what are your picks for the greatest films ever made mine are:
mines kinda disturbing i hope someone else has more happy films in theirs...
1. Persona 2. Breaking the Waves 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey 4. The Emerald Forest 5. Daisies 6. Koyaanisqatsi 7. Zerkalo 8. Performance 9. Lilya 4-ever 10. A Hole in My Heart
1. 2001: ASO (Kubrick, 1968) 2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968) 3. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001) 4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) 5. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011) 6. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979) 7. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007) 8. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980) 9. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966) 10. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)/Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
The #10 position can go to either one of those films, and others include (In no particular order):
Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986) Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998) Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994) Zerkalo (Tarkovsky, 1975) Drive (Refn, 2011) Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977) The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957) Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) M (Lang, 1931) Badlands (Malick, 1973) El Topo (Jodorowsky, 1970) Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966) Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) Brazil (Gilliam, 1985) Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999) The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008) Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979) Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006) Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) Antichrist (Trier, 2009) Se7en (Fincher, 1995) Funny Games (Haneke, 1997) The Conversation (Coppola, 1974) The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971) Fight Club (Fincher, 1999) Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950) Persona (Bergman, 1966) Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972) GoodFellas (Scorsese, 1990) Festen (Vinterberg, 1998) Only God Forgives (Refn, 2013) Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962) Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) The Third Man (Reed, 1949) Fargo (Coen & Coen, 1996) Hard Boiled (Woo, 1992) 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963) Being There (Ashby, 1979) Oldboy (Park, 2003) Casino (Scorsese, 1995) Memento (Nolan, 2000) Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984) Blade Runner (Scott, 1982) Dogville (Trier, 2003) 12 Angry men (Lumet, 1957) The Killer (Woo, 1989) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975) Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992) Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
Keeping in mind the meaninglessness of comparing and saying what is "best,"
1. Le Quattre Cent Coups 2. M 3. Manhattan 4. The Third Man 5. Suna No Onna 6. Night of the Hunter 7. The Lady Eve 8. Strangers on a Train 9. The Graduate 10. Ladri di Biciclette
Others: Das Weisse Band, Sherlock, Jr., The Last Picture Show, Diabolique, The Hustler, Breaking the Waves, Fa Yeung Nin Wa, Moolaade, Halloween, Lost in Translation, The Fallen Idol, Mulholland Drive, Something Wild, The Conversation, Another Year, Hannah and Her Sisters, Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight, Kynodontas, Amour, and many others.
Here's a sample of what I consider some of the greatest movies ever made:
Breaking the Waves Schindler's List Godfather parts 1 & 2 Taxi Driver A Clockwork Orange Pans Labyrinth Requiem For A Dream Almost Famous Mulholland Dr. The Graduate Fargo Silence of the Lambs American Beauty
1. Mulholland Drive 2. Oldboy 3. Se7en 4. Memento 5. Caché 6. Synecdoche New York 7. American Beauty 8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 9. Waltz with Bashir 10. Requiem for a Dream 11. Brazil 12. The Silence of the Lambs 13. Black Swan 14. The Game 15. The Grand Budapest Hotel 16. Amélie 17. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance 18. Audition 19. Apocalypse Now 20. Vertigo 21. Pulp Fiction 22. Downfall 23. Fargo 24. Fight Club 25. The Artist 26. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 27. The Shawshank Redemption 28. Persona 29. Stalker 30. Blue Velvet 31. Antichrist 32. The Machinist 33. Casino Royale 34. Gone Girl 35. Shame 36. Birdman 37. Wild Strawberries 38. The Big Lebowski 39. Lost Highway 40. Only Lovers Left Alive 41. Adaptation. 42. Sin City 43. The Skin I Live In 44. Certified Copy 45. Pan's Labyrinth 46. The Kid With a Bike 47. Twelve Monkeys 48. Come and See 49. Winter Sleep 50. Crimes and Misdemeanors
Breaking the Waves is somewhere between #100-150 which is still fantastic in my books. I'm going to find it and I'm going to destroy it. I don't know how yet. Possibly with dynamite.