your top ten films (?)

IdleRich

IdleRich
I find it impossible to name my top ten favourite films but here are ten I like that come to me off the top of my head:

The Shooting
La Bete
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Big Heat
The Roaring Twenties
The Passenger
Marienbad
Gun Crazy
The Holy Mountain
Celine and Julie Go Boating (I'm not totally certain if this is great or really boring?)
 

Immryr

Well-known member
in no real order....


Martin
Night Of The Hunter
Le Samourai
Mauvais Sang
Ghost Dog Way Of The Samurai
Dawn Of The Dead
Stalker
The Thing
Blue Velvet
Susperia
 

crackerjack

Well-known member
top 10 I've seen in the last year

no country for old men
oldboy
there will be blood
il conformista
michael clayton
kika
repulsion
all about my mother
tell no one
zodiac
 

swears

preppy-kei
If...
Clockwork Orange
Goodfellas
Heathers
They Live
Rope
Akira
La Haine
Gummo
Blue Velvet

Probably loads more I forgot, not a film buff at all though.
Got to admit my ignorance regarding the non-english language and arthouse side of things...
 

craner

Beast of Burden
My favorite 10:

Ghostbusters
Profondo Rosso
The Great Silence
Some Like it Hot
Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
Night of the Iguana
Succubus (Jess Franco)
Hannah and Her Sisters
The House with Laughing Windows
Chinatown
The Rebel (Hancock)

Oops. 11.
 
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droid

Guest
Tous Les Matins du Monde
Samurai executioner
Day of the dead
The Thing (Carpenter version)
Suspiria (Just tops Profundo Rosso IMO)
Prince Of Darkness (Carpenter)
My Neighbour Totoro
Evil Dead 2
The Shining
Bruce Lee gainst Supermen :D

I'm useless at this kinda thing though - i just type whatever pops into my head.. Id probably pick a different 10 tomorrow. :confused:
 
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bruno

est malade
i agree, i can't make up my mind on anything. also, i've seen more films these last three years than during my entire life, more films than actual real life, sadly. a lot of what i have seen has either reflected my past in some uncanny way or started to permeate the world around me, the most jarring example being few days ago when my co-flatmate was kidnapped outside an atm. she was shuttled back and forth through the city at knifepoint, doused with water, threatened+. that very day, unaware of her ordeal, i had watched i ragazzi della roma violenta, which deals with bands of disaffected youth that do bad things to girls. there were also flashbacks to the plight of rena niehaus in la orca, needless to say i won't be lending her these films anytime soon. she is thankfully safe at our flat now, eating onion soup made by yours truly. so, in retrospect i regret leaving out la orca, l'immoralità, bestialità, burning lips, anything with leonora fani, ms niehaus, some david hamilton film for pleasure, the emmanuelle films, naked gun, blade runner (how could i forget), ondata di piacere, like idlerich la bête, even the shit borowczyk films are worth watching. the list will change constantly, it's impossible to see and appreciate all there is in such a short time. and oliver, i had forgotten about ghostbusters! my first soundtrack ever, sniff.

+ a little context, this fast kidnapping with the intention of emptying out a person's bank account was pioneered in argentina during the time of the economic crisis i think, occasionally (sadly more frequently than i thought) the style is copied this side of the mountain, this is what she got herself into
 

craner

Beast of Burden
Ghostbusters is one of the funniest Jewish comedies ever made, one of the most evocative Manhattan films, and an extremely atmospheric horror movie of sorts. It's about as perfect as a film can be as far as I'm concerned.
 

bruno

est malade
french, i'm not a fan of the gemser films - yet. there is something unsettling about her, i admit she scares me. what is jewish about ghostbusters, the anti-sumerian bit?
 

craner

Beast of Burden
The Jewish sensibility Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman injected into it - for me it self-evidently qualifies as part of the Billy Wilder and Phil Silvers and Woody Allen vein.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
True about Gemser - she's not "sexy" in the slightest, more like an Apollonian statue than an erotic object. Although she does do the breezy post-feminist sashay very well and looks fabulous in flared suits and so on. She adds a kind of sheer and strange dissonance to D'amato's unhinged productions. Watch the last ten minutes of Emanuelle Around the World and you'll see what I mean. (Now that's not necessarily a recommendation.)
 

craner

Beast of Burden
It's worth a rewatch. You should do it tonight. This film actually grows with you. That's a unique quality very very few films have. The script is flawless.
 

bruno

est malade
yes, she is very hermetic. i've felt on the cusp of deriving pleasure from that iron femininity many times but i am obsessed with vulnerability. it's one of the few things that keeps me open and sane. i will watch ghostbusters.
 
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Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
yes, she is very hermetic. i've felt on the cusp of deriving pleasure from that iron femininity many times but i am obsessed with vulnerability. it's one of the few things that keeps me open and sane. i will watch ghostbusters.

I enjoyed reading that post by itself, then going back to the previous page to realise you're not talking about Sigourney Weaver. :D Although 'iron femininity' would be about right for the Alien films!

Ghostbusters truly is a sublimely (Slimer-ly?) funny, well-made film.
 

bruno

est malade
mr tea, i just read that a ghostbusters videogame has been released, we are unwittingly promoting a commercial franchise! i blame oliver.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Don't blame me. I loathe Ghostbusters 2!

Aww come on, it's not bad as sequels go. And it's got that dude from Ally McBeal in it, and the big ugly evil guy who looks a bit like David Gilmour. And more slime than Noel's House Party. What's not to like?
 
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