1. 2. 3. Lists.

[lazarus]

Kubrick films that I don't think are very, very, very good. Or even very good:

1. Lolita (his absolute worst and nearly mockery of a beautiful novel IMO)
2. Full Metal Jacket (1/3 good movie, 2/3 MEH with various great scenes)
3. Killer's Kiss (I'm not even sure if this counts anyway, but it's a decent debut)

 

[LMP]

Yeah, I figured that would get your attention. I've been hunting down so many of his films just to see his shit, esp. after watching the documentary about him. Got a copy of The Vikings recently, which turned out to be a very good film.

I'm psyched to watch Capricorn, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Kino's just put out a blu ray of this), The Vikings and Sons and Lovers.

Stanley Kubrick, my favorite director:

#1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
#2) A Clockwork Orange
#3) Eyes Wide Shut
#4) The Shining
#5) Lolita
#6) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
#7) Paths of Glory
#8) The Killing
#9) Full Metal Jacket (I need to watch it again, it's been a long time)
#10) Barry Lyndon (Need to rewatch it too)
#11) Spartacus
#12) Killer's Kiss

Not one single film that's not very very very good, except for Killer's Kiss, which is okay. But it's his first too, so...

Counterpoint:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Dr. Strangelove...
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Barry Lyndon
5. Paths of Glory
6. Lolita
7. The Shining
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. A Clockwork Orange

I watched Clockwork again a few days ago for my Screening Science class and was so thoroughly frustrated with it that I'm on the fence of whether I like it or not.

 

[LemonMelon]

Based on the very limited cinematic knowledge I have, favorite directors:

1. David Lynch
2. Steven Spielberg
3. Christopher Nolan
4. Alfred Hitchcock
5. Billy Wilder
6. Stanley Kubrick
7. The Coen Brothers
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Ingmar Bergman
10. Paul Thomas Anderson
11. Terry Gilliam
12. Woody Allen
13. Clint Eastwood
14. Quentin Tarantino
15. Orson Welles

 

[MMP]

Steven Spielberg:

#1) Schindler's List
#2) Amistad
#3) Saving Private Ryan
#4) Duel
#5) Minority Report
#6) Munich
#7) Jurassic Park
#8) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
#9) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
#10) The Color Purple
#11) War of the Worlds
#12) The Terminal
#13) Raiders of the Lost Ark
#14) Artificial Intelligence A.I.
#15) Catch Me If You Can
#16) Jaws
#17) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
#18) Empire of the Sun
#19) The Lost World: Jurassic Park

--from this point on it's the ones I don't like--

#20) Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
#21) Always
#22) E.T. The Extraterrestrial

Haven't seen Hook, The Sugarland Express and 1941.

 

[bono_212]

I'm going to put this under spoiler tags for the feint of heart, but here was my awful list of favorite directors from a few years back. I'm going to update this later tonight, but shit....Mendes is on here.

Spoiler

1) Stephen Spielberg - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2) Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
3) Christopher Guest - A Mighty Wind
4) Hayao Miyazaki - Spirited Away
5) Adam McKay - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
6) George Lucas - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
7) Wes Anderson - The Royal Tenenbaums
8) Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption
9) Sam Mendes - American Beauty
10) Richard Donner - Conspiracy Theory

 

[MMP]

Kubrick films that I don't think are very, very, very good. Or even very good:

1. Lolita (his absolute worst and nearly mockery of a beautiful novel IMO)
2. Full Metal Jacket (1/3 good movie, 2/3 MEH with various great scenes)
3. Killer's Kiss (I'm not even sure if this counts anyway, but it's a decent debut)

I love Lolita. One of it's scenes is one thing I mention when people wanna know why I want to be a director. But yeah, several people said that already.
Full Metal Jacket is kinda of a blur in my memories, but I rememeber wacthing it and feeling that it was so fresh when compared to other war films I had seen up to that point. Especially Platoon. Will watch it again asap though.
Yeah, Killer's Kiss is nice, but you can't say based on it that it's from one of the greatest directors of all time. (To me, the greatest)

Counterpoint:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Dr. Strangelove...
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Barry Lyndon
5. Paths of Glory
6. Lolita
7. The Shining
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. A Clockwork Orange

I watched Clockwork again a few days ago for my Screening Science class and was so thoroughly frustrated with it that I'm on the fence of whether I like it or not.

