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I'm sure this will lead to some scrutiny, I've only been an avid film watcher in the last 3 to 4 years, but my top 20 boils down to this, as of today. (It changes frequently, as does the order)

1. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
2. Yi yi (2000)
3. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
4. 8 1/2 (1963)
5. Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987)
6. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
7. M (1931)
8. Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
9. Double Indemnity (1944)
10. Taxi Driver (1976)
11. Greaser's Palace (1972)
12. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
13. Blechtrommel, Die (1979)
14. Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le (1972)
15. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
16. Third Man, The (1949)
17. Freaks (1932)
18. Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928)
19. Andrei Rublyov (1979)
20. Shi shen (1996)

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a very respectable list. (+2 for including a Robert Downey film! Well done!)

While I certainly don't love all the titles, many are indeed great, great films. (The absence of even one Japanese title gave me some pause, but, hey, to each his own.)

― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I also have only been a serious filmgoer for about four years now, so as a counterpoint, my own Top 20, in no particular order:

Apocalypse Now
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ikiru
The "Dead" Trilogy
8 1/2
Touch of Evil
The Apartment
M
Annie Hall
The Man With No Name Trilogy
Rear Window
Taxi Driver
The Wizard of Oz
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Wild Bunch
Bicycle Thief
Rashomon
Chinatown
Blowup
Raging Bull

Of course, the list expands and changes practically every week.

― Anthony (Anthony F), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only actually seen 7 of Jeff's list... :/ 10 of Anthony's. As always, in the holidays, I'll have to do some serious film watching!
Good call with "Freaks", Jeff... it is really is a remarkable film; a morality fable of intense control.

I've only been a serious follower of film in the last 5 and a half years or so... but then I am only 21, so that's par for t' course, really!

My Top 20

20. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Powell & Pressburger) (they generally only did wonderful films that pair :))
19. Rear Window (1954, Hithcock)
18. Blue Velvet (1986, Lynch)
17. Chimes at Midnight (1965, Welles)
16. Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
15. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, Whale)
14. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Coens) (*so underrated* i feel)
13. The Third Man (1949, Reed) (look out for "Odd Man Out" folks, that's quite something too...)
12. Mulholland Drive (2001, Lynch)
11. Greed (1925, Von Stroheim)
10. Dr Strangelove (1963, Kubrick)
9. The Red Shoes (1949, Powell & Pressburger)
8. Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey; Marx Brothers!)
7. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles)
6. The Seventh Seal (1957, Bergman)
5. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931, Mamoulian) (unheralded masterwork!)
4. Way Out West (1937, James W. Horne; Laurel & Hardy!)
3. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hamer)
2. Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
1. Sunrise (1927, Murnau) (utter bliss...)

― Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I really gotta get with the program and start seeing some Powell/Pressburger. I've been holding out for way too long.

― Anthony (Anthony F), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Narcissus!

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven, US title), "Black Narcissus" (oh yes... a profoundly heroic film to be making in 1946 in England; let's see: Himalayas, nuns, sexual repression, deep erotic undertones...), "I Know Where I'm Going!", "A Canterbury Tale" (ask Robin Carmody in particular about that one) and "Peeping Tom" (Powell solo) are all pretty much as good as the two I have in my Top 20 (a very hard choice...). I wouldn't rule out things like "Small Back Room", "Tales of Hoffman", "Gone to Earth", "The 49th Parallel" and "The Edge of the World", as well... those I've not yet seen.

― Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

1) The Godfather
2) The Godfather Part 2
3) Song of the South
4) Suspiria
5) An American Werewolf in London
6) Jaws
7) Hard Boiled
8) Casablanca
9) Fantasia
10) Gregory's Girl
11) Midnight Cowboy
12) North by Northwest
13) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
14) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15) After Hours
16) Goodfellas
17) It's a Wonderful Life
18) On Her Majesty's Secret Service
19) Fletch
20) Apocalypse Now

I think anyway. That's the twenty films that entertain me the most when I watch them. Yup, it's overly commercial but that's entertainment I guess.

― C-Man (C-Man), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I Know Where I'm Going! Perfection! See it! Both Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes are worth their reps.

The Edge of the World also a minor masterpiece.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Well... last time I check the books, my favorite movies were supposedly...

1. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
2. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
3. Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II (Segei Eisenstein)
4. Le Fond de l'air est rouge (Chris Marker)
5. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
6. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
7. Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman)
8. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
9. Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
10. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
11. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage)
12. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
13. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
14. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
15. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
16. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
17. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
18. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
19. Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
20. God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 January 2004 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Eh, join in time!!

"Stalker"
"L'Age D'or"
"Orphans of the Storm"
"Solaris"
"Aguirre, Wrath of God"
"Themroc"
"The Shout"
"Robocop"
"Fitzcarraldo"
"Institute Benjementa"
"If..."
"O Lucky Man"
"Mean Streets"
"North by Northwest"
"Sebastiane"
"The Good, The Bad and the Ugly"
"Conan"
"La Cabina"
"Night of the Demon" (IE old b/w version)
"The Thing"
"Institute Benjementa"

Will that do for now?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

argh, 2 x Institute benjementa! substitute Cook/Moore "Bedazzled"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course, I just thought of 20 films I really like, but once you get started:

"Mean Streets"
"A Matter of Life and Death"
"Passport to Pimlico"
"Valley of Song"
"High Society"
"Sabrina"
"My Fair Lady"
"Mrs Miniver"
etc etc etc

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really impressed by all of your lists. So happy to have found this place!

I could never seriously make such a list, cause it would change all the time. But, sitting here at work, here are some films that pop into my head that are certainly amongst my favorites of all time. These are films that I can watch over and over and over.

"Lawrence of Arabia" (David Lean)
"Bande à part" (Jean-Luc Godard)
"The Profound Desire of the Gods" (Shohei Imamura)
"Flowers of Shanghai" (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
"Paris, Texas" (Wim Wenders)
"Vertigo" (Alfred Hitchcock)
"Lady From Shanghai" (Orson Welles)
"California Split" (Robert Altman -- actually this could alternate with several other Altman films from the 70's)
"Two Lane Blacktop" (Monte Hellman)
"Eureka" (Shinji Aoyama)
"Shame" (Ingmar Bergman)
"Satantango" (Bela Tarr)
"Putney Swope" (Robert Downey)
"La Jetée" (Chris Marker)
"Love me Tonight" (Rouben Mamoulian)
"Sweet Smell of Success" (Alexander Mackendrick)
"A Woman Under the Influence" (John Cassavetes)
"Taxi Driver" (Martin Scorsese)
"In the Mood for Love" (Wong Kar-Wai)
"On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate" (Hong Sang-Soo)

Again, there are many films I'm sure I forgot -- I tried to limit the number of recent films as it's a bit soon to tell if they will stand the test of time. The few that are on there no dobut will.

Of course, I left off directors I love like Hal Hartley, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Seijun Suzuki, Woody Allen, etc.

― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

These are always fun...

Jem Cohen: "Lost Book Found", "Benjamin Smoke"
Harmony Korine: "Gummo", "Julian Donkey-Boy"
Ingmar Bergman: "Persona"
Leighton Pierce: "Wood" "Memories of Water" "Red Shovel"
Bruce Connor: "Looking for Mushrooms"
Terry Gilliam: "Brazil" "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
E.Elias Merhige: "Begotten"
Caveh Zahedi: "The World is A Classroom"
Trinh T. Minh-ha: "Assemblage"
Jean-Luc Godard: "Weekend", "Numero Deux"
Federico Fellini: "8 1/2"
Maysles Brothers: "Gimme Shelter"
Alexander Tarkovsky: "Andrei Rublev"
David Lynch: "Eraserhead"

Well, that's the first twenty for this week that come to mind. So many left out--no fassbinder, woody allen, brakhage...

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"A Woman Under the Influence" (John Cassavetes)
"In the Mood for Love" (Wong Kar-Wai)

These are right outside of my top 20, they may be in there on any given day. The rest of your list that I haven't seen, I desperatly want to.

