your favorite movies (of all time)

"it's almost impossible to watch them and not be awed into a stupor at their virtuosity."

Experienced this two nights ago, seeing Nashville (for the 37th time...) on a big screen.

― clemenza, Sunday, November 7, 2010 9:02 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

experienced this two nights ago, watching eyes wide shut on DVD. such a dumbass for not watching this years ago. buncha critics dumbasses for steering me wrong. final "daylight" resolution a bit too pat, but that's maybe 5 problem minutes out of 160. jaw-dropping movie.

Such a weird movie, "Eyes Wide Shut." Perfect example to me of how virtuosity does not always equal perfection, but its flaws are intriguing, to be sure. The vibe is almost like a domestic-minded "Parallax View" or something, surreal, uber-paranoid and more than a little ridiculous, but effective all the same.

truly dire thread, this one

i dunno, i've enjoyed all the sbanning

Such a weird movie, "Eyes Wide Shut." Perfect example to me of how virtuosity does not always equal perfection, but its flaws are intriguing, to be sure. The vibe is almost like a domestic-minded "Parallax View" or something, surreal, uber-paranoid and more than a little ridiculous, but effective all the same.

yeah, can see as how it's ridiculousness (and it is just that) might be problematic for some, but i love dreamlike, overheated absurdity, especially when delivered with a nightmarish twist: lynch, depalma, argento, etc. EWS definitely delivers on that score. suggests the imaginary intersection of after hours and the holy mountain, nighttime faux-manhattan as an occult chessboard upon which monstrous forces secretly play. polanski being another obvious reference point, at least in terms of exaggerated urban paranoia. genuinely loved it, including cruise, who's never been a favorite of mine.

its it's its...

I like Eyes Wide Shut. It goes a bit Count Floyd during the pagan ceremony, but I find all that stuff creepy anyway. I don't know that it has anything profound to say about sex or marriage or anything else, but it holds my attention the whole way, and it's often great to look at.

truly dire thread, this one

put up or shut up

srsly

i think the easiest way to do this is to separate it by genre and then pull of the IMDb top 200 movies of all time list

Action
The Lord of the Rings Part One - Epic Action Film
The Lord of the Rings Part Two - Epic Action Film, Really Sweet
The Lord of the Rings Part Three - Epic Action Film, WON AN OSCAR
Inception - Epic Action Movie, MINDBLOWER

Comedy
Wedding Crashers - Comedy, funny stuff
Airplane - Comedy, so good, have y'all seen this?

etc.

good list

forgot inception, fuuuuuck awesome movie have you seen it?

that's not putting up or shutting up
xxp

gentle art of onedownmanship

there's no art on this thread

I'm not sure that I understand your complaint.

fine, the davinci code, then

Some more:

Los Olvidados
Summer Hours
The Leopard

You forgot the genre and year, Alfred!

there's no art on this thread

ok, put some on it! jeeeeesus

Summer Hours is lovely.

Here's some art: 100 Great Avant-Garde Films

Adynata (Leslie Thornton 1983)
Aleph (Wallace Berman 1955-66?)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold 1998)
Amerikanos (Christos Dimas 1999)
Anémic Cinéma (Marcel Duchamp 1926)
L'Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky 1997-1998)
Autumn Fire (Herman Weinberg 1930-33)
Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy 1924)
Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice 1970)
Blow Job (Andy Warhol 1963)
Boston Fire (Peter Hutton 1979)
La Cartomancienne (The Fortune Teller) (Jerome Hill 1932)
Un chant d'amour (Jean Genet 1950)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel 1929)
Chronic (Jennifer Reeves 1997)
Chumlum (Ron Rice 1964)
La Cicatrice intérieure (Philippe Garrel 1972)
Clouds (Peter Gidal, 1969, 10m)
Cobra Mist (Emily Richardson, 2008, 6m)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov 1968)
Colour Flight (Len Lye 1937)
Combat de boxe (Charles Dekeukeleire 1929)
Cul en l'air (Pierre Yves Clouin 1998)
Cybelle (Donald Richie 1968)
Decodings (Michael Wallin 1988)
Dirty (Stephen Dwoskin, 1971, 11m)
Ecce Homo (Jerry Tartaglia 1989)
11 x 14 (James Benning)
A Family Finds Entertainment (Ryan Trecartin 2005)
Family Tyranny (Modelling and Molding) (Paul McCarthy and Mike
Kelley, 1987)
Film Ist (Gustav Deutsch (1998-2004)
Filmpiece for Sunshine (John Luther Schofill, Jr. 1966-1968)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith 1963)
The Flicker (Tony Conrad 1966)
Fly Away Homo (Andrew HIller 1998)
La Fórmula secreta (Rubén Gámez 1965)
From the Notebook of …(Robert Beavers 1971/1998)
Fuses (Carolee Schneemann 1967)
The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith, 1976 12m)
Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah, 1986, 61m)
The Hart of London (Jack Chambers 1969-1970)
Images d'Ostende (Henri Storck 1929)
It Wasn't Love (Sadie Benning 1992)
Jack’s Dream (Joseph Cornell c. 1930-1970)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman 1975)
Klipperty Klopp (Andrew Kotting, 1984, 12m)
Kunst Life (Roger Jacoby 1975)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger 1965)
Light Rhythms (Francis Bruguière & Oswell Blakeston, 1931, 6m)
Lost Book Found (Jem Cohen 1996)
Luke (Bruce Conner 1967)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid 1943)
Mirrors Facing Mirrors (Adam Cooley 2010)
Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger 1947)
My Parents Read Dreams I’ve Had About Them (Neil Goldberg 1998)
Near the Big Chakra (Anne Severson 1971)
Nightcats (Stan Brakhage 1956)
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (Tracey Moffatt 1989)
(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton 1971)
Notch (Diane Kitchen 2000)
Notes of an Early Fall (Saul Levine 1976-77)
1126 Dewey Avenue, Apt. 207 (John C. Hecker 1939)
Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
The Passing (Bill Viola 1991)
Pensao Globo (Matthias Müller 1997)
Peyote Queen (Storm De Hirsch 1965)
Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood 1971)
pornfilm (Stephanie Barber 1999)
A Portrait of Ga (Margaret Tait, 1952, 4m)
Pu Pu (Motoharu Jonouchi 1960)
Race d'Ep (Lionel Soukaz 1979)
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard 2002)
La Région Centrale (Michael Snow 1967)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
Report (Bruce Conner 1967)
Roof (Betsy Kalin 1998)
Schuss! (Nicolas Rey 2005)
She Puppet (Peggy Ahwesh 2001)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr 1991)
Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin 1995)
6/64 Mama Und Papa (Kurt Kren 1964)
Sodom (Luther Price 1989)
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (Marguerite Duras 1976)
Sorrows (Gregory J. Markopoulos 1969)
Le souriante Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac 1922)
"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (David Bradley 1940-43)
Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher 1984)
Stuffing (Animal Charm 1998)
Submit To Me Now (Richard Kern 1987)
Symphony for a Sinner (George Kuchar 1979)
Le Tempestaire (Jean Epstein 1947)
Thanatopsis (Ed Emshwiller 1963)
The End (Christopher Maclaine 1953)
This Is It (James Broughton 1971)
Thundercrack! (Curt McDowell 1975)
Tomatos Another Day (James Sibley Watson and Alec Wilder 1930/1933)
Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka 1966)
The Vyrotonin Decision (Matt McCormick 1999)
Wet One (Ian MacTilstra 2008)
Whitney: Mama’s Little Baby (Lawrence Elbert, 2000)
Wind Vane (Chris Welsby, 1972, 8m)

