5.22.2005

Notes from an Abject Cine-dork

This new Time magazine Top 100 movies poll didn't anger me as much as I thought it would (City of God? Rock on), but it did get me all listalgic and stuff. So - pants down, red-faced - here's my top 10. And I invite you all to chime in with yours. I'm curious, darnit.

1) Citizen Kane
2) The Decalogue
3) 8 1/2
4) Touch of Evil
5) The Seven Samurai
6) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
7) The Seventh Seal
8) The Thin Blue Line/The Fog of War
9) 2001
10) The Exorcist/The Exorcist III

10 comments:

PJKM said...

The Decalogue is my number one (and, if I was being lazy, my two thru ten, as well).

Brando said...

It's always hard to put these in order, but here's what my first reaction was:

1) Pulp Fiction
2) Rushmore
3) Dr. Strangelove
4) Apocalypse Now
5) Citizen Kane
6) Blade Runner (only the Director's Cut version)
7) The Return of the King
8) John Woo's The Killer
9) 2001
10) The Empire Strikes Back

cfp said...

I go for spectacle/allegories. Some of these are more defensible than others.

1- Dawn of the Dead (The original, Silly.)

2-Planet of the Apes (The original, Silly.)

3- Being John Malkovich

4-Predator/Running Man/Conan The Barbarian

5-City of the Lost Children

6- Wicker Man

7- Rushmore

8- Memento

9- Willow

10- The Searchers

Grendel said...

All I'm saying is, when I first saw them, each of these astonished me in some way that expanded my appreciation of what film was capable of:

Pulp Fiction
Blue Velvet
Happiness
The Big Sleep
Do the Right Thing
Babe
Full Metal Jacket
Mulholland Drive
Natural Born Killers
Eraserhead

What a great thread -- I'm already compiling a need-to-see list.

cfp said...

I egregiously forgot Babe II, Pig in the City.

bR said...

In no particular order and subject to my astonishingly poor memory for movies:

The Dinner Game
Sling Blade
Pulp Fiction
Three Days of the Condor
My Life as a Dog
Before Sunset
Hero
Chinatown
Planet of the Apes
Being There

SER said...

I can't come up with ten on the fly, but a few of my favorites follow:

- Apocalypse Now
- Citizen Kane
- Rushmore
- Requiem for a Dream
- Cinema Paradiso
- The Fog of War

Jane said...

In addition to some of those already mentioned, I'd add

Casablanca
Notorious
The Usual Suspects
Annie Hall
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Confucius said...

Lots of my favorites already mentioned above. A few others I'd have to consider for a list:

The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Together (Lukas Moodysson's)
Dr. Zhivago
Fargo
Roman Holiday
Life Is Beautiful

And has anyone watched E.T. in the last twenty years or so? It's almost a perfect movie. (In the interest of full disclosure, Ian, the damn thing makes me tear up every time. Granted, not Revenge of the Sith-esque tears, but tears nevertheless...I know E.T. has to go home...but still.)

TLB said...

I must second Kim's vote for Breaking the Waves. A very underrated film, IMHO.

Give me also, from my dorky girl heart, the original Star Wars series, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Lord of the Rings series.

For grown-up films, I love The Piano, Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Memento, Casablanca and Apocalypse Now.