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I don’t have one of these lists, and I haven’t had the patience in the past to keep something like that up, but my favorite movies of all time (in no particular order) are as follows:

1. Goodfellas
2. High Planes Drifter
3. The Outlaw Josey Wales
4. Good Morning Vietnam
5. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

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Goodfellas just misses out on my list; it’s my favorite Scorcese film. Have you seen “The Departed” yet? I saw it over the weekend, and plan on posting a review on your site (and on our radio station) soon.

Haven’t seen that one yet.  I haven’t gotten out to the theaters in a while.

I wanted to see The Guardian.  I know it’s a cheesy Kevin Costner flick, but it’s about the coast guard in Alaska...and I’m from Alaska...so I thought it might be good.

A while ago I heard about a film called “The Murder of Jesse James” or something.  That looked excellent...but I haven’t heard any more on it.

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Recently, Sparkie would recommend:
1) Layer Cake
2) The Day of the Jackyl
3) Running Scared
4) Three Days of the Condor
5) Snatch
6) Irreversible
7) Baise Moi
8) I Stand Alone
9) The City of Lost Children
10) The Long Goodbye

Dave
Are you really a vegan? How can you not enjoy a nice lamb roast with rosemary and garlic and some applesause… I think you would really like http://critterdeathmask.blogspot.com - its totally for the vegan crowd.

Sparkie: Why am I not surprised that a Gaspar Noé fan would recommend a website like that?

Irréversible is by a very wide margin the worst and most offensive film I’ve ever seen.

I thought Snatch was a good film. Entertaining.  I quite enjoyed it, though I haven’t really liked any of the director’s other films… (he’s the guy whose married to Madonna, right?)

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Dave
Irreversible only has 8 cuts in the whole movie. Did you see all the sweeping and swooping shots? The movie was incredible. You obviously have no clue what you are talking about. In addition, they got grief for beating up corpses during the filming. Amazing. That ‘crunch’ when someone gets there head knocked in?? That’s real. Lovely. Also - the sex is real. That’s no acting. How avant garde… hee hee hee.

Rob
You would love ‘Layer Cake’. It has to be one of the best british gangster movies ever. Awesome plot, awesome editing and filming.
I really liked the editing and the cinematography in ‘snatch’. The quick cuts when Avi flys across the atlantic. The way things pause or slow down and then speed up. Its done by varying the frames per second the stuff is shot at. If everything plays back at 24 fps, when you shoot at 90 it slows stuff down and when you shoot at a slower speed, things go fast. I also liked ‘Lock, Stock, and 2 smoking barrels’ although the remake he did of the old movie with Madonna on a boat was drivel. Trash. Horrible. The worst waste of film i’ve ever seen. I think it was called ‘Swept away’ or something like that.

Irreversible only has 8 cuts in the whole movie. Did you see all the sweeping and swooping shots?

Oh, and the famous “8 cuts” are possible only through CGI--and it’s hardly revolutionary. Hitchcock did this 60 years ago in Rope, and that movie still sucked. Russian Ark, from 2002, had NO cuts. It’s a gimmick designed to hide a director’s lack of talent. It’s like writing a novel without the letter ‘e’.

Dave
You smoke crack. Noe has the effed up shocking psychology down. Its not my fault you want to sit down and be spoon fed pleasantries when you watch a film. So sensitive.

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Dav-
You smok- crack.

Sparkie: LOL. At first I thought you were making fun of one specific aspect of my grammar--my dashes--and I was going to point out that every English professor I’ve ever had has said the same thing. Good one, though.

And yeah, if you saw my list, you probably saw that I do really enjoy “pleasantries” in my films (Amelie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, North by Northwest, etc.)

1.  The Grapes of Wrath
2.  Annie Hall
3.  Cinema Paradiso
4.  The Last Picture Show
5.  Wings of Desire
6.  Casablanca
7.  Night at the Opera
8.  A Woman Under the Influence
9.  Face to Face
10.  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Laughton)
11.  Alien
12.  American Graffiti
13.  The Wrong Trousers
14.  12 Angry Men
15.  The Maltese Falcon
16.  Raise the Red Lantern
17.  Frankenstein
18.  The Wizard of Oz
19.  The Graduate
20.  My Dinner with Andre
21.  East of Eden
22.  The Best Years of our Lives
23.  Look Who’s Coming to Dinner
24.  A PLACE IN THE SUN
25.  Lolita
26.  Sweet Smell of Success
27.  THE AFRICAN QUEEN
28.  New York New York
29.  The Bed Sitting Room
30.  Crash

“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

I’ve never liked either American Graffiti or The Graduate.  I thought they were both pretty dumb.

Good pick on 12 Angry Men, though.  Classic.

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Interesting list, RBB. I’m a big fan of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. I go back and forth on Annie Hall--sometimes I think it’s brilliant, other times I feel it’s terrible. My favorite Allen film ever is Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Also, let me say you are the first person I’ve ever met whose favorite Kubrick film was Lolita which, while it’s not terrible, is hardly memorable, in my opinion.

I wasn’t even a fan of Lolita in book form, but I think that’s because Humbert creeped me out so bad.  I was uncomfortable during the entire reading of the book.

But then, that was the point I guess.

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Goldiggers of 1933

42nd Street

Chinatown

The Conformist

Murder By Decree
(best jack The ripper film Christopher plummer, David Hemmings, Donald Sutherland, Frank Finlay, Genevieve Bujold, James Mason, John Gielgud)

Repulsion

Winterkills

Comedies
Original versions

The Producers

The In-laws

Zelig

Small Time Crooks