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Octavius Hite · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:47 pm Post subject:

1. Tesis: A great horror movie from Spain, the precurssor to 8MM.

2. Rope: Hitchcock's best Jimmy Stewart movie and my favorite

3. The Pirate: Gene Kelly dancing with a sword so phalic that MGM cut the scene down

4. Going Down the Road: The first commercially successful Canadian movie. Dir. Don Shebib's only hit.

5. Salt of the Earth: Banned in America for its "commie" talk about Unions, no Union man/woman should miss this

6. Born in Flames: The best of feminist cinema and a great World Trade Center appearance.

7. Zero Patience: Great queer cinema and an awesome dialogue on the AIDS crsis.

8. Citizen Kane: If you haven't seen this you shouldn't be talking about movies, you twit!

9. Dancehall Queen: Cinderella and jamacian dancehall, can't get better!

10. Paths of Glory: Kubrick's first great movie and the best use of dollies in movie history. Kirk Douglas is badass in this one!

11. Ginger Snaps: The best canadian horror movie ever and the last good one I have seen.

12. Duel: A TV movie and Spielberg's best film. A precussor to Jaws.

13. Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh film (shot on 70mm) is so amazing its hard to not watch more than once.

14. À bout de souffle: aka Breathless, Godard creates the Franch New Wave and changes cinema forever, I try to watch this at least once a year.

15. La Grande illusion: Renior's finest work and a classic. POW movies all come from this film.

16. Los Olvidados: my favorite Luis Bunel film and if you like City of God this is where that film's look and feel come from[/b]

Noureli · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Location: Nowhere but Here

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The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

Greekfreak · Joined: 25 May 2003

I'm assuming this is to recommend things that people ordinarily might not have seen. So, here goes....

1) Pyrates with Kevin Bacon and his real life wife Kyra Sedgwick--really funny, with some classic one-liners.

2) Mediterraneo A group of Italian WWII misfit soldiers get sent to guard an abandoned Greek island off the coast of Turkey but come to love the place and adopt it as their own. Currently out of print on DVD, and the copies you can find in Korea don't have English subtitles, more's the pity.

3) Spoorloos Or, The Vanishing the ORIGINAL Dutch version, not the santized Hollywood piece of $hit remake. My favourite film ending of all time.

4) The Hollywood Knights Porky's in a drive-in with a bit better melodrama, and the immortal Robert Wuhl.

5) The Mechanic starring Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent. One of the best endings in movie history. Check out the synopsis on imdb.com

stumptown · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:50 am Post subject:

I'd have to agree with The Mechanic...quintessential 70s action at its best.
Because I'm a muscle car freak I would have to add these:

Bullitt-with Steve "The Man" McQueen. Best car chase scene in history. IN MY OPINION

Death Race 2000- Stallone and Carradine- cheesy but it delivers

Two lane blacktop- A great film with Warren Oates. Two street racers cruising across America racing for cash.

Cannonball Run-schlock, but great humor.

The Road Warrior-great, but what's with the impossibly clutched supercharger?

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

cosmic charlie · Joined: 03 Oct 2005

Five great movies.
1. Monty Python's The Holy grail
2. Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein
3. Smoky and the Bandit
4. Blazing Saddles, or any other Mel Brooks film
5. Saving Private Ryan

I have been accused of not having any taste in movies but I like what I like and make no apologies. Rolling Eyes

All I can say is NEEH! (spelling) Confused

Seabass · Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada

Movies I've Seen Most Recently

1. Mulholland Drive - if you can tell me what was going on, can you fill me in?

2. Blue Velvet - another David Lynch film, gotta love Dennis Hopper

3. Hitch - Not a big Will Smith fan, but he gives lots of useful tips on how to get the girl of your dreams (if you have trouble in that area)

4. Capturing the Friedmans - Documentary about a father and son jailed for apparently molesting children while giving computer classes in their home. Disturbing, but a gripping film.

5. Innocent Steps - Korean film I saw on the plane ride to Korea. A nice little Korean chick flick about a Korean dance teacher romancing his prized pupil.

Alan_Partridge · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: in the posh part of town

My five...(all fairly recently watched, and in no particular order)

1...The corpse bride: one of those films that I'm genuinely sad when it ends

2..The 40 year old virgin: I think it's funny, anyway...the ad libbing's good (especially the chest waxing scene)

3...It's all gone Pete Tong: "It's Ibeefa, innit?" actually surprisingly thoughtful, with the guy who used to be Dennis Pennis

4...Wallace & Grommit and the curse of the were rabbit: very funny, without causing the slightest bit of offence (except maybe to rabbits...)

5...Garden State...that fella from scrubs writes, directs and stars. It's very good...

hhmm...not a very big or clever selection, but I like them!

deessell · Joined: 08 Jun 2005

Breaking the waves ( Lars von trier)
Magnolia
What ever happened to Baby Jane
Taxi Driver
Sweetie
The Cook the Thief the wife and her lover