1.Aguirre, The Wrath of God--directed by UberGerman Werner Herzog and starring
the crazed Klaus Kinski. Spanish conquistadors descend into madness and oblivion
in 16th century Peru. Music by Popol Vuh.

2.The Wild Bunch-- Loose cannon director Sam Peckinpah's ode to old west testosterone. Violent poetry to some, self-indulgent waste to others.

3.Donnie Darko-- Director's cut. Time travel, fate, life-purpose, and true love.
All to a memorable 1980's soundtrack.

4.Cabeza de Vaca-- Mexican production about the 16th century Spanish explorer's
wanderings in America. Jesus, Edgar Cayce, and Indiana Jones come to mind here. Another great soundtrack.

5.The Gospel According to Saint Matthew--Gay Communist Atheist director Pier Paolo Paselini's take on Matthew's text. Stunning, in my opinion.

6.A Film About Jimi Hendrix--Documentary about the one and only. Some unecessary interviews, but incredible concert footage. Check out "Red House"
from the Isle of Wight concert. I swear he's beaming frequencies from one of Neptune's moons.

7.Akira Kirosawa's Dreams--Beautiful meditation on nature and humanity's place in it.

8.A Hard Day's Night-- Can't get away from these guys.

9.The Good, Bad, And The Ugly--Sergio Leone's epic of moral ambiguity during the American civil war. Spaghetti western at it's finest.

10.Barabbas--Anthony Quinn plays the rabble rouser exchanged for Jesus. I especially like the theme of his being haunted for the remainder of his life by that
incident.

My all-time favorite will always be The Princess Bride. One of the few movies that is just as good as the book it's based on. It's got something for everyone: fighting, fencing, chases, escapes, giants, true love . . . and it's all hilarious.

Very good choice.



Whaddup Tapati! Mandy Patinkin is da bomb! Ever seen Yentl?

Stargate

EVERY GODZILLA !!!!!!!

i cannot for the life of me remember the name, but it's an old black and white movie about a backwoods boy who finds a dog, which turns out to be a basenji,Isis of the Blue nile.... very cool movie.

Apollon, an anime from the 80s

Vampire hunter D and VHD bloodlust, more anime

Yellow Submarine "oBLUEterate them"

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Midnight on the Galaxy Express, another anime

Schindler's list
Amistad
Pulp Fiction
Finding Neverland
Chocolat
and... no kidding... Shrek

oh, and The Pianist!! Which felt like a emotional rollercoaster the whole 2 1/2 hours. For me at least.

* almost famous
* gummo
* manhattan -woody allen
* the last 5 minutes of flashdance
* long day's journey into the night -written by eugene oneil
* mabarosi -hirokazu kore eda
* storytelling -solondz
* natural-born killers
* tokyo ga -wim wenders (documentary about the film-maker ozu)
* safe -todd haynes
* simultaneous: the works of scott rankin (-> because of this that i started making movies)


while watching this movie i remember being really into looking at the people's faces
and then i heard that passolini chose them from among regular peasants of the village and not real actors. Also, the scenes leading up to / the suicide of judas.

Yeah, striking imagery.
Peter's denial is what gets me.
Jesus as Che Guevara. Who would have thought?

We can list anime, too?

I will have to add to my list, then:
practically anything by Miyazaki (just saw Howl's Moving Castle and loved it!), but especially Spirited Away and Nausicaa
Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Adolescence Mokushiroku (because how can you not love a movie where everyone turns into cars at the end?)
They Were Eleven (an old classic)
X The Movie (because it was an awful derivative of the manga but it was still so cheesy you kinda had to like it)

everybodysux, I have not seen Yentl, but I do love the Mandy Patinkin. He is awesome in the new TV series "Dead Like Me." (I am counting down the days till season 2 comes out on DVD! I think there will be a Dead Like Me party with my friends next week. We gotta find out if he ever scores with Death.)

The Green Mile
The Matrix (only the first part)
Kill Bill 1-2
Pulp Fiction
Bram Stoker's Dracula with Winona Ryder
Donnie Brasco

Open,
How did you like Jackie Brown and Reservoir Dogs?

I'll butt in to mention that my son's favorite movie is Reservoir Dogs. He likes the gangster & crime theme stuff. In general he's a big fan of Quentin Tarantino.

I'm ambivalent about Tarantino the director. I really like Jackie and Reservoir, but don't care for his other works.

Tarantino the interviewee is positively manic. See that movie about the Z channel to appreciate his semi-crazed insightfulness.

