Paris, Texas for is one of mine. Every element - script, cinematography, music, performances, direction - is just perfect. The ending is a masterclass in how to stage a dialogue scene in an interesting way. Hits me emotionally every time.
1. The Piano Teacher (2001) 2. Loveless (2016) 3. We need to talk about Kevin (2011) 4. American Psycho (2000) 5. The Skin I live in (2011) 6. Nocturnal Animals(2016) 7. Robocop(1987) 8. Whiplash(2014) 9. Magnolia(1999)
That's funny I've seen everything on your list and like it all. Esp the piano teacher and Kevin....but i thought nocturnal animals was awful. The ending didn't work for me at all. The Jake G romantic interest character was a nice guy the entire time and then at the end he sets up this whole plot seemingly to strand her there with false hope and show her he's not a pushover and he's become cold and proud. Didn't work at all. Then the internal missing family story is really stilted and awkward. Micheal Shannon is great but he couldn't save it for me. Kevin lol. I saw it in the theater on a date ... I didn't think Lynne Ramsey would be going so dark after like Morvern Callar but I was wrong. My date flinching was worth everything. Now years later, I had my wife watch it ... She usually can't sit still but she really found it compelling.
“The Third Man” (1949, Carol Reed) will always be my favorite because it captures the essence of everything I look for in a movie: great dialogue, historical context, it’s mysterious, has surreal ingredients, the cinematography, memorable scenes, and that it is something I can watch over and over without getting bored by the movie.
Late post, but "There Will Be Blood" is probably my favorite, at least at the moment. The two lead performances are astonishingly good (with Day-Lewis' being my favorite of all time currently), Robert Elswit's cinematography was gorgeous, the set design is incredible (my two favorites are the burning oil derrick and the bowling alley scene at the end (particularly loved the Kubrick-esque feel of the latter), Jonny Greenwood's score really fit the film (and helped set the tone of the film) well, script was solid with a lot of great dialogue, PTA's direction was absolutely terrific and focused, and it was fascinating seeing the way PTA blended both the story of a morality play along with a character study, showing how destructive greed is and that it can be found in anyone from a well-known business tycoon to a local pastor.
My top ten in chronological order: 1. Gunga Din (1939) 2, Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) 3. Detective Story (1951) 4. From Here To Eternity (1953) 5. On The Waterfront (1954) 6. Marty (1955) 7. Night Of The Hunter (1955) 8. Rosemary's Baby (1968) 9. Midnight Cowboy (1969) 10. Taxi Driver (1976)
By the way, you perfectly described how I feel about Taxi Driver. I agree that it's Scorsese's best and has one of the most remarkable scripts in a film in my humble opinion.
Probably needs an update as I keep changing it. (Which is also why it's a top 11 at the moment). 1. There Will Be Blood (2007) 2. Mulholland Dr. (2001) 3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 4. Apocalypse Now (1979) 5. Boyhood (2014) 6. 12 Years a Slave (2013) 7. Das Leben der Anderen (2006) 8. Se7en (1995) 9. No Country for Old Men (2007) 10. Drive (2011) 11. Casino Royale (2006)
Mine's "Blade Runner" (1982, not the sequel), because it's deep, with living-breathing futuristic world, beautiful cinematography and music (general mood). I also adore "In the Mood for Love" and " Mulholland Drive". They all have different flavors of beautiful :))
The original is great, but 2049 I think has all the positives of Blade Runner with less of the negatives. Deckard is not a very compelling protagonist to me, whereas K is despite Gosling emoting less than Ford.
I've got a top +60 but here are the ones on the top of my head: Casablanca (1942) The Hidden Fortress (1958) Woman in the Dunes (1964) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather II (1974) Alien (1979) The Thing (1982) Scarface (1983) Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Army of Darkness (1992) Trainspotting (1996) Warrior (2011) Spring (2014) The Handmaiden (2016) Thunder Road (2018)
Definitely the good, the bad and the ugly. Love the morally gray characters, which is actually unique as most movies fails to give you that even great ones. Obviously the music. I usually hate slow pacing, usual reason for that is bad characters. But this is only movie where I give pass to 5 minutes shots where nothing happens because characters are just so interesting. This is the only movie where I feel that suspense is killing me, not boring me.
Goodfellas. Absolute perfection. The pacing, the acting, the direction. Every scene is wonderful and never get old. Also the score......my God. The use of Donovan - Atlantis while Batts is stomped is beyond me.....how somebody could think to use that song in that scene and for it to work that well, just genius. Also, Zodiac is probably my 2nd favorite film. A true masterpiece.
Heston: "Fear not..after today you'll not ever see Pharao's chariots again.".....E.G.Rob:"No....'cause you'll be DEAD under them!" ha haa-AH!...awesome the way they used make'em
@@santosd.castillo5593 > easily imagine the magnitude of stress involved when pioneering a work such as this through any media but particularly film the world had never seen anything like it
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Superb script structure by Lawrence Kasdan. Spielberg took what could've been a mere genre piece and elevated it to a work of pure art and visual imagination, through his sheer passion, drive and relentless tenacity, like Indiana Jones.
It used to be Psycho, but, after rewatching Goodfellas, it instantly took its place. Not only is it stylized as fuck, with a stupidly fun script and performances, there're quite a few layers of introspective grit to found here. I particularly love how it just shits all over the romanticized idea of "the cool outlaw" ala. "the gangster". (The "Layla" scenes leaves me fucking floored)
*Mulholland Drive!* Not only do I think this is the best Lynch film, but to me it is the best piece of cinema ever made, and among the greatest pieces of fiction. There's just so many layers to the film that you could pick it apart for years. I've seen it too many times to count and I STILL learn new shit about it every time I watch!
This is not easy, but since everyone is doing it... In no particular order, because I would never be able to rank them: - In The Mood For Love (2000) - Tokyo Story (1965) - Stalker (1979) - Persona (1967) - There Will Be Blood (2007) - Woman in The Dunes (1964) - Possession (1981) - Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - The Travelling Players (1975) - Her (2013) Also Synecdoche, New York, The Master, The Passion of Joana of Arc, Mulholland Drive, Before Sunrise, Under the Skin... Oh god, I can't stop... Naked, La Haine, Seven Samurai, Burning... Chinatown! How can people do this?
Amazing list! Nice so a fellow admirer of Asian cinema. We share the ones you've mentioned as favourites. Woman in The Dunes has been stuck in my head for the last couple of months.
10). Halloween (1978) 9.) Robocop (1987) 8.) Back to the Future (1985) 7.) A Clockwork Orange (1971) 6.) Jackie Brown (1997) 5.) Full Metal Jacket (1985) 4.) The Terminator (1984) 3.) No Country for Old Men (2007) 2.) Trainspotting (1996) 1.) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Honorable mentions: "Goodfellas," "Fargo," "Dazed and Confused," "Predator," "The Shining," "Taxi Driver," "Hereditary," and many, many more...
