Yesterday night I watched Citizen Kane. Please give me some more film recommendations! There are some obvious ones like anything by Quentin Tarantino or various David Lynch films, but even if you think it’s obvious post it anyway, at least I’ll be able to read your opinions and other people will get to read your opinions too!
Haha! Hey, if you're okay with the themes then who am I to judge, but honestly I love pretty much all those movies. The disturbing ones have a special place in my heart.
In high school I read SCP Foundation for hours a day and people were judging me then. So don't think I mind. Maybe other people will mind, but they weren't the ones asking, so it's their fault if they have problems with it.
I’ll just give you list now and won’t include anything Theodore said.
You seem to like anime so my first two are classics in that genre though you might have seen them and I’ll include my favorite Lynch film. Not as popular as some others.
1. Ninja Scroll (93) the movie not the series.
2. Ghost in the Shell (95) side note: have you ever looked up Aeon Flux which was a show on MTV in the 90s? I loved that show.
Mr. Skeffington with Bette Davis and Claude Raines.
I talked to someone today who tried to tell me her last name was Golightly from Breakfast of Tiffany's. I tried to watch My Fair Lady recently but Rex Harrison while funny was a triggering douche and I lost interest and alas. If you like Lucille Ball she did some good ones with Henry Fonda but the best one with Henry Fonda is where he plays two roles with Barbara Stanwyck. Unless u want some Talented Mr Ripley coupled with just some wtaf more so than all the dicks in the latest southpark thing on Paramount but there's a lot of wtaf so if you want that Saltburn is for you. It's super regurgitated thematically and plot wise. Like a 21st century Brideshead. Without the flair.
Depends on what You’re looking for in vintage film. Something like Ingmar Bergman’s “Seventh Seal”; Fellini's best-known films include I vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and Fellini's Casanova (1976).
Jean Cocteau: 1932 Le Sang d'un poète The Blood of a Poet
1946 La Belle et la Bête The Beauty and the Beast
1948 L'Aigle à deux têtes The Eagle with Two Heads
Les Parents terribles The Terrible Parents, a.k.a. The Storm Within
1950 Orphée Orpheus
1960 Le Testament d'Orphée The Testament of Orpheus
Favorite movie of all time: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
That was made by Powell and Pressburger, who also made another masterpiece: The Red Shoes
Be sure to get the uncut versions of these, which I think you can get from Criterion.
The director’s cut of The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah’s over the top violent masterpiece about loyalty, betrayal, and the death of the old West.
The Battle for Algiers, the greatest movie about guerrilla conflict.
The Cranes are Flying, Soviet epic about love and loss and endurance in the Great Patriotic War, which may make you weep real tears.
Top Hat, glorious art deco sets, a young Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, a witty and risque script, perfect.
North by Northwest, Cary Grant, Eva Marie saint, in (arguably) Hitchcock’s greatest film — a thrill a minute.
Lawrence of Arabia, a grand scale epic featuring a masterful performance by Peter O’Toole in the title role.
That Hamilton Woman, Vivian Leigh and Lawrence Olivier, married at the time, and trying to upstage each other, in a romance about Lauren Nelson and Emma Hamilton, made on a constrained budget during wartime, Winston Churchill’s favorite movie.
That was great! Feels just as relevant today probably as it was then since even if it was an attempt to hide a biopic of William Randolph Hearst I feel like I learned a lot about history, psychology, etc. from it. The story and acting were pretty cool too. Hopefully I can learn how not to get sued by rich people from it as well.
Oh, this was a foolish mistake.
1. The Room.
2. Apocalypse Now.
3. Midsommar.
4. Kids (1995).
5. Blue Velvet.
But on a more enjoyable note.
1. Alien.
2. Aliens.
3. Terminator 2.
4. Carrie.
5. The people under the stairs.
Most of those things are on a list of things I want to watch anyway, so I don't think it was any kind of mistake at all!
Haha! Hey, if you're okay with the themes then who am I to judge, but honestly I love pretty much all those movies. The disturbing ones have a special place in my heart.
