100 Favorites, updated for 1/1/10

[Lauren]

1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, ALAIN RESNAIS)
   
   
2. Bringing Up Baby (1938, HOWARD HAWKS)
   
   
3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, CHANTAL AKERMAN)
   
   
4. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972, RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER)
   
   
5. La Notte (1961, MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI)
   
   
6. The Awful Truth (1937, LEO MCCAREY)
   
   
7. Opening Night (1977, JOHN CASSAVETES)
   
   
8. Lola Montès (1955, MAX OPHULS)
   
   
9. Red Desert (1964, MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI)
   
   
10. Trouble in Paradise (1932, ERNST LUBITSCH)
    
    
11. The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923, GERMAINE DULAC)
    
    
12. Celine & Julie vont en bateau (1974, JACQUES RIVETTE)
    
    
13. Kings & Queen (2004, ARNAUD DESPLECHIN)
    
    
14. Minnie & Moskowitz (1971, JOHN CASSAVETES)
    
    
15. Gertrud (1964, CARL TH DREYER)
    
    
16. The Green Ray (1986, ERIC ROHMER)
    
    
17. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, JACQUES DEMY)
    
    
18. Law of Desire (1987, PEDRO ALMODOVAR)
    
    
19. Holiday (1938, GEORGE CUKOR)
    
    
20. Vivre sa vie (1962, JEAN-LUC GODARD)
    
    
21. Code Unknown (2001, MICHAEL HANEKE)
    
    
22. Manhattan (1979, WOODY ALLEN)
    
    
23. Queen Christina (1933, ROUBEN MAMOULIAN)
    
    
24. Lonesome (1928, PAUL FEJOS)
    
    
25. The Red Shoes (1948, POWELL & PRESSBURGER)
    
    
26. Three Colors: Red (1993, KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI)
    
    
27. This Sporting Life (1963, LINDSAY ANDERSON)
    
    
28. Dancing in the Rain (1961, BOSTJAN HLADNIK)
    
    
29. Madame de... (1953, MAX OPHULS)
    
    
30. Love Me Tonight (1932, ROUBEN MAMOULIAN)
    
    
31. Providence (1977, ALAIN RESNAIS)
    
    
32. A Man & a Woman (1966, CLAUDE LELOUCH)
    
    
33. Another Woman (1988, WOODY ALLEN)
    
    
34. Contempt (1963, JEAN-LUC GODARD)
    
    
35. Martha (1974, RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER)
    
    
36. Menilmontant (1926, DIMITRI KIRSANOFF)
    
    
37. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, PETER WEIR)
    
    
38. A Sunday in the Country (1984, BERTRAND TAVERNIER)
    
    
39. My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days (1989, ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI)
    
    
40. Nights of Cabiria (1957, FEDERICO FELLINI)
    
    
41. India Song (1975, MARGUERITE DURAS)
    
    
42. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988, PEDRO ALMODOVAR)
    
    
43. Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955, POWELL & PRESSBURGER)
    
    
44. Late Spring (1949, YASUJIRO OZU)
    
    
45. Love Affair (1939, LEO MCCAREY)
    
    
46. Abigail's Party (1977, MIKE LEIGH)
    
    
47. All About My Mother (1999, PEDRO ALMODOVAR)
    
    
48. Yi Yi (2000, EDWARD YANG)
    
    
49. Jules & Jim (1962, FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT)
    
    
50. Daisies (1966, VERA CHYTILOVA)
    
    
51. Love Streams (1984, JOHN CASSAVETES)
    
    
52. I Fidanzati (1963, ERMANNO OLMI)
    
    
53. The Passionate Friends (1949, DAVID LEAN)
    
    
54. Dodsworth (1936, WILLIAM WYLER)
    
    
55. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964, BRYAN FORBES)
    
    
56. Cries & Whispers (1972, INGMAR BERGMAN)
    
    
57. Loulou (1980, MAURICE PIALAT)
    
    
58. Easy Living (1937, MITCHELL LEISEN)
    
    
59. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, MIKE NICHOLS)
    
