I'd like to check out some great films (don't have to be in order if it's too hard), so i was wondering if you could help me out, here's mine off the top of the dome:

The Usual Suspects
Shoot The Piano Player
The Celebration
Sleepers
Run Lola Run
Lost In Translation
Crash
Do The Right Thing
A Love Song For Bobby Long
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Garden State
K-Pax
12 Angry Men
The Shawshank Redemption
Dazed And Confused
Office Space
Double Indemnity
Clerks 1 & 2
Mallrats
Basically Anything By Hitchcock
Bus 174
Chungking Express
Goodfellas

also post movies that might not be your favorites, but you definitely think should be checked out

peace

Seven
Gladiator
Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
The Lion King
Jurassic Park
Training Day
Lord Of The Rings 1,2, and 3
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Terminator 2
X2 X-Men United
Friday
National Lampoon's Vacation
Grease
The Breakfast Club
Saw
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Enter The Dragon

Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
The Shawshank Redemption
Friday
Clerks
Dazed and Confused
City of God
The Sandlot
Pulp Fiction
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal (I count this as a movie)
Seven
Terminator 2 EDIT: Fuck the Matrix, Terminator all day.
Requiem for a Dream
Raging Bull
Godfather I/II
Resevoir Dogs
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Glory
Hard Boiled

i know i'm missing shit..

Damn, been 2 and half years.

Shawshank Redemption
Clerks
La Haine
Swingers
Glengarry Glen Ross
Shoot the Piano Player
Taxi Driver
The Godfather, Pt. 2
Chinatown
City of God
Hard Boiled
Goodfellas
Rushmore
Boogie Nights
Seven
Weekend
Momento
Network
Pulp Fiction
High Fidelity

up

And I'm lumping some trilogies and pairs together

1. Star Wars Trilogy (OG)
2. Godfather I and II
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Dazed and Confused
5. City of God
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
8. High Fidelity
9. Rushmore
10. Dog Day Afternoon

Next few (no particular order): 40-Year-Old Virgin, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Deer Hunter, GoodFellas, The Departed, Anchorman, Fargo, Jackie Brown, Royal Tenenbaums, Animal House

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Usual Suspects
Terminator 2
City Of God
Full Metal Jacket
Casino
Carlito's Way
The Manchurian Canidate(original)
Shawshank Redemption
The Harder They Come
Good Fellas
Gone in 60 seconds
Star Wars ep.III
The Empire Strikes Back
The Program
The Goonies
Do The Right Thing
25th Hour
Malcolm X
Top Gun

in no particular order:

Rashomon
Cool Hand Luke
The Natural
The Thin Red Line
The Shining
Blood Simple
Mean Streets
Royal Tenenbaums
Traffic
The Insider
American Beauty
Life Aquatic
In the Bedroom
Motorcycle Diaries
Eternal Sunshine
Kung Fu Hustle
Lives of Others

city of god
kill bill
dr. strangelove
millers crossing
american beauty
sin city
the graduate
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
the matrix
lock stock & 2 smoking barrels
leon
le femme nikita

in alphabetical

3 women
8 1/2
amarcord
amelie
badlands
blue velvet
the conformist
contempt
the cook, the thief, his wife & her lover
days of heaven
la dolce vita
elephant
gates of heaven
happy together
life aquatic
the leopard
lost highway
my own private idaho
the passion of joan of arc
the phantom of liberty
royal tenenbaums
la strada
pyscho
vertigo
a woman under the influence

These are Danish but Lars von Trier had nothing to do with them:
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Italian for Beginners
Green Butchers
Adam's Apples
Flickering Lights

Also:
These Icelandic movies:
Cold Fever (sadly this one is really hard to find)
Investigations into the Invisible World http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308224/
In the Shoes of the Dragon


This one's Norwegian:
Kitchen Stories

>These are Danish but Lars von Trier had nothing to do with
>them:
>Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
>Italian for Beginners
>Green Butchers
>Adam's Apples
>Flickering Lights
>
>Also:
>These Icelandic movies:
>Cold Fever (sadly this one is really hard to find)
>Investigations into the Invisible World
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308224/
>In the Shoes of the Dragon
>
>
>This one's Norwegian:
>Kitchen Stories
>

French:
Le Placard (The Closet) -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243493/ Gay issues, but no gay sex to my recollection, a very witty French comedy.

American independents:
The Mudge Boy -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339419/ You will never be the same after watching this movie. One rape scene, not explicit.

