What are your 5-star films (Netflix-rated or otherwise)?

[Pete C]

I may have been overgenerous on some, but here goes. I'm sure there are a bunch I haven't thought to rate yet. I know I methodically rated a few directors, like Wilder, Lang & Hitchcock. I may have given Barton Fink 5 partly because it was so vilified by so many.

'Round Midnight (1986)Round Midnight / Autour de Minuit

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)Trente-deux films brefs sur Glenn Gould

Ace in the Hole (1951)

The African Queen (1951)

Animal Crackers (1930)

The Apartment (1960)

Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)

Barton Fink (1991)

The Battle of Algiers (1965)La Battaglia di Algers

The Big Combo (1954)

The Big Heat (1953)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Closely Watched Trains (1966)Ostre sledované vlaky

The Corporation (2004)

The Dinner Game (1998)Le dîner de cons

Double Indemnity (1944)

Eraserhead (1977)

The Fallen Idol (1948)

Fargo (1996)

Scarlet Street (1945)

Forbidden Games (1954)Jeux interdits

Fury (1936)

Genghis Blues (1999)

Grand Illusion (1937)La grande illusion

The Great Dictator (1940)

Happiness (1998)

Hud (1963)

In a Lonely Place (1950)

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

Kiss of Death (1947)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

The Ladykillers (1955)

The Last Waltz (1978)

Laura (1944)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

M (1931)

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Metropolis (1927)

Modern Times (1936)

Monkey Business (1931)

Mr. Klein (1976)Monsieur Klein

The Naked Kiss (1964)

Nashville (1975)

North by Northwest (1959)

Nosferatu (1929)Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens

On the Waterfront (1954)

Ossessione (1943)

Panic in Year Zero / The Last Man on Earth (1962)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Purple Noon (1960)Plein soleil

Raging Bull (1980)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Rififi (1955)Du rififi chez les hommes

The Servant (1963)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Suspiria (1977)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Tampopo (1986)

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1989)

The Third Man (1949)

The Tingler (1959)

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music (2003)

Touch of Evil (1958)

[Brian Olewnick]

What, Pete and I are the only ones geeky enough to rate movies on Netflix?

(as alphabetized and anglicized by Netflix)

Almanac of Fall (1985)
Andrei Rublyev (1969)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Badlands (1973)
The Battle of Algiers (1965)
Beckett on Film, Vol. 1 (2003)
Cache (2005)
Chinatown (1974)
Coup de Torchon (1982)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Harakiri (1962)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
The King of Comedy (1983)
L'Avventura (1960)
L'Eclisse (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Le Trou (1960)
The Leopard (1963)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mirror (1974)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Persona (1967)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Rashomon (1950)
Rear Window (1954)
Rififi (1955)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
The Silence (1963)
Spirited Away (2002)
Stalker (1979)
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Talk to Her (2002)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)

[Pete C]

I'm not a big Bergman fan, but Wild Strawberries is probably the one I'd give 5* to.

[clinthopson]

Fanny and Alexander (the long version)
Casablanca
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Chinatown
Godfather I & II
Young Frankenstein
Cinema Paraiso
Diva
Fargo
Shawshank Redemption
Twelve Angry Men
Grumpy Old Men
Little Big Man
Double Indemnity
Laura
Anatomy of a Murder
Lawrence of Arabia
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Maltese Falcon
The General

[Jon Abbey]

I don't do Netflix, but I have a top 20 film list here:

http://www.shompy.com/jon-abbey/l17011_ukuk.html

[rollhead]

One I would definitely have on my list is Dr. Strangelove.

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by Jon Abbey

I don't do Netflix, but I have a top 20 film list here:

http://www.shompy.com/jon-abbey/l17011_ukuk.html

Do you ever watch any American films, or is American cinema dead, IYO?

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by tippy

I never know how to rate things but my list reads:

Fanny and Alexander
Haxan
Persuasion
Titus

heh heh heh heh. uhh...she said Fanny AND Titus.....heh heh

T&A, like, rules

[Jon Abbey]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

Do you ever watch any American films, or is American cinema dead, IYO?

I don't watch too many films from any country, but David Lynch is certainly in my pantheon. in fact, two of the three most recent films on my list are American, Lost Highway and Happiness. Hollywood pretty much poisons everything it touches, if that's the answer you're looking for.

[Brian Olewnick]

I hadn't thought of it in those terms, but I see the only recent US film on my list is "Mulholland Dr" and the most recent prior to that is "Paris, Texas" from '84 (and whether that would be considered American or not is, I guess, an open question), otherwise "King of Comedy" (1983)

There are plenty of US films I enjoy to a good extent, but scarce few I think of as among my great favorites.

[walto]

Originally Posted by Pete C

I may have been overgenerous on some, but here goes. I'm sure there are a bunch I haven't thought to rate yet. I know I methodically rated a few directors, like Wilder, Lang & Hitchcock. I may have given Barton Fink 5 partly because it was so vilified by so many.

