The 2006 Xixax DEKAPENTICON

Started by modage, January 23, 2006, 10:25:46 AM

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polkablues

I want to play, too...

TOP 30:
Waking the Dead
Magnolia
Catch-22
Before Sunrise
End of the Affair
Last Year at Marienbad
8 1/2
Annie Hall
Die Hard
Amelie
Thin Red Line
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Bicycle Thief
Traffic
Battle of Algiers
Barton Fink
Raising Arizona
Requiem for a Dream
Boogie Nights
Tigerland
Dancer in the Dark
Duck Soup
Bush Mama
Dreamlife of Angels
Marianne and Juliane
Seconds
Alien
Princess Bride
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


Those are in no particular order.  In hindsight, I might have switched in Big Lebowski for Rasing Arizona, and maybe ditched Seconds or Alien and put Iron Giant in its place.  I'm still reeling from finding out that Amelie didn't even make top 30.
My house, my rules, my coffee

JG

I'm a lil embarassed about my top 30 cause I forgot some really good ones (for example:  Network).  Here's my top 10, which I'm still pretty happy with. 

1.  Raging Bull
2.  Fargo
3.  Magnolia
4.  Goodfellas
5.  8 1/2
6.  Taxi Driver
7.  La Dolce Vita
8.  It's a Wonderful Life
9.  400 Blows
10. Barton Fink

It's really interesting to see everyone's list -- it makes me realize how many movies I need to see.   Pubrick, can you explain your fascination with Casino and why you consider it superior to other Scorsese films?  I'm interested...

SoNowThen

I'm happy with my list.

8 1/2
All The Real Girls
Amarcord
Andrei Rublev
Auto Focus
Badlands
Brazil
Carnal Knowledge
Catch 22
City Lights
Clockwork Orange, A
Conformist, The
Days Of Heaven
Glengarry Glen Ross
In Praise Of Love
In The Mood For Love
Last Tango In Paris
Last Temptation Of Christ, The
Magnolia
Mirror
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Persona
Raging Bull
Short Cuts
Stroszeck
Taxi Driver
That Obscure Object Of Desire
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life To Live or It's My Life or Live Your Life)
Walkabout
Zelig
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

modage

Quote from: killafilm on February 11, 2006, 01:32:05 AM
I'd def. re-watch the ending to The Graduate.

I don't know what is happy about it.
yes, i was going to say that.  ono, you need to rewatch that.  perhaps in the book its a more conventional happy ending but the way nichols lets it play out holding on their faces as they go from happiness to sort of a 'now what?' and the bus drives away it leaves a lot more uncertainty then 'they ride off into the sunset'. 
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i had made a list of 50 films that i was happy with but in order to chop off 20 of them i took a politcal approach and left off all the films that i was pretty sure would make it without my help.  films that had made it on the first Deka 15 were left off for the most part.  Magnolia, 2001, etc.  i also limited myself to one film per director.  i think i own all of these but 2...

1.  Aliens
2.  Amelie
3.  Annie Hall
4.  The Apartment
5.  Bride Of Frankenstein
6.  Bringing Up Baby
7.  Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
8.  City Lights
9.  Casablanca
10. Casino
11. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
12. ET: The Extra Terrestrial
13. Eyes Wide Shut
14. The Graduate
15. It's A Wonderful Life
16. Jerry Maguire
17. La Dolce Vita
18. Moulin Rouge!
19. Night Of The Hunter
20. Once Upon A Time In The West
21. Raising Arizona
22. Rear Window
23. Rushmore
24. Singin' In The Rain
25. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
26. Sullivan's Travels
27. Touch Of Evil
28. Toy Story
29. Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
30. Wizard Of Oz


likewise my TOP 10 List was also totally politcal trying to champion films i thought would need the help and leaving off some of my favorites.  the only exception being Magnolia which i slotted at number 10 when i got cold feet thinking "if everybody is using this strategy, it might not even place?!"  and it deserved a spot.  my actual 10 favorite films would probably be very different.

