Top 5 movies

[Искра]

What are your top 5 movies you ever watched?


Lady Vengeance

Harakiri
Thirst
Ran
Oldboy

1, 3 & 5 are movies by Chan-wook Park
2 is by Masaki Kobayashi
4 is by Akira Kurosawa :)

[Smyg]

Not sure if I can rate them like that, there's so many incredible ones... :lol: :ohmy:

[Искра]

Well try. There's also tons of good movies I like. For example 7 Samurai, Yojimbo, I Saw A Devil, I'm a Cyborg, but that's ok, Kwaidan, Samaria, Le Concert, Rane (Wounds), United Red Army, Black Society Trilogy etc. etc. I could made a list of top 50 :D

[RadioRaheem84]

My list changes so many times but :

1.) Matewan
2.) City of Hope
3.) The Mission
4.) Malcolm X
5.) Salt of the Earth

[Belleraphone]

Well here are my favorite English movies
1. Brazil
2. Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
3. Spirited Away
4. It's a mad mad mad mad mad world.
5. Full Metal Jacket.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

I hate lists like this as, invariably, I have 'favourite' films depending on what mood I'm in or simply what sort of film I want to watch. Here's five films I've consistently enjoyed without any particular order:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Anchorman (Adam Mckay)
Die Hard (John McTiernan)
Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)

[x359594]

Anatahan (Josef von Sterberg)
Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
Saikaku's Life of a Woman/The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi Kenji)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
7 Women (John Ford)

[Zostrianos]

1- The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski)
2- Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
3- Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo)
4-The Matrix (Andy Wachowski)
5- Casino (Martin Scorcese)

Runners up: Blade, Blade 2, The Thing (1982), The Godfather, Holy Mountain,Interview with a Vampire, Pulp Fiction.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Top 5:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Mais ne nous delivrez pas du mal ("Don't Deliver Us From Evil") (1971)
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
La Haine ("Hatred") (1995)
El dia de la bestia ("The Day of the Beast") (1995)

runners up:

Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Raging Bull (1980)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Singapore Sling (1990)

[Pirate Utopian]

My top list changes all the time. But currently my mood tells me this:


A Clockwork Orange
The Warriors
The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Dawn of the Dead (the original)

[Ose]

In no particular order:

Flash Gordon
A Clockwork Orange
Pulp Fiction
Cabaret
Leon

Also-rans:

Jules et Jim
Paris, Texas
Sexy Beast
Amelie
Apocalypto

[Comrade Funk]

1.) Citizen Kane
2.) Animal House
3.) Goldfinger
4.) Good Will Hunting
5.) Rocky

[Jimmie Higgins]

1. Jaws 2
2. Jaws 3 (in 3-D)
3. Jaws the Revenge
4. Death Comes to Sharktown
5. Matrix 3

[Pirate Utopian]

Jaws 2 was kind of entertaining.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Oh, top 5 favorites. I see.

(momentarily my favorite and in no particular order)
1. Polyester
2. Matewan
3. Chinatown
4. Hairspray
5. Return of the Living Dead

[Rooster]

In no particular order:

Fistful of Dynamite
Whisky Galore!
Cannibal Holocaust
The Man Who Would be King
Blade Runner? I can't really think of a fifth.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Jaws 2 was kind of entertaining.Jaws 3 is horrible and dull, but strangely if you get a bootleg in 3-D it's actually one of the most entertaining "so bad it's good" movies. Saw Troll 2 for the first time recently - it also lives up to the "best worst movie" hype.



Blade RunnerThe Sequals were much better because they replaced Harrison Ford with Wesley Snipes. Also they played up the whole vampire angle much more. I don't even remember there being any vampires in the first one. Bore-ing. Avoid.

The re-make is going to be much better, trust me. There wasn't even any CGI in the original! Pff! I hope they get Hayden Christensen to play Mr. Runner (Harrison Ford's role) or maybe Shia LeBuf.

[Rooster]

I've changed my mind. I wanna replace Blade Runner with The Room.

[Pirate Utopian]

Jaws 3 is horrible and dull, but strangely if you get a bootleg in 3-D it's actually one of the most entertaining "so bad it's good" movies. Saw Troll 2 for the first time recently - it also lives up to the "best worst movie" hype.

Jaws 3D was really bad. But mildly entertaining. Troll 2 is really fun. Troll 1 was funny too.

