Alternate Reel has made a list of The Top 10 Philisophical Movies of All Time (guess they're pretty sure of themselves with a title like that). Here's the list...

10. Memento

9. Blade Runner

8. Waking Life

7. Seconds

6. La Dolce Vida

5. The Matrix

4. Being There

3. The Seventh Seal

2. A Clockwork Orange

1. My Dinner With Andre


The Matrix? Hmmmm... I'm not sure I'd have listed that, especially when something like Apocalypse Now isn't even on the list. And, I'm assuming that only the 1982 version of Blade Runner is acceptable, since the quote that is used in the article doesn't exist in any other cut.

I'm sure there have to be some others worthy of this list.

Certainly Apocalypse Now should be there. I'd give consideration to Spring Summer Fall Winter... and Spring, and Ma Nuit Chez Maud.

Yes to MAUD - it's loaded with philosophy. They talk about Jansenism in that one, right? Which brings to mind A MAN ESCAPED.

What makes APOCALYPSE a shoe-in? Does Kurtz talk philosophy?

Also include 13 Conversations About One Thing.

As to Apocalypse, I think the whole thing has a philosophical bent, heavy on nihilism. the nature of right/wrong, personal responsibility/accountability.

And Dennis Hopper's in it - doesn't that count as philosophical?

Hmm, how about:

The Big Lebowski

I Heart Huckabees

The Truman Show

Rashomon

Dennis Hopper does deliver the line, "Did you know that if is the middle word in life, man." If that isn't philisophical....

I'm very glad that La Dolce Vita is on the list (my favourite film of all time, and one of the shrewdest and most profound works ever produced for the cinema). However, I do think that other Bergman films would have been more appropriate for this list than The Seventh Seal. For example, Persona is heavily philosophical, while TSS seems more theological to me-- but perhaps I'm nit-picking, or maybe those who compiled the list just weren't concerned with that kind of distinction.

Also, no films by Jean-Luc Godard? Love his work or hate it (I both enjoy and am frustrated by it, depending on the film), Godard is nothing if not philosophical. At least one of his films should be here-- maybe Weekend?

No Antonioni? He was one of the masters of existentialist film.

What about Last Year at Marienbad? Man, how short peoples' memories seem to be these days... not that the list is terrible, but it just left out some of the essential, ground-breaking philosophical films!

I am glad to see My Dinner with Andre though. It's an obvious choice but a good one.

The Nines wishes that it was philiosophical.