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[mbauer]

To follow brother El Toro's lead in attempting to diversify the topics here in the pub with other things a little more light, I pose this question to you:

What is your list of the top 5 movies of all time?

Here is mine:
1. Dogville starring Nicole Kidman directed by Lars von Trier
2. Memento starring Guy Pearce directed by Christopher Nolan
3. Schindler's List starring Liam Neeson directed by Spielberg
4. Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins directed by Frank Darabont
5. Star Wars Empire Strikes Back I don't need to say who that was made by.

My list is always changing though.

thanks
mbauer

[michelle]

1. "casablanca"
2. "guess whos coming to dinner"
3. "Jaws"
4. "American President" Annette benning and Warren Beatty
5."Now Voyager" betty davis

[the tide]

1 Dr Stranglelove
2 All About Eve
3 Animal House
4 Life of Brian
5 Debbie Does Dallas


Oh did I mention.....

[wizard88]

1. Holy Grail
2. Ferris
3. Terminator
4. Fish Called Wanda
5. Buckaroo Bonzai

[Drew 19K]

1. Platoon
2. Braveheart
3. American Beauty
4. Apocolypse Now
5. Blackhawk Down

[sasquatch]

I couldn't stop at 5 so I listed my top ten! These aren't necessarily the best, but I could watch them all 100 times each...

Top 5 Favorite Movies:
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Fisher King (1991)
Frankenstein (1931)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Taxi Driver (1976)

Next 5 Favorites:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Unforgiven (1992)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Blood Simple (1984)


"I'm Ready for My Close-up, Mr. DeMille"


Sasquatch

[vonibot]

I agree with Sas--five is not enough.
Here's my Top Ten:

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Rear Window
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Brazil

6. The Double Life of Véronique
7. Amélie
8. It's a Wonderful Life
9. Wings of Desire
10. The Third Man

[jimski]

1. Holy Grail
2. Strange Brew
3. Braveheart
4. The Sand Pebbles
5. Metropolis
6. Slap Shot

[el toro]

for art direction alone

lord of the rings
crouching tiger hidden dragon
shakespere in love
matrix
and new on the list....
the increadibles

[neo21]

My favs:
1. Matrix
2. Matrix 2
3. Matrix 3
4. The return of Matrix (Coming Soon)
5. The Never Ending Matrix (Coming After The Return of Matrix)

Seriously:
1. Schindlers List
2. Life is Beauttiful
3. Ferris Beulers's Day Off
4. Young Guns
5. Titanic (have to admit it had great special effects.)

[Mike]

1. City of God
2. Brazil
3. Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas
4. Americathon (Harvey Korman at his best)
5. The devil's playground

[Pure_Guava]

1. Holy Grail
2. Big Lebowski
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Buffalo '66
5. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

[gibraltar monkey]

in no particular order -

city of lost children

delicatessen

tie me up tie me down

women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

talk to her

star wars 4-6

all the indiana jones movies

spirited away

any of the "man with no name" series from sergio leone

and any documentary by errol morris, period. (but my favorites are "fast cheap and out of control" and "vernon, florida")

one new and notable documentary (if you can find it) by kessels kramer called "the other final" - if you love "footbal" or soccer as we call it here you MUST see this film. a great documentary about losing and the spirit of sport. for people in the us, it plays on sundance everyone once in a blue moon. otherwise i don't know how to find it.

[Drew 19K]

Unforigven should be in my top 5. It's one of my favorites of all time.

[Baden]

My ranking from an more European point of view in no particular order:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Lewis Milestone
12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet
Duck Soup (1933) Marx Brothers
To Be or Not to Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch
Blowup (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
Smoke (1995) Wayne Wang
The Dead (1987) John Huston
Mon Oncle (1958) Jacques Tati
Black Cat, White Cat (1998) Emir Custurica
Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Twentieth Century-Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers. Familiar names of American film dynasties that were, almost without exception, founded by German-Jewish immigrants or their offspring. And most of these cinema moguls-to-be, or their parents, came from Europe Austria-Hungary, Germany, Poland, or Russia.

The contribution of German and Austrian directors (many of them Jews who had to leave Germany after 1933) to the growth of Hollywood should be mentioned too.

To name only a few: Lubitsch, Murnau, Lang, Sternberg, Ophüls or Wilder.

It shows: Hollywood was a creative melting-pot. Is it still?

[rob]

I'd have to say that Drew 19k, Mike & Jimski appear to have the best taste in film...not politics, but film

[Baden]

Rob wrote:

"I'd have to say that Drew 19k, Mike & Jimski appear to have the best taste in film...not politics, but film"

With all respect: they have the taste that seem to match your taste. But is it the best?

This should be seen as kind of a personal hit-parade. Take ten professional critics and you will get different answers too.

Nobody named "Citizen Cane" a film that got not too long ago the most approval as "best film ever" in a professional critics-poll.

A masterwork, no doubt, but not one of my personal favourites.

There is another poll going on in the forum: "Best books". I saw some German writers on the lists like Grass or Hesse. I owned a big bookstore in Germany and sold many copies of those. But in my eyes there a much better German writers to name and time will tell...

The actual decision to give the Nobel-Prize to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek is a good example is not only in my eyes a good example how bad the taste of even of a "professional" jury may be.

I enjoyed these posts because I found some films I did not have seen yet and some I should see again. It is a charming potpourri of likes and maybe dislikes. Lets avoid to make a discussion of better and worse out of it.

[mbauer]

That's why I posted in the first post "what is your list of the top 5 movies of all time." Because everyone's is different but no one is wrong.

So it appears that rob simply shares the same taste in movies Drew, Mike, and Jimski. He has a right to say that he thinks those movies are the best of all time, and it doesn't make him wrong.

I think Citizen Kane is a great movie and would be in my top 10, but not one of my favorites and not one I like to watch over and over like my top 5 are.


I didn't intend for that to come out mean in case it did.
mbauer

[vonibot]

ditto here, Baden and mbauer

I think these top movies, books and album posts are great (although 5 albums--no way--there are at least 25 for me so I am not going to post until asked... )

Each of these luxer's top choices say a lot about a person's interests, background, and generally speaking, their style. Like a window to our collective cultural souls...


cheers,
v

[Smaug]

Hmmm...

1. The Commitments (small film about Irish R&B band)
2. October Skies
3. The Grinch
4. Goodfellas
5. Godfather II

[Drew 19K]

[jwd]

1. Casablanca

2. Jaws

3. It's a Wonderfull Life

4. Blade Runner

5. 2001

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Other favorites -

Orig. Star Wars Trilogy
Indiana Jones movies (yeah, all of em)
LOTR
Commitments
The Orig. King Kong
Maltese Falcon
Clerks
Dogma
Gone in 60 Sec.
Groundhog Day

[sasquatch]

Here are 5 other movies that I am surprised haven't been mentioned by someone in this thread yet...

Pulp Fiction
Repo Man
Alien
Spartacus
The Wild Bunch

[rob]

Baden, don't hijack the thread.

trainspotting

[sasquatch]

...or how about "Shallow Grave"?

And nobody mentioned Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy - "Blue", "White", & "Red"?

or "The Professional" - possibly Natalie Portman's only good movie?

[Mike]

[vonibot]

[guillerme]

My top five here:

Apocalypsis Now
Scarface
2001 a space odyssey
Good fellas
The big fish

[jesterme]

1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
4) Pulp Fiction
5) Goodfellas

[Lantern]

Talk about digging up an old thread!