My obsessiveness is compelling me to list 3 more other fillums:

Pather Panchali-- Satyajit Ray's look at a poor Bengali Brahmin family. Scored by the maestro Ravi Shankar

Clerks -- A day in the life of two convenience store employees. Extremely vulgar, wickedly funny, and quite philosophical. (37! Jesus!!!)

The Station Agent-- An antisocial dwarf inherits a small train depot in New Jersey.
The locals try to befriend him. I can totally relate.

Thanks for indulging me.

I think I already wrote something about movies in an earlier thread, but here we go again. Some films I liked before I joined:

Fanny and Alexander by Fassbinder

Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders

Sex, Lies and Videotape

Clockwork Orange

The Graduate

Once Upon a Time in America

Hair, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus by Milos Forman

Tess by Roman Polanski

Apocalypse Now and The Godfather

And last but not least: Solaris and Stalker by Tarkovski. There were also some very good WWII Russian movies, The Father of the Soldier and A Ballad About a Soldier, And Quiet Flows the Don. Also, the Russian black-and-white production of Crime and Punishment and the Russian War and Peace.


After I joined:

Pretty Woman (for the chemistry between J. Roberts and R. Gere)

There's Something About Mary

Chocolat

American Gigolo and Light Sleeper

Felicia's Journey and The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan

The Bridges of Madison County, Out of Africa, The Hours (adore Meryl Streep!)

The Matrix

Frida

21 Grams

Whale Rider

Eyes Wide Shut

The latter one I have not seen yet. Jackie Brown was good but Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill are unbeatable.

American Beauty

Election

Better than Chocolate

Jesus Christ Superstar

Ferris Buellers Day Off

I like it very much too, especially the music. Also, The Last Temptation of Christ, again especially the music which is maybe the best soundtrack ever. Peter Gabriel forever!

[quote=Milla,Aug 10 2005, 10:02 PM]
[quote]Jesus Christ Superstar[/quote]

I just saw Emir Kusturicas Underground. What a fabulous experience! It was a myriad of human emotions and complexities of life. The way they had both sorrow and happines present at the same time while they were for example singing and dancing in a feast was most remarkable. For the viewer also, it is at the same time funny and yet painful.

I love so many movies.

First the trilogies.

Lord of the Rings
Star Wars episodes 1, 2, 3. (the new ones)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery...baby.
The Matrix
Indiana Jones


Akira Kuroswa's The Seven Samurai
Frank Miller's Sin City
Spiderman 2
Ace Ventura Pet Detective (the first one)
Moulin Rouge! (my favorite musical)
Zardoz
Barbarella

Photos from the camp classic Barbarella:















Cabaret
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Adaptation (spike jonze director)
Mary Poppins
The Moon-Spinners ( Just cuz Hayley Mills is so sexy in the Greek Islands. btw-she's a vaisnava and made a film on Caitanya for Iskcon, her son was the lead guitarist and singer for Kula Shaker and he was raised as a vaisnava)
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Interview with the Vampire
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Three Kings (1999)
The Graduate
Blazing Saddles ( Quotes--Lili Von Shtupp: A wed wose, how womantic.--- Church congregation singing: Now is a time of great decision, Are we to stay or up and quit? There's no avoiding this conclusion: Our town is turning into shit. Amen.---Bart: Mornin', ma'am. And isn't it a lovely mornin'? Elderly woman: Up yours nigger.---Jim: You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.---Taggart: Horses? We can't afford to lose no horses. Send over a couple o' niggers.---Hedley Lamarr: My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. Taggart: God darnit Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.---Charlie: They said you was hung. Bart: And they was right.---Jim: Oh boys, lookee what I got heyuh. Bart: Hey, where the white women at.---Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications? Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape. Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice. Applicant: I like rape. ---Taggart: What do you want me to do sir? Hedley Lamarr: I want you to round up ever vicious criminal and gun slinger in the west. Take this down. [Taggart looks for a pen and paper while Hedley talks] Hedley Lamarr: I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. Taggart: [finding pen and paper] Could you repeat that, sir?---Lili Von Shtupp: Would you like another schnitzengruben? Bart: No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben. Lili Von Shtupp: Well how about a little...[whispers in his ear] Bart: [shocked] Baby. I'm not from Havana.---Reverend Johnson: Order, order. Goddamnit I said "order". Howard Johnson: Y'know, Nietzsche says: "Out of chaos comes order." Olson Johnson: Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard.---Bart: Sir, he specifically requested two "niggers". Well, to tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch.)

