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Be interesting to do your 3 favourite films not in the IMDB top 250.

 

Planes Trains and Automobiles

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1. The shawshank redemption

2. One flew over the cuckoos nest

3. Forrest gump

 

Others I like - Anchorman, Drag me to hell, Gladiator, Dumb and dumber, Lord of the rings, In the name of the father, The good the bad and the ugly, Scarface & Snatch.

 

 

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In no particular order....

 

Blue Velvet, still my favourite David Lynch film. Watching Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth never gets old.

 

Blade Runner. From the opening sequence flying over the city with all the fire shooting into the air, til the end with Rutger Hauers "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" speech. Still awesome now.

 

The Outlaw Josey Wales. Clint at his best imo.

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In no particular order....

 

Blue Velvet, still my favourite David Lynch film. Watching Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth never gets old.

 

Blade Runner. From the opening sequence flying over the city with all the fire shooting into the air, til the end with Rutger Hauers "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" speech. Still awesome now.

 

The Outlaw Josey Wales. Clint at his best imo.

 

2 out of my top 10 all time list in there. :calmdown:

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I always get a hard on for Amelie. :(

 

I could also have mentioned Amelie and Dr Strangelove, the Shining, 2001, The Kid, Rashomon....

 

Modern favourites is another interesting one...best 3 of the noughties...

 

City Of God

Amelie

Oldboy

 

 

....leaves no room for There Will Be Blood :calmdown:

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Back to the Future would be in there. Not sure why I love it so much, it's obviously a good film but there's something about the whole premise that makes me love it to bits. The third one is canny as well but the second one is a bit shite.

 

Taxi Driver is up there as well. De Niro is unbelieveable in it, the scene at the presidential rally is one of my favourite scenes of any movie and the end sequence with the gunfight in the brothel is immense from the little conversation between him and Harvey Keitel to the ending. Love it.

 

 

Great choices. Would both be in my favourites.

 

I'd find it hard to narrow down, as there are so many films I love and love to watch dependin on my humour.

 

Big Lebowski, Godfather 1 & 2, Goodfellas. I thought Magnolia as HF mentioned was amazing up until the end, I've only seen it once though.

 

Spirited Away is also a favourite.

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Dogma - good mixture of comedy, emotion, tastelessness, blasphemy and thought provocation

 

Blade Runner - characters, style and intelligence.

 

Grosse Point Blank - black humour and excellent story.

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bloody impossible to pick three. picking a top ten is difficult enough. here are three of my favourites and others in the mix fighting for top spot below)

 

12 angry men

strangers on a train

star wars

 

(godfather parts I and II

annie hall

friday

rear window

the apartment

chinatown

full metal jacket

rope)

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Modern favourites is another interesting one...best 3 of the noughties...

 

Battle Royale

Moon

City of God

 

for me. I think, they just come straight to mind. No room for Lost in Translation, The Assassination of Jesse James, Amelie or Infernal Affairs, it would appear. I'm fond of In Bruges as well.

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I always get a hard on for Amelie. :(

 

I could also have mentioned Amelie and Dr Strangelove, the Shining, 2001, The Kid, Rashomon....

 

Modern favourites is another interesting one...best 3 of the noughties...

 

City Of God

Amelie

Oldboy

 

 

....leaves no room for There Will Be Blood :calmdown:

 

I know you haven't watched these but make sure you do..

 

1.The White Ribbon

 

A superb and disturbing film, Michael Haneke's vision of pre-first world war Germany offers no easy answers. By Peter Bradshaw

5 out of 5

 

2 THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI

 

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3. Zero Focus

 

2009, 130 min., 35 mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Isshin Inudou. With Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ryoko Hirosue, Miki Nakatani, Tae Kimura, Takeshi Kaga.

