This is an interesting one (from Khanya). “The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen films you’ve seen that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen films you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.”
Not in order of preference.
1. American Beauty (as I’ve just reposted a ‘review’ of it!)
2. Blade Runner
3. Magnolia
4. Fight Club
5. First Blood
6. Life of Brian
7. An American Werewolf in London
8. Un Couer en Hiver
9. Star Wars
10. Vanilla Sky
11. The Matrix
12. The Truman Show
13. Lawrence of Arabia
14. The Passion of the Christ
15. Good Will Hunting
If you read this, consider yourself tagged.
The Mission
Aliens
Good Will Hunting
Into the Wild
Contact
Fight Club
The Matrix
Apollo 13
The Sixth Sense
Dances with Wolves
The Sound of Music
Terminator
The Ring
The Last Samurai
Mary Poppins
Some odd juxtapositions in there…
V for Vendetta
Doctor Zhivago
Brazil
Blade Runner
Matrix
Minority Report
Logan’s Run
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Escape from New York
They Live
Pleasantville
Sleeper
A Clockwork Orange
Children of Men
The Castle (1997)
The Godfather trilogy
Children of a Lesser God
The Lives of Others
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Bourne Trilogy
The Mission
Syriana
Amelie
Ghandi
The Italian Job (original)
Colonel Redl
Russian Ark
A Few Good Men
Up
Duel
Minority Report
I’ve considered myself tagged after reading yours and Phil’s
Lawrence of Arabia
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Brokeback Mountain
Sunset Boulevard
Animal Farm (animated 1954 version)
Dr Strangelove
Vertigo
Some Like It Hot
Close my Eyes
The Crying Game
Maurice
Gods and Monsters
Gone with the Wind (adored it when I was a teenager)
Babe
The Producers (the original, not the awful remake)
(If I could have had 16 I would have put Rear Window, too)
Okay, I’m going to cheat totally and add five more:
Rear Window
The Dead
The Lion King
The Seven Samurai
The Story of the Weeping Camel
That will do me.
In no particular order:
1. The Battleship Potemkin
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Easy Rider
4. Witness
5. Women in Love
6. Chariots of Fire
7. Cry Freedom
8. Ghandi
9. Ben Hur
10. A Man for All Seasons
11. The Year of Living Dangerously
12. The Graduate
13. Dr Zhivago
14. War Child
15. Schindler’s List
This meme seems to have taken off rather nicely! I think I would add a few supplementary ones with a bit further thought, specifically: The Breakfast Club, The Exorcist, The Mission, The Mask.
Hi Sam, Happy New Year to you. I won’t do the “meme” – already too analytical after considering your list
Just pick up the touch points with yours, I’m good with :
American Beauty
Blade Runner
Fight Club
Life of Brian
and my first hit …
Lawrence of Arabia
Had our annual re-watch of LoA over the holiday, and of course the whole of
Godfather I, II and III. (Morality tale par-excellence – I think I blogged about it the other day ?) And I’d add from your commenters:
Dr Strangelove
The Mission
Easy Rider
Dr Zhivago
Beautiful Mind
Oh and the omissions …
Brazil
Fitzcaraldo
Ghandi
Hey … that’s 15 if I count Godfather trilogy as one ! (Better stop, I feel a handful more coming on …)
Star Wars
No Country for Old Men
Indiana Jones
2010 a Space Odyssey
Pulp Fiction
The Outlaw Jose Wells
The Exorcist
Enter the Dragon
Full Metal Jacket
Predator
Alien
Matrix
Crumb
Up in Smoke
Kill Bill
Oh yes, Pulp Fiction!
In no particular order:
Toy Story 1, 2 & 3
The Matrix
American Beauty
Blade Runner
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Lord of the Rings – all 3
The Truman Show
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindler’s List
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
12 Monkeys
Se7en
Leon
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
I know that’s cheating a bit…