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WWW Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-04 11:11 PM
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Top two most memorable movies of all time
Mine are The Hunger and The Children's Hour
Yours?
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beawr Donating Member (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-04 11:14 PM
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1. Well, right now, they're E.T. and Snow WHite
In a few minutes I might go with Kane and GWTW, then after that maybe Star Wars and Jaws.....
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DisgustedDemocrat Donating Member (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-04 11:21 PM
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2. Sophies Choice
All of the Holocaust movies leave such a memorable impression, but "Sophie's Choice" was one I remember walking out of feeling utterly sick.
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-04 11:26 PM
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3. 'Wings of Desire'...
which should have been translated 'Sky Over Berlin'. 'City of Angels' (which I didn't like) was loosely based on this German film. It's an absolutely gorgeous existential poem.

'Mulholland Drive'--it was one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen. Lynch is so good at making his movies look like your darkest nightmares.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-04 11:33 PM
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4. loved Wings of Desire
just beautiful. Salvador made me "ill" for several days. I couldn't see any really intense political films after that for a while. Also Psycho... couldn't sleep that night and no one else was home when I got back from the theater.

On a positive note, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was stunning visually and with a beautiful story line.
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creativelcro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-04 11:59 PM
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7. WAs about to vote the same. Wings of Desire rocks!
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WWW Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-04 11:33 PM
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5. HOLY yes
Mulholland Drive was so wonderful! Stayed with me for weeks..
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-04 11:57 PM
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6. Schindler's List and Watership Down
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:00 AM
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8. "Aguirre, The Wrath of God" and "Taxi Driver"
the 70s was the golden age for both American and German film
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blackcat77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:02 AM
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9. If you mean films that really changed me, it would be,,,
"Paths of Glory" and "Apocalypse Now."
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LiviaOlivia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:06 AM
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10. The Wizard of Oz and The Wild Bunch
n/t
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xcentrik Donating Member (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:08 AM
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11. Hate to sound like a sophomore (I'm 43) but
"Citizen Kane" and "The Seventh Seal."
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:10 AM
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12. Wings of Desire and Blade Runner.
That's overall.

But it was very difficult chosing just two. Very close runners-up are A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club, Magnolia, and Cradle will Rock.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:14 AM
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13. Cradle will Rock was great. Great characterizations
and acting
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:17 AM
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14. I bawled like a starstruck Japanese Schoolgirl while watching "Cradle"
I've never been so moved by a film in all my life. It probably has something to do with my old-school Trotskyist inlaws being involved with Blitstein's work, and seeing "Cradle" for the first time shortly after they died.

Funny how one's situation influences how he processes things, isn't it.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:17 AM
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15. "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Wild Strawberries"
Lean's epic is done on a massive scale yet it remains uncommonly human and literate.

Bergman's quiet masterpiece is a sort of internal epic, a journey of eventual understanding.

If these two films vanished from the planet, I would feel bereft.
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:41 AM
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16. Das Boot. Apocalypse Now.
...in that order.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:42 AM
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17. Eraserhead and Jaws...
neither move is one I particularly love, but they both had big effects on me.
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Jack_Dawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 12:45 AM
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18. Swingers and Titanic
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