Best Films You've Ever Seen

[fishfoodie]

Backdoor Sluts III of course closely followed by Big Tits Zombie

I thought we weren't going to do the obvious classics ?

[Punter15]

Backdoor Sluts III of course closely followed by Big Tits Zombie

I thought we weren't going to do the obvious classics ?

Do you need to have watched Backdoor Sluts I and II to fully appreciate the third instalment?

[Torquemada 1420]

Apocalypse Now is one of my all time favourite films, I can practically recite the dialogue. The trouble with naming that or Kane or Shawshank, Some Like It Hot, Godfather etc is that everyone knows they are great.

I'm interested in what slipped in under the radar, the really good films that might not have that sort of publicity.

I'm not a great student of French cinema, but I've rarely seen a bad one, modern films like Amelie and Betty Blue are well known here, as well as the Three Colours Trilogy - which were all darlings of the arthouse cinema here, and I really like them, but one that didn't get many great reviews was Priceless (Hors de prix) - it's a fun rom com about a gold digger and hotel waiter, I watched it just when I was in the right mood (I had a stinking cold and wanted something light).

That's the sort of film I'd like to hear about.

For starters
Berri's Manon des Sources and Jean de Florette.
Le Mari de la coiffeuse.
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Delicatessen (close to making my top 10).
Les Triplettes de Belleville.
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (which I thought was funnier than the critic's favourite of Mon Oncle).

[bogbunny]

Master and Commander
Last of the Mohicans
Gladiator
Spartacus
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Avatar
Great Escape

[Sandstorm]

Backdoor Sluts III of course closely followed by Big Tits Zombie

I thought we weren't going to do the obvious classics ?

Do you need to have watched Backdoor Sluts I and II to fully appreciate the third instalment?

Couldn’t hurt

[Tichtheid]

Third instalment sounds really dirty in that context

[Tichtheid]

Apocalypse Now is one of my all time favourite films, I can practically recite the dialogue. The trouble with naming that or Kane or Shawshank, Some Like It Hot, Godfather etc is that everyone knows they are great.

I'm interested in what slipped in under the radar, the really good films that might not have that sort of publicity.

I'm not a great student of French cinema, but I've rarely seen a bad one, modern films like Amelie and Betty Blue are well known here, as well as the Three Colours Trilogy - which were all darlings of the arthouse cinema here, and I really like them, but one that didn't get many great reviews was Priceless (Hors de prix) - it's a fun rom com about a gold digger and hotel waiter, I watched it just when I was in the right mood (I had a stinking cold and wanted something light).

That's the sort of film I'd like to hear about.

For starters
Berri's Manon des Sources and Jean de Florette.
Le Mari de la coiffeuse.
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Delicatessen (close to making my top 10).
Les Triplettes de Belleville.
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (which I thought was funnier than the critic's favourite of Mon Oncle).

I know 1, 2, 4 and 5 from that list.

I'll check out the others

[Gumboot]

Berri's Manon des Sources and Jean de Florette.

Loved every minute of both. Just superb.

[boere wors]

Bourne has aged so badly it is almost unwatchable nowadays

[Simian]

City of God

City of Lost Children

[Uncle fester]

Apocalypse Now is one of my all time favourite films, I can practically recite the dialogue. The trouble with naming that or Kane or Shawshank, Some Like It Hot, Godfather etc is that everyone knows they are great.

I'm interested in what slipped in under the radar, the really good films that might not have that sort of publicity.

I'm not a great student of French cinema, but I've rarely seen a bad one, modern films like Amelie and Betty Blue are well known here, as well as the Three Colours Trilogy - which were all darlings of the arthouse cinema here, and I really like them, but one that didn't get many great reviews was Priceless (Hors de prix) - it's a fun rom com about a gold digger and hotel waiter, I watched it just when I was in the right mood (I had a stinking cold and wanted something light).

That's the sort of film I'd like to hear about.

For starters
Berri's Manon des Sources and Jean de Florette.
Le Mari de la coiffeuse.
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Delicatessen (close to making my top 10).
Les Triplettes de Belleville.
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (which I thought was funnier than the critic's favourite of Mon Oncle).

La Reine Margot
Indochine
La Haine

[Uncle fester]

Opinions on Amelie?
I loved it along with all JPJ's output. Even that alien filum is an interesting failure.

[Uncle fester]

Opinions on Amelie?
I loved it along with all JPJ's output. Even that alien filum is an interesting failure.

I loved it and up until Bigbug the last of his movies I watched. Hairdressers Husband was another French movie I loved as a young lad. Wonder what I would think now that I am an oul lad like the husband

He has struggled to get funding for his filums as financers won't take a risk with him. Netflix was a last resort and their filums have been pish so far.

[notfatcat]

Bad Day at Black Rock
The Sting
Cool Hand Luke
Pulp Fiction
Mississippi Burning
As Good as it Gets
Get Shorty

[Line6 HXFX]

The Fisher King.

Possibly the best film ever made.

[lemonhead]

Berri's Manon des Sources and Jean de Florette.

