Favourite Films,

[Johnny Boy]

I had trouble finding it, until somebody here hooked me up. I could do you a burn, if you'd like. It's something you need to see.

[umma-ohz]

I found some dvd's of it on ebay.co.uk a little while ago to my suprise, which were very cheap.
All region 0. Glad I bought it, though the quality was a bit poor, but I didn't really mind.
It was nice to see the film.

[wagon wheel]

There have been a few times when I've watched a film for the first time and said to myself "Goddamn, that was one of the best movies I've ever seen." Then, months later I'll decide to watch it again and it doesn't seem nearly as good. This is why I try to refrain from making impulsive judgments about films immediately after I watch them. There have been films that I hated upon the initial viewing and then really enjoyed the second time around, while there have been others that I thought were amazing at first but proved to be rather unremarkable upon further inspection.

[raiseshisarm]

I found a vhs copy of days of heaven a few weeks ago and have been watching it ceaselessly

[direct recharge]

I had trouble finding it, until somebody here hooked me up. I could do you a burn, if you'd like. It's something you need to see.

oh yes, that would be great. i will write you a PM later on today.

[mylkhead]

I went through my Netflix 5 star ratings and remembered some films I forgot about that totally should be on my favs list. I went ahead an updated it my list. This is mostly for personal record keeping, but there might be some ones in there you folks haven't seen, so here goes. It's long:

The 7 Up Series, The 400 Blows, 21 Grams, 51 Birch Street, 2 Days in Paris, Another State of Mind, Ali Fear Eats the Soul, Air Guitar Nation, Adaptation, Annie Hall, Abigails Party, After the Wedding, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, A History of Violence, All or Nothing, American Movie, Amores Perros, Baghead, The Business of Being Born, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Blue Velvet, BIKE, Billy the Kid, The Bridge, Career Girls, Clean Shaven, Cache, Cries and Whispers, Cinemania, Crash, Decline of Western Civilization 1-3, The Devil & Daniel Johnston, Deliver us From Evil, Dancer in the Dark, Donnie Darko, Dog Days, Dance Party USA, Elephant, Eraserhead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eagle vs Shark, Fast Food Nation, Fitzcarraldo, Fat Girl, Freaks, Fucking Åmål, The Firm (Alan Clarke), Funny Ha Ha, Garden State, Ghost World, Grizzly Man, Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner, Great World of Sound, Grey Gardens, Grown Ups, Gummo, Half Nelson, Home Movie, Hoop Dreams, Happy Go Lucky, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Heavy Metal in Baghdad, High Fidelity, Home Sweet Home, Husbands and Wives, I Am a Promise, I am a Sex Addict, Inland Empire, Jesus Camp, Joe Kid on a Sting Ray, Jonestown, Julien Donkey-Boy, Keane, Kissing on the Mouth, King of Kong, Little Otik, Lilya 4 Ever, La Promesse, Little Deiter Needs to Fly, L'Enfant, Made in Britain, Man on Wire, Masculin Feminin, Mr. Death: Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Meantime, Mulholland Drive, My Kid Could Paint That, Naked, Napoleon Dynamite, Nosferatu, Nuts in May, Office Space, Old Joy, Open Hearts, Paranoid Park, Palidromes, Persona, Punk's Not Dead, Pan's Labyrinth, Phenomena, Pi, The Puffy Chair, Quiet City, Say Anything, School of Rock, Starbucking, Scum, Secrets and Lies, Scenes from a Marriage, Spellbound, Suspiria, Starbucking, Stroszek, Super Size Me, Taxi to the Dark Side, Talk to Her, Together, The Son, This is England, The Celebration, This is Spinal Tap, The Firm, The Freshest Kids, The White Diamond, Waking Life, Tetsuo the Iron Man, The War Zone, Wild at Heart, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Word Wars, Wordplay, Wesley Willis the Grandaddy of Rock N Roll, A Women Under the Influence

[yourbuddyoz]

i was thinking the other day about movies i've rewatched the most and the ones that have moved me to tears.
the ones i've laughed out loud at the most and so on.
and they're all documentaries. i only watch one once in a while, but if i can be truly honest with myself, my top ten is now mostly docs because they get the biggest emotional response out of me.

american movie
the devil and daniel johnston
stevie
be here to love me

something that may be boring to some but somehow blew my mind because i never realized it
i think it's because i'm a filmmaker but i have little desire to make docs.

[mylkhead]

i was thinking the other day about movies i've rewatched the most and the ones that have moved me to tears.
the ones i've laughed out loud at the most and so on.
and they're all documentaries. i only watch one once in a while, but if i can be truly honest with myself, my top ten is now mostly docs because they get the biggest emotional response out of me.

american movie
the devil and daniel johnston
stevie
be here to love me

something that may be boring to some but somehow blew my mind because i never realized it
i think it's because i'm a filmmaker but i have little desire to make docs.

I know what you mean about docs. I like them because it's more "authentic" feeling for me. Of course, the filmmakers might have their certain slant or whatever they put on it, but by and large, I greatly enjoy the "reality" of it. They're more touching because you know that the people are real. Daniel Johnston doc was amazing and that's a perfect example. If that were a fictional film, it just wouldn't be the same.

Most of the movies my wife and I watch together are documentaries. Have you seen the Up series? That's gotta be one of my all-time favs.

[Olive]

I've decided to revive this thread and picking ONLY ten was rather difficult but I'm confident with my picks, them being:

1 ) Naked - Mike Leigh
2 ) Pink Flamingos - John Waters
3 ) Julien Donkey Boy - Harmony Korine
4 ) Hole In My Heart - Lukas Moodysson
5 ) Bubble - Steven Soderbergh
6 ) Nowhere - Gregg Araki
7 ) Invocation of my Demon Brother - Kenneth Anger
8 ) Closer - Mike Nichols
9 ) Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry
10 ) Buffalo 66 - Vincent Gallo

[JulienDonkeyHumpers]

Where's Gummo? Naked, JDB and Buffalo '66 are all epic, too.

[agedwealth]

Julian! Don't forget How High!!!

[JulienDonkeyHumpers]

How High gets a 9/10. lol.

[agedwealth]

Tommy
Bad boy bubby
Gummo
trash humpers
Happiness
Ali fear eats the soul
Whity
Fox and his freinds
husbands
shadows
the house of yes
observe and report
knocked up
funny people
southern comfort
deliverance
life during wartime
buffalo 66
trouble everyday
a boy and his dog
female troubles
where the wild things are
dazed and confused
waking life
Pixtoe
Salo
Synecdoche, New York
over the edge
sweet movie
Strange circus
groundhog day
fear and loathing in las vegas
Mister lonely
Stroszek
the 400 blows
eraserhead
blue velvet
The brown bunny
the holy mountain
el topo
persona
breaking the waves
the idiots
drugstore cowboy
good will hunting
a serious man
american movie
kids
punch drunk love
sleepers
naked
the royal tennenbaums
taxi driver
harold and maude
Badlands
stranger then paridise
aguirre, wrath of god
mean streets
bringing out the dead
goodfellas
freaked
Streetwise
Ratcatcher
Scum
The Firm
Pee wee herman's big adventure
tarnation
street trash
mystic river
dead man walking

Im sure im missing a bunch...

[Olive]

Very nice.

[Brandon...]

I'll say:

Vertigo
Johnny Guitar
The Rain People
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Burn!
The Big Gundown
The Conformist

In addition to whatever else I wrote.