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Here you list your favorite movies.

Or don't. Whatever. You don't have to. You don't have to do what other people tell you all the time, you know.

Me:

Mad Max: Fury Road
Lost in Translation
Nightcrawler
Heavenly Creatures
Bully
Perfect Blue
12 Angry Men
How to Train Your Dragon
The Edge of Seventeen
28 Days Later
Pan's Labyrinth

second tier:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Guest
Submarine
Toy Story 2
The Handmaiden
Let the Right One In
Pirates of the Caribbean: CotBP
The Piano Teacher
The Sixth Sense
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Some of my favourites (plus some anime series).

Cowboy Bebop (1998-1999; Shinichiro Watanabe)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997; Kunihiko Ikuhara)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004; Hayao Miyazaki)
Chungking Express (1994; Wong Kar-wai)
Like Grains of Sand (1995; Ryosuke Hashiguchi)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996; Hideaki Anno)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997; Hideaki Anno)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004; Wes Anderson)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004; Makoto Shinkai)
Days of Heaven (1978; Terrence Malick)
Moe no suzaku (1997; Naomi Kawase)
Blade Runner (1982; Ridley Scott)
Ran (1985; Akira Kurosawa)
My Sassy Girl (2001; Kwak Jae-yong)
Yi yi (2000; Edward Yang)
Full Metal Jacket (1987; Stanley Kubrick)
Manhunter (1986; Michael Mann)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005; Park Chan-wook)
Laputa Castle In The Sky (1986; Hayao Miyazaki)
Fight Club (1999; David Fincher)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991; Zhang Yimou)
A Man Escaped (1956; Robert Bresson)
Maborosi (1995; Hirokazu Koreeda)
Edward Scissorhands (1990; Tim Burton)
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996; Shunji Iwai)
Mulholland Drive (2001; David Lynch)
Aliens (1986; James Cameron)
Leon The Professional (1994; Luc Besson)
The Apartment (1960; Billy Wilder)
Dead Man (1995; Jim Jarmusch)
Logan (2017; James Mangold)
Winchester '73 (1950; Anthony Mann)
The Passenger (1975; Michelangelo Antonioni)
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Here, "favorite" is defined as "I really enjoy it; and I've seen it a lot without getting tired of it". So really good movies that I've only seen once are excluded.

The Machinist
The Butterfly Effect
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Green Mile
Collateral
Equilibrium
Snatch
Big Fish
Devil's Advocate
Army of Darkness
The Big Lebowski
St. Elmo's Fire
Can't pick a Kaufman... let's call it a tie between Eternal Sunshine and Being John Malkovich. Synecdoche and Adaptation would probably be on there if I'd seen them more.
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Lord_Lyndon wrote:Some of my favourites (plus some anime series).

Cowboy Bebop (1998-1999; Shinichiro Watanabe)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997; Kunihiko Ikuhara)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004; Hayao Miyazaki)
Chungking Express (1994; Wong Kar-wai)
Like Grains of Sand (1995; Ryosuke Hashiguchi)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996; Hideaki Anno)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997; Hideaki Anno)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004; Wes Anderson)
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004; Makoto Shinkai)
Days of Heaven (1978; Terrence Malick)
Moe no suzaku (1997; Naomi Kawase)
Blade Runner (1982; Ridley Scott)
Ran (1985; Akira Kurosawa)
My Sassy Girl (2001; Kwak Jae-yong)
Yi yi (2000; Edward Yang)
Full Metal Jacket (1987; Stanley Kubrick)
Manhunter (1986; Michael Mann)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005; Park Chan-wook)
Laputa Castle In The Sky (1986; Hayao Miyazaki)
Fight Club (1999; David Fincher)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991; Zhang Yimou)
A Man Escaped (1956; Robert Bresson)
Maborosi (1995; Hirokazu Koreeda)
Edward Scissorhands (1990; Tim Burton)
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996; Shunji Iwai)
Mulholland Drive (2001; David Lynch)
Aliens (1986; James Cameron)
Leon The Professional (1994; Luc Besson)
The Apartment (1960; Billy Wilder)
Dead Man (1995; Jim Jarmusch)
Logan (2017; James Mangold)
Winchester '73 (1950; Anthony Mann)
The Passenger (1975; Michelangelo Antonioni)
We both have a Burton and a Mann on our list. I almost said Edward Scissorhands. I also remember really liking Manhunter, even a bit more than Red Dragon, even though I'm a big Norton and Hopkins fan.
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Gendo wrote:We both have a Burton and a Mann on our list.
Lol I spent a good few hours thinking you meant Anthony Mann instead of Michael Mann here and was incredibly confused. Luckily they're both good directors, albeit incredibly different.
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Anyways I'm going to try to limit myself to one film per director here.

