03-27-2014, 11:48 AM
After a rather illuminating conversation in the Grumblebox, concerning an admiration for Jock and his pet Snake in Indiana Jones, I was reminded of my own occasionally unusual fixations in film history.
As many people like making little lists, I thought we could all list our Top Twenty (favourites, not necessarily the “Best”)…partially to gain some film recs, and partially to peer insidiously into each other's minds…
I view such lists as revealing a private mythology, and a form of personality “shorthand”, but I understand other people might simply say “Here’s a bunch of films I like, fucko, don’t read too much into it.”
Which is grand.
My Top Ten hasn’t altered since I was 15 yrs old….so evidently my personality hasn’t either.
Maybe I should try “growing” like Sheldon, and become somebody completely different.
Arses.
TOP TEN
The Sting
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Death in Venice
Amadeus
The Man Who Would Be King
Withnail and I
Blues Brothers
Zorba the Greek
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
<Honourable Mentions>
Goya in Bordeaux
The Third Man
The Seventh Seal
Le Samourai
Onegin
Blade Runner
Master and Commander
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Zero Kelvin
I love putting Roger Rabbit and Seventh Seal in the same category…Potentially people could make a subsection for “Enjoyable Idiocy”...
So, any other idle bastards want to add theirs?
Edited. Bloody forgot Blade Runner. Ta Space. Also, I'm not including ANY Buster Keaton or Marx Brothers because then there wouldn't be room for anything else.
Also, Monty Python films are a given.
As many people like making little lists, I thought we could all list our Top Twenty (favourites, not necessarily the “Best”)…partially to gain some film recs, and partially to peer insidiously into each other's minds…
I view such lists as revealing a private mythology, and a form of personality “shorthand”, but I understand other people might simply say “Here’s a bunch of films I like, fucko, don’t read too much into it.”
Which is grand.
My Top Ten hasn’t altered since I was 15 yrs old….so evidently my personality hasn’t either.
Maybe I should try “growing” like Sheldon, and become somebody completely different.
Arses.
TOP TEN
The Sting
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Death in Venice
Amadeus
The Man Who Would Be King
Withnail and I
Blues Brothers
Zorba the Greek
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
<Honourable Mentions>
Goya in Bordeaux
The Third Man
The Seventh Seal
Le Samourai
Onegin
Blade Runner
Master and Commander
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Zero Kelvin
I love putting Roger Rabbit and Seventh Seal in the same category…Potentially people could make a subsection for “Enjoyable Idiocy”...
So, any other idle bastards want to add theirs?
Edited. Bloody forgot Blade Runner. Ta Space. Also, I'm not including ANY Buster Keaton or Marx Brothers because then there wouldn't be room for anything else.
Also, Monty Python films are a given.
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"