Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024) Movie • Page 2

lol I see

 

It's not the imdb list although it's similar.

 

I'd call most, if not all, of them great haha.

 

I don’t disagree

seeing 12 Angry Men and The Lives of Others on it made me question it from the start tho

 

Imdb top 50 1990 - 2024
plus 12 angry men

 

have to do this piecemeal


1. Mulholland Drive
2. Mirror
3. TTCSM
4. Persona
5. Blue Velvet
6. Cure
7. 12 Angry Men
8. Buffalo ‘66
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Eraserhead

 

maybe it's showing up different for us because that's still different for me lol.

 

off the dome no order

1. Jurassic Park
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
5. The Departed
6. Goodfellas
7. John Wick
8. Once Upon a Time in.... Hollywood
9. Punch Drunk Love
10. Office Space
11. The Social Network
12. Superbad
13. Dumb & Dumber
14. Shaun of the Dead
15. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
16. The Nice Guys
17. Collateral
18. Tropic Thunder
19. Annie Hall
20. Mission Impossible: Fallout

I'm a simple man and looking at others I've missed a few!

 

Can't remember what I chose last time, so a quick, from the hip top 20.

1. In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
2. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
3. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
4. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
5. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
   
6. Joint Security Area (Park Chan Wook, 2000)
7. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
8. Where Is The Friend's House (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
9. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)
10. Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)
    
    
11. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou, 1992)
    
12. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)
13. Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
14. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
    
15. A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977)
16. Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung, 1984)
    
17. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)
    
18. What We Do in the Shadows (Taiki Waititi, 2014)
    
19. School on Fire (RIngo Lam, 1988)
20. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

Probably missed loads, but that'll do for a quick 20 for now. Nothing concrete about this though!

 

its got all his picks!

 

I mean yeah, they're all on there but it's not the same list which is why I said it's similar lol.

 

The spirit of the lists is the same

 

it really doesn’t matter

like at all lol

 

If you cut over half of the top 20 it's not the same list is all I'm saying. But yeah I'm sure the intended jab is in the spirit of the imdb list.

He probably just cut the films he actually loves like Forest Gump.

 

None of this matters lol. We're just chatting shit online for fun.

 

fair enough

 

probably not that fun for other people to read through but they can take it up with Morrissey. It's his fault.

 

I will do a top 100 starting on Saturday.

 

better have write ups.

 

this is (mostly) good taste my boy

 

Everyone I know who loves film IRL has asked me to watch The Holy Mountain and I just have such a hard time getting past Jodorowsky bragging about sexually assaulting that actress in the movie, whether that actually happened or not. If anyone knows more about that, it might help me make more of an informed decision about whether I want to watch it.

I Saw the Devil has been on my list for a while though, going to try to get to that this weekend.

 

I never know what to believe with him tbh

 

I was gonna avoid this thread because I thought there'd be a lot less ~mainstream~ stuff than I'm used to, but reading other's lists, I feel better and now I'll type mine up

 

Yeah I'm not sure I'd take anything Jodorowsky says entirely seriously.

I saw this but it didn't have any source with it.


"When I told the Mexican film industry that I was going to travel to New York to sell El Topo, they made fun of me. "You're crazy, only Emilio Fernandez('El Indio') has ever managed to release a movie there and that's why there is a statue of him. No Mexican film has ever crossed the cactus wall." In the North American cinematographic environment of the time, Mexican cinema was despised. Hollywood dominated everything.

I had to break through using the only tool I had: shock through scandalous statements. This is how I did it: I dressed up as the mystical bandit character [the titular El Topo], I introduced myself in the interviews with a beard, a mane and a black leather suit, and I said things that purposefully shocked the interviewers. "I am an anti-feminist, I hate women. I hate cats. I've eaten human meat tacos with Diego Rivera. El Topo is a film where things really happened: that scene of rape is a real rape! I killed the animals (that in reality I had purchased dead from a local zoo) with a fork I sharpened myself!" These aggressive, meant to be humorous declarations conquered the era's young public who were against the establishment and affected by the Vietnam war. This is how I managed to get El Topo to be noticed and seen, and, thanks to the openly proclaimed admiration of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, my film became a cult classic. Half a century has passed and it continues to be screened and discussed.

Filming a scene like this is not achieved with just a cameraman, two actors and an expanse of sand. Cinema is the most costly art because a large number of technicians and artists are required to execute it. First of all, you needed a group of workers to clean a hundred square meters of desert with rakes because of dangerous snakes and spiders that were hidden in the sand. They remained for the duration of the filming, at the ready, to intervene if necessary. There was also a group of makeup artists, hairdressers and dressmakers in charge of costumes.

[In the movie,] El Topo rips apart the woman's dress in a take that lasts 10 seconds.

It is followed by another take of El Topo [doing the same], but from a different angle. Filming stopped for half an hour or so for the technicians to change the reflectors. That is to say that in order to shoot an action sequence that does not even last more than three minutes, several hours were needed. And it wasn't just a single cameraman, but two cameras, each with one operator and four assistants. A total of 10 camera people. Added to this were crewmen placing rails where the camera slid, handling the counterweights of a crane, holding silver reflector cards so that each face is well-lit. There was also the assistant director, the group of set decorators, other actors, etc. A big crowd that the audience does not see. In addition, there were people holding the individual umbrellas protecting the actors from the sun, others that delivered water and food, etc.

How could I have possibly assaulted the actress in front of such a large assembly of people?

At the slightest hint of any actual violence, a group of men and women would have thrown themselves at me and immobilized me. The actress would have also been defending herself, howling, scratching. And I, vile satyr, would have ended up persecuted, tried and imprisoned."

I think El Topo is up there with The Holy Mountain and Santa Sangre as an incredible piece of work and hope there was no actual assault involved but I can't say for sure.

 

love The Holy Mountain (it’ll be somewhere on my list)

love most of El Topo but it loses me at times