Anyway, don't take too long to think about it and come up with a list of fifteen films that you will never forget. Leave me a link, won't you.
1. Taxi Driver
2. Breaking the Waves
3. Midnight Cowboy
4. The Piano
5. Knife in the Water
7. Black Orpheus
9. I Am Sam
10. The Hours
11. Annie Hall
12. Blood Simple
13. The Graduate
14. The Last Waltz
15. The Girl with a Pearl Earring
Aaargh, Sphinx, you’ve mentioned so many I would have mentioned too (including Orfeu Negro) and now I feel challenged to name 15 more, different ones! Ok, here goes:
ReplyDelete1. Harold and Maude
2. Once upon a Time in America
3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
4. Mephisto
5. Easy Rider
6. Blue Velvet
7. Casablanca
8. Don’t Look Now
9. The Sting
10. Paris Texas
11. The Remains of the Day
12. Sophie’s Choice
13. E.T.
14. Apocalypse Now
15. Lord of the Rings (all three of them and I don’t care if that’s cheating!)
We might overlap a bit (I can't imagine why!) but I'm sure my juvenility will force a few digressions.
ReplyDeleteHere goes:
1) Eraserhead
2) Le Petit Argent
3) Rosemary's Baby
4) Down By Law
5) Life Is Beautiful
6) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
7) Polyester
8) Midnight Express
9) Blue Velvet
10) Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
I'm sure I'm gonna kick myself as soon as I hit "send," but then, who cares - certainly not me! :)
...Oh, BTW, Happiest of New Years to ya! ;)
ReplyDelete15 films....You have me stopped at the Piano and the finger and Harvey Kietel. That movie took so much out of me, but how it changed me....
ReplyDeleteI will try this in the a.m.
Happy New Year!
I've seen most of those and have made a note about the ones I haven't like the Lars von Trier one (Kingdom was pretty cool). Since I don't want to duplicate I'll give you my list (in no particular order):
ReplyDeleteYojimbo - Kurosawa
Lawrence of Arabia - Peter O'Toole
A Night at the Opera - Marx Brothers
Drunken Master - Jackie Chan
Love and Death - Woody Allen
Zatoichi - Takeshi Kitano
Persona - Ingmar Bergman
I'm No Angel - Mae West
Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch
Beauty and The Beast - Jean Cocteau
Scent of a Woman - Martin Brest
Angel Heart - Alan Parker
Magnificent Seven - John Sturges & Seven Samurai - Kurosawa (neat to see them close together)
The Year of Living Dangerously - Peter Weir
Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders
Damn, only 15? How about the Lord of the Rings, Red Cliff, Avatar and so many, many more?
Have to confess I think your list is pretty impressive... I need to do some research to catch up!
ReplyDeleteAppreciate your blog content too, it's similar to where I have been trying to arrive on mine, albeit with more of a musical emphasis.
Best for 2011 and beyond...
PB
Pathetically, I come up with five, no six! - some nudged to the fore fornt of my memory by your own list. I am not good at remembering titles of books or names of films, offhand.
ReplyDeleteThey are not in order of preference and the Japanese one has the Spanish title as I watched it with Spanish subtitles, here in Spain.
Ocuribito
The Orchestra
The Piano
The Hours
The Graduate
Casablanca
and two or three wonderful low budget Irish films - which sort of makes a cheat's nine!
I have left a comment for you on my Sunday Snippet post.
I'm so thrilled to see 'The Bicycle Thief' on this list. I haven't seen that in over 20 years, and yet I can't have mozzarella melted on crusty bread without being reminded of it.
ReplyDeleteOthers on the list:
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Un Chien Andalou
Eraserhead
Mad Max
Dune
Wild At Heart
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Fargo
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Touch of Evil
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
I know that's not 15, but those are what come to mind rather quickly for me. I love film, and if you spend any time over at my blog you'll see that. Thanks for this!
Cant remember the last film I went out to see, and as for the TV, we dont have films from sky, so its mainly the old type films.
ReplyDeleteMostly I see are like
Westerns
Good,bad and ugly
Story
The Green Mile
ect.
Ha! You have no idea how much fun it was for me reading your lists! So impressive. It was difficult to keep it to 15. I don't have time right now to sort through who named what but some on all of your lists that I like too are:
ReplyDeleteE.T. - it's actually one of my favorites, though for some reason it did not immediately come to mind.
Eraserhead - too weird to forget!
Fargo - I like most all the Cohen Bros. movies
Wild at Heart - Lynch's best film IMHO
Life is Beautiful - so sad, it causes actual pain - right up there with Sophie's Choice and Gorillas in the Mist.
Anna and her Sisters - since Susan mentioned Love and Death
Thanks, guys! It was fun.
First meme I've been tempted by for ages. I like your list, and would have chosen some of those myself but here's some you didn't mention. I'll put them on my blog and link to your list.
ReplyDeleteIn no particular order:
A Taste of Honey
The King of Comedy
Kes
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Donnie Darko
Gregory's Girl
The Blood on Satan's Claw
The Wicker Man
The Loneliness of the Long Distance
Runner
Marathon Man
West Side Story
Carousel
A Canterbury Tale
This Is England
Man, I'm humbled by the volumes of great film you're all reminding me about, and enticed by those I haven't seen (or more honestly, haven't heard of!)
ReplyDeleteLike the boy said coming out of the confessional, "So many good leads!"
;)
Cunning Runt: :-)
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