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JB 1618 posts Jun 01, 2007 10:12 AM	I think many moons ago, I may have started a thread to this effect. However, I start it again. Sometimes when I am procrastinating or have insomnia, I list stuff. So, I'd like to hear your Top Tens (or approximate) on any or all subjects, humorous or serious.
jopaku 206 posts Jun 01, 2007 9:42 PM	10 great books wuthering heights- emily bronte the book of laughter and forgetting- milan kundera like water for chocolate- laura esquivel key to rebecca- ken follet return from the stars- stanislaw lem dear and glorious physician- taylor caldwell in cold blood- truman capote october 1964- david halberstam angelas ashes- frank mccourt the ice queen- alice hoffman Last Edited on 1-Jun-2007 10:10 PM
JB 1619 posts Jun 01, 2007 11:38 PM	Some great books there, Jo! And a few I need to check out. Here are my top twelve novels, though it was painful to narrow down, and I am no doubt forgetting some critical ones. Not necessarily in order. 1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 2. Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov 3. Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Karen Tei Yamashita 4. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 5. Abeng, Michelle Cliff 6. House of Spirits, Isabel Allende 7. Sula, Toni Morrison 8. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie 9. The Toughest Indian in the World, Sherman Alexie 10. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 11. Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich 12. Man's Fate, Andre Malroux
JB 1620 posts Jun 02, 2007 12:35 AM	Top 10 Movies x 3 + 3 1. Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean 2. The Seven Samurai, Akira Kurasawa 3. City of God, Fernando Meirelles 4. Dead Poet's Society, Peter Weir 5. Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori 5. Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee 6. Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki 7. Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir 8. My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant 9. The Singing Detective (original), Dennis Potter 10. City Lights, Charlie Chaplin 11. Time of the Gypsies, Emir Kusturica 12. Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrik 13. West Side Story, Jerome Robbins 14. Crooklyn, Spike Lee 15. Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola 16. Bamboozled, Spike Lee 17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee 18. Titanic (yes! I said it!), James Cameron 19. The Story of Qui Ju, Zhang Yimou 20. Bridge on the River Kwai, David Lean 21. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, Ang Lee 22. Thelma and Louise, Ridley Scott 23. L.I.E., Michael Cuesta 24. Smoke Signals, Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie 25. Holy Smoke, Jane Campion 26. Amores Perros, Alejandro González Iñarritu 27. Before the Rain, Milcho Manchevski 28. On the Beach, Stanley Kramer 29. Y Tu Mama Tambien, Alfonso Cuarón 30. All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar 31. High Noon, Fred Zinneman 32. Divine Intervention, Elia Suleiman 33. Six Degrees of Separation, Fred Schepisi Later, I'll have to add my next thirty. When I love a movie, I love it hard and long!
me. 1199 posts Jun 02, 2007 4:32 AM	There are another two movies by Zhang Yimou that you will LOVE so look out for them Ju Dou; and Red firecracker, green firecracker And you forgot almodovars best film Mujeres al bordo de un ataque de nervios and try also the french comdedy film Le placard (wardrobe, closet) It's got that old bum gerard le Pieu in it, but its got the better marcel auriel (or something like that) Last Edited on 2-Jun-2007 4:34 AM
jopaku 209 posts Jun 02, 2007 7:11 AM	I have only seen about a third of your top 33, but High Noon, and Dead Poets Society would definitely make my list. Have you ever seen Cinema Paradisio?
JB 1622 posts Jun 02, 2007 2:31 PM	ME, I love films you mentioned though not sure I saw Le Placard. I recall enjoying Cinema Paradisio, but found it a little corny. I know most everyone loves it madly. Since I haven't seen it since it came out, I must try it again one day.
me. 1205 posts Jun 05, 2007 5:30 AM	Le placard is genuinely funny. Not "hilarious" like in those fake recommendations that movie magazines dish out. Just downright cheer you up funny.
JB 1634 posts Jun 05, 2007 11:53 AM	Sounds like I need to see that toute suite! (I know I may gave mangled that attempt at French horribly. It's been twenty years!)
me. 1208 posts Jun 07, 2007 4:39 AM	Your french was tres magnifique, don't worry about that It won't be difficile to understand this film as it comes with soutitres. And it is ta sorte de film. Because it deals with beaucoup de sujets sociaux.
jopaku 224 posts Jun 11, 2007 5:58 PM	I was thinking about how you found Cinema Paradisio corny. It is a very sentimental movie. I'm wondering if atheism and sentimentality clash. It's not a religious movie, or is sentiment something obviously spiritual, but there seems to be a natural cynicism that goes along with being an atheist. Sentimentality From Wikipedia, Sentimentality is on one hand a literary device that is used to induce an emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally uncritical feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgments, and on the other it is a heightened reader response that is willing to invest previously prepared emotions to respond disproportionately to a literary situation Maybe you just find it aesthetically offensive? Last Edited on 11-Jun-2007 5:59 PM
JB 1641 posts Jun 11, 2007 9:55 PM	Nope.
JB 1700 posts Jul 04, 2007 12:53 AM	Top Ten Qualities I Most Admire in Fellow Humans (not in order): 1) People who take joy in their children and try to make the world a better place for them. Parents who help their children love both the world and themselves. 2) People who are not defeated by the cruelties and injustices of the world, and stubbornly move forward with their ideals. This is hard but necessary. Take a vacation to refuel. 3) People who turn more generous and wise with age. This is hard, since are brains become fossilized, but I have seen it can be gone. 4) People who are open and curious about the world enough to find ways to travel and attempt to immerse themselves. 5) Those who understand history and culture and ideology brainwash us, and therefore work to change, and keep changing, and discovering. In other words, those who embrace life as a process, not a determined product. 6) Recognizing that animals are sentient beings and need to be treated humanely and respected for the unique creatures they are. Also, respecting the earth. 7) People who are active, not passive, and work to change the system through various methods. Creative, daring minds. 8) People who realize that no matter how intense things get, laughter is the best medicine and will give us the strength to move forward. 9) Love, in all its forms. Brave expression of love, despite the ridicule of cynics. 10) People who can think of "we" and not only of "me." Last Edited on 4-Jul-2007 8:53 AM
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