ie - Favorite movies (full lengths and shorts)

[ie]

I can also see what you mean about the typical action movie affair. Perhaps it was perfect timing: it looked cool, it does have depth, but it looks cool, it had some cool sounding lines (I guess), and things about it were cooooool.


I think I can understand how the sequels turned out the way they did. I don't remember how long the brothers spent working on the first one, but they probably were able to have enough time to include concepts and effects that made it worth watching. Second one came around, they didn't really try as hard as they could have, and the end result showed. The third? LET'S GET THIS RELEASED IN THE SAME YEAR TO MAKE MASSIVE MONEYS! Yeah, that idea didn't pan out.


Looks like I was able to convince myself to remove the Matrix from my Top 20, especially since I didn't have the heart to keep Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - which helped me realize that revenge (and even anger, to a slight degree) were just not worthwhile, a problem I'd dealt with for many years - in my Top 20. It's very close, though.

[criterionmaster]

I know how much you love I Heart Huckabees , I was wondering if you saw this video traveling the net, with the director of the film having a "meltdown"? I can't watch it yet, but I will later tonight. I hear it is good, so I thought I would share it with the film's number one fan.

kenlevine.blogspot.com/2007/03/great-director-meltdown.html

[ie]

Oh man. That is brilliant, and there are few things in the world that are actually brilliant. Especially when Russell is like "ACT LIKE A FUCKING GROWNUP, YOU FUCKING BITCH, YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Thanks.

Although, I must admit that this is still more Russell than I can take for a while, regardless of whether he looks like a dumbfuck or not. (And if he's faking it, in order to get a reaction out of the actors/actresses, he has the whole creative process down wrong.)

edit: Here's something that's even better yet.


Now might be a good time to update my list. It's not quite 100, because I could name you a couple movies I'd want to put on this list but have to finish first, but I arranged it this way to really see if there were any oddballs. There are a couple I might move out sometime, but it works for the moment. Oh, and it's in alphabetical order.

1001 Nights (Smith, Amano)
12 Angry Men (1957; 1997)
7th Street
A Talking Picture
Aachi and Ssipak
Adventures of Prince Achmed, The
Akira
Alive In Joburg; Tempbot
American Beauty
Beijing Bicycle

Being John Malkovich
Beyond (from the Animatrix)
Big Lebowski, The
Blues Brothers, The
Brick
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey with the Game of Death
Bus 174
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
City of God
Coffee and Cigarettes

Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Culture Jam: Hijacking Commercial Culture
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Dead Leaves
Dead Man
Dirty Harry
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa's)
El Topo
Elephant Man, The

Enter the Dragon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eureka
Fargo
Fight Club
Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Fountain, The
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Ghost World

Grave of the Fireflies
Grindhouse
Harakiri
Harold and Maude
Howl's Moving Castle
Ikiru - ?
Illusionist, The
Jaws
Joint Security Area
Kalifornia

Kiss of the Dragon
La Haine
La Jetée
Le Samouraï
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Long Goodbye, The
Lost in Translation - ?
Maltese Falcon, The - ?
Man Bites Dog
Matrix 1, The

Memento
MIND GAME
More (Mark Osborne)
My Beautiful Girl, Mari
My Neighbor Totoro
Night of the Living Dead
Noiseman Sound Insect
On Your Mark (Miyazaki music video)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ong-bak

Pierrot le Fou
Princess Mononoke
Psycho (1960)
Qutting
Raging Bull
Requiem for a Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Roundhay Garden Scene; Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
Seven Samurai, The
Seventh Seal, The

Shaun of the Dead
Sin City
Spirited Away
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Super Size Me; Hamburger America
Sword of Doom
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Taste of Cherry
Taxi Driver
Tokyo Godfathers

Traffic
Triplets of Belleville
Tron
Twilight Samurai, The
Usual Suspects, The
Vanishing Point
Versus
Waking Life
Wals voor de Storm
Wild Zero

Yi Yi - ?
Yojimbo
3
4
5

edit: The question marks mean that I'm not 100% sure whether I want them on my list or not. Sure, they are pretty decent movies, but you know, I'm more concerned about how I feel about them rather than how you or Ebert feels about them.

