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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4930 on: April 09, 2017, 08:08:46 PM »
Excellent metaphor, smirnoff! I brought the marshmallows. :)





I too like your thoughts, 1SO. There are so many ways to approach a film, especially as we age and gather life experiences.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4931 on: April 10, 2017, 02:12:37 AM »
My own top 100 may actually shrink this year to a top 50 or less. But largely because my idea of what my top film list is has changed a lot. I used to regard it as something I was assembling. A tower I would add to block by block. And each year I would shift a few blocks around, and add a few new ones. My metaphor has changed over the years though, and now I think of my top 100 more like tending a campfire, wherein the fate of every film is inevitable... they will all, eventually, stop giving off heat.
Great way to describe it, but I don't find it to be accurate. Many of your favorites will continue to find new ways to give off heat. As you grow older and your perspective on the world shifts you will find many of these films will shift with you, offering new insights.
I get what you're saying here but I look at it a little different...

I think the most important thing for me is that a film continues to generate an emotional response. That's my motivation to watch it again. That's the fire powering the whole thing and largely what I'm rating it on. If that goes out than my motivation to see it again goes with it. Take T2... while I've loved it for years and continued to see it in new ways as I've grown, and like you say gain "new insights", that's only been possible because it's never failed to generate the emotional response it always has. That the only reason I've seen it so many times. It's like a button that I've been hitting for 20 years and so far every time I've hit it it's delivered that punch. And in that regard I actually don't want the film to evolve, and I don't want to evolve past it. But that's not really something I can control. One day you put it on and... nothing happens. Like when Ben Affleck knocks on Matt Damons door at the end of Good Will Hunting, and for the first time in 20 years he doesn't answer the call.

I can't really think of an instance where when that emotional response has finally slipped away that it ever came back. Or that I've ever tried to get it back. I think of it more like a horse whose had an active working life finally getting put out to pasture. Once the saddle is off it doesn't go back on.

Admittedly, there are times were my fear of a film not being able to ring that bell again has kept me from putting it on. Like I have a sense I may have moved past it, but don't want to have, and so I avoid watching it again and want to go on a little longer in the fading memory of the good times. This is natural right? We all do this? :)) How sweet is it when those fears are unfounded and the movie is as great as ever, or better! :) How sad is it when isn't? Still, maybe the first step to finding a new movie to go into your top 100 is not to find the movie, but to make room for it.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4932 on: April 13, 2017, 06:48:58 AM »
Heh, have fun with Evangelion. That's, um, interesting.

That's a word for it.

Just remember, make a post-it about or something, really really make sure you don't forget, skip the last two episodes and watch End of Evangelion instead. Seriously, this is life or death stuff.

NEW DEPARTURES:
Ran
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Well, if I'd known I'd have watched something else instead.

(kidding)

But that's fine because Ran's a Top Ten movie, so clearly you're not in your right mind.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4933 on: April 13, 2017, 06:54:37 AM »
Updated my top 100 (Letterbox'd/ICM), figured I'd make a real post of it this time around.

I still don't understand the Amélie Poulain love, but I applaud the number of Kurosawas and Coens. And All About Eve is #20, so this list is great.

10% french movies sounds like a reasonable amount.

EDIT: I also love that Interstellar and The Martian are next to each other on the list.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4934 on: May 05, 2017, 12:26:23 AM »
My top 20:
1. Naked
2. Kwaidan
3. Last Year at Marienbad
4. Possession
5. Ordet
6. Barry Lyndon
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Psycho
9. Black Swan
10. A Serious Man
11. Werckmeister Harmonies
12. Rosemary's Baby
13. Bicycle Thieves
14. Andrei Rublev
15. A Woman Under the Influence
16. Marketa Lazarova
17. Seven Samurai
18. Winter Light
19. Martyrs
20. Dogville

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4935 on: May 05, 2017, 02:09:15 AM »
That is quite a list.  Almost brutal.  I deeply respect it.   Especially because it shares some with my top 100: Ordet, There Will Be Blood, A Serious Man, Andrei Rublev, and all of the ones I've seen I appreciate.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4936 on: May 05, 2017, 03:13:53 AM »
There Will Be Blood could be higher...
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4937 on: May 05, 2017, 11:08:23 AM »
Interesting selections, Wade.

3. Last Year at Marienbad
11. Werckmeister Harmonies
15. A Woman Under the Influence
17. Seven Samurai
18. Winter Light

All in my top 100, and Psycho and Naked are in my top 250. I also think quite highly of Kwaidan and A Serious Man.


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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4938 on: May 05, 2017, 09:37:31 PM »
Almost brutal.

Brutal is correct. I'm exhausted just reading that list despite liking it quite a bit.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4939 on: June 23, 2017, 09:19:42 AM »
It's time for a new top 100. As usual, images and link to reviews on my site.

1. Days of Heaven (1978)
2. Three: Colors Blue (1993)
3. Certified Copy (2010)
4. The New World (2005)
5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
6. Wings of Desire (1987)
7. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
8. Spirited Away (2001)
9. Notorious (1946)
10. Ordet (1955)
11. The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
12. Play Time (1967)
13. Paris, Texas (1984)
14. Blade Runner (1982)
15. A Short Film About Love (1988)
16. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
17. Black Narcissus (1947)
18. The Big Lebowski (1998)
19. Lost in Translation (2003)
20. Amadeus (1984)
21. The Thin Red Line (1998)
22. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
23. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
24. Safe (1995)
25. Groundhog Day (1993)
26. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
27. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
28. Syndromes and a Century (2006)
29. The Old Mill (1937)
30. Night and Fog (1956)
31. Babette’s Feast (1987)
32. One Froggy Evening (1955)
33. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
34. Close-Up (1990)
35. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
36. Stalker (1979)
37. Take Shelter (2011)
38. Apocalypse Now (1979)
39. Alien (1979)
40. M (1931)
41. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
42. Perfect Blue (1997)
43. One Week (1920)
44. Taste of Cherry (1997)
45. A Serious Man (2009)
46. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
47. 7th Heaven (1927)
48. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
49. The House is Black (1963)
50. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
51. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
52. Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
53. Two Days, One Night (2014)
54. Citizen Kane (1941)
55. Vivre sa vie (1962)
56. Metropolis (1927)
57. Late Spring (1949)
58. The Son (2002)
59. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
60. The Immigrant (2013)
61. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
62. Mind Game (2004)
63. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
64. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
65. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
66. Silence (2016)
67. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
68. L’Atalante (1934)
69. Salaam Cinema (1995)
70. Wise Blood (1979)
71. Daisies (1966)
72. A Man Escaped (1956)
73. The Big City (1963)
74. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
75. Veritgo (1958)
76. The Human Condition I (1959)
77. Cat People (1942)
78. The Third Man (1949)
79. Like Someone in Love (2012)
80. Rashomon (1950)
81. Mon oncle (1958)
82. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
83. City Girl (1930)
84. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
85. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
86. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
87. L’Argent (1983)
88. A Propos de Nice (1930)
89. Olympia (1938)
90. Two Lovers (2008)
91. Scream (1996)
92. Children of Heaven (1997)
93. Stranger than Paradise (1984)
94. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
95. Three Comrades (1938)
96. Dredd (2012)
97. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
98. Shirin (2008)
99. To the Wonder (2012)
100. In the Mood for Love (2000)

 

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