Fave Films ...

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Thomas

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I'll start:

Bladerunner and Alien (by Ridley Scott, plus The Duellists)
City of Lost Children and Delicatessen (by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, and Jeunet's Micmacs and Amélie)
Drowning by Numbers (my favourite, but any Peter Greenaway film is a watch)
Harold and Maude (by Hal Ashby)
The Qatsi trilogy (by Godfrey Reggio – Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi)
Repo Man (Alex Cox)
Seven Samurai (and just about every Kurosawa, plus the Yoji Yamada trilogy Love and Honour, The Hidden Blade and The Twilight Samurai) plus others.
Stalker and Solaris (and others by Andrei Tarkovsky)
Trust and Simple Men (by Hal Hartley)
Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas (and others by Wim Wenders)

I'm sure there's more ... and more mainstream films, too.
 
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Daimajin trilogy
Charlotte's Web (the one with Paul Lynde as Templeton)
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro
The Wind Rises
Kiki's Delivery Service
Mat
Argo

There are others that I'll post later if nobody minds.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
And to redress the balance, I will shout out for some of the best US films ever:

Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera.

When I was a kid these were shown every Christmas on tv, and I'd make my family sit and watch them. I'd watch them today.

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Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
The Conversation and Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Miloš Forman)
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

Star Wars (George Lucas)
Jaws etc (Steven Spielberg)

These last two I would shamelessly bracket 'entertainments', I'm sure they'll become classics, but a film-maker I admire is Alex Cox, who said "Spielberg isn’t a filmmaker, he’s a confectioner," making films characterised by 'emptiness and a prioritization of audience manipulation over authentic cinema'. There's a longer critique here.

My favourite takedown of the Indiana Jones franchise is Amy's critique of the film in The Big Bang Theory:

(A much better ending, in my book, of Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade would have been for the mortally-injured Henry, father of Indy, to remain in the temple and replace the crumbled Grail Knight ... I was a bit miffed when the film didn't end that way, it would have been a far more heroic and mythic thing to do, plus you'd get a heart-strings parting between father and son, etc., etc.)
 
Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, The Matrix, Interstellar, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Terminator 2, Life is Beautiful, The Departed, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Aliens, Wall-E, Avengers Infinity War, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Braveheart (even though it is terribly inaccurate), Toy Story 3, Star Wars, Up, Snatch, Top Gun: Maverick, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Inside Out, Atonement, Arsenic & Old Lace, Goonies, My Fair Lady...

I could go on forever.
 
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