My problem is all of my film watching is done via dvd. So if a film isn't released on dvd (Paris, Texas) I haven't seen it yet. I don't own a vcr or live near a theatre that plays classic films.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

01 sans soleil - chris marker
02 a woman under the influence - john cassavettes
03 superstar: the karen carpenter story - todd haynes
04 experiment in terror - blake edwards
05 the endless summer - bruce brown
06 eureka - aoyama shinji
07 muriel's wedding - pj hogan
08 twin peaks (european pilot episode) - david lynch
09 brazil - terry gilliam
10 tampopo - itami juzo
11 black orpheus - marcel camus
12 matewan - john sayles
13 destino - salvador dali (animated short)
14 vertigo - alfred hitchcock
15 happy together - wong kar-wai
16 8 1/2 - fellini
17 barton fink - coen brothers
18 experiment in terror - blake edwards
19 video days - spike jonze (short)
20 trainspotting - danny boyle

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

20. King Kong (Merian Cooper)
19. The Passenger (Michealangelo Antonioni)
18. Our Summer in Oklahoma 1990 (Theodore Fogelsanger)
17. The Last American Virgin
16. Trans (Julian Goldberger)
15. Masculine Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
14. Duck Soup
13. Eat (Andy Warhol)
12. Phantom of the Paradise (Brian Depalma)
11. Office Space (Mike Judge)
10. The Warriors (Walter Hill)
9. The Stars are Beautiful (Stan Brakkage)
8. Donnie Darko
7. Precious Products (George Kuchar)
6. Star 80 (Bob Fosse)
5. Performance (Nicholas Roeg + Donald Cammel)
4. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
3. Head (Bob Rafelson)
2. Mishima (Paul Schrader)
1. Unsere Afrika Reise (Peter Kubelka)

― theodore fogelsanger, Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Theodore -- that's a truly schizophrenic list - I love it!

Aaaahhh! How could I have left Head off my list?!? The greatest American film of the 60's!

― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

of all the directors I have yet to see a single film by, the Kuchars are practically at the top of my list

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, i liked experiement in terror so much it shows up twice on my list... oh brother.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

This is what I could come up with off the top of my head. When I am not so busy, I will attempt to refine this. I can't imagine that this is at all complete.

2001
good fellas
a woman is a woman
annie hall
good morning
400 blows
vivre sa vie
gimme shelter
lost highway
aguirre
tokyo story
blue velvet
dead man
jules and jim
chungking express
julien donkey boy
instrument
in the mood for love
manhattan
fitzcarraldo

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm also tempted to put Zardoz and Mcbain on there but for now I will not make a mockery of this thread.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(in no order)
Repo Man
Rushmore
MASH
Bonnie and Clyde
Hype!
A Hard Days Night
Who's Harry Kellerman...?
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Mean Streets
The Apartment
Dazed & Confused
Citizen Kane
Duck Soup
The Graduate
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Office Space
Clerks
American Graffiti
California Split
North By Northwest

I really need to see more foreign films(amongst others).

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 22 January 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

hiroshima mon amour (resnais)
vivre sa vie (godard)
the big sleep (hawks)
casablanca (curtiz)
nashville (altman)
blue velvet (lynch)
vertigo (hitchcock)
do the right thing (lee)
the last picture show (bogdanovich)
the milky way (bunuel)
ran (kurosawa)
taste of cherry (kiarostami)
the third man (reed)
chinatown (polanski)
the passion of joan of arc (dreyer)
all the real girls (gordon green)
contempt (godard)
magnolia (anderson)
bande a part (godard)
big lebowski (coen)

subject to change, obv.

― (blank) swiss (eliti), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

tj--bold move putting one of your own films on the list! but i'm sure it's justified; what i've seen of your films from the penn state days was pretty impressive. i can't listen to cat power without thinking of Gay Rocky...

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks dude. The piece I put on the list however is a work in progess but I'm optimisitc that it will be amongst my twenty favorite of all time. Your list reminded me that I totally need to see "Looking for Mushrooms" again. It's been too long. I will now commence searching for a copy.

― theodore fogelsanger, Friday, 23 January 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, i liked experiement in terror so much it shows up twice on my list... oh brother.

Haha!

Like I said, I hate lists and I've done this before and it always chnages but it's late so I'll give it a try...Here's my top 27! In no particular order.

