These two would now be on mine, too!

Yay!

Ben Wheatley films:

Kill List (2011)
High Rise (2015)
A Field In England (2013)
Free Fire (2016)
Sightseers (2012)
Down Terrace (2009)

The man is an artist. I also wonder if he is going to keep heading in a political direction as his last 2 films are very focused on that plus social commentary. Although all of his movies are kind of political in their own ways. He is one of my favorite modern directors.

I made a top 10 in the manner of Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (http://www.indiewire.com/2012/06/video- ... hy-133960/)

1. Casablanca (1942, Curtiz)
2. The Lobster (2015, Lanthimos)
3. Before Midnight (2013, Linklater)
4. Lost in Translation (2003, Coppola)
5. Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Gondry)
7. The Red Turtle (2016, Dudok de Wit)
8. Fight Club (1999, Fincher)
9. The Incredibles (2004, Bird)
10. The Night of The Hunter (1957, Laughton)

This list is actually very representative of my taste. Casablanca might actually be my number one movie of all time. There are also multiple "talking heads" films, my favorite genre. As well are dark comedies, so I'm very happy with both Fight Club and The Lobster. And to be honest, Psycho is a black comedy too
I'm also pleased with the two animated features (drawing is my greatest passion, besides cinema of course) and to finish, an odd one, The Night of The Hunter.
Yep, this was fun

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Top 10 Movie Plane Crashes

10. Fight Club (1999)
9. World War Z (2013)
8. Final Destination (2000)
7. Cast Away (2000)
6. Flight (2012)
5. United 93 (2006)
4. Knowing (2009)
3. The Grey (2011)
2. Alive (1993)
1. Fearless (1993)

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THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray, 1964)


A LADY TAKES A CHANCE (William A. Seiter, 1943)


LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman, 2016)


BABY IT'S YOU (John Sayles, 1983)


BLUE CAR (Karen Moncrieff, 2002)

& 'cause jfc Agnes Bruckner, t5 performances by teenage girls:

Oksana Akinshina, Lilja 4-ever
Linda Manz, Out of the Blue
Agnes Bruckner, Blue Car
Kristy McNichol, Little Darlings
Robin Johnson, Times Square

Small, belated list of everything I watched in August:

1. WALL·E (Stanton, '08, 10 out of 10 score)
2. War For The Planet Of The Apes (Reeves, '17, 8.5)
3. Logan Lucky (Soderbergh, '17, 8)
4. Detroit (Bigelow, '17, 8)
5. The Fugitive (Davis, '93, 8)

This was my 3rd time watching WALL-E, but my first watch since the year it came out, and it was just as magical experience now as it was back then; it's probably my favorite Disney movie period, to be honest. A review of it is incoming someday. Anyway, this was my 2nd time watching The Fugitive, but my first viewing in at least 15 years, because, while I remember it having a couple of memorable action setpieces (the train crash!), besides that, I felt it failed to distinguish itself overall from other thrillers. However, while the main conspiracy plot is still generic and undercooked, the chase was better than the catch this time, as Andrew Davis did a good job of making it feel like Kimble was always THIS close to being caught at all times, which made it a pretty fun, suspenseful ride this time around, so it's definitely improved in my esteem.

Here are gifs of my favorite film scenes of all time (unranked):


Battleship Potemkin (1925)


M (1931)


Citizen Kane (1941)


Vertigo (1958)


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)


Johnny Got His Gun (1971)


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)


Eraserhead (1977)


Stalker (1979)


Apocalypse Now (1979)


Blade Runner (1982)


Paris, Texas (1984)


Come and See (1985)


The Shawshank Redemption (1994)


Saving Private Ryan (1998)


Children of Men (2006)


The Tree of Life (2011)

Current Ten Favorite Films of 2017:

10. Your Name (counting this as 2017 since it was given a formal theatrical release outside the requisite LA/NY Oscar screenings in April of this year)
9. Colossal
8. Good Time
7. The Florida Project
6. Lady Bird
5. Get Out
4. Dunkirk
3. Lady Macbeth
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
1. Blade Runner 2049

Some of these are in kind of loose order (particularly #6-8).

