Candidates for The Perfect Movie (?)

[SimonNZ]

[Cato]

I have heard it praised as a classic, and have only seen excerpts, which were quite compelling, but practically anything with Burt Lancaster will be compelling! 0:)

[Ken B]

I have heard it praised as a classic, and have only seen excerpts, which were quite compelling, but practically anything with Burt Lancaster will be compelling! 0:)

Crimson Pirate.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Just thought of another perfect film. Jeez, how could I have overlooked this one?

La Jetée by Chris Marker (1962)

29 minutes long, told entirely in still B&W photographs - with the exception of a single moving shot in the middle. A unique work of art.

[Cato]

Just thought of another perfect film. Jeez, how could I have overlooked this one?

La Jetée by Chris Marker (1962)

29 minutes long, told entirely in still B&W photographs - with the exception of a single moving shot in the middle. A unique work of art.

For your consideration...

https://www.youtube.com/v/aLfXCkFQtXw

[milk]

La Règle du Jeu
The Third Man
Blow Up
Les Quatre Cents Coups
Pather Panjali
Banshun (Late Spring)
ohayo
Silver Linings Playbook
West Side Story
Sideways
Annie Hall
Le Rayon Vert
Conte d'hiver
Once Upon a Time in the West
Ugetsu
Greenberg
Broadway Dannie Rose
Double indemnity
A Night at the Opera
Boyhood
Duck Soup
La femme de l'aviateur
Rear Window
Singing in the Rain
La La Land
North By Northwest
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Ladri di biciclette
American Movie
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Thin Blue Line
Fas Cheap and Out of Control
Stagecoach
Alien
Aliens
Duck Soup
Superbad
Dazed and Confused
Tootsie
the Big Lebowski
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
bob and ted and carol and alice
Mulholland Drive
The Shoah
Stop Making Sense
Crumb
Rashomon
To Be or Not to Be

[SimonNZ]

La Règle du Jeu
The Third Man
Blow Up
Les Quatre Cents Coups
Pather Panjali
Banshun (Late Spring)
ohayo
Silver Linings Playbook
West Side Story
Sideways
Annie Hall
Le Rayon Vert
Conte d'hiver
Once Upon a Time in the West
Ugetsu
Greenberg
Broadway Dannie Rose
Double indemnity
A Night at the Opera
Boyhood
Duck Soup
La femme de l'aviateur
Rear Window
Singing in the Rain
La La Land
North By Northwest
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Ladri di biciclette
American Movie
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Thin Blue Line
Fas Cheap and Out of Control
Stagecoach
Alien
Aliens
Duck Soup
Superbad
Dazed and Confused
Tootsie
the Big Lebowski
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
bob and ted and carol and alice
Mulholland Drive
The Shoah
Stop Making Sense
Crumb
Rashomon
To Be or Not to Be

Eric Rohmer is my favorite director, but I find it really hard to pick just one or two from a very consistent filmography, and because most I think are best viewed in the context of the series they come from. But with a gun to my head maybe La Collectioneusse or My Night At Maudes.

Interesting list. I'd probably choose The World Of Apu over Pather Panchali, but both are great.

[milk]

Eric Rohmer is my favorite director, but I find it really hard to pick just one or two from a very consistent filmography, and because most I think are best viewed in the context of the series they come from. But with a gun to my head maybe La Collectioneusse or My Night At Maudes.

Interesting list. I'd probably choose The World Of Apu over Pather Panchali, but both are great.

I guess we have similar tastes. Yes, picking from Rohmer...I just threw the proverbial dice. I also love L'Ami de Mon Amie, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, Tale of Autumn, Tale of Summer...For Ray, The Music Room is great too! 

[SimonNZ]

I guess we have similar tastes. Yes, picking from Rohmer...I just threw the proverbial dice. I also love L'Ami de Mon Amie, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, Tale of Autumn, Tale of Summer...For Ray, The Music Room is great too!

Heh. I was once very briefly a member of a film club, and when it came time for my choice that was the film I picked. And everybody hated it. Dismissed it as nothing more than "a soppy love story" Hated to such an extent that I was disinvited from choosing a second.

Still one of my favorites of his.

[milk]

Heh. I was once very briefly a member of a film club, and when it came time for my choice that was the film I picked. And everybody hated it. Dismissed it as nothing more than "a soppy love story" Hated to such an extent that I was disinvited from choosing a second.

Still one of my favorites of his.

I would kind of expect this result. It's funny, isn't it? That film has an almost hypnotic, mysterious, effect. It's so banal on the surface. It's earnest and ironic at the same time, no? That's a very strange film. It's almost sci-fi or dystopian too. I have to go and read something about the reactions to this one. But, I can totally imagine people hating this one. What is this film really about? 

[Omicron9]

I'll throw in a couple:

"Love and Death."  So many great lines and subtle facial gestures.  Humor both broad and subtle.  Extra enjoyment to be had if you've read Dostoevsky or Tolstoy and if you're a fan of Bergman films.  Or if you like wheat.

"Ronin."  Best car chase sequence ever.  Intense plot.  And I still don't know the color of the boat house at Hereford.

"Wings of Desire."  The Wim Wenders original, not the Hollywood travesty.  I am left wrung-out every time I've seen it.  Extra points for cinematography.

[Karl Henning]

"Love and Death."  So many great lines and subtle facial gestures.  Humor both broad and subtle.  Extra enjoyment to be had if you've read Dostoevsky or Tolstoy and if you're a fan of Bergman films.  Or if you like wheat.

An excellent candidate.  I practically owe that one to kishnevi (Jeffrey).

[Omicron9]

An excellent candidate.  I practically owe that one to kishnevi (Jeffrey).

Thank you, Dr. Henning! 

While on the topic of W. Allen and perfect movies, I'll include as honorable mention "Stardust Memories," if only for Charlotte Rampling's "There's a doctor here...."  scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKTrR260rBI

[Karl Henning]

Thank you, Dr. Henning! 

While on the topic of W. Allen and perfect movies, I'll include as honorable mention "Stardust Memories," if only for Charlotte Rampling's "There's a doctor here...."  scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKTrR260rBI

Huge fan of Stardust Memories, I am.

Good lawd, Jazz Heaven . . . .

[vandermolen]

Let's try a (sort of) genre list:

Comedy: Some Like it Hot, A Night at the Opera, Little Miss Sunshine, Gregory's Girl

Adventure: Where Eagle's Dare, North by Northwest, Jaws, Excalibur.

Epic: War and Peace (Soviet version), Ivan the Terrible (1 and 2), Ben Hur

Science Fiction: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Aliens, Planet of the Apes (original)

Film Noir: Murder My Sweet, Double Indemnity, The Lady from Shanghai

Other Foreign Language: Jean de Florettes/Manon des Sources, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Bicycle Thieves, The Red Balloon (original)

Animated: The Song of the Sea, Watership Down (original)

Romance: Casablanca, It's A Wonderful Life, Goodbye Mr Chips (Original).

War: Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, Darkest Hour, The Longest Day.

Mystery: The Name of the Rose, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Basil Rathbone)

Horror: Night of the Hunter, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Frederic March)