    
60. 25 Fireman's St (1973, ISTVAN SZABO)
    
    
61. History is Made at Night (1937, FRANK BORZAGE)
    
    
62. The Shop Around the Corner (1940, ERNST LUBITSCH)
    
    
63. Dead Again (1991, KENNETH BRANAGH)
    
    
64. Lady Chatterley (2006, PASCALE FERRAN)
    
    
65. The Lion in Winter (1968, ANTHONY HARVEY)
    
    
66. The More the Merrier (1943, GEORGE STEVENS)
    
    
67. Unfaithfully Yours (1948, PRESTON STURGES)
    
    
68. The Prowler (1951, JOSEPH LOSEY)
    
    
69. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, JACQUES DEMY)
    
    
70. L'homme du large (1920, MARCEL L'HERBIER)
    
    
71. Bigger Than Life (1956, NICHOLAS RAY)
    
    
72. L'Immortelle (1963, ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET)
    
    
73. Female (1933, MICHAEL CURTIZ)
    
    
74. A Matter of Life & Death (1946, POWELL & PRESSBURGER)
    
    
75. Rien que les heures (1926, ALBERTO CAVALCANTI)
    
    
76. Blonde Crazy (1931, ROY DEL RUTH)
    
    
77. Johnny Guitar (1954, NICHOLAS RAY)
    
    
78. Lady in a Cage (1964, WALTER GRAUMAN)
    
    
79. Sherlock Jr (1924, BUSTER KEATON)
    
    
80. The Cheaters (1945, JOSEPH KANE)
    
    
81. Orlando (1992, SALLY POTTER)
    
    
82. Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1979, RAOUL RUIZ)
    
    
83. The Housemaid (1960, KI-YOUNG KIM)
    
    
84. The Wedding March (1928, ERICH VON STROHEIM)
    
    
85. L'important c'est d'aimer (1975, ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI)
    
    
86. Little Man, What Now? (1934, FRANK BORZAGE)
    
    
87. Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964, GEORGI DANELIYA)
    
    
88. Now, Voyager (1942, IRVING RAPPER)
    
    
89. The Philadelphia Story (1940, GEORGE CUKOR)
    
    
90. The Last Metro (1980, FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT)
    
    
91. Letty Lynton (1932, CLARENCE BROWN)
    
    
92. Metropolitan (1991, WHIT STILLMAN)
    
    
93. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, WES ANDERSON)
    
    
94. Beauty & the Beast (1946, JACQUES COCTEAU)
    
    
95. La Rupture (1970, CLAUDE CHABROL)
    
    
96. Night of the Iguana (1964, JOHN HUSTON)
    
    
97. A Geisha (1953, KENJI MIZOGUCHI)
    
    
98. The Gay Divorcee (1934, MARK SANDRICH)
    
    
99. Charlotte & Veronique, or All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959, JEAN-LUC GODARD)
    
    
100. Love on the Ground (1984, JACQUES RIVETTE)
     

[wet snake jackson]

What the hell is this Dielman shit?

[Lauren]

What the hell is this Dielman shit?

Youwannaknooooowhatitis?

[wet snake jackson]

Forget about it, I trust this review:

"A film that is much more interesting to read about than actually watch. Akerman takes "realism" to a new level, basically setting up a camera and observing a very lifeless, dull person for 200 minutes. "

[Mango]

[Mango apologizes]

[Ally]

"A film that is much more interesting to read about than actually watch. Akerman takes "realism" to a new level, basically setting up a camera and observing a very lifeless, dull person for 200 minutes. "

That's exactly what it is!!!!!!!!!!!!

However, Mango, no the list should be deleted (you want to delete everything!! )

[Simon M.]

