The Chorus.fm Users Definitive Films List • Page 5

cheers, this was just weirdly hard for some reason. I feel like if you asked me to rank my favourite 50 TV episodes I could do it in a heartbeat haha

 

Yeah, that's a great list, I feel similarly about.mind and wouldn't feel intimidated by the films that make anyone else's lists. It's that kind of variety that will.make out list unique!

 

Unfortunately, I do have to report that I finally tried to give Gummo a watch and despite appreciating Kids and Spring Breakers, I could not get past the CSA and racism in this one. Not judging anyone else because I think I get what it's trying to do, but it was just too much for me.

 

I've come to realize that any sort of western canon that largely consists of white male voices, be it movies, music, or literature, is largely irrelevant to my interests. My list is more heavily skewed towards films released this century than other users' on here, and I'm okay with that. Not to discredit anyone else's tastes for the classics, I just find comfort in voices that would more closely mirror my own

 

yeah it's definitely not for everyone, I wasn't sure what I thought of it at first but it's one of those films that's just stuck with me and I find so much of it strangely beautiful despite the obvious ugliness throughout. There's not really anything else that has the same feeling that film gives me. It's not something I'd really recommend to many people though, haha.

 

I understand that, and would just say there’s also a rich worldwide canon of cinema history from non-white, non male voices that’s valuable. Even in the US, where white men are dominant in the general consensus canon, the history of black cinema is long and diverse and there’s a lot of queer subtext and anticapitalist work in Hollywood’s Golden Age. So I hope that you aren’t put off of checking out older works or the worldwide canon even if it’s not your primary interest!

 

Yeah, and I'm also hoping some users' lists will give me great places to start with non-Western and non-white male cinema, because they're admittedly blind spots for me aside from the occasional foreign horror film.

 

To give a bit of a spotlight on a non-white, non-male director who doesn't get anywhere near enough recognition, I absolutely adore the Mongolian filmmaker, Byambasuren Davaa. She made three beautiful little docu-drama films with The Story of the Weeping Camel, Cave of the Yellow Dog & Two Horses of Genghis Khan, about life on the steppes and the traditional communities in Mongolia. She then made her first narrative film last year, Veins of the World, a furiously angry film about environmentalism and rampant capitalism and it's impact on these communities.

I love her work, would highly recommend them to anyone.

 

I encourage people to watch as much diverse cinema as they can but also not to shy away from the classics. Film Cannon is not a monolith it has a plethora of unique voices and opinions through different eras as they wrestled the issues of their time. By watching both you will also see themes mirrored revealing universal truths of the human condition unaffected by time, culture, and privilege.

Don't just listen to the voices you find easy to listen to. Watch whatever you what, and sometimes watch something you don't think you'll like because it might surprise you.

 

1. Good Will Hunting
2. Blade Runner
3. The Truman Show
4. Amelie
5. Threads
6. E.T
7. Cinema Paradiso
8. Zodiac
9. The Royal Tenenbaums
10. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
11. A.I (Artificial Intelligence)
12. The Godfather
13. The Shawshank Redemption
14. Kairo
15. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
16. Lion
17. Interstellar
18. Raiders of the Lost Ark
19. Seven
20. The Thing
21. Saving Private Ryan
22. Aliens
23. The Blair Witch Project
24. About Time
25. The Wicker Man
26. Alien
27. Rocky
28. Don't Look Now
29. Fight Club
30. The Silence of the Lambs
31. Robocop
32. Ring
33. Sunset Boulevard
34. Back to the Future
35. The Deer Hunter
36. Gremlins
37. Arrival
38. The Usual Suspects
39. A Star is Born
40. Jaws
41. The Godfather Part 2
42. Grave of the Fireflies
43. Moon
44. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
45. Martyrs
46. Boogie Nights
47. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
48. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
49. The Shining
50. Grosse Pointe Blank

 

Had to stop fiddling around...top half is basically set in stone but there were like 25ish more movies in contention for the second half. 50 is tough

1. The Princess Bride
2. Toy Story
3. Good Will Hunting
4. Field of Dreams
5. Stand By Me
6. It’s A Wonderful Life
7. Mean Girls
8. Almost Famous
9. Groundhog Day
10. Young Frankenstein
11. Goodfellas
12. Spider-Man 2
13. Finding Nemo
14. Magnolia
15. A Few Good Men
16. Spaceballs
17. Harold and Maude
18. Clueless
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
20. When Harry Met Sally
21. Once Upon a Time in America
22. The Cabin in the Woods
23. Zoolander
24. In Bruges
25. 12 Angry Men
26. Boyhood
27. The Last Waltz
28. Legally Blonde
29. Rear Window
30. Obvious Child
31. Paper Moon
32. Do the Right Thing
33. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
34. After Hours
35. 20th Century Women
36. Cleo from 5 to 7
37. High School
38. Lady Bird
39. Victor/Victoria
40. The LEGO Movie
41. Now and Then
42. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
43. Casablanca
44. Cloud Atlas
45. Babe
46. Cameraperson
47. The Man in the Moon
48. Far From Heaven
49. Moonstruck
50. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

