Thread: Your top 20 favourite movies of all-time

I'm not sure how well ordered this is going to be, I always get the No. 1 spot exact and the rest just kind of swim around down there.

1. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
2. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
3. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
4. Greetings (Brian de Palma)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
6. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
8. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
9. La femme qui se poudre (Patrick Bokanowski)
10. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
11. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
12. Network (Sidney Lumet)
13. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
15. Raising Arizona (Ethan & Joel Coen)
16. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
17. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai)
18. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
19. Hi, Mom! (Brian de Palma)
20. Four Lions (Chris Morris)

Originally Posted by Crudblud

I'm not sure how well ordered this is going to be, I always get the No. 1 spot exact and the rest just kind of swim around down there.

1. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
2. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
3. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
4. Greetings (Brian de Palma)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
6. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
8. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
9. La femme qui se poudre (Patrick Bokanowski)
10. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
11. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
12. Network (Sidney Lumet)
13. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
15. Raising Arizona (Ethan & Joel Coen)
16. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
17. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai)
18. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
19. Hi, Mom! (Brian de Palma)
20. Four Lions (Chris Morris)

Always wondered why Wild at Heart gets a bad rap, I think it's a very well made film. Better than Lost Highway by a longshot.

Agreed, though I like Lost Highway a lot.

Originally a lot of critics seemed to have problems with Wild at Heart, and I believe the big names at the time -Siskel and Ebert- called it racist. By the way, your guess on how they came to that conclusion is as good as mine. I think now it's getting a blind negative reaction from people who think of Nicolas Cage as the "National Treasure guy" and that everything he does automatically sucks because he's in it. And of course there are people who just hate David Lynch for some reason - I must admit I'm getting a little tired of his endless reel of side projects, but regardless of that the man has made many fine films.

My favourite movies aren't necessarily the ones I consider the best, I guess that goes without saying for most people. After all we are bound to have some guilty pleasures in any given medium. I don't consider any of my 20 faves as such, I think they are all fine films, but it's a noteworthy distinction.

20 of my fave movies in no particular order

1. True Lies
2. Total Recall
3. The Thing (1982)
4. Alien
5. Aliens
6. Robocop
7. The Blues Brothers
8. Oscar
9. Groundhog Day
10. Dances with Wolves
11. Once Were Warriors
12. My Cousin Vinny
13. The Legend of Drunken Master
14. Back to the Future 1, 2, 3
15. The Pink Panther, Return of, Strikes Again
16. The Big Lebowski
17. Casino
18. Das Boot
19. The Longest Day
20. Much Ado About Nothing


Regarding quality of cinematography, subtext and thematic richness, acting performances etc, and/or substantial envelope-pushing innovation 20 of my most deserving would be:

1. Taxi Driver
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Alien
5. Aliens
6. Robocop
7. Die Hard
8. Jurassic Park
9. Blade Runner
10. Ghostbusters
11. A Clockwork Orange
12. The Shining
13. Psycho (1960)
14. Ran
15. Inglorious Basterds
16. Pulp Fiction
17. The Truman Show
18. The Godfather
19. Brazil
20. Full Metal Jacket


That's less overlap than I was expecting, go figure

The Mirror
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Seven
The Shining
Taxi Driver
The Passion of the Christ
The Silence
Breaking the Waves
Gerry
Stalker
Mulholland Drive
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Koyaanisquatsi
Rear Window
Sexy Beast
The Wrestler
Dead Man Walking
Taxi Driver
Eyes Wide Shut
Grizzly Man

1. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2-20. Stuff not as good as The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

I know I'll be forgetting some, but I like these 20, in rough order:

Withnail and I
Three Seasons
Central Station
Tampopo
Jump Tomorrow
Into the Wild
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Run Lola Run
Blade Runner
Le Diner de Cons
Down by Law
The Pillow Book
The Fearless Fampire Killers
Clerks
Ghost Dog
The Ladykillers
Night on Earth
Wait until Dark
Leon
Some Like it Hot

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Chocolat
Moonrise Kingdom
Lost In Translation
Intouchables
Finding Neverland
Stardust
Oslo, 31 August
Forrest Gump
Trainspotting
Spirited Away
Howls Moving Castle
Lion King
Kill Bill 1 & 2
The Kings Speech
Snatch
Sin City
Big Fish
Inception

Not properly ranked. Impossible....

