To Kill a Mockingbird was brilliant.

Raising Cain (1992)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Orpheus Descending (1990) (TV)
Dark Star (1974)
The Naked Kiss (1964)
Sin City (2005)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Smoke (1995)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Amateur (1994)
Surviving Desire (1991)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Thx 1138 (1971)
Fargo (1996)
The Usual Suspect (1995)
Se7en (1995)
Frailty (2001)
Simple Men (1992)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Videodrome (1983) < best Cronenberg film for me
Fantasia (1940)

... and the list goes on.

forgot about se7en and sin city....

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You have me confused, did you just say you watched the wizard of oz 2..or chocolate star wars..homers video request...yehp right over the top of me.

my list basically should of included:
pretty much everything by:
godard
jarmusch
kurosawa
lynch
herzog
miyazaki
cronenberg (except history of violence... the fly is fucking increbible, though)

I like the topic, well in no order:

1. 8 1/2 (fellini)
2. Les 400 coups (truffaut)
3. Whisky (uruguay)
3. Decaloge (kristof kieslovsky)
4. La trillogie des couleurs (kristof kieslovsky)
5. American Beauty (Mendes)
5. Happiness
6. The birds (hitchcock)
7. La pianiste
8. Dancer in the dark
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. Harry (un amie qui te veut bien)
11. Amores Perros
12. Fishes sexuality
13. Audition
14. Dear Frankie
15. Mar Adentro
16. Volver
17. Hable con ella
18. Todo sobre mi madre
19. LA reine Margaut
20. Amelie

your sign always reminds me that film, I dont know why...

I've felt the need to alter my top 20 very slightly. Yes, I took out the John Waters film, not because I don't think the movie is great, it is, but I thought of a film that I loved even more and while I suppose I could have dropped one of the other ones at the bottom, towards the end I was sort of struggling to come up with two or three more to make it twenty. "A Christmas Story" came to mind and I thought that had to be up there, I've seen that movie infinite times, I can qoute many lines from it and let's face it, its one of the greatest comedies of all-time.

Bukowski didn't think so.

Tokolosh mentioned several Fuller movies.
This year I got to see the Naked Kiss, Fixed Bayonets, Pickup on South Street and Shock Corridor.
They all pleased me a lot.
He knew how to go fast without leaving the details that count behind.
The Naked Kiss story is really strange.
The use of colour in Shock Corridor is really effecient - colour blurts out two or three times in this black & white film.

Another guy used colour versus black & white without any warning (i.e. in the Wizard of Oz, the colour parts are apart from the black & white ones, they don't mingle) was Albert Lewin for A Picture of Dorian Gray. To show the portrait itself. I liked that movie quite a lot, even though Angela Lansbury ain't as young-looking as Wilde's character.
Lewin also shot Pandora, a movie that made me chuckle for two reasons : one, it has Marius Goring (from the Red Shoes) belching, two James Mason kissing Ava Gardner is irresistible. She was taller than him, but someone didn't want the audience to notice it. But it shows that he's standing on something.

high fidelity

the commitments

I just watched (my first Lynch movie) Wild At Heart. It was fuckign fantastic, and oh so weird.

Office Space
Breakfast Club
Harold and Maude
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Goonies
The Wall
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Joe Dirt
CKY3
Butterfly Effect
Bowling For Columbine
Wayne's World 2
Encino Man

That's all I can think of. I dont watch very many movies

Fucking love this movie, I do.

Damnit, this is the thread in which I spend most of my time preparing for (subconsciously) , and when it actually get here I find myself way too hesitant topost anything other than this excuse. I believe I have way to many movies rattling around in my head and not enough patience or time to give an accurate, non-edit reply to the question at hand.

hah yeh office space is great too

Once Were Warriors is New Zealand, but yeah, it is a pretty good film. Pretty intense.

Chopper is a great film! Many memorable lines.

I'll add The Proposition on that list too. Another great Australian film.

yeah, the proposition was fantastic. nick cave is a dark man.

I'm sure I'll forget something that I like more than something I'll include in the list, but what the hell. Here's 20, though I can't pick the order:

Wings of Desire
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Brazil
Planet of the Apes (original)
Liquid Sky
La Dolce Vita
Ran
Slacker
A Scanner Darkly
Drugstore Cowboy
Dawn of the Dead
On the Beach
A Clockwork Orange
High Fidelity
Blow Up
1984
The Lord of the Rings (impossible to separate the movies)
Superstar (the Karen Carpenter Story)
Soylent Green
Decline of Western Civilization

Slacker is great. I just wish they'd remaster it, 'cause the audio is terrible.
The outdood scenes are the worst. Passing cars make it almost impossible to hear the dialogue.

I love how The Naked Kiss starts off with a bang. The fight where she gets her wig pulled of her head, and she then beats the crap out of her pimp. All this happens with a jazz soundtrack in the background. There's a beautiful song sung by one of the handicapped kids at the hospital, where she goes to work, so that she can change her life and leave the past behind. She earns her respect from the community, only to loose it again later.



I highly recommend The Big red One, if you haven't seen it yet.