All Over The Guy -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250202/ Sweet romantic comedy that juxtaposes a straight couple and a gay couple. No sex that I recall.

Big Eden http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212815/

By all rights, I should have hated this movie, because I don't like overly sweet, predictable romances.

But I really liked it a lot. A whole lot. I kind of just let myself enter into the alternate world of the movie and let it take me to a happier place.

oh man, italian for beginners was great, forgot about that one

Her next project was Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, which she cowrote with Anders Jensen, who then wrote & directed Green Butchers, Adam's Apples, and Flickering Lights. So they all have in common the kind of funny take on sad events, or bittersweetness that takes a movie from being merely a distraction to being something meaningful and worth reflecting on.

>Flickering Lights

you liked this like that?
this is my least fav of the danish movies ive seen (not that i've seen many at all)

have u seen/how'd u like Reconstruction and After The Wedding?

are in a different genre.

The ones I listed above are in the bittersweet story genre -- sad and funny at the same time.

The four in the post title are just really intense and have little or no comic moments. That doesn't make them worse, really, and in fact there are often things I like better about them, but for pure viewing satisfaction, I like movies that have a little of both.

I will say that my first response to Reconstruction was that I was FINALLY seeing a movie made on dv that *should* be made on dv. The use of the medium was remarkable, I thought.

i just didnt think flickering lights was all that funny. i was thinking maybe the danish should stick to those crazy intense emotional dramas.

so they're sad as well as funny.

The first scene in Flickering Lights pretty much had me choking with laughter.

Nikolaj and Mads each doing their respective slightly retarded eccentric thing. Nikolaj eating, which of course is a theme, and Mads going over the top. The bit where Arne is beating up the truck driver just killed me.

The Empire Strikes Back
Rockers
Malcolm X
Platoon
Mo' Better Blues
American Pop
The Original Star Wars ( ep IV)
Dead Presidents
Friday
The Godfather
Harlem Nights
Coming to America
Aliens
Raising Arizona

>Rockers
sheeit, i forgot this one...

>Platoon
would u agree that its the best vietnam movie (besides Dead Presidents of course)?

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I've said why here on any number of occasions, too.

For me, it's definitely Full Metal Jacket.

>I've said why here on any number of occasions, too.
>
>For me, it's definitely Full Metal Jacket.

me too,

In no particular order:

Swingers
Pulp Fiction
Office Space
Amores Perros
The Godfather Trilogy (yes, even III)
24 Hour Party People
The Apartment
M
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Glengarry GlenRoss
Fitzcarraldo
Dig! (we including docs?)
Natural Born Killers

goodfellas
wet hot
big lebowski
rushmore
do the right thing

edit: seem like erry1 an they mama love shawshank. im no exception

no order:

the apartment
paid in full
city of god
viridiana
dr. strangelove
a clockwork orange
barry lyndon
the godfather
pulp fiction
the leopard
wild strawberries
the virgin spring
grand illusion
nights of cabiria
lawrence of arabia
five easy pieces
band of outsiders
ikiru
the world of apu
amarcord
the spanish apartment
snatch
the girl on the bridge
a woman is a woman
the ballad of cable hogue
the major and the minor
the lady eve
night and fog

etc etc etc

because i never got it.

Paris, Texas - Wenders
Winter Light - Bergman
Wild Strawberries - Bergman
Persona - Bergman
Raging Bull - Scorsese
2001 - Kubrick
Bicycle Thieves - De Sica
Diabolique - Clouzot
Late Spring - Ozu
Early Summer - Ozu
McCabe & Mrs Miller - Altman
Nights of Cabiria - Fellini
Ran - Kurosawa
Throne of Blood - Kurosawa
Vertigo - Hitchcock
Shadow of a Doubt - Hitchcock
Ugetsu - Mizoguchi
Metropolis - Lang
Touch of Evil - Welles
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Huston

In no special order:

To Have And Have Not - Howard Hawks
Some Came Running - Vincente Minnelli
Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
The Naked Spur - Anthony Mann
Accattone - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Le Trou - Jacques Becker
Il Posto - Ermanno Olmi
The Leopard - Luchino Visconti
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
Fox And His Friends - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The River - Jean Renoir
Germany Year Zero - Roberto Rossellini
Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi
Celine And Julie Go Boating - Jacques Rivette
8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
The Searchers - John Ford
The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
You Only Live Once - Fritz Lang
Spirit Of The Beehive - Victor Erice
Gun Fury - Joseph H. Lewis

I tried to limit it to just one movie per director. Otherwise it could've been all Hawks and Fassbinder movies. But what's the fun in that? Also, I left off Charlie Chaplin and Robert Bresson because I couldn't even begin to figure out which of their movies I liked best.

