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Heat, together with Collateral, made me fall in love with LA.
That's because they used the actual sounds of the guns while filming. Mann's director commentary is really informative.
1. THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
2. OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
3. GOLDFINGER
4. DRACULA (1958)
5. BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
6. CASABLANCA (1942)
7. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
8. THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955)
9. GOODFELLAS (1990)
10. WHITE HEAT (1949)
In no particular order.
Jaws: Highly regarded, by some, including myself, as the ultimate thriller. Or some would say ultimate horror.
The existential terror of what lies beneath the sea has never been done better. Beautifully shot, masterfully acted, and with the most intimidating soundtrack of all time. You could play the theme on a beach now, and I guarantee you everyone would get out of the water. That's power that few films can match.
Blade Runner: A strange, minimalist film, that requires much thought from the viewer. And pound for pound, it may still be the most visually spectacular film of all time. My wife watched it for the first time recently, and she couldn't believe it was made in the 80's. A triumph of restrained storytelling and visual splendour.
Those are two from the top of my head. I will have to sit and filter through my top 10 to truly get to the next three.
Empire of the Sun
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
The Prestige
From Russia with Love
The English Patient
Vertigo
Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Phantom Thread
Good to see Phantom Thread on your list @Univex
What a fascinating film. Amazing acting and beautifully shot.
A perfect little piece of cinema that sadly passed under everyone's radar. It should have been a bigger mark, being Day-Lewis final work, having that cinematography and direction, all by Paul Thomas Anderson, and that writing - when do we see that sort of writing nowadays? It's a brilliant little gem. As is, for example, The Danish Girl, or The King's Speech, or The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Best Offer, Final Portrait,... . All more recent entries I'd gladly add to that list. When people say cinema is dead nowadays, I urge them to go see these.
Exactly. It's the sort of gem that goes mostly unseen these days. Except for us lucky great film connoisseur's ! 😁
My list would be over 50 easily, so I'll just list a few off the top of my head; no order really.
Miracle on 34th Street (original, of course)
Charade
Cinema Paradiso
Chocolat
Inception
The Matrix
The American
Shakespeare In Love
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Muppet's Christmas Carol (yes, really)
A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sim)
Blade Runner (haven't seen the new one yet; I hear it's fantastic)
@4EverBonded
10: Dr. No The original, and still the best!
9: Citizen Kane. Let's be honest: unless The Godfather is playing on another channel, this is the best thing on TV.
8: Mad Max 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR Enough said!!!
7: Apocalypse Now. The original cut, please.
6: 2001: A Space Odyssey. Overlong and under-stuffed? Shit, I don't know! But I love this fucking movie!!
5: Mad Max 4: FURY ROAD. This is the best movie ever made... but my Top Four edge it out for sentimental reasons.
4: Jaws. Maybe the most perfect movie, ever.
3: The Movie Formerly Known as "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark). The original, and still the best.
2: The Movie Formerly Known as "Star Wars" (a.k.a. Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope). The best, and still original.
1: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and love the Bomb. Hilarious. Suspenseful. Profound. What more can anyone want in a movie?
Not too shabby at all. Agree on Jaws 👍
Still Spielbergs best Directed movie, imo.
LADRI DI BICICLETTE (1948)
Vittorio De Sica
THE THIRD MAN (1949)
Carol Reed
PETER PAN (1953)
Clyde Geronimo, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske
L'AVVENTURA (1960)
Michelangelo Antonioni
LA NOTTE (1961)
Michelangelo Antonioni
THUNDERBALL (1965)
Terence Young
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969)
Peter R. Hunt
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1971)
Seth Holt
SUSPIRIA (1977)
Dario Argento
REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER (1978)
Blake Edwards
DEATH ON THE NILE (1978)
John Guillermin
NOSFERATU: PHANTOM DER NACHT (1979)
Werner Herzog
STALKER (1979)
Andrei Tarkovsky
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola
TENEBRE (1982)
Dario Argento
PHENOMENA (1985)
Dario Argento
MANHUNTER (1986)
Michael Mann
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987)
John Glen
LICENCE TO KILL (1989)
John Glen
NIKITA (1990)
Luc Besson
THE EXORCIST III (1990)
William Peter Blatty
GOLDENEYE (1995)
Martin Campbell
THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998)
Martin Campbell
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)
Peter Jackson
GOOD BYE, LENIN! (2003)
Wolfgang Becker
ALEXANDER (2004)
Oliver Stone
DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (2006)
Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck
QUANTUM OF SOLACE (2008)
Marc Forster
BARBARA (2012)
Christian Petzold
ATOMIC BLONDE (2017)
David Leitch
Nice to see some love for Exorcist III, a very underrated film. Has one of the greatest scares ever put to film.
