Movie New BigFooty Top 100 Movie Countdown for 2014 (voting closed)

[placebo]

1. Cries and Whispers (1972)
2. The Searchers (1956)
3. Vertigo (1958)
4. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
5. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
6. Raging Bull (1980)
7. Some Like It Hot (1959)
8. Casablanca (1942)
9. Ikiru (1952)
10. The 400 Blows (1959)
11. M (1931)
12. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
13. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
14. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
15. Roman Holiday (1953)
16. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
17. The Grand Illusion (1937)
18. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
19. ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
20. Amarcord (1973)

You should post more often. Great list, and great variety. Also nice to have a fellow Bergman fan along with me and a couple of others.

 

[Roobs321]

Agreed, I was like "who is this?". Should post more.

 

[spinynorman]

Ha you're both too kind. I've only been on here about a week, so definitely planning on doing a bit more.

And yeah, Bergman's my favourite director. I saw Cries and Whispers at the Sydney Film Festival when I was eighteen - it was the first of his films I ever saw and in a cinema it was really fantastic. I bought the only Bergman films available on DVD (Persona, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny & Alexander) that week, and within a couple of months had caught The Seventh Seal on TV and went to a series of screenings of Summer with Monika, Smiles of a Summer Night and Wild Strawberries hosted by David Stratton.

While Winter Light also is a major contender for me, Cries & Whispers as that first film really holds a special place for me.

 

[BusinessMan]

1. The Dark Knight
2. One flew over the cuckoos nest
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The departed
5. 12 angry men
6. There will be blood
7. Inglorious Bastards
8. Fight Club
9. American History X
10. Catch me if you can
11. Borat
12. Gone Girl
13. Casino Royale
14. No country for old men
15. Alfie (1966)
16. 12 Monkeys
17. Seven
18. Kill Bill vol.1
19. The Jungle Book (1967- for the childhood memories)
20. Jurassic Park

Probably a few I've missed

 

[benji2]

Nick of time there BusinessMan - voting is now closed. I think we have enough votes to do a Top 100 again. I will need a day or two to collate the final list, will start the countdown at 100-91 tomorrow or Wednesday.

 

[benji2]

Thanks to everyone who voted - the preliminary results are very interesting. The lists themselves are also very interesting.

Thinking of doing the countdown as follows:

Honourable mentions: Tues - 9/12
100-91 - Wed 10/12
90-81 - Thurs 11/12
80-71 - Fri 12/12
70-61 - Sat 13/12
60-51 - Sun 14/12
50-41 - Mon 15/12
40-31 - Tues 16/12
30-21 - Wed 17/12
20-11 - Thurs 18/12
10-7 - Fri 19/12 (one at a time)
6-4 - Sat 20/12 (one at a time)
3-1 - Sun 21/12 (one at a time)

Will start a new thread for the actual countdown.

 

[rumply]

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Raging Bull
3. The Godfather
4. Into the Wild
5. Boogie Nights
6. A City of Sadness
7. Leaving Las Vegas
8. Hunger
9. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
10. Lacombe Lucien
11. Head-On
12. Gladiator
13. Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
14. Once Upon a Time in the West
15. The Lunchbox
16. Breaker Morant
17. The Edge of Heaven
18. The Best Years
Years of Our Lives
19. Come and See
20. Dazed and Confused

I wanted so much to squeeze Boogie Nights into my list, glad to see someone got it in.

 

[placebo]

And yeah, Bergman's my favourite director. I saw Cries and Whispers at the Sydney Film Festival when I was eighteen - it was the first of his films I ever saw and in a cinema it was really fantastic. I bought the only Bergman films available on DVD (Persona, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny & Alexander) that week, and within a couple of months had caught The Seventh Seal on TV and went to a series of screenings of Summer with Monika, Smiles of a Summer Night and Wild Strawberries hosted by David Stratton.

While Winter Light also is a major contender for me, Cries & Whispers as that first film really holds a special place for me.

Oh Winter Light is fantastic. Gunnar Bjornstrand is a wonderful actor, as was all of his acting troupe. Those screenings with Stratton sound fantastic, I've never had the opportunity to go to something like that (one of the problems living in Perth), but hopefully I get to go to one one day. My personal faves are Through a Glass Darkly, Autumn Sonata and The Seventh Seal is obviously a masterpiece too. He's got a bunch of lesser known films that are really great as well, like Sawdust and Tinsel.