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Top Ten?
Topic Started: Feb 9 2015, 07:03 PM (372 Views)
panzer the great & terrible
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We haven't done this in ages. What are your current favorite ten movies? Just ten, now.

INTOLERANCE
A MAN ESCAPED
YOJIMBO
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
THE WRONG MAN
SOME LIKE IT HOT
THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
THE CIRCUS

It may change tomorrow. I love a lot of movies.

Anybody wanna make a list?
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Feb 9 2015, 07:04 PM.
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I'll give it a shot. Always a difficult list to do. I'll list my top picks in ten genre categories, with the caveat that each entry has two or three other films clipping at their heels.

AIRPLANE! - Comedy
BLADE RUNNER - Sci-fi
CASABLANCA - Romance
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (aka...SCROOGE) (1951 version) - Holiday
CITY LIGHTS - Silent
DETOUR - Film Noir
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - Fantasy
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - Adventure
STAR WARS - Space Fantasy
WATCHMEN - Super-Hero




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Varies wildly, often influenced by something I'm writing at the moment or by something I recently read about (here, for example). Here, in random order, films I'm mostly likely to pop into the player recently:

Prisoner of Zenda (Colman version, of course)
The Cameraman
Girl Shy (Harold Lloyd)
Star Wars
Adventures of Robin Hood
A New Leaf
Enchanted April
Sherlock Holmes (whole series)
Swiss Family Robinson
Crazy MGM and Vitaphone shorts (the ones with plots)
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Lots of good suggestions here, guys. Will keep me busy for a while.
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Off the top of my head, the only way I know how to do this...

Seven Samurai - will always be on my list. If you've never seen it, just know that this is funnier than whatever you think the funniest movie is, and more exciting than whatever you think the most exciting movie is.

Modern Times
- The first classic film I ever saw; if it weren't for that, you might not all be here.

American Graffiti
- Not sure if I've gone through life as Toad or as Curt, but god, what great music.

Vertigo - Because I've been living with this film for weeks now.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932): Because I've just watched 98 monster movies, you idiots, and needed to put ONE on here. This is one that impresses me more every time I see it.

Casablanca: 'cause if I didn't put this one on my list, I'd be lyin'. Let's not take this great film for granted.

Show Boat (1936): Yeah, I know, I like 42nd Street better, but this came out on DVD this year and I watched it a lot so CURRENTLY...

Fantasia: Hook it up in HD and surround sound and it's like spending 2 hours inside a work of art (and dancing with hippos in tutus).

The More the Merrier: Because Jean Arthur is in it. Duh.

Here Comes Mr. Jordan: 'cause I'm at the end of my list and I don't wanna forget this one.



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Gravy, I'm surprised you didn't have Citizen Kane!

Seven Samurai--I could probably name 10 Kurosawa films and be bad AND sleep well.

M--I like this a tad bit better than Metropolis.

The Bridge on the River Kwai--Obi Wan gets the force 20 years early.

The Seventh Seal--I'll steal from the Marvel comics of the 60s: Nuff said.

Les Diaboliques--Ya can't have a top ten list without a Clouzot, I mean hell, he made several of the best films ever! Didn't he?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre--My fave Bogart performance.

Oh well, my lunch break is over. I'll add my last 4 later.

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See, that's the great thing about this. Stony, on a given day, most of your films could well be on MY list (with the lone exception of Diaboliques; I like at least 3 Clouzot films better). I think Kane is the best film ever made, but that doesn't mean it's my favorite. I like, oh, the Shrinking Man more than I like Kane, personally, but I'm funny in certain ways.

Funny, somebody asked me about Enchanted April only the other day.
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Here's mine by genre.