Midnight Cowboy
Sweet Charity
Casablanca
Barton Fink
The Sterile Cuckoo
Dune
Wattstax
Monterey Pop
Woodstock
The Harder They Come
Rocky Horror Picture Show
This Is Spinal Tap
Spawn
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
The Bourne Identity (I like Robert Ludlum novels)
The Bourne Supremacy
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
Elizabeth (1998)
Godspell
The Wedding Singer (just cuz Drew Barrymore is so sexy in it)
Bad Girls (ditto)
Petulia
Patton
Oliver (1968)
Kelly's Heroes
The Road Warrior
Braveheart
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Fight Club
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Clueless
The Fifth Element

Stanley Kubrick films:
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
Lolita


Robert De Niro films:
Goodfellas
Casino
The Mission
Godfather 2
Taxi Driver

Peter Sellers films:
Being There
The Mouse That Roared
The Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Bobo
Casino Royale
The Magic Christian
After the Fox
The Party (Sellers best part, he plays an Indian actor (hindu) in Hollywood (the 1960's) who gets fired because he screws up, he was just an extra in the movie yet manages in destroying the entire production, but then he accidentally gets invited to a hollywood party of bigshots. 99% of the movie is what happens at the party, hilarious, his funniest movie.

Quotes from The Party:

Director: You.
Hrundi V. Bakshi: Me?
Director: Yes, you. Get off of my set, and out of my picture. Off, off! You're washed up, you're finished! I'll see to it that you never make another movie again!
Hrundi V. Bakshi: Does that include television, sir?

Hrundi V. Bakshi: We have a saying in India...
Michelle Monet: Yes?
Hrundi V. Bakshi: Yes.
Michelle Monet: Well?
Hrundi V. Bakshi: Well what?

Hrundi V. Bakshi: Hrundi V. Bakshi.
Michelle Monet: Pardon?
Hrundi V. Bakshi: That is what my name is called.

C. S. Divot: You mashuga!
Hrundi V. Bakshi: I am not your sugar.



Monty Python's Flying Circus films:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Jabberwocky
The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

All of Woody Allen's movies

Tim Burton films:
Ed Wood
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Edward Scissorhands
Batman Returns
Mars Attacks!
Sleepy Hollow
The Nightmare Before Christmas (wrote it didn't direct it)

Beatles Movies:
A Hard Days Night
Yellow Submarine
Help
Let It Be

Franco Zeffirelli's films:
The Taming of the Shrew
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet

Animated films:
Heavy Metal (awesome sci fi)
Both Shrek films
Vampire Hunter D
Titan A.E.
Antz
A Bugs Life
The Incredibles
Finding Nemo
Monsters, Inc.
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

Those are just off the top of my head, but there are so many more.

How did you get so smart watching kids films ?

Quotes from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Melissa: Hi, I'm Melissa Robinson.
Ace Ventura: Pleasure to meet you.
Melissa: Did you have any trouble getting in?
Ace Ventura: No, the guy with the rubber glove was surprisingly gentle.

Melissa: You know, you're just mad because your stupid little pebble theory didn't work out and you don't know how to express your anger.
Ace Ventura: Oh yeah? And you're ugly.

Marino: Hey Ace, got anymore of that gum?
Ace Ventura: That's none of your damn business and I'll thank you to stay out of my personal affairs.

Mrs. Finkle: If he had held the ball laces out like he's supposed to, Ray would never have missed that kick. Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell!!

Ace Ventura: Yo, Ron! Where's the bathroom?
Ronald Camp: Right over there.
Ace Ventura: [groaning] I think it's the pate. Stuff probably looks better on the way out!

Ronald Camp: I'll have the plumbing checked immediately, Mr. Ace.
Ace Ventura: See that you do. If I'd been drinking out of the toilet, I might've been killed.

Aguado: Homicide, Ventura, now how ya gonna solve that one?
Ace Ventura: Good question, Aguado. First, I'd establish a motive. The killer saw the size of the bug's DICK and become insanely jealous. Then I'd lose 30 pounds... PORKIN' his wife!

Ace Ventura: I just visited Ray Finkle's place.
Melissa: And?
Ace Ventura: Cozy, if you're Hannibal Lecter.

Lois Einhorn: Listen, pet dick. How would you like me to make your life a living hell?
Ace Ventura: Well, I'm not really ready for a relationship, Lois, but thank you for asking. Hey, maybe I'll give you a call sometime. Your number's still 911? All righty then.

