I need your top 5 films

[DCJenn]

and not movies and if you don't know the difference, don't answer...

for my friend who runs the once a week film night for the public at the Alamodome. We played cards at her house and I told her I'd ask a larger audience.

My picks FYI:

La Femme Nikita. The original in French
Being John Malkovich
High Fidelity
Kolya
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

J.

PS- not being snooty- re films vs. movies but the kids knew the difference...and NO they don't have to be foreign flicks, that's just my preference. (PS- The Pink Panther series = films; Bond = movies)

[Auspicious]

Re: I need your top 5 films

The Thin Red Line
Amores Perros
City of God
Lantana
Maria Full of Grace
Nowhere in Africa
The Station Agent
Three Kings
Whale Rider

ok I'll stop now.

[Momo]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Here are a few :
Delicatessen
Mirrormask
Pecker
Amelie
Mar Adentro (the sea inside)
The Squid & The Whale
The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

[Flynn]

Re: I need your top 5 films

and not movies and if you don't know the difference, don't answer...

This cracked me up as I started my day....

[HouseofWool]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Central Station (a Brazilian film) is one of my favorites.

[fluffhead]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Smoke
Yankee Doodle Dandy
I second Whale Rider

[McPants]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Lola rennt
Watership Down
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Die Blechtrommel
The Commitments
Once were warriors

Okay, so there's 7 of them. Tough!

[Cumberland]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Indochine

[HouseofWool]

Re: I need your top 5 films

I have to second Smoke - fantastic movie, er, film.

Other favorite feeeeelms:
Titanic
The Notebook
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Blonde Ambition
Legally Blonde 3: The Dog Gets a JD
Legally Blonde 4: Titanic Notebook

In the category of movies I really like Shakespeare in Love.

Also,Mansfield Park by Jane Austen with Francis O'conner.

Re: I need your top 5 films

Well, I have to go with ten because I pretty much like the following equally.

Pan's Labyrinth
Mystic River
Lost in Translation
King of Comedy
Juno

and...

Drowning Mona (and yes it is a film )
Donnie Darko
Dolores Claiborne
Cape Fear
Yi Yi

[Auspicious]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Legally Blonde 4: Titanic Notebook

[Cumberland]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Well, I have to go with ten because I pretty much like the following equally.

Pan's Labyrinth

I watched this movie until the local hunters were killed and then turned it off bc it upset me so much. I shudder even thinking about this movie.

[fluffhead]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Oh! I forgot about "The Sweet Hereafter" - I saw this about 15 years ago, and still can't get it out of my head.

[Momo]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Oh! I forgot about "The Sweet Hereafter" - I saw this about 15 years ago, and still can't get it out of my head.

Now that you mention it,I recall this one as well. I thought then "no school buses for my kids."

[fluffhead]

Re: I need your top 5 films

Is Fargo a movie or a feeeeelm? Because that and O Brother are both on my top list.

I was thinking about this. Are the Coen brothers too mainstream these days, and does that put all their movies in the "movie" category? Cause I would put almost all of them in my faves list.
Barton Fink, especially.