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
3. Psycho
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Singin In The Rain
6. The Graduate
7. Once Upon a Time in the West
8. Sunset Boulevard
9. Rushmore
10. Magnolia
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

killafilm

8 1/2
400 Blows   
2001: A Space Odyssey
A.I.
Amelie
Apocalypse Now
Barry Lyndon
Blade Runner
City of God
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Days of Heaven
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
George Washington
Graduate
Godfather: Part II
La Dolca Vita
Magnolia
Metropolis (1927)
Notorious
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Royal Tenenbaums
Seven Samurai
Solaris (2002)
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Taxi Driver
Touch of Evil
Wild Strawberries


My top ten is a bit political in order.

1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Apocalypse Now
3. 400 Blows
4. La Dolce Vita
5. Persona
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Barry Lyndon
8. Vertigo
9. Raging Bull
10. Magnolia

GoneSavage

12 Angry Men
2001 A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Back to the Future
Barry Lyndon
Blazing Saddles
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Cool Hand Luke
Die Hard
Dr. Stranglove
Empire Strikes Back
Fargo
Ghostbusters
Godfather II
Magnolia
Night of the Living Dead
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rashomon
Royal Tenenbaums
Schindler's List
Seven Samurai
Shawshank Redemption
Taxi Driver
Unforgiven
Vertigo



top 10
1   Citizen Kane
2   Taxi Driver
3   Magnolia
4   Godfather: Part II
5   Fargo
6   Clockwork Orange
7   Back to the Future
8   Goodfellas
9   Raiders of the Lost Ark
10 2001: A Space Odyssey

Sunrise

Here is my list. I limited myself to only one selection per director, which narrowed my list down to a sleek 26.

2001: A Space Odyssey
8 1/2
Annie Hall
Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner
Contempt
Decalogue
Godfather Part II
Graduate
In the Mood for Love
Jules and Jim
Lawrence of Arabia
Magnolia
Modern Times
Mulholland Drive
Passion of Joan of Arc
Persona
Pickpocket
Rashomon
Solaris (1972)
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
Thin Red Line
Third Man
Vertigo

And the top ten:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Taxi Driver
3. Vertigo
4. Godfather: Part II
5. Modern Times
6. 8 1/2
7. Passion of Joan of Arc
8. Persona
9. Mulholland Drive
10. Annie Hall

Gold Trumpet

I had a really good list. Actually very proud of it. Just in the time I made it and now my computer went to shit and I lost it. Too bad. If MacGuffin still has the list I sent into him, great, but doubtful.

Gamblour.

WWPTAD?

picolas

2001: A Space Oddyssey
Almost Famous
Barry Lyndon
Before Sunset
Being John Malkovich
Big Lebowski, The
City Lights
Dogville
Elephant
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eyes Wide Shut
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fargo
Gerry
Kid, The
Life Aquatic, The
Magnolia
Manhattan
Man Who Wasn’t There, The
Matrix, The
A Night at the Opera
Passion of Joan of Arc, The
Romeo + Juliet
Royal Tennenbaums, The
Rushmore
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: A New Hope
Truman Show, The
When the Wind Blows

life_boy

Round I: Top 30

Aguirre, The Wrath of God[/i] (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Amarcord[/i] (Federico Fellini, 1974) *
Annie Hall[/i] (Woody Allen, 1977)
The Asphalt Jungle[/i] (John Huston, 1950)
The Band Wagon[/i] (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
Barry Lyndon[/i] (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
The Best Years of Our Lives[/i] (William Wyler, 1946)
Don't Look Now[/i] (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
Dumbo[/i] (Ben Sharpsteen, 1941)
F for Fake[/i] (Orson Welles, 1974) *
The Graduate[/i] (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Grand Illusion[/i] (Jean Renoir, 1938)
A Hard Day's Night[/i] (Richard Lester, 1964) *
Horse Feathers[/i] (Norman Z. MacLeod, 1932)
JFK[/i] (Oliver Stone, 1991)
M*A*S*H[/i] (Robert Altman, 1970)
The Man with the Movie Camera[/i] (Dziga Vertov, 1929) *
Meet Me in St. Louis[/i] (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
Metropolis[/i] (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Modern Times[/i] (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
My Darling Clementine[/i] (John Ford, 1946)
Raiders of the Lost Ark[/i] (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
Red[/i] (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) *
The Red Shoes[/i] (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger; 1948)
Rope[/i] (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
The Seventh Seal[/i] (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) *
Sunset Boulevard[/i] (Billy Wilder, 1950)
The Third Man[/i] (Carol Reed, 1949) *
Tokyo Story[/i] (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Walkabout[/i] (Nicolas Roeg, 1971) *

I also had not saved my list.  However, I'm pretty sure I remembered everything I originally put down.  Those films in doubt I marked accordingly (*).