Hey, someone who ranks Eyes Wide as high as me, nice!
And oh, I can't stop loving A Clockwork Orange, even if it's not SO up there as it was when I watched it for the first time.
Also, forgot to mention... 2001 is tied with Goodfellas as the best film ever made, to me.

 

[bono_212]

I think you'll find around these parts, that most people rank EWS as high as you.

 

[MMP]

The Coen Brothas:

#1) No Country for Old Men
#2) Blood Simple
#3) Barton Fink
#4) The Big Lebowski
#5) A Serious Man
#6) Fargo
#7) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Gotta rewatch it too.)
#7) The Hudsucker Proxy
#8) Miller's Crossing
#9) The Ladykillers
#10) Intolerable Cruelty
#11) The Man Who Wasn't There
#12) Raising Arizona

#13) Burn After Reading

Not so sure about the last places on the list though. Haven't seen True Grit, yet.

 

[LMP]

Steven Spielberg:

#1) Schindler's List
#2) Amistad
#3) Saving Private Ryan
#4) Duel
#5) Minority Report
#6) Munich
#7) Jurassic Park
#8) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
#9) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
#10) The Color Purple
#11) War of the Worlds
#12) The Terminal
#13) Raiders of the Lost Ark
#14) Artificial Intelligence A.I.
#15) Catch Me If You Can
#16) Jaws
#17) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
#18) Empire of the Sun
#19) The Lost World: Jurassic Park

--from this point on it's the ones I don't like--

#20) Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
#21) Always
#22) E.T. The Extraterrestrial

Haven't seen Hook, The Sugarland Express and 1941.

1. Jaws *****
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark *****
3. Close Encounters *****
4. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence *****
5. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial *****
6. Schindler's List *****
7. Minority Report *****
8. Munich *****
9. Empire of the Sun ****
10. Catch Me If You Can ****
11. Saving Private Ryan ****
12. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ****
13. The Color Purple ****
14. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ****
15. Jurassic Park ***
16. War of the Worlds ***
17. 1941 ***
18. The Terminal ***
19. Hook **
20. Amistad **
21. The Lost World *
22. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull *

 

[Lancemc]

1. Barry Lyndon
2. 2001: ASO
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. The Shining
5. Dr. Strangelove
6. Full Metal Jacket
7. Paths of Glory
8. The Killing
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. Spartacus

 

[MMP]

To LMP:
You should watch Duel, it's awesome.
And I'm definitely not going to find someone who likes Amistad as much as me I think.

 

[LMP]

Broens:

1. A Serious Man *****
2. The Big Lebowski *****
3. Barton Fink *****
4. No Country for Old Men *****
5. The Man Who Wasn't There *****
6. Miller's Crossing *****
7. True Grit ***** (Grown in estimation after sitting on it for a bit)
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? *****
9. Fargo *****
10. Blood Simple ****
11. The Hudsucker Proxy ****
12. Raising Arizona ****
13. Burn After Reading ***
14. Intolerable Cruelty ***

To LMP:
You should watch Duel, it's awesome.
And I'm definitely not going to find someone who likes Amistad as much as me I think.

Yeah, I'll catch up to Duel at some point. I had a very hard time sitting through Amistad... it's pretty garbage.

 

[Lancemc]

The BERG!

1. War of the Worlds
2. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
3. Jaws
4. Minority Report
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. Catch Me If You Can
7. Schindler's List
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Close Encounters
10. Munich
...the rest.

 

[MMP]

Martin Scorsese (my second fav, but he's kinda losing that position to Michael Haneke):

#1) Goodfellas
#2) The Departed
#3) The Last Temptation of Christ
#4) Casino
#5) Cape Fear
#6) Taxi Driver
#7) Raging Bull
#8) Shutter Island
#9) Gangs of New York
#10) Mean Streets
#11) The Aviator
#12) The Age of Innocence
#13) The Color of Money
#14) Bringing Out the Dead
#15) After Hours
#16) Kundun

Still got a few of his films to watch though.

 

[MMP]

Yeah, I'll catch up to Duel at some point. I had a very hard time sitting through Amistad... it's pretty garbage.

I wouldn't even discuss it 'cause I'm used to this film being bashed. It's kinda like my Around the Sun in films. But oh well, I think it's awesome. Need to watch it again too though.

