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Munro

09-18-2003, 12:46 AM

There's always been a lot of "what's your favourite" topics, but I don't think I've ever seen a favourite film one, and we're always referring to films we like...so...
What's everyone's favourite films? Or ones that we've seen recently and liked.
My top 5 would be
Pulp Fiction
Dr Zhivago
Dr Strangelove
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ben Hur

to name five out of many.

den

09-18-2003, 06:17 AM

I would choose One Flew over the Cuckoos nest too but so many others including Orphee (Orpheus) By Jean Cocteau.

Shea

09-18-2003, 07:59 AM

Citizen Kane (without a doubt)
Somewhere in Time
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Roman Holiday ( I love Audrey Hepburn)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy are fast becoming my favorites but so far, I liked the books better. ;)

Chardata

09-18-2003, 03:29 PM

oh jeeze...ben hurr...bad band memories...::screeming and holding head:: lol. Right now i like Pirates of the Carr. Jonny Depp...too funny!

AbdoRinbo

09-18-2003, 03:45 PM

'Dr. Strangelove', heh . . . that one is awesome. But, geez, picking a favorite . . . that's no modest task. Erm, I like Kubrick but I don't think my favorite film is one of his. I also like Peter Jackson ('The Lord of the Rings' trilogy and the basement comedy, 'Meet the Feebles') right now, but it's too early to tell if he is my favorite director ('Meet the Feebles' is wild, still digesting it). There is one movie that I like in particular called 'Tenebrae' by the Italian director Dario Argento. The score is phenomenal (a horror-style 80s techno-pop), and the stale, incandescent lighting sets a rather dry mood for a pretty shocking blood-bath. But I suppose tasteless horror isn't very popular anymore.

Demona

09-19-2003, 11:56 AM

I`d name:
Pulp Fiction
Gone with the Wind
Sherlock Holmes (Russian version) + old Russian movies, 70`s - 80`s :) really enjoy those......and generally,
i dont watch movies that much...i`m more into music... :P

lazy cat

09-21-2003, 09:57 AM

I am new in this forum and a newbie in general.I love movies ,so here are
some of my recent favourite ones...

The Lord Of the Rings (of course the books are better ,as usual)
Amelie
It's all about love
Hero
The Matrix
:oops:

Shea

09-30-2003, 09:26 AM

Just had to say...

I saw Luther this weekend, and it was excellent! It hasn't been advertised, so I wanted to recommend it. Unfortunately, my husband and I had been planning to write the screenplay on the history of Luther ourselves. Obviously, someone beat us to it! :rolleyes: But we can say after all our research, it is historically accurate in all of it except the part where the boy hangs himself.

Oh, and if anyone here is Catholic and goes to see it, please keep an open mind, and understand that it is simply history, not necessarily an attack on the Catholic church.

fayefaye

10-02-2003, 06:34 AM

i've probably seen my best friend's wedding the most of any movie, but it's not my fave.. i guess i don't really have a fave. i really liked good will hunting. did u know matt damon and ben whatshisname wrote that themselves?

Shea

10-02-2003, 08:31 AM

I liked Good Will Hunting too, Robin Williams is one of my favorite actors. I used to like My Best Friends Wedding, but I had sort of a falling out with it. My Best friend and I had made a pact like that, then we did get engaged, broke it off, and now I'm minus a best friend and a good movie.

AbdoRinbo

10-02-2003, 01:37 PM

Shea

10-02-2003, 08:15 PM

Robin Williams lived not too far from my home in Livonia. Growing up, he went to school at Cranbrook (one of the most prestigious private schools in the country, which is where the inspiration for 'The Dead Poets Society' came from). Happy Thursday's Present of Knowledge.

Are there a lot of tributes to him there? He's rather genius in his wit, in my opinion. I saw him do an improve segment on Inside the Actors Studio, absolutely hilarious!! :D :D :D

Rotty1021

10-02-2003, 09:25 PM

Williams is one of the most gifted actors around. Jim Carrey, too, but they are very different.