My full list on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/j_kashmir/list/2017-ranked/

I'll reciprocate, with some hyperlinked reviews:

1. Dunkirk
2. Logan
3. War For The Planet Of The Apes
4. Wind River
5. John Wick: Chapter 2
6. Baby Driver
7. Logan Lucky
8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
9. Detroit
10. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2

Here's the full list of all 19 movies I've seen so far from this year, on my alphabetically-ordered list (I'll post the final, ranked list sometime in January): https://letterboxd.com/stusmallz/list/2 ... ed/detail/ The next thing I'm looking to catch in theaters is Three Billboards, sometime this week; can't wait!

This is my Top 5 of new films seen during my power-less months after Hurricane Maria...

1. Nocturnal Animals
2. Get Out
3. Deepwater Horizon
4. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
5. Kong: Skull Island

My top 10 (following Belgian release dates)

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Manchester By The Sea
3. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
4. Get Out
5. The Big Sick
6. Raw
7. You Were Never Really Here
8. Dunkirk
9. mother!
10. Your Name

A friend wanted to know my top 30 so I finally thought I'd post one here.

1. Easy Rider (Hopper, 1969)
2. Fascination (Rollin, 1979)
3. Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein, 1944 & 1958)
4. Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)
5. Woodstock (Wadleigh, 1970)
6. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer, 1970)
7. Blood for Dracula (Morrissey, 1974)
8. Tremors (Underwood, 1990)
9. Nosferatu (Herzog, 1979)
10. The Wicker Man (Hardy, 1973)

11. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)
12. Carny (Kaylor, 1980)
13. Flesh for Frankenstein (Morrissey, 1973)
14. The Swimming Pool (Deray, 1969)
15. Robocop (Verhoeven, 1987)
16. Shiver of the Vampires (Rollin, 1971)
17. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971)
18. Vampire Circus (Young, 1972)
19. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
20. Day of the Dead (Romero, 1985)

21. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
22. Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
23. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Gessner, 1976)
24. Barb Wire (Hogan, 1996)
25. Sleepers (Levinson, 1996)
26. Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)
27. The Scarlet Empress (Von Sternberg, 1934)
28. Factory Girl (Hickenlooper, 2006)
29. Passenger (Munk, 1963)
30. The Wolf Man (Waggner, 1941)

Where's the Dorff you fucking poseur?

Had to make some tough decisions.

Cold Creek Manor, easiest choice in the world.

First Dorff I ever saw!

Bold choice. I love it!

I wasn't a big fan of this one (being generous), but given your predilection for Warhol/60s and lost girl tales, have you seen the Edie Sedgwick film Ciao! Manhattan?

Good film.

First time goodies - 2017

Le Silence de la Mar (Melville, 1949)
Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016)
Silence (Scorsese, 2016)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Olmi, 1978)
Get Out (Peele, 2017)
Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhray, 1959)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Coppola, 1991)
It Comes at Night (Shults, 2017)
Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini, 1975)
Lady Snowblood (Fujita, 1973)
Mother! (Aronofsky, 2017)
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017)
Coco (Unkrich & Molina, 2017)

I'm going to start posting my full best-of-2017 list in January, but the best older movies I saw for the first time this year were (in order of preference):

And oh yeah, and I rented/made multiple theater trips to rewatch Logan, Spider-Man: Homecoming, & Star Wars: The Last Jedi, so there's that, too. All in all, I watched/rewatched a lot more older movies than I realized this year; I went to the theater a lot more since I moved into town last December, so I probably watched less older movies this year than I did the last, but I still apparently found plenty of time to catch up with the older releases, so I'm pretty satisfied with the balance between new and older films I saw this year, I think.

Those are the most glamorous, before the rot set in.

In addition to having problems with Factory Girl's historical liberties, I think that Guy Pierce is a weak Warhol. If I were to rank the best, he would fall well behind Crispen Glover, David Bowie, Jared Harris, John Cameron Mitchell and Bill Hader.

Why are we talking about Factory Girl, when the glory that is Carny is staring us in the face from the number 12 spot?

