Your Top Films List ?

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Your top 3 or 5 films?
I ask for purely selfish reasons as I feel I may have missed some unknown gems, and peer-to-peer recommendations are usually the best guide.


For what it's worth, my top 5 would be:-

1) Apocalypse Now
2) Fight Club
3) The Machinist
4) Apocalypto
5) The Sixth Sense
 
Ok. Good idea but ever shifting. First on my list I would guarantee anytime but could easily shift around a few others

1. Casablanca. Pure magic. You can even tell that the cast know they are in something very special indeed
2. Chinatown. Perfect.
3. Milk. Stunning performance and you could not produce a better biopic
4 David copperfield. David leans classic. Stunning and atmospheric
5. Sideways

but a whole string of others spring to mind. Glengarry glen Ross, casino, Munich, Saturday night Sunday morning, Manhattan, double indemnity, way out west, life of Brian. Lives of others. And so on
 
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clivex said:
3. Milk. Stunning performance and you could not produce a better biopic
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Good man; thanks for reminding me. I never saw it, though I well remember it's release to good reviews from the critics.
It had slipped my mind in the intervening years.
Harvey Milk, wasn't he the Californian gay mayor who was murdered by somebody on his staff?

Anyway, it's now on my watchlist for the near future.

Cheers.
 
That's the one. What's special about the performance is that it is totally convincing and mesmerising and yet completely without look at me dramatics. The film is perfectly paced and not a wasted scene. It's a riveting story too.
 
clivex said:
First on my list I would guarantee anytime but could easily shift around a few others
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Yes, thinking about it further, I would agree that outside my top 3, there's a whole slew of other films that would be interchangeable for the minor places too. Any one of Road To Perdition; No Country For Old Men; American Beauty; Carlito's Way; etc, could make it into number 5 place.
The only one's that would be solid and unchanging would be the top 3.
 
Out of you top five I would certainly have AN up there. A great film. Never seen sixth sense and should. Is acopolotyo one with that worm Mel Gibson in? I would only watch him in a snuff movie

the top two in my list are certainties.
 
I wouldn't know where to begin; my favourite film usually being the last film that I enjoyed [which has to be one where I didn't want it to end, sat transfixed in my seat when it did and thought about it for days afterwards]. Life if Pi and Pans Labyrinth spring to mind. Edward Scissorhands perhaps.
 
clivex said:
Is acopolotyo one with that worm Mel Gibson in? I would only watch him in a snuff movie
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LOL, I can't abide the dreadful jew-hating twerp either, but if it's any consolation, he's not actually "in" the film -- rather, he directed and produced.
But he broke the boundaries with Apocalypto; there's been nothing like it before and nothing like it since. (Having the entire dialogue in a dead language -- Mayan -- is just one of its unique idiosyncrasies). Like all Mel Gibson's outputs, it is bloody and visceral, but quite magnificent. A great story, and a scathing look at the decline of a civilisation. I love it; I could watch it over and over. And have. :)

Mate, you just have to see The Sixth Sense!
A wonderful film full of humanity and compassion. And perhaps the greatest plot-twist ending in the history of film.
 
Euronymous said:
1. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
2. The Sting
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Lives of Others
5. Inception
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'S'far as horse-operas are concerned, I would favour The Outlaw Josie Wales over your number 1 selection, but I honestly couldn't criticise any on your list. All excellent.
 
I walked out of pulp fiction with others on night it opened. I think it's the most overrated film ever. Boring . Mindless

like the sting a lot and of course lives of others
 
icebreaker said:
LOL, I can't abide the dreadful jew-hating twerp either, but if it's any consolation, he's not actually "in" the film -- rather, he directed and produced.
But he broke the boundaries with Apocalypto; there's been nothing like it before and nothing like it since. (Having the entire dialogue in a dead language -- Mayan -- is just one of its unique idiosyncrasies). Like all Mel Gibson's outputs, it is bloody and visceral, but quite magnificent. A great story, and a scathing look at the decline of a civilisation. I love it; I could watch it over and over. And have. :)

Mate, you just have to see The Sixth Sense!
A wonderful film full of humanity and compassion. And perhaps the greatest plot-twist ending in the history of film.
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i suppose as you can see from my list I'm not bothered by action and especially violence so no to the nasty twats film

dialogue always wins for me
 
Based entirely on films I put on when bored (or drunk)....

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather II
4. Blazing Saddles
5. The Life Of Brian
 
Shuffle and deal:

Brief Encounter
Casablanca
North By Northwest
The African Queen
The Third Man
 
clivex said:
i suppose as you can see from my list I'm not bothered by action and especially violence so no to the nasty twats film
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Fair enough.
But I'll just say that Apocalypto is as far removed from Mad Max and other mindless action films as you could envision.
The imagery alone will stay in your mind for a very long time.
 
Top 5 foreign language:

1) The Lives of Others
2) Battle Royale
3) City of Life and Death
4) Manon Des Sources
5) Amelie
 
Current favourites, but actually have hundreds!

The Escapist;
The Duellists;
Dangerous Liaisons;
Dead Man's Shoes;
Mr Forbush and the Penguins.
 
Have to say that Forrest Gump simply never "worked" for me. Never quite got it and don't actually like it. Just one of those things.
Otherwise, I have enjoyed all the others on your list. :)
 
1. American History X. Incredible acting performance from Norton and a film that is hard to forget, but why would you want to?
2. The Godfather parts I & II. Impossible to split as it's an ongoing story...
3. Goodfellas.
4. True Romance. One of Tarantino's first (and IMHO marginally best) screenplay but apparent lack of funding saw it directed by Tony Scott.
5. There are so many vying for this position that I'll cop out and leave it blank - plus some may say I cheated with #2 :whistle:
 
Bit of a Altman fan then Archie?

long goodbye is quite wonderful. Elliot Gould plays chandler perfectly. Quite a challenge to update the great story

eqrlier this year I saw a big screen transmission using the projector and the orginal print. Never tire of the great film

after lg, short cuts would be my favourite of his
 
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I'm not a movie buff but Altman made films that you could watch 4 or 5 times and still pick up something new in the dialogue. Also a help that actors clearly enjoyed working with him.
 
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