Here's my preliminary list...let me know what you think:
- Casablanca
- Citizen Kane
- Black Hawk Down
- Fight Club
- Double Indemnity
- Braveheart
- 2001
- No Country for Old Men
- Fargo
- Some Like it Hot
- The Searchers
- Goodfellas
- Pulp Fiction
- Back to the Future
- Airplane
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Rushmore
- Traffic
- Top Gun
- Heat
- Taxi Driver
- A Clockwork Orange
- Midnight Run
- The Big Sleep
- Bladerunner
- Rashomon
- Raging Bull
- Leon
- The Big Lebowski
- Seven
- The Passenger
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Thin Red Line
- Superman: The Motion Picture
- The Godfather Part 1
- The Godfather Part 2
- Irreversible
- My Left Foot
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Blow Up
- All The President’s Men
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- The Deer Hunter
- The New World
- The Lost Weekend
- Jaws
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Amacord
- The Insider
- Major League
6 comments:
what about Ferris Bueller, he Breakfast Club, or Donnie Darko?
Love your name!
Ts is a very tough list to narrow down and almost impossible to be satisfied with.
Ferris Bueller is a great idea.
The Breakfast Club, while a classic, was never one of my personal favorites.
Donnie Darko could certainly be included.
Here are a few more I came up with on my plane ride: The French Connection, Dumb & Dumber, The Sting, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, When Harry Met Sally, Witness, Reservoir Dogs, Sin City, 300, Witness, The Fugitive, and 12 Angry Men.
Cool list. Sounds like a fun project. As far as Soderbergh I'd go Erin Brockovich or Out of Sight over Traffic. And I prefer La Femme Nikita to Leon. Just off the top of my head, how about some Cameron Crowe, Curtis Hanson, James Cameron, Charlie Kaufman, Wong Kar Wai, David Gordon Greene, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Pedro Almodovar...or The Piano, The Remains of the Day, The Age of Innocence, JFK, The Natural, The Third Man, Chinatown, Barry Lyndon, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Monster's Ball, Open Range, The Matrix Reloaded, Dazed and Confused, Meet The Parents, The Lives of Others, Real Genius, Minority Report, Buffalo 66, The Winslow Boy, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Last of the Mohicans, Annie Hall, The Empire Strikes Back or Star Wars...and on and on...
Yes...as you can see, this is a hard project to undertake. Thanks for the suggestions...my final list will appear soon.
Who is Audreyitsdaddy kidding? Is he an idiot? Breakfast Club was a movie for simpletons. Where is Chaplin? Where is Furie? Where is Ishtar? I think you only have 30 films on that list worth a damn. Chinatown - breedlove is right - last of the Mohicans absolutely. Where is the new wave - where are the Italian greats. What is your point of view about being Under 30
Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, and Donnie Darko are absolute classics in their genre. So arguing against that statement will be pointless around here.
This list is NOT about the best films ever made, or the best films "of all time." There are films that have made an impact on ME, first and foremost, and that also serve as prime examples of their genre, and of their time and place in the history of the medium.
I have made many new additions to this list, and am trimming it down even further.
The idea of this list is to look back at the films that have blown me away. I am approaching 30 years of age, and there are so many films that I have loved over the years.
I am interested and open to any suggestions that you have. But I am also interested in smart, knowledgeable conversation. So, by you suggesting that AUDREYITSDADDY is an "idiot," it shows me that you either didn't know what I was after with this list, or that you're not paying attention.
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