Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Must watch movies (according to Miss Steventon)

1.    Citizen Kane (1941) - ANY Orson Welles film
2.    Withnail & I - comedy
3.    Blade Runner (1982) - sci-fi, excellence.
4.     Apocalypse Now (1979) - American epic war film – Francis ford Coppola
5.     One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) – Drama – Jack Nicolson at his best
6.     Amalie - Any Jean-Pierre Jeunet film, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, feel good films, all amazingly shot.
7.    Dr. Strangelove- Comedy - ANY Stanley Kubrick film (2001- Sci-Fi, The Shinning-Horror, The Killing- Thriller)
8.    Pulp Fiction - ANY Quentin Tarantino film (Reservoir Dogs, Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds)
9.    Big Lebowski – ANY Coen Brothers films - Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou?, True Grit and many more.
10.  Vertigo - ANY Alfred Hitchcock film
11.  Some Like It Hot (1959)- Comedy - My favourite Marilyn Monroe film.
12.  Breakfast At Tiffany's – Rom-com - Audrey Hepburn
13.  Taxi Driver –  Martin Scorsese, check out a very young Jodie foster – Any Martin Scorsese film there are too many to mention!
14.  The Descent - Very clever in terms of making you feel claustrophobic!
15.  Buried – Some great close up shots.  Most of the film is from the point of view of a man who has been buried alive. I challenge you to watch this without getting shivers.
16.   Alien – So many films reference this, it’s a must view. - A Ridley Scott,  masterpiece.
17.  Brazil – Robert De-Nero like you have never seen him before. Also a Terry Gilliam film great director, 12 monkeys, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Time Bandits, also amazing!
18.  Being John Malkovich – Great Narrative.
19.  Big fish – Tim Burton – Another great director. – My other favourites are, Edward Scissor Hands, Beetle Juice and Mars Attacks
20.  Fight Club
21.  Little ms sunshine – Quirky Fun
22.   Raiders of the Lost Arc – Classic Action
23.  This is Spinal Tap – mock-umentry
24.  Memento – Thriller, Amazing Narrative.
25.  Let the Right One in (2008)- Horror/Drama
26.   12 Angry Men -  Drama
27.  Blazing Saddles – Comedy - ANY MEL BROOKS FILM
28.  The Graduate – Classic Drama
29.  The Usual Suspects – Thriller
30.  Trainspotting - ANY DANNY BOYLE FILM
31.  Donnie Darko – Sci-fi/Thriller
32.  Night of the living dead – Horror
33.  Howls Moving Castle- if you like Disney you have to see a Studio Ghibli, film there are so many.
34.  It’s a Wonderful Life – Mandatory viewing for the Christmas period.

Some of my favourite films

Film List A


You can't go wrong with those films. Here's a few Miss Steventon missed...

ANYTHING BY STANLEY KUBRICK.

Plus:

Thriller/ action

Hard-boiled

Heat

Don't Look Now

The Wages of Fear (French; finest exercise in suspense, ever. The first half hour is boring but worth the wait).

Rope (Hitchcock)

The Godfather I, II, and III

The Beat that my Heart Skipped (French)

Chinatown

LA Confidential



Horror

Psycho

Halloween

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, NOT the new one)

Rosemary's Baby (wow)

The Shining

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Alien

An American Werewolf in London

The Wicker Man (original with Christopher Lee, NOT the new one)



Messed up

Seconds  (1969, John Frankenheimer)

Lost Highway (David Lynch)

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)

Performance (Nicolas Roeg)

Synecdoche, New York


Romance

When Harry Met Sally (hilarious)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (stunning)


Comedy

Trading Places

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Team America: World Police

Anchorman

Rushmore

Napoleon Dynamite

The Naked Gun



Classics

Sunset Boulevard

The Big Chill

Casablanca