Film Top 10s - let's be having you!

[Over The Hill]

Or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

That was really good too.

Mary Poppins also good but NOT Beadknobs and Broomsticks that was pants.

 

[Andy in Sig]

and that bit where the entire family leaps over the barbed wire on the motorbike[/B] - magic!

I didn't know that Steve McQueen was in The Sound of Music!

 

[NickM]

There is a much longer cut available...

Hmmmm, I didn't know that...

Mulholland drive was fascinating...but indecipherable and I ended up a bit disgruntled.

There is plenty of help on the Web - can't find my preferred article any more, but this one seems good. It is such a dense film, and exploits the medium in so much more masterly a way than any other I have seen... I urge you to try again.

 

[johnnyh]

No particular order...

Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Life of Brian
As Good as it Gets
The Blues Brothers
Spinal Tap
Falling Down

it seems I either like to laugh or see people shot!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Like Nick, mine could be different on any given day of the week, but here's one for today - these are not necessarily what I think are the 'greatest' films, simply my favourites right now... and also in no particular order.

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
The Conversation
Singing in the Rain
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring
The Best of Youth
The Third Man
The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original of course...)
Casablanca
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
I've Loved You So Long

I also really like Afterlife (Kore-eda Hirokazu's film mentioned above, and also his brilliant Nobody Knows), and many of Nick's choices - they just aren't how I'm feeling today...

 

[theclaud]

The Ladykillers (Ealing version)
North by Northwest
Singing in the Rain
The Court Jester
Double Indemnity
Cape Fear (Mitchum, not DeNiro)
The Happiest Days of Your Life
The Maltese Falcon
Young Frankenstein
And of course, The Princess Bride

I realise a lot of these are rather silly movies. On a more serious day, I might have picked Capturing the Friedmans or M. Or even La Grande Bouffe...

 

[Niall Estick]

Bar FM's choices, why do blokes always pick robustly MALE films?

I am guilty also:

Godfather - men killing each other
Godfather II – one man killing even more people
Casablanca – male derring do + nazis
Bladerunner – men and robots trying to kill each other
Battle of Algiers – French and Algrians killing each other
Wages of Fear – French male derring do.
Lawrence of Arabia – English Male derring do with Arab gay subplot
The Amazing Mr Blunden – Wholesome family fun
Monsters Inc – animated wholesome family fun

And my metrosexual entry:

Moulin Rouge – a cinematic delight.

 

[ianrauk]

in no particular order

Taxi Driver
Man Bites Dog
Reservior Dogs
Guns Of Navarone
Enemy At The Gates
Heat
Pans Labyrinth
Ice Cold In Alex
The Great Escape
Poltergeist

 

[GrahamG]

Oh yes, Pans Labyrinth - that should be in mine!

 

[swee'pea99]

I note that 3 peeps have mentioned Casablanca, but none To Have and Have Not, which I prefer (tho' I do like Casablanca) ('You know how to whistle don't you Steve?') and also to my surprise at least two mentions for Monsters Inc which, while good, is nothing like as good as the thus far (unless I missed it) unmentioned Shrek.

I'm still thinking...

 

[col]

Any of these lists could be mine too,but just to add

Armageddon
Fifth element
Ace ventura both
Lord of the rings all
Starwars some
Silent running
Apollo 13
Equalibrium
Men in black both
The searchers

As others have said,there are that many it could be a number of lists.

 

[beancounter]

I see a pattern here BC.
Barry Lyndon wasn't that good. Not too sure about 2001 either. Care to comment more?

I disagree - it is that good.

Not many people are going to like a film like Barry Lyndon. It's very long and very slow and you have to be in the right frame of mind to "get it". You probably won't even appreciate it on first or second viewing (by which time most will give up). Most people these days have an attention span of milliseconds so it won't be for them.

bc

 

[NickM]

Barry Lyndon was stunningly beautiful, as was 2001!

Several of my second and third elevens have been mentioned - North by Northwest (ultimate romantic escapism) and Cape Fear (although I prefer the de Niro version... come to think of it, I also preferred the remakes of King Kong (both) and The Getaway).

And a couple whose popularity baffles me - Platoon (far inferior to Full Metal Jacket, if you ask me) and Man Bites Dog (as Belgian films go, Toto the Hero seems to me to be about as good as it gets).

 

[swee'pea99]

Apolocalypse Now
Blues Brothers
Animal House
Richard Pryor Live in Concert
Diva
Lawrence of Arabia
To Have & Have Not
Sling Blade
Shrek
Singing in the Rain

 

[NickM]

I disagree - it is that good

Yup. Apart from its visual delights, the story unfolds inexorably and draws you in as it does so; and the hero gradually becomes a villain, and satisfyingly gets what's coming to him in the end from the least likely of quarters. Lord Bullingdon is a terrific character, it being far braver to fight a duel when you are not very brave than to do so when you have nerves of steel. But all the characters, including the distressingly passive Lady Lyndon, are beautifully portrayed, as is the setting.