Capo
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Post by Capo on Mar 27, 2007 18:27:43 GMT
_1. Lost Highway David Lynch, 1997 _2. Festen The Celebration Thomas Vinterberg, 1998 _3. Sátántangó Satan's Tango Béla Tarr, 1994 _4. The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick, 1998 _5. Fargo Joel Coen, 1996 _6. Julien Donkey-Boy Harmony Korine, 1999 _7. American Beauty Sam Mendes, 1999 _8 Idiotern The Idiots Lars von Trier, 1998 _9. Los amantes del Círculo Polar Lovers of the Arctic Circle Julio Medem, 1998 10. Goodfellas Martin Scorsese, 1990
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jake
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Post by jake on Mar 27, 2007 18:39:13 GMT
Subject to big revison; 1. Dukhovnye golosa (Aleksandr Sokurov) 2. Beau Travail (Claire Denis) 3. Rouge (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 4. L'Humanité (Bruno Dumont) 5. Mat i syn (Aleksandr Sokurov) 6. Bleu (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 7. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) 8. Short Cuts (Robert Altman) 9. Lone Star (John Sayles) 10. The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci) My mind's gone blank. I really need to start making note of what I'm watching.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Mar 27, 2007 18:39:50 GMT
You should keep an Excel database.
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jake
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Post by jake on Mar 27, 2007 18:44:51 GMT
Excel? What's that?
I've been meaning to compile a database documenting all the films I've seen but don't know how to go about it. I really don't want to have to look through IMDB year by year. What is the most extensive film guide book available?
The Thin Red Line is the only film we share. Strange, as I think either you or wetdog have the most similar taste to mine on this board.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Mar 27, 2007 18:53:18 GMT
I started my database by browsing Halliwell's film guide page by page, then Time Out. You could even do Radio Times too. I'd say Time Out's is the most prolific, but I'm not entirely sure. As you're browsing the pages you always think of films that aren't in, so you make a note of them as you go. All three of those books have significant overlaps, but will have films in which the others don't, and miss some which the others have. Time Out also has a very useful director index, which you can go through the same way, ticking off films from the directors you know you've seen.
Save from The Thin Red Line, the only films from your list I've seen are the two Kíeslowski films. How many have you seen from mine?
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Mar 27, 2007 18:53:43 GMT
PS. Were you joking about the Excel thing?
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Post by Capo on Mar 28, 2007 14:40:06 GMT
Yeah. This was initially a problem, for me; things can get a little too mathematical and contradictory when you start to do overlapping, overall lists, especially when you happen to compile them months apart. But then I thought, nah, to hell with it, I'm not even going to look at the yearly lists.
I'll revise them soon, though.
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Mar 28, 2007 16:30:21 GMT
1. Goodfellas (1990/Scorsese) 2. Magnolia (1999/Anderson) 3. Fight Club (1999/Fincher) 4. Heat (1995/Mann) 5. American Beauty (1999/Mendes) 6. Boogie Nights (1997/Anderson) 7. Forrest Gump (1994/Zemeckis) 8. Casino (1995/Scorsese) 9. Carlito's Way (1993/De Palma) 10. Pulp Fiction (1994/Tarantino)
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jrod
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Post by jrod on Mar 29, 2007 4:00:30 GMT
How much do you guys have in you excel databases?
I go Film, Year, Director, AFI100?, and 1001? Right now Im getting as much of the 1001 movies to see before you die done as I can, and its a great way to keep count.
Also, did you find a way to post these things online somewhere?
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Post by jrod on Mar 29, 2007 4:07:58 GMT
fuck yo, picking just 10 movies is HARD
1. Pulp Fiction 2. Goodfellas 3. Hoop Dreams (can I count a documentary?) 4. American Beauty 5. Schendilers List 6. Fargo 7. Eyes Wide Shut 8. Boogie Nights 9. Usual Suspects 10. Reservoir Dogs
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Mar 29, 2007 12:00:45 GMT
How much do you guys have in you excel databases? I go Film, Year, Director, AFI100?, and 1001? Right now Im getting as much of the 1001 movies to see before you die done as I can, and its a great way to keep count. Also, did you find a way to post these things online somewhere? My Excel database consists only of films I've seen. Pretty much what you see in my Proviews. I go Film, Rating, Director, Year, Country, Synopsis, Assessment. All of those you see in my Proviews. I have a Proview for every film I've seen, just about, with obvious need for re-watches for a lot of them. I also have four columns marked DVD, VHS, TV, D/L, to keep track of how many films I own in whatever form. I also need to start making an IMDb year column if we're moving ahead with these lists, because right now my Year column is copyright date (when the production of a film becomes "official", if you like), and so I have to keep cross-referencing notable titles in my database with their release dates on IMDb. Not nice. I don't know how to upload Excel files, but I'm sure there's a way. I've been Printscreening them and then uploading the images. Again, not nice. Updating Excel files doesn't actually take all that long; it's the rigmarole of making the images seeable, the right size and whatnot and then uploading them onto the net. It's not difficult, it just takes a lot of clicking between windows, and so when my concentration levels are low (which they are a lot of the time) I'll spend just that extra bit of time clicking on the wrong window and then trying to remember which window I wanted, and then going back to the original window to see what I've Ctrl + C'd, and then seeing where I wanted to Ctrl + V it to, etc. Jesus, what a boring post.
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Post by Pherdy on Apr 4, 2007 16:22:00 GMT
Given the individual totals of all the yearly lists, these movies would top the 1990's Decade Top 15: (in brackets the #1 spots)
1.Fargo - 64 (4) 2.Heat - 54 (2) 3.Pulp Fiction - 53 (3) 4.American Beauty - 52 (2) 5.Goodfellas - 48 (4) 6.Groundhog Day - 47 (-) 7.The Truman Show - 44 (1) 8.Schindler's List - 41 (3) 8.Casino - 41 (-) 10.Magnolia - 40 (1) 11.Boogie Nights - 39 (3) 12.Se7en - 36 (1) 13.Fight Club - 35 (2) 13.LA Confidential - 35 (1) 15.Reservoir Dogs - 35* (2)
* Although LA Confidential, Fight Club and Reservoir Dogs (all of them 35 points) ought to be tied on points, Reservoir Dogs needed more votes to get to these totals, meaning a lower average vote, which is the determing factor in these particular cases to have the other movies place one position higher. Casino and Schindler's List had the same number of votes.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Apr 9, 2007 0:38:37 GMT
Shuffled.
Good night.
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Kino
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Post by Kino on Apr 18, 2008 11:13:18 GMT
It sucks that Ratcatcher and Heat get the boot.
1. A Brighter Summer Day (Yang) 2. The Long Day Closes (Davies) 3. Quince Tree of the Sun AKA (The) Dream of Light (Erice) 4. And Life Goes On (Kiarostami) 5. Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski) 6. An Angel At My Table (Campion) 7. Only Yesterday (Takahata) 8. The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep) - (the Quays) 9. Chungking Express (Wong) 10. Maborosi (Kore-eda)
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