The genius of any film you like

[John Baldwin]

David AAronson, what's your nationality, please?
Cause there are movies that I want to know how you know...

[Ify]

Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
Fight Club
The Godfather 1 and 2
Scarface
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Schindler's List
Apocalypse Now
Unforgiven
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

[Dlanor]

 A few years ago I saw a film called GLADIATOR, and now I think this film has a real Leone spirit. A mythical hero in a mythical world. This sense of the historic show and greatness. The omni presence of a strong style and many stylized effects. The close shots and a beautifful music.
 It's the first time I really think about it, but yeah, this film may be the more Leonesque film of the few past years. Maybe it's why I liked it so much and it's one of my favourite films.  I liked Private Ryan too.

[Il Tramonto]

Well, nobody replied but I'm gonna do it anyway.

1. The Godfather (F.F. Coppola, 1972)
2. The Godfather Part II (F.F. Coppola, 1974)
3. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
4. Apocalypse Now (F.F. Coppola, 1979)
5. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai) (Kurosawa, 1954)
6. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
7. C'era una volta il West (Once Upon A Time In The West) (Leone, 1968)
8. Mononoke-Hime (Princess Mononoke) (Miyazaki, 1997)
9. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
10. Rashômon (Kurosawa, 1950)
11. On The Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
12. Akahige (Red Beard) (Kurosawa, 1965)
13. Ying xiong (Hero) (Yimou, 2002)
14. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) (Miyazaki, 2001)
15. Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)
16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
17. Hotaru no haka (Grave Of The Fireflies) (Takahata, 1988)
18. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
19. The Blues Brothers (Landis, 1980)
20. Da hong deng long gao gao gua (Raise The Red Lantern) (Yimou, 1991)
21. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
22. Sling Blade (Thornton, 1996)
23. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, The Bad, The Ugly) (Leone, 1966)
24. The Killing Fields (Joffé, 1984)
25. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
26. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969)
27. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
28. Lost In Translation (S. Coppola, 2003)
29. Hana-Bi (Kitano, 1997)
30. 2001: A Space Odyssey ((Kubrick, 1968)
31. Metoroporisu (Metropolis) (Rintaro, 2001)
32. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
33. Glory (Zwick, 1989)
34. The Straight Story (Lynch, 1999)
35. In The Heat Of The Night (Jewison, 1967)
36. Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (Laputa: Castle in the Sky) (Miyazaki, 1986)
37. Majo no takkyubin (Kiki’s Delivery Service) (Miyazaki, 1989)
38. Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro) (Miyazaki, 1988)
39. Kikujiro no natsu (Kitano, 1999)
40. La Haine (Kassovitz, 1995)
41. Wo Hu Cang Long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (Ang Lee, 2000)
42. Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
43. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
44. High Noon (Zinnemann, 1952)
45. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
46. Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (Jeunet, 2001)
47. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, 1975)
48. Die xue shuang xiong (The Killer) (Woo, 1989)
49. Per qualche dollaro in più (For A Few Dollars More) (Leone, 1965)
50. Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)
51. Sanjuro (Kurosawa, 1962)
52. Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars) (Leone, 1964)
53. Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pompoko (Pom Poko) (Takahata, 1994)
54. Network (Lumet, 1976)
55. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
56. The Fisher King (Gilliam, 1991)
57. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
58. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
59. Kagemusha (Kurosawa, 1980)
60. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
61. The Godfather Part III (F.F. Coppola, 1990)
62. Das Experiment (Hirschbiegel, 2001)
63. Heat (Mann, 1995)
64. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick,1971)
65. Kumonosu jô (Throne Of Blood) (Kurosawa, 1957)
66. Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley, 1992)
67. Rain Man (Levinson, 1988)
68. Serpico (Lumet, 1973)
69. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
70. The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1942)
71. The Sting (Hill, 1973)
72. Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
73. Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
74. Open Range (Costner, 2003)
75. Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
76. Yume (Dreams) (Kurosawa, 1990)
77. Dogville (Von Trier, 2003)
78. The Dead Zone (Cronenberg, 1983)
79. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
80. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
81. Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989)
82. Ghost World (Zwigoff, 2001)
83. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
84. Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001)
85. Kidzu ritan (Kids Return) (Kitano, 1996)
86. Siunin Wong Fei-hung tsi titmalau (Iron Monkey) (Woo-ping, 1993)
87. Wong Fei-Hung (Once Upon A Time In China) (Hark, 1991)
88. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)
89. Return Of The King (P. Jackson, 2003)
90. The Untouchables (De Palma, 1987)
91. Key Largo (Huston, 1948)
92. Fargo (Coen, 1996)
93. Big Fish (Burton, 2003)
94. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
95. Dirty Harry (Siegel, 1971)
96. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
97. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1992)
98. Dangerous Liaisons (Frears, 1988)
99. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
100. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)