Musical: The Wizard of Oz. Yes, American in Paris has better music and Singin' In the Rain and The Band Wagon have better plots but the Wizard has the best combination of music and plot.
Adventure: The Adventures of Robin Hood. Still not bested in my opinion.
Comedy: Duck Soup. Nothing else needs to be said.
Western: The Magnificent Seven. Yes, there are several westerns that are better but this is the one I can see over and over again.
Sci-fi: The Forbidden Planet. Shakespeare probably rolls over in his grave but this was the first great big budget color sci-fi picture really worth watching.
Gangster: White Heat. Cagney at his finest.
Serial: Fighting Devil Dogs. Not the greatest serial maybe but the one that brings more serial elements together and does them right than any other.
Foreign: A tie. Ran. I love 7 Samurai too but I love this even more. Shakespeare returns to a resting position with this movie. Rififi. An American makes the greatest French movie ever.
Suspense: North by Northwest. I've seen this one too many times to count but I can see it at least a 1000 times more and enjoy it every time.
Silent: Piccadilly. I know why Anna May Wong may have been the sexiest woman who ever lived.
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By genre would be fun!

Musical: 42nd Street
Adventure: King Kong
Comedy: Modern Times
Western: Rio Bravo
Sci-fi: The Incredible Shrinking Man
Gangster: Angels with Dirty Faces
Serial: The Spider's Web
Foreign: Seven Samurai, but Big Deal on Madonna Street deserves a mention
Suspense: Notorious
Silent: Passion of Joan of Arc
Fantasy: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Cult: The Sadist
Horror: Vampyr
Romance: The More the Merrier

There, how's that?

Edited by Laughing Gravy, Feb 10 2015, 04:28 PM.
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I need to add an 11th.

Fantasy: The Thief of Bagdad (1940). Despite all the writers and directors involved in this, it somehow works and is wonderful.
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
The Bank Dick
The Third Man
The General
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Umbrella of Cherbough
Mary Poppins
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
8 1/2
Spirited Away
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I like seeing the Top Ten lists of others but hate, hate, hate compiling my own. And I'm asked to do so frequently, which makes it worse. When you've seen more than 10,000 feature films (conservatively), how can you possibly choose ten favorites?

I also find that some of my fellow film buffs feel obliged to salt their lists with acknowledged classics lest they be accused of being lowbrows. Fortunately, I'm past that point.

Stipulating that any well-thought-out list of my favorites would have to include a minimum of ten pictures from each genre, I'm going to approach this list differently by defining my Top Ten favorites as the movies I owned in 16mm that gave me the most pleasure to watch frequently. In those years I referred to my core collection as "the desert island films," and the ten named below all belonged to that select group. While I believe they're all superb movies in their own way, probably half of them are favorites for sentimental reasons. With the exception of the first, they're listed randomly as they pop into my head:

The Adventures of Robin Hood (my all-time favorite movie, this is the one film that will top any such list I compile).
Bride of Frankenstein
Employees Entrance
It's Love Again
Mystery Ranch
I Love a Mystery
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
(1934 Colman version)
Wake Up and Live
Chandu the Magician
Dodsworth

Well, the list is already a failure, because having come up with ten titles I realize there are at least a half dozen others I watched just as often and enjoy just as much.
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Here's my list by genre -
ADVENTURE - KING KONG
“B” WESTERN - RIDERS OF THE WHISTLING SKULL
SERIAL - KING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED
CRIME - WHITE HEAT
“A” WESTERN - THE WILD BUNCH
COMEDY - IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD
SCIENCE FICTION - TERMINATOR 2 - JUDGEMENT DAY
ANIMATED - PINOCCHIO
FILM NOIR - DOUBLE INDEMNITY
CULT – GUN CRAZY
UNKNOWN GEM - TUNDRA
WEIRDEST - ERASERHEAD
MUSICAL - GOLDDIGGERS OF 1935
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The Passion of Joan of Arc--I thought of adding this film yesterday then lo and behold, I see it mentioned on the Vertigo thread. This film would be in my top three.

Metropolis--I loved this film, but I didn't realize how much I loved this film until the recovered footage was added.

West of Memphis--I love documentaries (not as much as I love foreign cinema though) and I've watched this one three times in the past 18 months.

Throne of BloodI saw this one for the first time about 3 weeks ago. Moving trees and a rain of arrows. Just fantastic!
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Casablanca, The Searchers, Duck Soup, Detour, Bride of Frankenstein, Metropolis, The Wild Bunch, Flash Gordon, the serial of course, The Black Cat, Out of the Past
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