>I'm not much for sequentially ranking stuff like this but here are some movies I really liked that I don't think are showing up on the other lists
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>The Duelists (Ridley Scott)
>Apocalypse Now dir cut
>McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
>3 Women (Altman)
>The Player (Altman)
>Nashville (Altman)
>oh hell
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>Altman.*
>Scorcese.*
>Kurosawa.*
>Orson Wells.*
>Ridley Scott.*
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>My Favorite Year
>Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf
>The Spy who came in from the Cold
>The Killers
>Breathless (Godard)
>Day for Night (Truffaut)
>The Third Man
>Raiders of the Lost Ark
>Personal Best
>Glengarry Glenross (Mahmet) - never ever get tired of it.
>Pretty Baby, Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
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>Choose Me (Rudolph)
>Last Emperor
>Shanghai Triad
>Raise High the Red Lantern
>Don't Look Now
>The Deep End (Tilda Swinton)
>The Pledge (Jack Nicholson - Sean Penn directing)
>Kill Bill 1 and 2
>Inherit the Wind
>Cool Westerns :
>The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
>Magnificent 7
>The Professionals
>The Man Who Shot LIberty Valance
>Cat Ballou
>Silverado
>Tender Mercies (you had me at Duvall)
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>FWIW I find most of what came out of "the golden age of Hollywood" to be unwatchable much as I find almost all TV prior to Hill St. Blues and All in the Family to be a complete waste of time.
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>>Mike got me interested in The Big Chill so I watched it and have to say that while it was entertaining, it won't make my top 10 list.
>>Here's my personal top 10.
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>>1. Casablanca
>>2. Godfather I
>>3. On The Waterfront
>>4. Chinatown
>>5. Lawrence of Arabia
>>6. The English Patient
>>7. A Streetcar Named Desire
>>8. Ghandi
>>9. Chariots of Fire
>>10. The Verdict
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>>If I had room I'd add a Nora Ephron film, a Billy Wilder film or a Mel Brooks film.
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>>The Verdict nosed out A Few Good Men for the10 spot. Nicholson was awesome but David Mamet's screenplay and Paul Newman's performance are just too good.
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>>The English Patient owes its place to Juliette Binoche.
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>>Chariots of Fire isn't on many other lists, but for me it's one of the most all-around beautiful films ever made.
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>>Casablanca is an easy #1. That film has it all.
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>>Citizen Kane, #1 on a lot of lists, doesn't move me, nor do Fellini films, also on most lists.

Wow, so many great movie recommendations in this thread. "Tender Mercies" in particular is one of my favorites as well. I would pay to watch Robert Duvall read the phone book but I don't think he has ever done anything better. Everyone remembers him as the Marine colonel in "Apocalypse Now" -- "If I say the sea's safe for surfing it's safe for surfing!" -- but Tender Mercies was a more sustained role. Went down the road, came back. Went down the road again, came back.