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[jdoggydogg]

If I listed my dvd collection, nobody would ever take my critiques seriously again.

Mainly because most of my personal favorites have been lent out to friends and never returned.

I do have a LOT of overlap from your list jdoggy.

Oh please. Do it. I mean, I love classic films. But there really isn't a classic film I need to see more than a couple of times. So I just buy the movies that I like to watch over and over. Remember, as long as no one gets hurt, there should be no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I'll post it tonight so I don't omit anything. Be prepared to meet the guy that actually owns movies like Wagons East! and Freddy Got Fingered.

Yeah, I own Dumb and Dumber. So I am keeping my mouf shut.

 

[hooter311]

If I listed my dvd collection, nobody would ever take my critiques seriously again.

Mainly because most of my personal favorites have been lent out to friends and never returned.

I do have a LOT of overlap from your list jdoggy.

Oh please. Do it. I mean, I love classic films. But there really isn't a classic film I need to see more than a couple of times. So I just buy the movies that I like to watch over and over. Remember, as long as no one gets hurt, there should be no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I'll post it tonight so I don't omit anything. Be prepared to meet the guy that actually owns movies like Wagons East! and Freddy Got Fingered.

Yeah, I own Dumb and Dumber. So I am keeping my mouf shut.

But do you have the sequel? Dumb and Dumber is one of the all time great comedies in my book. I own both.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Appaloosa

I haven't even finished this rote Western with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson yet. But I just had to say that Renée Zellweger is freaking weird-looking. She could be the most unattractive romantic interest that I've ever seen in any movie.

 

[hooter311]

Appaloosa

I haven't even finished this rote Western with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson yet. But I just had to say that Renée Zellweger is freaking weird-looking. She could be the most unattractive romantic interest that I've ever seen in any movie.

Pretty much ruined the entire film for me. I'd shoot myself before fighting another guy, let alone my best friend, over her.

 

[jdoggydogg]

If I listed my dvd collection, nobody would ever take my critiques seriously again.

Mainly because most of my personal favorites have been lent out to friends and never returned.

I do have a LOT of overlap from your list jdoggy.

Oh please. Do it. I mean, I love classic films. But there really isn't a classic film I need to see more than a couple of times. So I just buy the movies that I like to watch over and over. Remember, as long as no one gets hurt, there should be no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I'll post it tonight so I don't omit anything. Be prepared to meet the guy that actually owns movies like Wagons East! and Freddy Got Fingered.

Yeah, I own Dumb and Dumber. So I am keeping my mouf shut.

But do you have the sequel? Dumb and Dumber is one of the all time great comedies in my book. I own both.

No. But I do own Dementia 13.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Appaloosa

I haven't even finished this rote Western with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson yet. But I just had to say that Renée Zellweger is freaking weird-looking. She could be the most unattractive romantic interest that I've ever seen in any movie.

Pretty much ruined the entire film for me. I'd shoot myself before fighting another guy, let alone my best friend, over her.

Reminded me of Clive Owen in the series finale of Extras. He refuses to do a scene where he's to pay a prostitute because, "I'd never pay to have sex with someone that looks like this." I picture Ed Harris thinking, "Blech. THIS is my romantic counterpart? What, Rosie O'Donnell wasn't available?"

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

 

[hooter311]

Live and Let Die

Continuing my Bond run, and its still going down hill for me from Your Majesty's Secret Service. When the best part about the film is the theme song, you know you're in trouble. Baron Samedi was pretty cool but the rest of the baddies were pretty uninteresting. When making a Bond film about drug tycoons, I am expecting something even more over the top. Outside of the voodoo stuff the film was pretty un-interesting. I don't get why they added the couple "fear" scenes of Bond from Moore that had otherwise been absent from the series. Connery and Lazenby always kept their cool. Moore wigs out twice before handling the situation. Crocodile scene was decent, but the boat chase was far too long and boring. The Sheriff was stupid. Jane Seymour was a compentent Bond girl but the first black girl was almost as bad as the chick in Diamonds Are Forever. Hell, they could have fleshed Whisper out more and I would have been happier. The end shark scene was extremely disappointing. Thunderball's shark scenes were way better.

