My Favorite Movies

the best ever, i saw a new print of it a few years ago, the colors are so much more lush than on the dvd, makes it look beautiful, i highly recommend anyone who loves this film to go see the next screening they can find on a big screen.

the documentaries on the dvd talk about all of the shooting in monument valley, but the dvd transfer of this film loses all of the colors of the original print. its been on hdnet recently, and if you watch that version, the reds are much higher contrast, and although it looks kinda ridiculous, its a much better looking film than the flat dvd version.

too much to say, i love it

epic.
there are lots of "epic" westerns, however, this is pretty much in a genre of its own in my opinion. never before, and never after, has a western been this deep and complete. there are so many great scenes, so many great characters, so many great plotlines. there is just so much going on in this film, and it all works. this is the be all end all western. it encompasses and comments on every single theme and archetype built in the 40 something years before that. even though this is a spaghetti western, if i were to recommend one western for somebody to see to get the genre, this is it, even over the superior searchers.

best example of postmodernism in film. a film critic/student/scholars film. it appeals to everyone though, just ebcause it works and its funny and the characters are true to life.

cliched favorite. thats the only reason why its nto my number 1. im just too much of a snob to put it higher, bc i feel that it wouldnt show my taste or whatnot. regardless, its the only film that can be described as perfect. the criticisms are all petty, and in comparison to those of any other film, they are complimentary if anything. just because its hard to figure out who heard him say rosebud doesnt mean the film is any less majestic.

fonda doesnt shut up and is always well lit. sutherland doesnt say a word and is always in gordon willis' shadows. we know nothing about fonda, but we know everything about sutherland. masterpiece. pakula and willis are two of my favorites at their crafts.

the crop duster sequence, well the preceding highway waiting sequence i mean, has to be some kind of influence for the end of the sopranos. hes just standing there, we know something has to happen, so every mundane occurance gets us off the edge of our seats. hitchcock keeps us still in this paralysis for i think 6 minutes or so, its great. i could maybe count on my hand how many times a film holds suspense like that for 6 minutes straight without anything happening

existentialism- you can read nausea or you can watch this. this is a lot more fun.

the ultimate MOVIE movie. so feel good, so special, i forget if it was ford or welles who said it, but theres sentiment and theres sentimentality. this film toes the line mroe successfully than any other, and is the best example of high drama rather than melodrama.

japan's casablanca to me. of all the films on this list, those are the two that i feel if you tell the story to someone who has not seen the film, they will feel it jsut as much. this is just such a great story that there is no way they could have messed it up. luckily, it was kobayashi, mifune and nakadai, so obviously they were going to pull it off right. this is a heart wrenching tale, again toeing the line of melodrama, but the story is just too good for it to be too sentimental. they dont need to use any tricks to bring out our emotions, the story and teh actors are that good.

a unique experience and a masterpiece. nobody has ever achieved any film like this and i doubt anyone ever will. altman was truly unique, and one of my favorites for it. although i might say that long goodbye might be his best film technically, this and mash rank above it in my book because they are unlike anything else ever done before or after. long goodbye is a masterpiece as a film, and specifically as a play on the noir genre, but this breaks every rule and gains for it.

just so so so so so good. great cast, great script, great job by joe dante. this movie just makes me feel great. its like a more fun version of blue velvet, however, it still is good enough to bring out the same emotions. i love it. ive never had a successful relationship with a girl who doesnt love the burbs. once i was really into this girl, but she told me early in the relationship that she didnt like this movie, and i could actualyl tell from then on that it wasnt going to work. if you dont like this movie, don t alk to me.

the most visceral film ever made, you truly feel every characters experience. the characters are all so well writeen and so well acted. this film will literalyl drain you. it is the best film to get into, you literally live it if you really watch it.

chiaroscuro

easily some of the best characters ever. everyone involved in this film never came close to making anything even close to this, but this is one crowning achievement. it gives us some great lines and great names, ie waldo leidecker, david lynch says thanks in twin peaks.

one of the best from one of the best, billy wilder.

like a bunch of other kazan films, its like a play and it relies on the amazing performances. luckily, this happens to be a masterwork story, so between the two, kazan stages one of the ebst films of all time.

this movie reminds me of jerry maguire. it is so much better though, because not only does it have perfect performances, with so many classic lines and scenes, but the story/script is also one of the best ever. it is the writing that sets this film apart from so many others on its level of easy viewing and enjoyment, and makes it a true classic worth revisiting not just for fun, but to study and read into.

for all of you who say this film didnt end or didnt have a third act, youre idiots, you just didnt get the point and youve been brought up on stupid genre action flicks. this wasnt one of them.

painful

love this movie, makes me feel happy, makes me want to fall in love haha

the best giallo

one of my first film teachers had this in his top 5 of all time. this alerted me to its classic status, and it really is. despite it being totally tongue in cheek, its brilliant. totally deserves to be taken seriously

check out the eyes of the homeless guy

dalton!!!

totally insane, but one of my favorites, id love to see the play, it was revived last year but i didnt know about it then, would love to have seen it

along with blood and black lace, one of the best horror films of all time. quite possibly THE best. barbara steele in her career making and defining role, the greatest and scariest eyes youll ever see.

great usage of voiceover, really the best ive ever seen most likely

bressons style in this film has never been duplicated, jsut classic. the editing is superb

i would love to make a movie like this.

spooky, a really different kind of western, while still achieving all of the formulaic western plotlines.

the score, especially of the first movie, reminds me of some spaghetti westerns, mostly companeros. every time something happens, which is usually a stabbing or shooting, the same crazy music plays. i love it, despite it being over thetop and ridiculous, its just great. all of these yakuza and samurai movies are over the top, and while kurasawa and kobayashi mastered the samurai epics, fukasaku, with the exception of suzuki owning his own niche within this, owns the yakuza genre.

one of my favorite all time, one half of bava's creation of the giallo genre/filone.

style style style
and GOBLIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

so good i will actually add it to my list of favorite movies. this is the first time in a while that i have seen a movie and automatically known it will be up there with my favorites of all time. a true gem. not only is it timely more than anything else around, but its humor will last for generations and still be funny in 50 years. sure, they wont get the google jokes, but theyll definitely relate to the endlessly relatable characters and story.

better than the first one, maybe just because of jack elam, i dont know, but i love it!

a film at the tribeca film festival, the air i breath, is basically a remake of this.

my favorite peter sellers film, dont kill me peter sellers fans!