In high school I read SCP Foundation for hours a day and people were judging me then. So don't think I mind. Maybe other people will mind, but they weren't the ones asking, so it's their fault if they have problems with it.
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I’ll just give you list now and won’t include anything Theodore said.
You seem to like anime so my first two are classics in that genre though you might have seen them and I’ll include my favorite Lynch film. Not as popular as some others.
1. Ninja Scroll (93) the movie not the series.
2. Ghost in the Shell (95) side note: have you ever looked up Aeon Flux which was a show on MTV in the 90s? I loved that show.
3. Wild at Heart
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Barry Lyndon
6. Blade Runner
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Inception
9. The Prestige
10. Platoon
11. Wall Street
12. Braveheart
13. Road Warrior aka Mad Max 2
14. The Warriors
15. Boyz in the Hood
16. Brazil
17. Twelve Monkeys
18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
19. The Big Lebowski
20. Chinatown
21. Eyes Wide Shut
Mr. Skeffington with Bette Davis and Claude Raines.
I talked to someone today who tried to tell me her last name was Golightly from Breakfast of Tiffany's. I tried to watch My Fair Lady recently but Rex Harrison while funny was a triggering douche and I lost interest and alas. If you like Lucille Ball she did some good ones with Henry Fonda but the best one with Henry Fonda is where he plays two roles with Barbara Stanwyck. Unless u want some Talented Mr Ripley coupled with just some wtaf more so than all the dicks in the latest southpark thing on Paramount but there's a lot of wtaf so if you want that Saltburn is for you. It's super regurgitated thematically and plot wise. Like a 21st century Brideshead. Without the flair.
Dr. Zhivago -David Lean
The Straight Story -David Lynch
Rashomon -Akira Kurosawa
Inglorious Basterds -Quentin Tarantino
Paris, TX -Wim Wenders
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly -Sergio Leone
Sunset Boulevard -Billy Wilder
Depends on what You’re looking for in vintage film. Something like Ingmar Bergman’s “Seventh Seal”; Fellini's best-known films include I vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and Fellini's Casanova (1976).
Jean Cocteau: 1932 Le Sang d'un poète The Blood of a Poet
1946 La Belle et la Bête The Beauty and the Beast
1948 L'Aigle à deux têtes The Eagle with Two Heads
Les Parents terribles The Terrible Parents, a.k.a. The Storm Within
1950 Orphée Orpheus
1960 Le Testament d'Orphée The Testament of Orpheus
Films by Fritz Lang like his 1927 Metropolis…
Memento.
A few films I've watched recently that seem slightly under the radar and I'd recommend to anyone:
- Holy Motors
- Blow-Up (1966)
- Strawberry Mansion
- The Outfit
- Under the Silver Lake
Favorite movie of all time: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
That was made by Powell and Pressburger, who also made another masterpiece: The Red Shoes
Be sure to get the uncut versions of these, which I think you can get from Criterion.
The director’s cut of The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah’s over the top violent masterpiece about loyalty, betrayal, and the death of the old West.
The Battle for Algiers, the greatest movie about guerrilla conflict.
The Cranes are Flying, Soviet epic about love and loss and endurance in the Great Patriotic War, which may make you weep real tears.
Top Hat, glorious art deco sets, a young Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, a witty and risque script, perfect.
North by Northwest, Cary Grant, Eva Marie saint, in (arguably) Hitchcock’s greatest film — a thrill a minute.
Lawrence of Arabia, a grand scale epic featuring a masterful performance by Peter O’Toole in the title role.
That Hamilton Woman, Vivian Leigh and Lawrence Olivier, married at the time, and trying to upstage each other, in a romance about Lauren Nelson and Emma Hamilton, made on a constrained budget during wartime, Winston Churchill’s favorite movie.
I could go on, but I’ll stop there!
Martin Scorsese loves both of the Powell and Pressburger films.
My list:
Great Directors
Martin Scorcese
Francis Coppola
Coen Bros.