All of my favorite films are comedies. I don't watch too much of the dramatic stuff, that's what I read. "Dumb and Dumber" ranks up there as my favorite film, with at least fifty viewings. I also like those teen movies that take place in high schools. :D

KLO

10-04-2003, 05:53 PM

It's hard to pick a favorite, but the following are some that I either enjoyed immensely or that deeply moved me:
Singin' in the Rain
Schindler's List
A River Runs Through It
There's Something About Mary
Both Harry Potter films
Both Lord of the Ring films
Smoke Signals

Munro

10-07-2003, 07:24 AM

I have to mention and strongly recommend one film that I saw for the second time last night (and trekked all the way to the opposite side of the city to do so) called Russian Ark, which I assume some forumers may have heard of already.

It is the first film ever to be done in one take, it goes for 90 minutes and it takes the viewer through Russian history and it's art. It is both spectacular and beautiful, and especially the last 20 minutes are absolutely amazing. I had tears in my eyes when it finished, I don't know why exactly, maybe just because it was such a beautiful journey altogether.

AbdoRinbo

10-07-2003, 01:30 PM

They were playing that at an independent theater here at the beginning of summer. I haven't seen it, but I heard it was amazing. I'll have to try and get my hands on a copy.

Stanislaw

10-07-2003, 07:48 PM

My favorite movies are as follows:

The Great Dictator
Star Wars Saga (all of them)
Moby Dick
Solaris
Bicentenial man
Muppet Treasure Island
Cuthroat Island
Matrix I & II
Blast from the Past
Undercover Brother
Montey pythons Holy Grail
Undercover Blues
And finally....(Drum Role)...
City Heat.

I recomend all these movies!! 8)

KLO

10-07-2003, 07:49 PM

Which version of Moby Dick do you like?

Stanislaw

10-07-2003, 08:47 PM

The Patrick Stewart version is my favorite, but generally I enjoyed all the versions I have seen.

jesse sutton

10-08-2003, 04:16 PM

I would like to be able to state that my favourite movie is something impressive and mature, like

Lawrence of arabia, (my third favourite)
or
Apocalypse Now, (my second favourite)

but my top choice has to be given to the awe-inspiring true tale of one man's goals of playing Notre Dame football. Though short, and unathletic, he proves that to get what you want in life, you need not large muscles and a smart brain, but simply a strong heart. This movie i speak of is

RUDY.

Demona

10-09-2003, 01:00 PM

Solaris

and which version of this film do you prefer?

fayefaye

10-10-2003, 06:51 AM

oh jeeze...ben hurr...bad band memories...screeming and holding head lol. Right now i like Pirates of the Carr. Jonny Depp...too funny!

Yes, not to mention the fact that i was sitting through half the movie thinking, 'orlando blooom.. so hot i think i'm gonna cry.' cry D (this does not make me a hypocrite for my criticising the way guys look at girls in the bible forum though, simply cuz when i look at a guy and think he's good looking, in my mind it in no way translates to any thoughts about sex.)

crisaor

10-28-2003, 02:15 PM

The good ones I can remember right now:

Pulp Fiction
The name of the rose
Faraway, so close !
The seven samurai
Star Wars (the original trilogy)
Matrix
Adieu, plancher des vaches!
Bowling for Columbine
Touch of evil
The man without a past
The Godfather trilogy
Annie Hall
Blade Runner
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Apocalypse now
Groundhog day
The kid
The gold rush
The great dictator
Modern times

There will be more to come, surely.

AbdoRinbo

10-28-2003, 05:55 PM

Crisaor, did you see 'Kill Bill' yet?

Dyrwen

10-29-2003, 01:06 AM

SLC Punk
Snatch
Donnie Darko
Star Wars IV
Indiana Jones: Last Crusade
Interview with a Vampire
Matrix 1
Fight Club

AbdoRinbo

10-29-2003, 03:44 AM

I love 'Donny Darko'. It's like 'American Beauty', only weirder.