[Jimmie Higgins]

There's a Troll 1!?:lol:

[socialistjustin]

1. Scarface
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Thing
5. Titanic

Not even fucking around here, Titanic nearly made me cry and the Celine Dion song is damn good.

[Princess Luna]

1- Reservoir dogs
2- Paths of Glory
3- Re-animator
4- A Clockwork Orange
5- Full Metal Jacket
To much Kubrick? I think of all his films Paths of Glory is the best, but it never gets the attention it deserves.

[Искра]

A Clockwork Organge is such an overrated movie. And yeah, I'm a skinhead.

[Lyev]

Note sure but (in random order):

A Bout de Souffle / Breathless
In the Mood for Love
Laura
Chinatown
M

I've been asked this question (or one to a similar effect) a few times recently. I don't like answering it, because I feel thatt such a list is open to a degree of change.


Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)I really liked this as well (perhaps would be inclined to say more it was "interesting", rather than liked it?), but I would associate the films on "top 5 lists" with a straightforward narrative and things like that -- Weekend isn't usually cited as being one of Godard's most watchable. The plot can be summed up in a sentence and the whole road trip is detour after detour. What I am saying is I wouldn't have it in mine because the top 5 would have to be films that are enjoyable. I don't think Weekend is in this sense; surely one of its aims (if it can be said have one) is that it wants to frustrate and make uncomfortable its viewer; to avoid escapism? Would interested to hear your thoughts on why you included it

[Invader Zim]

Hmm

For a Few Dollars More
Grosse Pointe Blank
The Fly
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner

[Pirate Utopian]

There's a Troll 1!?:lol:

There's several movies called Troll 3.

[Pretty Flaco]

fuck a top 5.
in random order:
raiders of the lost ark, pulp fiction, goldfinger, quantum of solace(yeah i said it), kill bill vol 1 + 2, pulp fiction, resevoir dogs, die hard, the fighter, the godfather, goodfellas, original star wars movies, good burger(lol), shaun of the dead, monty python movies, and that's all i've got off of the top of my head.

[wunderbar]

In no particular order:

Five Easy Pieces
Good Bye Lenin!
The Truman Show
American Splendor
The Royal Tenenbaums

Runners up:

Brazil
The Last Emperor
Being John Malkovich
All About My Mother
The Third Man
Bagdad Cafe

[Os Cangaceiros]

Note sure but (in random order):

A Bout de Souffle / Breathless
In the Mood for Love
Laura
Chinatown
M

Laura...isn't that a film noir? That film "Singapore Sling" I mentioned in my list is kind of an unofficial "sequel" to it, if it's the same film I'm thinking of.

Singapore Sling probably has a lot more bondage and incest, though.

[Os Cangaceiros]

In no particular order:

Flash Gordon
A Clockwork Orange
Pulp Fiction
Cabaret
Leon

Also-rans:

Jules et Jim
Paris, Texas
Sexy Beast
Amelie
Apocalypto

Nice list.

Except Apocalypto. Didn't really care for that one.

[Per Levy]

no particular order, just 5 movies i really really like(documentaries wont be in the list since i dont label them as movies).

- The Great Dictator
- The Thing
- The Mouth of Madness
- Hogfather
- Call of Cthulhu (the silent movie)

[MarxSchmarx]

Hmm tough choices. We should also justify our choices

1. Godfather - story, acting, score, it's one of those movies you leave truly fulfilled and wondering about years later
2. Redbeard - superb character development throughout, contrasts between occasional scenes of serene aristocracy and squalor leave a lasting impression.
3. The Blues Brothers - Dialogue, characters, plot, and the comedic timing of delivery of all three are impossible to match.
4. Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Warerabbit - Actually what I liked the most about this film was its use of darkness and lighting, really majestic
5. Memento - One of the few movies I ever felt truly a part of the story; excelled in having the audience experience the same emotions/confusions/catharsis the characters were going through.

You all make my choices seem incredibly mainstream.

[Os Cangaceiros]

The Blues Brothers is a fucking awesome movie. I watched it recently and almost made a thread about it here actually. I love that movie.

