Favourite movies

[Rudy Redlin]

1. The End of Evangelion
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Synecdoche, New York
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Ikiru
6. F for Fake
7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
8. Punch-Drunk Love
9. Seven Samurai
10. Southland Tales

Not sure I can really call that a Top Ten. More like a Top Two Plus Some Other Stuff That Comes to Mind.

[Xard]

You guys have cool taste, always good to see newfriends appreciating great cinema.

[Giji Shinka]

Hmmm......
(Not in particular order. Except the first three)
1.) Evangelion 3.0 you can (not) redo
2.) End of evangelion
3.) Pulp fiction
4.) Angel's egg
5.) Django unchained
6.) Batman: The dark knight
7.) Kill Bill (Both 1 and 2)
8.) V for vendetta
9.) No country for old men
10.) Pan's labyrinth

[Princess Asuka]

My favorites in no particular order:
SpaceBalls
Aladdin
Ponyo
Sailor Moon R movie
Sailor Moon SuperS movie: The 9 Sailor Soldiers Gather! The Miracle of the Black Dream Hole.
End of Evangelion
All 4 Indiana Jones movies
Toy Story 2
UP
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
what of little bits I've seen of The Godfather
Mary Poppins (My favorite childhood movie)
Both Garfield movies, but as huge Garfield fan they could have been done better.
what of seen so far of Princess Monoke
Both Despicable Me movies, who doesn't love the minions?

[Madonna]

An updated list of sorts, I limited it to a top 15; in no particular order:

La Dolce Vita
The Red Shoes
Metropolis
Citizen Kane
Repulsion
Rosemary's Baby
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Vertigo
Ring (the 1998 Japanese Original)
In The Realm of the Senses
Eyes Wide Shut
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Exorcist
American Beauty
Pan's Labyrinth

[Trajan]

Let's give this thread a bump, shall we?

1. Seven Samurai
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. The Godfather
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Chungking Express
6. Once Upon a Time in the West
7. Yojimbo
8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two
9. Casablanca
10. Ran
11. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
12. Fargo
13. Toy Story
14. Rear Window
15. Harakiri

[Xard]

Well, in that case I might as well post my Work In Progress for Top 20 films by decade...

1920s

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
2. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
3. Sunrise (Murnau)
4. The Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)
5. The General (Keaton)
6. Un Chien andalou (Bunuel)
7. Metropolis (Lang)
8. Faust (Murnau)
9. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
10. Nosferatu (Murnau)

1930s

1. City Lights (Chaplin)
2. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
3. La Grande Illusion (Renoir)
4. Modern Times (Chaplin)
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Hand)
6. The Only Son (Ozu)
7. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks)
8. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Mizoguchi)
9. Vampyr (Dreyer)
10. M (Lang)
11. I Was Born, But… (Ozu)
12. Gone with the Wind (Fleming)
13. Stagecoach (Ford)
14. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
15. Earth (Dovzhenko)
16. Duck Soup (McCarey)
17. Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi)
18. It Happened One Night (Capra)
19. Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi)
20. Scarface (Hawks)

1940s

1. Late Spring (Ozu)
2. Citizen Kane (Welles)
3. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
4. The Third Man (Reed)
5. Stray Dog (Kurosawa)
6. Rome Open City (Rossellini)
7. Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
8. Double Indemnity (Wilder)
9. Casablanca (Curtiz)
10. It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra)
11. The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
12. My Darling Clementine (Ford)
13. Notorious (Hitchcock)
14. The Big Sleep (Hawks)
15. The Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
16. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
17. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
18. Fantasia (Sharpsteen)
19. Dumbo (Sharpsteen)
20. Out of the Past (Tourneur)

1950s

1. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
2. Ikiru (Kurosawa)
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
4. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
5. The Apu Trilogy (Ray)
6. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
7. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
8. Ordet (Dreyer)
9. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson)
10. Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
11. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
12. Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
13. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
14. Touch of Evil (Welles)
15. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
16. The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
17. Othello (Welles)
18. North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
19. The Searchers (Ford)
20. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)

