Take me to the pictures!

[past7]

Aaaahhhhh!...Art, Books.....and FILM are what sustain me much of the time, like many..*S* There's so much utter crap out there in the theatres though, does anyone else agree?.. or am I just showing my age? BUT, it's always a sheer delight to find a 'good' film, either on video or in the cinema.
Anyway, here's a list of my 10 favourite flicks to date (that I came up with tonight, anyways). Many are sleepers, very few if any are blockbusters. I'm not big on what Hollywood churns out most of the time. I know i'm forgetting some ..Gggrr

In no particular order;
Days of Heaven '78
Don't Look Now '73
Wings of Desire '88
Burnt by the Sun '94
The Lover '91
The Haunting '63
Betty Blue '86
Sweetie '89
The Last Emperor '87
Until the End of The World '92
Sunset Boulevard '50

um..I can't stop at ten!!!..*p* ok, couple more, indulge me *G

Drowning by Numbers '87
Apocalypse Now '79
Short Cuts '93
Life is Sweet '90
Blue Velvet '86
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf '66
The Red Balloon '56
The Seventh Seal '56
Suspiria '77
Cinema Paradiso '88
Trois Couleurs: Bleu '93 ...etc. etc.etc

Some brilliant (in my mind) directors;
Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Robert Altman, Ingmar Bergman, Jane Campion, Peter Weir
John Cassavetes, Charlie Chaplin*G* Frances Ford Coppola, Allison Anders, David Cronenberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Greenaway, Kevin Smith, Frederico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Bill Forsyth, Mike Leigh *w*, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles....
Right, i'm done...hehee!...Please comment, add, question, rip apart, do what ya will with the above, ok? Any film/director you think i'd like or that wasn't mentioned/was blatantly omitted? (Rant, be kind*G) I'd be very curious to hear your top ten list..
Ooooooooohh, I love the movies!!! And, so many I haven't seen..... *VBG

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[Më£ïñÐa]

!!!!! Streets of Fire!!!!..*LMAO*
*loves the sound track

*i dont watch TV, read books, or go to movies...
b4 i got into the computer, i was addicted too, and lived in a drug wheelin an dealin world..
for probly close to 15years...
Ask me about them 'smart' questions
wheeeeeww!! least i servived them years.. some years are complete blanks, i remember nothing, but i'm still here...
oh!shit! what thread was this???

[R@@@nt In E~Minor]

Hmmmm....top ten films, that's a tough one but here goes.

Naked
Life is sweet
Taxi Driver
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Betty Blue
High Hopes
Apocalypse Now
Midnight cowboy
The Graduate
Raging Bull

Since Past7 cheated by having more than 10... then so can I...*G

Paper moon
My name is Joe
Trainspotting
Buffalo 66
Eraserhead
Drugstore cowboy
The caretaker (Harold pinter play)
The Elephant man
Cool hand Luke
Papillon

Favourite animations,

Street of Crocodiles by The brothers Quay
Nightmare before christmas by Tim Burton
Anything by Fredrico Vitalli.

Favourite plays I've seen,

The Cartaker with Donald Pleasance in the title role
The Wasp factory
A clockwork orange
Animal farm
Dealers choice

[past7]

You saw The Wasp Factory on stage? Cool beeeeans!

[*Leo the Lioness*]

the commercial for Suspiria scared the bejeezus out of me when i was little, let alone sit through the movie *G...(that and the one for "Magic" with the dummy? *shudder*)..........so i havent seen that one, but even the very title gives me faint goosebumps to this day! (scarred for life by a commercial......*p)

some of my favorites are:

A Clockwork Orange
Harold & Maude
Night on Earth
Living in Oblivion
$20 bucks
"Ollivier" (french - subtitles)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Beetlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Nightmare Before Christmas

(okay, all Tim Burton films *LOL*)

Wizard of Oz
Gone With the Wind
Singing in the Rain
Good Will Hunting
Terms of Endearment
Jaws
The Graduate
Awakenings
Ghost
Love Story
E.T.
Star Wars
Titanic
Fargo
The Godfather
The Wall
Weird Science *G
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles..........and no, i didnt like "St Elmo's Fire"....*L

Sling Blade
One Fell Swoop (another Billy Bob indie)
Mask

the list can go on.........im really sleepy right now, so im sort of not in "remember movies" mode........but i'll add if i come across something i felt worthy *G

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[Moby]

Nikita
Leon
The Shawshank Redemption
The Hustler
Get Carter
The Long Good Friday
Key Largo
It's A Wonderful Life
Harvey
Rear Window
The Dirty Dozen
Point Blank


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Yesterday's History....Tomorrow's Mystery

Mobyville

[Sniffer]

ummm... i very very rarely watch movies... in fact i have probably not seen more than 15 or so in the last 10 years.... but there was one that i could watch over and over. a true story called Beyond the Law starring Charlie Sheen... who i normally don't care for. but he was good in this one.

[orangerhythmjam]

Get Carter
The Ipcress File Caine is a storm
Trainspotting
The Birds
Jaws
The Empire Strike Back
The Outsiders
Sleuth
The Game
The Godfather + part 2
Batman
Monty Python Life Of Brian.....Holy Grail NE
Rocky 3 its hilarious
James Bond films - View to a kill is my faveourite at the moment for the lines about riding grace jones is a boot.....saw her live once shes a freaky chick...Q is a geezer and is my hero bet hes got some top gadgets for his missus.
documentarys allowed? Madchester by celebration Grandada piss funny
bollocks i will be here all day films depend on your mood hey
Finbar is funny
Nil by mouth is pretty good
Jet Li hes fast as the bullet train check him whens he a kid hes superb
La confidential is good mike out of neighbours hits the big time
i like sean connery in the rock his line her mayesttys sas and who might you be ...always brings a chuckle
coming to america for eddie murphy
raw and delirious do they count?
woodtsock like the camera stuff
a bridge to far sentimental reasons i wasnt there like but me grandad wa si sued to watch with him when i was little i thought it was real and used to look for him ..stupid bunt..haha

anyway thats enough

twintowns if you havent seen it watch it its fucking funny
if you liek the welsh dude in the hugh grant number with julia roberts ....then you'll love it hes hilarious that bloke

i knew a girl called pandora once didnt manage to get into her box though ......

later

[past7]

"her box" he hehee!

[past7]

hold the buttah

just saw Nil by Mouth couple nights ago *gobsmacked*
Good documentary-Paradise Lost
Ipcress File rings a bell.. hmmm and..
*scribbles