its abstract in its meaning but the storytelling is pretty straightforward. Its funny and I do remember a few surreal visual moments while watching but not too much.

Beau Travail in the top ten?

Was blown away by Hyenas I loved it much more that Touki Bouki (which was still great)

the restoration quality is unreal. Diop has a couple other short films from the 90s (both around 40 min long) that looks similarly amazing

My List:

La Notte (1961)
Belle de Jour (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Shining (1980)
Repo Man (1984)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Heathers (1988)
Goodfellas (1990)
Mulholland Drive (2001)

@FlyHiii

And i liked the movie a lot for what it was. But top 10 of all time!?!? lmaoooo

trying to shorten my all time list into just 10 films made me physically ill

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928)
A Matter Of Life & Death (1946)
Ugetsu (1953)
Night Of The Hunter (1955)
The Searchers (1956)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
2001 (1968)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Mirror (1975)
The Master (2012)

Pained me to omit Rosemarys Baby

The planets aligned in '57 and '68

I've seen a lot of these already but Ima do a deep rewatch here soon (probably with the criterion challenge)...Idk I just never got the hype for films like Citizen kane and 2001. 2001 is definitely a gorgeous film when it gets to the space segment and I did enjoy it, but it's not even my favorite Kubrick film...Im a wayyyyy bigger fan of Dr. Strangelove.
(Please note that I'm not saying those are bad films, I'm saying I never got the hype in regards to them being praised as top 5 films of all time)

Also don't get me started on s*** like "stalker"
Even though a lot of folks on here have shared the same opinion about stalker being a bore, I still can't understand how it's so hyped up by "cinephiles" and makes a top 100 list of all time movies.

I think I'm one of the most well-rounded users on here when it comes to film, meaning I enjoy the "pretentious" criterion s*** and even have a decent collection of films, I enjoy dumbass blockbusters like MCU, and I enjoy the "typical" top 10 classics like Goodfellas and Pulp fiction. So let me say theres no universe where a movie like beau travail, stalker or persona is being placed higher than Goodfellas and Pulp fiction in my personal top 10. And I f***in loved beau and persona, but not more than Pulp and good.

Also the fact that Bicycle thieves and do the right thing isn't top 5 is crazy to me as well.

F*** it lemme give my top 10 too:

Pulp fiction
Godfather
Do the right thing
Bicycle thieves
High and low
Goodfellas
Dr. Strangelove
The dark knight
There will be blood
Paid in full
(Yes you read correctly, #10 is Paid in full)

I would go with:

Stalker
Lawrence of Arabia
There Will Be Blood
Once Upon A Time in The West
Barry Lyndon
Seven Samurai
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Vertigo
Hero
The Revenant

didn't have to go that hard

2001 is transcendent cinema

Seventh Seal

The Godfather (1972)
GoodFellas (1990)
Heat (1995)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The New World (2005)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Great Silence (1968)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Z (1969)

Secretly the funniest movie of the 50s

My preferred S&S list:

• A Matter of Life and Death
• Les Trois Couronnes du matelot
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• The Searchers
• L’Avventura
• Je vous salue, Marie
• Sunrise
• Only Angels Have Wings
• 8 1/2
• The Cranes Are Flying

pained me to omit those last 4

AMOLAD and Ford fam

Ford my favorite director oat

I’m glad you view it that way my friend

Ford was to cinema what Ford was to industry