These two would now be on mine, too!Shieldmaiden wrote:
- American Honey
Toni Erdmann

You, Sir, are awesome!Popcorn Reviews wrote: list
I'll reciprocate, with some hyperlinked reviews:Charles Longboat Jr. wrote:Current Ten Favorite Films of 2017:
My top 10 (following Belgian release dates)Charles Longboat Jr. wrote:Current Ten Favorite Films of 2017:
Had to make some tough decisions.Evil Prevails wrote:Where's the Dorff you fucking poseur?
First Dorff I ever saw!Evil Prevails wrote:Cold Creek Manor, easiest choice in the world.
Bold choice. I love it!Kayden Kross wrote: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)
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?Kayden Kross wrote:28. Factory Girl (Hickenlooper, 2006)
Good film.Jinnistan wrote: 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?
I saw it years ago when I was first getting into cult cinema. I wasn't really crazy about, but I also went into it hoping it would be so mind blowingly awesome that life would never be the same. Thought about rewatching it but not something I'd really consider a priority. I did like the b&w scenes however.Jinnistan wrote: 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?
Those are the most glamorous, before the rot set in.Kayden Kross wrote:I did like the b&w scenes however.
Jinnistan wrote: 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.
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.Rock wrote:You're all burying the lede here. Blood for Dracula at #7!
Other than the lack of Taxi Driver, I think it's a pretty great list.crumbsroom wrote:Why are we talking about Factory Girl, when the glory that is Carny is staring us in the face from the number 12 spot?
Mean Streets should always be the Scorsese to make the cut. Taxi Driver is a very tidy second though.Jinnistan wrote: Other than the lack of Taxi Driver, I think it's a pretty great list.
Eh. Could've used more pubescent prostitutes.crumbsroom wrote:Mean Streets should always be the Scorsese to make the cut.
crumbsroom wrote:
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.
Grey metal sets, silicone and a fog machine. Fine, n'all, but the lipliner is a little gauche.Kayden Kross wrote:I'm glad we can all agree on Barb Wire, at least.
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.Jinnistan wrote: Other than the lack of Taxi Driver, I think it's a pretty great list.
*insert fist bump gif*Stu wrote:Empire
Hope
Rogue One
Last Jedi
Force Awakens
Return Of The Jedi
Sith
Menace
Clones
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?Thief wrote:
*insert fist bump gif*
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.Stu wrote: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?
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.Jinnistan wrote:Star Wars (the version actually called fuckng Star Wars)
Some New Bullshit is what it is.crumbsroom wrote: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.
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...crumbsroom wrote: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.