1960s

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
2. 8½ (Fellini)
3. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
4. Persona (Bergman)
5. Vivre sa vie (Godard)
6. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick)
7. The Silence (Bergman)
8. Harakiri (Kobayashi)
9. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
10. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
11. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
12. Once Upon a Time In the West (Leone)
13. Breathless (Godard)
14. Contempt (Godard)
15. Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
16. Mouchette (Bresson)
17. Playtime (Tati)
18. High and Low (Kurosawa)
19. Week-End (Godard)
20. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)

1970s

1. Zerkalo (Tarkovsky)
2. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
4. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
5. Eraserhead (Lynch)
6. The Godfather (Coppola)
7. Star Wars (Lucas)
8. Aguirre: Wrath of God (Herzog)
9. Solaris (Tarkovsky)
10. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
11. Chinatown (Polanski)
12. The Godfather Part 2 (Coppola)
13. Cries and Whispers (Bergman)
14. Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (Miyazaki)
15. Amarcord (Fellini)
16. American Graffiti (Lucas)
17. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
18. Alien (Scott)
19. Badlands (Malick)
20. The Conversation (Coppola)

1980s

1. Fanny & Alexander (Bergman)
2. Blade Runner (Scott)
3. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki)
4. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
5. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
6. The Decalogue (Kieslowski)
7. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
8. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
9. Ran (Kurosawa)
10. A City of Sadness (Hou)
11. Angel’s Egg (Oshii)
12. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki)
13. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
14. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
15. Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
16. Akira (Otomo)
17. Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (Oshii)
18. Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Kawamori)
19. Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
20. The Shining (Kubrick)

1990s

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion (Anno)
2. Porco Rosso (Miyazaki)
3. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
4. Patlabor 2 (Oshii)
5. Three Colours Trilogy: Blue, White, Red (Kieslowski)
6. After Life (Koreeda)
7. Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)
8. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
9. Chungking Express (Wong)
10. Magnolia (Anderson)
11. Love & Pop (Anno)
12. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Okiura)
13. Only Yesterday (Takahata)
14. Whisper of the Heart (Kondo)
15. Fargo (Coen Brothers)
16. GoodFellas (Scorsese)
17. The Match Factory Girl (Kaurismäki)
18. The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers)
19. The Straight Story (Lynch)
20. Lost Highway (Lynch)

2000s

1. Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
2. Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
3. Inland Empire (Lynch)
4. Yi yi (Yang)
5. Millenium Actress (Kon)
6. Still Walking (Koreeda)
7. Love Exposure (Sono)
8. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Jackson)
9. Mind Game (Yuasa)
10. Shiki Jitsu (Anno)
11. The Sky Crawlers (Oshii)
12. Oldboy (Park)
13. No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers)
14. Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro)
15. A Serious Man (Coen Brothers)
16. There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
17. The Man Without Past (Kaurismäki)
18. What Time Is It There? (Tsai)
19. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
20. City of God (Meirelles & Lund)

2010s

1. Act of Killing (Oppenheimer)
2. The Dance of Reality (Jodorowsky)
3. The Wind Rises (Miyazaki)
4. Tale of Princess Kaguya (Takahata)
5. Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa (Kawamori)
6. Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo (Anno)
7. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (Ishihara)
8. Tree of Life (Malick)
9. Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson, Wes)
10. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
11. The Look of Silence (Oppenheimer)
12. Le Havre (Kaurismäki)
13. The Artist (Hazanavicius)
14. The Great Beauty (Sorrentino)


2010s is really work in progress and as is almost all films I really loved were animus (e.g. Frances Ha was pretty good but I think pretty overrated, The Master was disappointing, haven't yet seen Jonze's Her or etc.). 1990s, 1930s and obv. 1920s still are unstable. 80s is unstable in terms of order and bottom of the list, otherwise I'm satisfied with it.