Woman: You really do love animals, don't you?
Ace Ventura: Only if it gets cold enough.

Mr. Finkle: What do you know about Ray Finkle?
[Ace sucks in a huge breath of air.]
Ace Ventura: Soccer style kicker graduated from Cauler high June 1976, Stetson University honors graduate class of 1980, holds 2 NCAA division 1 records one for most points in a season, one for distance, former nickname "The Mule," The first and oly pro athlete to come out of Cauler County and one hell of a model American.
Mr. Finkle: Are you another one of those "Hard Copy" guys?
Ace Ventura: No Sir, I'm just a very big Finkle fan, This is my Graceland.

Lois Einhorn: Ventura, when I get out of that bathroom, you better be gone!
Ace Ventura: Is it number one or number two? I just want to know how much time I have.

Mr. Shickadance: Ventuuurrraaa!
Ace Ventura: Yes, Satan? Oh, I'm sorry, sir. You sounded like someone else.

Mr. Shickadance: I heard animals in there, Ventura. I heard 'em again this mornin' scratchin' around.
Ace Ventura: I never bring my work home with me, sir.
Mr. Shickadance: Oh yeah. What's all this pet food for?
Ace Ventura: Fiber.

Ace Ventura: Holy testicle Tuesday.
Lois Einhorn: What the hell is he doing here?
Ace Ventura: I came to confess. I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.

Ace Ventura: [as Captain Kirk] Captain's Log, stardate 29.6, rounded off to the... nearest decimal point. We've... traveled back in time to save an ancient species from... total annihilation. SO FAR... no... signs of aquatic life anywhere, but I'm going to find it. If I have to tear this universe another black hole, I'm going to find it. I've... GOT TO, MISTER.

Hey baby, I'm a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Wanna come over to my place and help me unravel?



"The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, "Hey, I'm Vine Man."

Ambition is like a venus fly trap. If a frog were to sit on it, the fly trap could bite and bite but it wouldn't hurt the frog because it only has tiny little plant teeth. Then some other stuff could happen and that would be like ambition."

-Jack Handey

Another Emir Kusturica gem; Black cat, white cat. From the beginning right to the end there is so much going on in the film, it is unfathomable! I also like Pedro Almodovars films. So that I would not sound too cultural here, I must mention my all time favorite action film; True Lies. Yes, the one where Covernator is showing his acting skills.

A few favourite films, (not in order of preference):

IN THE MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON - Maya Deren

NOW I AM YOURS - Nina Danino ( thoroughly unnerving portrayal of the rapture of St. Teresa of Avilla).
Soundtrack- Diamanda Galas.

TEMENOS - Nina Danino

The films of STAN BRAKHAGE

THE ADDICTION -Abel Ferrara

THE BAD LIEUTENANT -Abel Ferrara

CYRANO DE BERGERAC -Jean-Paul Rappeneau

BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING - Jean Renoir

GLITTERBUG - Derek Jarman

UNFORGIVEN - Clint Eastwood

THE ASCENT - Larissa Schepitko

NOSTALGIA - Andrei Tarkovsky

MIRROR - Andrei Tarkovsky

WITHNAIL AND I - Bruce Robinson

I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING - Michael Powell

THE RED SHOES - Michael Powell

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - Michael Powell

RAN - Akira Kurosawa

THRONE OF BLOOD - Akira Kurosawa

LA BELLE ET LA BETE - Jean Cocteau

VAMPYR - Carl Dreyer

PATHER PANCHALI - Satyajit Ray

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - Orson Welles.

I always wanted to be Audrey Hepburn unfortunately where I am no-body cares about my impeccable accessorising, and absolutely beautiful voice .... ahhhh, such is life

Aran, you've given me a host of new titles to track down. Gracias.

the one thing that remains with me from maya deren movies is the long dead quiet scene on the beach with the chess table.

Jonny - glad to be of help.
The only film available by Nina Danino on DVD at present is "Temenos", which you will find at Amazon U.K. ( All-regions).
It is a work of beauty.

SOMETIMES I like watching films halfway though and then go into another room, concentrate REALLY hard and make the things I want to happen, happen... Like the lead character, get away from the bad guys or whatever. The funny thing is it usually works... Does anyone else have any experiences with this ???

I used to understand addiction, I used to drink too much POP ( like SODDDDA POP ) And feel sick, and I'd still want it even with the sickness.... what is that all about ?

My favorite movie of all time, that I have mentioned previously is Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppala.