Also, lots of love for Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Blake Edwards [/quote]
@GoldenGun really nice list overall. I love all those Pink Panther movies, especially the original (and still the best): 1963's The Pink Panther was a sophisticated sex farce/caper comedy, an international production with an all-star cast. It's from the director of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and it shows: classy and elegant, with just a touch of slapstick. The breakout character of course was Clouseau, who got the spin-off/sequel in 1964's A Shot in the Dark, which for my money remains one of the Top Ten Funniest Movies Ever Made. The followups are a mixed bag at best (the less said about 1968's Inspector Clouseau, the better), but I do think that they managed to successfully re-bottle the lightning in 1975's The Return of the Pink Panther - it is like a remake of the caper aspects of the original, with the focus on the Inspector this time. I even like Christopher Plummer better than David Niven: more masculine, more threatening.
That said... REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER (1978) Really??? Strange choice, Goldie. Strange choice.
First of all, I like all the Sellers films in the series. Conversely, I've never seen a good one without him.
Nevertheless, I've always been a big Niven fan as well. He made CR67 bearable for me and I missed him dearly as Charles in Return. Maybe that's why I rate that one the lowest of all the Sellers entries.
My favourite could also have been Strikes Again with its many spy film tropes. Revenge might not be the most popular of them but I haven't laughed harder with any other film than with that one. Not only my favourite Panther, quite possibly my favourite comedy.
For the sake of completism, I would rank them thusly:
1. Revenge of the Pink Panther
2. The Pink Panther Strikes Again
3. A Shot in the Dark
4. The Pink Panther
5. Trail of the Pink Panther
6. Return of the Pink Panther
Quite like all of these. Of the rest of the series I never watched Inspector Clouseau or Son of the Pink Panther, but neither Curse of the Pink Panther nor the horrible Steve Martin ones motivate me to go out of Peter Seller's territory.
Ah, we differ on them. RETURN is my absolute favourite, great opening robbery, Sellers on top form with hilarious set pieces, the lovely Catherine Schell,the suave Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom,
A Shot in the Dark would be a close second!
Is RETURN the one with the diamond robbery at the start? I'm not too familiar when matching the films to the titles.
Catherine Schell is indeed lovely. Also in our very own OHMSS..!
Correct...ON both counts!
Forget to mention the running joke about Graham Stark and his fingers getting broke! Stark, a good friend of Sellers, is also a regular of the series!
Top 40 (ranked chronologically):
Ladri di biciclette
aka BICYCLE THIEVES
Italy, 1948
Directed by Vittorio De Sica,
With Lamberto Maggiorani & Enzo Staiola,
Music by Alessandro Cicognini.
THE THIRD MAN
UK, 1949
Directed by Carol Reed,
With Joseph Cotton & Orson Welles,
Music by Anton Karas.
PETER PAN
USA, 1953
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske,
With Bobby Driscoll & Hans Conried,
Music by Oliver Wallace.
DRACULA
UK, 1958
Directed by Terence Fisher,
With Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing,
Music by James Bernard.
L' AVVENTURA
Italy, 1960
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni,
With Monica Vitti & Gabriele Ferzetti,
Music by Giovanni Fusco.
LA NOTTE
Italy, 1961
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni,
With Marcello Mastroianni & Monica Vitti,
Music by Giorgio Gaslini.