Round II: Top 10[/u]

1.  Modern Times
2.  Raiders of the Lost Ark
3.  Passion of Joan of Arc
4.  Barry Lyndon
5.  Citizen Kane
6.  It's a Wonderful Life
7.  Manhattan
8.  Graduate, The
9.  Eyes Wide Shut
10.  Singin In The Rain

tpfkabi

8 1/2
400 Blows
2001: A Space Odyssey
Adaptation
Beetlejuice
Being John Malkovich
Citizen Kane
Contempt
Dr. Strangelove
Empire Strikes Back
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gattaca
General
Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Graduate
King of Comedy
L'Avventura (sp?)
Modern Times
Mon Oncle
My Life to Live
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Punch-Drunk Love
Red Beard
Royal Tenenbaums
Se7en
Shining
Shoot the Piano Player
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the new one is "charlie")
Vertigo

10 where voting weight was the main factor of ranking

1. Graduate, The
2. Vertigo
3. Punch Drunk Love
4. 400 Blows
5. 8 1/2
6. Modern Times
7. Royal Tenanbaums
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Citizen Kane
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey
I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away.

MacGuffin

Quote from: The Gold Trumpet on February 11, 2006, 03:42:26 PM
If MacGuffin still has the list I sent into him, great, but doubtful.

Yeah, sorry. I cleaned out my inbox after they weren't needed anymore.



Here's mine for those who care:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Alien
3. American Graffitti
4. Annie Hall
5. Back To The Future
6. Blue Velvet
7. Boogie Nights
8. Citizen Kane
9. Double Indemnity
10. Exotica
11. Eyes Wide Shut
12. Fight Club
13. Godfather, The  
14. Jaws
15. Matrix, The
16. Memento
17. Mulholland Drive
18. Passion Of Joan Of Arc
19. Psycho
20. Pulp Fiction
21. Rebel Without A Cause
22. Raging Bull
23. Requiem For A Dream
24. Schindler's List
25. Silence Of The Lambs
26. Star Wars
27. Sunset Boulevard
28. Taxi Driver
29. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
30. Vertigo


1. Vertigo
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Citizen Kane
4. Raging Bull
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Eyes Wide Shut
7. Fight Club
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Requiem For A Dream
10. Schindler's List
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


Skeleton FilmWorks

brockly

2001: A Space Odyssey
21 Grams
400 Blows, The
Adaptation
Barry Lyndon
Barton Fink
Blue Velvet
Boogie Nights
Casino
Cries and Whispers
Dancer in the Dark
Do the Right Thing
Eyes Wide Shut
Grave of the Fireflies
It's a Wonderful Life
Jackie Brown
Leaving Las Vegas
Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
Princess Mononoke
Punch-Drunk Love
Rear Window
Rushmore
Scenes from a Marriage
Seven Samurai
Shining, The
Spirited Away
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Taxi Driver
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Top 10:
1. Mulholland Drive
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Lost Highway
4. Shining, The
5. Princess Mononoke
6. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Blue Velvet
9. Rushmore
10. Adaptation

Brazoliange

2001: A Space Odyssey
Adaptation
Almost Famous
American History X
Apocalypse Now
Boogie Nights
Brazil
Casablanca
Do the Right Thing
Eyes Wide Shut
Goodfellas
Harold and Maude
Jaws
JFK
Le Quatre Cent Coups
Natural Born Killers
Scenes from a Marriage
Smiles of a Summer Night
Spirited Away
Taxi Driver
The Dreamers
The Elephant Man
The Harder They Come
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
The Lost Weekend
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Seventh Seal
Yojimbo

didn't submit a top 10  :yabbse-undecided:
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