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Favorite Films.

Well I've never seen it the whole way through...

Favorite Films.

My Top 100. Yes, 100. I obsessively list all of my favorite things. For the record I watch a shittaki load of movies.

1. Lost in Translation
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Wings of Desire (Not as sexy as it sounds unfortunately)
4. The Straight Story
5. Better Off Dead
6. Sideways
7. Garden State
8. Amelie
9. Once
10. Wristcutters: A Love Story
11. Blade Runner
12. Suspiria
13. Shaun of the Dead
14. Harold and Maude
15. Say Anything
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey
17. Eraserhead
18. Breakfast at Tiffany's
19. Sunset Boulevard
20. Red Eye
21. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
22. Hable Con Ella
23. Lars and the Real Girl
24. Todo Sobre Mi Madre
25. Kairo
26. Let the Right One In
27. Ghost World
28. Adventures in Babysitting
29. Anastasia
30. Wild Tigers I Have Known
31. The Science of Sleep
32. Until the End of the World
33. Blue Velvet
34. Soylent Green
35. Snow Angels
36. Witness
37. Run Lola Run
38. Annie Hall
39. In the Mood for Love
40. Roman Holiday
41. City of Lost Children
42. Waking Life
43. Evil Dead 2
44. The Elephant Man
45. The Weather Man
46. About Schmidt
47. Magnolia
48. Reign Over Me
49. The Breakfast Club
50. Kikujiro
51. Audition
52. Princess Mononoke
53. Friday the 13th
54. High Fidelity
55. Rushmore
56. Fight Club
57. The Postman
58. Watership Down
59. Faraway, So Close!
60. 2010: The Year We Make Contact
61. The Namesake
62. Everything is Illuminated
63. Shopgirl
64. Mirror Mask
65. Vision Quest
66. Pretty in Pink
67. Almost Famous
68. Prince of Darkness
69. The Changeling
70. Night Shift
71. Closer
72. Good Will Hunting
73. Wait Until Dark
74. Taxi Driver
75. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
76. Dead Alive
77. Fargo
78. Inferno
79. Adaptation
80. Broken Flowers
81. The Graduate
82. Scent of a Woman
83. Lords of Dogtown
84. Psycho
85. Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
86. Spirited Away
87. Army of Darkness
88. Wayne's World
89. Austin Powers
90. Chasing Amy
91. The Shining
92. Rosemary's Baby
93. Castle in the Sky
94. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
95. Videodrome
96. 2046
97. Titan A.E
98. Evil Dead
99. Mulan
100. The Blues Brothers


The ones I recommend:




Lost in Translation
Agh, I cannot possibly recommend this movie enough. It's got everything I want to see: comedy, deeper philosophical understanding, perfect music, amazing cinematography and atmosphere, Bill Murray working well in a mostly serious movie, scenes that actually make me feel like I'm there singing karaoke with the characters (or at least wish), and most importantly: Scarlett Johansson. Woman is gorgeous.

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Wild Tigers I Have Known
Beautiful art film about a young boy who develops a crush on a 16-year-old guy. Strange in the fact that it's difficult to tell whether or not the scenes depicted are actually taking place or if they're just in the main character's mind. A lot of darkly sweetly sad dialogue ("If I drown, will you drown with me?") and crazy pretty imagery, trippy masturbation scenes and one rather dominant plot point in which the main character dresses up as a girl and visits his crush's girlfriend. Wouldn't recommend it if that stuff makes you uneasy, though.

THE OSCARS ARE FUCKING BULLSHIT (excuse my french)

Technically Gran Torino was a 2009 release.

What are you listening to?

Ah. Guitar is pretty good, albeit a little shaky (for lack of a better word) at the beginning.

EDIT:
Acapella cover of Maps by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Oh my god.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBDvXuf4WdQ

What are you listening to?

Azn's Falling Slowly cover.

...

Wow. David Byrne once said that "the better a singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying." If that's true, than this is the most believable singer I've ever heard.

What are you listening to?

The link doesn't work for me. ;_;

What are you listening to?

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author=AznChipmunk link=topic=2119.msg62636#msg62636 date=1235092779

Alone in Kyoto

Air
Talkie Walkie
yes yes yes yes yes

(also I am reminded that I still haven't gotten around to watching Lost in Translation!...what?)

My favorite movie. The scene where they've got that song is absolutely beautiful. Hell, that whole movie is absolutely beautiful.

Gray Skies Turn Blue
MxPx
Panic

Favorite films of '08

Definitely, Maybe came out in 2008. Add that to my list. That movie was fjorking awesome and I have a crush on Isla Fisher as a result.

What are you listening to?

You know someday I hope to actually walk alone in Kyoto while listening to that song.

Falling Slowly
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova (<3)
Once Soundtrack

What are you currently reading?

Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac. I think he's the only author who can write 100 pages describing a mountain and still have each and every one of those pages be interesting.