Recommend me some films?
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Yeah, could you be a bit more specific?Furburt said:
But off the top of my head, my (highly biased) Film Studies Primer would include the following:
Metropolis (1927)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
King Kong (1933)
La Grand Illusion (1937)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Pinocchio (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Othello(1952)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)
A Bout de Souffle (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Andrey Rublyov (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Aguirre: der Zorn Gottes (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
That's my fairly compact, if incomplete, history of film. Basically, if you're actually studying film, you should have at least seen these. Like I said though, if you can be more specific about what you're looking for, I got like, a zillion more recommendations. But then, who doesn't?
Heres a list of some qualitly movies:
Watchmen: Very psychologicly deep, very interesting, very thought provoking.
Good Will Hunting: FANTASTIC movie about a janitor who doesnt realize his full potential as a genius.
Pulp Fiction: Wonderful piece of story telling.
Watchmen: Very psychologicly deep, very interesting, very thought provoking.
Good Will Hunting: FANTASTIC movie about a janitor who doesnt realize his full potential as a genius.
Pulp Fiction: Wonderful piece of story telling.
Twelve Monkeys [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Monkeys] is an excellent psychological thriller. You know what's going to happen the whole time, but you're not sure it's going to happen.
Goodfellas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas]is phenomenal; you should take a look at this, too.
Hero [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_(2002_film)] is one of my favorite films of all time; it has so many different layers of meaning that it still boggles my mind. I would recommend it just as an awesome movie.
If you're looking for a balls-out action movie, Die-Hard is a good choice; however, I'd also recommend The Road Warrior [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Warrior].
There are other things, of course, but nothing I don't think would be mentioned by someone else.
Apologies if this isn't very helpful.
Goodfellas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas]is phenomenal; you should take a look at this, too.
Hero [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_(2002_film)] is one of my favorite films of all time; it has so many different layers of meaning that it still boggles my mind. I would recommend it just as an awesome movie.
If you're looking for a balls-out action movie, Die-Hard is a good choice; however, I'd also recommend The Road Warrior [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Warrior].
There are other things, of course, but nothing I don't think would be mentioned by someone else.
Apologies if this isn't very helpful.
American Beauty
American Psycho
American History X
Memento
Fight Club
Snatch
Boondock Saint
Donnie Darko
Requiem for a Dream
Pi (the title is actually the mathematical symbol, but i couldn't find the symbol)
Gangs of New York
Johnny Got His Gun
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Usual Suspects
...and plenty more.
American Psycho
American History X
Memento
Fight Club
Snatch
Boondock Saint
Donnie Darko
Requiem for a Dream
Pi (the title is actually the mathematical symbol, but i couldn't find the symbol)
Gangs of New York
Johnny Got His Gun
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Usual Suspects
...and plenty more.
Anything with either Clint Eastwood or Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
Eastwood
Dirty Harry
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Gran Torino
Letters from Iwo Jima
Other of my personal favourites are:
Forrest Gump
A Beautiful Mind
Shaving Ryans Privates
Frensh Connection
The Sting
American Gangster
Platoon
Rambo; First Blood
The Godfather
Psycho
Kubrick
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
Eastwood
Dirty Harry
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Gran Torino
Letters from Iwo Jima
Other of my personal favourites are:
Forrest Gump
A Beautiful Mind
Shaving Ryans Privates
Frensh Connection
The Sting
American Gangster
Platoon
Rambo; First Blood
The Godfather
Psycho
Depends a lot on what you want:
Gran-Torino: Clint Eastwood. just watch it
The Changeling: Directed by Clint Eastwood... also just freaking watch it.
28 Days later: Modern classic of British horror
Shaun of the Dead: Wonderful classic British Comedy twist on Zombies
Evil Dead 1 & 2: Classic classic horror horror
Chinatown: New Film Noir
Citizen Kane: Do you REALLY need a reason?
No Country For Old Men: hard to explain why this is so good
There Will be Blood: amazing tale about oil prospecting, told as if it was a monster movie. Very good.
AKIRA: This is a MUST if you are even the slightest bit interested in anime.
Robocop:
Terminator 2:
Children of Men: no woman on earth can have babies any more, humanity will die out within a generation. Bloody. Good. Film.
The Thing
Blade Runner
Brazil
V for Vendetta: Allan Moore comic brilliantly realised on film
Charlie Wilson's War: The story of America's involvement in the Soviet- Afghan war.