1.5/5

My least favorite Bond by a pretty large margin so far.

 

[hooter311]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

Rud, I actually have 2 copies of Freddy Got Fingered, in case you ever need one. Just let me know.

 

[jdoggydogg]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

Rud, I actually have 2 copies of Freddy Got Fingered, in case you ever need one. Just let me know.

Were you worried that you'd wear out the first copy so you bought a backup?

 

[Chaka]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

D&D was hysterical FGF is one of the worst creations in the history of entertainment.

 

[joffer]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

Rud, I actually have 2 copies of Freddy Got Fingered, in case you ever need one. Just let me know.

I own Transformers on HD DVD. It sounds so freaking awesome on my system i couldn't resist.

 

[hooter311]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

Rud, I actually have 2 copies of Freddy Got Fingered, in case you ever need one. Just let me know.

Were you worried that you'd wear out the first copy so you bought a backup?

Actually I bought it out of the $5 Walmart Bin when it was released and a few years later found it again for $3 this time. Too cheap not to buy, and I forgot I owned it.

 

[jdoggydogg]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

Rud, I actually have 2 copies of Freddy Got Fingered, in case you ever need one. Just let me know.

I own Transformers on HD DVD. It sounds so freaking awesome on my system i couldn't resist.

I own 300 on Blu Ray, so there. I mean, to experience those naked man abs you HAVE to see it in high def

 

[jdoggydogg]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

Rud, I actually have 2 copies of Freddy Got Fingered, in case you ever need one. Just let me know.

Were you worried that you'd wear out the first copy so you bought a backup?

Actually I bought it out of the $5 Walmart Bin when it was released and a few years later found it again for $3 this time. Too cheap not to buy, and I forgot I owned it.

Yeah, I can see how you'd forget you owned that

 

[hooter311]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

D&D was hysterical FGF is one of the worst creations in the history of entertainment.

Oh, no doubt it's absolutely terrible and revolting. But Backwards Man and scuba diving in the toilet for "treasure" crack me up like a school girl.In fact, any film with Rip Torn infuriated is aces in my book.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

Rud, I actually have 2 copies of Freddy Got Fingered, in case you ever need one. Just let me know.

well I did draft it in the movie draft so I feel like I do kind of own it already. thanks though.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

another thumbs up for Moon

A great story and a great job by Zowie Bowie. I think it was a wise move to avoid the tired M. Knight approach, which would be tempting given the story. Instead, Jones essentially telegraphed the plot lines early so there could be more focus on the excellent character created by the writers and presented by Sam Rockwell.

 

[hooter311]

another thumbs up for MoonA great story and a great job by Zowie Bowie. I think it was a wise move to avoid the tired M. Knight approach, which would be tempting given the story. Instead, Jones essentially telegraphed the plot lines early so there could be more focus on the excellent character created by the writers and presented by Sam Rockwell.

I actually had to watch this like three times because I couldn't believe the film was as straight forward as it was. I kept thinking I was missing something.I'm in jdoggy's camp, it was very good but not great. I would have probably been into it more if there had been more of "twist".

 

[jamny]

I very rarely watch a movie more than once so I really don't know why I own any on DVD. Here's the collection that I do have. Many I have never watched since seeing them in theaters. I've only seen maybe 2 or 3 of them more than once. No Blu-rays, I think I'm done buying movies.

As Good as it Gets

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me )

Austin Powes: Goldmember

Aviator

The Birdcage

Blade Runner

Casino

Carnal Knowledge

Castaway

Donnie Brasco

Gangs of New York

Godfather box set

Goodfellas

The Grinch - Jim Carrey

Incredibles

LA Confidential

The Matrix

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Life of Brian

Natural Born Killers

Night of the Living Dead (original)

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Raging Bull

Resevoir Dogs

The Rock

Scarface

Shrek

Shrek 2

Spiderman

Sixth Sense

True Lies

Terminator 2

A co-worker is married to a DVD hoarder. She buys about 3 or 4 a week and they have over 3000 movies. He's getting pretty fed up.

 

[kface]

Martyrs - a french horror movie. Extremely disturbing...and weird.