>Gun Fury - Joseph H. Lewis
>

That should read "Gun Crazy" by Joseph H. Lewis.

I confused it with the title of Raoul Walsh's "Gun Fury". . . which is not a bad picture either by the way.

psycho
touch of evil
vertigo
memento
eyes wide shut
good bad ugly
once upon a time in the west
the killer
lost highway
mulholland drive

The Usual Suspects
Unforgiven
House Party
The Big Lebowski
Se7en
Sneakers (absolute MUST HAVE)
The Matrix
Snatch
Finding Nemo
American Beauty
The Lion King
Heat
Blazing Saddles
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
The Shawshank Redemption
T2
Back To The Future
Star Trek: First Contact
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
Die Hard
GLadiator

the rest in no particular order

city of god
the godfather 1 & 2
casino
donnie brasco
exitenz
the matrix
sexo y lucia
the learning tree
the bachelor
coming to america
akira
bamboozled
the usual suspects
fight club
gladiator braveheart
love jones
love & basketball
the labyrinth
the neverending story
the dark crystal
do the right thing
star wars
lord of the rings: return of the king
lengend
purple rain

Le Dame d'Chateau (Quilcher/1937)
The Face of the Damned (Morgan/194?)
Transcontinental Skies (Gortimer/1927)
Beau Blaque (Sonteau/1939)
The Winged Lion (Frist/1948)
Hate Mongers (orig:Chamberlain/1957)
Walk With Me (Damien/1936)
Kann Nicht Einenl Kaufen (Baumeister/1944)
One Time to Tango (Juilien/1952)
Green Gaze (Johnston/1959)

i cant sleep, and lists are always fun

Y Tu Mama Tambien
Lost in Translation
I Heart Huckabees
Chungking Express
The Departed
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Last Life in the Universe
The Squid and the Whale
Chasing Amy
Suspiria

I had like a list of way more than 43 movies (last count was 43, but I continued to list away and away). So, I'll just list the few that I can rank definitely:

1a - Friday Night (Denis)
1b - In the Mood For Love (Wong)
2a - Stalker (Tarkovsky)
2b - La Jetee (Marker)
3a - Chungking Express (Wong)
3b - Godfather (Coppola)
3c - Godfather Part 2 (Coppola)

interchangeable:

Simple Men (Hartley)
Annie Hall (Allen)
My Night at Maud's (Rohmer)
L'Eclisse (Antonioni)
Goodfellas (Scorsese)
Late Spring (Ozu, but I love all Ozu)
M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, but I love all Tati)
Army of Shadows (Melville, but I love all Melville)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)

Other stuff that I think people should watch (just off the top):

One From the Heart (Coppola)
Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Ruiz)
Happy Together (Wong)
General (Keaton; Bruckman)
Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
Never Weaken (Newmeyer)

1. A Brighter Summer Day
2. The Godfather Part 2
3. Friday Night / Venredi Soir
4. Gregory’s Girl
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. The Godfather
7. La Jetee
8. Rififi
9. Le Trou
10. Jeanne Dielman
11. Do the Right Thing
12. Army of Shadows
13. Early Spring
14. Il Posto
15. Platform
16. After Life
17. Taipei Story
18. La Haine
19. Harakiri
20. The Apartment

>My Night at Maud's (Rohmer)

am now officially excited to watch it

1) Paris, Texas
2) Late Spring
3) Wild Strawberries

The rest:

Ghostbusters
Dick Tracy
Eraserhead
Winter Light
In the Mood for Love
Raise the Red Lantern
Mon Oncle
Playtime
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Ran
Raging Bull
Rosemary's Baby
Vertigo
Ugetsu
Werckmeister Harmonies
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sansho the Bailiff

*and A Man Escaped was the last movie I took off the list

Shawshank Redemption
Seven
Gladiator
The Matrix
Jurassic Park
The Lion King
X2: X-Men United
The Dark Knight
Friday
National Lampoon's Vacation
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Training Day
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Original Stars Wars trilogy
Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Kill Bill Volume 1

There's 20 for you. There are plenty more that I could list, but these are the stand outs.

