Twenty American movies I've watched many times
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Topic: Twenty American movies I've watched many times
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Subject: Twenty American movies I've watched many times
Date Posted: October 31 2021 at 08:58
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This is NOT my ranking of the 20 best American films of the second half of the twentieth century (1950-2000), it is the ranking of the films that over the years I have probably seen the most (at least 8-10 times) at my house, on the Tv channels or in Vhf or Dvd or Pc. It is clear that I consider them among my favorites (I know them by heart). - Frank Tashlin (1955) - Artists and Models (Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Shirly McLaine etc.) - John Houston (1956) - Moby Dick (Gregory Peck, Eric Connor, Leo Gleen and... Orson Welles etc.) - Orson Welles (1958) - Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, Charlton Eston, Marlene Dietrich etc.) - J. Lee Thompson (1961) - The Guns of Navarone (Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn etc.) - Jerry Lewis (1963) - The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore etc.) - Martin Scorsese (1976) - Taxi Driver (Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster etc.) - Woody Allen (1983) - Zelig (Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Gale Hansen etc.) - Martin Scorsese (1983) - The King of Comedy (Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard etc.) - Terry Gilliam (1985) - Brazil (Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins and... Robert De Niro etc.) - David Jones (1989) - Jacknife (Robert De Niro, Kathy Baker, Ed Harris etc.) - Woody Allen (1989) - Crimes and Misdemeanors (Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow etc.) - Kevin Costner (1990) - Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene etc.) - Joel Coen (1991) - The Big Lebowski (Jefffrey Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi etc) - Oliver Stone (1991) - JFK (Kevin Costner, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones etc.) - Spike Lee (1992) - Malcolm X (Denzel Washington, Al Freeman jr, Angela Bassett etc.) - Robert Redford (1992) - A River Run Through It (Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt etc.) - Steven Spielberg (1993) - Schindler's List (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes etc.) - Terry Gilliam (1995) - 12 Monkeys (Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt etc.) - Ron Howard (1995) - Apollo 13 (Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon etc.) - Steven Spielberg (1997) - Amistad (Matthes McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou etc.) ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: October 31 2021 at 10:11
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Interesting list. The movies I've watched the most are usually movies I fall asleep to and therefore not really reflective of my 'favourites'. More like ones I don't mind being interrupted by falling asleep to. Think movies like James Bond, Mission Impossible any Marvel movie. However, if I list the movies I've actually 'watched' full through as a watching experience then it might look something like: (in no particular order) 1 - The Shining 2 - Apocalypse Now 3 - American Beauty 4 - Fifth Element 5 - The Hobbit (Extended) 6 - Lord of the Rings (Extended) 7 - Contact 8 - Blade Runner 9 - Liar Liar 10 - Lifeforce 11 - The Right Stuff 12 - The Dead Zone 13 - The Thing (1982) 14 - A Clockwork Orange 15 - The Deer Hunter 16 - Dune (1984) 17 - The Illusionist 18 - National Treasure 19 - The Negotiator 20 - Thank You For Smoking ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 31 2021 at 14:18
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a few I watched several times: "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa "M" by Fritz Lang "Don't Look Now!" by Nicolas Roeg "La montaña sagrada" ("The Holy Mountain") by Alejandro Jodorowski "El Topo" by Alejandro Jodorowski "Die Blechtrommel" ("The Tin Drum") by Volker Schlöndorff "Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes" ("Aguirre, Wrath of God") by Werner Herzog "De vierde man" ("The Fourth Man") by Paul Verhoeven "Week-End" by Jean-Luc Godard "Welt am Draht" ("World on a Wire") by Rainer Werner Fassbinder "Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles "Touch of Evil" by Orson Welles "Dances with Wolves" by Kevin Costner "Zardoz" by John Boorman "Nosferatu" by Wilhelm Murnau "Silent Running" by Douglas Trumbull "Une belle fille comme moi" ("Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me") by François Truffaut "Repulsion" by Roman Polanski "Belle de Jour" by Luis Buñuel "Le Fantôme de la liberté" ("The Phantom of Liberty") by Luis Buñuel -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: October 31 2021 at 14:25
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My most watched movies are: The Lost Boys (1987) and Firepower (1993). From VHS cassettes. More than 100 times, I think, for each. Then, The Matrix... It's gotta be more than a dozen times, but not much more. Recently, I never have had the urge to watch a movie even twice. Seemingly, it'll go on that way for an indefinite time. Perhaps forever?.. Who knows... |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 31 2021 at 15:45
