re: Your top 10 movies

well this is a trite topic. instead...

top 10 1990s dance tracks in no particular order

Everything But The Girl - Missing
Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
Daft Punk - Around The World
Enigma - Sadness Pt. 1
Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight
Real Mccoy - Runaway
Freak Nasty - Da Dip
Corona - Rhythm of the Night
Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It

One nation under a groove baby!

if you could dance in slow mo (like on the chappelle show), then i could see it working

maybe i'm just too hetero/anti-dancing to see it in my h ead

Tiered, rather than ranked

Tier 1:
City Lights
Throne of Blood
Vertigo

Tier 2:
Seven Samurai
The Thing (1982)
The Wild Bunch
Dr. Strangelove

Tier 3:
Memento
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Murder on the Orient Express

Honorable Mentions: Fight Club, Holy Grail, Gold Rush, Rear Window (has free fallen from the top of my list for some reason), NxNW, Kagemusha, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Oldboy, High Plains Drifter, Le Samourai

1. Shindlers List
2. Shawshank
3. Donnie Brasco
4. Seven
5. Silence of The Lambs
6. Braveheart
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. A Time To Kill
9. Forest Gump
10. Godfather

The Departed
First Blood
Forrest Gump
The Godfather
Heat
Man on Fire
Mystic River
Taxi Driver
Titanic
Training Day

First it's probably worth noting that my 10 favorite movies and the top 10 greatest movies are a significantly different list. My favorite movies are movies that I enjoy watching again and again. Having said this, these are my favorites:

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. Groundhog Day (1993)
3. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
4. Casablanca (1942)
5. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
6. Gosford Park (2001)
7. Rear Window (1954)
8. Star Wars (1977)
9. The Matrix (1999)
10. Ben Hur (1959)

The 10 greatest movies in terms of their theme, impact on society, acting, casting, special effects and general popularity are probably something like this:

1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. Ben Hur (1959)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
5. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8. The Usual Suspects (1995)
9. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
10. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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1. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
2. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
3. Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
4. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
5. Come And See (Klimov, 1985)
6. The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
7. Stroszek (Herzog, 1977)
8. I'm Not There (Haynes, 2007)
9. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
10. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)

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dude, my list is exactly the same!

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4. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
10. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)

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I'm glad criterion just released these on blu-ray. Especially Paris, Texas that movie has the best cinematography.