The Last Picture Show, The Thin Man, Young Frankenstein, Cool Hand Luke, The Good Girl, Rear Window, Raising Arizona, Short Cuts, Boogie Nights, The Lady Eve, A Clockwork Orange, Paper Moon
Top 10 favorites 1. The empire strikes back (1980) 2. Boogie nights (1997) 3. There will be blood (2007) 4. The shawshank redemption (1994) 5. Vertigo (1958) 6. All about eve (1950) 7. The bitter tears of Petra von kant (1972) 8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 9. The deer hunter (1978) 10. The good, the bad, and the ugly (1966)
Vertigo - No one captured the dreamy and hysterical landscape better. Unlike some of the self indulgent european filmakers, (although I like them ) Hitchcock manages to pull off visually stunning, romantic and a breathtaking film. Underrated just simply because it came out of the Hollywood mainstream. The climax shots of the film and the sudden ending are just chilling
I'm always pleased to hear you talk more about Mulholland Drive since that's my favorite movie! Although my own interpretation of it differs from yours, I understand and respect your take on it precisely because it is such a rich, beautifully realized work that resonates on so many different emotional and psychological levels for each viewer. Your excellent review of MD, which I only found about a week or so ago, is actually what got me to subscribe to your channel in the first place; I figured that anyone who really, really loved that movie and could speak about it in such a sophisticated, intelligent way deserved a subscription, and I haven't been disappointed at all with the quality of your content! I'm just mad at YT that I didn't find this channel years ago.
My top 10 1- The Good The Bad and The Ugly. 2- The Godfather 3- Casablanca 4- Robin and the 7 Hoods 5- Rio Bravo 6- Pulp Fiction 7- The Outlaw Josey Wales 8- The Big Sleep 9- Taxi Driver 10- The Great Escape
When I first saw "Possession" I didn't know what to make of it, only when I saw "Mother" it dawned on me that both films were passionate acts of lovemaking between the directors and their female leads, that through his lens Zulawski was making love to Adjani as Aronofsky was making love to Lawrence.
2001: A Space Odyssey is certainly one of the films that I admire most, though it may have to be my second favourite, right behind Princess Mononoke (1997). Beautiful animation, soundtrack, characters and themes, but mostly I just love the feeling I get while watching it. Pure, childlike imagination.
1. Adaptation. (2002) 2. Synecdoche, NY (2008) 3. Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me 4. Mulholland Drive 5. 2001 A Space Odyssey 6. Stalker 7. Kieslowskis Three Colours Trilogy 8. La Strada 9. The Godfather Trilogy 10. Freddy Got Fingered Side note: please review Freddy Got Fingered
2001. I've seen it exactly 27 times since 1978 at the cinema. I was 13 and it changed my life, like I didn't have to choose between art and science. Next there's Twin Peaks. I've seen the original show plus FWWM seven times since the original airing in 1990, including twice with the Return. Then The Diary of a Country Priest by Robert Bresson, and Tarkovsky's Mirror. I just come back to film with either of these films after a long "diet" out of audio-visual fiction.
Donnie Darko. I love movies that keep you coming back wanting to learn more about it, but some movies are a bit too confusing on first viewing for me to care to do it. With Donnie Darko, even when I watched it the first time I could appreciate the coming of age aspect of it or the psychological thrill aspect of it and I wasn’t constantly trying to figure out what it meant. And because those other aspects of the film were so good, that’s what made it worth watching it again and again to learn about the deeper meaning in the story.
Paper Moon, Silver Linings Playbook, Mulholland Drive, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Terminator, The Wizard of Oz, Sunset Boulevard, North by Northwest, Breathless, Magnolia, Spirited Away, Alien, Blade Runner, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc, E.T., One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Goodfellas, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Toy Story, Up, Pulp Fiction, Memento, Rashoman, Castle in the Sky, Star Wars, Psycho, Schindler's List, Blue Velvet, Seven Samurai
For me, Treasure Of Sierra Madre, On The Waterfront, & Vertigo. But, then I'm 69 years old, so I come from a different perspective. And, for disturbing, In Cold Blood, Although I also find Treasure Of Sierra Madre psychologically disturbing. Just some of the films I find both challenging and fascinating.
@@akosleoszilagyi2529 lol that movie is so subtle in its delivery and certainly isn't for the transformer fans or marvel kids. Its actually a pretty heavy film and it show cases one of the greats , and his ability to do much more then comedy as well as Johanssons talent as more then just another pretty face with a foreign backdrop as a character in and of it self. You put it all together and you got a film that asks some pretty substantial question and leaves you with very little answers.
@@mabusestestament The director's cut on VHS was my teddy bear as a little kid, and I hadn't even seen it yet at the time. It's destined to become my number one. 🍻
@Wolfe 123 The final cut seems to have colors digitally 'enhanced' (changed), just like Alien. I don't like that. Blade Runner and Alien are masterpieces. Do you think Blade Runner 2049 was a good sequel?
@@mabusestestament 2049 is my favorite movie of the decade lol. The sequel gives the original even more thematic richness, which only makes an already classic masterpiece an even better film. I'm glad it bombed at the box office because 2049 was an absolute miracle. Had it been a success, we would've gotten a Blade Runners vs. Aliens starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. Just me though.
1. Tree of Life/ Thin Red Line 2. Cabaret 3. Jules and Jim 4. Bicycle Thieves 5. Fanny and Alexander 6. Notorious 7. Mulholland Drive 8. Manchester by the Sea 9. There Will be Blood 10. Dodsworth 11. All about Eve 12. Rosemary's Baby
1- Persona (1966) 2- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 3- 2001 A Space Odyssey 4- Mulholland Drive 5- The Lion King (1994) 6- Synecdoche New York 7- There Will be Blood 8- Blade Runner 9- The Empire Strikes Back 10- Magnolia The entire list :) letterboxd.com/getreallynch/list/my-favorite-films/
“Opening Night” by John Cassavetes often floats to the top of my list. It’s noir at it’s finest. The acting, the ambiguity, the loose feeling of the script, all trademark Cassavetes. Words don’t do this film justice. It made me feel so much, yet I still struggle to articulate why this is the case.
Apparently Scorsese wanted to do an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground, and Taxi Driver evolved directly from this. For me it's also interesting that Kurosawa tried to adapt The Idiot, but the results were very disappointing. However it led directly to his next film, Ikiru, which brilliantly captures the spirit of Dostoyevsky.
@@richardrose2606 I didn't know that about 8-1/2 being inspiration for All That Jazz. Thanks. I saw 8-1/2 when I was too young to understand it. I'll take a better look at it now. It's forty years later. I wonder if I still won't understand it. Lol
Baraka is my favorite, no contest. Every aspect comes together to explore the themes of humanity and how we view and change the world around us, without a single spoken or written word. I will never forget when I saw this film for the first time in a 70mm theatre, and no theatre experience will ever top that.
