FILM RECOMMENDATIONS

[stickykrylon]

about to buy some DVDs via amazon -

any suggestions as for what's worthy to be a part of a home collection?

dig.

[Shiv]

what are some movies you like? do you watch tv shows often? theres some good boxsets out there

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[showbiz00ditc]

garden state

donnie darko

ong back

life aquatic

napoleon dynamite

taxi driver

the wall

pulp fiction

[stickykrylon]

minority report is pretty dope, but as for classics, box sets, I'm just drawing a blank.

goodfellas might be good, think i might get the spaceballs DVD..

i just got a new TV, so I just want to have a tight collection of good flicks.

dig.

[stickykrylon]

thanks for the suggestions!

dig.

[Yakboy Equals Nurturer]

If you like studio films with a touch of indie and arthouse, the IMDB top 250 should provide plenty of ideas:

http://www.imdb.com/top_250_films

[Brienneoftarth]

freaks and geeks box set is very good.

[35mm]

I find it hard to recommend movies. But given what you listed, try these:

Bladerunner

Gladiator

Heat

Dirty Harry

Total Recall

Beverly Hills Cop

Alien(s) I and II

Boogie Nights

Indiana Jones Triology

Star Wars Trilogy

The French Connection

Casino

The Bourne Identity

The Professional

The Shining

Full Metal Jacket

Old School

The Thing!!! (okay, I'm reaching )

The Exorcist (Aside from the head spinning demon child, I think this is actually a quality film, even an art film in a lot of ways)

Classics:

Rear Window

Seven Samurai

Streetcar Named Desire

The Great Escape

Citizen Kane

Casablanca

Dr. Strangelove

Art:

Anything by Cassavettes

Early Godard

Anything Bergman

Rashômon (Kurosawa) -it'll blow your mind!

Anyway, I'm just guessing. There are a lot of great movies out there.

Edited by 35mm on May 26, 2005 at 11:26 AM

[My Pal the Crook]

Get a Netflix subscription, problem solved.

[stickykrylon]

Fuck, Crook, you're so damn smart!!!

thanks for all the suggestions.

dig.

[erl1580]

City of God

The Professional

Coming to America.

[dutchxoven]

badlands

boy meets girl (carax)

pixote

strozek by herzog

the killing of a chienese bookie

women under the influence

SCUM by alan clarke

breathless

band of outsiders

.......and THEN i pulled out.

[Bing Bing]

CHAPPELLE'S SHOW SEASON 2!!!!!! Third DVD with hours of extras! He's a genius

I'm so self-conscious...

[jrockpdot]

city of god

house of flying daggers

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

pi

snatch

Pulp Fiction

lock stock and two smoking barrels

memento

being john malkovich

crash

a clockwork orange

magnolia

trainspotting

donnie darko

shogun assassin

The Wall

Fight Club

Twelve Monkeys

Dark city

Lost Highway

Run Lola Run

Fear and Loathing

Pulp Fiction

Reservoir Dogs

Million Dollar Baby

Se7en

The Shining

American Beauty

Beautiful Mind

American History X

The Sixth Sense

Sling Blade

Garden State

Traffic

Sleepers

Boondock Saints

Transformers The Movie

Gattica

usual suspects

shawshank redemption

four rooms

goodfellas

reservoir dogs

casino

scarface

Die Hard trilogy

Lethal weapons 1-4

Girl Interrupted

Existenz

Tape

Sideways

Unbreakable

Grosse Point Blank

Hi-fidelity

The Sandlot

K-Pax

Time To Kill

Monsters Inc.

Edward Scissorhands

The Party

Virgin Suicides

box,dumplings,cut

There, that was copy and pasted. I have all my movies listed on my computer, that is just the beginning. Should keep you busy for a little.

JrockPdot

[35mm]

Quote:

badlands

boy meets girl (carax)

pixote

strozek by herzog

the killing of a chienese bookie

women under the influence

SCUM by alan clarke

breathless

band of outsiders

--- Original message by dutchxoven on May 26, 2005 01:18 PM

good one's, dutch

Also-

Ghostbusters

Big Trouble in Little China

The Third Man

The Rules of the Game

Alphaville

The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (A highly underrated Eastwood film, IMO)

Videodrome

All the President's Men

Harold & Maude

Chinatown

Mission Impossible I & II

So many...and I think I've commandeered this post to list movies I like

[Fuuma]

Some of my favorite films, in chronological order. Feel free to ask questions...

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the

Nosferatu

Metropolis

An andalusian dog/Un chien andalou

All Quiet on the Western Front

Atalante, l'

39 steps

Grand illusion, the/Grande Illusion, la

Alexander Nevski

Maltese falcon, the

This gun for hire

Beauty and the beast\Belle et la bête, la

Bicycle thief, the

Third man, the

Rashomon

Tokyo story

Seven samurai, the

Diabolique/Diaboliques, les

Rififi/Rififi chez les hommes, du

Bob le flambeur

Night and fog/Nuit et brouillard

A man escaped/Un condamné à mort s'est échappé

Paths of Glory

Avventura, l'