'Round Midnight (1986)Round Midnight / Autour de Minuit

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)Trente-deux films brefs sur Glenn Gould

Ace in the Hole (1951)

The African Queen (1951)

Animal Crackers (1930)

The Apartment (1960)

Bad Day at Black Rock (1954)

Barton Fink (1991)

The Battle of Algiers (1965)La Battaglia di Algers

The Big Combo (1954)

The Big Heat (1953)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (1967)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Closely Watched Trains (1966)Ostre sledované vlaky

The Corporation (2004)

The Dinner Game (1998)Le dîner de cons

Double Indemnity (1944)

Eraserhead (1977)

The Fallen Idol (1948)

Fargo (1996)

Scarlet Street (1945)

Forbidden Games (1954)Jeux interdits

Fury (1936)

Genghis Blues (1999)

Grand Illusion (1937)La grande illusion

The Great Dictator (1940)

Happiness (1998)

Hud (1963)

In a Lonely Place (1950)

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

Kiss of Death (1947)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

The Ladykillers (1955)

The Last Waltz (1978)

Laura (1944)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

M (1931)

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Metropolis (1927)

Modern Times (1936)

Monkey Business (1931)

Mr. Klein (1976)Monsieur Klein

The Naked Kiss (1964)

Nashville (1975)

North by Northwest (1959)

Nosferatu (1929)Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens

On the Waterfront (1954)

Ossessione (1943)

Panic in Year Zero / The Last Man on Earth (1962)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Purple Noon (1960)Plein soleil

Raging Bull (1980)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Rififi (1955)Du rififi chez les hommes

The Servant (1963)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Suspiria (1977)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Tampopo (1986)

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1989)

The Third Man (1949)

The Tingler (1959)

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music (2003)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Wow. Your list is almost as middlebrow as mine would be. I'd have more Brit flicks though....

BTW, I'm pretty positive we've already done at least one thread of this type. Bluenoter!!!!

[Scott Dolan]

"Pete. Assume the position!!!"

[Surfer]

-Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
- Man With A Movie Camera (Vertov)
-Decalogue (Kieslowski)
-Trois Coleurs Trilogy (Kieslowski)
-Double Life Of Veronique (Kieslowski)
-La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
-La Strada (Fellini)
-Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
-8 ½ (Fellini)
-Amaracord (Fellini)
-Ikiru (Kurosawa)
-Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
-Rome, Open City (Rosselini)
-Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
-The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
-Virgin Spring (Bergman)
-Citizen Kane (Welles)
-The Third Man (Reed)
-Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
-Raging Bull (Scorsese)
-Wings of Desire (Wenders)
-Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
-2001 (Kubrick)
-A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
-Aguirre (Herzog)
-Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog)
-Nosferatu (Herzog)
-Stroszek (Herzog)
-Gates of Heaven (Morris)
-Thin Blue Line (Morris)
-Vertigo (Hitchcock)
-Notorious (Hitchcock)
-Rear Window (Hitchcock)
-Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
-The Godfather I & II (Coppola)
-Annie Hall (Allen)
-Manhattan (Allen)
-Contempt (Godard)
-Breathless (Godard)
-My Life To Live (Godard)
-Band Of Outsiders (Godard)
-Hara Kiri (Kobayashi)
-Au Hazard Balthasar (Bresson)
-Day For Night (Truffaut)
-400 Blows (Trauffaut)
-Star Wars Trilogy (Lucas)
-La Jetee (Marker)
-On The Waterfront (Kazan)
-Death Of A Salesman (Kazan)
-Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)
-Last Tango In Paris (Bertolucci)
-Do The Right Thing (Lee)
-Knife In The Water (Polanski)
-Chinatown (Polanski)
-Death In Venice (Visconti)
-12 Angry Men (Lumet)
-The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
-L’Avventura (Antonioni)
-La Notte (Antonioni)
-L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
-Peeping Tom (Powell)
-A Woman Under The Influence (Cassavetes)
-The Wedding of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
-M (Lang)
-Metropolis (Lang)
-Walkabout (Roeg)
-The Exorcist (Friedkin)
-Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch)
-Rushmore (Anderson)
-The Royal Tannenbaums (Anderson)
-Cache (Haneke)
-Dogville (Von Trier)
-Breaking The Waves (Von Trier)
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
-This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
-Caddyshack (Ramis)
-Life Of Brian (Jones)
-Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
-Short Cuts (Altman)
-The Graduate (Nichols)
-Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet)
-Afterlife (Hirokazu)
-Decasia (Morrison)
-Hoop Dreams (James
-Winged Migration (Perrin)
-You Can Count On Me (Lonergan)
-Rivers & Tides (Reidelschiemer)
-Straight, No Chaser (Zwerin)
-Repo Man (Cox)
-The Five Obstructions (Leth)
-Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Jackson)
-Endless Summer (Brown)

[Tom Storer]

I never rent movies. I watch 'em in the cinema and then forget 'em.

[me wag]

This is essentially the 5 star movies that I have rented from Netflix and a few I've seen that they wouldn't stop recommending for me unless I rated it. Keep in mind that 5 stars for Netflix means "Loved it" which is very different from masterpiece or the greatest film ever.

