Your top 5 films?

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bakanosaru
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revelatory films


2001: A Space Odyssey (subsequently all Kubrick's films)
Pi
Irreversible
Elephant (Alan Clarke)


(favorite films are quite a different thing, Saturday Night Fever :oops: is probably my favorite film along with Shoot the Piano Player, Manhattan, Throne of Blood, Alphaville, Visitor Q, Hitchcocks 1960s films, Kiss Me Deadly)
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I just stumbled on this thread...

1.) Touch of Evil
2.) Apocalypse Now (the original, not "redux")
3.) Taxi Driver
4.) Five Easy Pieces
5.) Rashomon
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My 'serious' list
Down by Law
Apocalypse Now
Wings of Desire
The Elephant Man
À bout de souffle

Also-rans, but ultimately undeserving
Ed Wood
Ghost dog: The way of the Samurai
2001: A Space Odyssey
Unforgiven
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia

Films that I always enjoy watching
Alien - Not sure this shouldn't be in the list above on reflection.
Withnail & I - Richard E. Grant at his bonkers best
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly - All real men secretly want to be Clint.
El día de la bestia (Day of the Beast) - Spanish priest saves the world from the Antichrist
Henry, portrait of a serial killer - I'm a sick puppy.

Films that are rubbish, but I like them all the same.
Excalibur - For its exuberant and unashamed cheesiness.
Total Recall - Arnie's best ever movie, fantastic plot twists.
Jesus Christ, Superstar - For the amazing costumes.
Evil Dead II - For the frenetic pace.
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence - Sentimental tosh, but I was always a Bowie fan.
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Blue Audio Visual wrote:[Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia

[Jesus Christ, Superstar - For the amazing costumes.
ha! Great list. Brings me back.
I think we should do a separate "70's Sickness" best of .... "Bring me the head of alfredo Garcia" belongs in another time/place. I can't imagine that being made in any other decade. Same with JC Superstar. I love that movie and have seen it over 100 times since I was a kid.
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