 

[hooter311]

A co-worker is married to a DVD hoarder. She buys about 3 or 4 a week and they have over 3000 movies. He's getting pretty fed up.

I had a couple hundred at one time, but I've bought maybe 5 or 6 in the last 4 years I've had netflix and only because they were in the $5 bin at Walmart.How do you even store that many dvds? In bins? Albums? or do they take up an entire wall?

 

[That Little Voice]

I shared this in the soccer thread but wanted to bring it to this crowd. This sounds very awesome to me..

I am a newcomer to this thread so forgive me if this has been mentioned. A new independent film is being debuted at SXSW and it sounds worth checking out.

Pelada

On a day when the Champions League knockout rounds start, I wanted to draw your attention away briefly from the stadium lights to a marvelous new soccer documentary by four young Americans that I saw a sneak preview of on Monday. The film is called Pelada--the Brazilian term for pickup soccer--and it follows two former college standouts (Duke's Gwendolyn Oxenham and Notre Dame's Luke Boughen) as they visit 25 countries in search of pickup games and the stories of the people who play them.

The movie, which debuts at the prestigious South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Tex., on March 14, is a testament to the power of the world's game to dissolve the boundaries of gender, language and culture. Armed with a ball and a thirst for adventure, the Americans bribe their way into a Bolivian prison game, play for money in a Nairobi slum tournament and test the limits of Iranian authorities when Oxenham joins an all-male game in Tehran.

But what elevates Pelada from a cute highlight travelogue to something more resonant is the filmmakers' ability to find compelling stories and earn the trust of their interview subjects. "Once you play a game with someone, interview doesn't seem like the appropriate word," says Oxenham. "There's this level of intimacy that you don't get if you don't play soccer. Every place we went, you're then invited into their homes. Everyone's mother wants to cook for you."

"[Playing soccer] would change the situation from being an outsider having an interview with them to having a conversation with a friend," adds Boughen.

The result is a film that combines eye-popping cinematography (by co-directors Rebekah Fergusson and Ryan White) with human stories: the dreams of a teenage Brazilian girl nicknamed Ronaldinha; a lunchtime kickabout among workers building the Cape Town World Cup stadium; and an Italian writer who pens love poems to the sport. A tense game between Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem reveals the benefits (and very real challenges) that come with the sport.

Boughen and Oxenham are also clearly good players, and a running thread is the reaction in male-dominated soccer cultures to a woman who's eager to join them on the field. "It was funny because Luke would score three goals and nobody really cared because everyone can see he's a good [male] soccer player, but all I would have to do was a little pivot and everyone freaked out," says Oxenham. "There was very little negative reaction to me, except for maybe in Italy, where in a couple pickup games it was like, 'Who is this woman?' In Iran they passed the ball to me more than they did in any other country, whether I was in a good position or not, which was interesting to me."

The filmmakers financed their project by piecing together grants and contributions, but they're still raising money to cover costs after spending around $250,000 on the project. While they have done a deal with PBS International for the international rights, they're hoping that the buzz from the South by Southwest Film Festival and others (they have applied to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City) will lead to a distribution deal with a U.S. studio or television channel.

For now, though, they're excited about their film finally making its public debut. "It's surreal," Oxenham says. "You spend three years and you've got 400 hours of footage and getting it down to 80 or 90 minutes tops, it feels like you're killing babies left and right. But it's great to see it shaping up into the thing that you always imagined from the beginning."

Yet being accepted into a major film festival isn't the only news for Oxenham and Boughen. After crisscrossing the globe together, they're getting married in June. Part of their honeymoon may involve a screening of Pelada in Cape Town during the World Cup.

You can find more information about Pelada (including a movie trailer and tax-deductible donations) at www.pelada-movie.com.

 

[saintfool]

Martyrs - a french horror movie. Extremely disturbing...and weird.

Reading the reviews, i would have to agree.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

another thumbs up for MoonA great story and a great job by Zowie Bowie. I think it was a wise move to avoid the tired M. Knight approach, which would be tempting given the story. Instead, Jones essentially telegraphed the plot lines early so there could be more focus on the excellent character created by the writers and presented by Sam Rockwell.