 

I'm always cycling through my Vinegar Syndrome stuff because nothing else quite scratches the itch, but seeing Scary Tales on your list has me revisiting that tonight

 

I’ve shown the opening to most of my friends at this point. The bar/metal detector scene is so funny

 

*grabbing my crotch* HEY, I got yer ass right here buddy!

 

1. Die Hard
2. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
3. Don’t Look Now
4. Duel
5. From Russia with Love
6. Jaws
7. Jurassic Park
8. Casino
9. Goodfellas
10. Once Upon a Time in the West
11. Duck, You Sucker
12. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
13. The Thing
14. The French Connection
15. The Towering Inferno
16. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
17. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
18. Speed
19. Goldfinger
20. Dr. No
21. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
23. To Live and Die in L.A.
24. The Terminator
25. Back to the Future
26. Alien
27. Aliens
28. Skyfall
29. A Fish Called Wanda
30. Airplane!
31. Spider-Man
32. Spider-Man 2
33. The Exorcist III
34. Bullitt
35. Carrie
36. Scarface (1983)
37. RoboCop
38. Jackie Brown
39. Sorcerer
40. Lethal Weapon
41. Mad Max: Fury Road
42. True Romance
43. Rear Window
44. The Birdcage
45. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
46. The Truman Show
47. King Kong (2005)
48. Cloud Atlas
49. Kiss Me Deadly
50. Judgment at Nuremberg

Hardly the most original choices but these are the ones that stood out to me most.

 

Oh damn. Almost missed this

 

re-ranked and updated

 

I forgot one of my all time favorite movies, so that’s been rectified.

 

I don't know if I've seen any of the Jackass films on anyone else's lists and it's making me nervous

 

true for sure

 

Is this still open? Haven't had time to sort my list but I might later today

 

Yep - Wednesday is the last day

 

I'd love to do this again in a year and see what I come out with.

1. Children of Men
2. Wet Hot American Summer
3. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
4. The Darjeeling Limited
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. 28 Days Later
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. The Godfather
9. There Will Be Blood
10. No Country for Old Men
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
12. Die Hard
13. Spaceballs
14. The Thin Red Line
15. The Master
16. Inglourious Basterds
17. Armageddon
18. Blade Runner
19. Airplane
20. Ex Machina
21. Goodfellas
22. Mad Max: Fury Road
23. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
24. The Godfather Part II
25. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
26. The Royal Tenenbaums
27. Pulp Fiction
28. Zodiac
29. Annihilation
30. Dunkirk
31. The Social Network
32. Platoon
33. The Kings of Summer
34. Prisoners
35. Independence Day
36. Green Room
37. Blade Runner 2049
38. The Graduate
39. Parasite
40. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
41. Dr. Strangelove
42. Joint Security Area
43. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
44. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
45. Clouds of Sils Maria
46. Taxi Driver
47. Personal Shopper
48. Whiplash
49. The Bridge Over the Kwai
50. Dog Day Afternoon

 

1. A Brighter Summer Day
2. Goodfellas
3. Parasite
4. An Elephant Sitting Still
5. The Iron Giant
6. Mulholland Drive
7. Yi Yi
8. Heat
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Ran
11. Sorcerer
12. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
13. Seven Samurai
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey
15. Blade Runner 2049
16. Collateral
17. Uncut Gems
18. Burning
19. Terrorizers
20. There Will Be Blood
21. Incendies
22. Miami Vice
23. Michael Clayton
24. The Incredibles
25. Memories of Murder
26. The Guest
27. The Wolf of Wall Street
28. Manchester by the Sea
29. Prisoners
30. The Insider
31. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
32. Cure
33. Woman in the Dunes
34. Malcolm X
35. The Godfather
36. In the Mood for Love
37. The Chaser
38. The Raid 2
39. First Man
40. Moonlight
41. The Wailing
42. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past lives
43. Oldboy
44. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
45. The Lighthouse
46. Good Time
47. Spider-Man 2
48. Election 2
49. The French Connection
50. Million Dollar Baby

 

I really need to sort mine