Kids Return, Empire Strikes Back, Donnie Darko, Iron Monkey, 2001. Nice. About 5 or so of the movies on your list are in my top 10 favorite movies. Takeshi Kitano is one of my new favorite directors, but I have to disagree with everybody that Hana-Bi is his masterpiece. I think Sonatine is his best film personally, but my favorite of his is (if not Sonatine), Brother or Kids Return.

[David Aaronson]

David AAronson, what's your nationality, please?
Cause there are movies that I want to know how you know...

My nationality is Dutch, but there are no Dutch movies on my list...  

to Il Tramonto:
I do believe Hana-Bi is Kitano's masterpiece. It's far more esthetic than Sonatine, and has a better story in my humble opinion. Sonatine is funnier though...

[John Baldwin]

My nationality is Dutch, but there are no Dutch movies on my list...  

Ok David Aaronson...What's your favourite German's movie(s)?

[Il Tramonto]

to Il Tramonto:
I do believe Hana-Bi is Kitano's masterpiece. It's far more esthetic than Sonatine, and has a better story in my humble opinion. Sonatine is funnier though...

Artistically I could see why people call Hana-Bi Kitano's best, but to me the whole film was like watching a painting in motion. That's not a bad thing, but I just felt like I couldn't really connect with the characters and that everything was being done more for "art" instead of some deep message. I do think Sonatine should have had the guys playing around on the island for maybe 10 more minutes or so, but this is probably the Kitano movie that's had a heaviest impact on me so far. Still haven't seen Dolls, Boiling Point, or Violent Cop though.

[grandpa_chum]

no offense aaronson... but i stopped reading at number 2(obviously an exageration, i'm not an asshole)... thats the most popular 1-2 punch in all of list history and utter crap as far i'm concerned... but you're entitled to your opinion... i'm sure you'd have problems with mine... which is in process, at 50 right now... i'm hoping to take it to 300.

[David Aaronson]

Ok David Aaronson...What's your favourite German's movie(s)?

Well, as you can see in the list, Das Experiment. But I'm a little puzzled at why you ask me this...

[David Aaronson]

no offense aaronson... but i stopped reading at number 2(obviously an exageration, i'm not an *******)... thats the most popular 1-2 punch in all of list history and utter crap as far i'm concerned... but you're entitled to your opinion... i'm sure you'd have problems with mine... which is in process, at 50 right now... i'm hoping to take it to 300.

Probably is, but I'm not in for the popularity. And why is it crap?
And what did you think of the rest of the list?
Maybe you could give us a preview of your list?

[Danny]

Well, as you can see in the list, Das Experiment. But I'm a little puzzled at why you ask me this...

Maybe he thought Deutsch in stead of Dutch. A mistake people often make and we don't like at all   (I'm Dutch too)

[David Aaronson]

Maybe he thought Deutsch in stead of Dutch. A mistake people often make and we don't like at all   (I'm Dutch too)

Well, it's better than if they think that Amsterdam is a country... or that we all wear wooden shoes around here...

[General Sibley]

Well, it's better than if they think that Amsterdam is a country... or that we all wear wooden shoes around here...

...or hang out in Coffee Shops all day

[grandpa_chum]

i dunno aaronson... i just can't see how anyone could have the godfather number 1... not to mention the godfather part 2 number 2... yet alot of people do... i just don't see it, and maybe it's because i'm not a fan of the genre.

as for the rest of the list... well done... i haven't seen a lot of them... but the ones i have seen are well placed... nice to see dr strangelove and the blues brothers getting some love.

[Bill Carson]

  hola hippieoddball. hope you are feeling a bit better friend. well, when I'm a bit down in the dumps, I watch the sort of movies that are just 'big, dumb action movies'.  take your name for example; taken from KELLY'S HEROES! great fun.  there are lots of titles that have been mentioned that I agree with. LOVE THE ROAD WARRIOR! it's the sort of movie that has a certain magic that can never be replicated like STAR WARS, PREDATOR and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK... y'know, those one-off originals.