L' ECLISSE
Italy, 1962
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni,
With Monica Vitti & Alain Delon,
Music by Giovanni Fusco.
8 1⁄2
Italy, 1963
Directed by Federico Fellini,
With Marcello Mastroianni & Claudia Cardinale,
Music by Nino Rota.
THUNDERBALL
UK, 1965
Directed by Terence Young,
With Sean Connery & Claudine Auger,
Music by John Barry.
Ostře sledované vlaky
aka CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS
Czechoslovakia, 1966
Directed by Jiří Menzel,
With Václav Neckář & Jitka Scoffin,
Music by Jiří Šust.
LE SAMOURAÏ
France, 1967
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville,
With Alain Delon & François Périer,
Music by François de Roubaix.
THE LION IN WINTER
UK, 1968
Directed by Anthony Harvey,
With Peter O'Toole & Katherine Hepburn,
Music by John Barry.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
USA/UK, 1968
Directed by Stanley Kubrick,
With Keir Dullea & Gary Lockwood,
Music by various artists.
C'era una volta il west
aka ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
Italy/Spain, 1968
Directed by Sergio Leone,
With Claudia Cardinale & Charles Bronson,
Music by Ennio Morricone.
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
UK,1969
Directed by Peter Hunt,
With George Lazenby & Diana Rigg,
Music by John Barry.
THE GODFATHER
USA, 1972
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola,
With Marlon Brando & Al Pacino,
Music by Nino Rota.
Chi l'ha vista morire?
aka WHO SAW HER DIE?
Italy, 1972
Directed by Aldo Lado,
With George Lazenby & Anita Strindberg,
Music by Ennio Morricone.
La dama rossa uccide 7 volte
aka THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES
Italy, 1972
Directed by Emilio P. Miraglia,
With Barbara Bouchet & Ugo Pagliai,
Music by Bruno Nicolai.
THE GODFATHER: PART II
USA, 1974
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola,
With Al Pacino & Robert De Niro,
Music by Nino Rota.
L' innocente
aka THE INNOCENT
Italy, 1976
Directed by Luchino Visconti,
With Giancarlo Giannini & Laura Antonelli,
Music by Franco Mannino.
SUSPIRIA
Italy, 1977
Directed by Dario Argento,
With Jessica Harper & Joan Bennett,
Music by Goblin.
STALKER
USSR, 1979
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky,
With Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy & Anatoliy Solonitsyn,
Music by Eduard Artemiev.
DAS BOOT
West Germany, 1981
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen,
With Jürgen Prochnow & Herbert Grönemeyer,
Music by Klaus Doldinger.
TENEBRE
Italy, 1982
Directed by Dario Argento,
With Anthony Franciosa & Daria Nicolidi,
Music by Simonetti/Pignatelli/Morante.
OCTOPUSSY
UK, 1983
Directed by John Glen,
With Roger Moore & Maud Adams,
Music by John Barry.
BODY DOUBLE
USA, 1984
Directed by Brian De Palma,
With Craig Wasson & Melanie Griffith,
Music by Pino Donaggio.
PHENOMENA
Italy, 1985
Directed by Dario Argento,
With Jennifer Connelly & Daria Nicolidi,
Music by Goblin.
MANHUNTER
USA, 1986
Directed by Michael Mann,
With William Petersen & Tom Noonan,
Music by Michel Rubini & The Reds.
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
UK, 1987
Directed by John Glen,
With Timothy Dalton & Maryam d'Abo,
Music by John Barry.
Le grand bleu
aka THE BIG BLUE
France, 1988
Directed by Luc Besson,
With Jean-Marc Barr & Jean Reno,
Music by Éric Serra.
LICENCE TO KILL
UK/Mexico, 1989
Directed by John Glen,
With Timothy Dalton & Carey Lowell,
Music by Michael Kamen.
Nikita
aka LA FEMME NIKITA
France, 1991
Directed by Luc Besson,
With Anne Parillaud & Tchéky Karyo,
Music by Éric Serra.
