250 Of Camo's Favourites

With the new countdowns that have been popping up recently i thought i'd do something of my own. I've been preparing this since Miss Vicky started her top 100, i love reading ranked lists but i think i've reached a point that i have seen too many great films to ever be satisfied with a ranking. So i decided not to rank this, i just came up with 250 films i at least really like then put them into a randomizer. I know the number is pretty absurd, i didn't have any total in mind when i started i wanted more than 100 so there could maybe be a few surprises then i just kept adding more until i got to 247 then my mind went blank so i added three of my favourite Looney Tunes Shorts to finish this off. I'm sure there's plenty i've forgot, some i like much more than others, some may be a bit premature because i've only seen them once and/or recently, some i don't remember that well, but whatever this isn't supposed to be definitive it is just 250 movies that i at least really like.

Every time i've decided to do write-ups for these i've got lazy and left it for days so i've decided not to do any; if i remember off the top of my head that i have written something about the film i'll link it but otherwise it will just be the movies. I encourage discussion in the thread though so if you are wondering about any films ask and i'll be happy to share my thoughts. I will post five at a time and at least ten a day unless something happens that stops me from doing so, some days i might post more since 25 days might be a bit much we'll see what happens.

Anyway hope you enjoy and comment

The List Chronologically:


The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, 1939)
Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
Pinocchio (Disney, 1940)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941)
Bambi (Disney, 1942)
Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Bob Clampett, 1946)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock,1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann, 1950)
A Place In The Sun (George Stevens, 1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951)
Othello (Orson Welles, 1952)
Singin' In The Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952)
Duck Dodgers In The 24 1/2 Century (Chuck Jones, 1953)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
From Here To Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa,1954)
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
Witness For The Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1957)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
What's Opera Doc? (Chuck Jones (1957)
The Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens, 1959)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
Judgement At Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961)
Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962)
The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
From Russia With Love (Terence Young, 1963)
Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
2001: A Space Oddysey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1968)
Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
Take The Money And Run (Woody Allen, 1969)
Joe (John Avildsen, 1970)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder,1974)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)
One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie, 1976)
Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Allegro Non Troppo (Bruno Bozzetto, 1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese,1978)
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
Nosferatu The Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
The Jerk (Carl Reiner, 1979)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
Maniac (William Lustig, 1980)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980)
The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982)
Missing (Costa-Garvas, 1982)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Trading Places (John Landis, 1983)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)
This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984)
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Brian Gibson, 1986)
Raising Arizona (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1987)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987)
Spoorloos (George Sluizer, 1988)
Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988)
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1989)
The 'Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse ( Eleanor Coppola, George Hickenlooper, Fax Bahr, 1991)
What About Bob? (Frank Oz, 1991)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)
The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1991)
Barton Fink (The Coens, 1991)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn, 1992)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)
The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, 1993)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood, 1993)
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994)
Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
Chungking Express (Wong-Kar Wai, 1994)
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1995)
Sense And Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
SE7EN (David Fincher, 1995)
Welcome To The Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 1996)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1996)
Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan, 1998)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
The Big Lebowski (Coens, 1998)
The Thin Red Line (Terence Malick, 1998)
Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker, 1999)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Monsters Inc (Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman, 2002)
About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)
Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, 2003)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring (Kim Ki-Duk. 2003)
Capturing The Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004)
Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room (Alex Gibney, 2005)
The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles, 2006)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
Trick 'r Treat (Michael Dougherty, 2007)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 2007)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
WALL-E (Pixar, 2008)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne, 2008)
A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
A Serious Man (Ethan & Joel Coen, 2009)
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
Submarine (RIchard Ayoade, 2010)
Animal Kingdom (David Michod, 2010)
Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2010)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015)
Anomalisa (Charlie Kauffman and Duke Johnson, 2015)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney, 2015)
The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2016)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
Krisha (Trey Edward Schults, 2016)
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, 2016)
Everybody Wants Some (Richard Linklater, 2016)

I will enjoy as long as you pick the good films!

01.Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)

02.The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

03.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984

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04.Pinocchio (Disney, 1940)

05.Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)

Forgot to add something in the first post so i may as well post it now so those who have already seen it can see it. This list is largely skewed toward english language and 1970s-present, simply because the majority of the films i've seen fall under those. I'm watching more and more foreign language and older films so it is changing all the time but for now this is where i'm at.

Really liked Paris, Texas but I've only seen it once. I look forward to seeing it again.

Temple of Doom is a classic no doubt. I think I like Raiders a bit more, but would have to revisit the films to find out for sure.

Pinocchio is obviously one of my favorite Disney classics.

Haven't seen Kwaidan or (surprise!) Godfather Part 2

Paris, Texas is so beautiful and Harry Dean Stanton is one of the most underrated actors ever.

Temple of Doom is by far my fave Indi and will be the only one on this list, like Raiders too though and that would be second. Always found it weird that there's a decent amount of members here who have Doom first.

Pinocchio is my second fave Disney, only two will make this.

Think you might like Kwaidan, it reminds me of Ugetsu with its haunting atmosphere. Have you seen the first Godfather?

Oh, you're going 1-250?
I thought you'd go 250-1...

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I have seen the first Camo.

As i said it's not ranked. There's no way i could rank 250 films so i just put them into a randomizer.

I'll post the list chronologically in the second post and if i've written something about a film before on the site and remember where it is i'll link to it as i have done with Paris, Texas.

Edit: and The Godfather Part II, just remembered i posted something short about that on my top 50.

Of course I heartily approve of Temple of Doom. It'll be making an appearance on my list as well, but since mine is ranked it won't show up for awhile. I like Pinocchio but it's never been a particular favorite.

I didn't like the first Godfather so didn't bother with the sequel. Haven't seen Paris Texas or Kwaidon.

Also I hope you'll actually complete this without me having to badger you about it.

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I think you'd like Godfather II more than the first but yeah not enough that you'd actually like it. I think you'd like Paris, Texas not sure how much and i could be wrong though, and i don't know about Kwaidan (you fool) you always surprise me with those sorts of films.

I've completed my Animation, since 2000 and Horror one without you having to badger me

Yeah, I keep meaning to watch it. Don't know why I haven't.

Of course it's by far my favorite of the series too and I think it's great that so many members agree. I'd rank Raiders third after Last Crusade, but I know I'm probably alone on that one. Crystal Skull can just **** off entirely.

Only two out of 250? Damn.

I don't think I've seen Ugetsu (have I?) I'm terrible at remember titles sometimes.

Yeah and it bored the crap out of me.

Also damn you for editing your post and you can KMA on the Kwaidan misspelling.

You replied to the wrong post that was to Raul

Kwaidan is from Kobayashi who also made Samurai Rebellion and Harakiri which you liked btw.

Damn it. This is what happens when I'm sleep deprived, fighting a bad headache, and trying to covertly MoFo while at work.

All you people with your lists have me thinking of making one too. I haven't made one since 2013.

06.The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)

07.Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)

08.Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 2007)

09.The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)

10.Take The Money And Run (Woody Allen, 1969)

I have seen none of these. I've had the Three Colors Trilogy on DVD for ages but have never actually watched any of them.

Very interested in what you think of the Three Colours Trilogy when/if you watch them. Not sure what would and wouldn't be for you there if i'm honest. You'd hate Take The Money and Run at least; i'd be baffled if you actually liked that, it is Woody Allens most joke filled film that i've seen at least.