What do you think of my personal 50 favorite films list?

Question

What are your thoughts on the the list itself and/or certain films on there? Any you think are missing? Any that definitely shouldn't be on there? Thanks! :-P

01.City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
02.Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen, 1940)
03.Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
04.Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle, 1971)
05.Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
06.Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
07.Forbidden Games (Rene Clement, 1952)
08.The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
09.Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
10.Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

11.Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1988)
12.Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
13.3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
14.East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955)
15.Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
16.Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
17.Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965)
18.Flesh (Paul Morrissey, 1968)
19.Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)
20.The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

21.Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1973)
22.Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
23.Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
24.My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
25.The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
26.Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
27.Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961)
28.Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
29.Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
30.I Love You, I Don't (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976)

31.Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (Hector Babenco, 1981)
32.Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974)
33.Haxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
34.Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997)
35.Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
36.The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)
37.The Unknown (Tod Bronwing, 1927)
38.Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
39.Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
40.The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)

41.The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
42.Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
43.The Hitcher (Robert Harmon, 1986)
44.Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
45.The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975)
46.The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
47.Pick-Up (Bernard Hirschenson, 1975)
48.Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
49.Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
50.The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)

Answer 1

Very strange list. I can't say I'm a fan of them all (I consider Hour of the Wolf to be Bergman's most boring film after The Silence, even more boring than Through a Glass Darkly). The Last Temptation of Christ is interesting, but I can't see how anyone could prefer it to his work with De Niro or The Departed for that matter. I'll always prefer Boogie Nights to Magnolia, which I think holds up the best after repeated viewings, and in hindsight, is the most intense and exuberant of the two.



But you've got a few very underrated films in there which I always like to see. 3 Women, Eyes Wide Shut for example - two masterpieces.



I also find it interesting that no director features more than once (unless I've overlooked one), and for a quite a few of them, you've chosen what might be considered a minor work, or at least a less well known one. It's always good to be different, so I can appreciate that, although I may not agree with a lot of your choices.



There are some totally bizarre choices e.g. Showgirls, Out of Sight, and also some films that no list would be complete without e.g. The Night of the Hunter, Mulholland Drive, Citizen Kane.



The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a great choice, and although I'm not the biggest Chaplin fan around, City Lights is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.



All in all, although not a huge fan myself, I'm glad to see for a change a list that is obviously very personal and very diverse. A lot of these lists tend to look the same so its less tedious than your typical one.

Answer 2

not a bad list, but i think you need to get updated. there was like 5 from 1990 to now, and only 2 from 2000 to now.



i love my share of old movies. karate kid, wizard of oz, alice in wonderland, gone with the wind, the good the bad the ugly, misfits...etc. (non of which is on your list i noticed) but how can you have so few from the last 20 years? such as(just in 5 year increments, because i cant possibly list every good movie in the last 20 years) tremors and flatliners (1990), apollo 13 and casper (1995), what woman want and x-men (2000), sin city and mr and mrs smith (2005), and alice in wonderland and the book of eli (2010)

Answer 3

interesting, I like your choices, a lot of old school classics. Although I don't agree with your top 5, I love Mulholland Drive, David Lynch is a awesome director, always keeps you on your toes guessing.