[Bronco]

Scarface
Shutter Island
Goodfellas
In Bruges
Star Wars Episode III

[His Dudeness]

La Haine
L'instinct de Mort
Der Baader Meinhoff Komplex
État de siège
Das Expriment

Runners Up:
Hunger
Bahoz
Novecento
Come and See (Soviet film)

[MooseCracker]

Somebody already mentioned The Room. It's 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5th place. The idea that there could be other movies in the top 5 is like you are lying Lisa. These lists are tearing me apart!

okay besides The Room it always changes -
6th - The Weight of Chains (docu/ discussion about former Yugoslavia)
7th - Peacock (a man with dissociative identity disorder who lives a nearly OCD lifestyle struggles to cope with changes as his female complex attempts to gain dominance in small town america maybe 40 yrs ago, not sure on that. It's a better 2010 Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page movie than Inception)
8th - It's Kind of a Funny Story (great movie about a suicidal kid's experience in a psych ward)
9th - Tokyo Gore Police (triggering for some - not much to say just watch it)
10th- Death Kappa! (beautifully terrible, fascists, fantastic special effects featuring fighter jets supported by strings that you can see).

[Bardo]

In no particular order

A Clockwork Orange
Dead Man
Fight Club
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver

[Zostrianos]

Yeah...I forgot about Fight Club. Definitely among my top 10

[Ism]

Wow, my list is also very, very mainstream compared to yours:

In no particular order:


American Gangster
Inception
Blood Diamond
V for Vendetta
Pulp Fiction

Nothing fancy, really. Actually, I'm not that much into movies, so I'll just watch whatever's being shoved down my throat by TV commercials. Compare me to the movie version of a Bieber Believer with a hint of Rihanna and Lil' Wayne. There are so many movies I'd like to watch, but I find it hard to afford to go to the cinema. The alternative is of course to download them, but I am terrible at locating the adequate versions.

[Sputnik_1]

Clockwork Orange
Cannibal Holocaust
The Shining
Life is beautiful
Battleship of Potemkin

(can't deny that The Room was annoyingly memorable tho)

[Aloysius]

In no particular order:

Inception
the Evil Dead
A Scanner Darkly
Empire Strikes Back
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (seriously).

[Искра]

I see that DeCaprio's movies are quite popular here :)

[thriller]

1. Star Wars Episode V
2. Star Wars Episode VI
3. Star Wars Episode IV
4. Idiocracy
5. Pineapple Express

[Bardo]

Oooh I forgot Waking Life.

[Sputnik_1]

A Clockwork Organge is such an overrated movie. And yeah, I'm a skinhead.

dammit... it's not "in" anymore? I must be getting old :/

[Sputnik_1]

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (seriously).

seriously seriously??

I've read the book. Was puking rainbows for a week after that! You must have a strong stomach! ;)

[Leo]

1) Before the Rain & Blackboards & Bringing Out the Dead
2) Mr. Nobody & Goodbye Lenin!
3) Yol & Duvar
4) Babel & 7 Pounds & The Departed
5) Time of the Gypsies & Unforgiven

Extra 1 (Favorite Animation): Tales from Earthsea & 9
Extra 2 (Favorite Mini Series): Into the West

[Lyev]

Laura...isn't that a film noir? That film "Singapore Sling" I mentioned in my list is kind of an unofficial "sequel" to it, if it's the same film I'm thinking of.

Singapore Sling probably has a lot more bondage and incest, though.Yeah, directed by Otto Preminger and it's got Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. It's the one where the detective falls in love with a dead woman? I watched it while watching a lot of similar crime thrillers of the time and it just stuck out miles above the rest, technically (shot mostly indoors; not "on the streets" like most noirs), but also plot-wise. I loved the two clocks, and also the massive portrait of Laura. IIRC, because it was quite an early one, it was one of the films that Nino Frank watched after WWII to first coin the term 'film noir'. But I'm not sure about top 5 now, I really The Big Sleep as well, largely for Humphrey Bogart at his coolest and snappiest.
Anyway, I don't know Singapore Sling, but interestingly, noir does contain some degree of transgressive sexuality (not quite bondage and incest; although Chinatown for example is famous for the latter), but obviously not as overt because of the censorship code. I'll check that one out for sure. There have been some interesting noir remakes. The '60s one of The Killers is really cool, with an interesting cast too; Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan. If you haven't seen, I'm guessing you might like it judging from your usual taste

[x359594]

...What I am saying is I wouldn't have it in mine because the top 5 would have to be films that are enjoyable. I don't think Weekend is in this sense...

I included Weekend because it it's a kind of summing up of this particular phase of Godard's career (the end title reads "fin du cinema".) After that (with the exception of Tout Va Bien) he made a string of tendentious anti-narratives with the Gorin that really aren't enjoyable, and relative to these films Weekend is enjoyable.

[x359594]

...The '60s one of The Killers is really cool, with an interesting cast too; Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan...

