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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4060 on: June 25, 2014, 12:03:19 PM »
I am super happy to see Fanny and Alexander new to your list. It shot to the top of mine when I watched it last year. I assume you watched the 5 hour cut?

Oh yeah. I loved every luscious minute. All I want is a Swedish Christmas.

Sad to see Three Colors: Blue and The Passion of Joan of Arc fall off. Thus is life.

I'm not looking to see Joan again soon, but who knows what will happen.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4061 on: June 25, 2014, 12:13:17 PM »

12. Moonrise Kingdom (NEW)
17. Spirited Away (NEW)
31. Fanny and Alexander (NEW)
36. Wings of Desire (NEW)
42. The General (NEW)
43. My Neighbor Totoro (NEW)
49. Seven Up! (series) (NEW)
54. The Fly (1986) (NEW)
55. The Straight Story (NEW)
56. Ponyo (NEW)
57. A Room with a View (NEW)
58. Night of the Living Dead (1968) (NEW)
70. Whisper of the Heart (NEW)
80. The Last Picture Show (NEW)
90. Clueless (NEW)
91. Psycho (NEW)
Particularly love seeing these new ones on your list!

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4062 on: June 25, 2014, 01:17:31 PM »
I am super happy to see Fanny and Alexander new to your list. It shot to the top of mine when I watched it last year. I assume you watched the 5 hour cut?

Oh yeah. I loved every luscious minute. All I want is a Swedish Christmas.


It's a funny thing how the merry Christmas sticks with everyone. Here in Sweden it has really become synonymous with this movie and everyone thinks of it as a bright, light and hopeful film. They alway show the dancing or the dinner table scene when it's discussed. When I think of it, what immediately comes up is the horrible, abusive bishop. And the mysterious Ismael in a cage in the cellar. In my memory the film is for great parts pretty dark and not christmasy at all. But again: I really need to rewatch it.

When the FS mascot photo thing one day arrives at me, I'm going to take some pics with it here in my city, at the places that appear. In case anyone missed it I live i the childhood hometown of Bergman.

By the way, the yearly Bergman week at Fårö is going on right now as we speak, so there has been quite a bit of Bergman articles in the newspaper recently, for a change.  (Normally we don't talk much about him here in Sweden, we're just amazed and pride when we see how appreciated he is abroad). Here's the programme if anyone's interested. Perhaps it's something to aspire for to attend once in a lifetime for our greatest Bergman fans here at the forum.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4063 on: June 25, 2014, 01:25:57 PM »
I think Fanny and Alexander is so successful because it is equally about those light and dark moments. The warm Christmas only makes the cold Bishop's house worse, and the time spent at the family's summer cottage place a green respite for the half hour or so we spend there. And, of course, Issak's realm is fantastic and strange, but that is only heightened by coming from such a drab location before.
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4064 on: June 25, 2014, 01:41:16 PM »
Also the Christmas opening is long. It's like an hour of Christmas. Of course, that's my favorite part to experience. But what I really appreciate about Fanny and Alexander is its fullness. It goes into so many different places and comes out the other side with a complex redemption.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4065 on: June 26, 2014, 11:26:48 AM »
tinyholidays, the best thing about your list is your reappearance on the forum!  But very close to that is that you have The Double Life in your #2 slot, exactly where it is in my list.  What a brilliant movie full of mystery and joy and heart wrenching scenes! 

The Return is great, but I haven't seen that on anyone else's list.  Anyone else have it?

And, of course, I am so very happy that you have joined the Spirited Away bandwagon.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4066 on: June 26, 2014, 11:57:51 AM »
What did you like best about The Saddest Music in the World? 

It made me laugh really hard with its joyful weirdness. The beer legs! Also, I went through a fun spell where I was watching a lot of Maddin, and I wanted to represent that time on my list.

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4067 on: June 26, 2014, 06:14:25 PM »
I'm beginning to think maybe Modern Times is no longer my all-time favorite movie.  I'm still extremely fond of it, but I've seen a lot of really great films in the past year; I should be prepared for the possibility that it may slip down my list upon rewatch.

Kind of sad, that... but kind of exciting too...
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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4068 on: July 20, 2014, 08:51:30 PM »
1. Boogie Nights (1997)
2. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
3. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
4. Star Wars (1977)
5. Jaws (1975)
6. Pscyho (1960)
7. The Matrix (1999)
8. Memento (2001)
9. Rashomon (1950)
10. The Shining (1980)
11. Alien (1979)
12. Se7en (1995)
13. Pulp Fiction (1994)
14. Unforgiven (1992)
15. Rushmore (1998)
16. Fargo (1996)
17. Citizen Kane (1941)
18. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
19. 12 Angry Men (1957)
20. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
21. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966)
22. The Thing (1982)
23. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
24. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
25. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
26. The Godfather (1972)
27. The Searchers (1956)
28. Being John Malkovich (1999)
29. M. (1931)
30. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
31. Mulholland Drive (2001)
32. The Terminator (1984)
33. The Prestige (2006)
34. There Will Be Blood (2007)
35. The Exorcist (1973)
36. Goodfellas (1990)
37. Halloween (1978)
38. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
39. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
40. No Country for Old Men (2007)
41. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
42. Donnie Darko (2001)
43. Tres Colours: White (1994)
44. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
45. High Fidelity (2000)
46. The Graduate (1967)
47. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
48. Taxi Driver (1976)
49. Let the Right One In (2008)
50. The Godfather Part II (1974)
51. Happiness (1998)
52. Black Swan (2010)
53. The Red Shoes (1948)
54. The Ice Storm (1997)
55. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
56. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
57. Before Sunrise (1995)
58. Rear Window (1954)
59. The 400 Blows (1959)
60. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
61. Unbreakable (2000)
62. In Bruges (2008)
63. Melancholia (2011)
64. Paris, Texas (1984)
65. The Last Picture Show (1971)
66. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
67. The Jerk (1979)
68. Blade Runner (1982)
69. Raider of the Lost Ark (1981)
70. Apocalypse Now (1979)
71. The Usual Suspects (1995)
72. In the Mood for Love (2001)
73. Harakiri (1962)
74. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
75. The Conversation (1974)
76. Blow-Up (1966)
77. High and Low (1963)
78. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
79. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
80. Lost in Translation (2003)
81. Drive (2011)
82. Moon (2009)
83. Casablanca (1942)
84. Rocky (1976)
85. Wall Street (1987)
86. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
87. Groundhog Day (1993)
88. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
89. The King of Comedy (1982)
90. Election (1999)
91. Young Frankenstein (1974)
92. Little Children (2006)
93. The Hitcher (1986)
94. Seven Samurai (1954)
95. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
96. The Village (2004)
97. Rebecca (1940)
98. Touch of Evil (1958)
99. Hamlet (1948)
100. On the Waterfront (1954)

The changes:
Off: Platoon (1986) ... On: Wall Street (1987)
Off: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) ... On: On the Waterfront (1954)
Off: Sideways (2004) ... On: The Village (2004)
Off: Sin City (2005) and A History of Violence (2005)
On: Harakiri (1962) and The King of Comedy (1982)

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Re: Top Films of All Time
« Reply #4069 on: July 20, 2014, 10:39:03 PM »
I'm enjoying going through your list sdb_1970. How about joining the Top 100 club, so I can have a good excuse to see some of your favorites? :)

Rashomon
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Harakiri
Touch of Evil

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