Six favourite films (Movies)

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Karl Henning

#380
March 29, 2018, 01:05:23 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on April 16, 2008, 07:46:56 AM
SIX WOODY ALLEN FILMS

Manhattan
Annie Hall
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Love & Death
Play It Again, Sam

Between your esteemed self, Sarge, and Ebert (who calls Hannah his best film, and if I do not agree a. he says that for reasons and b. I may be wrong 8) ) . . . I am returning to H. and Her Sisters with a less encumbered mind.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Draško

#381
March 29, 2018, 02:12:10 AM Last Edit: March 29, 2018, 02:18:58 AM by Draško
Difficult. At the moment.

Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Szindbad (Huszarik)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
L'Eclisse (Antonioni)
Le Samourai (Melville)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)

and then knocking on the door trying to squeeze in ...

Il Gattopardo (Visconti)
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Mikhalkov)
Les Enfants du paradis (Carne)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
The Falls (Greenaway), or The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, or Belly of an Architect, or Baby of Macon, or Draughtsman's Contract
The Docks of New York (Sternberg)
The Third Man (Reed)

and I've probably forgotten someone ...

edit: I've forgotten the Japanese, and Trakovsky, and Vertov ...

vandermolen

#382
March 29, 2018, 03:37:07 AM Last Edit: March 29, 2018, 03:38:41 AM by vandermolen
My new list:

Double Indemnity
Little Miss Sunshine
The Lives of Others
Sophie Scholl, the Final Days
Carry on Don't Lose Your Head
Goodbye Mr Chips (Robert Donat version)

PS only one of these is from my original list.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

NikF

#383
March 29, 2018, 03:49:46 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on March 29, 2018, 03:37:07 AM
My new list:

Double Indemnity
Little Miss Sunshine
The Lives of Others
Sophie Scholl, the Final Days
Carry on Don't Lose Your Head
Goodbye Mr Chips (Robert Donat version)

PS only one of these is from my original list.

Good stuff.
"You overestimate my power of attraction," he told her. "No, I don't," she replied sharply, "and neither do you".

Jaakko Keskinen

#384
March 29, 2018, 06:56:09 AM
One per director:

Huston: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Curtiz: Casablanca
Spielberg: Raiders of the lost ark
Kershner: The Empire Strikes Back
Ford: 3 Bad Men
Matti Grönberg: Kummeli Kultakuume (and I thought us Finns cannot make good movies!)
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Florestan

#385
March 29, 2018, 07:02:35 AM
Are we allowed porn?  >:D :P :laugh:
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. — Claude Debussy

LKB

#386
March 29, 2018, 07:31:12 AM
In order,

2001: A Space Odyssey

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Edward Scissorhands

Kill Bill 1
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen...

vandermolen

#387
March 29, 2018, 07:48:05 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 29, 2018, 07:10:43 AM
Shameless selfie in front of Phyllis Dietrichson's house (used in shots).  The little man in me said I needed this moment captured.



How exciting! Am most jealous. I couldn't, however, see the photo.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#388
March 29, 2018, 07:49:52 AM
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#389
March 29, 2018, 07:51:09 AM
Quote from: Florestan on March 29, 2018, 07:02:35 AM
Are we allowed porn?  >:D :P :laugh:

Certainly not!

You'll just have to start a 'Six favourite porn films' thread.

8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Bogey

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March 29, 2018, 08:07:28 AM Last Edit: March 30, 2018, 04:31:39 AM by Bogey
Quote from: vandermolen on March 29, 2018, 07:48:05 AM
How exciting! Am most jealous. I couldn't, however, see the photo.

Reloaded. :)

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

NikF

#391
March 29, 2018, 08:09:15 AM
Today it's -

The Big Sleep
Forbidden Planet
Un cœur en hiver
Duck Soup
Ostře sledované vlaky
12 Angry Men
"You overestimate my power of attraction," he told her. "No, I don't," she replied sharply, "and neither do you".

Bogey

#392
March 29, 2018, 08:12:22 AM
Quote from: NikF on March 29, 2018, 08:09:15 AM
Today it's -

The Big Sleep
Forbidden Planet
12 Angry Men

Love all three.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

SimonNZ

#393
March 29, 2018, 03:47:27 PM
Quote from: Alberich on March 29, 2018, 06:56:09 AM
One per director:

Huston: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Curtiz: Casablanca
Spielberg: Raiders of the lost ark
Kershner: The Empire Strikes Back
Ford: 3 Bad Men
Matti Grönberg: Kummeli Kultakuume (and I thought us Finns cannot make good movies!)

You don't like Aki Kaurismaki?

vandermolen

#394
March 30, 2018, 12:20:17 AM
Quote from: Bogey on March 29, 2018, 08:07:28 AM
Reloaded. :)

Says system has been temporarily disabled.
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Jaakko Keskinen

#395
March 30, 2018, 04:32:22 AM
Quote from: SimonNZ on March 29, 2018, 03:47:27 PM
You don't like Aki Kaurismaki?


Can't say that I do. In general, I think Finns can make successful comedy films but when trying to create a truly serious work of art, it falls short. Kummeli naturally is comedy and I think it succeeds there outrageously well. Although maybe I should give more credit to screenwriters because the cinematography in that movie isn't particularly outstanding. It may not even be a good film in the traditional sense of the word. But it is entertaining as hell and after all, this is Six favourite films, not six greatest films.

There are good Finnish film directors (Renny Harlin) but I have hard time calling anything made in Hollywood a Finnish movie, no matter what nationality that of the director.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo
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