Regan's last movie, and he plays a treacherous villain.

The 1946 Robert Siodmak version is also good with some spectacular long takes and deep focus set-ups, and it has lots of dialog taken from Hemingway's short story in the opening reel.

But the quintessential film noir is Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947.)

[kurr]

1. Star Wars Episode V
2. Star Wars Episode VI
3. Star Wars Episode IV
4. Idiocracy
5. Pineapple Express

You've gotta be fucking kidding me...

[∞]

1. The Lion King
2. Double Indemnity
3. The Godfather
4. Schindler's list
5. Drive (2011)

[A Revolutionary Tool]

In no particular order:
1. Grapes of Wrath
2. Harlen County U.S.A.(I don't care that it's a documentary, only movie that nearly made me cry)
3. The Bicycle Thief
4. The Shining
5. Psycho

[roy]

In no particular order:

- In Bruges
- Fight Club
- District 9
- The Machinist
- V for Vendetta

[Apoi_Viitor]

In no particular order...

Il Posto
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Eraserhead
Nights of Cabiria
Donnie Darko

[Aloysius]

seriously seriously??

I've read the book. Was puking rainbows for a week after that! You must have a strong stomach! ;)

The movie was better than I expected, compared to the mediocrity of the book.

I saw The Road last night, though. I'm thinking it might takes Eclipse's place.

[Il Medico]

Oh this is bloody impossible. I'm writing a list of twenty-five from the 2000's for my blog and am having trouble deciding. Five for the entire history of film? bah.

Here's the first five that come to mind:

Amélie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Dreamers
Belle de Jour
North by Northwest

[Lyev]

Regan's last movie, and he plays a treacherous villain.Yeah I think it is a bit of an anomaly inasmuch as he usually didn't play villians?


The 1946 Robert Siodmak version is also good with some spectacular long takes and deep focus set-ups, and it has lots of dialog taken from Hemingway's short story in the opening reel.The femme fatale is also pretty strong in this one too. I love Ava Gardner; that first shot of her leaning against the piano!


But the quintessential film noir is Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947.)I watched a little bit earlier, it's got Robert Mitchum in? -- He's in quite a few other similar films and seems to be one of the male actors closely associated with noir (and I think he stars along side the Jane Greer in one or two others aswell). And it's an RKO picture I think; interesting, considering that's where film noir arguably started. Personally, I made this list before I watched In a Lonely Place a few days ago and would probably say this is one of my favourites now. It is Bogie at his best and darkest.


I included Weekend because it it's a kind of summing up of this particular phase of Godard's career (the end title reads "fin du cinema".) After that (with the exception of Tout Va Bien) he made a string of tendentious anti-narratives with the Gorin that really aren't enjoyable, and relative to these films Weekend is enjoyable.I'm not sure I agree totally, because to say it "sums up" kind of implies that Weekend bares some kind of resemblance to his early films, and of those made in the mid-'60s also. Weekend is far closer to the Dziga Vertov stuff (in it's departure from a straightforward narrative, etc.) than it is to 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, for example. The only Godard-Gorin one I've seen is Tout Va Bien -- the others aren't readily available, but TVB has been released several times I think. There is a funny quote somewhere though, about Godard's "militant" filmmaking. Here: "Well, of course I liked Godard's film before '68 but since he swallowed all that dogmatic Maoism is just isn't interested in the cinema anymore".

[Arlekino]

1) Karl Marx Youth Years 7 parts
2) Mother Gorky 2 parts
3) War and Peace Tolstoy
4) dolgaya doroga v dunah ( woundeful film is about Latvian nationalist and partisans)
5) And Quiet Flows the Don good film as well.
and of course many more from Soviet Union films I am in love of Soviet Films.:)

[x359594]

...it's an RKO picture I think; interesting, considering that's where film noir arguably started. Personally, I made this list before I watched In a Lonely Place a few days ago and would probably say this is one of my favourites now. It is Bogie at his best and darkest...

In a Lonely Place is terrific.

It's hard to say where film noir started, but French critics identified the genre after WWII when all the Hollywood movies of the 1940s were released to the European market in a flood.

A lot of German refugee directors, actors, composers, camermen and set designers worked on those movies and gave them an expressionist look.

[Lyev]

In a Lonely Place is terrific.Interestingly, Godard was also a massive fan of Nicholas Ray.