Interstellar!! A film that can (for me at least) give you a new experience and meaning for what the ending was and is, im always picking up on new things in that film!🍻
Ákos Leó Szilágyi I disagree...Part II takes a great film/story and brings it to another level. The rise of Vito in contrast to the fall of Michael is brilliant!!
@@leafsfan1728 The first has the perfect length. My second fav of all Time(the first is Pulp Fiction). I love the sequel, but it has two minor problems: it's little bit too long; and the flashbacks are more interesting than the actual story. Still my ninth fav of all time. Classics, like Alien and Aliens.
1. Godfather part II 2. The world of Apu 3. Seven Samurai 4. Brighter Summer Day 5. Come and See 6. Hara Kiri 7. The good the bad and the ugly 8. Goodfellas 9. Tokyo Story 10. Le Samourai. Its so hard to do ur favourite movies when there are so many masterpieces made around the world.
It's impossible to pick a favorite, but for most sensory sensation deffo Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain. Its just such a sweet celebration of archetype and symbolism itself
Satantango, Stalker, Winter Light, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, The Ascent, Loveless, The Gleaners and I, Night of the Hunter, Zama, Style Wars, Do The Right Thing, Cache, The Hitch-Hiker, Let the Right One In, Vampyr
My All-time Favorites: Drive. (2011) The Dark Knight. (2008) No Country For Old Men. (2007) Collateral. (2004) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (1966) Space Jam. (1996) Back to the Future. (1985) Back to the Future ll. (1989) Halloween. (1978) Transformers. (2007) Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (2014) The Iron Giant. (1999) PSYCHO. (1960) T2: Judgement Day. (1991) The Breakfast Club. (1985) LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring. (2001)
Some of mine: Ikiru, Ran (Kurosawa); Once Upon a Time in America (Leone); Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger); Rear Window, Vertigo, North By Northwest (Hitchcock); The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer); The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah); Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman); Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas (Scorsese); Heat (Michael Mann); Aguirre the Wrath of God (Herzog); Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson); Blade Runner (Ridley Scott); Godfather, The Conversation, Godfather II (Coppola).
Only Lovers Left Alive, Stalker(1979), Hard to be a God, Paterson, Barton Fink, The American Astonaut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paris Texas, A Serious Man.
Hey Todd. I really liked the ones I saw 😀. I did not see Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson, and The American Astronaut. I enjoyed several Jarmusch films - Dead Man, Stranger Than Paradise, C&C - so I need to get on those you mentioned. i watched the trailer for The American Astronaut and it looks fantastic. I will put that on my list! Glad you are a fan of Hard to Be a God 😀 That was the best recommendation a movie-fan friend of mine made several years ago. Here's a few more I'd recommend (especially in light of some of your picks): Forbidden Zone (1982), The Element of Crime (1984), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), The Fountain (2006), High Life (2018).
1) A woman under the influence 2) James white 3) close-up 4) A nos amours 5) There will be blood 6) call me by your name 7) il sorpasso 8) My dinner with andre 9) Mulholland Drive 10) the souvenir To name a few^... but there are too many
For me, it’s currently Charlie Kaufman Synecdoche New York. Not even particularly my most enjoyed film, but one that felt so crucial for me as I saw it at a very intense and precarious moment in my life. The film is a constant reminder to allow myself to enjoy moments and to seek wellness and satisfaction in the day to day. To not let narrative, grandiose meaning, and shallow ideology cloud what is ultimately a short, strange, and meager existence that I’ve been gifted.
The first time I saw Possession was in a mall theater in the early 80s. It was sold as a horror film, cut by over 40 minutes, and had new horror-movie music and opticals added. I hated it, because it made no sense at all, but something about Adjani's performance stayed with me. Finally seeing the uncut version years later, I recognize it for the masterpiece it is.
One of the greatest films of all time is Playtime of Jacques Tati, a great director whom I have never heard you mention though you have such impeccable taste. His work seems to be the inspiration of many of the films you love best: Gaspar Noé, Bertrand Bonello etc etc 😊❤🎶
Microcosmos(1996). I know not many people have heard about it, let alone seen it. And if they have they think, "Oh, the bug documentary? Really?" But it is the finest example of storytelling that I know because it uses storytelling to probe deeper into the mindset of its subjects - in this case, the insects - in that they too are the protagonists of their own stories (to paraphrase Synecdoche, New York). The quintessence of science nonfiction.
Didn't expect having to scroll so much in order to find Casablanca. Watched it recently and I was blown away. Way ahead of its time. Melodrama at it's finest and executed in the purest form.
Mullholand dr isn’t my favourite Lynch(fire walk with me most days but on others it’s blue velvet) but mullholand dr does have my favourite scene in any movie- that being the club silencio scene. I think that scene sums up lynches core motif as well as what makes movies special to me; the perception of reality and how emotional impact creates reality. 2 women viewing a performance that is made explicitly clear that it’s all just that- performance. The band isn’t real, the singing isn’t real, the song is in a language that most English speaking viewers won’t understand but the song is still familiar. The 2 women watch and get emotionally involved in the performance to the point of crying at its impact. The woman singing falls and is pulled off stage and this is the big clue to our main character that something is truly wrong. The scene works narratively but also operates as a thesis. We are these 2 women watching something totally performed, with knowledge that it is performance but we feel it’s impact. We know it’s not real but we feel it like it was. So, was it real? Is what’s real something clinical and definable or is it what we experience and feel influenced by? There’s no real answer to me but I absolutely adore the idea and it’s one of the few things I don’t feel cringey calling transcendent. It breaks the barrier in what I think is the greatest use of meta fiction I have ever seen. -oh and my actual favourite movie changes from day to day but right now I’d say it’s either punch-drunk love or possession(1981) :)
Two lists. The first is my official top ten films. The second is a "popcorn" movie favourite top ten. Top 10 Films: Battleship Potemkin,The Citizen Kane City of God Crowd, The Crumb Godfather, The Mulholland Drive Raging Bull Seven Samurai, The Vertigo Top 10 Movies: Alien Batman Begins Casino Royale Dazed and Confused Exorcist, The Empire Strikes Back, The Groundhog Day Minority Report Point Break The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
@Move_I_Got_This You realize this is subjective right? I could defend my choices but it's clear there's no point trying to have a civilized discussion with you.
@@mabusestestament I like the differentiation. It allows me to have one list for great films, and then another for movies that are compulsively watchable. I love The Seven Samurai, but I've seen Groundhog Day and Dazed and Confused far more times.
@@mabusestestament Of course, but movies like Alien have a hard time competing against other genres. The popcorn top ten list is basically for action, horror, science fiction and comedy films. I think it's good becuase it gives me a chance to celebrate comedies and action films that would hardly ever make an all time top ten list otherwise.
