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 Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)
IMDB rating: 8.20
Plot: Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.
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Directors: Schnabel Julian
Actors: Amalric Mathieu,Chesnais Patrick,Arestrup Niels,Cassel Jean-Pierre,von Sydow Max,De Bankole Isaach,Ecoffey Jean-Philippe,Watkins Gerard,Le Riche Nicolas,Biography,Drama,
What are your top 25 most favorite films?
In no real particular order:
Fur: Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Perfume: Story of a Murderer
Trainspotting
Buffalo ‘66
Christiane F.
This is England
Taxi Driver
Gummo
A Clockwork Orange
Naked Lunch
Everything is Illuminated
Pulp Fiction
La Vie en Rose
Amelie
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Cloverfield (not that blair witch bullshit)
American Beauty
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Lost in Translation
Life is Beautiful
Dazed and Confused
Fight Club (obviously)
The Diving Bell and Butterfly
Artificial Intelligence
In no particular order:
1. The Godfather 1 & 2-Coppola 1972 & 1974
2. Lawrence of Arabia-Lean 1962
3. On the Waterfront-Kazan 1954
4. Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb-Kubrick 1964
5. Chinatown-Polanski 1974
6. The Conversation-Coppola 1974
7. Goodfellas-Scorsese 1990
8. Pulp Fiction-Tarantino 1994
9. Bringing Up Baby-Hawks 1938
10. The Searchers-Ford 1956
11. Saving Private Ryan-Spielberg 1998
12. The Wild Bunch-Peckinpah 1969
13. The Blair Witch Project-Myrick & Sanchez 1999 (not that derivative Cloverfield bullshit)
14. The Apartment-Wilder 1960
15. No Country for Old Men-Coen 2007
16. Some Like It Hot-Wilder 1959
17. Notorious-Hitchcock 1946
18. Schindler’s List-Spielberg 1993
19. Taxi Driver-Scorsese 1976
20. The Third Man-Reed 1949
21. Bonnie and Clyde-Penn 1967
22. Raging Bull-Scorsese 1980
23. North by Northwest-Hitchcock 1959
24. Boogie Nights-Anderson 1997
25. Rear Window-Hitchcock 1954
I have tried to pick films from all eras though it’s obvious that I’m a child of the 60’s & 70’s because 17 of the movies come from at least as late as the 1960’s. I am young enough that I didn’t get to see the 60’s movies and many of the 70’s movies when they were first released but experienced them later on TV, or video or even DVD. It is too my everlasting sorrow that I only first saw 9 of the films when they were released at the theater-those were the ones beginning in 1980. The remaining 8 made before 1960 are all jewels. I suppose that I’m not as familiar with the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s American cinema, but the few that changed my life are brilliant movies.
I regret that there is only one horror movie listed because I love horror movies-it’s just that I hate bad ones and most of them are very bad. Only two Westerns though those two are maybe the greatest movies ever made. 18 that I classify as dramas although they all have comic, mystery and adventure elements in them.
You can see that I love Scorsese, Wilder, Coppola, and Spielberg. I am sorry that I only had room for one film by Kubrick, Arthur Penn, Peckinpah, David Lean, Polanski, and Howard Hawks. I believe that Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson will continue to make great movies. I guess it’s obvious that as much as I like the other directors Hitchcock has to be my favorite, or at least the one that I respect the most. He is likely the greatest director who ever lived in my opinion.
dwhite389 | Dec 29, 2009
my #1 is fast and the furious
J | Dec 29, 2009
1. DIRTY HARRY 1972
As avenging cop Dirty Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood shoots first and asks questions later, creating the most politically incorrect hero in movie history. With his ever ready .44 magnum ("the most powerful handgun in the world"), Clint brings unreconstructed frontier justice to criminal-coddling San Francisco, becoming a role model for law-and-order conservatives everywhere. Ronald Reagan even took his best line ("Make my day") from Sudden Impact, a later Dirty Harry film.
Key Scene: Clint’s final face-off with Scorpio, the deranged psycho killer.
Best Line: "You have to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
2. THE GODFATHER 1972
"What is it with men and The Godfather?" wonders chick-flick princess Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail. Tom Hanks responds for us all: "It is the I Ching. It is the sum of all wisdom." Francis Ford Coppola’s mob opera is the modern guy’s indispensable guide to surviving with honor in a dog-eat-dog world.
Key Scene: How can anyone choose? The horse head in the bed? Sonny’s murder? Michael shooting the cop in the restaurant? We know every one backward and forward.
Best Line: "Don’t ever take sides with anybody against the family again." "I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse." "Leave the gun; take the cannolis." There are millions of them.
3. SCARFACE 1983
An unapologetic assault on everything decent and honorable — and that’s why we love it. Al Pacino’s Tony Montana makes his Michael Corleone look and sound like Mr. Rogers. Nothing beats the film’s coke-fueled mobster wisdom. Lines like: "First you gotta make the money… then you get the power, then you get the woman" set the tone for a whole generation of gangsta rappers.
