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Ya-ta Boy
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 Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: The Top 5 Movies from YOUR country? |
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On another thread, the movie SUNSET BOULEVARD happened to be mentioned. It's always been one of my favorites. Jongroguru mentioned that it is one of the top 20 AMERICAN movies of all time. I think it's in the top 5.
I'm not one to prioritize movies or books in exactly that way, one being better than two, etc. but it could be fun to see what the 5 best are from everyone's home country.
In no particular order:
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. The Searchers
4. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
5. The Wizard of Oz |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| Having posted that, I think I'll go watch Jeremiah Johnson, another of my favorites. |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: |
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Zulu
The Full Monty
The Italian Job
The Long Good Friday
Snatch
The Football Factory
(6 I know - sorry!  ) Foreign films I like
Amores Perros (Mexico)
El Boaranese (Argentina)
The Club (Australia)
Brother (Russia)
Smoke/Blue in the face (United States)
Blue Collar (United States) |
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Jizzo T. Clown
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Location: at my wit's end
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:50 am Post subject: Re: The Top 5 Movies from YOUR country? |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
On another thread, the movie SUNSET BOULEVARD happened to be mentioned. It's always been one of my favorites. Jongroguru mentioned that it is one of the top 20 AMERICAN movies of all time. I think it's in the top 5.
I'm not one to prioritize movies or books in exactly that way, one being better than two, etc. but it could be fun to see what the 5 best are from everyone's home country.
In no particular order:
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. The Searchers
4. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
5. The Wizard of Oz |
Where's The Godfather?  |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: |
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Movies
Chopper
Dogs in Space
Ghosts of the Civil Dead
The Year My Voice Broke
Wake in Fright
Jedda
Documentaries
A State of Shock
Nazi SuperGrass
Exile in the Kingdom |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| Where's The Godfather? |
I considered it, then went with a better movie. (The Searchers) |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| Is it possible to even name five good Canadian movies? |
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bejarano-korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
| Is it possible to even name five good Canadian movies? |
Thats a toughie but the shipping news is a belter. Would that be classed as Canadian? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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safeblad
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: |
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1. Get Carter
2. Get Carter
3. Get Carter
4. Life of Brian
5. How to Get Ahead in Advertising |
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Treefarmer
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:51 am Post subject: |
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5 best films? ever???
bloody hell
errr
lawrence of arabia
39 steps
the wicker man
the great escape
dr no
would be better to have a best 5 war films etc |
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Jellypah
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Location: ROK
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
| Is it possible to even name five good Canadian movies? |
I'm Canadian - and off the top of my head I couldn't think of one. So I googled "Top 10 Candian Films" and read the recommendations.
Still can't think of one. |
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Jellypah
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Location: ROK
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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Tommorow my friend and I are having a Thanksgiving FilmFest (with home karaoke.) Here's our lineup:
Napoleon Dynamite
Strangers With Candy
Borat
Nacho Libre
I haven't seen any of them before.
We'll see how that goes! |
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Dugsby
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Ulsan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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How do you define Canadian Film? Canadian Director? Leads? Setting?
An awful lot of Canadians work south of the border.
I liked:
New Waterford Girl
Exotica
The Hanging Garden
A History Of Violence
Way Down Town
Also:
Better Than Chocolate
Hard Core Logo
The Five Senses
Goin' Down the Road
most other Cronenberg films
and who can forget Men With Brooms!
and anything with Sarah Polley or Don McKellar! (Last Night springs to mind). Or Molly Parker or Callum Keith Rennie.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Thats a toughie but the shipping news is a belter. Would that be classed as Canadian? |
I would say 'no'. It's from a book by Annie Proulx, an American. (She also wrote 'Brokeback Mountain'. (About half of her short stories set in contemporary Wyoming could be made into good films.) 'Shipping News' was disappointing as a movie, terrific as a book. |
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