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What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:45 pm
by leyenda
Don't think this one has been done before, at least not while I've been on this forum. This is far from an absolute list and depending on how I was feeling on the day there's at least a dozen others that could swap in for the ones on this list but 10 works well for getting an idea of someone's tastes and hopefully worthwhile things to pop on the watch list.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Persona
3. Taxi Driver
4. Come and See
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
7. Citizen Kane
8. Werckmeister Harmonies
9. Once Upon a Time in the West
10. Memento

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:58 pm
by OGLemon
No order

Memories of Murder
Come and See
Irréversible
Metropolis
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring / Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? Very similar films
To Live
Harakiri
Mother
Seven Samurai
El Ángel Exterminador

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:59 pm
by OGLemon
My list feels cliche

I need to rewatch Persona. I recall being very distracted during my first viewing.

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:21 pm
by leyenda
Persona is pretty heavy viewing and definitely benefits from rewatches. Irreversible, Seven Samurai and Metropolis are all favourites of mine, not seen the others but certainly interested. I was very close to popping Metropolis on there. My list feels more predictable than yours to be honest but then I didn't wanna go down the other route and just choose some of my more obscure favourites just because they are unknown.

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:42 pm
by AxeD
Stranger Than Fiction
Taxi Driver
Pan's Labyrinth
Heat
Big Lebowski
Spirited Away
Metropolis
The Master
The Pianist
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Das Leben der Anderen
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Waking Life

Gonna check out Memories of Murder.. looks good.

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:45 pm
by leyenda
To balance out the above 10 more well known ones I guess I could just give 10 of those more obscure favourites:

Gaslight (1940)
Toto the hero
The housemaid (1960)
Chimes at Midnight
The House is Black
The Death of Mr Lazarescu
The Son (2002)
Distant (2002)
Incident at Owl Creek
Reprise (2006)

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:56 pm
by butter_man
begotten
gummo
paranoid park
festen
beau travail
inland empire
crimson gold
the turin horse

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:59 pm
by garethom
Off the top of my head, my top 10 would probs be:

Blade Runner
The Lives Of Others
American Beauty
American History X
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Moon
City Of God
The Seventh Seal
The Warriors
2001: A Space Odyssey

No proper obscure stuff in there, I guess.

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:00 pm
by mason666
lol cant wait for wolf to get here

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:08 pm
by leyenda
Based on you picking Nightmare Before Christmas you should check out Coraline if you haven't seen it Gareth

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:09 pm
by butter_man
garethom wrote:
The Seventh Seal
quality film.

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:21 pm
by Muncey
butter_man wrote:
garethom wrote:
The Seventh Seal
quality film.
I had no fucking idea what was going on tbh.

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:23 pm
by nobody
clicked expecting to see lots of Pulp Fiction and Fight Club

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:28 pm
by wolf89
mason666 wrote:lol cant wait for wolf to get here
Why? it's not like we've had Eric's list

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:29 pm
by butter_man
Muncey wrote:
butter_man wrote:
garethom wrote:
The Seventh Seal
quality film.
I had no fucking idea what was going on tbh.
Ive only seen it the once so my memories a bit flakey but..
[+] Spoiler
man meets death and then has a journey through his home country. lots of symbolism/metaphors (both people and scenarios) for different beliefs and what they feel happens after death

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:35 pm
by butter_man
leyenda wrote: 4. Come and See
amazing cinematography. the barn!!

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:01 pm
by finji
the thing
alien
blade runner
apocalypse now
brazil
ghost in the shell

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:32 pm
by BonerJams04
butter_man wrote:begotten
gummo
paranoid park
festen
beau travail
inland empire
crimson gold
the turin horse
Begotten??? Really?
That movie is wholly unwatchable. That gurgling noise throughout is just awful

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:50 pm
by mason666
The ones i can remember atm in no ordrr:

The machinist
Donnie darko
Drive
Memento
Her

Re: What are your favourite films?

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:59 pm
by Harkat
Mine are probably:

Alien
Drive
25th Hour
Ghost In The Shell
Taxi Driver
Trainspotting
Fight Club
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Right now, I almost wanna say Birdman too, but it's too recent in my head to confidently put on the list