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Sheavy 
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 02:52 |
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Some of my all time favorite movies. It was hard to narrow the list down to these, but I tried to choose films that I think need much more love than they get either because they are foreign (im fairly certain that im one of only a handful of people who live in Alabama that know who Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, etc.. are) or because they get over shadowed by the directors other films (Mean Streets, Blood Simple, Sorcerer etc..) oooorrrr because they fit into the cult category ( Videodrome, Repo Man, Naked Lunch etc..).
Hopefully a good mix that will get you to think for a bit.
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 03:23 |
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The first one to get a vote was altered states. Call me surprised.
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 06:20 |
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I haven't seen all of them but I like all the ones I have. Voted for Andrei Rublev.
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 06:40 |
You can not vote in this poll. Dammit.
Well, if i could vote, the chosen one would be Oldboy, damn that movie is great. But Children Of Men (that scene with In The Court Of The Crimson King on the Battersea Power Station was the most prog scene ever hahahah) and City Of God (very well know movie here in brazil) are great too.
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 07:25 |
i have almost all of these films - not a dud in the bunch ..
Sorcerer is my favourite - and not just because of the TD score .. it's gritty, tense, and mesmorising - perfectly paced and cast. Fit's my cinematic sensibilities to a T.
Makes a good companion piece to Midnight Express.
And no - i haven't seen the original Wages of Fear yet but i will.
Edited by Walton Street - January 12 2015 at 07:26
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Sheavy
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 13:50 |
 infernalfrog wrote:
You can not vote in this poll. Dammit.
Well, if i could vote, the chosen one would be Oldboy, damn that movie is great. But Children Of Men (that scene with In The Court Of The Crimson King on the Battersea Power Station was the most prog scene ever hahahah) and City Of God (very well know movie here in brazil) are great too. |
Children Of Men has tons of great scenes, especially those continuous shots are stellar.
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 13:51 |
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I have only seen oldboy... :(
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 13:55 |
Walton Street wrote:
i have almost all of these films - not a dud in the bunch ..
Sorcerer is my favourite - and not just because of the TD score .. it's gritty, tense, and mesmorising - perfectly paced and cast. Fit's my cinematic sensibilities to a T.
Makes a good companion piece to Midnight Express.
And no - i haven't seen the original Wages of Fear yet but i will.
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I will never understand why Friedkin says his casting of Roy Scheider as lead actor was one of the worst casting decisions he made. He was perfect in the role. I've been trying to get my hands on Wages Of Fear for some time.
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 14:05 |
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I have only seen oldboy... :( |
I've only seen that and Pi, so I'm not much better off.
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 14:08 |
A very tough choice between Tarkovsky and Bergman 
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Sheavy
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Posted: January 12 2015 at 14:16 |
A Person wrote:
bloodnarfer wrote:
I have only seen oldboy... :( |
I've only seen that and Pi, so I'm not much better off.
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All of these are masterpiece or near masterpiece films imo.
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Posted: January 13 2015 at 17:54 |
Did I choose too many obscure films? Too many good films? 
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Posted: January 13 2015 at 17:56 |
too many good films.
didn't find them particularly obscure
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Posted: January 13 2015 at 18:05 |
Walton Street wrote:
too many good films.
didn't find them particularly obscure |
I didn't think I'd chosen too many obscure ones
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Posted: January 13 2015 at 18:32 |
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Bergman although I prefer some different titles....Persona, Autumn Sonata, Fanny
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Posted: January 14 2015 at 01:04 |
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I've only seen 11 movies out of the 25 listed so maybe my vote is a tad misleading. Went for Children of God as the scene where Theo and Kee are allowed to make their way unharmed between two sets of opposing military forces who look on in awestruck silence while they carry the only extant human baby in the world, is spine chilling.
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Posted: January 16 2015 at 15:55 |
I have seen ten of these movies and went with Dead Man for a few reasons. It has been awhile since I first watched the DVD but from time to time this movie will pop into my head out of nowhere. So it had a lasting impression which says something about a movie. It had a great cast even though many were cameo roles. I really liked the interaction between Blake (Depp) and Nobody (Gary Farmer). Then there was the one man soundtrack by Neil Young which was recorded live in the studio (the bonus features on the DVD covers this nicely).
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Posted: February 22 2015 at 14:12 |
Hi,
Check out the other poll on the other thread ... I listed a lot.
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Posted: March 15 2015 at 16:40 |
Finnforest wrote:
Bergman although I prefer some different titles....Persona, Autumn Sonata, Fanny
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All films I want to see.
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Posted: March 15 2015 at 17:03 |
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
Check out the other poll on the other thread ... I listed a lot. |
You listed many films I've wanted to see. City Of Lost Children, The Devils, The Fisher King, and Forbidden Planet. What would you go for from my poll here?
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