Emak Bakia (Man Ray)
The Enigma Of Kasper Hauser(Herzog)
Diner (Levinson)
Fargo (Coens)
Songs From The Second Floor(Andersson)
Ariel(Kaurismaki)
Touch Of Evil(Welles)
Man Without A Past(Kaurismaki)
George Washington(Gordon Green)
Underground(Kusturica)
L'Age D'or(Bunuel)
The Lodger(Hitchcock)
Night On Earth(Jarmusch)
Five Easy Pieces(Rafelson)
Wisconsin Death Trip(Marsh)
Lift To The Scaffold(Malle)
She's So Lovely(Cassavettes)
Tirez Sur La Pianiste(Truffaut)
Vacas(Medem)
Buttoners(Zelenka)
Mulholland Drive(Lynch)
LA Confidential(Hanson)
Stardust Memories(Allen)
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly(Leone)
Day Of The Locust(Schlesinger)
Festen(Vinterberg)
In A Lonely Place (Ray)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

ordering these is impossible, and i realize that the only way to do it is fast, without thinking too much, before there's 50. so, here goes:

a woman under the influence
paris, texas
anticipation of the night
sullivan's travels
two men and a wardrobe (short)
wild strawberries
days of heaven
george washington
the apartment
the last picture show
sherlock jr.
bringing up baby
cries and whispers
fitzcarraldo
400 blows
dog day afternoon
short cuts
side/walk/shuttle (short)
wings of desire
marriage of maria braun

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

time to resurrect this baby. and no order, of course.

treasure of the sierra madre (huston)
captain blood (curtiz)
five easy pieces (rafelson)
four hundred blows (i know, i know.) (truffaut)
all about my mother (almodovar)
night of the living dead (romero)
rebecca (hitchcock)
dazed and confused (linkletter)
big sleep (hawks)
do the right thing (lee)
brazil (gilliam)
mccabe and mrs miller (altman)

most over-rated: persona / aguirre

and I apologize for my latent anglo-centrism.

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Monday, 26 April 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

This is impossible but dammit I've held out too long:

Heat (Mann)
Le Samourai (Melville)
Once Upon A Time In The West (Leone)
Rushmore(Anderson)
Nashville (Altman)
The Deer Hunter(Cimino)
My Darling Clementine (Ford)
Dazed & Confused (Linklater)
The Thin Red Line(Mallick)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Chinatown(Polanski)
Big Wednesday(Milius)
400 Blows (Truffaut)
The Conformist(Bertolucci)
The Long Riders(Hill)
Manhattan(Allen)
North By Northwest(Hitchcock)

Oh my god, what a male, modern, anglocentric little list.....

― David Nolan (David N.), Monday, 26 April 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

kind of random and off the top of my head, 20 that i consider "favorites"

8 1/2
Umberto D
L'avventura
Contempt
Vertigo
The Birds
The Thin Red Line
Barry Lyndon (been a while tho...)
In the Mood for Love
The Road Warrior
Stalker
The Lady Eve
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Seven Samurai
A.I.
The Searchers
His Girl Friday
Beau Travail
Night of the Hunter
Touch of Evil

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

blue velvet (lynch)
pulp fiction (tarantino)
wild strawberries (bergman)
chopper (dominick)
american splendor (berman\pulcini)
man bites dog (belaux\bonzel)
burnt by the sun (mikailhov)
catch 22 (nichols)
one flew over the cuckoos nest (forman)
goodfellas (scorsese)
mad max (miller)
rear window (hitchcock)
crouching tiger hidden dragon (lee)
the good the bad and the ugly (leone)
crimes and misdemeanours (allen)
plane trains and automobiles (hughes)
sweet smell of success (mckendrick)
sunset boulevard (wilder)
raise the red lantern (yi mou)
wings of desire (wenders)

― Michael B, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I was playing "the list" with friends last night and the question was top 10 movies. I didn't want to just list out my most recent version of the list...

Gertrud (Dreyer), The Fury (De Palma), Ivan the Terrible(Eisenstein), Le Fond de l'air est rouge (Marker), Barry Lyndon (Kubrick), Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey), Jeanne Dielman (Akerman), Playtime (Tati), Stromboli (Rossellini), Chimes at Midnight (Welles)

so I played a game where I had to come up with a totally new top 10 with none of the ten titles or directors I had on the previous list and be as spontaneous and quick about it as possible (which led to me listing a lot of movies I've just seen in the last few months). I ended up using a few of the "runners-up" from last time, but here's what I came up with.