Léon
aka LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL
France, 1994
Directed by Luc Besson,
With Jean Reno & Natalie Portman,
Music by Éric Serra.
Par-dela les nuages/Al di là delle nuvole
aka BEYOND THE CLOUDS
France/Italy/Germany, 1995
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (& Wim Wenders),
With John Malkovich & Sophie Marceau,
Music by various artists.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
New Zealand/USA, 2001
Directed by Peter Jackson,
With Elijah Wood & Viggo Mortensen,
Music by Howard Shore.
GOOD BYE, LENIN!
Germany, 2003
Directed by Wolfgang Becker,
With Daniel Brühl & Katrin Sass,
Music by Yann Tiersen.
ALEXANDER
USA/Germany, 2004
Directed by Oliver Stone,
With Colin Farrell & Angelina Jolie,
Music by Vangelis.
DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN
Germany, 2006
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck,
With Ulrich Mühe & Sebastian Koch,
Music by Gabriel Yared.
La pazza gioia
aka LIKE CRAZY
Italy, 2016
Directed by Paolo Virzì,
With Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi & Micaela Ramazzotti,
Music by Paolo Virzì.
CHERNOBYL
USA/UK, 2019
Directed by Johan Renck,
With Jared Harris & Stellan Skarsgård,
Music by Hildur Guðnadóttir.
Very 80’s heavy - I like it 😁
Mine is...
1) Aliens
2) The Silence of the Lambs
3) Pulp Fiction
4) The Shawshank Redemption
5) The Thing
6) Withnail and I
7) The Terminator
8) Reservoir Dogs
9) Gladiator
10) Alien
So my list has changed drastically since I last did this...it has been a good few years I think;
1) Groundhog Day (1993)
2) Vertigo (1958)
3) Apocalypse Now (1979)
4) Psycho (1960)
5) Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
6) Alien (1979)
7) Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
8) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
9) Citizen Kane (1941)
10) Chinatown (1974)
11) The 400 Blows (1959)
12) Mulholland Drive (2001)
13) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
14) Casablanca (1942)
15) Blade Runner (1982)
16) The Battle of Algiers (1966)
17) Withnail & I (1986)
18) Airplane! (1980)
19) Star Wars (1977)
20) North by Northwest (1959)
21) Some Like it Hot (1959)
22) Rear Window (1954)
23) Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
24) Rebecca (1940)
25) Battleship Potemkin (1925)
26) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
27) Aliens (1986)
28) Fargo (1996)
29) The Wizard of Oz (1939)
30) Harold and Maude (1971)
31) Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960)
32) The Godfather (1972)
33) L.A. Confidential (1997)
34) The Seven Samurai (1954)
35) Manhattan (1979)
36) Sunrise (1927)
37) The Truman Show (1998)
38) Straw Dogs (1971)
39) La Regle du jeu (1939)
40) Le Mépris (1963)
41) Blue Velvet (1986)
42) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
43) Pather Panchali (1955)
44) Persona (1966)
45) Bicycle Thieves (1948)
46) American Beauty (1999)
47) Taxi Driver (1976)
48) Do the Right Thing (1989)
49) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
50) La Haine (1995)
51) La Dolce Vita (1960)
52) M (1931)
53) Rope (1948)
54) A Cry in the Dark (1988)
55) Tsotsi (2005)
56) The Social Network (2010)
57) A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
58) A Clockwork Orange (1971)
59) Rashomon (1950)
60) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
61) Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie (1972)
62) The Wicker Man (1973)
63) The General (1926)
64) The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
65) Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
66) Spirited Away (2001)
67) Misery (1990)
68) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
69) À bout de souffle (1960)
70) The Shining (1980)
Always great to De Sica's masterpiece somewhere in a top list. I'm sure we would have more in common if I would expand my list further (i.e. Apocalypse Now, La dolce vita,...).
10. Empire of the Sun (1987)
9. High Fidelity (2000)
8. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
7. The Godfather Part II (1974)
6. Lost In Translation (2003)
5. The Apartment (1960)
4. Stand By Me (1986)
3. Casablanca (1942)
2. Vertigo (1958)
1. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)