Limiting myself to one film per director:

ALLEN Manhatten
ALMODOVAR All about my mother
ANDERSSON You the living
ANSTEY Housing problems
ANTONIONI Red desert
APTED 7 up
BERGMAN Winter light
BERTOLUCCI The conformist
CHABROL The beast must die
DENIS White material
DOS SANTOS Vidas secas
DOUGLAS Comrades
DREYER Ordet
DVORTSEVOY Tulpan
EISENSTEIN The Battleship Potemkin
FASSBENDER The bitter tears of Petra von Kant
FREND Scott of the Antarctic
GILBERT Alfie
GODARD Passion
GOOLD Richard II
GREENAWAY The draughtman's contract
GREIRSON Granton trawler
HAMER, B. O'Horten
HERZOG Fata Morgana
HITCHCOCK Frenzy
JEUNET Amelie
KUROSAWA, A. Throne of blood
KUROSAWA, K. Tokyo Sonata
LEAN Great expectations
LECONTE My best friend
LEIGH Naked
LOACH The wind that shakes the barley
MAKHMALBAF, S. The apple
MALLE L'Inde Fantome
MENZEL Closely observed trains
MILESTONE All quiet on the western front
MUNGIU Four months, three weeks, two days
NAKASHIMA Memories of Matsuko
OLMI The tree of wooden clogs
OZU Late Spring
PANAHI Offside
PARK, Chan-Wook Lady Vengeance
POLANSKI The tradegy of Macbeth
PUIU The death of Mr Lazarescu
RAY, S. Pather Panchali
REED The third man
RENOIR Le regle du jeu
REYGARDAS Silent light
ROCHA Black god, white devil
ROEG Walkabout
ROHMER The green ray
RUSSELL Monitor-100 Elgar
SCHLONDORFF The tin drum
SEMBENE Xala
SISSAKO Bamako
STRICKLAND Katalin Varga
SVANKMAJER Surviving light
TATI Mon Oncle
THORNTON Samson and Delilah
VEBER The dinner of idiots
VON TRIER The idiots
WENDERS Paris, Texas
WEST Let's go to Birmingham
WINTERBOTTOM Welcome to Sarajevo
WONG KAR WAI 2046
ZONCA The dreamlife of angels
ZVYAGINTSEV The banishment

Originally Posted by Schubussy

1. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2-20. Stuff not as good as The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Amen. This is my list as well.

Right now, far from definitive, and in no particular order:

Walkabout
The Seven Beauties
Le Samourai
Chinatown
L'Avventura
L'Eclisse
The Passenger
Blow-Up
Breathless (Godard's, but I also really love the American remake w Richard Gere)
To Live and Die in LA
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The Rapture
Tokyo Drifter
Beach Party (all of those AIP movies make me really happy)
The Big Sleep
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai dir.)
Moontide
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
La Dolce Vita
Alphaville
...eek! at 20 all ready?

Originally Posted by lunchdress

L'Avventura
L'Eclisse
The Passenger
Blow-Up

4 by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1 top 20!

L'ECLISSE is my favorite.

In no particular order, changeable etc etc

The English Patient
The Talented Mr Ripley
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Duel
Jurassic Park
The Sound of Music
They Shoot Horses Don't They
Three Colours - Blue
Jean de Florette
Manon de Sources
Four Lions
Perfume
Aliens
The Medusa Touch
1984
37.2 le matin (Betty Blue)
Red Beard
In the Name of the Father
Grave of the Fireflies


Bah!! I forgot Walkabout

I think my list may have changed a bit


1- The Phantom of the Opera
2- Les Miserables
3- The Wizard of Oz
4- Immortal Beloved
5- Amadeus
6- City Lights
7- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8- Amelie
9- 2001 a Space Odyssey
10- The Pianist
11- The Good the Bad and the Ugly
12- Eraserhead
13- Chaplin
14- The Elephant Man
15- American Beauty
16- Nosferatu
17- Vanilla Sky
18- Shine
19- Rear Window
20- Bicycle Thieves

Other favourites of mine: Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Life of Brian, Zodiac, Audition, A fish called Wanda, Spirited Away, Jurassic Park...