Also, I need to get this mother up to 105 to do a proper Top 100 because of the Studio Ghibli slot. Stuff like Roundhay Garden Scene; Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge can work on the same slot without anyone getting too upset over that.

More of a focus toward modern movies, but that's just kind of the way things go. It's just easier to see a movie made recently than it is to see a movie from the thirties, or even the seventies.

[criterionmaster]

ie said:

Oh man. That is brilliant, and there are few things in the world that are actually brilliant. Especially when Russell is like "ACT LIKE A FUCKING GROWNUP, YOU FUCKING BITCH, YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Thanks.

Although, I must admit that this is still more Russell than I can take for a while, regardless of whether he looks like a dumbfuck or not. (And if he's faking it, in order to get a reaction out of the actors/actresses, he has the whole creative process down wrong.)

edit: Here's something that's even better yet.

Clooney: "I Didn't Leak 'Huckabees' Footage"

George Clooney has issued a $1 million challenge to anyone who can prove he's behind the leak of internet outtakes of I Heart Huckabees. The footage, featuring actress Lily Tomlin and director Davd O. Russell screaming at one another, hit cyberspace late last week, and Clooney, who famously fell out with the moviemaker when they made Three Kings together, has been linked to the leak. But, in a statement released yesterday, the movie star wrote: "Contrary to popular opinion, neither the sound man, Ed Tise, nor yours truly sent in the David O. Russell tape. I saw it (footage) when we were working on Ocean's Twelve, and there have been quite a few copies traveling around town for the last couple of years. Any rumor that either of us put it on the internet is simply false." And Clooney is so keen to prove his innocence he's offering a huge reward if anyone can prove he was behind the leak. He adds, "(I will) offer a million bucks to anyone who would prove otherwise."

[ie]

Some comments made it sound like the footage was leaked a while ago, but oh well. I don't think Clooney will have to cash out on this, because no one really cares.


Did you see this video remix of the video? It's also pretty funny.


I added Shaun of the Dead to my alphabetical list, and will probably add the Twilight Samurai once I finish it, and I'm predicting Kill! will make an appearance on my Top 100. As for the list proper, I'm planning on restructuring it, so there are various drafts of it here and there.

[criterionmaster]

ie said:

Some comments made it sound like the footage was leaked a while ago, but oh well. I don't think Clooney will have to cash out on this, because no one really cares.


Did you see this video remix of the video? It's also pretty funny.


I added Shaun of the Dead to my alphabetical list, and will probably add the Twilight Samurai once I finish it, and I'm predicting Kill! will make an appearance on my Top 100. As for the list proper, I'm planning on restructuring it, so there are various drafts of it here and there.

Yeah, I watched it. It was so good. I love that he decided to remix this footage. I am not quite sure when it was leaked, I think I first heard about it like 2 weeks ago, but it could have been leaked way longer than that, I don't know.

You doing all this reconstructing of your list is making me feel the need to as well, I have watched like 10 movies that are definitely going somewhere on the list, but I don't know where yet.

[ie]

Here's how my Top 25 looks right now. Still in the works and #4 should include the following - Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, Howl's Moving Castle, On Your Mark - but I excluded them to make the list a little more streamlined:

(01) Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Watanabe, 2001) {3.5 viewings}
(02) Beyond from the Animatrix (Morimoto, 2003) {∞, or, countless viewings}
(03) The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) {1}
(04) Princess Mononoke {1} (the Studio Ghibli slot)
(05) Enter the Dragon (Clouse, 1973) {1}
(06) American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) {1}
(07) 7th Street (Pais, 2003) {3}
(08) (Empty)
(09) The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006) {1}
(10) Grindhouse (Rodriguez, Tarantino, 2007} {2}

(11) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969) {2}
(12) The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998) {2}
(13) Fight Club (Fincher, 1999) {2.5}
(14) My Beautiful Girl, Mari (Lee, 2002) {1}
(15) Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978) {2.5}
(16) Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962) {1}
(17) Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965) {1}
(18) (Empty)
(19) Waking Life (Linklater, 2001) {1}
(20) Akira (Otomo, 1988) {1.5}

(21) 1001 Nights (Smith, Amano, 1998) {1}
(22) Noiseman Sound Insect (Morimoto, 1997) {∞}
(23) Jaws (Spielberg, 1975) {2}
(24) Fargo (Coen, 1996) {2}
(25) Aachi and Ssipak (Jo, 2006) {1}


