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84 The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 USA Anthony Minghella
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The Talented Mr Ripley was on my old list but I recently replaced it with Purple Noon. Have you seen it already? Reason I ask is because it's more in line 'stylistically' with the rest of your list.
I'll stick it on my (pretty short actually) to-watch-list though and give it another try.
I think Minghella does a really good job of it though, and love the cast.
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52 The Roaring Twenties 1939 USA Raoul Walsh
51 In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
50 Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
49 Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
48 La Notte 1951 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
47 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
46 When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
45 The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
44 Wall-E 2008 Japan/US Andrew Stanton
43 Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
51 In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
50 Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
49 Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
48 La Notte 1951 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
47 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
46 When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
45 The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
44 Wall-E 2008 Japan/US Andrew Stanton
43 Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
Last edited by Robert the List; 07-27-24 at 02:20 AM.
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42 Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
41 Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
40 There Will be Blood 2008 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
39 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
38 The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
37 Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
36 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
35 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
34 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
33 McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
41 Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
40 There Will be Blood 2008 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
39 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
38 The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
37 Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
36 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
35 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
34 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
33 McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
Last edited by Robert the List; 07-26-24 at 11:52 AM.
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Weird top that mixes masterpieces of world cinema with normie fodder.
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32 The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
31 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
30 The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
29 The Music Room/Jalsaghar 1958 India Satyajit Ray
28 High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
27 L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
26 Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
25 Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
24 No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
23 Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
31 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
30 The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
29 The Music Room/Jalsaghar 1958 India Satyajit Ray
28 High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
27 L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
26 Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
25 Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
24 No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
23 Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
Last edited by Robert the List; 07-26-24 at 11:52 AM.
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Let's hear more about the normie fodder!!
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22. North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock
Last edited by Robert the List; 07-26-24 at 11:51 AM.
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Along with Se7en, we share Pulp Fiction, Alien, The Lighthouse, The Godfather, The Player, L.A. Confidential and No Country for Old Men. An honorable mention is Blue Velvet.
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21 Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
20 Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
19 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
18 Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
17 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
20 Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
19 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
18 Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
17 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
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16 Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
15 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
14 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
13 Distant/Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
12 The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
15 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
14 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
13 Distant/Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
12 The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Last edited by Robert the List; 07-26-24 at 11:49 AM.
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Rear Window, Joan of Arc, Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music are in my top 100 as well, and Barry Lyndon is my number 2 Kubrick.
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I love the variety of countries/decades you have here so far. Are you on Letterboxd?
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I love the variety of countries/decades you have here so far. Are you on Letterboxd?
I gave it a lot of though, and spent a lot of time on the order, particularly the top 40 or so!
No, I only found out about it a couple of days ago on here. Actually, I lie, yes I did open an account, but then I couldn't really work out the point of it so didn't do anything with it.
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Thanks very much. Glad you've appreciated the list
I gave it a lot of though, and spent a lot of time on the order, particularly the top 40 or so!
No, I only found out about it a couple of days ago on here. Actually, I lie, yes I did open an account, but then I couldn't really work out the point of it so didn't do anything with it.
I gave it a lot of though, and spent a lot of time on the order, particularly the top 40 or so!
No, I only found out about it a couple of days ago on here. Actually, I lie, yes I did open an account, but then I couldn't really work out the point of it so didn't do anything with it.
Letterboxd is excellent for keeping lists.
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I prefer Letterboxd over IMDb as the various sorting options for your lists are more intricate and there's the social aspect of following your friends. I'm not a Pro or Patron subscriber though, so I'm definitely missing out on some other features.
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11 Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
10 Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
9 The Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
10 Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
9 The Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
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8 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
7 The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
6 Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
7 The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
6 Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
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No reason why anyone should be the least bit interested, but I pretty much have my 100 ready. Just need to sort out some brief commentary and/or photos or whatever (something to make it look a bit interesting).
Looking at a couple of others, the standard method seems to be to do it 10 films at a time?
I've broadly used the following criteria:
-technical and innovation
-visual beauty
-emotional involvement/how engrossing the film is
-how otherwise absorbing/enjoyable it is
Unless I make any last minute changes to the tailenders, these are my 100:
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg
Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
Shanghai Express 1932 USA Josef von Sternberg
Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA Michael Curtiz
The Roaring Twenties 1939 USA Raoul Walsh
The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 USA Elia Kazan
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
The Music Room/Jalsaghar 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
le mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
The Birds 1963 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Leopard 1963 Italy Luciano Visconti
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Oliver 1968 UK Carol Reed
The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon 1975 USA Sidney Lumet
Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
Entre Nous 1983 France Diane Kurys
Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman
Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
Fatal Attraction 1987 USA Adrian Lyne
When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
Seven 1995 USA David Fincher
Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 USA Anthony Minghella
Gladiator 2000 USA Ridley Scott
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
Distant/Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Donnie Darko (Director's cut) 2004 USA
Sideways 2004 USA Alexander Payne
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden Tomas Alfredson
There Will be Blood 2008 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Wall-E 2008 Japan/US Andrew Stanton
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
Looking at a couple of others, the standard method seems to be to do it 10 films at a time?
I've broadly used the following criteria:
-technical and innovation
-visual beauty
-emotional involvement/how engrossing the film is
-how otherwise absorbing/enjoyable it is
Unless I make any last minute changes to the tailenders, these are my 100:
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg
Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
Shanghai Express 1932 USA Josef von Sternberg
Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 USA Michael Curtiz
The Roaring Twenties 1939 USA Raoul Walsh
The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren
Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
Key Largo 1948 USA John Huston
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 USA Elia Kazan
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
The Music Room/Jalsaghar 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
le mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
The Birds 1963 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Leopard 1963 Italy Luciano Visconti
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
Point Blank 1967 USA John Boorman
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Oliver 1968 UK Carol Reed
The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Badlands 1973 USA Trevor Malick
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
Mean Streets 1973 USA Martin Scorsese
Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon 1975 USA Sidney Lumet
Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
Alien 1979 USA Ridley Scott
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Copolla
Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) 1982 USA Ridley Scott
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
The King of Comedy 1982 USA Martin Scorsese
Entre Nous 1983 France Diane Kurys
Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman
Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
Fatal Attraction 1987 USA Adrian Lyne
When Harry Met Sally 1989 USA Rob Reiner
Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
Seven 1995 USA David Fincher
Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli
L.A. Confidential 1997 USA Curtis Hanson
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
The Talented Mr Ripley 1999 USA Anthony Minghella
Gladiator 2000 USA Ridley Scott
In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
Distant/Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Donnie Darko (Director's cut) 2004 USA
Sideways 2004 USA Alexander Payne
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden Tomas Alfredson
There Will be Blood 2008 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
Wall-E 2008 Japan/US Andrew Stanton
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
I award your list 13,000 points! New record!
You get 1,000 points for each of the following:
Meshes of the Afternoon, Let the Right One In, Laura, Wall-E, King of Comedy, Talented Mr Ripley, Point Blank, and specifying the 'director's cut' of Blade Runner
And you have unlocked a secret 5,000 point bonus: including the Birds, and not Vertigo
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