I have a few Red Dragon, The Silence of the lambs, Inglorious Bastards, Heat, The Matrix, Mission Impossible Fallout, The Bourne Ultimatum, Lawrence of Arabia, Constantine, Pusher 1996, American history X, Scarface, The Green mile, Lord of the rings, The last Samurai, No country for old men
In no particular order: Bladerunner Seven Samurai Sunset Boulevard Wizard of Oz Avengers: Endgame Mad Max: Fury Road Amelie Let the Right One In (original Swedish version) The Handmaiden (Korean) First Blood
My favorites: Shane (the classical "warrior who wants a normal life" story but done more earnestly then any other) Once Upon A Time in the West (pure muscular poetry of bygone heroics) In A Lonely Place (tragedy of violent impulses) The Girl Who Knew To Much (Bava's visual dazzle at its most seductive) Barry Lyndon (Kubrick's psychologically deepest film) The Shining (most "otherwordly" film) Starship Troopers (greatest action/satire of all time) Some others: Once Were Warriors (hardest-hitting drama) The Godfather 1 & 2 (probably the only time "greatest movie ever made" label has felt justified) Gilda (sexiest movie) Last Hurrah for Chivalry (best martial arts movie) Jeremiah Johnson (even more poetic western than Dead Man and that's a tough thing to say) Get Carter (movie that improves the most with re-watches) Metropolis (best silent movie) Zoolander (funniest comedy)
McDull: The Alumni. You won't get this recommendation from anyone else, it's not considered a classic. But it's a masterpiece from the peak of Hong Kong cinema in the late 90s, early 2000s. Hong Kong cinema is in the doldrums now, like all world cinema.
Gates of Heaven (the Errol Morris documentary...not one of the handful of other movies with a similar title) is my favorite. I think it's nothing short of a miracle. It's a documentary, and you're watching ordinary people talking, but all of a sudden it's the very best dialog that Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter ever wrote. The instincts Morris had for how to present creative non-fiction were brilliant, and it's a shame he's largely abandoned them with his heavy handed later work. Then, you know, the Godfather, On the Waterfront, 8 1/2, Cookoo's Nest, Lawrence of Arabia, All the Presidents Men, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy....Slacker...Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are up there but but on a slightly lower tier than those others.
Paris, Texas for is one of mine. Every element - script, cinematography, music, performances, direction - is just perfect. The ending is a masterclass in how to stage a dialogue scene in an interesting way. Hits me emotionally every time.
I own “Paris, Texas” but have seen it just once. It’s a really challenging movie but ultimately rewarding.
I was bored with it. :-P
If Texas is the place, then Hell or High Water.
One of my top 5 films of all time :)
1. The Piano Teacher (2001)
2. Loveless (2016)
3. We need to talk about Kevin (2011)
4. American Psycho (2000)
5. The Skin I live in (2011)
6. Nocturnal Animals(2016)
7. Robocop(1987)
8. Whiplash(2014)
9. Magnolia(1999)
That's funny I've seen everything on your list and like it all. Esp the piano teacher and Kevin....but i thought nocturnal animals was awful. The ending didn't work for me at all. The Jake G romantic interest character was a nice guy the entire time and then at the end he sets up this whole plot seemingly to strand her there with false hope and show her he's not a pushover and he's become cold and proud. Didn't work at all. Then the internal missing family story is really stilted and awkward. Micheal Shannon is great but he couldn't save it for me.
Kevin lol. I saw it in the theater on a date ... I didn't think Lynne Ramsey would be going so dark after like Morvern Callar but I was wrong. My date flinching was worth everything. Now years later, I had my wife watch it ... She usually can't sit still but she really found it compelling.
“The Third Man” (1949, Carol Reed) will always be my favorite because it captures the essence of everything I look for in a movie: great dialogue, historical context, it’s mysterious, has surreal ingredients, the cinematography, memorable scenes, and that it is something I can watch over and over without getting bored by the movie.
Late post, but "There Will Be Blood" is probably my favorite, at least at the moment. The two lead performances are astonishingly good (with Day-Lewis' being my favorite of all time currently), Robert Elswit's cinematography was gorgeous, the set design is incredible (my two favorites are the burning oil derrick and the bowling alley scene at the end (particularly loved the Kubrick-esque feel of the latter), Jonny Greenwood's score really fit the film (and helped set the tone of the film) well, script was solid with a lot of great dialogue, PTA's direction was absolutely terrific and focused, and it was fascinating seeing the way PTA blended both the story of a morality play along with a character study, showing how destructive greed is and that it can be found in anyone from a well-known business tycoon to a local pastor.
My top ten in chronological order:
1. Gunga Din (1939)
2, Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)
3. Detective Story (1951)
4. From Here To Eternity (1953)
5. On The Waterfront (1954)
6. Marty (1955)
7. Night Of The Hunter (1955)
8. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
9. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
10. Taxi Driver (1976)
Great selection of classics! Looking the few up that I haven't heard of before.
The Good the bad and the Ugly changed the way I looked at film. Everything about it just feels grand and operatic.
By the way, you perfectly described how I feel about Taxi Driver. I agree that it's Scorsese's best and has one of the most remarkable scripts in a film in my humble opinion.
@Peter Kelner have you watched either of them? They’re completely different
Probably needs an update as I keep changing it. (Which is also why it's a top 11 at the moment).
1. There Will Be Blood (2007)
2. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
4. Apocalypse Now (1979)
5. Boyhood (2014)
6. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
7. Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
8. Se7en (1995)
9. No Country for Old Men (2007)
10. Drive (2011)
11. Casino Royale (2006)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly is far superior to Once Upon a Time in the West
Mine's "Blade Runner" (1982, not the sequel), because it's deep, with living-breathing futuristic world, beautiful cinematography and music (general mood). I also adore "In the Mood for Love" and " Mulholland Drive". They all have different flavors of beautiful :))
“Blade Runner” is superb.
The original is great, but 2049 I think has all the positives of Blade Runner with less of the negatives. Deckard is not a very compelling protagonist to me, whereas K is despite Gosling emoting less than Ford.
That's a well deserved glowing mention of "Possession". I also love the music right at the start,it sets up the movie perfectly.
I've got a top +60 but here are the ones on the top of my head:
Casablanca (1942)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather II (1974)
Alien (1979)
The Thing (1982)
Scarface (1983)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Trainspotting (1996)
Warrior (2011)
Spring (2014)
The Handmaiden (2016)
Thunder Road (2018)
Definitely the good, the bad and the ugly.
Love the morally gray characters, which is actually unique as most movies fails to give you that even great ones.
Obviously the music.
I usually hate slow pacing, usual reason for that is bad characters. But this is only movie where I give pass to 5 minutes shots where nothing happens because characters are just so interesting.
This is the only movie where I feel that suspense is killing me, not boring me.