Only problem with 40s-70s is that those decades saw so many countless masterpieces I could easily create top 50s for those decades alone. I'm pretty satisfied with my as-of-now stabilized selection and order though.

aaaand if you want to synthetize this shit into some sort of "general top 20" (which I've found impossible to do as of now with satisfying results) it would be

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion (Anno)
2. Zerkalo (Tarkovsky)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
5. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
6. 8½ (Fellini)
7. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
8. Persona (Bergman)
9. Ikiru (Kurosawa)
10. Fanny & Alexander (Bergman)
11. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
12. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
13. Blade Runner (Scott)
14. Late Spring (Ozu)
15. Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
16. Porco Rosso (Miyazaki)
17. Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
18. Vivre sa vie (Godard)
19. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
20. Inland Empire (Lynch)

or something like that.

yeeaahhh I went full Jimbo here.

[Dataprime]

Well, in that case I might as well post my Work In Progress for Top 20 films by decade...

Why don't you have the original Godzilla listed?

[Xard]

Why don't you have the original Godzilla listed?

I haven't seen it from beginning to end ever so it's out of consideration untill I do that. Even then I wouldn't say it making into my 50s top list is guaranteed: that decade is probably the greatest decade of 20th century for cinema so competition is extremely harsh.

I already cried bloody tears for having to leave stuff like Rear Window, Ugetsu, Life of Oharu, other Ozu films from 50s (e.g. Late Summer, Floating Weeds), The Big Heat, In a Lonely Place, La Strada, Oprheus, Singin' in the Rain, A Man Escaped, Pickpocket etc. etc. :(

[Trajan]

Couldn't resist one-upping me, eh Xard.

Here's ten more:

16. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
17. Ikiru
18. The Big Sleep
19. The Dark Knight
20. Tokyo Story
21. Apocalypse Now
22. The Wages of Fear
23. City Lights
24. The Big Lebowski
25. Rashomon

[Dataprime]

Is Back to The Future not on anybodies list?
That is like one of the best films ever made..

[Guy Nacks]

Is Back to The Future not on anybodies list?
That is like one of the best films ever made..

BTTF, while an amazing film, isn't exactly what one would call an "artistic" achievement. Filmfags gonna filmfag.

[Trajan]

BTTF, while an amazing film, isn't exactly what one would call an "artistic" achievement. Filmfags gonna filmfag.

Hey, I got Lord of the Rings, Toy Story, The Dark Knight and The Big Lebowski on my list. I'm not a total elitist when it comes to film.

[Guy Nacks]

Hey, I got Lord of the Rings, Toy Story, The Dark Knight and The Big Lebowski on my list. I'm not a total elitist when it comes to film.

I wasn't trying to call out one person or any members of the forum. Just trying to provide an explanation for why "commercial" films, even highly regarded ones, tend to fall by the wayside when it comes to discussions of "greatest films ever."

[Oz]

Here's a Top 20 that I put together in July. If I made a new list now some of the bottom films could possibly change, but I don't think I have seen enough many films to construct a new one already.

1. End of Evangelion (Anno)
2. Yi yi (Yang)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
4. Late Spring (Ozu)
5. Ran (Kurosawa)
6. What Time Is It There (Tsai)
7. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
8. A City of Sadness (Hou)
9. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai)
10. Harakiri (Kobayashi)

11. Playtime (Tati)
12. Blade Runner (Scott)
13. Shiki-Jitsu (Anno)
14. Only Yesterday (Takahata)
15. Porco Rosso (Miyazaki)
16. Stalker (Tarkovsky)
17. Still Walking (Koreeda)
18. Love Exposure (Sono)
19. Triplets of Belleville (Chomet)
20. The Man Who Planted Trees (Back)

[Trajan]

I wasn't trying to call out one person or any members of the forum. Just trying to provide an explanation for why "commercial" films, even highly regarded ones, tend to fall by the wayside when it comes to discussions of "greatest films ever."

