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Mario Gauci

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SONS OF THE DESERT (1933) and THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) almost made it into my own list - and there is no real need to excuse THE OMEGA MAN (1971) and WESTWORLD (1973) with an asterisk!
 

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Waitaminute, you're from Malta, aren't all the movies on your list foreign films? :D
 

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I wouldn't consider either one of those the "best" films ever made, which is why I used the asterisk. All the others qualify IMO. It's tricky when it comes to lists like this. I'm thinking of starting a new thread: "YOUR 100 FAVORITE FILMS", which may be more extensive.
 

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Here's my 20 in NO particular order:

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2. Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)
3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
4. Alien (1979) & Aliens (1986) (I'm cheating here)
5. The Matrix (1999)
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
7. Fight Club (1999)
8. Braveheart (1995)
9. The Terminator (1984)
10. Heat (1995)
11. The Bourne Trilogy (one complete movie for me)
12. Titanic (1997)
13. Predator (1987)
14. L.A. Confidential (1997)
15. Batman Begins (2005)
16. The Incredibles (2004)
17. Toy Story 2 (1999)
18. Pulp Fiction (1994)
19. Taxi Driver (1976)
20. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
 

Mario Gauci

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Hey, cut us some slack, pal!

We may be a tiny dot on the world's map - practically an afterthought God had on the Seventh day - but, apart from our own language, everybody speaks English here (given that we were a British colony from 1800 to 1979 and, in fact, English is our official second language) and, what's more, a healthy number of the population is fluent in Italian, too (a direct result of our proximity to the Italian peninsula, perhaps, but also because we were all reared on Italian TV)!
 

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By the way, Brook - I generally like your list. And what do you know - No. 7 is THE MALTESE FALCON:)!

Out of your 20, I'm only unfamiliar with two of these - the Rohmer and the Fassbinder - and, since I can rent the former and already own the latter, I guess there's no excuse, right?

I'm glad you've put a Bunuel in there, too..but, man, it sure takes some guts to count titles No. 1, 5 and 16 among your all-time favorites...
 

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The longer I spend on a list like this, the more confused I get, so here's a ten-minute list that is probably more accurate, anyway:

1. Lawrence of Arabia - Sir David Lean
2. The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick
3. Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
4. Eraserhead - David Lynch
5. The Conversation - Francis Coppola
6. A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes
7. Ran - Akira Kurosawa
8. Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick
9. Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick
10.The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir
11.In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-wai
12.Apocalypse Now - Francis Coppola
13.Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Werner Herzog
14.Doctor Zhivago - Sir David Lean
15.Blade Runner - Ridley Scott
16.Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson
17.Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa
18.Blue Velvet - David Lynch
19.Videodrome - David Cronenberg
20.Dune - David Lynch
 

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I'm seriously considering Sweet Land for my top twenty, but I'll need a second viewing first.
 

Steve Christou

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Lists! Lists! Lists! I love lists, I think it's time I revised my top 20 (slightly).

Good to see guilty faves Dune and The Omega Man mentioned here along with the usual 'greats'. Let's see... Night of the Demon... yeah! Day the Earth Stood Still, The Abyss, Tron. And fewer foreign flicks than I'd expected to see in the snooty Polls area, nice. ;)
 

Steve Christou

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Hard coming up with a top 20, left too many faves out. A top 50 in alphabetical order would have been better. Oh well, here's my current top 20 favorite films -

01 - Ben-Hur (1959)
02 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
03 - 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
04 - Spartacus (1960)
05 - Star Wars (1977)
06 - Jaws (1975)
07 - North by Northwest (1959)
08 - Aliens
09 - Lord of the Rings I Fellowship of the Rings (2001)
10 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
11 - Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (1977)
12 - Enter the Dragon (1973)
13 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
14 - You Only Live Twice (1967)
15 - Alien (1979)
16 - Dune (1984)
17 - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
18 - Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
19 - Singin' in the Rain (1952)
20 - Duck Soup (1933)




Other top favorites include - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Battle of Britain (1969), Zulu (1964), El Cid (1961), Apocalypse Now (1979), Godfather I and II, Some Like it Hot (1959), Blade Runner (1982), Brazil (1985), Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), Dr Strangelove (1963), King Kong (1933), Night of the Demon (1958), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), A Night at the Opera (1935), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Goldfinger (1964), Planet of the Apes (1968), Lord of the Rings II & III, Akira (1988), Pinocchio (1940) and Fantasia (1940).
 

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My list, in order:

1Chinatown
28 1/2
3Rear Window
4Vertigo
5Mulholland Dr.
62001: A Space Odyssey
7Blade Runner
8Casablanca
9The Godfather
10Dr. Strangelove
11North By Northwest
12Raiders of the Lost Ark
13Jaws
14The Shawshank Redemption
15Safety Last!
16Playtime
17Wild Strawberries
18The Wizard of Oz
19Lost in Translation
20L'appartement


Some films regrettably left off: more Hitchcock (notably Shadow of a Doubt), Wilder (notably Ace in the Hole and Sunset Blvd.) and noirs (notably The Asphalt Jungle and Kiss Me Deadly) Chaplin (notably City Lights and Modern Times) and Lean (notably Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai), Malick (The Thin Red Line), Lynch (Blue Velvet).
 

Flemming.K

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1. Alien

2. Vertigo

3. 2001 - A Space Odyssey

4. Il Conseguenze dell'amore

5. Double Indemnity

6. La Dolce Vita

7. There Will Be Blood

8. L'Armée des Ombres (Army of Shadows)

9. The Third Man

10. Sunset Boulevard

11. Mulholland Drive

12. Seven Samurai

13. Barry Lyndon

14. Gone With The Wind

15. Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)

16. Becket

17. The Passion of the Christ

18. Le Cercle Rouge

19. Fellowship of the Rings

20. Notorious
 

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