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oops, I overlooked the "American" and just listed 20 movies I saw more than once ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 04:58
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Blade Runner 16 Blocks
John Carpenter's The Thing The Abyss Logan's Run Sin City Alien Lifeforce The French Connection 1 and 2 Apollo 13 Species Vacancy Saw The Hunt For Red October When Harry Met Sally Moonraker The Spy Who Loved Me Goldfinger Diamonds Are Forever |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 05:25
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I don't watch 'Stream' anything, so if it doesn't come on a standard cable channel (HBO, etc.) or regular broadcast TV, I usually don't see it. Patton The Outlaw Josey Wales 2001: A Space Odyssey Airplane Superman:The Movie Blazing Saddles Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Die Hard Ghostbusters The Godfather 1&2 Goldfinger In the Heat of the Night The Iron Giant Memphis Belle Lethal Weapon Monty Python and the Holy Grail Back to School Rocky Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 07:15
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Touch of Evil Fifth Element Lord of the Rings (Extended) Blade Runner Sin City Alien 2001: A Space Odyssey Airplane Blazing Saddles The Godfather In the Heat of the Night Monty Python and the Holy Grail Previously not mentioned Young Frankenstein Life Of Brian Rock Horror Picture Show The Blues Brothers Pulp Fiction The Good The Bad & The Ugly The Usual Suspects Dial M For Murder ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 08:03
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Not that much inclined to watch films many times but sometimes it comes with the job... (only listing feature films): - Lost Highway - David Lynch - 2001, The Shining - Stanley Kubrick - The Birds, Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock - The Big Lebowski - Joel & Ethan Coen - The Truman Show - Peter Weir - Once Upon A Time In The West - Sergio Leone - Modern Times - Charles Chaplin - Way Down East - D.W. Griffith - Sunrise - Wilhelm Friedrich Murnau - Our Daily Bread - King Vidor - Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder - The Purple Rose of Cairo, Zelig - Woody Allen - Blazing Saddles - Mel Brooks - The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer - Mars Attacks - Tim Burton ... - ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 10:30
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Hi, Heck of a bunch of lists ... here's more. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse stuff) Being There (Peter Sellers) Basquiat (If you like art) Blade Runner Chimes at Midnight (Awesome compilation and vision!) Henry and June (Really good) The Fisher King The Last of the Mohicans The Mission The Wild Bunch (Best Western Ever) What's New Pussycat? Heaven's Gate (Awesome film, but sadly disliked!) The Abyss Patton (Incredible performance) Rocky Horror Picture Show (Too much fun to be left behind!) Thanks ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 11:12
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20 movies I've seen several times and still enjoy: Alien Aliens Blade Runner Pulp Fiction The Godfather (1 & 2) Silence of the Lambs Jaws Spartacus The Great Escape Apocalypse Now A Clockwork Orange And Justice For All The Martian Argo Frankenstein (1931) Night of the Living Dead One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest The Usual Suspects Failsafe Monty Python & the Holy Grail |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 12:11
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The Godfather all parts Once Upon a Tine in America 2001 A Space Odyssey Shane Goodfellas Taxi Driver Apocalypse Now Pale Rider Unforgiven One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest 12 Angry Men Rocky The Magnificent Seven To Kill a Mockingbird Some Like It Hot Psycho Raging Bull The Wild Bunch ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 12:50
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Here are 20 of my favourites, seen many times each... I have restricted myself to only 1 film per director: 1) White Ribbon: Michael Haneke 2) Still Walking: Hirokazu Koreeda 3) Uzak: Nuri Bilge Ceylan 4) Stories We Tell: Sarah Polley 5) At The Height Of Summer: Anh Hung Tran 6) The Banishment: Andrei Zvyagintsev 7) Werckmeister Harmonies: Bela Tarr 8) The Death Of Mr Lazarescu: Cristi Puiu 9) The Son: Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne 10) 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days: Cristian Mungiu 11) Tulpan: Sergei Dvorstevoy 12) Kings & Queen: Arnaud Desplechin 13) Machuca: Andres Wood 14) Neighbouring Sounds: Kleber Mendonca Filho 15) Vera Drake: Mike Leigh 16) Crimson Gold: Jafar Panahi 17) Close-Up: Abbas Kiarostami 18) About Elly: Asghar Farhadi 19) Norte, The End Of History: Lav Diaz 20) Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow: Theo Angelopoulos Of course, it's easier to choose 50 than a mere 20, but if I was to choose only 20 films which have moved me greatly and born repeated watching over the past decade or so....
