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.

I can't see the list.

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yeah, where's the list?

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

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)

Honestly I didn't bother reading the entire list, but watch The Deer Hunter if you haven't.

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....

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

Oh, I did? I meant 3.5/5

How do you confuse 1/5 with 3.5/5?

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.

Missing a lot of classics

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At least Platoon. HA!

had to be done

I can see how you.. no actually I can't. Its either 1 or 3.5.

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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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