 

[LMP]

Scorsese:

1. Taxi Driver
2. Raging Bull
3. GoodFellas
4. The Last Temptation of Christ
5. After Hours
6. The King of Comedy
7. Mean Streets
8. The Age of Innocence
9. Gangs of New York
10. Casino
11. Shutter Island
12. The Last Waltz
13. The Aviator
14. The Departed
15. Bringing Out the Dead
16. Shine a Light
17. Kundun
18. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
19. New York, New York
20. Who's That Knocking at My Door?
21. Cape Fear
22. The Color of Money

 

[lazarus]

MMP: Kundun is LAST??

Wow.

Racist.

 

[LMP]

For Laz, The Archers/Michael Powell:

1. The Red Shoes
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
3. A Matter of Life and Death
4. Peeping Tom
5. Black Narcissus
6. The Tales of Hoffmann
7. The Thief of Baghdad
8. Age of Consent
9. A Canterbury Tale

 

[lazarus]

I'm a little dismayed that you have Canterbury so low. Of course, considering how amazing these guys are I don't know how high I'd be able to put it either.

 

[MMP]

Tarantino!:

#1) Pulp Fiction
#2) Reservoir Dogs
#3) Death Proof
#4) Inglorious Basterds
#5) Kill Bill

#6) Jackie Brown

 

[MMP]

21. Cape Fear

MMP: Kundun is LAST??

Wow.

Racist.

It seriously bored me when I watched it.

 

[LMP]

I'll raise your Cape Fear disappointment with my love of Jackie Brown.

I'm a little dismayed that you have Canterbury so low. Of course, considering how amazing these guys are I don't know how high I'd be able to put it either.

And I still really enjoyed it.

The way they handle the passage of time is masterful. In Canterbury, theres the shot of the bird flying that cuts into the airplane flight, then with Colonel Blimp you've got the single tracking shot down the pool, the hunting room (my favorite segment of the film), and the magazine stand toward the end.

Very much.

 

[MMP]

I'll raise your Cape Fear disappointment with my love of Jackie Brown.

Damn you.
But seriously, about Jackie Brown... I have very bad memories about it, including getting awfully bored... but that's been some years ago, so I might need to watch it again to say it for sure. I almost didn't include it on the list because of that.

 

[lazarus]

The Archers

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. The Red Shoes
3. A Canterbury Tale
4. Black Narcissus
5. A Matter of Life and Death
6. The Small Back Room
7. Tales of Hoffmann
8. I Know Where I'm Going!
9. Oh... Rosalinda!

All of these are great, and I'd say my main division line is 1-5 being masterpieces. I still need to see a few more, and I saw Gone to Earth so long ago I can't fairly rank it here. I also downloaded The Scarlet Pimpernel (very difficult to find, as is Rosalinda) which I need to get around to watching. There's a Criterion of 49th Parallel which I should probably get at some point.

Not including Peeping Tom, Age of Consent, or Thief of Bagdad, as they are solo Powell efforts.

 

[LemonMelon]

#15) After Hours

Booooooo

 

[lazarus]

Wait, we only did Top 10 with Hitch, and now we're doing whole filmographies?

I'm so confused.

 

[LMP]

Ten Favorite Scores:

Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo
Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West
Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Philip Glass - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Anton Karas - The Third Man
Jon Brion - Punch-Drunk Love
Howard Shore - The Fly
Vangelis - Blade Runner
Queen - Flash Gordon
John Williams - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Manliest Theme Ever Recorded:
Basil Poledouris - Prologue / The Anvil of Crom from Conan the Barbarian

 

[LMP]

The Archers

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. The Red Shoes
3. A Canterbury Tale
4. Black Narcissus
5. A Matter of Life and Death
6. The Small Back Room
7. Tales of Hoffmann
8. I Know Where I'm Going!
9. Oh... Rosalinda!

All of these are great, and I'd say my main division line is 1-5 being masterpieces. I still need to see a few more, and I saw Gone to Earth so long ago I can't fairly rank it here. I also downloaded The Scarlet Pimpernel (very difficult to find, as is Rosalinda) which I need to get around to watching. There's a Criterion of 49th Parallel which I should probably get at some point.

Not including Peeping Tom, Age of Consent, or Thief of Bagdad, as they are solo Powell efforts.

49th Parallel is on Watch Instantly, as is Powell's The End of the World.

As far as the filmographies, dunno how it started.

 

[lazarus]

Thanks for the tip, but I don't do rentals of any kind.

I'd make a list of scores but 8 of them would probably be Morricone works.

 

[Lancemc]

I'd make a list of scores but 8 of them would probably be Morricone works.

This. Though if I were to be adventurous I could split the list evenly between Morricone and Hisaishi.