I actually had to watch this like three times because I couldn't believe the film was as straight forward as it was. I kept thinking I was missing something.I'm in jdoggy's camp, it was very good but not great. I would have probably been into it more if there had been more of "twist".

He definitetly could have juiced the "twist", added some shock scenes, made it more intense or suspenseful and/or added some physical action or conflict. I really liked the fact that he did none of those with this movie.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

another thumbs up for MoonA great story and a great job by Zowie Bowie. I think it was a wise move to avoid the tired M. Knight approach, which would be tempting given the story. Instead, Jones essentially telegraphed the plot lines early so there could be more focus on the excellent character created by the writers and presented by Sam Rockwell.

I actually had to watch this like three times because I couldn't believe the film was as straight forward as it was. I kept thinking I was missing something.I'm in jdoggy's camp, it was very good but not great. I would have probably been into it more if there had been more of "twist".

He definitetly could have juiced the "twist", added some shock scenes, made it more intense or suspenseful and/or added some physical action or conflict. I really liked the fact that he did none of those with this movie.

same here.the "non twist" was the twist.

 

[jdoggydogg]

another thumbs up for MoonA great story and a great job by Zowie Bowie. I think it was a wise move to avoid the tired M. Knight approach, which would be tempting given the story. Instead, Jones essentially telegraphed the plot lines early so there could be more focus on the excellent character created by the writers and presented by Sam Rockwell.

I actually had to watch this like three times because I couldn't believe the film was as straight forward as it was. I kept thinking I was missing something.I'm in jdoggy's camp, it was very good but not great. I would have probably been into it more if there had been more of "twist".

I think Rockwell's amongst the most enjoyable screen presences around. But there are just too many holes in this plot.

 

[jdoggydogg]

A co-worker is married to a DVD hoarder. She buys about 3 or 4 a week and they have over 3000 movies. He's getting pretty fed up.

That's whack. Mostly because there aren't 3,000 movies worth watching more than once.

 

[jdoggydogg]

another thumbs up for MoonA great story and a great job by Zowie Bowie. I think it was a wise move to avoid the tired M. Knight approach, which would be tempting given the story. Instead, Jones essentially telegraphed the plot lines early so there could be more focus on the excellent character created by the writers and presented by Sam Rockwell.

I actually had to watch this like three times because I couldn't believe the film was as straight forward as it was. I kept thinking I was missing something.I'm in jdoggy's camp, it was very good but not great. I would have probably been into it more if there had been more of "twist".

He definitetly could have juiced the "twist", added some shock scenes, made it more intense or suspenseful and/or added some physical action or conflict. I really liked the fact that he did none of those with this movie.

I agree with everything you wrote. I still can't recommend the movie, though.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

I have a friend who refuses to watch rented or used movies. He might have 10,000 DVDs for all I know. Has a whole room full of them, along with CDs, VHS, Laser Discs, etc. I doubt he watches many more than once and quite a few probably remain unopened.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I have a friend who refuses to watch rented or used movies. He might have 10,000 DVDs for all I know. Has a whole room full of them, along with CDs, VHS, Laser Discs, etc. I doubt he watches many more than once and quite a few probably remain unopened.

Yep. Hoarder.

 

[jamny]

A co-worker is married to a DVD hoarder. She buys about 3 or 4 a week and they have over 3000 movies. He's getting pretty fed up.

I had a couple hundred at one time, but I've bought maybe 5 or 6 in the last 4 years I've had netflix and only because they were in the $5 bin at Walmart.How do you even store that many dvds? In bins? Albums? or do they take up an entire wall?

I've never been to his house but he says every inch of floor along the walls are filled with stacked DVD's He tries to rationalize it since he has a big vinyl collection but nothing near this. Some weeks she comes home with as many as 10 DVD's. Needless to say he's always offering to lend people movies since he usually has whatever one someone mentions. I couldn't imagine it. No way would I let that happen.

 

[kface]

Martyrs - a french horror movie. Extremely disturbing...and weird.

Reading the reviews, i would have to agree.

The french have taken the horror movie to another level.

 

[jamny]

I have a friend who refuses to watch rented or used movies. He might have 10,000 DVDs for all I know. Has a whole room full of them, along with CDs, VHS, Laser Discs, etc. I doubt he watches many more than once and quite a few probably remain unopened.

