Tarantino Promos Inglourious Basterds, Top 20 Films

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• matt | August 19, 2009 8:19 AMReply

  Bong Joon-Ho is amazing with two movies on there - MEMORIES OF MURDER and THE HOST. I thought MOM was better than ZODIAC. And when I saw TOKYO! it was obvious to me that he's far superior to Gondry or Carax.

• Ted | August 18, 2009 8:52 AMReply

  Anne, btw The Blade he is referring to is the Tsui Hark film not the Wesley Snipes vampire thing.

• Gaydos | August 18, 2009 7:48 AMReply

  Thanks to Quentin, I can openly express my love for ANYTHING ELSE, which everyone in the world tells me is a terrible Woodman outing, but I found funnier than hell and damn thought-provoking/laceratingly honest to boot. Now I have a major film geek on my side!!! Thank you QT!

• Crow T Robot | August 18, 2009 5:19 AMReply

  I love this list. His choices prompt either "Yes! Exactly!" or "Is he kidding?"
  
  But there's no doubt this movie crazy guy means each one of them.
  
  Speed is also my favorite action film of the 1990s.

• jl | August 18, 2009 4:10 AMReply

  Battle Royale - the manga is great as well

• Brian | August 18, 2009 3:26 AMReply

  Of the five you mention not having seen, I've seen four and, while I'm not crazy about all of them, I think they're fascinating films and should be seen. THE HOST offers some really interesting twists on the theme of giant monsters loose in large Asian cities. MEMORIES OF MURDER is a very downbeat film about a police force's botched hunt for a serial killer. AUDITION is the Takashi Miike film I found most accessible but I can't easily sum it up. And Kinji Fukasaku's BATTLE ROYALE is indeed a masterpiece, one of the most emotionally honest films about adolescence I've ever seen. It triggered long-forgotten memories of my own experiences as a 14-year-old (not quite as drastic as those in the film, of course).