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 16:46
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I wouldn't know where to begin. There are so many movies that I first saw in the theater, than bought on DVD, and then they seem to get played over and over on some TV channels. There always seems to be a Transformers film or an Avengers film or one of the countless Marvel Studios or one of the Chris Pine Star Trek films on just about any day I'm flipping through channels and end up watching. When I was younger in 1983 or so, we got HBO for a year and I ended up watching Firefox 17 times. Local stations didn't always have something on that was as interesting. This was before cable was available and we were left to pick from 9 stations, back in the day when some stations used to sign off the air at midnight. Anyway, here's some stuff that comes to mind in no particular order... Close Encounters of the Third Kind 2001: A Space Odyssey It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Planet of the Apes (including the sequels + the trilogy starting with the 2011 reboot) Back to the Future (+ the sequels) 12 Monkeys Rocky Raiders of the Lost Ark Patton Star Wars Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (+ the Burton reboot) Jurassic Park Moon Sixth Sense Men in Black The War of the Worlds (both the 1953 and 2005 films) The Blob (watched this a lot growing up) Interstellar Looper Predestination The Unbreakable Trilogy (Unbreakable; Split; Glass) World War Z Airplane (+ the sequel) Most of the Star Trek movies (tend to watch the first one and The Voyage Home the most) Superman (the first Reeves film) Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Blazing Saddles Blade Runner (+ the sequel which I like better) Spaceballs (seriously!) Elf (seriously!) The Neverending Story (not sure if this was American or not) ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: November 03 2021 at 05:57
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I realized I had forgotten to ad one more to my list, 'Coneheads'. It came on yesterday morning and yes I was glued to my chair watching it. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 08 2021 at 15:58
There may be a few there that don't qualify , the first of those Monty Python films was financed mostly by Pink Floyd and Led Zep and the second by George Harrison (Hand Made films). The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I would have included this in my list but assumed it wouldn't count because it was filmed in a foreign language even though dubbed later. |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: November 08 2021 at 16:12
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: November 08 2021 at 16:17
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Im shocked nobody has Dr Zhivago nor Lawrence of Arabia, to me they sums up to me what epic scope is. Viewing those mammoths i ubderstoid how influence can touch wide, and even accidently, how those just showed how to knit various elements together in one cohesive 3 hour long experience. -------------
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Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: November 08 2021 at 17:17
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I believe the key words here are AMERICAN movies, and this can get complicated with co-production (foreign director making American film; American director doing English or European film; American producers making foreign production, etc.). keeping that in mind, off the top of head: 1) DRACULA (1931), 2) THE UNINVITED (1944), 3) CITIZEN KANE (1941), 4) PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1957), 5) BULLITT (1968), 6) THE WILD BUNCH (1969), 7) SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1932), if we go the American director working in England than 8) DR. STRANGELOVE (1963), 9) LOLITA (1962), 10) FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), 11) THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), 12) KING KONG (1933). & I come up 8 short. don't get me started on British & European films tho. thanks for asking. ------------- https://twitch.tv/guygudenspacepirateradio |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 09 2021 at 09:38
Hi, Nice listing. I just got the DVD of "Chimes at Midnight", and it is great. It's far better, and more interesting than "Citizen Kane" and the sad/worst thing is ... it is probably better IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANY SHAKESPEARE or can easily FORGET IT IS WILLIE! There are some moments that are incredible and the whole ending sequence (when Henry becomes king) is one of the best ... so well thought out if it wasn't accidental or improvised. There are many other moments in it that are far out ... he did use a lot of English actors, and filmed it in Spain ... so yeah, this would fit as an American somewhere else thing. I didn't even think of the earlier films ... to give you an idea, and many of them I love dearly, and appreciate more and more each day. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: November 12 2021 at 16:08
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Other films watched many times: - Jurassic Park (1, 2 & 3) - Pulp fiction - Mystic River - The Hunt For Red October - Wall Street - Will Hunting - Plans, Trains and Automobiles - Master and Commander - The Truman Show - The Fisher King - Everyone say I Love You - Titanic - The Usual Susepcts - Seven - Munich ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: November 14 2021 at 00:43
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Clockwork Orange Wall Street One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest French Connection The Untouchables Scarface Big Lebowski The Big Short Margin Call Great Dictator City Lights
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