 

A stellar remake of the classic 1961 Yoshitaro Nomura film (based on the bestselling novel by Seicho Matsumoto) and the closest Japanese film in years to an Alfred Hitchcock picture, with a Douglas Sirk edge. Ryoko Hirosue plays Teiko, a newlywed who's investigating the sudden disappearance of her husband, Kenichi (Hidetoshi Nishijima), after he fails to return from a business trip. As she unravels the mystery surrounding his disappearance she uncovers evidence that he was not the man she thought had married. Soon, she learns that her beloved husband was close to two fascinating women: elegant provincial aristocrat Sachiko (Miki Nakatani) and company receptionist Hisako (Tae K

 

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This is going to be difficult as there are about 15 movies in my top 3 lol

 

Pulp Fiction

 

I recall watching it for the first time, thinking to myself "what the fuck am I watching" and then that final scene just loops it all together so perfectly.

 

The Empire Strikes Back

 

The perfect dark and brooding sequel, the best of the series, and of course the fantastic revelation at the end.

 

Apocalypto

 

No movie has kept me on the edge of my seat as much as watching this for the first time, an unexpected gem.

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I always get a hard on for Amelie. :(

 

I could also have mentioned Amelie and Dr Strangelove, the Shining, 2001, The Kid, Rashomon....

 

Modern favourites is another interesting one...best 3 of the noughties...

 

City Of God

Amelie

Oldboy

 

 

....leaves no room for There Will Be Blood :calmdown:

 

I know you haven't watched these but make sure you do..

 

1.The White Ribbon

 

A superb and disturbing film, Michael Haneke's vision of pre-first world war Germany offers no easy answers. By Peter Bradshaw

5 out of 5

 

2 THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI

 

41EH63TXACL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

 

 

3. Zero Focus

 

2009, 130 min., 35 mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Isshin Inudou. With Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ryoko Hirosue, Miki Nakatani, Tae Kimura, Takeshi Kaga.

 

A stellar remake of the classic 1961 Yoshitaro Nomura film (based on the bestselling novel by Seicho Matsumoto) and the closest Japanese film in years to an Alfred Hitchcock picture, with a Douglas Sirk edge. Ryoko Hirosue plays Teiko, a newlywed who's investigating the sudden disappearance of her husband, Kenichi (Hidetoshi Nishijima), after he fails to return from a business trip. As she unravels the mystery surrounding his disappearance she uncovers evidence that he was not the man she thought had married. Soon, she learns that her beloved husband was close to two fascinating women: elegant provincial aristocrat Sachiko (Miki Nakatani) and company receptionist Hisako (Tae K

 

I recommended The Twilight Samurai in my "Eastern cinema" thread a few years ago. It is quality.

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I always get a hard on for Amelie. :(

 

I could also have mentioned Amelie and Dr Strangelove, the Shining, 2001, The Kid, Rashomon....

 

Modern favourites is another interesting one...best 3 of the noughties...

 

City Of God

Amelie

Oldboy

 

 

....leaves no room for There Will Be Blood :calmdown:

 

I know you haven't watched these but make sure you do..

 

1.The White Ribbon

 

A superb and disturbing film, Michael Haneke's vision of pre-first world war Germany offers no easy answers. By Peter Bradshaw

5 out of 5

 

2 THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI

 

41EH63TXACL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

 

 

3. Zero Focus

 

2009, 130 min., 35 mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Isshin Inudou. With Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ryoko Hirosue, Miki Nakatani, Tae Kimura, Takeshi Kaga.

 

A stellar remake of the classic 1961 Yoshitaro Nomura film (based on the bestselling novel by Seicho Matsumoto) and the closest Japanese film in years to an Alfred Hitchcock picture, with a Douglas Sirk edge. Ryoko Hirosue plays Teiko, a newlywed who's investigating the sudden disappearance of her husband, Kenichi (Hidetoshi Nishijima), after he fails to return from a business trip. As she unravels the mystery surrounding his disappearance she uncovers evidence that he was not the man she thought had married. Soon, she learns that her beloved husband was close to two fascinating women: elegant provincial aristocrat Sachiko (Miki Nakatani) and company receptionist Hisako (Tae K

 

I recommended The Twilight Samurai in my "Eastern cinema" thread a few years ago. It is quality.

 

 

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Any cheap places online to get Asian films btw? Not the kind Jimbo's an expert on either :calmdown:

 

DDDHouse

 

Delivered direct from hong Kong....postage ain't cheap (marked as a gift though so not exorbitant)....but discs for as little as a pound so ordering 5 or more makes it well worth while.

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