Exposed is the 'war ethic' to its logical end in Kurtz's sober if horrifying assesment of victory, necessity and genocide. None since have touched on the burning coals of compassionless death, the myth of modern warfare and geo-political subterfuge.

Directly after Viet Nam such exposure and expose' was possible, but hardly the case now.

The climatic moment of the movie expertly weaves the assination of the renegade American Army official and the ritualistic slaughter of a waterbuffalo by the Vietnameese/Cambodian followers of Kurtz, a crescendo punctuated by the staccato climax of the Doors song 'the end'. Such potent and penetrating symbolism is rarely if ever seen in film today. (I damn sure can't think of any)

Apocalypse Now is a great movie in my book. I also have always liked Dr. Strangelove (you can't fight in here; this is the war room!") and Network. Das Boot has one of the most heartbreaking endings (as does Breaker Morant, although you know that's coming--it's just that you can't bear it when it does). I think Wag the Dog is frighteningly hilarious. I was fascinated by the deliberate artifice of El Amor Brujo. I couldn't stop watching Lagaan and was blown away by the drama of a cricket-match set piece. And we all laughed our cans off watching Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice. They're just fun, and my daughters, each of whom has read Austen's book more than 130 times (and each of whom has worn out several volumes), enjoyed B & P even more than I did.

That's not an exhaustive list, but just what came to my mind.

oops forgot this: Grey Gardens by David and Albert Maysles.

Yeah Angre, a powerhouse of a film. Major Kilgore is an inspiration deluxe.
You've probably seen Eleanor Coppola's documentary on it. Equally riveting, no?

Absolutely. And Robert Duvall gave such a performance. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells of... victory!" And the chilling scene when he orders an attack of a village to clear the coast for surfing, with the choppers blasting Wagner from loudspeakers to scare the hell out of the Vietnamese. I don't know who else could have pulled it off so well and so effortlessly.

I saw two days ago I Am Not Scared, an Italian film from 2003. It is about a gang of children in an small village in Southern Italy in the late seventies. Gripping and powerful, and not easy to watch in the beginning until you gradually figure out what is happening. Very beautifully shot, you see the splendor and the ugliness of the world through the eyes of a 10 year old child.

Kilgore tells me " You have to have a vision and then go for it at full throttle. Even if you are a slacking ease lover (which I am). Pay no mind to the critics or supporters, find your code and live by it!"

I'll add that Italian flick to my must see list.

I like various indie and foreign films -- of course I always seem to root for the underdog filmmaker subliminally!

Recently I watched the DVD re-release of George Lucas' first feature film THX 1138. It's dense with social commentary, and for some reason I've developed this intense ambivolence for the film as of late. Anyone who hasn't seen this film should definetely check it out. I'd love to hear even one line of a reaction from devotees/ex-devotees.

The last film i saw was Requiem For A Dream. It's amazing, i wasn't particularly expecting to like it, because it deals with predictably sensational issues (heroin addiction, mental 'illness'e.t.c) and i feel a lot of films rely on the intensity of those issues to make up for any real artistic intensity (e.g. Trainspotting, which i just found funny. I found it interesting that despite the 'realist, gritty' tag, they changed the location from a town outside Edinburgh called Leith to Edinburgh itself, then realised that nowhere in that city was ugly enough, and so shot most of it in Glasgow.) However it's a truly brilliant, incredibly psychological film, which uses loads of potentially pretentious esotoric references in a beautiful way (for example when one characters obsession with his own reflection gives way to a childhood memory, recalling Lacan's mother/mirror ideas). In parts its reminiscent of Bergmans Persona. It's also without doubt the best use of a soundtrack ive seen. The director, Darren Aaronovsky, also made Pi, a great film about chaos theory.

Some other favourites, off the top of my head

Amelie (or Le Fabuleux Destin d' Amelie Poulain)

Harvey

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Mirror by Tarkhovsky

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (another surprise for me, as i really disliked Adaptation and John Malkovich)

The Trial (the Orson Welles version)

A bout de Souffle (Breathless)

oops technical difficulty.

I love Les Enfants du Paradis

I always really wanted to love Dancer in The Dark, i know so many people who say it's their favourite film, and I love the soundtrack, but i just can't watch it. I think the furthest i've got is about half an hour in and ive tried so many times- i even own it- but i need to put my hands over my eyes and then just leave the room it makes me cringe so much. Can anyone explain it's appeal? I love Bjork, and i like the naivete of films like Amelie, but it's just too corny.