List of the best movies for a gift . . . in 16 years
I am going to make a DVD collection of what I think are the best movies ever made (not including some on purpose, such as Citizen Kane)
I want to put this collection together for my daughter who is now 14 months old.
I waant to give her this collection (in a nice wooden case) when she reaches an age where she can appreciate them . . .I figure 16 years old.
I also am including movies that I knnow are especially great for teenage girls (and are also still the best movies evar! . . such as Harold and Maude.
My list as of today:
Andrie Rublev - Tarkovsky
Ran (?) -Kurosawa
Harold And Maude
Wings Of Desire
My Dinner With Andre
Fanny And Alexander
Koyaanasqaatsi (trilogy?)
Annie Hall
Stardust Memories
I just started compiling my list.
What would your list be?
What would you add to mine?
I want to put this collection together for my daughter who is now 14 months old.
I waant to give her this collection (in a nice wooden case) when she reaches an age where she can appreciate them . . .I figure 16 years old.
I also am including movies that I knnow are especially great for teenage girls (and are also still the best movies evar! . . such as Harold and Maude.
My list as of today:
Andrie Rublev - Tarkovsky
Ran (?) -Kurosawa
Harold And Maude
Wings Of Desire
My Dinner With Andre
Fanny And Alexander
Koyaanasqaatsi (trilogy?)
Annie Hall
Stardust Memories
I just started compiling my list.
What would your list be?
What would you add to mine?
Comments
Unlike most of the other great movies I'd usually recommend, it's unpretentious, in English, and far less than three hours long.
Originally posted by Daver
I'll use this opportunity to pimp The Third Man once again.
Unlike most of the other great movies I'd usually recommend, it's unpretentious, in English, and far less than three hours long.
You undersell the benefits of good bout of pretension!!
The THird man? is that about the spu starring Orson Wells?
Dirty Harry (and Magnum Force)
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
Pretty much anything with Clint or Arnold in it.
The camera work and visuals from The Big Lebowski easily rival the best "Artistic" movies I've seen, and the plot in so twisted that it's beautiful. Plus, it's funny as hell.
the rest are just movies that I like to watch again and again. It's stupid to own a movie unless you're going to watch it a lot.
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective?????????
Originally posted by pfflam
I want to put this collection together for my daughter who is now 14 months old.
I waant to give her this collection (in a nice wooden case) when she reaches an age where she can appreciate them . . .I figure 16 years old.
You shouldn't forget to save her a DVD player, too. So she will be able to watch these 'vintage' movies.
As for the list, you might want to consider:
- The Fabulous World Of Amelie
- Leon - The professional
Surely you aren't referring to the prequels.
What prequels ?
I'd definitely do some searches for the movies you've already listed using Amazon's search engine because "people who bought 'Harold and Maude' also bought.....". Frightening how accurate that database can be sometimes.
You're partially aimed toward arthouse movies, partially toward movies with Woody Allen's New York sensibilities (thus perhaps your dislike for 3rd Man?). Why not Richard Dreyfuss in "The Goodby Girl" for a romance and "Look Who's Coming To Dinner" for social discourse?
And if you claim that "Jaws" isn't one of the best movies of all time I'll have to come back and call you a name.
Originally posted by GSpotter
You shouldn't forget to save her a DVD player, too. So she will be able to watch these 'vintage' movies.
As for the list, you might want to consider:
- The Fabulous World Of Amelie
- Leon - The professional
but ditto on the Amelie, great movie...
I'd also recommend requiem and ? but I'm not sure if they would still be relevant in 16 years... what a crazy concept...
you would do better to store good children's movies and the like rather then modern day dvds...
this way she can enjoy them now... then buy all the movies when she is like 12 or so...
edit: oh, and what is a gay southerner? are they related to big foot?
My own Southern accent disappeared after working with Californians and New Yorkers for a decade...it only slips out at family functions and when talking to Teamsters.
Speaking of Southern, how about "Slingblade"?
Run, Lola, Run
The Shawshank Redemption
The Fifth Element
What About Bob? (seriously, it's got a lot of good messages that people look past)
I look at Eberts list of Great Movies when I get stuck for ideas.