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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.

(Which it isn't really, fwiw.)

79. Resident Evil: Retribution

alrighty

https://www.cinematary.com/writing/2018/7/9/the-2018-shmight-shmound-poll

Three Lynch in the top 12 is a little much even for me.

Fascinating that the participation exploded so much this time around tho, and how it arguably flattened the results out a bit from the previous couple years.

Torontonians: In the Mood for Love is screening for free at Christie Pits this Sunday.

hah, once again Revenge of the Sith is the only Star Wars

(or the highest anyway, missed Empire at 275)

As an alternative (or an antidote) to the more conventional movies that appear on the list, I’ve decided to make the Shmight & Shmound Alternative 150. This is a version of the list that removes any films that appear on the Sight & Sound list, the IMDB 250, or the AFI Top 100.

Some WTFs here--Carol?! Speed Racer?!?--but also Margaret, Blow Out, The Long Goodbye and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, so by far the more interesting list of the two.

the Twitter generation *is* going to ruin Lynch for me with their smothering obsession.