There's a general music thread, but I didn't see a general movie thread.

What are your favorite movies? Favorite director?
What's the most recent thing you've seen? Looking forward to anything?

My top 10:
Vive l'Amour (Ming-liang)
Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul)
Oasis (Chang-dong)
The House Is Black (Farrokhzad)
Cafe Noir (Seong-il)
Yi Yi (Yang)
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Ming-liang)
The Hole (Ming-liang)
Love Exposure (Sono)
Eureka (Aoyama)

My favorite director overall is Tsai Ming-liang.
Most recent movie I watched was Water and Power by Pat O'Neill. I want to say it was style over substance, but it had enough style to blow my fucking mind with that alone.

Saw Entourage The Movie yesterday. I liked the series, and the movie is just a stroll down memory lane really - nothing special, but still good.
Haven't seen mad max yet. Also looking forward to EDEN.

I can't make a top 10 list because I keep changing my mind. I will make a Top 50 Movies List with the condition that no director can be repeated on the list. Otherwise, I'll have put all Tarkovsky's and Kubrick's films there. I also can't put them in any particular order. I love Annie Hall and One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest but they ended up so late in the list because I thought of them later, but they're both still among my many favorites.

1) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone
2) The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman
3) Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa
4) A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
5) Augirre : The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog
6) The Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorowsky
7) Belle De Jour - Luis Bunuel
8) Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
9) Scarface - Brian De Palma
10) Gummo - Harmony Korine
11) City of God - Fernando Meirelles
12) Goodfellas - Martin Scorcese
13) Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin
14) Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
15) Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
16) Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - Sam Peckinpah
17) Touch of Evil - Orson Welles
18) 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet
19) Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean
20) Oldboy - Park Chan Wook
21) Jaws - Steven Spielberg
22) The Fly - David Cronenberg
23) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - R.W. Fassbinder
24) Tetsuo the Iron Man - Shinya Tsukamoto
25) Michael Madana Kama Rajan - Singeetham Srinivasa Rao
26) Pixote - Hector Bebenco
27) Gozu - Takeshi Miike
28) Harold and Maude - Hal Ashby
29) The Thing - John Carpenter
30) Baasha - Suresh Krisshna
31) Man Bites Dog - Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde
32) Annie Hall - Woody Allen
33) Roman Polanski's Macbeth - Roman Polanski
34) Iruvar - Mani Ratnam
35) Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
36) The Prestige - Christopher Nolan
37) Wall E - Andrew Stanton
38) Princess Mononoke - Hayao Miyazaki
39) The Raid 2 - Gareth Evans
40) The French Connection - William Friedkin
41) The Great Escape - John Sturges
42) One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman
43) Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The Monty Python gang
44) Cinema Paradiso - Guiseppe Tornatore
45) The Sting - George Roy Hill
46) Ruthless People - Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker
47) The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky
48) The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
49) Terminator 2: Judgement Day - James Cameron
50) Ulathai Alli Thaa - Sundar C.

I've still left out so many fucking films. Gah, I'll have to write 50 more soon.

my goal is to have as many favorite movies as you do one day, nish

i've avoided watching one flew over the cuckoo's nest because i read the book and can't imagine a film adaptation working at all (in my opinion)
yeah acting smackting

can you rank your favorite Tarkovsky films? i need to get into his stuff

All his movies are amazing. I would rank them as:

1) Andrei Rublev
2) Stalker
3) Solaris
4) The Mirror
5) Nostalgia
6) Ivan's Childhood
7) The Sacrifice


Cuckoo's nest is nothing like the novel. I honestly did not like the novel at all. It is one of the very few movies that I enjoy more than the book.

I watched Big Fish a while ago, I still think it's a great movie that I haven't seen too many people talk about.

bolded the ones I've seen, I have some catching up to do. I need a movie to watch tonight, any suggestions from this list?

the last really good movie I've seen was Whiplash, anyone else catch it? Inside Out was incredible too

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I watched Big Fish a while ago, I still think it's a great movie that I haven't seen too many people talk about.

oh yeah, I love that one. total eye-candy beginning to end. and I'm not just talking about Ewan.

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the last really good movie I've seen was Whiplash, anyone else catch it? Inside Out was incredible too

Inside Out was good? That's relieving, because I for sure thought the movie was going to be mediocre based just on the trailers I've seen and the plot as a whole.

I've never seen Whiplash, but I remember one of my friends having a problem with some of the choices made in the movie since he's a percussionist too. One thing that really struck out to him was when his hands started bleeding from the drumming, which just doesn't happen naturally.

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Inside Out was good? That's relieving, because I for sure thought the movie was going to be mediocre based just on the trailers I've seen and the plot as a whole.

It's Pixar doing what they do best, if you like their movies in general you'll love it. Got something like 98% on Rotten Tomatoes too. I didn't want the movie to end, although around the last third of the film the plot started to get fairly predictable.

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I've never seen Whiplash, but I remember one of my friends having a problem with some of the choices made in the movie since he's a percussionist too. One thing that really struck out to him was when his hands started bleeding from the drumming, which just doesn't happen naturally.

hmm. probably not for experienced drummers but I've given myself some nasty blisters playing on my friend's drum kit for a couple of hours and even Rock Band when I first started playing. he only bleeds after he's been exerting himself completely for hours on end so it's not exactly unrealistic, the rest of the movie more than makes up for anything like that.

Exilement, watch City of God, Seven Samurai and then Annie Hall.

For the hardcore version, watch 13 Assassins; which is what happens when 7 Samurai and 47 Ronin have a baby.

Bound to change if I can remember more movies I've seen.
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1. Whiplash

2. City of God

3. Exit Through the Gift Shop

4. The Raid 1& 2

5. Django Unchained

6. Pulp Fiction

7. Shawshank Redemption

8. Kill Bill 1 & 2

9. Kings Men

10. Reservoir Dogs

11. Inglorious Bastards

12. Fearless

13. Old Boy

14. The Babadook

15. Jiro Dreams of Sushi

16. Million Dollar Baby

17. Life of Pi

18. Inception

19. Snatch

20. End of Watch

21. 500 Days of Summer

22. Iron Man

23. Gran Torino

24. Looper

25. The Prestiege

26. Her[/spoiler]

Envoy, Jiro dreams of Sushi would have made it to my list had I allowed documentaries.

My top 10 documentaries off the top of the my head would be :

1) Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2) Blood of the Beasts
3) Hearts of Darkness
4) The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior
5) Man with a Movie Camera
6) Sans Solei
7) Crumb
8) Grizzly Man
9) The Thin Blue Line
10) Waltz with Bashir

Man I would make a post but I can't think of anything with the kind of class nish's list has.

I've got movies to start watching.

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Envoy, Jiro dreams of Sushi would have made it to my list had I allowed documentaries.

That movie makes me hungry and depressed at the fact that I will never taste that quality of sushi ever. Opened my eyes to the intricacies of sushi making.

btw, how do you guys keep up with good foreign movies? I want to start diversifying.