Your own personal ten "Greatest Movies"

[clearwatergirl]

Ruby In Paradise
Ulee's Gold
Shopgirl
Away From Her
Swimming With Sharks
Adventureland
Sling Blade
As Good As It Gets
While You Were Sleeping
Dear Frankie
Transsiberian

[Naruse]

Andrei Rublev
lawrence of Arabia
Three colors trilogy
The Age of Innocence
Once upon a time in America
Two English Girls
8 1/2
Blue velvet
Bicycle thieves
Late spring
death in Venice

[Eternal]

I had always a great problem to rank movies I've watched.

[McTeague]

Andrei Rublev
lawrence of Arabia
Three colors trilogy
The Age of Innocence
Once upon a time in America
Two English Girls
8 1/2
Blue velvet
Bicycle thieves
Late spring
death in Venice

No Naruse, Naruse?

[DBibby]

Alphabetical order:

All About Eve
Breaking the Waves
Casablanca
In the Mood For Love
Network
Pather Panchali
Rear Window
Secrets and Lies
Talk to Her
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Wow, deciding on the 10th and the five or so films that would miss out was tough.

EDIT: Can I give a shout-out to Tokyo Story, The Iron Giant, Once, Bicycle Thieves, Brief Encounter, The Crowd and Cabaret? Thanks, I feel better now.

[Stéphane]

2001 Space Odyssey
La Dolce Vita
Seven Samurai
Persona
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Manhattan
The Seventh Seal
Citizen Kane
The Searchers
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

[Troyaferd]

Pan's Labyrinth
Let the Right One In
A Clockwork Orange
Eraserhead
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Fight Club
Doctor Strangelove Or: How I Learned Stop Worring and Love the Bomb
The Godfather

[Ben7]

Back to The Future
Dumb and Dumber
The Godfather Part 2
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Halloween (1978)
Home Alone
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Raging Bull

[forizzer69]

It's my birthday. Here's a birthday list:

001. There Will Be Blood (2007), by Paul Thomas Anderson
002. Brokeback Mountain (2005), by Ang Lee
003. Vivre sa vie (1962), by Jean-Luc Godard
004. Days Of Heaven (1978), by Terrence Malick
005. The Godfather (1972), by Francis Ford Coppola
006. Solaris (1972), by Andrey Tarkovsky
007. A Man Escaped (1956), by Robert Bresson
008. Diary Of A Country Priest (1951), by Robert Bresson
009. Mister Lonely (2008), by Harmony Korine
010. The Blue Angel (1930), by Josef von Sternberg

[Shy_Hallaman]

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[Gregory]

In alphabetical order:

Bandwagon, The
Casablanca
Grand Illusion
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
Rules of the Game, The
Searchers, The
Seven Samurai, The
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
2001: A Space Odyssey

[McTeague]

Wonderful list, Gregory (minus la Kubrick, but I’m used to that by now), but this in particular is amazing:

In alphabetical order:
Bandwagon, The

[Gregory]

Wonderful list, Gregory (minus la Kubrick, but I’m used to that by now), but this in particular is amazing:

I bounce back and forth between The Bandwagon and Singin' in the Rain as the finest musical ever made. I would argue it is Minnelli's best film, and that is high praise indeed.

*By the way, McTeague, someday we need to have a more in-depth discussion about Paul McCartney's songwriting since the break-up of The Beatles. After the greatest Beatles song poll that Kgirl ran, I realized I had never given McCartney's post-Beatles songs a fair shake, so I gathered every record he has put out over the past forty-plus years and listened to them systematically over a considerable period of time. I was extremely surprised at how many good songs he has written and recorded. I would enjoy a discussion with you about this subject, though, obviously, not in this thread. I won't hijkack it anymore, but thought you might be interested.

[McTeague]

I bounce back and forth between The Bandwagon and Singin' in the Rain as the finest musical ever made. I would argue it is Minnelli's best film, and that is high praise indeed.

*By the way, McTeague, someday we need to have a more in-depth discussion about Paul McCartney's songwriting since the break-up of The Beatles. After the greatest Beatles song poll that Kgirl ran, I realized I had never given McCartney's post-Beatles songs a fair shake, so I gathered every record he has put out over the past forty-plus years and listened to them systematically over a considerable period of time. I was extremely surprised at how many good songs he has written and recorded. I would enjoy a discussion with you about this subject, though, obviously, not in this thread. I won't hijkack it anymore, but thought you might be interested.

Oh, but I'm not well-versed enough for that! My father loved both The Beatles and McCartney's solo output until the mid-late 80's. I've heard a couple of his albums complete, but I only remember a few songs, that I consider to be very good. Melodically at least, I cannot remember lyrics from a time I didn't speak English!

[Gregory]

Well, then, if it is agreeable to you, when I have a little more free time I'll send you some recommendations in a music thread. I suspect you'll like some or much of them.

[McTeague]

Well, then, if it is agreeable to you, when I have a little more free time I'll send you some recommendations in a music thread. I suspect you'll like some or much of them.

Thanks! I'm totally for it.

[lazarus]

Wonderful list, Gregory (minus la Curtiz, but I’m used to that by now)

Fixed.

[Melisande]

Orphée (Jean Cocteau, 1950)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
La double vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1991)
砂の女 / Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi, 1964)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Offret (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
Il Conformista (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
La battaglia di Algeri (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

[lazarus]

Great list!

[PsychoBaggins]

01. Vertigo
02. Mulholland Drive
03. Annie Hall
04. Magnolia
05. Taxi Driver
06. The Rules of the Game
07. Titanic
08. Once Upon a Time in the West
09. The Tree of Life
10. Beauty and the Beast (1991)