Yep, same with my friends wife. He says many never are opened.

 

[Chaka]

A co-worker is married to a DVD hoarder. She buys about 3 or 4 a week and they have over 3000 movies. He's getting pretty fed up.

I had a couple hundred at one time, but I've bought maybe 5 or 6 in the last 4 years I've had netflix and only because they were in the $5 bin at Walmart.

How do you even store that many dvds? In bins? Albums? or do they take up an entire wall?

I've never been to his house but he says every inch of floor along the walls are filled with stacked DVD's He tries to rationalize it since he has a big vinyl collection but nothing near this. Some weeks she comes home with as many as 10 DVD's. Needless to say he's always offering to lend people movies since he usually has whatever one someone mentions. I couldn't imagine it. No way would I let that happen.

Your friend should consider himself lucky. Tell him to check out the show Hoarders on A&E, it's amazing what some people will hold onto. One lady kept adult diapers...used adult diapers :X

 

[jamny]

A co-worker is married to a DVD hoarder. She buys about 3 or 4 a week and they have over 3000 movies. He's getting pretty fed up.

I had a couple hundred at one time, but I've bought maybe 5 or 6 in the last 4 years I've had netflix and only because they were in the $5 bin at Walmart.

How do you even store that many dvds? In bins? Albums? or do they take up an entire wall?

I've never been to his house but he says every inch of floor along the walls are filled with stacked DVD's He tries to rationalize it since he has a big vinyl collection but nothing near this. Some weeks she comes home with as many as 10 DVD's. Needless to say he's always offering to lend people movies since he usually has whatever one someone mentions. I couldn't imagine it. No way would I let that happen.

Your friend should consider himself lucky. Tell him to check out the show Hoarders on A&E, it's amazing what some people will hold onto. One lady kept adult diapers...used adult diapers :X

She probably owns it on DVD. I agree though. I could only handle a couple of episodes of that show.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Martyrs - a french horror movie. Extremely disturbing...and weird.

Reading the reviews, i would have to agree.

The french have taken the horror movie to another level.

More than the Asians and the Italians? Because those two countries have produced some disturbing works.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I have a friend who refuses to watch rented or used movies. He might have 10,000 DVDs for all I know. Has a whole room full of them, along with CDs, VHS, Laser Discs, etc. I doubt he watches many more than once and quite a few probably remain unopened.

Yep, same with my friends wife. He says many never are opened.

This person needs to see a therapist. Seriously.

 

[kface]

Martyrs - a french horror movie. Extremely disturbing...and weird.

Reading the reviews, i would have to agree.

The french have taken the horror movie to another level.

More than the Asians and the Italians? Because those two countries have produced some disturbing works.

The asians are good with the creepy...the french are just disturbing and not afraid to show the violence. And its almost always a really uncomfortable violence.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Martyrs - a french horror movie. Extremely disturbing...and weird.

Reading the reviews, i would have to agree.

The french have taken the horror movie to another level.

More than the Asians and the Italians? Because those two countries have produced some disturbing works.

The asians are good with the creepy...the french are just disturbing and not afraid to show the violence. And its almost always a really uncomfortable violence.

I've seen these three French horror films over the last couple of years:The OrdealHigh Tension Irreversible The Ordeal was well made, but forgettable. High Tension pretty much follows the template of American horror films. Irreversible was unwatchable garbage masked as high art. Just given this small sample, the Italian directors are far more evil and horrific. Fulci and Argento made movies 25 years ago that make most horror movies look like Sesame Street.

 

[Chaka]

Martyrs - a french horror movie. Extremely disturbing...and weird.

Reading the reviews, i would have to agree.

The french have taken the horror movie to another level.

More than the Asians and the Italians? Because those two countries have produced some disturbing works.

The asians are good with the creepy...the french are just disturbing and not afraid to show the violence. And its almost always a really uncomfortable violence.

Is Martyrs really part of the horror genre? Horror flicks (IMO) typically have an antagonist that at least appears to be supernatural in some way (Michael Meyers, Jason, Blair Witch, Zombies etc.). I am sure there is a name for the genre but Martyrs seems more along the lines of gratuitous violent imagery presented in a real world context, does that also qualify as horror? Does Irreversible? If so I submit that no discussion of the genre is complete without inclusion of Takashi Miike.