You're all burying the lede here. Blood for Dracula at #7!

That's close to where that would stand on my own personal top 30, so to me that is a given. Of course Blood of Dracula is top 10 shit. Everyone should know this. The rest of the world just needs to get in fucking line.

Carny though, while not remotely making any kind of "Top" list I would ever compile, is such an neglected, ugly duckling, unappreciated movie, I can't help but be happily surprised at it showing up on anyone's favorite list.

I only wish that my image server was working tonight so I could cram that nightmare poster down all of your throats one last time.

Other than the lack of Taxi Driver, I think it's a pretty great list.

Mean Streets should always be the Scorsese to make the cut. Taxi Driver is a very tidy second though.

Eh. Could've used more pubescent prostitutes.

I know it's not the one you want, but this one achieves maximum Busey.

Grey metal sets, silicone and a fog machine. Fine, n'all, but the lipliner is a little gauche.

I'll be honest with you, I've never quite loved Taxi Driver; I still feel that it's a very good, vivid urban drama, but just a bit too low-key of an experience in general to quite have the sort of effect that it's "supposed" to have on me. If we're talking Schrader/Scorsese collabs, I definitely have to prefer the raw emotion of Raging Bull to it, though it's still a fine film on its own.

List of Star Wars films ranked:

1. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. A New Hope (1977)

3. The Last Jedi (2017)
4. Rogue One (2016)

5. Return of the Jedi (1983)
6. The Force Awakens (2015)

7. Revenge of the Sith (2005)
8. The Phantom Menace (1999)



9. Attack of the Clones (2002)

*insert fist bump gif*

Thnx, Thief. To be honest with you, I'm way overdue for a rewatch of Return Of The Jedi, as it's been a good decade since I last watched it, and I never really had a good handle what on my true feelings about it were, but Google's selling every single SW for $20 a pop, and refusing to let us just rent it, so that doesn't help. Someday, eh?

There is only ONE trilogy. The rest of Star Wars movies don't count in my book. I still haven't seen TLJ but if it's as bad as Force Awakens or as mediocre as Rogue One it still won't count.

Oh yeah and the prequels are non-existent in my universe.

While it probably has zero chance of holding up if I ever were to watch it again (which I probably won't) Jedi has always been my favorite (very closely followed by New Hope). Is this because it is a good movie? Probably not. But for me the entirety of the Star Wars universe revolves around Jabba's palace. Having the opening of that movie center almost exclusively around that, was like giving me a half hour long Cantina scene, which was all I ever asked for from George Lucas. That's the kind of shit that afforded an 8 year old me a proper reason to live.

1. Return of the Jedi
2. A New Hope
3. Empire Strikes Back
4. The Force Awakens
5. Rogue One
6. Phantom Menace
7. Attack of the Clones

FTR, I don't really like anything beyond the first three all that much. Just varying degrees of 'not bad' to 'meh' until you get to Attack of the Clones, which I absolutely despise more than anything on earth.

I'll play.

A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Rogue One
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
The Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones

I'll echo Crumb's sentiment that Clones is the only complete turd in the series. Phantom is pretty shitty, but the Darth Maul fight hides some of the odour.

Star Wars (the version actually called fuckng Star Wars)
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Last Jedi
Rogue One
Hardware Wars
The Battle For Endor
The Clone Wars (Genndy Tartakovsky)
Spaceballs
Corvette Summer
Howard the Duck
Under the Rainbow
The Frisco Kid
The Hidden Fortress
The Star Wars Christmas Special
Time Bandits
Postcards From the Edge
Mask of the Phantasm
THX-1138
I'm a Teenager From Outer Space
Heartbeeps
Phantom Menace
Willow
Hayden Christiansen (generally)
Force Awakens
Starcrash
Revenge of the Sith

Thank you. Me calling it New Hope has been one of the rare instances of me completely buckling under imagined or not so imagined peer pressure. I'm not even sure when this happened. I just know I hate myself for it.

Some New Bullshit is what it is.

Enough so that it put you off of ever watching Revenge Of The Sith, apparently? It really is somewhat better than the other Prequels, not that that's saying a whole hell of a lot...