Dolce vita, la

Breathless/À bout de souffle

Last year at marienbad/L’année dernière à Marienbad

Leopard, the

Band of outsiders/Bande à part

Woman in the dunes

Battle of Algiers, the

Blow-up

Persona

Belle de jour

Vertigo

Samourai, le

Once upon a time in the west

Stolen kisses/Baisés volés

Unfaithful one, the/Femme infidèle, la

My night at Maud's/Ma nuit chez Maud

Get carter

Godfather, the

Aguirre, the wrath of god

Long goodbye, the

Enter the dragon

Magnificent one, the/Magnifique, le

Mad adventures of rabbi Jacob, the/Aventures de rabbi Jacob, les

Day for night/Nuit américaine, la

Going places/Valseuses, les

Godfather part II

Chinatown

Graveyard of honor

Taxi driver

Annie Hall

Loulou

Diva

Under suspicion/Garde à vue

Clean slate/Coup de torchon

Knock on wood/Chèvre, la

Blade runner

Sans soleil

Paris, Texas

Last emperor, the

Akira

Crimes and misdemeanors

Do the right thing

Kiki’s delivery service

Killer, the

Goodfellas

Man bites dog/C'est arrivé près de chez-vous

Hard Boiled

Three colors: Blue/Trois couleurs: Bleu

Léon

Exotica

Three colors: Red/Trois couleurs : Rouge

Drunken Master II

Chungking express

Hate/Haine, la

Maborosi

Ridicule

Made in Hong Kong

Hana-bi

Cure

Odd one dies, the

Mission, the

Battle royale

Code Unknown\Code inconnu

In the mood for love

OldBoy

Additional recent films that I really like:

Three colors: White/Trois couleurs : Blanc

Chungking Express

Fight club

The girl on the bridge/La fille sur le pont

Saving private ryan

Big blue. The/Grand bleu, le

Longest nite, the

Expect the unexpected

Pulp fiction

Sonatine

Crouching tiger hidden dragon

Alien

Amores perros

Fong-Sai-Yuk

Trainspotting

Fallen Angels

[ChadR]

Not to jack the thread, but has anyone seen primer?

[JohnW]

where are all the coen brthers' films! for shame, superfuture people...

Big Lebowski

Fargo

The Man who wasn't there

Blood Simple

Barton Fink

Millers crossing

also

adaptation

being john malkovic

a river runs through it

field of dreams

princess mononoke

spirited away

JROCKPDOT - transformers the movie - genius!

[Cue]

league of gentlemen - the funniest thing in the whole world ... get it

[baba]

Last life in the universe - Pen-Ek cant say his surname really good directer we think..

Sideways - I think its hilarious

Princess Mononoke - superb

In This World - great film from Michael Winterbottom

Bless,

Baba

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[Jon]

80s Steez

Roadhouse

Breakfast Club

Fast times at ridgemont high

Ferris Buellers day off

Risky Business

Escape From New York

Big Trouble in Little China

Captain Ron

Overboard

Innerspace

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters 2

Big

The Burbs

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Brewsters Millions

They Live

Black Rain

Spinal Tap

Sledge hammer! dvd - this was the best 80s tv show ever!

Also there is a film I cant find anywhere on Dvd, its not from the 80s, its either called Hell Cab or Chicago Cab. If anyone knows where i can get this from it would be much appreciated.

Jon

[dutchxoven]

quality films here and there

also check out....

kourthouse green

arrowhead

boose

ken park

george washington

raising victor vargas

husbands

shadows

la strada

the night is young

even dwarfs started small

salo

fat city

out of the blue

days of heaven

nil by mouth

.......and THEN i pulled out.

[dr_fresh]

some additions:

Kung pow; enter the fist

Carrandiru

The Count of Monti Cristo

Veronica Guerrin

The Red Violin

The Dinner Game

Baraka

High Fidelity

Peace

[showbiz00ditc]

Quote:

CHAPPELLE'S SHOW SEASON 2!!!!!! Third DVD with hours of extras! He's a genius

--- Original message by Bing Bing on May 26, 2005 01:23 PM

i hear he admitted himself to rehab?

[vinc3]

OLD BOY

dope Korean flick. It'll fuck you up.

Drinkin' sake on a Suzuki, we in Osaka Bay.

[ChadR]

Nah, in GQ or somewhere he said hes staying with a friend in south africa, getting away from the hype.

[Circa]

Second the Oldboy recomendation. One cool ass movie.

Anyone here seen "Ichi the Killer"? Released a few years before Oldboy but I've seen a lot press comparing the two.

[andewhall]

Napolean Dynamite for sure, a modern cult classic re; the dance scene!

[Fuuma]

Quote:

Second the Oldboy recomendation. One cool ass movie.

Anyone here seen "Ichi the Killer"? Released a few years before Oldboy but I've seen a lot press comparing the two.

--- Original message by Circa on May 27, 2005 04:56 AM

Ichi the killer is pretty nice but I wouldn't compare the style to Oldboy...I mean they're both violent asian films but that's about it...

[ABELnyc]

It's a Wonderful Life

2001: A Space Odyssey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2-disc version)

25th Hour

Cool Hand Luke

True Romance (Director's Cut)

Heat (Spec. edition is off the meat rack)

Platoon/FullMetal/Apocalypse (every other Nam movie sorta blows).

Mystic River

Reservoir Dogs (10th Ann. Edition)

American Beauty

The Professional (Leon en Francais)

La Femme Nikita (Special Edition)

Predator (OG with Ahnold, Jesse and Weathers...special edition!)

Godfather Tril

Indiana Jones Tril

Clockers (slept on Spike Lee jawn)

also peep Hitchcock collections, Kubrick, Cassavettes (Killing of a Chinese Bookie is great) and recently I been getting into Woody Allen. holmes reps NY to the fullest, and you can't fuck with that.

as far as scary, The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the OG one by Tobe Hooper, not the new garbage ones) and the Shining (OG Kubrick, and I ain't talking about little dolls) are the 3 scariest films I've ever fucked with.

dope documentary: Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey. if you can find this on DVD, get it. It's the best Lee doc ever made, hands down blows away the comp. they air it on American Movie Classics from time to time but it's otherwise hard to find.

Porn: north Pole, vivid, Jim Holliday films.

Enjoy...

~multiflavored RodLavers~

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