 

[Osaurus]

Moon

Interesting film. I kept thinking of Sam Rockwell as Chuck Berris though. 3.5/5

 

[Bob Magaw]

nothing wrong with Dumb and Dumber. All-time great comedy film. Doesn't really compare to Freddy Got Fingered in any possible way.

Rud, I actually have 2 copies of Freddy Got Fingered, in case you ever need one. Just let me know.

Were you worried that you'd wear out the first copy so you bought a backup?

Actually I bought it out of the $5 Walmart Bin when it was released and a few years later found it again for $3 this time. Too cheap not to buy, and I forgot I owned it.

Yeah, I can see how you'd forget you owned that

freddie got fingered is one of those movies that is so BAD, it is actually... mmmhhh, i got nuthin.i don't own it, but i think even the act of watching it may have been supressed... too painful and traumatic, i may have blacked it out?

* an international list of famous (& not so) director's top films...

of all of them listed below, i think my closest kindred spirits in terms of cinematic sensibility/taste might be boorman and verhoeven...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...lms-752452.html

The Directors' Cut: Film-Makers Choose Their Favourite Movies

QUENTIN TARANTINO

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)

2. Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)

3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)

4. His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1939)

5. Rolling Thunder (Flynn, 1977)

6. They All Laughed (Bogdanovich, 1981)

7. The Great Escape (J Sturges, 1963)

8. Carrie (De Palma, 1976)

9. Coffy (Hill, 1973)

10. Five Fingers of Death (Chang, 1973)

TIM ROBBINS

1. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)

2. The Clowns (Fellini, 1971)

3. Don't Look Back (Pennebaker, 1967)

4. The Lower Depths (Kurosawa, 1957)

5. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Altman, 1971)

6. My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)

7. Nashville (Altman, 1975)

8. Network (Lumet, 1976)

9. Underground (Kusturica, 1995)

10. Waiting for Guffman (Guest, 1996)

PAUL VERHOEVEN

1. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)

2. Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Eisenstein, 1958)

3. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)

4. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951)

5. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

6. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)

7. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)

8. Metropolis (Lang, 1927)

9. Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)

10. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)

GILLIAN ARMSTRONG

1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

2. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

3. La Strada (Fellini, 1954)

4. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)

5. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951)

6. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)

7. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)

8. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963) 9. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen, 1952)

10. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

1. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)

2. Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi, 1954)

3. Germany, Year Zero (Rossellini, 1947)

4. A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)

5. Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)

6. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)

7. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)

8. Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964)

9. Accattone (Pasolini, 1961)

10. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)

JOHN BOORMAN

1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)

2. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)

3. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)

4. That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel, 1977)

5. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)

6. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

7. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)

8. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)

9. La Roue (Gance, 1923)

10. The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915)

JIM JARMUSCH

1. L'Atalante (Vigo, 1934)

2. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

3. They Live by Night (N Ray, 1949)

4. Bob le flambeur (Melville, 1955)

5. Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)

6. The Cameraman (Sedgwick, 1928)

7. Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)

8. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)

9. Broken Blossoms (Griffith, 1919)

10. Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945)

MILOS FORMAN

1. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)

2. American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973)

3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

4. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)

5. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)

6. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)

7. Giant (Stevens, 1956)

8. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

9. Miracle in Milan (De Sica, 1951)

10. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

CATHERINE BREILLAT

1. Ai No Corrida (Oshima, 1976)

2. Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman, 1953)

3. Baby Doll (Kazan, 1956)

4. Lost Highway (Lynch, 1996)

5. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

6. Salo (Pasolini, 1975)

7. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)

8. Ordet (Dreyer, 1954)

9. Lancelot du Lac (Bresson, 1974)

10. 10 (Kiarostami, 2002)

CAMERON CROWE

1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)

2. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)

3. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)

4. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)

5. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)

6. To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)

7. Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971)

8. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)

9. Quadrophenia (Roddam, 1979)

10. Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939)

SAM MENDES

1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)

3. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)

4. The Piano (Campion, 1993)

5. The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger, 1948)

6. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)

