The Ten Greatest Films and Directors

[Dino Velvet]

Love these movie threads but they always cost me money. Need to order some Bergman and Fellini. Have Seventh Seal and Fellini Satyricon. I'm pretty good on certain types of film but I admit to being limited here.

Off to Amazon.com I go...

[fred41]

I don't think I could even list my top 10. I like so many movies for so many reasons to nail down the best of the best would be to difficult for me

Totally agree.

[danthepoetman]

Love these movie threads but they always cost me money. Need to order some Bergman and Fellini. Have Seventh Seal and Fellini Satyricon. I'm pretty good on certain types of film but I admit to being limited here.

Off to Amazon.com I go...

You can find at least a few on youtube in complete version.

[Dino Velvet]

You can find at least a few on youtube in complete version.

I'll pony up for Criterion on classics like that. Thanks for the tip, though. YouTube is surprisingly good on full movies. This one is OOP and a very fine film. Enjoy ladies and gentlemen...

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[danthepoetman]

The Ninth Configuration is a very underrated movie. I loved it when I saw it, years ago. Surrealistic movie dealing with self identity, in a slow, strange pace with pastel color images. The man who helps other find themselves and doesn’t know who he is. The last Scorsese (what was it?) Shutter Island, with Leonardo de Caprio, is pale in comparison. I had completely forgotten about that one!
Good one, Dino!

"Why won't you go to the moon?"

[Dino Velvet]

The Ninth Configuration is a very underrated movie. I loved it when I saw it, years ago. Surrealistic movie dealing with self identity, in a slow, strange pace with pastel color images. The man who helps other find themselves and doesn’t know who he is. The last Scorsese (what was it?) Shutter Island, with Leonardo de Caprio, is pale in comparison. I had completely forgotten about that one!
Good one, Dino!

"Why won't you go to the moon?"

Thanks. My crazy pops also took me to see that. By that age I had recovered from the trauma of seeing The Exorcist in the theater and now it became my favorite film. I was still a young boy, saw Blatty's name on the poster, and sat in the theater hoping, waiting for The Devil to come. I left the theater scratching my head.

Years later I rented it on VHS after forgetting about it. Absolutely loved it and it too became an important film to me.

Love a nice Blu-ray if they'd put it out.

[Ben]

Alfred Hitchcock would rank high. As would Stanley Kubrick. (I'm wavering on Steven Spielberg. Well, I liked Close Encounters of the Third Kind and, too, Duel. Is he one of the greatest? Well, that's very debatable.)
And, too, to narrow it down to just 10 is fairly difficult.

[trish]

2001: A space odyssey.
Blue Velvet
Blade Runner
Dr. Strangelove: How I learned to love the bomb.
Alien
Time Bandits
Evolution
Eight Legged Freaks
From Dusk till Dawn
Jackie Brown
The Birds

Okay, so they're not the ten greatest films of all time, but they're eleven films I can sit down and enjoy over and over again at any time.

[LeatherTGirlLover]

Yep narrowing it down to 10 is way too hard and leaves out so many ground breaking films/directors, where is Buster Keaton (The General, Sherlock Jr), Nic Roeg (Bad Timing, Performance, Walkabout), Ken Loach (Cathy Come Home, Kes), Eric Rohmer (The Green Ray), Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, The Hill, Network), Robert Altman (Nashville, McCabe And Miss Miller), Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Persona) or perhaps even less mainstream directors like Jodorosky, Argento, Passolini, Noe, Heneke, Cassavetes.

I think most of the films on the list are worthy of the acclaim but there's also so many great, inspirational films missing too.

Re Vertigo, having spent time at film school i can tell you Vertigo is a much admired work from a technical perspective, it, along with stuff like Truffaut's Day For Night and Welles' Citizen Kane are considered perfect examples of how camera movement and placement, lighting, set design and score can add depth and character to a film merely by virtue of it's technicalities.

[Dino Velvet]

Any Lars von Trier fans? Really like AntiChrist and am gonna pick up The Element Of Crime.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001885/