I'll go down the list for stability:
1-stable, 2-stable, 3-needs a rewatch, 4-stable enough, 5-fine where it is, 6-definitely needs a rewatch, 7-stable, 9-unstable because it definitely needs a rewatch, 10-stable enough for the moment (surprising, but it works). 11-stable enough, 12-stable enough, 13-might change, 14-might change with rewatch, 15-I've accepted its flaws because I've seen it close to three times in less than four months, 16-needs a rewatch but also #3 and #4 are also samurai movies so it's not my favorite samurai movie..., 17-unstable and in need of a rewatch, 19-definite need of a rewatch but it could break the Top 10 if things go well, 20-stablized here. 21-might go up, 22-maybe the same, 23-seems right to me, 24-maybe the same, 25-fittingly, it followings things up from behind.


edit: My tentative Top 100 has been updated. Just needed to save a copy online, I suppose, and I guess I'm slightly interested in what some people think of the lists.

[kiddo]

I'm just very glad to see Dawn of the Dead on your top 20. Cool to get confirmed that you genuinly loved it. ;D

[ie]

Thanks.


I'm working on a version of this in HTML, instead of forum tags, and it's looking ace. ;D

[criterionmaster]

What is your number 14, I don't think I have ever heard of it? Animated? Damn that number 18 spot, you need to fill that bad boy in.

[ie]

Think of My Beautiful Girl, Mari as South Korea's answer to Studio Ghibli. Here are two articles to inform you of what the movie is about: text review and text and image review. In related news, South Korea might just soon turn into an animation force of its own, rather than just being a place for America and Japan to outsource their animators.


Oh, and here's a slightly updated Top 25. I moved Waking Life up, the Fountain down a bit until I rewatch it (accidentally filling #18), and I decided that, you know what, I don't loooove Fight Club all that much.

(01) Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Watanabe, 2001) {3.5 viewings}
(02) Beyond from the Animatrix (Morimoto, 2003) {∞, or, countless viewings}
(03) The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) {1}
(04) Princess Mononoke {1} (the Studio Ghibli slot)
(05) Enter the Dragon (Clouse, 1973) {1}
(06) American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) {1}
(07) 7th Street (Pais, 2003) {3}
(08) Waking Life (Linklater, 2001) {1}
(09) (Empty)
(10) Grindhouse (Rodriguez, Tarantino, 2007} {2}

(11) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969) {2}
(12) The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998) {2}
(13) (Empty)
(14) My Beautiful Girl, Mari (Lee, 2002) {1}
(15) Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978) {2.5}
(16) Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962) {1}
(17) Pierrot le Fou (Godard, 1965) {1}
(18) The Fountain (Aronofsky, 2006) {1}
(19) (Empty)
(20) Akira (Otomo, 1988) {1.5}

(21) 1001 Nights (Smith, Amano, 1998) {1}
(22) Noiseman Sound Insect (Morimoto, 1997) {∞}
(23) Jaws (Spielberg, 1975) {2}
(24) Fargo (Coen, 1996) {2}
(25) Aachi and Ssipak (Jo, 2006) {1}

What do you think?

[ie]

Here's how my Top 25 looks with images and in HTML. You'll just have to click on it, because the BBcode is different here.

Topie 25

[criterionmaster]

Ugh, the link is blocked in school?! I will check it out when I get home, and comment.

[criterionmaster]

www.janusfilms.com/pierrot/dates.html

holy hell dude: "This summer, Janus Films presents Jean-Luc Godard's seminal New Wave classic Pierrot le fou in a brand-new 35 mm print. After its successful run at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music, Godard's film-which J. Hoberman calls "the epitome of New Wave Pop Art romanticism"-will tour cities across the country throughout the summer and into September. Click here for its theatrical play dates."

it is playing near you, too. you lucky bastard. you should try and hit that up. i love this quote too: "I saw Pierrot le fou by chance ... I decided to make movies the same night." - Chantal Akerman

[ie]

Oops. I kind of forgot to mention that I saw that at YMDB2 a while ago. nonfiction may be driving down to Seattle, which would be awesome.

Oh yeah, and I'm working on expanding my list to a Top 30.