Goodfellas. Absolute perfection. The pacing, the acting, the direction. Every scene is wonderful and never get old. Also the score......my God. The use of Donovan - Atlantis while Batts is stomped is beyond me.....how somebody could think to use that song in that scene and for it to work that well, just genius.
Also, Zodiac is probably my 2nd favorite film. A true masterpiece.
"The Ten Commandments" ... this movie has always been an event. Tremendous nostalgia.
Heston: "Fear not..after today you'll not ever see Pharao's chariots again.".....E.G.Rob:"No....'cause you'll be DEAD under them!" ha haa-AH!...awesome the way they used make'em
Many says the stress of the grand scale of the picture shortened CB Demille's life...even suffered a heart attack while on set.
@@santosd.castillo5593 > easily imagine the magnitude of stress involved when pioneering a work such as this through any media but particularly film the world had never seen anything like it
"So that you know my words are from God..." Epic bigger than life Charlton Heston!
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Superb script structure by Lawrence Kasdan. Spielberg took what could've been a mere genre piece and elevated it to a work of pure art and visual imagination, through his sheer passion, drive and relentless tenacity, like Indiana Jones.
They're digging in the wrong place! I am the monarch of the sea, I am the ruler of the.......
bad grapes
🍇🤮
It used to be Psycho, but, after rewatching Goodfellas, it instantly took its place. Not only is it stylized as fuck, with a stupidly fun script and performances, there're quite a few layers of introspective grit to found here. I particularly love how it just shits all over the romanticized idea of "the cool outlaw" ala. "the gangster". (The "Layla" scenes leaves me fucking floored)
Paris, Texas (1984) just as beautiful as the title
That's not a beautiful title
*Mulholland Drive!* Not only do I think this is the best Lynch film, but to me it is the best piece of cinema ever made, and among the greatest pieces of fiction. There's just so many layers to the film that you could pick it apart for years. I've seen it too many times to count and I STILL learn new shit about it every time I watch!
period
The Devils (1971) by Ken Russell. There is nothing like its manic atmosphere and it so packed with ideas. Absolutely love it
Nice, offbeat choice... they really need to put it on blu-ray already!
For me, it's "Vertigo" ~ simple as that!
How about a video on "favourite acting performances in terrible movies" or "terrible acting performances in great movies"?
This is not easy, but since everyone is doing it...
In no particular order, because I would never be able to rank them:
- In The Mood For Love (2000)
- Tokyo Story (1965)
- Stalker (1979)
- Persona (1967)
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Woman in The Dunes (1964)
- Possession (1981)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
- The Travelling Players (1975)
- Her (2013)
Also Synecdoche, New York, The Master, The Passion of Joana of Arc, Mulholland Drive, Before Sunrise, Under the Skin...
Oh god, I can't stop... Naked, La Haine, Seven Samurai, Burning...
Chinatown!
How can people do this?
Great list
Amazing list! Nice so a fellow admirer of Asian cinema. We share the ones you've mentioned as favourites. Woman in The Dunes has been stuck in my head for the last couple of months.
@@Kaizoku-o_PirateKing Woman in The Dunes is fucking incredible isn't it? The Face of Another is also great. Teshigahara and Kobe Abe were masters.
@@CaioAraujoRibeiro Yes, they really were! I still have a lot to explore though. I almost felt the sand on my skin after watching Woman in The Dunes.
Favorite Films :
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966)
Blade Runner (1982)
True Romance (1993)
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Persona
3. Seven Samurai
4. Walkabout
5. His Girl Friday
10). Halloween (1978)
9.) Robocop (1987)
8.) Back to the Future (1985)
7.) A Clockwork Orange (1971)
6.) Jackie Brown (1997)
5.) Full Metal Jacket (1985)
4.) The Terminator (1984)
3.) No Country for Old Men (2007)
2.) Trainspotting (1996)
1.) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Honorable mentions: "Goodfellas," "Fargo," "Dazed and Confused," "Predator," "The Shining," "Taxi Driver," "Hereditary," and many, many more...
The Last Picture Show, The Thin Man, Young Frankenstein, Cool Hand Luke, The Good Girl, Rear Window, Raising Arizona, Short Cuts, Boogie Nights, The Lady Eve, A Clockwork Orange, Paper Moon
Top 10 favorites
1. The empire strikes back (1980)
2. Boogie nights (1997)
3. There will be blood (2007)
4. The shawshank redemption (1994)
5. Vertigo (1958)
6. All about eve (1950)
7. The bitter tears of Petra von kant (1972)
8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
9. The deer hunter (1978)
10. The good, the bad, and the ugly (1966)
Vertigo - No one captured the dreamy and hysterical landscape better. Unlike some of the self indulgent european filmakers, (although I like them ) Hitchcock manages to pull off visually stunning, romantic and a breathtaking film. Underrated just simply because it came out of the Hollywood mainstream. The climax shots of the film and the sudden ending are just chilling
It's not underrated.
Vertigo is one of the more acclaimed movies :D
I'm always pleased to hear you talk more about Mulholland Drive since that's my favorite movie! Although my own interpretation of it differs from yours, I understand and respect your take on it precisely because it is such a rich, beautifully realized work that resonates on so many different emotional and psychological levels for each viewer. Your excellent review of MD, which I only found about a week or so ago, is actually what got me to subscribe to your channel in the first place; I figured that anyone who really, really loved that movie and could speak about it in such a sophisticated, intelligent way deserved a subscription, and I haven't been disappointed at all with the quality of your content! I'm just mad at YT that I didn't find this channel years ago.
My top 10 1- The Good The Bad and The Ugly. 2- The Godfather 3- Casablanca 4- Robin and the 7 Hoods 5- Rio Bravo 6- Pulp Fiction 7- The Outlaw Josey Wales 8- The Big Sleep 9- Taxi Driver 10- The Great Escape
Cool! 3 are in my Top 10 As well!
When I first saw "Possession" I didn't know what to make of it, only when I saw "Mother" it dawned on me that both films were passionate acts of lovemaking between the directors and their female leads, that through his lens Zulawski was making love to Adjani as Aronofsky was making love to Lawrence.
2001: A Space Odyssey is certainly one of the films that I admire most, though it may have to be my second favourite, right behind Princess Mononoke (1997). Beautiful animation, soundtrack, characters and themes, but mostly I just love the feeling I get while watching it. Pure, childlike imagination.
1. Adaptation. (2002)
2. Synecdoche, NY (2008)
3. Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
4. Mulholland Drive
5. 2001 A Space Odyssey
6. Stalker
7. Kieslowskis Three Colours Trilogy
8. La Strada
9. The Godfather Trilogy
10. Freddy Got Fingered
Side note: please review Freddy Got Fingered
Why don’t you like any Charlie Kaufman movies?
2001. I've seen it exactly 27 times since 1978 at the cinema. I was 13 and it changed my life, like I didn't have to choose between art and science.
