Film Buff in Training, Need Reccomendations
Hi,
About a year ago I started seriously getting into movies and have been watching what are considered to be the greatest films. However I'm beginning to run out of ideas and need some recommendations. Below is everything I've seen, and then everything I want to see. I like to get a variety of different types of films so some ideas would be appreciated :) You can sort of see how my taste has evolved from not so spectacular to better and better. |
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I can't see the list.
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yeah, where's the list?
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Here's the actual list, once it hits Sunset Boulevard my tastes start to change and I begin to strive for more variety.
Citizen Kane 5/5 The Manchurian Candidate 4/5 Lawrence of Arabia 5/5 2001: A Space Odyssey 5/5 A Clockwork Orange 3/5 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 5/5 Apocalypse Now 5/5 All the President’s Men 3/5 No Country for Old Men 5/5 The Shawshank Redemption 3.75/5 Das Boot 3.75/5 Jaws 4/5 The Godfather 5/5 Gandhi 4/5 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 5/5 The Silence of the Lambs 5/5 Amadeus 5/5 Raging Bull 5/5 Monty Python’s Life of Brian 4/5 In the Heat of the Night 3/5 The Pawnbroker 4/5 Forrest Gump 2/5 Rain Man 2/5 Casablanca 5/5 King Kong 3/5 The Last Emperor 3/5 The Ten Commandments 2/5 Annie Hall 5/5 The Best Years of Our Lives 2/5 Reds 3/5 Chinatown 5/5 Pulp Fiction 5/5 A Streetcar Named Desire 5/5 Goodfellas 5/5 Fargo 5/5 Blade Runner 5/5 The Producers 3/5 Taxi Driver 5/5 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 5/5 Seven Samurai 5/5 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 5/5 Bonnie and Clyde 4/5 Blue Velvet 5/5 The Godfather: Part II 4/5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 5/5 The Big Lebowski 5/5 The Usual Suspects 2.5/5 Mulholland Dr. 5/5 Dog Day Afternoon 3/5 Princess Mononoke 5/5 Magnolia 3/5 The Sixth Sense 3/5 Manhattan 5/5 Fight Club 1/5 Unforgiven 5/5 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 3/5 The Matrix 2/5 Boogie Nights 5/5 Blow-Up 5/5 American Beauty 5/5 Pan’s Labyrinth 5/5 The Lives of Others 3/5 Requiem for a Dream 3/5 MysticRiver 3/5 Rushmore 4/5 The Prestige 2/5 Once Upon a Time in the West 5/5 L.A. Confidential 3/5 Rosemary’s Baby 4/5 Network 5/5 Seven 3/5 The Exorcist 3/5 There Will Be Blood 5/5 Amores perros 4/5 The Wild Bunch 4/5 Oldboy 3/5 Spirited Away 5/5 On the Waterfront 5/5 The Deer Hunter 4/5 The Thing 4/5 Short Cuts 5/5 Reservoir Dogs 3/5 12 Angry Men 5/5 Sunset Boulevard 5/5 Solaris 5/5 Taste of Cherry 5/5 Rashomon 5/5 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 5/5 The Bicycle Thief 5/5 La Dolce Vita 5/5 The 400 Blows 4/5 The Seventh Seal 5/5 Nashville 5/5 Eraserhead 3/5 Five Easy Pieces 5/5 Do the Right Thing 4/5 Hitchcock’s Voyeurism Trilogy Rear Window 5/5 Vertigo 5/5 Psycho 4.5/5 Kieślowski’s Three Colors Trilogy Three Colors: Blue 5/5 Three Colors: White 3.5/5 Three Colors: Red 5/5 Midnight Cowboy 4/5 Chungking Express 4/5 Metropolis 5/5 Wild Strawberries 5/5 The Conversation 5/5 The Crowd 5/5 The Rules of the Game 5/5 8 ½ 5/5 Tokyo Story 5/5 A Woman Under the Influence 5/5 Dead Ringers 5/5 The Thin Red Line 4.5/5 Breathless 4/5 Stranger Than Paradise 4/5 The Piano 5/5 Safe 4/5 Aguirre, the Wrath of God 5/5 Woman in the Dunes 5/5 The Conformist Viridiana S. Ray’s Apu Trilogy Pather Panchali Aparajito The World of Apu L’Avventura Persona The Third Man Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror Sansho the Bailiff Days of Heaven Andrei Rublev L’Atalante All About Eve Talk to Her The General Written on the Wind Au Hasard Balthazar Laura Greed Here's where I've left off, I need more movies in here, new directors and such, please help! Last Year at Marienbad The Searchers Close-Up Duck Soup The Wages of Fear Grand Illusion |
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Fight Club 1/5
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you've watched a lot of great movies there, even though i'm watching a bunch of classics that i've never seen. i'm generally new with the classics, as well.
