After i watched this film i just couldnt stop thinking about it, such an eyeopener! what are your top 5 films (or more) you couldn't get out of your head after watching them, dosent matter if other people dont agree, but what you thought....
Heres mine...
1. mysterious skin
2.the beach
3.christiane. f.
4. mississippi burning
5.a clockwork orange.
thanks!
I wouldnt let you sleep in my room, if you were growing on my ASS!!!!
requiem for a dream
american history x
their final scenes have haunted me for years.
In no order:
Dancer in the Dark
Requim for a Dream
Oldboy
Bully
Funny Games (original)
Spoorloos (The Vanishing) (original)
I Stand Alone
Affliction
Se7en
Blue Velvet
The Mosquito Coast
Platoon
River's Edge
Runaway Train
Eraserhead
The Wicker Man (1973)
Deliverance
The Manchurain Candidate (1962)
It's a Wonderful Life
Freaks (1932)
'I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either'. - Bud, Repo Man (1984)
everyone has pretty much mentioned a lot of mine :)
but here are some that have stayed with me a while that no one has mentioned: i can't sleep so there is lots.
1. Taxi Driver OMFG Deniro!
2. Life as a House I often think about that scene when George tells sam about his cancer, and says: "I was trying to get you to love me!" And Sam yells at him: "Well you *BEEP* pulled it off!"
3. Edward Scissorhands Can't believe no one mentioned this-i couldn't stop thinking about this film after i saw it. I had no idea who Johnny Depp was then but i dreamed about Edward many times lol.
4. The Silence of the lambs Obvious reasons
5. Malèna really haunted me.
6. Tropa de ELite if you like Cidade de Deus*City of GOd* you will like this
7. Stand by Me what can I say...
8. Bambi haunted me when i was little
9. Babel the morrocan scenes- especially with those children and the scenes with Chieko:(
10.The Constant Gardner i can't believe no one has mentioned this. this left me with a lump in my throat for a while. cinematography was breath-takingly beautiful
11.FLUKE OMG another childhood film that really affected me. seriously i just got really depressed at a young age because i started imagining my father was all the animals around me and scared that he would think because i would laugh or something that i had forgotten about him.
12. The English Patient long but it was sad and i thought about it
13. Titanic i have to admit this got to me- even after the 10th time i saw it at the cinemas in a period of 3 weeks
14.Angela's Ashes the book was more haunting than the film, but i still couldn't stop thinking about it.
15. I am Sam i thought about this a lot afterwards. and about Sean's performance
16.Mystic River I LOVED this film. however i went to see it at the cinema for a first date with a guy and he was trying to kiss me and stuff and i was totally engrossed in the film and couldn't stop crying. HAHA i def got my moneys worth but don't know if he did hehe.
others have mentioned these films, but these are my favs:
* Cidade de Deus couldn't stop thinking about how great this was. The acting was superb.
* American History X couldn't believe this. took me a while to get over the shock of what i saw and then i started to really appreciate this film.
*Candy simple but beautiful. it is all about the acting. i really was drawn into Candy and Dan's world and believed every minute of this film.
*A river runs through it hehe JGL is in this. i thought it was a pure story and it moved me
*Amores Perros shocking but brilliant
*Legends of the Fall Visually beautiful, pretty sad
*Requiem for a Dream I literally sat there frozen while the credits rolled and then had to start breathing again!
*American Beauty Ah WOW! kevin spacey!!! pretty stunning
*Y tu mamá también OMFG the acting and the chemistry between Gael and Diego is insanely fantastic!!! honest to god some of the best chemistry between two male leads i have ever seen on screen (like Brokeback-Jack and Heath). the ending really left me feeling quite sad and weird, it was a weird feeling.
*Mulholland Dr. Freaked the sh!t out of me- so yeah i couldn't stop thinking about it
*La Vita è bella 'Life is beautiful' i was pretty young when i saw this and it really opened up my eyes
*Monster's Ball Heath Ledger!!! OMG that scene!! 'You hate me don't you!?' shocked me- made me soo sad. depressing as hell and i couldn't get it out of my head.
*Brokeback Mountain the acting, the setting, the cinematography, the screenplay, the score, the direction, the story......how great was this film!? the simplicity was beautiful. there were many quotes and scenes i couldn't stop thinking about.
*Romeo and Juliet both Baz Luhrmann's version and the 1968 film. I'm a sucker for this story, what can i say? it gets me every damn time!
*Diarios de motocicleta- the Motorcycle diaries this film was so inspiring to me i actually went and made the Machu Picchu hike and then went on to work at a Bolivian Girls orphanage. i really liked this film.
*No country for old men God i love Javier...HAHA. i have always loved him but he is superb in this, the whole film is superb
*Lucía y el sexo (sex and Lucia) Visually stunning and quite delicate and i liked it.
*La Mala educación yep thought about the performances for a while. Great!!
*There will be blood errr wow!! i really really like DDL also liked 'The last of the Mohicans' and loved his performance in 'My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown'
*Se7en the ending is what really stayed with me. i saw this after i saw American Beauty btw.
