Your Favorite Films?

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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    As always, fantastic list you have there, @GoldenGun, and bonus points for tossing in the incredible OP amongst so many wonderful classics.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    My top ten favorite films of all time:

    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)

    Good list. Though i must watch Lost In Translation one of these days...
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,371
    My top ten favorite films of all time:

    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)

    Good list. Though i must watch Lost In Translation one of these days...

    I finally checked it out earlier this year and it really is as good as all the praise and admiration says. Painfully beautiful and emotional but fun and evokes a lot of beauty in Japan, even if it takes place heavily inside a hotel.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
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    Lost in Translation is my favorite film of the 21st century thus far. It just got to me when I first saw it and hasn’t stopped.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    It definitely stuck with me for a good while, I still think on it every now and then. My girlfriend got me the blu-ray for my birthday, I need to rewatch it soon.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    As always, fantastic list you have there, @GoldenGun, and bonus points for tossing in the incredible OP amongst so many wonderful classics.

    Thank you @Creasy47! Much appreciated :)

    As for OP, in an attempt at being honest to myself I had to admit it is one of my very favourite films so there you go ;) Glad you liked its inclusion.
  • DeathToSpies84DeathToSpies84 Haydock, England
    edited September 2020 Posts: 254
    @DeathToSpies84 Nice to see Withnail & I up there! Never ceases to have me in hysterics! “Stop saying that, Withnail, of course he’s the effing farmer!”

    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)


    Hell of a list, @MayDayDiVicenzo - Nice to see my top two in and amongst your top 70. I haven’t seen at least 52 on there, with the other 18 accounting for those I have seen!

    And Withnail and I is instantly quotable.
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    Bumping this because I am curious to see more rankings from our respected members…
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    New top 10. Leaving Bond out of this as 007 is in a league all his own. Mostly noir and horror. I did throw in a Dirty Harry flick for fun.



    1. THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
    2. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
    3. OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
    4. BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
    5. DRACULA (1958)
    6. ED WOOD (1994)
    7. SLING BLADE (1996)
    8. CASABLANCA (1942)
    9. SUDDEN IMPACT (1983)
    10. THE BLACK CAT (1934)
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    @ToTheRight,
    …perhaps you can explain the plot of the Big Sleep to me.
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    ….just kidding, it is one of my all-time favorites as well. :))
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Dude! Me too. And then some!

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    Dwayne wrote: »
    @ToTheRight,
    …perhaps you can explain the plot of the Big Sleep to me.
    fD4_Dq.gif

    ….just kidding, it is one of my all-time favorites as well. :))

    Oddly, even though the '45 pre-release version is more coherent, I prefer the regular more confusing edit. LOL
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 2,598
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Dwayne wrote: »
    @ToTheRight,
    …perhaps you can explain the plot of the Big Sleep to me.
    fD4_Dq.gif

    ….just kidding, it is one of my all-time favorites as well. :))

    Oddly, even though the '45 pre-release version is more coherent, I prefer the regular more confusing edit. LOL

    IIRC, given their new relationship the revised edit was done to play up the "Bogie and Bacall" angle.
    Great list BTW.
  • Posts: 15,785
    Dwayne wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Dwayne wrote: »
    @ToTheRight,
    …perhaps you can explain the plot of the Big Sleep to me.
    fD4_Dq.gif

    ….just kidding, it is one of my all-time favorites as well. :))

    Oddly, even though the '45 pre-release version is more coherent, I prefer the regular more confusing edit. LOL

    IIRC, given their new relationship the revised edit was done to play up the "Bogie and Bacall" angle.
    Great list BTW.

    Thanks! Yes. Charles K Feldman suggested to Warners they film more scenes of rapport between Bogie and Bacall. She was getting slaughtered for her performance in CONFIDENTIAL AGENT.
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