Favourite Films,

[Chad]

in comparison to real criterion covers, those look awful. forgive me if I'm just stating the obvious.

[ketchup and liquor]

bit of a low blow, but true no less.

[downward]

I posted before, but here's a longer list. We obviously share a lot of favorites, but here are some that I don't think have been mentioned (some of which are painfully mainstream, but I think deserve their due anyhow):

1.) The Balcony
2.) Brewster McCloud
3.) Kind Hearts & Coronets
4.) The Front
5.) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
6.) Altered States
7.) Peter's Friends
8.) Zelig
9.) Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
10.) Zodiac
11.) Abigail's Party
12.) Elephant Man
13.) Akira
14.) Mahanagar
15.) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
16.) Solaris
17.) Slingblade
18.) Harold & Maude
19.) The Hospital
20.) The Thing
21.) An American Werewolf in London
22.) Samurai Rebellion
23.) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
24.) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
25.) The Conversation

[polysicsarebest]

pastoral: to die in the country is my favorite film of all time

[gbessellieu]

Agreed, but making a list of ten is hard. I can't imagine doing an All-Time Favourite List or something like that.

Agreed, but wouldn't it be a worthwhile challenge? Top ten of all-time lists are often hastily posted as a matter-of-fact and pointlessly argued over their validity all over the internet. That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking for a personalized list. Force yourself to set your own criteria for how you would come to the final ten. It's a hypothetical situation, and obviously a temporal one, but I think it would reveal character (and hopefully some great films I haven't seen).

[yourbuddyoz]

DECADE TOP TEN:

1.) 24 Hour Party People - Michael Winterbottom
2.) The New World - Terrence Malick
3.) Dogville - Lars von Trier
4.) Y Tu Mama Tambien - Alfonso Cuaron
5.) The Man Without A Past - Aki Kaurismaki
6.) Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
7.) Grindhouse (theatrical version w/ trailers) - Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino
8.) The Life Aquatic - Wes Anderson
9.) The Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr
10.) The Devil and Daniel Johnston - Jeff Feurzeig

director of the decade: Steven Soderbergh

new director of the decade: Carlos Reygadas

My criteria for the movies was based on AESTHETIC BOLDNESS, REWATCHABILITY, and EMOTIONAL RESPONSE. Honorable mentions must go to:

Last Days (Gus van Sant)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
Gangs of New York/No Direction Home (Scorsese)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach

Haven't seen all his movies this decade and admittedly not a fan of most of them, but had to give Steven Soderbergh the award based on his versatility, massive output (13 features this decade!), and experimentation that will undoubtedly push the medium forward in the next ten years. Certainly hit or miss with this guy but he worked his ass off and I have to respect that.

Carlos Reygadas - I love his aesthetic choices. And he's bold as shit. I DO think the bulk of his movies are artsy overindulgence, but you must keep in mind with movies like this, where a person is allowed to follow his muse all the way, these movies have to be beheld like miracles for even getting made. I couldn't think of any other directors who really started this decade. 75% of Japon to me, is the reason I want to make films.

[Kingfish]

Tarantino's Top 20 since '92

Haahah, what a fucking joke! Speed, The Matrix, "Unbreakable is one of the masterpieces of our time". This would explain the exploitive crap he's been putting out this decade.

[agedwealth]

Ok Tarintino is a homosexual who is whacked out of his skull yes, but his work in the past decade is nothing to talk down upon.

But my god, what a terrible list...

[downward]

8.) The Life Aquatic - Wes Anderson

Instead of Royal Tenenbaums? That is an interesting decision, sir. What's the reasons?

also, I shall add to what I wrote above;

26.) All the President's Men
27.) Children of Men
28.) Withnail & I
29.) George Washington

[yourbuddyoz]

Well, Wes Anderson polarizes viewers. Generally, people either vehemently defend or despise him. But it's important to remember that foremost, he is a maker of comedies. His goal is to make you laugh and feel good and even when he goes for sentiment, I feel this is another device for making the next laugh that much bigger. He wants you to care about archetypal characters presented in an extremely formal fashion, which challenges some folks. Getting to the point, I think he tried for this cocktail of laugh/care/aesthetics in Tenenbaums and failed (mildly). Not that I don't like that movie. Ultimately though, it is about a bunch of dressed up caricatures who don't do a whole lot. A lot of ornaments on the tree, but too few branches, knowhatI'msayin? Not enough unexpectedness. Not enough exploration.

I like Life Aquatic better because I think it's funnier. And more inventive. Better paced. More Bill Murray. A lot of unexpectedness. It's got a better plot, I think. A silly one, but something to hurtle everyone along.

The general taste on this board leans more toward movies that hit a raw nerve. Love those. But sometimes I like to go into the comforting world of Wes Anderson - to laugh and be delighted. It's okay, we all deserve the right to be delighted every now and again.

[polysicsarebest]

Wes Anderson.. meh.

Tarantino sucks. His best film is a City on Fire ripoff. Never understood the big deal with that guy. He generally has really good tastes in movies, though.. Rolling Thunder put out the Beyond, Chunkging Express, and Sonatine.. 3 of the best films ever. So yeah. Can't hate him simply for those reasons.

[harmfulkorine]

i rewatched "reservoir dogs" a while back and couldn't fucking stand it. there are some nice camera movements in the cafe opening scene, and i dig the shot of michael madsen leaving the warehouse and going out to his car, but the movie is 90 minutes of just dudes talking to each other. he punctuates it with some "action" flashbacks, but jesus christ its like reading a fucking play. pulp fuction is alright, but the dissonant chronology is uneccessary... those stories would have been compelling if they were told in the order they happened... that kind of arbitrary "stylization" without motivation really pisses me off.

I fucking love Jackie Brown though.

[JulienDonkeyHumpers]

thirty, after the first fifteen or so, it's a rough order.


Eraserhead
Gummo
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
Taxi Driver
Satan's Tango
The Holy Mountain
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring
Down By Law
The Shining
Dazed and Confused
Trash Humpers
Bad Lieutenant
Koyaanisqatsi
Synecdoche, New York
Julien Donkey-Boy
Control
Apocalypse Now!
Videodrome
Werckmeister Harmonies
Reservoir Dogs
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Naked
Ex Drummer
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
A Clockwork Orange
Stalker
Spun
Antichrist
Ivan's Childhood
Time

[childsdrawing]

Fando Y lis

Donkey Boy Julien

Dennis Hopper (cause he is a living movie that never ends even after cancer)

Joans brother live concert 2009 DVD.

[acid]

Funky Forest

are you referring to this?



i watched it last night finally, it was fucking hilarious.