Im cheating i did 30

1. Amelie
2. Once Upon A Time In America
3. The Godfather 1 & 2
4. Cinema Paradiso (Director's Cut)
5. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
6. Hana-Bi
7. 2046
8. Gladiator
9. The Deer Hunter
10. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
11. WALL-E
12. Ed Wood
13. Memories Of Murder
14. Being John Malkovich
15. The Fountain
16. Solaris (2003)
17. House Of Flying Daggers
18. The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada
19. Infernal Affairs
20. Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
21. The Return (2004)
22. A Very Long Engagement
23. Dog Day Afternoon
24. City Of God
25. Se7en
26. Apocalypse Now
27. Joint Security Area
28. Public Enemy (2004)
29. The Insider
30. O Brother Where Art Thou?

Honourable mentions:

Kikujiro, Zatoichi, Dolls, Sonatine (im a Kitano stan)
Bad Education
Talk To Her
Chungking Express
Happy Together
Dancer In The Dark
The Squid & The Whale
Nil By Mouth
Amores Perros
Downfall
The Door In The Floor
Into The Wild
Let The Right One In

>13. Memories Of Murder

The humor and change in tones in the film are difficult to pull off. A stellar police procedural.

I'm looking forward to Mother.

I didn't expect it to have so much humour in it but it worked really well

>I'm looking forward to Mother.

Haven't heard of this what is it about?

>Haven't heard of this what is it about?

From TIFF's synopsis / notes:

Following the smash success of his 2006 film THE HOST, Korean sensation Bong Joon-ho returns with a stylish thriller that is both detective story and psychological horror. Pushing past the bounds of conventional film noir, Bong refines his talent for popular entertainment in MOTHER and crafts a new grammar of imagery to depict his disturbing yet always thought-provoking ideas.

But this what it's mostly been for the last few years

Boogie Nights
American Beauty
Goodfellas
Royal Tenenbaums
Being John Malkovich
Fargo
Reservoir Dogs
Hannah & Her Sisters
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Summer of Sam
Godfather
The Graduate
The Limey
There Will Be Blood

Se7en
Good Will Hunting
Gladiator
Braveheart
The Exorcist
A Nightmare on Elm St
Halloween(original)
The Shinning
Atonement
The Fountain
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Road House(yes its that good)
Saving Private Ryan
13 Tzameti
Office Space
Grandma's Boy
Happy Gilmore
Finding Nemo
Inside

Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2001 (Stanley Kubrick)
Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
No Country For Old Men (The Coens Brothers)
Resevoir Dogs (Quentin Tarentino)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
The Proposition (John Hillcoat/Nick Cave)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman/Michel Gondry)
Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Miller's Crossing (The Coens Brothers)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Primer (Shane Carruth)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (Edward Albee/Mike Nichols)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)

off the top some favorites:

The Godfather
The Godfather II
M. Hulot's Holiday
The Red Shoes
Peeping Tom
The Harder They Come
Purple Rain
Wayne's World
Strangers On A Train
My Darling Clementine
Yojimbo

sure I could think of more,
but that's what I've got right now.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather
Star Wars
No Country for Old Men
Shaun of the Dead
The Godfather Part II
Back to the Future
Raging Bull
Rocky
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Big Lebowski
Caddyshack
Return of the Jedi
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Pan's Labyrinth
Fargo
The Silence of the Lambs
This Is Spinal Tap

I don't know about all time, but some of my favorite films; a variety of shit that influenced me growing up & now.
I definitely missed some
& know I've still alot to see (especially earlier stuff)

2001
Adaptation
Apocalypse Now
Barton Fink
La Dolce Vita
Dumb + Dumber
Enter the Dragon
Fear + Loathing in Las Vegas
Goodfellas
The Good, The Bad + The Ugly
Happy Gilmore
Monty Python + the Holy Grail
The Holy Mountain
Mulholland Dr.
Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night
Pulp Fiction
Rear Window
Rushmore
The Shining
The Wizard of Oz

the wild bunch
the edge of heaven
born into brothels
machuca
yi yi
la dolce vita
hannah and her sisters
annie hall
johnny guitar
above the rim
little caesar
my darling clementine
ride the high country
murmur of the heart
for a few dollars more
once upon a time in the west
high and low
the life aquatic
rockers
goodfellas

1.Coming To America
2.New Jack City
3.Big
4.Saturday Night Fever
5.Friday
6.Don't Be A Menace
7.Big Daddy
8.Black Sheep
9.Set It Off
10.Love Jones
11.Out Of Sight
12.Desperado
13.Jason's Lyric
14.Dead Presidents
15.Can't Hardly Wait
16.Cruel Intentions
17.Scarface
18.The Godfather
19.The Longest Yard(2005)
20.Notorious