Next there's Twin Peaks. I've seen the original show plus FWWM seven times since the original airing in 1990, including twice with the Return.
Then The Diary of a Country Priest by Robert Bresson, and Tarkovsky's Mirror. I just come back to film with either of these films after a long "diet" out of audio-visual fiction.
Great choices
Donnie Darko. I love movies that keep you coming back wanting to learn more about it, but some movies are a bit too confusing on first viewing for me to care to do it. With Donnie Darko, even when I watched it the first time I could appreciate the coming of age aspect of it or the psychological thrill aspect of it and I wasn’t constantly trying to figure out what it meant. And because those other aspects of the film were so good, that’s what made it worth watching it again and again to learn about the deeper meaning in the story.
Paper Moon, Silver Linings Playbook, Mulholland Drive, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Terminator, The Wizard of Oz, Sunset Boulevard, North by Northwest, Breathless, Magnolia, Spirited Away, Alien, Blade Runner, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc, E.T., One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Goodfellas, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Toy Story, Up, Pulp Fiction, Memento, Rashoman, Castle in the Sky, Star Wars, Psycho, Schindler's List, Blue Velvet, Seven Samurai
I (excuse my language) fucking love Pulp Fiction!!
It may not be popular but my favorite movie is The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jackie brown
Underrated flick
Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time.
Easily the best Tarantino movie ever made in my opinion!
@@Wildcock23 His second worst imo. :-P But he's my favorite director.
@@arizonaFIREent the ending gets me every time
For me, Treasure Of Sierra Madre, On The Waterfront, & Vertigo. But, then I'm 69 years old, so I come from a different perspective. And, for disturbing, In Cold Blood, Although I also find Treasure Of Sierra Madre psychologically disturbing. Just some of the films I find both challenging and fascinating.
Lost in Translation. Only saw it once but it hit home like nothing else.
That was a great film that I think many haven't seen.
Total boredom.
@@akosleoszilagyi2529 lol that movie is so subtle in its delivery and certainly isn't for the transformer fans or marvel kids. Its actually a pretty heavy film and it show cases one of the greats , and his ability to do much more then comedy as well as Johanssons talent as more then just another pretty face with a foreign backdrop as a character in and of it self. You put it all together and you got a film that asks some pretty substantial question and leaves you with very little answers.
@@theurbanloner8879 It leaves you with a wasted 100 minutes. It would be enough as a short movie.
@@akosleoszilagyi2529 😂😂😂
Blade Runner (The Final Cut) will forever be my all time favorite.
I prefer the director's cut 🍻
@@mabusestestament The director's cut on VHS was my teddy bear as a little kid, and I hadn't even seen it yet at the time. It's destined to become my number one. 🍻
@Wolfe 123
The final cut seems to have colors digitally 'enhanced' (changed), just like Alien. I don't like that.
Blade Runner and Alien are masterpieces. Do you think Blade Runner 2049 was a good sequel?
@@mabusestestament 2049 is my favorite movie of the decade lol. The sequel gives the original even more thematic richness, which only makes an already classic masterpiece an even better film. I'm glad it bombed at the box office because 2049 was an absolute miracle. Had it been a success, we would've gotten a Blade Runners vs. Aliens starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. Just me though.
@@Wolfe-zl4ld It was one of my biggest disappointments in the cinema. :-P
1. Tree of Life/ Thin Red Line
2. Cabaret
3. Jules and Jim
4. Bicycle Thieves
5. Fanny and Alexander
6. Notorious
7. Mulholland Drive
8. Manchester by the Sea
9. There Will be Blood
10. Dodsworth
11. All about Eve
12. Rosemary's Baby
My first favorite movie: Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove
My second favorite: Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain
my favourite is the holy mountain, followed by wild tales and battleship potemkin
Kubrick’s “Clockwork Orange” and Jodorowsky’s “Santa Sangre” are better choices in my opinion.
@@Wildcock23 santa sangre also rocks
yes dr Strangelove is great
1- Persona (1966)
2- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3- 2001 A Space Odyssey
4- Mulholland Drive
5- The Lion King (1994)
6- Synecdoche New York
7- There Will be Blood
8- Blade Runner
9- The Empire Strikes Back
10- Magnolia
The entire list :)
letterboxd.com/getreallynch/list/my-favorite-films/
Persona is on my top ten as well
My Top 5 - The Sweet Hereafter , Paris Texas , The French Connection , Stranger Then Paradise & The Graduate. 🎥
“The French Connection” is the best one on that list by far.
@@timetheory84 Exotica is pretty good.
“Opening Night” by John Cassavetes often floats to the top of my list. It’s noir at it’s finest. The acting, the ambiguity, the loose feeling of the script, all trademark Cassavetes. Words don’t do this film justice. It made me feel so much, yet I still struggle to articulate why this is the case.
Apparently Scorsese wanted to do an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground, and Taxi Driver evolved directly from this. For me it's also interesting that Kurosawa tried to adapt The Idiot, but the results were very disappointing. However it led directly to his next film, Ikiru, which brilliantly captures the spirit of Dostoyevsky.
My Top 3: A Clockwork Orange, Harold and Maude, and All That Jazz
Clockwork is so good
All That Jazz is great; very underrated. I assume you know that it was inspired by Fillenni's 8-1/2?
@@richardrose2606 I didn't know that about 8-1/2 being inspiration for All That Jazz. Thanks. I saw 8-1/2 when I was too young to understand it. I'll take a better look at it now. It's forty years later. I wonder if I still won't understand it. Lol
1) The incident 1967.
2) That Obscure object of desire 1977.
3) Paths of Glory 1957.
4) Of Human Bondage 1934.
5) Eyes wide shut.
Baraka is my favorite, no contest. Every aspect comes together to explore the themes of humanity and how we view and change the world around us, without a single spoken or written word. I will never forget when I saw this film for the first time in a 70mm theatre, and no theatre experience will ever top that.
if they put a gun to my head and asked me to choose just one favorite movie I would probably say "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly".
Epic film that.
actually if they put a gun to my head and asked me to pick a favorite movie movie i'd say "same as yours"
Id say when you have to shoot shoot dont talk
I'd say "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" because being funny never got someone killed ..right?
My favorite movie is "A Brighter Summer Day (1991)"
I never heard of it so I had to see the trailer... looks very intriguing.
@balin dohobbit 🙌 masterpiece. Edward yangs film all resonate with me but a brighter summer day may be his magnum opus. Also love yiyi and terrorizers
Planning to watch that tomorrow, looks really great
Interstellar!! A film that can (for me at least) give you a new experience and meaning for what the ending was and is, im always picking up on new things in that film!🍻
Finally a great pick among these surreal movies nobody has ever seen.
Dawn of the Dead 1978. Love the independent nature of Romero’s films.
You hit my heart with LaLaLand. I love everything about it.
My number 1 is The Godfather Part II.
how solid is your number two? 🙄
Part I > Part II
Peter What's with the eye roll?