Ah, apologies. Didn't mean to sound offended. Just pointing out that I'm not a complete snob yet.

In other news, it's eerie how similar my taste in movies is with Xard's.

[ThanatosII]

1) The End of Evangelion:
Hits me so hard on a level no piece of cinema can ever touch.
2) Star Wars saga (lean towards Empire & Jedi as my favorites):
Childhood nostolgia with the prequels; appreciation for the originals as time went on (although I still find A New Hope rather boring since it had one linear progression while Empire & Jedi is more interesting since there's more stuff going on simultaneously)
3) Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2:
Cheesy but good fun with nice amounts of drama.
4) Terminator 1 & 2:
I watched the first movie when I was 8, and the stop motion animation of the cyborg freaked me out. Still creepy but cool. Overall, love the concept.
5) Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya:
Unlike Eva where I loved the series head over heels, I found the Haruhi seasons somewhere on a scale between meh and decent. The movie, however, makes the pay off so worth it and took the story in a direction I didn't think was possible.
6)Talk Radio:
Recently saw this as per my father's recommendation. The main character's monologue towards the end reminded me of EoTV to some degree.
7) Back to the Future Trilogy (it made my list, Dataprime, ):
Classic time travel fun.
8) The Haunting (1963):
This horror film I love so much because it knows the "less is more" format quite well and lets the imagination run free! The remake totally ruined the atmosphere I found so intriguing in the original version.
9) The Matrix:
"Whoa"
10) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind:
I know things like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke get high praise, but this particular Miyazaki film feels so breath taking to me still. It could be childhood nostolgia bias as this is my first 'anime'.
11) Kick Ass:
Still haven't seen the second one, but boy do I love this refreshing take on the super hero genre!
12) Scott Pilgram vs the World:
Never read the comic book, so my perspective is skewed, but the comedy and visuals are quite enticing to me. I would qualify this as a "Fun" movie.
13) The Last Samurai:
It's been a long while since I've seen this actually... Must be pretty good though since I feel so compelled to rewatch it... Just remember really liking it the few times I've seen it air on FX if I'm not mistaken.
14) Her:
This film approached the human flaws of romance in a concentrated manner and the performances were excellent enough to sell the pitch of having intimate relationships with A.I. systems. It's also so compelling of just how eerily plausible it is in the near future.
...This is all that came to mind as I went along writing this post. I'll most likely kick myself over missing some other obvious titles I forgot to include.

[Kazuki_Fuse]

In the spirit of Halloween, I have decided to compile a list of some of my favorite horror movies. These are not in any particular order (except for #0, BC is without a doubt my favorite horror movie)

0. Black Christmas
1. The Thing
2. Night of the Demons
3. From Beyond
4. Combat Shock
5. Pet Sematary
6. Tombs of the Blind Dead
7. Witchfinder General
8. Mark of the Devil
9. The Funhouse
10. The Shining

[StarShaper7]

I have a long list of animated stuff to watch. I have a longer list of live action stuff to watch. I feel confident in my list of animated films, but there are so many live action films that I can think of that I haven't seen but know I'll love. So here's the list for my favorite animated movies, with the live action one to be constructed and posted at some point in the future.

Animation
1. The End of Evangelion
2. Mind Game
3. Adolescence of Utena
4. Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
5. Rebuild of Evangelion
6. Cowboy Bebop the Movie
7. Redline
8. Ghost in the Shell + Innocence
9. Angel's Egg
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas
11. Perfect Blue
12. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
13. Akira

[::KL7::]

1. Evangelion - EoE and all the Rebuilds so far.
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. Spirited Away
4. Ponyo
5. Wreck-It Ralph
6. Platoon
7. Nausicaä of the valley of the wind
8. Lord of the Rings trilogy
9. The Harry Potter series
10. The Matrix

Others I like right outside of the top 10. Akira, Summer Wars, Coraline, Nightmare before Christmas and Big Trouble in little China.