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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2150 on: September 03, 2010, 07:42:42 PM »
Amazing list, sdedalus.  :o  Curious about how your top 100 compares to, say, the bottom 100 of the 600; the top 100 films are all films you love, I assume. Are the lower films ones you only really like? Or are all of them films you love?

I really like all of them.  Somewhere in the 400s is probably the line between "love" and "really like".  Anything between the bottom half of the top 100 and the lower half of the 300 range is fairly interchangeable.  On the Waterfront at 363 was 106 on my list last year, for example.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2151 on: September 03, 2010, 07:58:24 PM »
Great list, sean. Docks of New York, Make Way For Tomorrow, My Night at Maud's and Japanese Girls at the Harbor are all new to recent additions, right?

I limited myself to two films per director. Otherwise, I could've really gone crazy. Here are the directors that really did it for me. And, after that, the decade breakdown.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Akira Kurosawa
Claire Denis
Nicholas Ray
Jacques Demy
Alain Resnais
Jean-Luc Godard
Edward Yang
Michael Mann
Ernst Lubitsch
Michael Powell/The Archers
Wong Kar-Wai
Hayao Miyazaki
Luis Buñuel
Vincente Minnelli
Frank Tashlin
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Pedro Almodovar
François Truffaut

10's - 0
20's - 2
30's - 8
40's - 7
50's - 20
60's - 9
70's - 11
80's - 8
90's - 11
00's - 25




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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2152 on: September 03, 2010, 10:17:46 PM »
There are 25 films new to this year's Top 100:

The Docks of New York*, Mulholland Dr.*, The General, The Quiet Man, Make Way for Tomorrow*, Tokyo Story, The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, The Royal Tenenbaums, All That Jazz, Gone with the Wind, Punch-Drunk Love, Swing Time, Dazed and Confused, The Godfather Part 2, Rushmore, Only Angels Have Wings, Satantango, 2046, Sherlock Jr, The Lady Eve, Slacker, Fallen Angels, Miami Vice, My Night at Maud's*, Japanese Girls at the Harbor*.

The ones with * are ones I saw for the first time in the past year.

The following films dropped out of my Top 100, with this year's ranks in (): 8 1/2 (104), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (167), The Manchurian Candidate (141), The Seventh Seal (188), Dr. Strangelove (151), Rashomon (107), Steamboat Bill, Jr (111), The Empire Strikes Back (135), Unforgiven (144), 2001 (102), The Lion in Winter (116), Lawrence of Arabia (159), Red River (115), Chinatown (152), Do the Right Thing (145), Kiss Me Kate (254), Young Mr. Lincoln (112), The Lady From Shanghai (173), Day of Wrath (109), Hiroshima, mon amour (127), Glengarry Glen Ross (219), Written on the Wind (223), The Battle of Algiers (142), F for Fake (125), To Have and Have Not (103).

Raiders of the Lost Ark was number 101 each of the last two years.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2153 on: September 03, 2010, 10:34:29 PM »
Couple of cracker lists from frantastical and woodpecker.

Really enjoying seeing Witness for the Prosecution make all these appearances. Wilder's sleeping giant.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2154 on: September 03, 2010, 10:47:12 PM »
Boyfriend made a top 100 on his own time and surprised me with it today just because he knew I care about lists. I'm a lucky girl. His #1 is Dirty Harry and I've only seen 24 of his top 100. Marathon time!
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2155 on: September 04, 2010, 02:05:09 AM »
Boyfriend made a top 100 on his own time and surprised me with it today just because he knew I care about lists. I'm a lucky girl. His #1 is Dirty Harry and I've only seen 24 of his top 100. Marathon time!

Get him to post the list.

To the huge number of people who have posted their lists, well done, loved them all.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2156 on: September 04, 2010, 02:48:51 AM »
Amazing list, sdedalus.  :o  Curious about how your top 100 compares to, say, the bottom 100 of the 600; the top 100 films are all films you love, I assume. Are the lower films ones you only really like? Or are all of them films you love?

I really like all of them.  Somewhere in the 400s is probably the line between "love" and "really like".  Anything between the bottom half of the top 100 and the lower half of the 300 range is fairly interchangeable.  On the Waterfront at 363 was 106 on my list last year, for example.

On a boring technical point how are you handling the amount of data that a top 600 list implies? I have a database programme, Bento (Filemaker lite) that I have thought of using to handle the ever-growing list, plus set up a better rating system. New movies could then slot in better than the random process that it feels like at the moment. Any recommendations, s? Or anyone else. I am pondering this idea it just seems like a LOT of work.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2157 on: September 04, 2010, 03:49:18 AM »

1. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
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2. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)


3. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997)


4. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999)


5. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
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6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)


7. The Double Life of Veronique (Kryzstof Kieslowski, 1991)


8. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)


9 . The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)


10. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
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11. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)


12. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)


13. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)


14. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)


15. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)


16. Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002)


17. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)


18. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)


19. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)


20. Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001)
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21. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)


22. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)


23. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)


24. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)


25. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)


26. Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax, 1991


27. Le Fils (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2002)


28. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)


29. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)


30. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
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31. The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1998)


32. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)


33. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)


34. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)


35. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)


36. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)


37. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)


38. L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)


39. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)


40. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
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41. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)


42. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 1999)


43. Still Life (Jia Zhang-Ke, 2006)


44. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)


45. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)


46. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)


47. Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)


48. Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)


49. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)


50. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)


51. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)


52. Three Colors: Red (Krzystof Kieslowski, 1994)


53. Wild Reeds (André Téchiné, 1994)


54. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)


55. All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)


56. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)


57. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)


58. The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, 2000)


59. High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968)


60. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
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61. Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004)


62. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)


63. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)


64. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)


65. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)


66. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)


67. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)


68. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)


69. The Terrorizers  (Edward Yang, 1986)


70. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)


71. L'atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)


72. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)


73. Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950)


74. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952)


75. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)


76. The Godfather II (The Godfather II, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)


77. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)


78. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001)


79. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)


80. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
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81. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)


82. The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)


83. Le pont des Arts (Eugène Green, 2004)


84. Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)


85. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)


86. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)


87. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara, 1987)


88. Salesman (Albert and David Maysles, 1968)


89. Naked Childhood (Maurice Pialat, 1968)


90. Bonnie and Clyde  (Arthur Penn, 1967)


91. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)


92. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)


93. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)


94. The Yards (James Gray, 2000)


95. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)


96. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007)


97. M/Other (Nobuhiro Suwa, 1999)


98. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949)


99. Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin, 1953)


100. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

The ranking makes very little sense after the first twenty or so. Also, somehow I managed to completely forget about Il Posto. So sorry, Schmerite :-\.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2158 on: September 04, 2010, 04:26:11 AM »
Woohoo! worm's list is here! The world can go back to normal.  8)

Wonderful list. Joe! Mann! Ray(s)! Dardennes! Altman! Hawks! Sirk! Lubitsch! Zemeckis(?)

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #2159 on: September 04, 2010, 06:45:31 AM »
I have seen 8 films in your top 20, Worm, and 7 of them made my top 70 or so (Modern Times was purely an oversight. I am kicking myself). YAY!!!
I actually consider a lot of movies to be life-changing! I take them to my heart and they melt into my personality.

 

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