301/302 (1995)
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
All About My Mother (1999)
Amelie (2001)
Andrei Rublev (1966)

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Bad Company (1972)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (7-Disc Series) (1980)
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Lola (1981)


Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Cat People / Curse of the Cat People (1942)
Cavite (2006)
The Child (2005)
Children of Heaven (1999)

Chunhyang (2000)
City of God (2002)
The Conversation (1974)
Cyclo (1995)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Diabolique (1955)

Dial M for Murder (1954)
DiG! (2004)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Elizabeth Cotten: In Concert (1969)
Fingers (1978)


Floating Weeds (1959)
The Flower of My Secret (1996)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Graduate (1967)
Harakiri (1962)
The Hidden Blade (2006)

Hotel Rwanda (2005)
Ibrahim: A Brother with Perfect Timing (1987)
In Between Days (2006)
In the Mood for Love (2001)
The In-Laws (1979)
Kamikaze Girls (2005)
The Kid (1921)

Kikujiro (2000)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
Kwaidan (1964)
L'Atalante (1934)
La Haine (1995)


La Jetee / Sans Soleil (1963)
La Strada: Special Edition (1954)
Early Spring (1956)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Laurel & Hardy (1958)
Little Big Man (1970)

The Long Goodbye (1973)
M. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Maborosi (1995)
Mahmoud Ahmed & Either/Orchestra: Ethiogroove (2006)
A Man Escaped (1957)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)


Marnie (1964)
Martha (1974)
Modern Times (1936)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
Music for Experimental Film: Tom Verlaine & Jimmy Rip (2007)


My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
The New World (2005)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Nobody Knows (2005)
North by Northwest (1959)
Not One Less (2000)

Onibaba (1965)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Owl and the Sparrow (2007)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pitfall (1962)

Rear Window (1954)
The Red Balloon / White Mane (1953)
Red Road (2006)
The Road Home (2000)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Scenes from a Marriage (TV Version) (1973)

Seven Men from Now (1956)
Spirited Away (2002)
Talk to Her (2002)
The Third Man (1949)
Three Seasons (1999)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Tokyo Story (1953)

Tony Takitani (2004)
Touch the Sound (2004)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Untold Scandal (2003)
Vertigo (1958)
Volver (2006)

Wages of Fear (1953)
Walkabout (1971)
The War Zone (1999)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by me wag

Keep in mind that 5 stars for Netflix means "Loved it" which is very different from masterpiece or the greatest film ever.

Yes, my inclusion of films like The Tingler, Last Man on Earth, and Carnival of Souls, among others, is because I think they're masterpieces of their genre or so admirably quirky.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by walto

Wow. Your list is almost as middlebrow as mine would be. I'd have more Brit flicks though....

You had to quote the whole thing?

[Uli]

Originally Posted by walto

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BTW, I'm pretty positive we've already done at least one thread of this type. Bluenoter!!!!

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Yes we have. I . am sure Modesty Blaise was on mine. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Weekend, Golden Child etc etc..

[MRS]

Where the fuck is Heat?

[Cem]

I would add:


Baraka
Big Night
Down By Law
Ghost Dog
Goodfellas
Gosford Park
Last Night
Leolo
Miller's Crossing
Once Upon A Time In America
Sexy Beast
Short Cuts
Sick: Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Smoke
Taxi Driver
The Abyss
The Grateful Dead Movie
The Man with No Name Triolgy
The Sweet Hereafter

I wish everyone alphabetized... I hope I didn't repeat.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Cem

I wish everyone alphabetized... I hope I didn't repeat.

You got a problem with the word "your" in the thread title?

[Cem]

Easy, dawg...
I mean to check against my choices, so I don't repeat what's been said. Long lists are boring.

[john williams]

Off the top of my head-

Andrei Rublev
Mirror
Come and See
The Return
Once Upon a Time in America
Dr Strangelove
Ten Canoes
Noise
Le Enfants du Paradis
Fanny and Alexander
Stalker
Ikiru
Aguirre: Wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
All About My Mother
The Battle of Algiers
The Leopard
The Decalogue
Being John Malkovich
The Conversation
2001
The Manchurian Candidate
Rear Window
The Thin Red Line

[Scott Dolan]

I guess I must be one of the only ones here who doesn't hand out 5 stars like they're going out of style.

I dig the lists, but fer christs sake...

It is all subjective, I know.

[walto]

Originally Posted by Pete C

You had to quote the whole thing?

That involves the fewest keystrokes. I'd think you (of all people) would have known that!

[Pete C]

If you had added "Pete" after "Wow" you wouldn't have had to quote at all.

[walto]

That would have been more keystrokes.

[Vince Kargatis]

Originally Posted by walto

That would have been more keystrokes.

Not anymore.

[walto]

I know. It's silly. I think what Pete must really be complaining about here is that I outted him as a middle brow. I can't believe he cares this much about wasted bandwidth.

[Gentle Giant]

5-star or not, these are among the ones I'll watch over and over again until I die:

Dog Day Afternoon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Godfather I/II
The Graduate
Clockwork Orange
Diner
The Producers
Dirty Harry
Casablanca
Blow Up
Enter the Dragon