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Top 10 films(poll)

posted 15 years ago by warrel
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I am bored of lists that include only American(and,furthermore mostly new ones) films and ignore so many masterpieces,so I decide to make another poll,which I think will be more serious,will include most of the great movies(especially the foreign ones) and will be more representitive of the history of cinema.So,if you want to see that list(maybe it will be a top 100)post your top 10 in one of my topics.I'll start with mine:

1.Goodfellas(1990,Martin Scorsese)
2.Stalker(1979,Andrei Tarkovsky)
3.Raging Bull(1980,Martin Scorsese)
4.Once Upon a Time in the West(1968,Sergio Leone)
5.Harakiri(1962,Masaki Kobayashi)
6.Persona(1966,Ingmar Bergman)
7.Lawrence of Arabia(1962,David Lean)
8.Bicycle Thieves(1948,Vitorio De Sicca)
9.The Godfather(1972,Francis Ford Coppola)
10.2046(2004,Wong Kar-Wai)

I hope that a lot of people will join my poll!

[–] ryankent1984 15 years ago

My favourite 20 in no particular order:

Angel Heart (Parker)
Mouchette (Bresson)
Week End (Godard)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Le Fils (Dardenne Brothers)
Heat (Mann)
Withnail and I (Robinson)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
The Dreamers (Bertolucci)
Blow Up (Antonioni)
Nil by Mouth (Oldman)
Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)
The Deer Hunter (Cimino)
Breaking the Waves (Von Trier)
Profondo Rosso (Argento)
Persona (Bergman) - although this could easily be swapped with Autumn Sonata.
This is England (Meadows)
Kes (Loach)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella)
Once Upon A Time in the West (Leone)

As you can see I'm a big fan of British, French, American and Italian films mainly. Not so keen on Asian films myself.

[–] kasparhauser44 15 years ago

top 5

dersu uzala
au hasard balthazar
come and see (idi i smotri- elem klimov)
europa (zentropa)
my best fiend (herzog's doc on kinski)

(personally, i'd add deep cover and paris texas to the list, plus 7 samurai, the apu trilogy, the decalogue (kieslowski), dead man by jim jarmusch, fitzcarraldo, le rayon vert, the aviator's wife, le conte d'ete (all by eric rohmer), cobra verde, almost anything by makhmalbaf, mohsen or samira (maybe even the new one who made her first film at age 16, zhang yimou is a true master, kubrick (the moon landing), salo, hawks and the sparrows, les carbinieres, the passion of ana, hannah and her sisters, broadway danny rose, and a midsummer's sex comedy.

[–] MisterWhiplash 15 years ago

1) Goodfellas
2) Fanny and Alexander
3) A Clockwork Orange
4) Manhattan
5) Schindler's List
6) Citizen Kane
7) Mulholland Drive
8) Rashomon
9) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
10) Umberto D

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[–] PatrickDice 15 years ago

1 GoodFellas (1990)
2 Caddyshack (1980) c
3 Planet of the Apes (1968)
4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
5 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) h
6 Heaven Can Wait (1978)
7 Forrest Gump (1994)
8 Austin Powers (1997) c
9 Swingers (1996) c
10 Deliverance (1972)

[–] rhowells2000 15 years ago

Yawn.

[–] vejsmb 10 years ago

1.goodfellas
2.city lights
3.la dolce vita
4.the apartment
5.winter light
6.pickpocket
7.wild strawberries
8.day of wrath
9.the Maltese falcon
10.the godfather

[–] MoviemanCin 10 years ago

In no particular order my Top Ten favorite movies are:

2001 A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Goodfellas
Fargo
The Godfather Parts I and II
Blow Up
Casablanca
Forrest Gump
Citizen Kane
The Decaolgue

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, or doesn't.

[–] alexmuren 9 years ago

12 films, because I just couldn't leave two of these out.

Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes (1972) – Werner Herzog
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) – Robert Bresson
The General (1926) – Buster Keaton
Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) – Francois Truffaut
Det Sjunde Inseglet (1957) – Ingmar Bergman
Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles
La Dolce Vita (1960) – Federico Fellini
Á Bout de Souffle (1960) – Jean-Luc Godard
Badlands (1973) – Terrence Malick
Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock
Le Samourai (1967) – Jean-Pierre Melville

[–] Dr_FrankenhookerReturns 9 years ago

1.L'Avventura
2.The Conversation
3.Army Of Shadows
4.The Third Man
5.Belle de Jour
6.Persona
7.The Devils
8.Night And The City
9.Paris, Texas
10.Repulsion