Top 20 films

Adam_S · 01-11-2007, 06:29 PM

YMDB was eaten by imdb so I figured HTF ought to have a thread for lists of top 20 films.

1	Empire of the Sun	Steven Spielberg
2	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean
3	How Green Was My Valley	John Ford
4	The Apartment	Billy Wilder
5	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz
6	A Matter of Life and Death	M. Powell and E. Pressburger
7	Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa
8	The Empire Strikes Back	Irvin Kershner
9	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola
10	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
11	Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont
12	To Kill A Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan
13	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Steven Spielberg
14	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence	John Ford
15	The Princess Bride	Rob Reiner
16	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki
17	Jaws	Steven Spielberg
18	The Searchers	John Ford
19	A Christmas Story	Bob Clark
20	In America	Jim Sheridan



	at any given moment these films could sneak in or out: Grand Illusion, Battle Royale, Now Voyager, Jaws, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Tin Drum, ET, Sunrise as they've all been in the top twenty before.

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george kaplan · 01-11-2007, 07:59 PM

I'll play.

1 THE APARTMENT Billy Wilder
2 REAR WINDOW Alfred Hitchcock
3 THE GODFATHER Francis Ford Coppola
4 CASABLANCA Michael Curtiz
5 CITIZEN KANE Orson Welles
6 STAR WARS George Lucas
7 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Steven Spielberg
8 DR. STRANGELOVE Stanley Kubrick
9 NORTH BY NORTHWEST Alfred Hitchcock
10 SOME LIKE IT HOT Billy Wilder
11 THE GODFATHER, PART 2 Francis Ford Coppola
12 CHINATOWN Roman Polanski
13 VERTIGO Alfred Hitchcock
14 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Stanley Kubrick
15 THE GOLD RUSH Charlie Chaplin
16 TOY STORY John Lasseter
17 PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES John Hughes
18 JAWS Steven Spielberg
19 PSYCHO Alfred Hitchcock
20 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Mel Brooks

I can't seem to get mine to format like Adam's

Martin Teller · 01-11-2007, 09:28 PM

God, this is hard. I can't even narrow my favorites down to a top 100. If I tried to do a top 20, I'd just end up changing it every day. Well, here's what it is today, I guess... (in no particular order)

1. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
2. Eraserhead (Lynch)
3. Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman)
4. An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa)
5. Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica)
6. El Norte (Nava)
7. Rear Window (Hitchcock)
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
9. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
10. Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
11. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
12. Casablanca (Curtiz)
13. The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)
14. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Herzog)
15. The Hole (Tsai)
16. Love and Death (Allen)
17. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
18. The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran)
19. Mahanagar (Ray)
20. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)

Limiting myself to one film per director made it a little easier.

Mark Klaus · 01-11-2007, 10:24 PM

Ever changing, but as I sit now:

1. Goodfellas
2. Return of the King EE
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. The Godfather
5. Casablanca
6. Crimes and Misdemeanors
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Patton
9. Fellowship of the Ring EE
10. Vertigo
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Citizen Kane
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Singin' in the Rain
15. Sunset Boulevard
16. American Beauty
17. Pulp Fiction
18. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
19. Rear Window
20. Night at the Museum (all right, not really, but I did enjoy this one a bunch and thought the critics were all wet).

Adam_S · 01-11-2007, 10:48 PM

Quote:

I can't seem to get mine to format like Adam's

I just copied it out of the excel sheet I used to arrange it.

Bob Turnbull · 01-11-2007, 11:10 PM

Yeah, what Martin said...Only a point in time rough guesstimate.

1	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet
2	Network	Sidney Lumet
3	Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind	Michel Gondry
4	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
5	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese
6	Raising Arizona	Joel Coen
7	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
8	To Kill A Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan
9	The Third Man	Carol Reed
10	The Night Of The Hunter	Charles Laughton
11	Out Of The Past	Jacques Tourneur
12	Raiders Of The Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg
13	The Sting	George Roy Hill
14	Playtime	Jacques Tati
15	Amelie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
16	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson
17	Lady Vengeance	Chan-wook Park
18	Touch Of Evil	Orson Welles
19	Man With A Movie Camera	Dziga Vertov
20	8 1/2	Federico Fellini

JohnRice · 01-12-2007, 01:58 AM

I usually don't do these lists, but since I did it for YMDB I guess I'll try to get the list back together for this. Might take a while for me to get it narrowed down, so it's a work in progress.

1. Miller's Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
4. The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan)
5. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
6. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
7. Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison)
8. Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
9. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
11. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
12. Dark City (Alex Proyas)
13. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
14...

Brian.L · 01-12-2007, 02:48 AM

Sure, why not, I do every other list. :-) I'll number them but I don't know about order...

1. The Lord of the Rings (it's sort of all one movie, but if I had to pick one it would be Fellowship EE) (Jackson)

2. The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros)

3. The Empire Strikes Back (Kasdan)

4. The Godfather: Part II (Coppola)

5. Kicking and Screaming (Baumbach)

6. Star Wars (Lucas)

7. Sideways (Payne)

8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)

9. Adaptation (Jonze)

10. Braveheart (Gibson)

11. Oldboy (Chan-wook)

12. Mean Streets (Scorsese)

13. The Third Man (Reed)

14. Harakiri (Seppuku) (Kobayashi)

15. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)

16. North by Northwest (Hitchcock)

17. Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley)

18. The Usual Suspects (Singer)

19. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)

20. Three Kings (Russell)

(...or maybe The Godfather...or Rushmore...or Full Metal Jacket...or Annie Hall...or Reservoir Dogs...etc etc)

Brook K · 01-12-2007, 03:09 PM

Mine changes a little everytime I do one. Like Martin I limit myself to 1 per director. Maybe it isn't a true top 20 list that way, but I like seeing more variety.

1. Ikiru Kurosawa
2. Taxi Driver Scorsese
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick
4. It's A Wonderful Life Capra
5. Tokyo Story Ozu
6. The Seventh Seal Bergman
7. The Maltese Falcon Huston
8. In A Year With 13 Moons Fassbinder
9. Sullivan's Travels Sturges
10. Ugestu Mizoguchi
11. Singin' in the Rain Donan/Kelly
12. Tabu Murnau
13. Love in the Afternoon Rohmer
14. Ordet Dreyer
15. Aguirre, The Wrath of God Herzog
16. A Woman Under the Influence Cassavetes
17. Psycho Hitchcock
18. A.I. Artificial Intelligence Spielberg
19. That Obscure Ob-ject of Desire Bunuel
20. M Lang