needs more 99 Tribulations

Oh, do you mean Tribulation 99?

there's no way sissy boy slap party can be as good as its title.

Judge for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMoMSX_W3N8

lol @ TS shitting on 100s of personal faves indiscriminately.

Oh, do you mean Tribulation 99?

uhhh yes. self fail.

;)

needs more 99 Tribulations

― Simon H., Sunday, 7 November 2010 21:35 (17 minutes ago)

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"Sissy Boy slap Party" does indeed live up, 100%, to its name.

Some favorite documentaries: Welfare, Crumb, Spellbound, The Heart of the Game, The Stone Reader, Hoop Dreams, Stevie, The War Room, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, A League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Arguing the World, Let's Get Lost, Dying at Grace, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Man on Wire, Tyson, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry...so many the past few years; I'd need to consult a list.

BLUNTLY:

Well, His Girl Friday. It's the most energetic thing ever.

Aguirre: The Wrath Of God

Yeah, and speaking of which, "Burden of Dreams"

Also, "The Decalogue."

xppppppppppp
Tape Store, I'm pretty sure a lot of people picked stuff that isn't on IMDB's top 200 lists so shut up or shut up. But if you want to add your artsy movie picks etc I won't judge them (here at least)

Also if anyone wants to add on to their list/s feel free to do so

ps. I thoroughly enjoyed City of God

Gummo, The King Of Kong, Nowhere, City Of God, Happiness, Ghostbusters, Problem Child 2

The BBS Documentary is long but CRUCIAL if you were into that stuff back in the day. I have such a warm spot in my heart for BBSes i dont think i can judge it too objectively, tho.

naked human hands OTM about Eyes Wide Shut; same reaction from me. critics of the day = barking mad. although actually it seemed to do better with some of the heavyweights than i would have thought ( http://www.metacritic.com/movie/eyes-wide-shut/critic-reviews?dist=positive )

"Gold Diggers of 1933" classic depression-era Busby Berkeley musical. Trio of chorus girls are on their uppers after the show they're about to perform in gets pwned by debt collectors. Great, snappy pre-code WB dialog, amazing berkeley musical numbers, the film is so tightly edited that it's like having a story fired at you from a machine-gun. this is poss my favorite ever film.

I heart you so much for this.

lorax, i'm not saying everyone here has terrible taste--though god there's a lot of boring choices here--but i love that yr original post claims that, in November of 2010, there's not a thread on ILE for listing yr favorite movies. If I were to take the time to list mine, I'd put them on Eric's much stronger Sight & Sound ballot thread.

but whatever, back to pointless recommendations of Wes Anderson movies \O_O/

^ people who seem not to have figured out how to live

xp - how are they pointless?

are there rly people on ilx who need to be told about the royal tenenbaums? i srsly don't get why this thread exists, it's a very boring list thread

i obv now regret having posted in this thread but on i'm not very good at self-control on the internet

we can end the discussion here probably. :)

Some people don't know what 'Sight & Sound' refers to - like many people who aren't British or movie buffs

Tape Store, I won't stop you if you rather go troll "Eric's much stronger Sight & Sound ballot thread". If you want pointless drama because of differing movie tastes I'm sure there is somewhere on the internet for you. I'd prefer to have this thread be a place where ILXors can list\recommend their favorite movies (of all time) without being subjected to flaming (e.g. Wes Anderson sucks)
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Just watching Gold Diggers of 1933 for the first time (due to a reference on some ILX thread, dont know which one) and this is a really enjoyable movie!

OMG the light up violins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a7JyCM0fT8