Thread: Your top 10 movies

the title says it all.
we already have a thread " top 10 soundtracks and top directors.
It's pretty hard to limit it and choose only 10 , but why not

Wow! This is difficult...

1. The King's Speech
2. 12 Angry Men
3. A Christmas Carol (1951, with Alastair Sim)
4. The Pianist
5. Oliver Twist (1948)
6. The Odd Couple
7. The Shop around the Corner
8. Schindler's List
9. Luther (2003)
10. Gentleman's Agreement

Originally Posted by schigolch

Ten of my favorites, in chronological order:

M (1931) - Fritz Lang
La Règle du jeu (1939) - Jean Renoir
Stromboli (1950) - Roberto Rossellini
Ugetsu monogatari (1953) - Kenji Mizoguchi
Ordet (1955) - Carl Dreyer
Pickpocket (1959) - Robert Bresson
Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
L'important c'est d'aimer (1975) - Andrzej Zuławski
Nostalghia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky
La stanza del figlio (2001) - Nanni Moretti

Well, these are my favorites. If you don't like them I have others.

if it's the way to say I would like to see more of your second favorite 10, then sure I'll say I don't like it

seriously, please, post your second ten, I'm curious.

winter light - ingmar bergman
umberto d - vittorio de sica
the night of the hunter - charles laughton
taxi driver - martin scorsese
bring me the head of alfredo garcia - sam peckinpah
killer of sheep - charles burnett
wake in fright - ted kotcheff
alien - ridley scott
lost highway - david lynch
windy day - john and faith hubley (this one is a short animated movie)

1. Children of Paradise (1945) - Marcel Carné
2. The Rules of the Game (1939) - Jean Renoir
3. Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
4. Odd Man Out (1947) - Carol Reed
5. Seven Samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa
6. The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Luis Buñuel
7. The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed
8. Notorious (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock
9. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Sergio Leone
10. The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - Michael Mann

Guilty Pleasure: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) - David Lynch

I'll play. In no particular order:

- The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros)
- Fearless (Weir)
- Casablanca (Curtiz)
- Sunshine (Szabó)
- Children of Men (Cuarón)
- The Mission (Joffé)
- Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
- Vertigo (Hitchcock)
- Unforgiven (Eastwood)
- Young Frankenstein (Brooks)

Some other favorites:
House of Games (Mamet); The Deer Hunter (Cimino); Rocky (Avildsen); Jaws (Spielberg); La Dolce Vita (Fellini); To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan); Amores perros (Iñárritu); Ride the High Country (Peckinpah); The Verdict (Lumet); The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler); The Thin Blue Line (Malick); Adaptation (Jonze)

Originally Posted by Bellinilover

JACE: It was a pleasant surprise to see SUNSHINE on your list. I'd never heard of it until this year; it seems too few Americans know about it.

A couple years ago, I stumbled across the film one night purely by chance -- and it blew me away. I've since re-watched it a couple times. For me, part of the appeal of the film is its strange and unusual tone, varying wildly from straightforward realism to its funny, mythic take on reality, almost like a fairy tale. The fact that Ralph Fiennes plays so many different roles also factors in to that "oddness." I think it works beautifully and wonderfully -- but I can see how others might be put off by it. I wonder if that un-conventionality had anything to do with its reception (or lack thereof) in America.

Not in order of merit:

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Without A Clue
Zulu
Withnail & I
Black Hawk Down
Der Philosoph
Kind Hearts And Coronets
The Drop
Howards End
The Last Picture Show