Ákos Leó Szilágyi I disagree...Part II takes a great film/story and brings it to another level. The rise of Vito in contrast to the fall of Michael is brilliant!!
@@leafsfan1728 The first has the perfect length. My second fav of all Time(the first is Pulp Fiction). I love the sequel, but it has two minor problems: it's little bit too long; and the flashbacks are more interesting than the actual story. Still my ninth fav of all time. Classics, like Alien and Aliens.
Jaws, pyscho, 12 angry men, alien, Schindler's list. are in my favorites all of them are masterpieces.
1. Godfather part II 2. The world of Apu 3. Seven Samurai 4. Brighter Summer Day 5. Come and See 6. Hara Kiri 7. The good the bad and the ugly 8. Goodfellas 9. Tokyo Story 10. Le Samourai. Its so hard to do ur favourite movies when there are so many masterpieces made around the world.
Phenomenal top 10.
It's impossible to pick a favorite, but for most sensory sensation deffo Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain. Its just such a sweet celebration of archetype and symbolism itself
Satantango, Stalker, Winter Light, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, The Ascent, Loveless, The Gleaners and I, Night of the Hunter, Zama, Style Wars, Do The Right Thing, Cache, The Hitch-Hiker, Let the Right One In, Vampyr
Sátántangó? If you're looking for a great Hungarian movie, watch Kontroll (2003).
1- The Fountain
2- Eyes Wide Shut
3- The Shawshank Redemption
4- Never Cry Wolf
I like "Eyes Wide Shut"
Eyes Wide Shut is also my second favorite film!
The Shaggy Dog with Tim Allen .
That isn’t a movie, that’s a *Film*
@@corrupt_insomniac What's the difference?
My All-time Favorites:
Drive. (2011)
The Dark Knight. (2008)
No Country For Old Men. (2007)
Collateral. (2004)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (1966)
Space Jam. (1996)
Back to the Future. (1985)
Back to the Future ll. (1989)
Halloween. (1978)
Transformers. (2007)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
(2014)
The Iron Giant. (1999)
PSYCHO. (1960)
T2: Judgement Day. (1991)
The Breakfast Club. (1985)
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring. (2001)
Collateral is awesome
@@ishayfriedman27 💯 Agreed!
@@ishayfriedman27 What about Heat?
@@akosleoszilagyi2529 I have never finished it, but I will
@@ishayfriedman27 I first seen it at the age of 7. :-P One of the best crime movies ever made.
Some of mine: Ikiru, Ran (Kurosawa); Once Upon a Time in America (Leone); Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger); Rear Window, Vertigo, North By Northwest (Hitchcock); The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer); The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah); Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman); Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas (Scorsese); Heat (Michael Mann); Aguirre the Wrath of God (Herzog); Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson); Blade Runner (Ridley Scott); Godfather, The Conversation, Godfather II (Coppola).
My top 5 are Playtime, Stalker, Old Boy Korean version, Beau Travers and Mesrine. Enjoying the channel x
Only Lovers Left Alive, Stalker(1979), Hard to be a God, Paterson, Barton Fink, The American Astonaut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paris Texas, A Serious Man.
Hey Todd. I really liked the ones I saw 😀.
I did not see Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson, and The American Astronaut. I enjoyed several Jarmusch films - Dead Man, Stranger Than Paradise, C&C - so I need to get on those you mentioned. i watched the trailer for The American Astronaut and it looks fantastic. I will put that on my list!
Glad you are a fan of Hard to Be a God 😀 That was the best recommendation a movie-fan friend of mine made several years ago.
Here's a few more I'd recommend (especially in light of some of your picks): Forbidden Zone (1982), The Element of Crime (1984), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), The Fountain (2006), High Life (2018).
1. Withnail and I
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Network
I love Network!
I haven't even heard your first one. Who directed it?
@@akosleoszilagyi2529 Bruce Robinson.
@@jR-bk8wu Sorry, I'm a film lover for 5 years, but I haven't heard his name.
@@akosleoszilagyi2529 that's OK.
1. Groundhog Day
Taxi Driver
Trading Places
Fargo
Friday
Drive
Whiplash
My top 5 Favorites of All Time:
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Taxi Driver
3. Apocalypse Now
4. American Psycho
5. Dogville
The first 4 are masterpieces... but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of “Dogville”
@@Wildcock23 Dogville is Lars Von Trier's magnum opus.
@@jesusperez7108 Von Trier is an interesting filmmaker: I saw “The House that Jack Built” a few months ago and loved it!
@@Wildcock23 I have seen The House that Jack Built several times. Did you watch the director's cut?
@@jesusperez7108 Funny... I don’t think that I have - what’s the difference?
1) A woman under the influence
2) James white
3) close-up
4) A nos amours
5) There will be blood
6) call me by your name
7) il sorpasso
8) My dinner with andre
9) Mulholland Drive
10) the souvenir
To name a few^... but there are too many
Wait! How could I leave out Bicycle Thieves
For me, it’s currently Charlie Kaufman Synecdoche New York. Not even particularly my most enjoyed film, but one that felt so crucial for me as I saw it at a very intense and precarious moment in my life. The film is a constant reminder to allow myself to enjoy moments and to seek wellness and satisfaction in the day to day. To not let narrative, grandiose meaning, and shallow ideology cloud what is ultimately a short, strange, and meager existence that I’ve been gifted.
My favourite movie of all time has to be “Love Exposure”... Best 4 hours of my life!!
Have you seen “mirror” by A. Tarkovsky? That is my favorite.
Do you work for CineFix?
Lmao
@@esbenjakobsen4575 😆😆
I have.
@@deepfocuslens Say no more. You hated it.
The Godfather, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...Top 2 that never change. Could name like 20 for my 3rd,4th and 5th spot lol
Those are my second and fifth favorite. ;-)
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Godfather
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
I've heard of all these films
@@jR-bk8wu Cool.
The Godfather 1 and 2. The bridge on the River Kwai.
The first time I saw Possession was in a mall theater in the early 80s. It was sold as a horror film, cut by over 40 minutes, and had new horror-movie music and opticals added. I hated it, because it made no sense at all, but something about Adjani's performance stayed with me. Finally seeing the uncut version years later, I recognize it for the masterpiece it is.
Mulholland drive is my 3 or 4 best movie ever with All about Eve, The Godfather part 2 and The Godfather is number 1 and 2
One of the greatest films of all time is Playtime of Jacques Tati, a great director whom I have never heard you mention though you have such impeccable taste. His work seems to be the inspiration of many of the films you love best: Gaspar Noé, Bertrand Bonello etc etc 😊❤🎶
Clockwork Orange - Only movie I can watch again and again
Absolutely. It’s on my Top 10 list too.
The wine scene always makes me laugh
Melancholia because of the morbid colliding/merging planets concept and also it makes me listen to Hegel's The Planets suite again.