7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

8. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)

9. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

10. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)

LUKAS MOODYSSON

1. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)

2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)

3. Gummo (Korine, 1997)

4. La Haine (Kassovitz, 1995)

5. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)

6. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)

7. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)

8. Riff-Raff (Loach, 1990)

9. Secrets & Lies (Leigh, 1996)

10. Where Is My Friend's House? (Kiarostami, 1987)

MIKE NEWELL

1. The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)

2. Bad Day at Black Rock (J Sturges, 1955)

3. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)

4. La Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937)

5. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)

6. Lacombe Lucien (Malle, 1974)

7. The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)

8. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)

9. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)

10. War and Peace (Vidor, 1956)

TERRY JONES

1. Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)

2. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

3. Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)

4. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)

5. Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993)

6. Guys and Dolls (Mankiewicz, 1955)

7. Jour de Fête (Tati, 1949)

8. Napoléon (Gance, 1927)

9. The Pathfinder (Salkow, 1952)

10. Steamboat Bill, Jr (Riesner, 1928)

MICHAEL MANN

1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

2. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)

3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

4. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)

5. Faust (Murnau, 1926)

6. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)

7. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)

8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)

9. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

10. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

KEN LOACH

1. A Bout de Souffle (Godard, 1959)

2. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)

3. A Blonde in Love (Forman, 1965)

4. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)

5. Closely Observed Trains (Menzel, 1966)

6. Fireman's Ball (Forman, 1967)

7. Jules et Jim (Truffaut, 1962)

8. La Règle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)

9. The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Olmi, 1978)

10. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)

SIDNEY LUMET

1. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)

2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)

3. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

4. The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940)

5. Intolerance (Griffith, 1916)

6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)

7. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)

8. Roma (Fellini, 1972)

9. Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen, 1952)

10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

 

[Kenny Powers]

DVD collection (no blu-rays yet), in no particular order & from memory (might be omissions)Master & Commander

This is a movie that I cannot wait to watch with my son. He's about to turn seven. I'm thinking he'll be ready within a year or so.

Movies at sea are something that bore me terribly. Not sure why. Ive never watched M&C, Perfect Storm, or White Squall, etc specifically because of thisCabin Boy might be my favorite movie at sea

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Cabin Boy might be my favorite movie at sea

awesome

 

[Kenny Powers]

Yeah, I own Dumb and Dumber. So I am keeping my mouf shut.

People who dont own Dumb & Dumber are the ones that should be embarrassed

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Yeah, I own Dumb and Dumber. So I am keeping my mouf shut.

People who dont own Dumb & Dumber are the ones that should be embarrassed

,s

 

[hooter311]

Kind of strange that Crowe and Mendes make films that have almost nothing in common with their favorites.

Tarintino's lists always make me think he's just joking about several of the films to see if he can pass them off.

 

[Bob Magaw]

a comment from ebert's blog last year, of Spectator's Top 50 Film list (list appended below)

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/07/th..._ever_made.html

ebert participates in the british film institute's Sight & Sound poll... below link shows how it's top 10 changed historically, every decade from 1952 - 1992... there may be a bias towards older movies, but the lists still change inevitably over time, reflecting broader societal/cultural changes (and of course, captain obviously, kubrick's 2001 couldn't make it in the '50s poll, not having been made yet )...

http://cinepad.com/awards/ss.htm

i'll try & comment on some of these later, just noting them for now...

- some nutjob blogger trying to watch (and review) every criterion film in sequence of release...