It's hard to say where film noir started, but French critics identified the genre after WWII when all the Hollywood movies of the 1940s were released to the European market in a flood.I was thinking of "The Stranger on the Third Floor" because I think it was also an RKO picture (same as "Out of the Past"), which was the production company most closely associated with film noir. Also, Peter Lorre also plays a role in Stranger on the Third Floor, and was also in "M", which is a big precursor to a lot of elements in noir. But that in itself suggests the origins of noir are quite complex.


A lot of German refugee directors, actors, composers, camermen and set designers worked on those movies and gave them an expressionist look.I think German Expressionism was one influence. The expressionist shadow (literally) lies very heavy on the dream sequence in particular in SotTF for example. And obviously Fritz Lang made some of the most well-known noirs.

[leemadison11]

Top 5 movies:
Fight Club
The Terminal
Forest Gump
Schindler's List
Inception
Blood Diamond

[RedTrackWorker]

Top political:
Harlan County USA (documentary of miners strike)
Nothing But a Man (Mississippi track workers, supposedly Malcolm X's favorite film)
Slingshot Hiphop (Palestinian hip hop)
Salt of the Earth (miners again)
At the River I Stand (Memphis sanitation strike of 68)

Top martial arts:
anything with Tony Jaa other than Ong Bak 3
Blood and Bone
Ip Man 1 & 2 (haven't seen 3)

Other:
Ma Vie En Rose (by Berliner)
Cradle Will Rock
Cool Hand Luke
Séraphine
12 Razgnevannyh Muzhchin

Honorable mention for must-watch documentary:
Planet B-Boy


And Quiet Flows the Don good film as well.

Didn't know it was a film, been reading the book and really like it.

[anarchoash]

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Into the Wild
3. The Departed
4. Donnie Darko
5. Shutter Island

[thriller]

You've gotta be fucking kidding me...

Why's that? Star Wars is the shit! Name a more influential movie trilogy.

[Comrade J]

1. Un Prophet
Amazing French film about an Arab-Frenchman who goes to prison with nothing - no friends, contacts, money etc - and is taken under the wing of a Corsican mafia boss, and plots his own rise in the criminal world...

2. Land and Freedom
No such thing as a bad Ken Loach film, and this is probably my favourite. About a communist from Liverpool who goes to fight in the Spanish Civil War alongside the Anarchist POUM.

3. Into The Wild
Everyone has seen this, right? Nothing makes me want to grab my backpack and hit the road more than this film.

4. The Return
Russian movie about 2 boys whose father returns all of a sudden, after 12 years of being absent. He is a cold and cruel man, and he takes them on a long road trip, where they don't even know where they're going. Kinda bleak at times, but holds you in. Hard to get hold of, but Amazon or wherever has it and it's a nice movie. Best to watch by yourself, dunno why, it just is.

5. Y Tu Mama Tambien
Absolutely beautiful movie from Mexico - funny, sexy, sad, insightful etc. My favourite roadtrip movie ever, and the narration is also the best in any film, it just points out such odd things about the characters, their thoughts etc. which reflects on how they see each other. Also it shows the problems of class-divide between close friends.

5.1. Four Lions
My favourite comedy movie ever, about a hapless radical muslim terror cell in Sheffield, England. So fantastically well done, with great characters and superb dialogue between them, doesn't rely on slapstick and obvious humour.

5.2 Edukators
About these 2 leftist guys and a girl who break into rich peoples' homes, pile up all their shit whilst they are away and leave them a note saying "Your days of plenty are numbered". However, one night it all goes wrong... Also there is ongoing tension with the relationships between these 3 people, and it is (in my view anyway) a metaphor for the inherent greed, falseness and manipulation of the capitalist class.

[Madvillainy]

My favourite comedy movie ever, about a hapless radical muslim terror cell in Sheffield, England. So fantastically well done, with great characters and superb dialogue between them, doesn't rely on slapstick and obvious humour.


Rubber dinghy rapids bro! chris morris is a genius. swearrrr.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Monty Pythons Holy Grail
The Matrix (Part 1)
Evil Dead 2
Fifth Element
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day



5.1. Four Lions
My favourite comedy movie ever, about a hapless radical muslim terror cell in Sheffield, England. So fantastically well done, with great characters and superb dialogue between them, doesn't rely on slapstick and obvious humour.


Personally didn't find it that funny, found it pretty tragic. Good movie still.

[Kornilios Sunshine]

1.Αmerican History X
2.Hangover
3.The Shining
4.Shark Tale FTW :D
5.Piranha

[∞]

4.Shark Tale FTW :D


You serious?

