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Posted by Dain, Friday, January 25, 2008 1:34 PM (Eastern)
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January 25, 2008 9:00 PM,
I'm thinking...
1. Dreams by Akira Kurosawa
2. A Taxing Woman (Japanese)
3. Heroic Trio (with Michelle Yeoh)
4. Hamoon (Iranian)
5. The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (it would make more logical sense to include all three, but the second one was the best imo)
6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
7. Lost in Translation
8. La Passion Béatrice (French)
9. Rude Boy (a documentary about a roadie for The Clash)
10. hmmm...Enemy at the Gates...because it has both Rachel Weisz and Jude Law in it. This narrowly edges out Gattaca, which had Jude Law, Uma Thurman, and Gore Vidal in it.
Oh...and Pulp Fiction.
Can you have a foreign film category and a domestic one? :D Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was a great film.
January 25, 2008 10:11 PM,
I haven't seen most of these, but I'd agree The Two Towers was the best. I think by The Return of the King, we'd just seen those tricks already, and we were just building up in The Fellowship. And it does make logical sense to include all three; technically, they are not a trilogy.
In spite of the fact that Snatch is much more polished, I really like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels better, though I wouldn't be able to argue why.
I think I've seen Dreams, but I can say honestly I didn't understand it.
I don't really watch too many films, and when I do, I like them romantic and fantastical and escapist. Books I like as nitty and gritty as possible, realism in movies is for the film buffs.
I'm considering adding Pulp Fiction, but there are plenty of good films I'm missing.
January 25, 2008 10:13 PM,
Oh, and ten is quite enough for me. I am definitely not enough of a movie-goer to have different categories other than "favorites". But by all means, list as you please. I prefer to hear it from someone who knows the medium far better than I do.
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