Please list your favorite ten COOL movies on DVD. The definition of 'Cool' - and yes, this is highly subjective, before the flaming begins - is, of artistic merit, challenging, innovative. The movies might be arthouse, world cinema, classics, experimental new wave. Any genre, but favoring cult status over blockbuster (please don't include stuff like Pearl Harbor and The Bodyguard and Troma trash).

Examples of Cool Cinema might include: Requiem For A Dream, Memento, Rules of Attraction, Run Lola Run, Blair Witch, Ed Wood, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Se7en, Rear Window, Fargo, Punch-Drunk Love , Etc. Get the emerging pattern?

Please list in order of preference. Will tally up scoring later in similar manner to my previous polls.

Thanks in advance.

1 Donnie Darko
1 Magnolia
3 Fight Club
4 Memento
5 Devil's Backbone
5 Amelie
5 Hedwig & the Angry Inch
8 Dancer in the Dark
9 Man Who Wasn't There
10 12 Monkeys
10 Being John Malkovich
10 Sitcom
10 Vanishing, The

I'd like to contribute. But the word "cool" is so subjective, everyone will have their own definition of it. For example a movie like Amelie, I would hardly consider "cool", I found the movie to be terribly nauseating & the title character unbearably annoying. And whereas I think Requim is a great movie, I would hardly call it "cool". I don't mean to be a thread crapper, I just think it's a rather hard question to ask.

Point taken, Sessa, but aren't all polls party to subjectiveness? And isn't that how we derive pleasure, especially here on Talk, discussing our subjective collections and obsessions?

However subjective, I am keen to see other people's definition of COOL and scan these lists. I am always open to suggestion and keen to glean knowlege and discover further prospective 'under-the-net' titles. That's the purpose of this thread.

Moving to movie forum.

Well, it really is just a "favourite films" list, isn't it?

Consider this thread crapped on.

I'll see if I can fit your definition of cool.

1. Queen Margot
2. Donnie Darko
3. Hard Eight
4. Kundun
5. Magnolia
6. The Ninth Configuration
7. Titus
8. Dancer in the Dark
9. The 4D Man
10. The Last Wave

But these rankings are really for the movies, not the DVDs.

Which is why DonnachaOne wrote what she wrote... this isn't about DVDs.

Just to clarify, and don't worry, I'm not offended:

Donnacha is an Irish boy's name.

Yet another top 10 list:

1. Matrix
2. Se7en
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. T2
5. Last of the Mohicans
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Spider-Man
8. LOTR : Fellowship of the Ring
9. Chungking Express
10. Run Lola Run

Deleted rant. - Static

In no particular order ....

Amelie (sucks, don't it! (no question mark needed))
North By Northwest
Who Dares Wins < aka, Final Option> (not released)
Bride With White Hair, The
Skin Deep
Solaris (Criterion)
Monster's Ball
Fight Club
Delicatessen (soon to be released)
Lord of the Flies (Criterion)

Whoa someone will be suspended soon. We dont attack fellow dvdtalkers. And what he said wasn't a threadcrap. What he said makes perfect sense. This thread is really kind of pointless.

1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2. Memento
3. The House of Yes
4. Fight Club
5. Donnie Darko
6. Dark City
7. The Sixth Sense
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Ghost World
10. Frailty

As stated earlier, this thread is really about cool movies. So, moving to Movie Talk.

This thread is specifically about cool movies on DVD so should remain in its original posting place.

As originator of the first DVDTalk Top 100 DVD Polls, which was expanded so ably by LBPound, I feel it in order to reflect something less mainstream.

The end results would have silence the doubters.

Sorcerer
Narc
The Big Blue
Blow
The Endless Summer
Near Dark
The Wanderers
Ghost Dog
The Professional
Zebrahead
...well these are off the top of my head.

I don't like assigning a number but here goes:

1) Ginger Snaps - Canadian version
2) The Devil's Backbone
3) Heavenly Creatures
4) Ghost World
5) Dog Soldiers
6) Carnival of Souls - Criterion
7) This is Spinal Tap
8) Them!
9) Spirited Away
10) Evil Dead

I'm not really sure what a cool movie is, but I think most of these are cool (and are all on DVD). I'm not sure if these are in any particular order, they're just numbered for the hell of it (although 1 and 2 are definitely right).

1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. Magnolia
4. Donnie Darko
5. Memento
6. Dazed & Confused
7. The Matrix
8. Edward Scissorhands
9. Before Sunrise
10. Requiem For A Dream

K

Noted. Thanks.

Down By Law
Bottle Rocket
Dead Man
SLC Punk!
Buffalo '66
Big Lebowski
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Miami Blues
American History X
Ravenous

ha, anyone with any of these in their collection is cool in my books(the Big Book of Big Cool Mothers(the "BBoBCM")).

10. Super Troopers
9. This Is Spinal Tap
8. Evil Dead
7. UHF
6. Strange Brew
5. Death Race 2000
4. Family Guy Vol 1
3. Cannibal! The Musical
2. Dead Alive
1. Orgazmo(a VHS copy will do)

Trainspotting
Blue Velvet
The Warriors
After Hours (now that this is in the movie forum)
High Fidelity
Amores Perros
Touch of Evil
The Third Man
The Maltese Falcon
8-1/2

I had these on the list too, then decided to limit it to movies not previously mentioned.
Ghost World
Donnie Darko
Bottle Rocket

Fight Club..
Snatch
Glen Gary Glen Ross
Pulp Fiction
Se7en
American Beauty
God Father Collection
Sopronos Season 1-3

I'd like to nominate any 10 movies that AREN'T Donnie Darko.

(and yes.. I have seen my sig, thank you.)

Se7en
Silence Of the Lambs
Rashomon
Lord Of The Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring EE
Lawrence Of Arabia
Road To Perdition
Moulin Rouge
Ran
The Usual Suspects
The Last Emperor

Ige Age
The Thing
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Lion in Winter
The Shining
A Christmas Story
A Simple Plan
Misery
Fargo
Santa Claus: The Movie