The General (1925, Dir. Buster Keaton)
Frankenstein (1931, Dir. James Whale)
I Was Born, But... (1932, Dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
Citizen Kane (1941, Dir. Orson Welles)
The Curse of the Cat People (1944, Dir. Robert Wise & Gunther von Fritsch)
It's a Wonderful Life (1945, Dir. Frank Capra)
The Third Man (1949, Dir. Carol Reed)
In a Lonely Place (1950, Dir. Nicholas Ray)
Seven Samurai (1954, Dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Journey to Italy (1954, Dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Searchers (1956, Dir. John Ford)
Vertigo (1958, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Contempt (1963, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Night of the Living Dead (1968, Dir. George Romero)
2001: A Space Oddysey (1968, Dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Blade Runner (1982, Dir. Ridley Scott)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Dir. Sergio Leone)
Back to the Future (1985, Dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Dir. Spike Lee)
GoodFellas (1990, Dir. Martin Scorsese)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Dir. Edward Yang)
Unforgiven (1992, Dir. Clint Eastwood)
Jurassic Park (1993, Dir. Steven Speilberg)
The End of Evangelion (1997, Dir. Hideaki Anno)
Mulholland Dr. (2001, Dir. David Lynch)

I intentionally left out of TV shows, miniseries, anime series etc., though I'd imagine it would change what my list looks like a fair bit. Like Paranoia Agent would definitely be on there since it's my favorite Satoshi Kon thing, though I don't have any of his individual films because its hard for me to really pick one over the others (Though Paprika is definitely his worst).

EDIT: Also lol, I just noticed I only ended up with a single 70's film on here.
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Of course I do love Back to the Future, but if I had to pick a favorite Zemeckis it would probably go to Cast Away. I'd also probably put Forrest Gump and Back to the Future Part II before Back to the Future.
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For this list BTTF1 slightly edges out 2 for me since it tells a complete story on its own. I do love 2 and 3 dearly though.

I like Cast Away and Forrest Gump well enough (Well Gump less so), but it's been about a decade since I've seen either of them. And hell Cast Away was on a VHS!!!!
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Not really sure why I left out Mulholland Drive. It belongs there, definitely.

Rax and Lyndon makes my list look basic and stupid.
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FWIW I like most of the movies from your list that I've seen. The only one I'm not a huge fan of in your first tier is 12 Angry Men and plenty of people much smarter than I am would skewer me for that lol.
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What don't you like about it?
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Hmm, I thought DA and I had almost opposite tastes, but his list has some commonalities with mine. I owe it to myself to check out some on his list that I haven't seen yet.

In alphabetical order:

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Alien
Apocalypse Now
Apollo 13
Blade Runner
Blade Runner 2049
Blue Velvet
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fargo
Ghost World
Heavenly Creatures
Inception
Jaws
Lost In Translation
Mulholland Drive
Naked Lunch
Pulp Fiction
Run Lola Run
Seven
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Dark Knight
The Fountain
The Lord of the Rings (considered one long film in three parts)
The Matrix
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
Upstream Color
Videodrome
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Derived Absurdity wrote:What don't you like about it?
For something so acclaimed even in filmbuff circles, it just doesn't feel very cinematic to me and more like a (good) stageplay.
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Oh. I don't really know what that means. It always keeps my full attention the entire time even after watching it several times, due to its flawless script and pacing and characterization. It seems cinematic to me.

I also don't know why I forgot Pulp Fiction. It's probably in my first tier. I wouldn't be able to explain why I like it so much or why it's so good, and no review or analysis I've seen has ever really managed to capture it. It's probably the only Tarantino film I actually like.
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Some more:

Texhnolyze (2003; Hiroshi Hamasaki)
The Big Sleep (1946; Howard Hawks)
To Have and Have Not (1944; Howard Hawks)
Repulsion (1965; Roman Polanski)
Fitzcarraldo (1982; Werner Herzog)
Masculin Féminin (1966; Jean-Luc Godard)
Out 1, noli me tangere (1971; Jacques Rivette)
La Dolce Vita (1960; Federico Fellini)
L'Avventura (1960; Michelangelo Antonioni)
Out of the Past (1947; Jacques Tourneur)
My Darling Clementine (1946; John Ford)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975; Sidney Lumet)
Short Cuts (1993; Robert Altman)
Radio Days (1987; Woody Allen)
Scarface (1983; Brian De Palma)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984; Steven Spielberg)
Early Summer (1951; Yasujiro Ozu)
Platform (2000; Jia Zhangke)
Ratatouille (2007; Brad Bird)
The Big Lebowski (1998; Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Le Samouraï (1967; Jean-Pierre Melville)
Children of Men (2006; Alfonso Cuarón)
Il Mare (2000; Lee Hyun-seung)
Perhaps Love (2005; Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
Swades (2004; Ashutosh Gowariker)
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Derived Absurdity wrote:Oh. I don't really know what that means.
The short answer would be something like "storytelling through visuals and/or editing". Like I don't remember the movie suggesting anything about a character by, say, the way a shot was composed for example. So between that and the single location it just kind of increases the stageplay feel I mentioned.