*Tristan and Isolde I actually kept thinking about the music. It was beautiful. And Rufus Sewell is great in this.
*The Notebook Really fell in love with the story. James Garner was heart-breaking in this film. Loved the acting.
*Los Amantes del Círculo Polar The lovers of the Artic Cirlce- i really liked this and it stayed with me for a long time- great Julio Medem film. i always picture the visuals- they were stunning.
*Mysterious Skin well of course this film...i was just really bored now and started thinking about it, i think i saw it like a year ago. I just started thinking about JGL's performance and felt compelled to come here and say something about it, i didn't realise i would end up with this list though haha!! i think i have spent like almost half an hour writing this.
One film that i really wanted to stop thinking about because it scared me and confused me and just chilled me to the bone was
Abre los ojos OPEN YOUR EYES
it is the spanish version of Vanilla Sky- i think it is much better. it is the original and very very weird but scary but fascinating and enthralling and will stay with you for a while.
And every now and then i think about the 'Wheelers' from 'Return to Oz' this movie actually made me scared when i was young.
MAn there are sooo many more films- lots of swedish and french films but i think i have enough in this post lol
Te ves tan bien te quisiera comer a besosR.I.P Heath
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I can't believe no one listed:
Hotel Rwanda
Trainspotting
The Piano
Black Hawk Down
Props to those who mentioned Bully and The Color Purple.
Alternative Fuels:http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w257/rogueagent47/alt-fuel.jpg
1. SANTA SANGRE*
2. Mysterious Skin
3. Taxidermia*
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. La mala educación
6. Seul contre toes
7. C'est arrivé près de chez vous
8. Twin Peaks
9. Oldboy
10. Jacob's Ladder
& Funny Games - original, of course.
* - Am I the only one who mentioned 'em? I'm 100% sure it's because no one here has seen them...
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Somebody mentioned Disco Pigs... Yikes! I was a broken woman after I watched that. Apart from the aforementioned Brokeback Mountain and Mysterious Skin...
Dead Ringers
A Woman Under The Influence
The Proposition
The Assassination of Jesse James...
Trouble Every Day - you know it'll be weird, because Vincent Gallo is in it. And disturbing, because Beatrice Dalle is in it! But there's such a powerful melancholy to it, and the denouement is truly excruciating to watch. Beautiful stuff.
+1 for The Proposition. Unique experience of a film.
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Only 5 films is almost impossible because there are so many that stick but these are the one's that gut punched me so badly I'm still haunted.
The truly miserable and devastating double feature of "Irreversible" and "Melena", both starring Monica Belluci. Images from Irreversible are practically burned into my mind forever!
Old Boy...Messed me up for hours after I saw it and has haunted me ever since. I have never seen anything so batsh*t crazy yet so intriguing and brilliant at the same time.
The Cell...is just beautiful and the images are so vivid and unique I still think about that when people mention art direction.
Mysterious Skin...I have never seen childhood abuse explored that way. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is more enviably gifted than any other young actor I've seen in a decade.
Requiem for a Dream...Although the men were great, it was the women in the film that floored me. Ellen Burstyn...OMG!!!
Lilya 4-ever...Of all the films I've listed this is the most distrubing I've ever seen. It's about a teenage girl who gets sold into prostitution. It's affect on me was bone deep and I cried for hours after I saw it.
City of God, Secretary, Hard Candy, and Waking Life are also honorable mentions.
Also props to the person who put Santa Sangre on their list. I saw it years ago as a teenager and didnt understand one damn thing that was happening but it was done with such flare and creepiness I still kinda love it to this day.
Trying to respond without reading other people's listings until after I've made mine...In no particular order, except the first two perhaps:
"A Tale of Two Sisters" (Korean original, of course!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365376/
"Dancer in the Dark" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/
"Irreversible" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/
"Mysterious Skin"
"Oldboy" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/
"Human Trafficking" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461872/
"Lilia 4-Ever" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/
"House of Sand and Fog" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315983/
"Sometimes in April" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400063/
"Kissed" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116783/
"Santa Sangre" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098253/
"The Wicker Man" (Original UK Version, naturally...) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/
There are so many more, but these came spontaneously from the top of my mind as not only good films, but those that stay with you and change your perspective on life, challenge your sense of security and sanity, and mold you as a person at least a very little bit.
I think I should mention one particular book too: Arundhati Roy's "God of Small Things". It has that special something beyond the mere words, that stays with you and haunts you for eternity! I imagine people who enjoyed "Mysterious Skin" would very likely enjoy that book as well...
"Nothing can be obscene in such love. Everything that occurs in between it becomes a sacrament."
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Holy f_ck, Disco Pigs was NIGHTMARISH... but in painfully bad way. The tagline nails it. "90 minutes you'll never forget." Damn right. I'll never get them back either!
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Props to those who mentioned lilya 4 ever.
Has anyone seen the heart is deceitful above all things?
El topo would be another one to add
Kim ki duk's "time" had a mediocre plot but ki-duk made an extraordinary and touching film.
