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Thanks. Probably showing my age as the newest film there is Pulp Fiction!
For me these are seminal films that have had the most effect on me. Most of these i can watch again and again and never tire of them.
As i said, the latter films can change depending on my mood.
Manhunter
Raising Arizona
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing
Eraserhead
Halloween
The Long Good Friday
Could also be on the list
Love The Long Good Friday.
Plan to watch it this weekend considering the weekend that's in it!
Watched it yesterday! :))
Love the classic Harold Shand quotes.
And one of my favourite movie themes, from Francis Monkman.
Not necessarily the best movies of all time, but among my “classic era” favorites (in chronological order):
1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 / James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains)
2. The Philadelphia Story (1940 / Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart)
3. The Maltese Falcon (1941 / Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor)
4. Citizen Kane (1941 / dir. Orson Welles w/Joseph Cotton)
5. Casablanca (1942 / dir. Curtiz w/ Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)
6. Double Indemnity (1944, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson)
7. The Breaking Point (1950 / dir. Curtiz, John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter)
8. In a Lonely Place (1950 / Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame)
9. Singin’ in the Rain (1952 / Gene Kelly)
10. On the Waterfront (1954 / Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint)
11. Gojira (1954 / dir. Honda)
12. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957 / dir. Lean, Willian Holden, Alec Guinness)
13. Paths of Glory (1957 / dir. Kubrick, Kirk Douglas)
14. North by Northwest (1959 / dir. Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint)
15. Inherit the Wind (1960 / Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly)
16. West Side Story (1961 / music by Leonard Bernstein)
17. David and Lisa (1962 / Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva)
18. Lawrence of Arabia (1962 / dir. Lean, Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness)
19. The Birds (1963 / (dir. Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren)
20. The Great Escape (1963 / Steve McQueen)
21. A Hard Day’s Night (1964 / starring …now what were they called again?
22. Dr. Strangelove (1964 / dir. Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott)
23. A Patch of Blue (1965 / Sidney Poitier, Shelly Winters, Elizabeth Hartman)
24. Doctor Zhivago (1965 / dir. Lean, Alec Guinness, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif)
25. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966 / Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach)
26. Bonnie and Clyde (1967 / Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway)
27. The Producers (1968 dir. Brooks, Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel)
28. 2OO1: A Space Odyssey (1968 / dir. Kubrick, Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood)
29. Bullitt (1968 / Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn)
30. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969 / Robert Redford, Paul Newman)
Does anyone here think that Gloria Grahame (if born in 1943, for example) or Julie Christie would have made for a great Bond Girl?
Great to see Doctor Zhivago in there. Actually my favourite of David Lean’s films.
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Cannonball Run
Jack Reacher
The Italian Job (the original)
Skyfall
Goldfinger
Mission Impossible fallout
The Hangover
Hot Fuzz
Rush
Senna
Meet The Fockers
The November Man
The Tailor Of Panama
By no means the full list
L.A. Confidential
Thanks GoldenGun.
While I don’t think that Doctor Zhivago is as good as “Bridge” or “Lawrence”, the last half hour of the movie always gets to me emotionally.
Freddie Young’s cinematography (he also did You Only Live Twice), Maurice Jarre’s “Lara’s Theme” and the casting of Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger and Alec Guinness make it a classic. And did I mention that Ms. Christie is absolutely beautiful.
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
La Strada (Federico Fellini)
8½ (Federico Fellini)
The Passion of Joan of Ark (Carl Th. Dreyer)
Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
Carrie (Brian de Palma)
Scarface (Brian de Palma)
Carlito’s Way (Brian de Palma)
Femme Fatale (Brian de Palma)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
The Searchers (John Ford)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
Amadeus (Milos Forman)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
M (Fritz Lang)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Satantango (Bela Tarr)
The Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica)
The Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
The Secret of Nimh (Don Bluth)
Playtime (Jacques Tati)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)
Maren Ade (Toni Erdman)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
American Graffiti (George Lucas)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Wilder)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
The Night of the Hunter
American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche)
My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
Suspiria (Dario Argento)
Robocop (Paul Vehoeven)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
Let the Right One in (Tomas Alfredson)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
The Wind (Victor Sjöström)
The Skin I Live in (Pedro Almodovar)
Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
Birdman (Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu)
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
The Square (Ruben Östlund)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowsky)
Head-On (Fatih Akin)
Split (M. Night Shyamalan)
Hereditary (Ari Aster)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
From Russia with Love (Terrence Young)
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt)
The Spy who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert)
GoldenEye (Martin Campbell)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
That is truly amazing @Vinther1991! Truly amazing list.
@FoxRox, I've always really loved that one.
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra) is scheduled to be on TCM (8:00 PM EST) tomorrow night (5/7) so I’m going to watch – if for no other reason than to spot the “Bugs Bunny” connections.
According to Helfenstein’s “The Making of OHMSS” (see page 144):
1. Fleming thought that Claudette Colbert would make a perfect Bond heroine.
2. Peter Hunt used the relationship between Clark Gable and Colbert’s characters as inspiration for the barn scene in OHMSS.
Agree @MaxCasino A Christmas Story is a wonderful film. One of my Xmas favourites.
Nice to see it's someones favourite film.
It is! It's almost never boring!
1. Joker (2019)
2. Whiplash (2014)
3. The Shape of Water (2017)
4. Parasite (2019)
5. Skyfall (2012)
6. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
7. Silence (2016)
8. The Lighthouse (2019)
9. The Master (2012)
10. Room (2015)
A few honorable mentions: Toy Story 3 (2010), Drive (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Lincoln (2012), Prisoners (2013), The Wind Rises (2013), Gone Girl (2014), It Follows (2014), Spotlight (2015), Deadpool (2016), La La Land (2016), Zootopia (2016), A Silent Voice (2016), Get Out (2017), Dunkirk (2017), It (2017), Phantom Thread (2017), Logan (2017), A Quiet Place (2018), Incredibles 2 (2018), Knives Out (2019).
Could have listed more, but these are my standouts from the decade.
Great picks!
Thank you. 2017 and 2019 easily stood out to me as the best film years of the decade.
All the Bonds of course
Eragon
Prince Caspian
North Sea Hijack
Jack
Thanks ;-)
I must say that this list is no particular order.
But ok, my favourite movie of all times is Heat. And just below the top ten are The Dark Knight & Pulp Fiction. :)
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. E.T The Extra Terrestrial
3. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
4. Star Wars (A New Hope)
5. Superman
6. Ghostbusters
7. Back To The Future
8. Rocky
9. Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan
10. Goldeneye