Now that being said this is another movie I haven't seen in like 10 years, so its entirely possible the movie does actually do something like this and I've just forgotten, in which case lol at me.
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Lord_Lyndon wrote:Some more:
Oh man I can't believe I forgot Tourneur and Herzog.

Out of the Past would probably be my Tourneur pick, though I'm not sure for Herzog. It would probably come between Aguirre and Grizzly Man but I would have to think on it.
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Derived Absurdity wrote:Rax and Lyndon makes my list look basic and stupid.
Not at all. Your list is great.
Here are the ones I saw:

Mad Max: Fury Road
Lost in Translation
Nightcrawler
Heavenly Creatures
Perfect Blue
12 Angry Men
How to Train Your Dragon
Pan's Labyrinth
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Toy Story 2
The Handmaiden
Pirates of the Caribbean: CotBP
The Piano Teacher
The Sixth Sense

I loved all of those except 'The Piano Teacher'. I 'only' liked that one.
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I remembered some more:

Safe (1995; Todd Haynes)
Bandits (2001; Barry Levinson)
The Road Home (1999; Zhang Yimou)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000; Ang Lee)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961; Alain Resnais)
Peppermint Candy (1999; Lee Chang-dong)
3-Iron (2004; Kim Ki-duk)
Memories of Murder (2003; Bong Joon-ho)
Faust (1926; F. W. Murnau)
Ugetsu (1953; Kenji Mizoguchi)
Café Lumière (2003; Hou Hsiao-hsien)
A City of Sadness (1989; Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Cries & Whispers (1972; Ingmar Bergman)
Fanny and Alexander (1982; Ingmar Bergman)
Kundun (1997; Martin Scorsese)
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Back in my early-mid 20s I actually tried to keep and updated Excel document of my favorite 250-or-so films, basically everything I'd given a 9/10-or-better to. I quit updating a long time ago, probably around the time I did my Hitchcock marathon. I could post my old list, but it'd be pretty far off from my *actual* list if I bothered to make one now. In any case, my top 50-or-so have been pretty consistent, so I'll just post it and add in the few I think need to be added:

Neon Genesis Evangelion / The End of Evangelion
Seven Samurai
Rear Window
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Seventh Seal
Passion of Joan of Arc
Mulholland Drive
Veritgo
the Wizard of Oz
A City of Sadness
Late Spring
Ikiru
The Rules of the Game
Persona
My Darling Clementine
Marnie
Meet Me in St. Louis
Gone With the Wind
Sunrise
The Godfather Pt. II
Ordet
Last Year at Marienbad
Grave of the Fireflies
Yi Yi: A One and a Two
Contempt
Once Upon a Time in America
Notorious
Raging Bull
Three Colors: Red
Au Hasard Balthasar
The Third Man
O Thiassos (The Traveling Players)
The Trial
Psycho
Touch of Evil
Ugetsu
L'avventura
Satantango
The Puppetmaster
Dekalog
The Thin Red Line
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise
Only Angels Have Wings
Citizen Kane
Pather Panchali
8 1/2
M
Distant Voices, Still Lives
The Princess Bride
Star Wars
Some Like it Hot
Tokyo Story
In Absentia
Children of Paradise
The Godfather
A Brighter Summer Day
Lord of the Rings
Princess Mononoke
Pierrot Le Fou
Wild Strawberries
His Girl Friday
Mysteries of Lisbon
Sherlock Jr.
Hiroshoma Mon Amour
Dr. Strangelove
Eraserhead
La Dolce Vita
Andrei Rublev
Amadeus
Unforgiven
The Grand Illusion
Life on a String

I could go on, but I think that's enough.
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No Yojimbo?
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In his heart of hearts he must realize that Sanjuro is better.
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Gendo wrote:No Yojimbo?
Yojimbo's excellent but not among Kurosawa's very best, IMO. It's just a term that paired well with "Eva" (I'm "Eva Bodyguard"). :)
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