After the Dark Knight press screening, Ned and I got to discussing our favourite films. I started rattling off my top fifteen, and seeing as how both Luke and I are fairly pedantic with lists of things we like, here are our top fifteen films each, not in any order. I’ve often said I like who I like because of what they like. Some of my friends are profoundly disagreeable, but they have such excellent taste that we get along swimmingly (yes, swimmingly. I’ve been reading a lot of Agatha Christie lately). These lists might reveal character, they might not. Let’s just hope Luke doesn’t put Pan’s Labrynth on his list.
/Paul
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1965)
Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1974)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Les Quatre cents coups (François Truffaut, 1959)
Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986)
Black Caesar (Larry Cohen, 1973)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)
Cremaster 2 (Matthew Barney, 1999)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
High to Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1953)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Chia-Liang Liu, 1983)
/Luke
Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982)
The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Mallick, 1998)
Irreversible (Gasper Noe, 2002)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Baraka (Ron Fricke, 1992)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2005)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
Interesting to see we both had Blade Runner and Lynch; for me Mulholland and Lost Highway were neck and neck, but I had to go with my heart. So now you’ve all seen the raw exposed underbelly of our cinephelia! Feel free to post your lists so we can discuss. I’m just having another look at Luke’s list, and…
…why, Luke? Why Pan’s Labrynth?!
Ahem.
13 responses so far ↓
1 DanW // Jul 16, 2008 at 4:10 pm
here goes:
Alien
The Fly
The Enigma of Kasper Houser
Fitzcarraldo
Straw Dogs
Empire Strikes Back
Barton Fink
Laputa: Castle in the sky
The Lives of Others
Brazil
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Y tu mama tambien
Dead ringers
Naked Lunch
Blue Velvet
2 DanW // Jul 16, 2008 at 4:12 pm
and whats not to like about Pan’s Labrynth?
bring on The Hobbit, I say!
3 DanW // Jul 16, 2008 at 4:31 pm
also – Cremaster??
That seems kind of out of place. While I might list it in my favourite artistic endeavours, its not something that I would really even consider in a list of my favourite movies.
Plus I thought 5 was the best.
4 Jonny A // Jul 16, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Okay then -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Big Lebowski
Casino
The City of Lost Children
Reservoir Dogs
Choke (Bless the Sydney Film Festival for the advance screening)
The Breakfast Club
Return of the Jedi (shut up)
Blade Runner
Being John Malkovich
2001: A Space Odyssey
Heat
Goodfellas
Full Metal Jacket
Howard the Duck (Comedy option)
5 paul // Jul 16, 2008 at 7:55 pm
To Dan: Nice list. As for Cremaster, what can I say, I have a thing for bees. Bees and Norman Mailer.
Jonny: Have you seen the Big Lebowski action figures? Luke bought them to my attention; I’ll be picking up the one of walter next time I’m at Minotaur.
6 Hamish // Jul 16, 2008 at 8:36 pm
One word: Hudson Hawk.
7 paul // Jul 16, 2008 at 9:36 pm
That’s two words, Hamish.
Hudson Hawk is TWO words.
8 Jonny A // Jul 17, 2008 at 8:34 am
Is there one of nihilist-Flea in leather?
Walter would stick out too much in my collection.
9 paul // Jul 17, 2008 at 10:21 am
What, with “cutting off your johnson” action when you pull the string, and pet marmot?
God, I’d so buy that. Does that make me weird?
10 Jonny A // Jul 17, 2008 at 11:39 am
Not in my book, brutha. Nerds of a feather indeed.
11 Steven Lewis // Jul 17, 2008 at 3:26 pm
This is all very Nick Hornby
12 luke // Jul 17, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Fuck Nick Hornby, THIS IS WHO WE ARE!!!!!!!………. *cough*
13 wow gold // Oct 15, 2008 at 8:18 pm
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