Also, one movie I will never forget is hideaki anno's "ritual" starring steven segal's japanese daughter, "ayako fujitani". There will most likely never be a movie to touch me as much as this one, and I urge everyone to track it down.
I'm downloading it already. Cheers.
And I urge you to track down Taxidermia. Not much of a poetry in it, but incomparable art and national + human concern.
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Downloading ritual? be careful that it's shiki jitsu (shiki-jitsu is ritual's original japanese title), and not some random horror movie with the same name "ritual". If you do end up getting the right one, you are in for a treat.
I have heard about taxidermia..I might track it down on ebay.
i dont really understand people writing juno in this thread??
i mean i liked the movie, but i cant imagine it leaving a great impact that i couldnt shake....
anyway mine would probably be
requim for a dream
a tale of two sisters
oldboy
(for the 'disturbing' nature)
and...
my beautiful laundrette
c.r.a.z.y
for different eason which i think i may start another thread about...
1. Mysterious skin
2. American history X
3. Clockwork orange
4. Across the universe
5. The new texas chainsaw massicure
1. Mysterious Skin
2. Chumscrubber
3. Ponette
4. Ghost World
5. Across the Universe
...&I have to throw in two extras: Children of Men & Green Street Hooligans.
I hadn't seen ponette at the time, I ould definitely add that one today, and I suggest everyone track this marvelous film down!
shareHere are some random ones of very differing genres:
Little Miss Sunshine (so much like my own family that I couldn't stop thinking about whether or not the filmmakers had stalked us to get ideas :D lol)
Thirteen (WOW...)
My Summer of Love (weirdly interesting..)
Hard Candy (brutal to watch...really awakened my gagging reflexes)
Fargo (when the tall blond murderer presses down on Steve Buscemi's leg into the wood chipper..oh God that was funny in a sick, black wit way..Frances McDormand was fantastic in this..."Ja" :D)
Memento (who could NOT think about this movie afterwards? The way that they portray the whole idea of how his memory is so distorted is quite brilliant)
The Prestige (another Christopher Nolan...I thought about it not so much because I thought it was brilliant (I didn't) but because it is the type of movie that deserves thought)
Citizen Kane (Although this is not one of the most enjoyable movies ever made, it certainly is one of the greatest. I could not tear myself away from it, even days after the initial viewing)
The Great Escape (just putting a plug in for this one...one of the best action movies of all time..I always think of how I wish they had all escaped and think 'if only they hadn't done this' etc. to try and work out another way for them to escape.)
The Shawshank Redemption (This movie does what all movies should set out to do: it entertains, it enthralls, it makes you cry, it makes you laugh and in the end it leaves you feeling supremely happy)
An American Crime (Although thi movie is probably one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen I have to admit I could not stop thinking about it; I was in a funk for days afterward :D)
Stranger Than Fiction (What if Karen Eiffel had killed Harold Crick???)
Unfortunately I ahve not seen Mysterious Skin as yet, but I am in the process of doing so.
There are so many more movies to name, but I have to go.!.
Mysterious Skin
Police Academy 4
101 Dalmations
Dumb & Dumber
Teeth
IN THAT ORDER
i thought about chumscrubber mostly because i couldnt decide if i liked it or not. i think i do now.
the scariest film of all time, i am outraged nobody has mentioned it, JESUS CAMP!!!
everytime just makes me feel sick inside and never leaves you.
Well, You're absolutely right about that. I love and hate Jesus Camp at the same time. Feel alot of anger and rejection everytime I see it. The first time it hunted me for days.
Other movies not mentioned as far as I can see:
- Magnolia - Brilliant, never felt me THAT empty because of a movie. It just keeps playing in my head.
- Koyaanisqatsi - It takes me on a trip every time.
- Postmen in the mountains - The beauty and simplicity of the movie, just stunning! I consider it even better than 'Spring, summer, fall, winter... And spring.'
- Manufactured landscapes - Very nice documentary, but not a masterpiece. It somehow does keep me watching, and I can't stop re-watching it. Probably it is the imagery and the music combined, which are both very brilliant. Also the message is a good one.
- Bashing - The feeling a complete country rejects you. Just WOW, that is quite heavy. Beautifully shot too.
- Apocalypse now - the only exception next to Magnolia so far. First time it gave me shivers, and it hunted me all night. I just couldn't sleep. Brilliant movie.
- Waltz with bashir - As real as war can get in somebody's head, The fact it is animated doesn't make it less real.
I know you wrote this YEARS ago, so there is no chance you'll happen across my reply, but still...holy crow, I've never met anyone who has read TGoST unless I gave it to them! What an amazing book. The first time I read it, I got to the end and just started it all over again. I loved the way the main characters (the twins) played with language, it felt like she had gotten into my childhood self somehow. I was stunned to learn (after finishing my second reading of the book) that it was Arundhati Roy's first novel.
Anyway, just had to say that I LOVE that book.
requiem for a dream
the united states of leland
kids
mysterious skin
the virgin suicides
in random order
requiem for a dream
snatch.
the beguiled
grindhouse
mysterious skin
manic
cannibal holocaust
I only came here to do two things, kick some ass and drink some beer.