Whit Stillman
John Huston
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Robert Altman
Howard Hawks
Billy Wilder
David Chase
Matt Weiner
Tim Robbins
Sidney Lumet
Great Productions
The Queen (Mirren)
Millers Crossing
Sabena Hijacking: My Version
Conspiracy (HBO)
Wannsee (German)
Ghosts of Beirut
Paradise Now
The Debt
The Operative
The Little Drummer Girl
Beirut
7 Days in Entebbe
The Good Shepherd
Operation Finale (Eichmann)
Syriana
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (both versions)
Munich
Eichmann
Golda
House of Gucci
Night Must Fall (Robt Montgomery)
Sideny Lumet Candice Bergen The Group (Mary Mccarthy novel)
Drummer Girl
Entebbe
Maigret
When the Clock Strikes
Jigsaw
Bridge of Spies
MST 3000
Bless me father
Mars Attacks
Conspiracy Theory
1923 (Ford, Mirren)
Wes Anderson
Ed Wood
Royal Tenenbaums
Whit Stillman
Izzy: Israeli movies
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
N x NW
A spy Among Friends
The Thick of It
The Warship Tour of Duty
You People (NFLX)
How to Murder Your Wife
A Guide for the Married Man
Flight
Dictator
Slow Horses Gary Oldman
The Irishman
Skip Gates TV show
Menu
She Said
Witness for the Prosecution
The Crown
The Good Shepherd
Francis Iles
Sunset
We Have a Pope
Godfather I II and III
Malice Aforethought
Before the Fact
Suspicion
Flight From Destiny
Strangers on a Train
The talented Mr Ripley
Goodfellas
Sopranos
Gavin Stamp’s Orient Express
The Duke
Spotlight
Fleishman is in Trouble
Red Oaks–Amazon
“Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort” (2012),
“Bittersweet Place” (2005),
“Christ in the City” (2005),
“Finding North” (1998)
Sweet Lorraine” (1987)
Inner Circle
Red Monarch
White House Plumbers
Coen Brothers:
Year
Title
Distribution
1984
Blood Simple
Circle Films
1987
Raising Arizona
20th Century Fox
1990
Miller's Crossing
1991
Barton Fink
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
Warner Bros. Pictures / Universal Pictures
1996
Fargo
Gramercy Pictures
1998
The Big Lebowski
2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Buena Vista Pictures / Universal Pictures
2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
USA Films
2003
Intolerable Cruelty
Universal Pictures
2004
The Ladykillers
Buena Vista Pictures
2007
No Country for Old Men
Miramax / Paramount Vantage
2008
Burn After Reading
Focus Features
2009
A Serious Man
2010
True Grit
Paramount Pictures
2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
CBS Films
2016
Hail, Caesar!
Universal Pictures
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Netflix
Personal favorites:
Mary Poppins
Willow
Great Muppet Caper
My Dog Skip
Far From Home
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Ten Commandments
Little Women
White Christmas
Quigley Down Under
The Three Amigos
The Mummy
The Fountainhead
North by Northwest
Pearl Harbor
Limelight by Charlie Chaplin. His last film before leaving the USA in disgrace.
Sunset Boulevard
Network
Double Indemnity
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Young Frankenstein
Blade Runner
Road Warrior (Mad Max 2)
North by Northwest
Night of the Hunter
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Some Like It Hot
Zardoz
Wings of Desire
Until the End of the World
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Vertigo
The Bride of Frankenstein
Sullivan's Travels
The Graduate
Easy Rider
The Magnificent Seven
Paris, Texas
Escape from New York
The Apartment
Strangers on a Train
On the Waterfront
Superfly
Dog Day Afternoon
Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Prescient in more ways than Idiocracy was.
A few I enjoy, in no sensible order:
Beasts of the southern Wild
Perfume:the story of a Murderer
I’m not There
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Fountain
Props to Theodore for throwing in Kids. Recommend that for sure.
Yeah I had a similar feeling/take on it when I watched it. Actually watched it in a college class first time.
I’ll get back to you but what did you think of Citizen Kane?
That was great! Feels just as relevant today probably as it was then since even if it was an attempt to hide a biopic of William Randolph Hearst I feel like I learned a lot about history, psychology, etc. from it. The story and acting were pretty cool too. Hopefully I can learn how not to get sued by rich people from it as well.