Top 5 Favorite Films?

[Kormodd]

My list is boring.

1. Withnail and I
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Godfather Parts I and II
4. Taxi Driver
5. Seven Samurai

[cavorting with nudists]

Not in order, but:

Blue Velvet
Wings of Desire
Vertigo
The Wild Bunch
Ninotchka

[nec13]

I always enjoy these threads. They remind me of what middling film taste I have.

Top 5 (again, in particular order):

The Third Man
Night Moves
Apocalypse Now
Die Hard
Groundhog Day/Raiders of the Lost Ark/Jaws (three way tie)

HM: Rear Window, High Fidelity, Back To The Future and JFK

[mostlymeat]

Holy Mountain (1973)
The Devils (1971)
Possession (1981)
The Manitou (1978)
Burden of Dreams (1982)

The Manitou:

A woman named Karen (Susan Strasberg), who is suffering from a growing tumor on her neck, enters a hospital in San Francisco. After a series of X-rays, the doctors begin to think it is a living creature: a fetus being born inside the tumor. Eerie and grisly occurrences begin; the tumorous growth perceives itself – himself – to be under attack as a result of the X-rays used to ascertain its nature, which are starting to stunt and deform its development. The growth is actually an old Native American shaman; he is reincarnating himself through the young woman to exact his revenge on white men who invaded North America and (from the old shaman's viewpoint) exterminated its native peoples. A second Native American shaman is contacted and hired to help fight the reincarnating medicine man, but the kind of spirits he can summon and control appear to be too weak to match his opponent's abilities.

[Kormodd]

Blue Velvet and Vertigo are great. I haven't seen the others on cavorting's list (well, I did see The Wild Bunch a long time ago, but don't remember it). Wings of Desire is on Hulu, so I'll watch that soon.

Everything on nec13's list I like (except Night Moves, which I haven't seen). The Third Man especially is great stuff.

Haven't seen anything on mostlymeat's list, though I've been meaning to check out The Devils for a while now. I'll probably watch that soon and check out the rest at some point in the future

HM from me are The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Kozintsev's King Lear; Polanski's Macbeth; and This Is Spinal Tap.

[Omar]

The Great Muppet Caper (Henson, 1981)
Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998)
Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, 2003)
Fargo (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1996)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

[mostlymeat]

Everything on nec13's list I like (except Night Moves, which I haven't seen).

Night Moves is awesome. Gene Hackman and a very young Melanie Griffith in sweaty florida.

Sadly no Bob Seger content but what can you do? Arthur "Bonnie & Clyde" Penn directs!

[cavorting with nudists]

Re: mine, mebbe Touch of Evil in place of Ninotchka. Or in place of The Wild Bunch. Or, maybe I'll just list six, because who cares?

[InspectorHound]

In alphabetical order:
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Barton Fink (1991)
Carlos (2010)
The King of Comedy (1983)
The Long Goodbye (1973)

Surprised no one has mentioned Clifford yet...

[masterofsparks]

Taxi Driver/The Searchers (counting them as one since they're kinda the same movie) (1976, Scorsese/1956, Ford)
Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur)
Point Blank (1967, Boorman)
The Last Detail (1973, Ashby)
Miller's Crossing (1990, Coen)

[cavorting with nudists]

Ooh, Out of the Past. Respect!

[Kormodd]

Everything on nec13's list I like (except Night Moves, which I haven't seen).

Night Moves is awesome. Gene Hackman and a very young Melanie Griffith in sweaty florida.

Sadly no Bob Seger content but what can you do? Arthur "Bonnie & Clyde" Penn directs!

I think I've actually seen this movie. I'll watch it again at some point.

In alphabetical order:
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

As far as sheer entertainment value goes, maybe the best movie of the 2000s.

The Bad Lieutenant - Nick Cage At His Best

[miniminivan]

Has anybody seen the dekalog films?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decalogue_(TV_series)

I just finished rewatching these after having not viewed in a long time, and they stack up among my all time favorites

[Mike Desert]

Children of Paradise
Suspiria
Casablanca
Out of the Past
Black Sunday/Mask of Satan
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

I have like 50 favorite movies though...mostly Noir and Horror and classic screwball comedies.

[Crusherkc]

Favorites

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Jaws
3. The Shining
4. Lawrence of Arabia (which Tom should check out, it's really good)
5. The Right Stuff

My full list here along with my Best Show Movie Quote submissions: http://www.imdb.com/list/TqyspVYuN6c/*

_{*wait, what? I didn't list "Party Girl", "The Outlaw Josey Wales" or "Withnail & I"? It's a work in progress.}