Cabaret

a newer favorite of mine -

talk to her (Pedro Almodovar)

and has anyone seen Steven Soderbergh's Kafka?
seems to be lesser known but one of my absolute favorites, i think it really does justice to the book (The Castle, though it's not a strict adaptation)

Claire's Knee

Claire's Knee is lovely - Rohmer is a brilliant director, just caught up with My Night at Maud's....

lately...

A Touch of Evil
l'Avventura
The Passenger (two antonioni's, not fair, i know...)
Knife in the Water
just about anything by Ozu
The Philadelphia Story

Get out your handkerchiefs

In the White City - Alain Tanner

Demonstating the connection between socialism the use of a police state to create a state of terror.

les enfants du paradis - children of the paradise - by marcel carne'
best views of paris urbanscapes filmed in the 20thC - that are a masterpiece in continuity. nothing lets you escape the time slot of the film in the early 19th century.

ditto ditto - blade runner (interiors filmed at the bradbury building in downtown los angeles)
metropolis by lang
brazil
repulsion by roman polanski (gooey interior walls of spandex to portray psychotic hallucinations) - this idea was knocked off pretty directly in the series Twin Peaks
Le Belle et Le Bete - Beauty & the Beast - Jean Cocteau - atmospheric interiors with smoke breathing caratyids, mirrored hallways of candelabara bearing sconses that follow the characters as they walks, and a great ascension of a character thru a broken skylight ............ no budget special effects using buildings and makeup.

to the Sergio Leone - I would add anything by Kurasawa - especially the earlier films.

Im very very young so classic films for me would be:

Indianna Jones
JAWS
Home Alone 1,2
The Matrix
Saving Private Ryan
Minority Report
AI

I agree with Repulsion: isn't that Catherine Deneuve in it? Roman Polanski very good: very edgy...

a-f – I watched Close-up last night and thought it was amazing.

What other films out there merge reality (actual footage and real people) and fiction (staged settings and actors playing fictional characters) in one film and continuous storyline?

I can only think of a few:
Tanner ’88 – Robert Altman
Gummo – Harmony Korine
Close-up – Abbas Kiarostami

Others?

to johndevlin- if you havent seen it check out "my best fiend" herzog's film about his relationship with klaus kinski. its hilarious.

vado retro- wasn't Klaus Kinski in Aguirre? And didn't he have a beautiful daughter Natashia Kinski who was??? an actress? model?

indeed he was and he did.

angels and insects (based on the story by A.S. Byatt) - Darwin and incest in a big Victorian country house in England

Enfants du paradis. circa 1945

juan moment:

You should definately see "A Moment of Innocence" which is directed by, and features, Makhmalbaf (yes, the "real" Makhmalbaf that appears at the end of Close-Up). It is even more complex in the layering of reality and fiction. Somehow the iranian directors can effortlessly mix this kind of highly experimental movie-making with very engaging stories and subtle humour.

"Faithless" by Liv Ullman (semi-autobiographical, but completely staged, altough parts of it is about the preparation of the movie itself)

"Dear Diary" by Nanno Moretti

"C'est arrivé pres de chez vous" (Man Bites Dog) by Rémy Belvaux
and André Bonzel (THE classic mockumentary)

'the Magic Flute' dir. by Ingmar Bergmam

1900 (although way too long and marred by a bad performance by Donald Sutherland)

Does this thread have a point or are you all just comparing dicks?

it is a bit of a pissing contest, I guess...

the use of highlights as a anchor in the montage of stills behind the opening credits of Citizen Kane marked the beginning of credits being seen as a stand alone art form.

not to mention it was spot the hell on.

classic pissing contest movies:
glengarry glenross.

Speaking of comparing dicks - any movie starring John Holmes.

also Jeremy Cohen

as far as classic films go, my personal favorite is fellini's 8 1/2.

my best fiend is what got me hooked on herzog.

there have been some good picks on this thread!
i want to go home and watch movies now.

I like a lot of what has already been posted...I did not notice Blade Runner on anyones list though...a must have...as is Akira.

tarkovsky, mirror
in that spirit:
http://www.darkstrider.net/gallery2a.html

-waking life- and you cant just watch it once.
-run lola run-
-akira-
-boondock saints-
-barbarella-
-ghost in the shell-
-triplets of bellville-

alking about Barbarella and Jane Fonda, what about
Klute?

another pissing contest flick
mr. polanski's knife in the water.

Being There
Irma la Douce
Medea (Pasolini?)
Goodbye Mr Chips
Sleuth
Educating Rita
Houseboat

"City of God" - story about life in the favelas of Rio, amazing film, not a classic yet...

and anything from Italian Neo-realism (de Sica, Fellini, Orsini, Rossellini etc)

not to get off track, but if you like run lola run, check out the princess and the warrior...

Seven Samurai

ichi the killer

The Trial : Orson Welles (Franz Kafka)
Rashomon : Akira Kurosawa

"Songs from the second floor" (2000), Roy Andersson

did i miss someone mentioning 'Soylent Green'?

soylent green is people!!!

topkapi- read eric ambler all you fancy espionage lovers!!!

vado: an interesting (if a little bit trashy) article about Polanski in today's Guardian
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1528916,00.html

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dang: try
http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/events/watchthis/

Any Jacques Tati film which critiques modernism with it's utopian vision.

try this list of films for children because all archinects are children at heart

The Draughtman's Contract - Peter Greenaway (1982)

i saw Tati's 'Mon Oncle' recently. It was a funny critique, and well done, but I don't know, kind of a one liner. Seems a bit overrated.