Morocco (von Sternberg, 30)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 64)
Marnie (Hitchcock, 64)
Goodbye Uncle Tom (Jacopetti/Prosperi, 71)
The Tenant (Polanski, 76)
Hardly Working (Lewis, 80)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 82)
Veronika Voss (Fassbinder, 82)
Love Streams (Cassavetes, 84)
Russian Ark (Sokurov, 02)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

eric, i will play your game

ten that arent related to my twenty upthread

cleo from 5 to 7 (varda)
underground (kusterica)
through a glass darkly (bergman)
three colors: red (kieslowski)
rules of the game (renoir)
the spirit of the beehive (erice)
straw dogs (peckinpah)
mon oncle (tati)
sunset blvd (wilder)
sunrise (murnau)

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

eric, i will play your game

ten that arent related to my twenty upthread

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hardly Working (Lewis, 80)

-- Eric H. (ephende...), May 11th, 2004.

I very much want to see Jerry Lewis' Hardly Workin'. It's not easy to find and I've lost two different ebay auctions for it. I'm curious why you would put it on a best of list since it gets some of the worst reviews out of all of his films, though its been the one I'm most curious about. I can't recall ever reading anything positive about it.

― theodore fogelsanger, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

another 20:

Birdy (Parker)
Betty Blue (Benoix)
Mullholland Drive (Lynch)
The Fisher King (Gilliam)
The Conformist (Bertolucci)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
Point Blank (Boorman)
Passion Fish (Sayles)
Dead Or Alive 2 (Miike)
Dazed And Confused (Linklater)
The Searchers (Ford)
Do The Right Thing (Lee)
Kind Hearts And Coronets (Hamer)
The Long Goodbye (Altman)
Total Recall (Verhoeven)
Sleeper (Allen)
The Exorcist (Friedkin)
Carnal Knowledge (Nichols)
Performance (Roeg/Cammell)
Robocop (Verhoeven)

― Michael B, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

My Twenty:

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
Singin' In the Rain (Donen)
Nashville (Altman)
The Long Goodbye (Altman)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
The Shining (Kubrick)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Band of Outsiders (Godard)
Persona (Bergman)
Grey Gardens (Maysles)
Jazz On A Summer's Day (Stern)
La Strada (Fellini)
Magnolia (P. Anderson)
Boogie Nights (P. Anderson)
The Royal Tenenbaums (W. Anderson)
Mean Streets (Scorcese)
Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)
Fallen Angels (Wong)
Bambi
Sunrise (Murnau)

― The Narwhal (the narwhal), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I can actually do twenty more that aren't part of my original twenty, title or director without breaking a sweat.

Sherlock Jr. (Keaton)
Blade Runner (Scott)
Sullivan's Travels (Sturges)
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Lang)
Manhattan (Allen)
Beau Travail (Denis)
Bonnie & Clyde (Penn)
Badlands (Malick)
Cabaret (Fosse)
The Footlight Parade (Bacon)
The Big Lebowski (Coen)
Celine & Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
Safe (Haynes)
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
Swing Time (Stevens)
A Hard Day's Night (Lester)
L'Atalante (Vigo)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)
Pi (Aronofsky)
The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)

― The Narwhal (the narwhal), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I very much want to see Jerry Lewis' Hardly Workin'. I'm curious why you would put it on a best of list since it gets some of the worst reviews out of all of his films...
-- theodore fogelsanger (tf28390...), May 11th, 2004 3:09 PM.

Sorry not to get to this sooner, but here are three terse answers.
1... it's still the only JL film I've seen so far (*hangs head in deep shame*)
2... the list was sort of spontaneous, to be sure, and seems to be filled with films maudit, or what have you
3... ok, getting the "excuses" out of the way, it's extremely moving to me that it's really not all that funny, that Lewis seems to be struggling with losing his relevance in his old "work" (comedy films) and raging against it... I hope it shows up near you someday, as it's terribly underrated.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead Or Alive 2 (Miike)
-- Michael B (jackuz...), May 12th, 2004 3:44 AM.

Just like this awesome movie is terribly underrated. Bravo.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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