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« Reply #375 on: June 24, 2007, 11:09:59 AM »
Here's my list:

1.   Brokeback Mountain
2.   Annie Hall
3.   Before Sunrise
4.   Casablanca
5.   Sixth Sense
6.   Babel
7.   Buena Vista Social Club
8.   Broken Flowers
9.   All the President's Men
10.   Lost in Translation
11.   Eat Drink Man Woman (dir. Ang Lee)
12.   North by Northwest
13.   Thelma & Louise
14.   When Harry Met Sally
15.   Conte d'automne / Autumn Tale
16.   Hannah & Her Sisters
17.   United 93
18.   Marius et Jeannette
19.   The Dancer Upstairs / Pasos de baile
20.   High Heels / Tacones lejanos
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« Reply #376 on: June 24, 2007, 12:52:43 PM »
Quote from: paintedshoes on May 02, 2007, 10:19:06 AM
AF, the votes on that site are just for fun...the real ballotting was done in February.  As an AFI member, I got to vote, though that is not as big a deal as it sounds, because all of the member's votes are tallied and cast as ONE vote, among the blue ribbon panel members who do the bulk of the voting.  Still, it would be nice if Brokeback was Number One.  But, I'll be happy just to see it included in the top 100!  

I'm not sure where this is being discussed on the forum, but I am absolutel DISGUSTED with the results from the AFI and emailed them the following:

<<< I used to have a lot of respect for the AFI, but no longer.  Your show last week was a farce.  I know "Brokeback Mountain" won the fan poll, so why wasn't it on the list?  Below is a link to all the awards it has won to date.  The fact that it didn't make your list is a disgrace and shows how meaningless the whole process is.  Shame on you.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/awards  >>>

If I should post this somewhere else, please let me know where.  Thanks.
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« Reply #377 on: June 24, 2007, 07:26:42 PM »
Hey you have some good ones and you have quite a few I haven't seen yet.   I need to make a few notes.

I think you can tell alot about people by the movies they love!  Grin

You know it is funny, When Harry Met Sally was such a great movie.  I could totally see that making the top 100.  I never get tired of that one.  And who can ever forget the resturant scene?   Cheesy
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« Reply #378 on: June 24, 2007, 09:50:54 PM »
Sinne, this is the most recent page of "Awards Aftermath" which discussed the AFI awards...I can't go there anymore, myself...too painful.

http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=22797.9225
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« Reply #379 on: June 25, 2007, 02:47:20 AM »
I don't think I'd be able to really put these into a final order of preference, and the more I'm going to think about movies the more movies I'm going to come up with, but fwiw here's a list of my favourites:

Brokeback Mountain
Blues Brothers
The Piano
Some Like it Hot
Thelma & Louise
One, Two, Three
Amadeus
The Lives of Others
La vie est une longue fleuve tranquille (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096386/)
Cinema Paradiso
Bringing Up Baby
Three colours: Blue
Au revoir, les enfants (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092593/)
The Full Monty
The Commitments (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101605/)
Barfuss (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405743/)
The Field (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099566/)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/)
Babette's Feast (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092603/)


Chuck, glad to see "Transamerica" on your list - we watched it recently and I was most impressed, a really good movie!
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« Reply #380 on: June 25, 2007, 03:38:36 AM »

No preference order, no all-time hitlist, but the 20 movies that come into my mind
here and now:

Brokeback Mountain
Babel
The Tempest (Paul Mazursky)
Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison)
The Hours
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
Lili Marleen (Fassbinder)
Fontane Effi Briest (Fassbinder)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee)
The Ice Storm (Lee)
The Wedding Banquet (Lee)
A Star Is Born (the Streisand/Kristofferson version)
Moulin Rouge (Luhmann version)
In The Mood For Love & 2046 (Wong Kar Wai)
Plein Soleil (René Clément)
Mister Ripley (Minghella)
Wilde (with Stephen Fry and Jude Law)
Strangers On A Train (Hitchcock)

...these are 21!...

...to be continued...
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« Reply #381 on: June 25, 2007, 07:58:57 AM »
Katie, I love that you include "The Commitments" in your list.  A small jewel of a film.

And IngSir:  Eat Drink Man Woman.  Another jewel.
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« Reply #382 on: June 25, 2007, 09:11:58 AM »
Quote from: paintedshoes on June 25, 2007, 07:58:57 AM
Katie, I love that you include "The Commitments" in your list.  A small jewel of a film.

Don't get me started, Jackie....  Cheesy Cheesy

I love the film - really great music, Jimmy senior performig "falling in love" with that bottle of brown sauce (and did you notice that picture of Elvis hanging above the pope's picture?), Jimmy junior conducting all those interviews, Joey "The Lips" Fagan ("God sent him" - "on a fuckin' Suzuki??"), the horse in the elevator, that prolly but incredibly gifted singer, and so many views of my beloved Dublin!

Do you know the other two movies from that trilogy? The Snapper and The Van? Both of them are very good, too.