Loved every minute of both. Just superb.

Bang on.

Night of the Hunter's already been mentioned, an absolute masterpiece far ahead of its time that started and finished Laughton's career. What might have been. His audio narration is up on Youtube, well worth a listen.

More recently, Toto the Hero is also a beautiful film. Others in no real order, Pelle the Conqueror, Babette's Feast, Wrath of Khan, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot, Holy Grail, Do the Right Thing, Double Indemnity and Team America.

You'd need at least 50 picks to do this one justice.

[Punter15]

Berri's Manon des Sources and Jean de Florette.

Loved every minute of both. Just superb.

If you haven’t already, watch La Gloire de mon Pere and Le Chateau de ma Mere. Beautiful and wonderful both.

[TB63]

The Gods must be crazy..

[boere wors]

The Fisher King.

Possibly the best film ever made.

Except for 12 monkeys, i cant stand gilliam films and have steered around this one. Will probably have to finally give it a go.

[Slick]

Apocalypse Now is one of my all time favourite films, I can practically recite the dialogue. The trouble with naming that or Kane or Shawshank, Some Like It Hot, Godfather etc is that everyone knows they are great.

I'm interested in what slipped in under the radar, the really good films that might not have that sort of publicity.

I'm not a great student of French cinema, but I've rarely seen a bad one, modern films like Amelie and Betty Blue are well known here, as well as the Three Colours Trilogy - which were all darlings of the arthouse cinema here, and I really like them, but one that didn't get many great reviews was Priceless (Hors de prix) - it's a fun rom com about a gold digger and hotel waiter, I watched it just when I was in the right mood (I had a stinking cold and wanted something light).

That's the sort of film I'd like to hear about.

If you are after some less well known choices

The Battle of Algiers - not a comfortable watch, but an incredible film. The cast are almost all non-professionals and includes people who had been members of the FLN in Algiers.

Touch of Evil (had to include a Welles film)

Night of the Hunter

La Grande Illusion

Aguirre, Wrath of God

Thanks! Im with Tichtheid, rarely seen a bad French movie and love them. Will definitely have a look at these

[Gumboot]

Berri's Manon des Sources and Jean de Florette.

Loved every minute of both. Just superb.

If you haven’t already, watch La Gloire de mon Pere and Le Chateau de ma Mere. Beautiful and wonderful both.

Cheers, will check them out.

[Line6 HXFX]

The Fisher King.

Possibly the best film ever made.

Except for 12 monkeys, i cant stand gilliam films and have steered around this one. Will probably have to finally give it a go.

It truly is delightful, and is so deep and works on so many levels. It touches subjects like severe PTSD, Homelessness, loss, love, the performances were outstanding...all four main characters should have got Oscars.

When the reveal of the Red Knight that persues him, when he has PTSD flashbacks, is actually his wife's brains being splattered into his face by a shotgun blast, it makes you fucking speechless. Or when the Amanda Plummer character is basically the exact same sort of marginalised, loner, loser character as the lone gunman, that blasted his wife..and he loves her anyway (and would have loved and forgave him) .it just makes your heart break.

What a f'king film..so many levels to it.

Plus it has one of the most perfect and romantic scenes ever filmed..

[TedMaul]

Regretfully her voice is like nails on a blackboard to me same as Jennifer Tilly
I’d go with
Dead Man’s Shoes
Zodiac
Hidden
Eternal Sunshine
Departed
A history of Violence
LA Confidential
Lives of Others
Fargo
Rushmore
Carlitos Way
In Bruges
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Silence of the Lambs

[Brazil]

Amazed Zulu hasn't been mentioned. One of the best (and most misunderstood) war films of all time.

Also, Ulzana's Raid is a fantastic Western/War film that never gets the recognition it deserves. Burt Lancaster at his very best.

[PCPhil]

Apocalypse Now is one of my all time favourite films, I can practically recite the dialogue. The trouble with naming that or Kane or Shawshank, Some Like It Hot, Godfather etc is that everyone knows they are great.

I'm interested in what slipped in under the radar, the really good films that might not have that sort of publicity.

I'm not a great student of French cinema, but I've rarely seen a bad one, modern films like Amelie and Betty Blue are well known here, as well as the Three Colours Trilogy - which were all darlings of the arthouse cinema here, and I really like them, but one that didn't get many great reviews was Priceless (Hors de prix) - it's a fun rom com about a gold digger and hotel waiter, I watched it just when I was in the right mood (I had a stinking cold and wanted something light).

That's the sort of film I'd like to hear about.

If you are after some less well known choices

The Battle of Algiers - not a comfortable watch, but an incredible film. The cast are almost all non-professionals and includes people who had been members of the FLN in Algiers.

Touch of Evil (had to include a Welles film)

Night of the Hunter

La Grande Illusion

Aguirre, Wrath of God

I'd forgotten Aguirre. Might have to re watch as not seen for decades. I had never seen a film that so captured the wonder that Europeans must have felt exploring a strange new world.