but, here are some movies that i really enjoyed that i didn't spot on your list: the conversation, (1974, coppola) the day the earth stood still, (1951, wise) mr. smith goes to washington, (1939, capra) dr. strangelove: or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, (1964, kubrick) |
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Honestly I didn't bother reading the entire list, but watch The Deer Hunter if you haven't.
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He did. 4/5
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He already watched The Conversation and The Deer Hunter, but yes, I'd watch Dr. Strangelove and Paths of Glory from Kubrick. You need some Capra, so Mr. Smith Goes to Washington fits in there. If there's any way you can find Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen, I'd recommend that one.
More directors: Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels, Hail the Conquering Hero) Charles Chaplin (City Lights, Modern Times) Rouben Mamoulian (Love Me Tonight, Queen Christina) Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, Red River) Ernst Lubitsch (Heaven Can Wait ('43), Trouble in Paradise) Michael Powell (A Matter of Life and Death, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) William Wyler (The Big Country, The Collector) Mike Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate) Jack Clayton (Room at the Top, The Innocents) Roberto Rossellini (Rome, Open City, Germany Year Zero) I'm going to post this for now because otherwise I'd spend too much time typing. However, some other films I'd check out would include: The Bridge on the River Kwai American Graffiti Le Boucher Rider on the Rain The Wild Child The Shop on Main Street The Two of Us ('68) The Train War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk) Come and See Easy Rider The Last Picture Show Queen of Hearts The Maltese Falcon ('41) The Devil and Daniel Webster People Will Talk ('51) Singin' in the Rain The Wizard of Oz Gone With the Wind Pygmalion Little Big Man Cabaret Deliverance Elmer Gantry Downfall The Wanderers An American Werewolf in London Richard Pryor Live in Concert Stop Making Sense Olympia (Parts 1 and 2) Shutting down.... |
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ZGDK, my best advice would be to follow the directors. If you really like a film, look up the other films the director has made and go from there.
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You could try the 'lists' bit of the site for more ideas :)
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Originally Posted by KasperKristensen (Post 563421)
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How do you confuse 1/5 with 3.5/5?
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Mark F's list is pretty exhaustive, although for me Wyler's best film is The Letter.
James Whale should be there for Frankenstein. Bride of..., Invisible Man, and Showboat. Was Blue Angel there? Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) The Last Laugh The Ox Bow Incident Bringing Up Baby The Philadelphia Story I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang The Great Escape Touch of Evil Kind Hearts and Coronets More Alfred Hitchcock The 39 Steps Notorius Sabotage The Lady Vanishes North by Northwest You know something you have plenty of movies to go through. That will keep you busy for a long time. |
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At least Platoon. HA!
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:rotfl: had to be done
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Originally Posted by Harry Lime (Post 563463)
How do you confuse 1/5 with 3.5/5?
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I'd recommend that you get some books. Even understanding the basics of lighting, editing, sound design, directing, acting, etc. will completely change the way you watch and understand movies.
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I didn't see The Grapes of Wrath or Some Like It Hot in there. Definitely see both of those.
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