And of course Roddy Doyle's books on which the films are based. So enjoyable. (And so Dub!)

Edit: And the language - those background girls rehearsing "Ride, Sally, ride", which comes out as "Roid, Sally, roid"  Cheesy
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« Reply #383 on: June 25, 2007, 09:37:14 AM »
Quote from: paintedshoes on June 25, 2007, 07:58:57 AM
And IngSir:  Eat Drink Man Woman.  Another jewel.

Jewel - that's the word. (*sighs with pleasure*)
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« Reply #384 on: June 25, 2007, 09:43:44 AM »
Four Weddings and a Funeral was a good movie,  but then I am a big fan of Hugh Grant!  Grin


Jesus Christ Superstar could easily make my top 10, what an amazing movie!   And A Star is Born is one I don't have on DVD and should.  I LOVE that movie.

There are just so many wonderful movies out there, past and present.
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« Reply #385 on: June 25, 2007, 09:49:04 AM »
Quote from: Lola on June 25, 2007, 09:43:44 AM
Jesus Christ Superstar could easily make my top 10, what an amazing movie!   And A Star is Born is one I don't have on DVD and should.  I LOVE that movie.

Lola, I'm so glad that you share my unconditional love for these two movies - most people I know believe that's kinda odd for me to be fond of JCS and ASIB.

I just can't get enough of those two!

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« Reply #386 on: June 25, 2007, 12:22:34 PM »
Additions to my own list from this morning:

Brokeback Mountain
Babel
The Tempest (Paul Mazursky)
Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison)
The Hours
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
Lili Marleen (Fassbinder)
Fontane Effi Briest (Fassbinder)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee)
The Ice Storm (Lee)
The Wedding Banquet (Lee)
A Star Is Born (the Streisand/Kristofferson version)
Moulin Rouge (Luhmann version)
In The Mood For Love & 2046 (Wong Kar Wai)
Plein Soleil (René Clément, with Alain Delon)
Mister Ripley (Minghella)
Wilde (with Stephen Fry and Jude Law)
Strangers On A Train (Hitchcock)
Short Cuts (Altman)
Gosford Park (Altman)
A Prairie Home Companion (Altman)
Before Night Falls (with Javier Bardem, by Julian Schnabel)
Mare Adentro (with Javier Bardem)
The Color Purple (Spielberg)
A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder)
Avanti (Billy Wilder)
Morocco (Sternberg)
La Storia di Piera (Marco Ferreri, with Hanna Schygulla)
Doctor Shivago (David Lean)
The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)
The Last Flood (Peter Weir)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
Dance With A Stranger (with Miranda Richardson & Rupert Everett)
Diva (J.-J. Beineix)
Carmen (Carlos Saura)
Volver (Almodovar)
Hable con ella (Almodovar)
Atame (Almodovar)
La ley del deso (Almodovar)
Que he hecho yo para merecer esto (Almodovar)
Matador (Almodovar)
Bridges Of Madison County (Eastwood & Streep)
One From The Heart (with Nastassja Kinski)
Crimes Of The Heart (with Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek)


...to be continued...
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« Reply #387 on: June 25, 2007, 12:25:14 PM »
Quote from: ingmarnicebbmt on June 25, 2007, 09:49:04 AM
Quote from: Lola on June 25, 2007, 09:43:44 AM
Jesus Christ Superstar could easily make my top 10, what an amazing movie!   And A Star is Born is one I don't have on DVD and should.  I LOVE that movie.

Lola, I'm so glad that you share my unconditional love for these two movies - most people I know believe that's kinda odd for me to be fond of JCS and ASIB.

I just can't get enough of those two!

 Wink

Me neither!! 

Oh and I like some of your additions!

I thought The Color Purple was a wonderful book and a movie, I would love to see a live production.
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« Reply #388 on: June 25, 2007, 03:06:14 PM »
Thanks, Lola.
Maybe it's too soon, but I might be adding Zodiac as movie no. 21
I was really engrossed with it, and it reminded me a lot of All the President's Men, one of my all time favourites.
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Quote from: Lola on June 24, 2007, 07:26:42 PM
Hey you have some good ones and you have quite a few I haven't seen yet.   I need to make a few notes.

I think you can tell alot about people by the movies they love!  Grin

You know it is funny, When Harry Met Sally was such a great movie.  I could totally see that making the top 100.  I never get tired of that one.  And who can ever forget the resturant scene?   Cheesy
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« Reply #389 on: June 25, 2007, 03:09:56 PM »
Paintedshoes, I had it too! I loved Eat Drink Man Woman, and it introduced me to Ang Lee  Wink
Only regret, I had to watch it in dubbed in Italian... only many years later I saw it on TV in original with subtitling.


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Quote from: paintedshoes on June 25, 2007, 07:58:57 AM
And IngSir:  Eat Drink Man Woman.  Another jewel.

Jewel - that's the word. (*sighs with pleasure*)
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