survive Style 5+
Brick
*beep* Åmål (Moodysson)
Spanglish
Closer
Last Life in the Universe
Metropolis (Lang)

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[–] ajax_singh 19 years ago

1. Godfather
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. 2001 A Space Odyssey
4. Godfather 2
5. 12 Angry Men
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Gandhi
8. Dr Strangelove
9. Pulp Fiction
10.Seven Samurai

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[–] Bizygomatic 18 years ago

my top 3:

1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
2. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

and 7 more not ordered:

Stalker (Andrey Tarkovsky)
Ivan Vasilyevich menyaet professiyu (Leonid Gayday)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
Offret (Andrei Tarkovsky)

and 5 most entertaining ones:

Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Batman
Ed Wood

and 5 best blockbusters:

The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings. The Return of the King
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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[–] naltenhofen 18 years ago

8 1/2
Rebecca
To Kill A Mockingbird
Cinema Paradiso
Psycho
Rushmore
Schindler's List
Harold and Maude
Sideways
Almost Famous

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[–] TheBoss24 18 years ago

1. The Usual Suspects
2. Forrest Gump
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Seven
6. American Beauty
7. Memento
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Reservoir Dogs
10. A Beautiful Mind
11. Fight Club
12. L.A Confidential
13. Donie Darko
14. Catch me if you Can
15. The Terminal

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[–] BadaBingBadaBoom 18 years ago

1. Sátántangó
2. Idi i smotri
3. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
4. Fanny och Alexander
5. Eraserhead
6. Barry Lyndon
7. Apocalypse Now
8. C'era una volta il West
9. Raging Bull
10. Caché

"What's your name?"
"F uck you. That's my name"

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[–] gabriel1984 18 years ago

10. Tied between Rope - Hitchcock (this is a little masterpiece of Hitchcock) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Nichols (best acting ever)
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Gondry (greatest idea for a movie)
8. Solaris - Tarkovsky (best sci-fi movie ever, it's far better than 2001)
7. Manhattan - Woody Allen (2nd best comedy ever)
6. Requiem For a Dream - Aronofsky (best postmo movie)
5. Apocalypse Now - Coppola (best story ever "In the Heart of Darkness", Conrad)
4. Rashomon - Kurosawa (best "character told" movie, maybe the cleverest film)
3. The Seventh Seal - Bergman (best philosophic movie ever)
2. Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick (the best comedy ever, without any doubts)
1. 8 1/2 - Fellini (The best film ever, without any doubts)

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[–] vert_27 18 years ago

~Casablanca
~BIG TROUBLE in little CHINA
~Adaptation
~ME and You and Everyone We Know
~Lost in Translation
~OLDBOY
~THE Life Aquatic
~Lady Vengence
~THE SHINING
~CITY of GOD

CLOSE BEHIND:
~Groundhog Day
~The Proposition
~The Three Burials of MELQUIADES ESTRADA

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[–] dw37880 18 years ago

1. Annie Hall
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. Scenes from a Marriage
4. 8 1/2
5. Seven Samarai
6. The Bicycle Thief
7. The Grand illusion
8. M
9. Godfather
10. Manhatten

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[–] cota-2 18 years ago

I wouldn't try to say they're the best, but they're my favorites (in no order)

Adaptation (Jonze)
Taxi Driver (Scorcese)
Mysterious Skin (Araki) (Has its weak moments but still great)
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Richie)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
Audition (Miike)
2046 (WK Wai)
Stardust Memories (Allen)
Sword of Doom (Okamoto)

Runners Up

Spinal Tap (Reiner)
Waiting for Guffman (Guest)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
Matchpoint (Allen)
Deconstructing Harry (Allen)
Annie Hall (Allen)
Oldboy (Park)
Seven Samurai (Kurasawa)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
Ichi the Killer (Miike)

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[–] milcarb86 18 years ago

#1-Oldboy-Park Chanwook

then come the 10, no particular order:

-Tae Guk Gi (Brotherhood of War)-Kang Je-gyu
-Braveheart -Mel Gibson
-The Beast of War- Kevin Reynolds
-Scarface- Brian De Palma
-Full Metal Jacket- Stanley Kubrick
-Audition - Takshi Miike
-Tsotsi - Gavin Hood
-American History X - Tony Kaye
-The Memory Of A Killer (The Alzheimer Case)-Erik Van Looy
-Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)- Alejandro Amenabar

others whom i like just as much , 10 is just not enough lol

-American Psycho- Mary Harron
-Batman Begins - Christopher Nolan
-The Warrior - Asif Kapadia
-Memento- Christopher Nolan
-Papillon- Franklin J. Schaffner
-Hotel Rwanda- Terry George
-The Bourne Supremacy-Paul Greengrass
-City of God (Cidade de Deus) -Fernando Meirelles
-Seven Samurai-Akira Kurosawa
-The Matrix- Wachowski Brothers

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