This list sucks. I vote: DELETE.

you think every list sucks

[Mango]

[RIP]

[gaston monescu]

i think this is my favorite list

I know, I should still watch something other than French and old Hollywood films.

ha, yeah it's hard to not watch french/old hollywood films

[bluesoul]

I also like your list Lauren, even though i'm not a fan of the old hollywood, the rest is really close to my taste as well, intesting mix, and especially love your top picks. not a lot of people here have movies like Red Desert or Akerman on the very top, that more admirable and of course a fassy/schygulla fan too, yay !

[sidehacker]

I was just about to say, it's easy to not watch old Hollywood films. Not a single Asian film on here. Tsk, tsk...

[RealInspectorPanda]

She has Yi Yi.

[sidehacker]

Well, that's all I see. Tsk, tsk.

[wigwam]

lauren, you can try all you want to deflect my pervings on you and your awesome taste by putting up a wigwam-baiting nerd-hottie like in the pic of Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but ...i forgot what i was saying

[Carmelo]

Very nice Lauren.

[Morbid Incantation]

I'm asking everyone who has lists top 5s.

Gimme your top 5 films about the occult. Thanks.

[The Son]

I think this may be one of my favourite lists I have seen. I am very pleased to see these so high,
La Notte 1961, MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Red Desert 1964, MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Jules & Jim 1962, FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT
The Green Ray 1986, ERIC ROHMER
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux 1962, JEAN-LUC GODARD
L'Avventura 1960, MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI

Overall I think it is a very impressive list.

Great job

[Lauren]

Maybe I should figure out how to delete this list from Lauren's mind. Perhaps then some progress can be made.

I'm afraid letting my top five drift and resettle is the most dislodging you can hope for -- and how that displeases you!

:praise:
i think this is my favorite list

Thanks!

I also like your list Lauren, even though i'm not a fan of the old hollywood, the rest is really close to my taste as well, intesting mix, and especially love your top picks. not a lot of people here have movies like Red Desert or Akerman on the very top, that more admirable and of course a fassy/schygulla fan too, yay !

I always thought our taste in European film was pretty similar. I'm glad you posted your 500, I love mining it for recommendations!

Not a single Asian film on here. Tsk, tsk...

She has Yi Yi.

Ya, 'cause I've only ever watched like five. That's a pretty good batting average though, eh?

lauren, you can try all you want to deflect my pervings on you and your awesome taste by putting up a wigwam-baiting nerd-hottie like in the pic of Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but ...i forgot what i was saying

You know I have an agenda when I don't choose a Lauren-baiting red-haired old lady pic for a film like that.

Very nice Lauren.

Thanks!

I'm asking everyone who has lists top 5s.

Gimme your top 5 films about the occult. Thanks.

With the help of IMDb, I've come up with this list. Apparently I've only seen three.

1 Ghostbusters
2 Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
3 Bless the Child

I think this may be one of my favourite lists I have seen.

Thanks! I'd love to see a longer list of yours if you make one; what you had for the top 1000 was awesome.

[VivaLuis]

Yeah, it's true, VT is dead.

Really??? At one point I thought I'd be the first dead (vanished) man there, and now I might be the last man standing.
Yeah, I'm still reading what people post...

[Lauren]

I'm still reading too, but the posts come about one a week these days.

[VivaLuis]

I'm still reading too, but the posts come about one a week these days.

What about all the countless EDITS?

[Ally]

I edit like 5 million times a week. i'm crazy.

[Mango]

[sorry Lauren]

[Ally]

mango-tango

[kiddo]

My first thoughts while looking at your list: Need to see more Fassbinder (ASAP) and I look very much forward to watch A Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night (which will happen in the very near future).

I'm also looking very much forward to see La Notte on the big screen in a couple of months. I haven't explored the world of Antonioni yet (only seen Blow-up and The Passenger - both quite amazing, but I have a feeling/hope he has even more to offer), and I don't know exactly what to expect further on (despite having digested two of his films). Exciting.

And I haven't seen Scenes From a Marriage, you know.