Key Scene: One word: chainsaw.
Best Line: "Say hello to my leetle friend."
4. DIE HARD 1988
Forget all the great action scenes this film has — the best moments are when underdog Bruce Willis kicks the snobby Eurotrash villains’ asses without ever losing his all-American sense of humor. The scene where the German villain gets his comeuppance for trying to use the word "cowboy" as an insult resonates more today, though it’d be even better if the guy were French.
Key Scene: Bruce crashes through the window hanging from the firehose.
Best Line: "Yippee-kai-yay, motherf–ker!"
5. THE TERMINATOR 1984
Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally offered the human lead, but he realized that a killer robot from the future was the role he was really born to play. "There is a little bit of the Terminator in everybody," director James Cameron observed. "He operates completely outside all the built-in social constraints."
Key Scene: Any qualms about rooting for a malevolent robot vanish when he vaporizes a tacky L.A. dance club.
Best Line: "I’ll be back."
xpertshukla | Dec 29, 2009
Pulp Fiction
American Beauty
Fight Club
Braveheart
The Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
Se7en
Forset Gump
American History X
Into the Wild
Life is a Beautiful Thing | Dec 29, 2009
Slaughter
Dracula
The strangers
the uninvited
the lodger
Fools gold
Hangover
house bunny
Forgetting sarah marshall
humpday
The Dark Knight
One Missed Call
Quantum of Solace
push
Twilight
Iron Man
Kung Fu Panda
Chocolate
Max payne
Rambo
titanic
Twilight
new moon
a walk to remember
Hes Just Not That Into You
Navjeet | Dec 29, 2009
Wow theres so many but these are the top 25 that come to mind right now:
blow
forrest fump
amelie
delicatessen
life is sweet
feat and loathing in las vegas
belle de jour
tristana
french kiss
mulan
beauty and the beast
the little mermaid
half baked
chungking express
the maltese falcon
carrie
the green mile
boyz in the hood
juice
la dolce vita
hail to the judge
moolade
trois couleurs: bleus
cache
the usual suspects
Summer | Dec 29, 2009
Never Ending Story
Big Trouble In Little China
No Retreat No Surrender
The Game
Willow
Forrest Gump
Back To The Future
Tango And Cash
American Warewolf In London
Karate Kid
Beat Street
Warriors
Police Academy
D.A.R.Y.L
E.T.
The Black Hole
Aliens
Festen (The Party) a Lars Von Trier movie
Seven Samurai
Top Gun
Tombstone
Young Guns
Young Guns 2
Goonies
Indiana Jones
Littlefibs | Dec 29, 2009
Mine are also not in any order cept the 1st 5 those are my absolute favorite
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Prestige
Finding Neverland
The Truman Show
Hot Fuzz
Shawn of the Dead
(500) Days of Summer
UP
WALL-E
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Ink
Chocolat
Schindler’s List
Groundhog Day
Run Fat Boy Run
Frost Nixon
Milk
The Devil Wears Prada
Gosford Park
An Education
America’s Sweethearts
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
Donnie Darko
Bicentennial Man
khcrazy213 | Dec 29, 2009
1)twilight
2)new moon
3)friday
4)next friday
5)friday after next
6)sunday
7-13)harry potter (1-7)
14)a clockwork orange
15)knocked up
16)the hangover
17)the unborn
18)the uninvited
19)bad boys(old one w/ sean pinn in it)
20)how to be
21)how to deal
22)fight club
23)jersey girl
24)swenny todd
25)butterfly effect
jobro_luvr | Dec 29, 2009
Pulp Fiction
AI
Harry Potter
The Butterfly Effect
Forrest Gump
I Know My First Name Is Steven
Son Of Rambow
Toy Story
Shaun Of The Dead
From Dusk Til Dawn
Scarface
Blood Diamond
Titanic
Pirates Of The Carribean
Jack
Creep
Saw
Love Actually
Mean Girls
Stand By Me
Home Alone
Step Up
Honey
Cant think of anymore :L
k+d | Dec 29, 2009
Yeah, not really in an order.
1. Sweeney Todd
2. New Moon
3. Jennifer’s Body
4. Orphan
5. Twilight
6. The Messengers
7. Charlie’s Angels.
8. Bridge To Terabithia
9. Scream
10. I Know What You Did Last Summer
11. Secret Window
12. Sleepy Hollow
13. Harry Potter (i like the 4th)
14. 17 Again
15. Scooby Doo
17. Push
18. Secret Life Of Bees
19. Mean Girls
20. She’s The Man
21. Speak
22. Friday the 13th
23. The Uninvited
24. Black Snake Moan
25. Panic Room