Griff
Feeding the foxes
Yeah, some good stuff on that list.
36. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE.
Love that film.
Empire magazines top 500 films
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Yeah, some good stuff on that list.
36. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE.
Love that film.
butchersapron
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*that's* a proper list, interesting to see what/any crossover there is.
I tried to think of a similarly good list that included English-speaking films so as to avoid looking 'elitist' but couldn't think of any.
Any suggestions?
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Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
The Empire list is pretty comprehensive!
butchersapron
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Is it frig.
That is a good list, was pleased to see Ran and Andrei Rublev in there, plus good motivation to go and see lots more films I've never watched.
That was a good film, but there's another Sinbad film that really stuck in my mind and can't remember the name of it.
Towards the end, the band of heroes have to cross a treacherous swamp to a high tower. Inside the tower hangs a huge, thick rope which they have to climb up. At the top is a chamber with a giant mailed fist that rotates on pivot, threatening to smash anyone who comes near.
Sinbad gamely jumps on top and skewers it with his sword. He cuts the fist open, and inside is a pulsating red heart which he cuts out. Can anyone remember the name of this film? (No, it's not Sinbad and the Giant Fist
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Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Have you actually read it? There are many of the films in the other lists posted on this thread, as well as popular titles - that's comprehensive - from Andrei Rublev to Speed!
butchersapron
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I have, i think we may disagree on what comprehensive means. There's no Bill Douglas, no Teernce Davies. There are whacking great holes.
edit: i tell a lie, one Davies film in at #224
edit: i tell a lie, one Davies film in at #224
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Hardly anyone's seen those though
butchersapron
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So what?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
The list is generated from a poll of readers and critics - many of Douglas' films have only just been released on DVD and very few readers would be familiar with his work. I'm surprised Distant Voices Still Lives isn't on the list, but again, not many people have seen it to vote for it.
No Les Diaboliques or La Cabina, which is a shame, but you can't expect to agree with absolutely everything about it.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Why is this so surprising? Many people love that sort of crap and most people have only dim memories of Ben Hur from TV in their childhood
butchersapron
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It is on the list -that was my mistake.
But how the poll was generated is neither here nor there. It's not a comprehensive list - it couldn't be. I'm not saying it should be, i;v said nothing about the listy other than it's no comprehensive.
butchersapron
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...and ask your C4 mates what they're going to do with Comrades - are they going to let it just dissapear from history?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Why not?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
That's a great fucking list - still no Takeshi Kitano! Sonantine, Hana Bi, Violent Cop - all great - never included in anything.
butchersapron
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Because it's irrelavent as to whether the list is comprehensive or not.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
OK, but surely it's impossible to be truly comprehensive unless you list every film ever made?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Probably - do you want a copy?
butchersapron
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It is! It's impossible. You can get degrees of coverage and i don't think the empire one covers much. I'm not having a pop at it or the voters/readers though. It's just a list.
butchersapron
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I've got one thanks, i had to get it ripped off french tv though. They've got a genuine classic (even if keith allen is in it) just sitting there.
Watched this once, when I was about eight or nine. I cried. It stayed with me for weeks.
Have watched it since. Both times, I cried. I'm not watching it again.
But I would recommend it to anyone -- movies should impact us like this.
Wintermute
easy tiger
Raiders is number two? Really? I mean, it's good, but.... second greatest film ever? 
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