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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #80 on: August 06, 2014, 10:38:52 PM »
So I'm working on a new list... I have 461 movies up for contention. Might take a while...
For the sake of making things easier and eliminating quite a few, are short films eligible for these lists?

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #81 on: August 07, 2014, 12:40:40 AM »
Short films should be fine, as long as you recognize that they are highly unlikely to make the final list.
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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #82 on: August 07, 2014, 06:40:15 AM »
Attempting to compile my 100, and I'm not finding it an easy task. Expect it to be top-heavy with populist nostalgia picks though.

I'm interested to know how much people take into account the amount of times they've seen a particular film, and whether they feel they need a couple of viewings at least before something is cemented into hallowed list.

Similarly I wondered about so-called 'one-timers', films that had a massive impact on you when you watched them but that you had no real desire to revisit.

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #83 on: August 07, 2014, 06:16:30 PM »
Pics and notes here


1   Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman)
2   Mahanagar a.k.a. The Big City (1963, Satyajit Ray)
3   The Hole (1998, Ming-liang Tsai)
4   A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
5   Linda Linda Linda (2005, Nobuhiro Yamashita)
6   Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray)
7   Scenes From a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
8   Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
9   Time of the Gypsies (1988, Emir Kusturica)
10   An Angel at My Table (1990, Jane Campion)
11   Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
12   Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
13   Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
14   Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
15   Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
16   The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
17   Jules and Jim (1962, Francois Truffaut)
18   Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
19   All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
20   The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000, Anh Hung Tran)
21   Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
22   Revenge of a Kabuki Actor (1963, Kon Ichikawa)
23   What Time Is It There? (2001, Ming-liang Tsai)
24   The Trial (1962, Orson Welles)
25   The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
26   Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
27   The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel)
28   Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini)
29   The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
30   Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
31   Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
32   Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
33   Hausu a.k.a. House (1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
34   Once (2006, John Varney)
35   8½ (1963, Federico Fellini)
36   All About My Mother (1999, Pedro Almodovar)
37   El Norte (1983, Gregory Nava)
38   The Scent of Green Papaya (1993, Anh Hung Tran)
39   Innocence (2004, Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
40   The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
41   Airplane! (1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)
42   Drugstore Cowboy (1989, Gus Van Sant)
43   The Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy)
44   Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
45   Winter Light (1962, Ingmar Bergman)
46   Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
47   The Turin Horse (2011, Bela Tarr)
48   High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
49   Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
50   Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
51   Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, Bela Tarr)
52   Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)
53   Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati)
54   The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
55   Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
56   The Long Day Closes (1992, Terence Davies)
57   American Movie (1999, Chris Smith)
58   Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa)
59   The Wayward Cloud (2005, Ming-liang Tsai)
60   Songs from the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson)
61   Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
62   Secrets & Lies (1996, Mike Leigh)
63   2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
64   Girl Walk//All Day (2011, Jason Krupnick)
65   Devils on the Doorstep (2000, Wen Jiang)
66   Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
67   Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols)
68   The Dead (1987, John Huston)
69   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
70   Safe (1995, Todd Haynes)
71   The Story of Qiu Ju (1992, Zhang Yimou)
72   Devi (1960, Satyajit Ray)
73   A Moment of Innocence (1996, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
74   The Lineup (1958, Don Siegel)
75   The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
76   Three Colors: Blue (1993, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
77   In the Loop (2009, Armando Iannucci)
78   The Burglar (1957, Paul Wendkos)
79   I Fidanzati (1963, Ermanno Olmi)
80   The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
81   Hairspray (1988, John Waters)
82   Shame (1968, Ingmar Bergman)
83   Cairo Station (1958, Youssef Chahine)
84   Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
85   Sita Sings the Blues (2008, Nina Paley)
86   Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
87   A Page of Madness (1926, Teinosuke Kinugasa)
88   A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
89   As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000, Jonas Mekas)
90   The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson)
91   The Cloud-Capped Star (1960, Ritwik Ghatak)
92   Thirst for Love (1966, Koreyoshi Kurahara)
93   Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
94   Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)
95   Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)
96   Rat-Trap (1982, Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
97   Rosetta (1999, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
98   Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
99   The Match Factory Girl (1990, Aki Kaurismaki)
100   Xanadu (1980, Robert Greenwald)

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #84 on: August 07, 2014, 07:05:03 PM »
Fabulous list, Martin (as usual! :) )!  Love that Angel at My Table is now in your top 10.

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #85 on: August 07, 2014, 07:06:04 PM »
Thanks oad!

Fabulous list, Martin (as usual! :) )!  Love that Angel at My Table is now in your top 10.

I showed it to my fiancée the other night... it's her favorite out of everything I've showed her so far.

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #86 on: August 07, 2014, 07:10:20 PM »
I showed it to my fiancée the other night... it's her favorite out of everything I've showed her so far.
Awesome.  8)

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #87 on: August 07, 2014, 08:31:38 PM »
I love how Linda, Linda, Linda speaks to you so well. It makes me wish I had been in a band at one time, so I could have that particular connection with it.



Oh!! And Xanadu! :))   Your neon lights will shine!
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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #88 on: August 07, 2014, 10:16:56 PM »
Yeah LLL just works for me on every level.  I get so much pleasure out of it.

Note that 5 of my new additions are musicals of one form or another (while only losing one, The Wall).

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Re: Filmspotter Top 100 2014-- Discussion
« Reply #89 on: August 07, 2014, 11:03:12 PM »
I feel like I know your list almost as well as I know my own. Always a delight to pour through. The highest ranked ones I hadn't seen were Turin Horse and Visage. Now Visage is replaced by As I Was Moving Ahead... Rat-Trap is the only other title in your 100 for me to watch when I'm ready.