HEAT
The Untouchables: When Sean Connery says the line: "If they put one of our guys in the Hospital, we put one of their in the Morge!" you know this is a classic.
Star Trek:
2, 3, 4, and 6: Did I miss out number 5? You miss it too. Number 6 is my fav after 2.
Monty Python:
-Holy Grail
-Life of Brian
-meaning of Life
Airplane!: Yes, possibly the funnies films (in terms of laughs per minute) ever.
Great Action flics:
Rambo 4 (also 1, 2 and 3)
Taken
Shooter
District 13
Jackie Chan in "Operation Condor" "Project A" and "Drunken Master 2": these following films are IMHO all on par with the classic Indiana Jones films in terms of action, adventure and humour. In many ways they are superior.
Death Proof
Planet Terror
The Mummy
The Kingdom
300
Ronin
The Hunted
Also, quite under-appreciated is "The Score" by Frank Oz (yeah, I know, the Voice of Miss Piggy) but I'm telling you it's a damn good heist movie.
Gran-Torino: Clint Eastwood. just watch it
The Changeling: Directed by Clint Eastwood... also just freaking watch it.
28 Days later: Modern classic of British horror
Shaun of the Dead: Wonderful classic British Comedy twist on Zombies
Evil Dead 1 & 2: Classic classic horror horror
Chinatown: New Film Noir
Citizen Kane: Do you REALLY need a reason?
No Country For Old Men: hard to explain why this is so good
There Will be Blood: amazing tale about oil prospecting, told as if it was a monster movie. Very good.
AKIRA: This is a MUST if you are even the slightest bit interested in anime.
Robocop:
Terminator 2:
Children of Men: no woman on earth can have babies any more, humanity will die out within a generation. Bloody. Good. Film.
The Thing
Blade Runner
Brazil
V for Vendetta: Allan Moore comic brilliantly realised on film
Charlie Wilson's War: The story of America's involvement in the Soviet- Afghan war.
HEAT
The Untouchables: When Sean Connery says the line: "If they put one of our guys in the Hospital, we put one of their in the Morge!" you know this is a classic.
Star Trek:
2, 3, 4, and 6: Did I miss out number 5? You miss it too. Number 6 is my fav after 2.
Monty Python:
-Holy Grail
-Life of Brian
-meaning of Life
Airplane!: Yes, possibly the funnies films (in terms of laughs per minute) ever.
Great Action flics:
Rambo 4 (also 1, 2 and 3)
Taken
Shooter
District 13
Jackie Chan in "Operation Condor" "Project A" and "Drunken Master 2": these following films are IMHO all on par with the classic Indiana Jones films in terms of action, adventure and humour. In many ways they are superior.
Death Proof
Planet Terror
The Mummy
The Kingdom
300
Ronin
The Hunted
Also, quite under-appreciated is "The Score" by Frank Oz (yeah, I know, the Voice of Miss Piggy) but I'm telling you it's a damn good heist movie.
Good call.LordCuthberton said:
Also Serenity, Taken, Dawn of the Dead (modern version) and Black Hawk Down.
Just grab everything done by Terry Gilliam. I won't even say they're the best movies out there, but there's certainly a lot to talk about in terms of how there made. 12 Monkeys is probably the most accessible (Time traveler Bruce Willis has to try to prevent a killer pandemic that happened in the past, but with some very strange twists), and Brazil is an absolute must (Think of 1984 as a comedy). If you really want to blow your teachers mind though, watch, "Tideland". Its possibly the most ridiculous movie i've ever seen. It's...umm...okay, words fail me, so here just the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideland_%28film%29 . Bees are powerfully jealous creatures.
Its sad because ti seems like no one else has seen Tideland.
Its a long shot, but there's a movie called, "Time Crimes" that would make a good companion to 12 Monkeys. This guy travels back in time, and creates the occurrences that have happened to him during the course of the day, and things slowly spiral into weirdness. Its possibly the best time travel story ive seen.
Its sad because ti seems like no one else has seen Tideland.
Its a long shot, but there's a movie called, "Time Crimes" that would make a good companion to 12 Monkeys. This guy travels back in time, and creates the occurrences that have happened to him during the course of the day, and things slowly spiral into weirdness. Its possibly the best time travel story ive seen.
