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Watched thanks to YOUR suggestions!
 531  7.5  8 Thanks lotr23 for insisting on this one, despite my vague aversion toward Woody Allen!
522 7.7 7.3 Thanks to the giraffe for convincing me to watch a film I've been meaning to see for years now!
704 8.1 8.1 Thanks to lotr23 for his violent outrage at that fact that I hadn't seen this ;) And thanks to phillydude for his more subdued advice!
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It is going to take a while....
8mm : average
Amadeus : great
Battleship Potemkin : very good (if you can stand b/w old silent movies)
Bicycle Thieves : very good
Bonnie and Clyde : very good
Brokeback Mountain : very good
Buffalo '66 : very good
A Christmas Carol : good
Code Unknown: average
Damage : great (a alltime favorite of mine)
Deep Red : good
Delicatessen : great
Factotum : not bad but disappointing
Following : very good
Funny Games : great (a alltime favorite of mine)
The Fury : not bad
The General : good
The Gold Rush : great
The Graduate : good
Happenstance : good
The Hudsucker Proxy : good
Kramer vs. Kramer : very good
La Femme Nikita : very good
The Last Emperor : very good
Lenny : very good
Lust, Caution : very good
Malcolm X : good
Manhattan Murder Mystery : very good
My Left Foot : great
The Piano Teacher : good
The Red Shoes : good
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead : good
The Science of Sleep : good
The Secret Life of Words : good
Strange Days : good
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me : good
The Vanishing : average
A Very Long Engagement : very good
The War Zone : very good
The Wings of the Dove : average
Done...
It was quite funny to see all those (average) horror flicks that you are so found of... Otherwise, your queue looks way better than mine!
1. Buffalo '66
2. Science of Sleep
3. Theater of Blood
4. Naked Lunch
5. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
6. Four Lions
7. Tetro
8. The Graduate
9. Ip Man
10. The Gold Rush
11. Ichi the Killer
12. The Good, the Bad & the Weird
Voting against: Stone, which was the worst movie I saw from last year. Akwaryo's review says it all.
Other than that there's nothing here I'd definitely say you shouldn't watch, though a few I would need to revisit to give a definite opinion on (Lord of Illusions, 8mm, The War Zone). Since you hated the remake of Funny Games I doubt you'd like the original because the only differences are the cast and a slightly slower pace.
If you're in the mood for something FUN (though not necessarily Great despite what I think of them): The Machine Girl, Dead & Breakfast, Waxwork, Hudsucker Proxy, and Bucket of Blood should all do the trick.
On a final note, Creature from the Black Lagoon should be seen simply for its place in film history, and Following should be watched since you've enjoyed Nolan's work. Always good to see where a good (dare I say great?) filmmaker begins.
Happy viewing!
1. All About Eve
2. Amadeus
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. The Graduate
5. Kramer vs. Kramer
6. Network
All terrific movies,
I don't think you can go wrong watching any of them.
MUST-SEE:
-All About Eve (there's no way you won't love it)
-Bonnie & Clyde
-Brokeback Mountain
-Crimes & Misdemeanors
-Kramer vs. Kramer
-NETWORK!!! (WHAT?!!! YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT?!! Go watch it right now!! Easily one of my top 5 all-time favorites.)
-Peeping Tom (if you classify it as a horror film, it may be one of my favorite horror films, though I'm not QUITE sure if it can be classified as horror)
-Sin Nombre
-The War Zone
Films I liked (or liked a lot) but that I'm not 100% sure you'll like as much:
-I Am Love
-Lonesome Jim
-Paranoid Park (Not one of Van Sant's best, but I still liked it well enough)
-The Piano Teacher (love it, but perfectly understand anyone who says they hate it)
-Priceless (pretty superficial, but fun)
-Stuck
Films I don't recommend:
-The original version of Funny Games (I like it every bit as much as I liked the American one, but since you hated it, and they're essentially identical, I highly doubt you'll have a different experience with this one)
-The Girl Next Door (Poorly acted and exploitative in a way that it fails to have any respect for the events it documents. Watch An American Crime instead... though I just realized I don't have it rated on Listal. I'd have to watch it again, but it's probably between a 6 and a 7, whereas The Girl Next Door is a 4)
-The Last House on the Left (horrible third act)
Intoacto (2001)
Four Lions (2010)
Following (1998)
Three that I love and am crushed when people don't like them.
Delicatessen
Peeping Tom (1960)
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Three that I consider 'must see' and think you'll enjoy
Amadeus
La Femme Nikita (1990)
Battleship Potemkin
And three warnings...
A Very Long Engagement - If you have watched every Jean-Pierre Jeunet film and want to offically see all of his films, then go ahead and push this forward in your queue. Even then the film contains little of visual style but does still carry his storytelling style.
Dead & Breakfast - gay campy lowbudget failed atempt at horror comedy. I never made it that far into the film.
The Vanishing (1993)- See the origionl 1998 version of the film. The remake is actually so bad is boredline offensive.
Altered
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Those are my top recommendations. All About Eve is one of the best movies I've seen and R&G Are Dead is one of my all-time favorites. Altered is great too. That one I was really surprised, I thought it would be hokey and poorly made but it was actually pretty damn good, and personally I thought it was insanely terrifying. The effects look great too, for being a low-key movie I've never heard of until I browsed their sci fi selection.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
I'd really recommend watching the TV show if you haven't, it's not at all gonna ruin the show for you but it'll make it a bit neater. Only 2 seasons (sadly). It's a good movie either way.
Wolfen
Good but a little bland, at least for a werewolf movie. If you're into slower paced stuff, and don't look for gore or lots of effects, but still a good story.
Persona
The Gold Rush
The General
One Week
Battleship Potemkin
Intolerance
The Birth of a Nation
Broken Blossoms