your favorite movies (of all time)

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."

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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

Extending an olive branch from my apparently superior thread. Here's the movies I cite on FB and the list still seems pretty good to me:

Showgirls
The Fury
Do the Right Thing
A Grin Without a Cat
The Ladies' Man
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Tenant
Cannibal Holocaust
Un chant d'amour
Simon of the Desert
All That Heaven Allows
Female Trouble
Women in Revolt
Mommie Dearest
Inland Empire
Barry Lyndon
Ms. 45
Blonde Venus
Grey Gardens
Crime Wave (the Canadian one)

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

No, probably not, but this isn't a recommendations thread either, its a PYF. What exactly about the movie lists people have been making have been boring? That its predictable that ilx0rs will love a lot of 80s movies and recent indie films? Some people have posted lists with no movie in it made after like 1940 -- thats pretty non-boring IMO, I know practically nothing about classics and silent films so those are great lists to see.

And you still haven't posted your favorite films, so srsly, how come you think your shit don't stink?

Barry Lyndon

good movie.

I dunno, is there was anything the internet message board was invented for more than lists?

Here's some of my favorites:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Heaven and Earth Magic
The Holy Mountain
Akira
A Hard Day's Night
Animal Crackers, Night @ The Opera, Duck Soup (and most Marx Bros. movies)
Make Me Think
Dog Star Man
The General
Metropolis
Easy Rider
The Shining
Batman Returns
Ballet Mechanique
Brazil
Barry Lyndon
Dr Strangelove
F for Fake
OG War Of The Worlds
Stop Making Sense
Neighbors
Jurassic Park
Ghostbusters
My Neighbor Totoro

Saw Barry Lyndon last night, on an HD TV but through Netflix, and damn it still looked bloody amazing on those open air painting-based shots! Really funny film too, in a dark way.

Some more:

La Bete Humaine (1938)
Holiday (1938)
Midnight (1938)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Thieves Like Us (1974)
L'Argent (1983)
Stop Making Sense (1985)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Irma Vep (1997)
High Art (1998)

The three 1938 films are purely coincidental

*the appearance of three films from '38, that is

Alfred your inclusion of Stop Making Sense just made me think of another David Byrne film that I absolutely love,

True Stories (1986) - Odd bits and pieces about a small Texas town and the people who live there. Its like how David Lynch movies start out, but its like that the whole way through. Full of lovable weirdos. I guess its a comedy.

Crash (Cronenberg) ― Matt Armstrong

a seedy underbelly:

singapore sling (1990)
naked blood (1995)
pink flamingos (1972)
thundercrack! (1975)
lucifer rising (1972)
trouble every day (2001)
sweet movie (1974)
visitor Q (2001)
dementia (1955)
"her flesh" trilogy (1967-'68)

near and dear:

possession (1981)
don't look now (1973)
the tenant (1976)
taxi driver (1976)
the king of comedy (1982)
wise blood (1982)
strangers on a train (1951)
night of the hunter (1955)
mona lisa (1986)
paths of glory (1957)
tetsuo, the iron man (1989)
stalker (1979)
the hour of the wolf (1968)
cries and whispers (1972)
fanny and alexander (1982)
branded to kill (1967)
snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937f)
fantasia (1940)
allegro non tropo (1976)
fantastic planet (1973)
spirited away (2001)
galaxy express 999 (1979)
wings of desire (1987)
the conversation (1974)
ballet mechanique (1924)
bimbo's initiation (1931)
i don't want to sleep alone (2006)
the wayward cloud (2005)
bad guy (2001)
chunking express (1994)
fallen angels (1995)
house (1977)
stacy (2001)
strange circus (2005)
the woods (2006)
singing in the rain (1952)
the life and death of colonel blimp (1951)
the tales of hoffmann (1943)
le million (1931)
the wages of fear (1953)
cat ballou (1965)
the brood (1979)
breaking the waves (1996)
the thin man (1934)
another thin man (1939)
the bride of frankenstein (1935)
my man godfrey (1936)
john carpenter's the thing (1982)
re-animator (1985)
from beyond (1986)
dagon (2001) - more lovecraft-inspired horror from stuart gordon, seriously in contention for my favorite film of all time
evil dead (1981)
evil dead II (1987)
alien (1979)
blade runner (1982)
time bandits (1981)
the pit and the pendulum (1961)

could do this forever. should probably stop.

Crash (Cronenberg) ― Matt Armstrong

My mom taped this once thinking she had taped the oscar winning Crash. So when I started watching it some time after midnight I was quite surprised that an Oscar movie was sort of a softcore porno. I watched all the way through it and some of it was quite intriguing (besides the sex) but I can't remember exactly how it ended. I mostly remember the James Dean crash simulation(?)
― more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 08:35 (1 hour ago)

My friends in college had a film club and on my week to pick the movie I picked Crash. My friend's girlfriend screamed "IT'S JUST SEX!" about 30 minutes in and stormed out.

It REALLY pissed me off when a really shitty movie used the same title. Ugh.

Here are forty-three!

Footlight Parade (1933). Museum-quality Busby Berkeley numbers. James Cagney doing not just comedy but song and dance. Joan Blondell slinging some of the snappiest Pre-Code dialogue known to man.

with that being said, i am happy to announce that the 2018 Film Twitter Mock Sight & Sound Poll (i really need a better name, huh) is officially open. @ or DM me with your ballot of the 10 greatest films of all time and then i'll aggregate them. plz RT to spread the word!!!

— nathan e. smith (@trillmoregirls) June 4, 2018

Guess this has been happening for a few years now, and I'm intrigued by the results from last year: https://letterboxd.com/lifewithnopants/list/film-twitter-sight-sound-poll-2017/

1. Vertigo (1958)
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
3. PlayTime (1967)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5. Mulholland Drive (2001)
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
7. Yi Yi (2000)
8. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
9. Johnny Guitar (1954)
10. Beau Travail (1999)

And my most Film Twitter-est ballot:

Sure, why not ...

MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (McCarey)
LA JETEE (Marker)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Hooper)
FEMALE TROUBLE (Waters)
TANGO (Rybczynski)
SHOWGIRLS (Verhoeven)
TASTE OF CHERRY (Kiarostami)
OUTER SPACE (Tscherkassky)
YI YI (Yang)
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch) https://t.co/5YI6z46vTN

— Eric Henderson (@ephender) June 7, 2018

Duelle at number 20 in that Twitter list is a (pleasant) surprise - it's interesting the way that revivals and restorations can sometimes quite quickly transform the accepted canon of great movies.

The Film Twitter S&S list seems like the logical extension of the "fears" expressed by sourpuss Owen G. in EW after the 2012 list was revealed: http://ew.com/article/2012/08/07/the-sight-and-sound-poll-is-full-of-it/

Navel-gazing to the nth degree; dismissive of what Morbs has taken to defending as not-boring classicism.