http://criterioncollection.blogspot.com/1994/09/index.html

* the Spectator Top 50 List

1. The Night of the Hunter, Laughton

2. Apocalypse Now, Coppola

3. Sunrise, Murnau

4. Black Narcissus, Powell & Pressburger

5. L'avventura, Antonioni

6. The Searchers, Ford

7. The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles

8. The Seventh Seal , Bergman

9. L'atalante, Vigo

10. Rio Bravo, Hawks

11. The Godfather: Part I and Part II, Coppola

12. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dreyer

13. La Grande Illusion, Renoir

14. Citizen Kane, Welles

15. The Scarlett Empress, von Sternberg

16. Tokyo Story, Ozu

17. Blade Runner, Ridley Scott

18. Rear Window, Hitchcock

19. Point Blank, Boorman

20. The Red Shoes, Powell & Pressburger

21. The Earrings of Madame de..., Ophuls

22. Shadows, Cassavetes

23. Pickpocket, Bresson

24. Viridiana, Bunuel

25. Barry Lyndon, Kubrick

26. City Lights, Chaplin

27. Pierrot le Fou, 1964

27. Pierrot le Fou, Godard

28. Sunset Boulevard, Wilder

29. Notorious, Hitchcock

30. M, Lang

31. The Roaring Twenties, Walsh

32. Singin' in the Rain, Donen and Kelly

33. The Long Day Closes, Davies

34. Killer of Sheep, Burnett

35. Gun Crazy, Lewis

36. Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky

37. Taxi Driver, Scorsese

38. The 400 Blows, Truffaut

39. Pulp Fiction, Tarantino

40. Kind Hearts and Coronets, Hamer

41. In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-Wai

42. Sullivan's Travels, Sturges

43. 8 1/2, Fellini

44. Pinocchio, Disney

45. Great Expectations, Lean

46. Rome, Open City, Rossellini

47. Duck Soup, McCarey

48. Jaws, Spielberg

49. Manhattan, Allen

50. Out of the Past, Tourneur

** Sight & Sound Polls Top 10 Lists per decade (in reverse chronology, from '92 - '52)

1992

1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (43 votes) US

2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (32) FR

3) Tokyo Story Yasujiro Ozu, 1953 (22) JP

4) Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (18) US

5) The Searchers John Ford, 1956 (17) US

6) L'Atalante Jean Vigo, 1934 (15) FR

6) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (15) FR

6) Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray, 1955 (15) IN

6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (15) USSR

10) 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (14) UK

1982

1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (45 votes) US

2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (31) FR

3) The Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa, 1954 (15) JP

3) Singin' in the Rain Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952 (15) US

5) 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, 1963 (14) IT

6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (13) USSR

7) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (12) IT

7) The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles, 1942 (12) US

7) Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (12) US

10) The General Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (11) US

10) The Searchers John Ford, 1956 (11) US

1972

1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (32 votes) US

2) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (28) FR

3) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR

4) 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, 1963 (15) IT

5) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (12) IT

5) Persona Ingmar Bergman, 1967 (12) SW

7) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (11) FR

8) The General Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (10) US

9) The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles, 1942 (10) US

10) Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (9) JP

10) Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman, 1957 (9) SW

1962

1) Citizen Kane Orson Welles, 1941 (22 votes) US

2) L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (20) IT

3) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (19) FR

4) Greed Erich von Stroheim, 1924 (17) US

4) Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (17) JP

6) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR

6) The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (16) IT

6) Ivan the Terrible Sergei Eisenstein, 1943-46 (16) USSR

9) La terra trema Luchino Visconti, 1948 (14) IT

10) L'Atalante Jean Vigo, 1934 (13) FR

1952

1) The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica, 1949 (25 votes) IT

2) City Lights Charles Chaplin, 1930 (19) US

2) The Gold Rush Charles Chaplin, 1925 (19) US

4) Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (16) USSR

5) Intolerance DW Griffith, 1916 (12) US

5) Louisiana Story Robert Flaherty, 1947 (12) US

7) Greed Erich von Stroheim, 1924 (11) US

7) Le Jour se leve Marcel Carne, 1939 (11) FR

7) The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928 (11) FR

10) Brief Encounter David Lean, 1945 (10) UK

10) Le Million Rene Clair, 1930 (10) FR

10) The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir, 1939 (10) FR

 

[jdoggydogg]

Is Martyrs really part of the horror genre? Horror flicks (IMO) typically have an antagonist that at least appears to be supernatural in some way (Michael Meyers, Jason, Blair Witch, Zombies etc.). I am sure there is a name for the genre but Martyrs seems more along the lines of gratuitous violent imagery presented in a real world context, does that also qualify as horror? Does Irreversible? If so I submit that no discussion of the genre is complete without inclusion of Takashi Miike.

Definitely. And Irreversible isn't a horror movie, but it is a bad movie.