[The Young Pioneer]

Are people serious about Cannibal Holocaust? I mean, I know this is revleft and people approve of things that governments censor but...I see nothing redeeming about that film! The ending was lame.

I don't really have a top five. I do seem to adore really inaccurate patriotic movies, though, which makes me a complete hypocrite. Love the Burnt By the Sun films and The Patriot. :D

[Pirate Utopian]

Cannibal Holocaust is cool. Great soundtrack, more clever than people give it credit for.

[Rooster]

Are people serious about Cannibal Holocaust? I mean, I know this is revleft and people approve of things that governments censor but...I see nothing redeeming about that film! The ending was lame.

I personally think it's a piece of cinematic genius. It's a great example of the use of montage and film technique to create a sense of realism such as from the actual killing of animals to the fake killing of people, mixed in with film within film of actual executions. The use of music is great. Probably my favourite of all time. Also...

when it's revealed that their documentary on the cannibals is a fake, you then realise that the implication of that means that the film within the film, the last road to hell I think, could also have been faked, shows the depths to which the documentary makers would go to make a compelling piece of film

I think it's one of the best Italian films ever made. On par with anything Sergio Leonie made.

[Arlekino]

RedTrackWorker
Workers' Socialist Revolution!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7zL3W6onE
It got English subtitles you will enjoy this film.

[Princess Luna]

I liked Cannibal Holocaust but it was a little racist, maybe even more then just a little

[Pirate Utopian]

Compared to other cannibal movies that came out of Italy at the same Cannibal Holocaust is alot more sympathetic towards the tribes than the rest.

Other cannibal movies were just like "LOOK AT THESE HORRIBLE SAVAGES!", sometimes with a watered down political message tacked on in the end (like in Cannibal Ferox). In CH they atleast showed motivation for the tribe to attack the westerners and the political message in the movie was there throughout.

[Os Cangaceiros]

CH is great.

because:

1) great cinematography by Sergio D'Offizi
2) good direction...Deodato was a student of Rossellini, and it comes through in his technique
3) memorable soundtrack
4) they shot on location in the Amazon

It has an interesting backstory, too. Apparently Carl Yorke actually suspected that Deodato would murder him for the film. Robert Kerman (the professor in the film) would go on to star in a bunch of porn films. The natives in the film were real native peoples from that area of the jungle. Deodato has said that the film is partially inspired by the Italian media's hysterical coverage of the Red Brigades...personally I think the message in the film is delivered in a pretty sly way, having a message critiquing people's fascination with violence as entertainment, yet packaging that message in an exploitation film which necessarily drew crowds out of lurid promises of violence and carnage.

The film's last line "I wonder who the real cannibals are" was dumb, though. It didn't need to be said, it was Deodato hitting his audience over the head with a lame message in an exploitation film, of all things.

I know someone who met Ruggero Deodato, though. Supposedly he's a really friendly, nice person in real life.

[Zbigniew]

Top 5 movies: Pulp Fiction, LOTR, Matrix, The Godfather, The Mist (also known as Stephen King's The Mist).

Let's say they are the top tier but there are plenty more.

[Kitty_Paine]

1. Interview with a Vampire

2. Fight Club

3. Silence of the Lambs

4. Pulp Fiction

5. The Nightmare Before Christmas <- you can't not like this!

Boo-yah, can't beat that list... don't flame me for Interview with a Vampire, I loves it so!

[fatpanda]

5.Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

4.Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla

3.Godzilla vs. Mothra

2.Destroy All Monsters

1.Godzilla, king of the Monsters

and all Ninja Movies :ninja::ninja::ninja::ninja::ninja::ninja:

[bcbm]

star wars
blade runner
battle of algiers
the thing
la haine

[human strike]

The first 5 great films of a leftist leaning to come to mind (in no particular order):
They Live
Salt of the Earth
Coup pour coup
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Fight Club (arguably)

Oh fuck I can't believe I almost forgot all about Can Dialectics Break Bricks?! That's the greatest film ever hands down!

http://www.ubu.com/film/vienet_dialectics.html

[human strike]

2. Land and Freedom
No such thing as a bad Ken Loach film, and this is probably my favourite. About a communist from Liverpool who goes to fight in the Spanish Civil War alongside the Anarchist POUM.

The POUM weren't Anarchists. They were, as their name (Workers' Party of Marxist Unification) suggests, Marxists.