Holst's the Planets. Hegel was not a composer
@Helvete_Ingres
In a way he was
@@mabusestestament Ah, resignedly beneath the sky the melancholy waters lie.
Microcosmos(1996). I know not many people have heard about it, let alone seen it. And if they have they think, "Oh, the bug documentary? Really?" But it is the finest example of storytelling that I know because it uses storytelling to probe deeper into the mindset of its subjects - in this case, the insects - in that they too are the protagonists of their own stories (to paraphrase Synecdoche, New York). The quintessence of science nonfiction.
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Amadeus, The Crying Game, Casablanca
Didn't expect having to scroll so much in order to find Casablanca. Watched it recently and I was blown away. Way ahead of its time. Melodrama at it's finest and executed in the purest form.
Mullholand dr isn’t my favourite Lynch(fire walk with me most days but on others it’s blue velvet) but mullholand dr does have my favourite scene in any movie- that being the club silencio scene. I think that scene sums up lynches core motif as well as what makes movies special to me; the perception of reality and how emotional impact creates reality.
2 women viewing a performance that is made explicitly clear that it’s all just that- performance. The band isn’t real, the singing isn’t real, the song is in a language that most English speaking viewers won’t understand but the song is still familiar. The 2 women watch and get emotionally involved in the performance to the point of crying at its impact. The woman singing falls and is pulled off stage and this is the big clue to our main character that something is truly wrong.
The scene works narratively but also operates as a thesis. We are these 2 women watching something totally performed, with knowledge that it is performance but we feel it’s impact. We know it’s not real but we feel it like it was. So, was it real? Is what’s real something clinical and definable or is it what we experience and feel influenced by? There’s no real answer to me but I absolutely adore the idea and it’s one of the few things I don’t feel cringey calling transcendent. It breaks the barrier in what I think is the greatest use of meta fiction I have ever seen.
-oh and my actual favourite movie changes from day to day but right now I’d say it’s either punch-drunk love or possession(1981) :)
One of my many favorite movies that I would enjoy seeing you review is Ghost World. It was based on a great graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Thanks.
I'd like to see a review of that as well. One of sharpest and funniest comedies of the 21st century.
Two lists. The first is my official top ten films. The second is a "popcorn" movie favourite top ten.
Top 10 Films:
Battleship Potemkin,The
Citizen Kane
City of God
Crowd, The
Crumb
Godfather, The
Mulholland Drive
Raging Bull
Seven Samurai, The
Vertigo
Top 10 Movies:
Alien
Batman Begins
Casino Royale
Dazed and Confused
Exorcist, The
Empire Strikes Back, The
Groundhog Day
Minority Report
Point Break
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Alien is art, it shouldn't be in "popcorn" imo 😘
@Move_I_Got_This You realize this is subjective right? I could defend my choices but it's clear there's no point trying to have a civilized discussion with you.
@@mabusestestament I like the differentiation. It allows me to have one list for great films, and then another for movies that are compulsively watchable. I love The Seven Samurai, but I've seen Groundhog Day and Dazed and Confused far more times.
@benjamin vermeylen
Well it's your list(s) of course, but don't you think Alien is a genuinely great film? Imo it's art.
@@mabusestestament Of course, but movies like Alien have a hard time competing against other genres. The popcorn top ten list is basically for action, horror, science fiction and comedy films. I think it's good becuase it gives me a chance to celebrate comedies and action films that would hardly ever make an all time top ten list otherwise.
On the topic of Ryan Gosling, have you seen "The Nice Guys"?
I have a few
Red Dragon, The Silence of the lambs, Inglorious Bastards, Heat, The Matrix, Mission Impossible Fallout, The Bourne Ultimatum, Lawrence of Arabia, Constantine, Pusher 1996, American history X, Scarface, The Green mile, Lord of the rings, The last Samurai, No country for old men
The Big Lebowski, Bullitt, Unbreakable, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, There Will Be Blood
In no particular order:
Bladerunner
Seven Samurai
Sunset Boulevard
Wizard of Oz
Avengers: Endgame
Mad Max: Fury Road
Amelie
Let the Right One In (original Swedish version)
The Handmaiden (Korean)
First Blood
liked bc of Amelie
Much love for Fury Road, Seven Samuraii, Let the Right One in and The Handmaiden! Great list!
@@Kaizoku-o_PirateKing thankyou sir
1. Chinatown
2. The Master
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Nashville/Short Cuts
5. Seven Samurai
6. Chungking Express
7. Hoop Dreams
8. Assassination of Jesse James
9. Scarecrow
10. Sorcerer
Dead Man (1995) A metaphoric western. It's a great film to watch and to find explanation after watching it.
It’s in my top 20. Love that film.
Breakfast Club blew me away when I saw it. Put John Hughes on a whole other level.
I haven't seen that, but I love Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
My favorites:
Shane (the classical "warrior who wants a normal life" story but done more earnestly then any other)
Once Upon A Time in the West (pure muscular poetry of bygone heroics)
In A Lonely Place (tragedy of violent impulses)
The Girl Who Knew To Much (Bava's visual dazzle at its most seductive)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick's psychologically deepest film)
The Shining (most "otherwordly" film)
Starship Troopers (greatest action/satire of all time)
Some others:
Once Were Warriors (hardest-hitting drama)
The Godfather 1 & 2 (probably the only time "greatest movie ever made" label has felt justified)
Gilda (sexiest movie)
Last Hurrah for Chivalry (best martial arts movie)
Jeremiah Johnson (even more poetic western than Dead Man and that's a tough thing to say)
Get Carter (movie that improves the most with re-watches)
Metropolis (best silent movie)
Zoolander (funniest comedy)
Mondo Candido may be my favourite and also most underrated movie I know of, great video btw
McDull: The Alumni. You won't get this recommendation from anyone else, it's not considered a classic. But it's a masterpiece from the peak of Hong Kong cinema in the late 90s, early 2000s. Hong Kong cinema is in the doldrums now, like all world cinema.
Gates of Heaven (the Errol Morris documentary...not one of the handful of other movies with a similar title) is my favorite. I think it's nothing short of a miracle. It's a documentary, and you're watching ordinary people talking, but all of a sudden it's the very best dialog that Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter ever wrote. The instincts Morris had for how to present creative non-fiction were brilliant, and it's a shame he's largely abandoned them with his heavy handed later work. Then, you know, the Godfather, On the Waterfront, 8 1/2, Cookoo's Nest, Lawrence of Arabia, All the Presidents Men, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy....Slacker...Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are up there but but on a slightly lower tier than those others.
You should REALLY make an updated favorite films list!
At the moment my top three, in no particular order, are Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia and Barry Lyndon.
I say that Goodfellas is Martin Scorsese’s best film, however Taxi Driver is not far behind. This is a great list.
I think the person who had The Emoji Movie was being sarcastic.