My lists are somewhat updated, but to be honest, they have reached a size where I can’t really get a decent overview anymore. Next time, I should sort them according to length, or directors, or genre, or people that recommended them to me… or make it dynamic in the first place.
Speaking of people, I realized that the only “favorites” lists I have in my own watchlist are Gorp’s favorites of the years and 314’s all time favorites. If you don’t happen to have this problem that I have, which is having a really really hard time with making favorites lists, I absolutely want to include your lists here! (Then again, the first time Shii had to publish his first list, there were things like “Lord of the Rings” and “City of God”, and he thought “The Last Unicorn” and “Silence of the Lambs” are must watches. XXXD)
My own top 5 list at the beginning of my movie buff time included “Fight Club”, “JSA”, “Hoshi no Koe”, “Memento” and “To be or not to be”. Among those, only “To be or not to be” has survived. The other four spots are now probably taken by “Tampopo”, “Coffee & Cigarettes”, “Jules et Jim” and “M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder”. I think they represent my movie tastes pretty well: An old American comedy, a modern American artsy Jarmusch, a Japanese comedy-drama, a stylish emotional Nouvelle Vague and a film from the Weimarer Republik. And oh my God they are all so brilliant?
(A top 5 is so difficult really… What about film noirs, all those Korean and Chinese movies I love, and the Italians, and my faible for Mexican films? Not to mention that most American movies I like are totally not like Jarmusch.)
Hey, don’t post things I said when I was fifteen! XXD
I’ve created some list for Facebook two years ago that represents my current tastes much, much more, but there would be some important changes nevertheless.
And hehe, your top 5 is more an escape from making favorite lists than a favorite list itself, isn’t it? Since you chose your movies by the way they represent your movie geekness rather than by impact, as you did on your previous lists?
Hahahaha, my own list from when I was fifteen must have been much more ridiculous. So don’t worry. ;)
Which Facebook list?
What? No way, I think my top 5 ended up being a “absolute favorite out of my 5 favorite genres”, but ultimately I think that the list is not too bad. These films also happen to be the ones that had the largest impact on me (except it hurts a bit that “Huo zhe” and “Dogville” are not on it.) But yeah, I’d definitely say that I’ve found every single of these titles absolutely mind-blowing when I saw them.