Munro

10-29-2003, 05:38 AM

Donnie Darko is my nickname at work :oops: :)

"Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?"

"Why do you wear that stupid man suit?!" Hehehehe...

I go to a Catholic high school, and I've grown to hate the chauvinistic attitude of my Religious teachers there, like he did, and how they try to separate concepts into black and white. My mum does it, too.

I've watched it twice and I think I only half get it. And I'm still waiting for my friend to burn my the soundtrack, it's awesome music.

Ickmeister

10-30-2003, 08:34 AM

:D THE PRICESS BRIDE!!! Dude(tte)s It Rocks!

Sindhu

10-31-2003, 04:38 AM

Can I make a LONG list please? And it's not in order of preference- just as they ome to mind.
Amadeus
Camelot
My Fair Lady
Caesar and Cleopatra
Hamlet (Olivier& Branagh tie)
Much Ado about Nothing
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Both Harry Potters
Sound of Music
The Madness of King George
Gone with the wind
Henry V (Branagh)
Antony and Cleopatra
Cromwell
Anne of the Thousand Days
Shakespeare in Love
Titanic
Moby Dick
Rebecca
I'd better stop there for now!

fayefaye

10-31-2003, 08:03 AM

D THE PRICESS BRIDE!!! Dude(tte)s It Rocks!

what? no, i think it sucks! D

crisaor

10-31-2003, 02:44 PM

Not yet, AbdoRinbo, but I will as soon as the movie premieres (just 2 more weeks now).

Here's 2 more:
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Isagel

10-31-2003, 03:37 PM

Have you seen Hero?

I can´t decide if I like Hero or Crouching tiger best, but I think I´kll go with Hero. The use of colour is magnificent.

My favorite movie is Orlando. I adore Tilda Swinton.
Some other favorites are:
Cinema paradiso
Cat on a hot tin roof
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Fightclub
Life of Brian
The Crow
Fried green tomatoes
Blade runner
My own private Idaho - Gus van Sant movies are usually great.
Silence of the lambs
Richard III
Much ado about nothing
Ice age - so very funny! I can see the beginning with the squirrell at least 30 times more...Then I might be fed up. Maybe.

Ickmeister

11-02-2003, 04:59 AM

hey fayfaye you Punk, that movie is mad cool!. ( I'm using "mad" in a new context for me here ) so poopoo on you hoo. you do know I'm joking... right?

crisaor

11-04-2003, 02:30 PM

Dyrwen

11-05-2003, 01:03 AM

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

This was creative and all, but I prefered "Snatch" more. They're basically the same movie with a different gambling issue. Heh.. Maybe it's the violence that got me in Snatch, LSTSB is just a little too about the plot. Hell of a twist..

Munro

11-05-2003, 04:21 AM

This was creative and all, but I prefered "Snatch" more. They're basically the same movie with a different gambling issue. Heh.. Maybe it's the violence that got me in Snatch, LSTSB is just a little too about the plot. Hell of a twist..

Really? I thought 'Snatch' was pretty good, but only because of Brad Pitt as the gypsy and Guy Ritchie's usual directorial style. I loved 'Lock, Stock' though, and I much prefer it to 'Snatch'. It was so classy, everything from the clever dialogue to the soundtrack. The characters in 'Snatch' were more colourful, but 'Lock, Stock' was the first of it's kind, and with soo many quotables.

Have you seen 'Swept Away'? I wanna see it just so I can witness how bad it really was.

Isagel

11-05-2003, 05:00 AM

If you're referring to the one with Dustin Hoffman, yes, I've seen it. It's very good, although I wouldn't consider it as one of my favourites. It's funny you compare it with cruching tiger, as they're completely different movies. Or, maybe you're talking about another movie named Hero, and I've just misunderstood your whole point :oops:

Yes - I meant another one. :D Did not know there was one called that with Dustin Hoffman. Hero is a movie in the same style as Crouching tiger.

Could be interesting though. Hoffman running on water...

Dyrwen

11-05-2003, 08:57 AM

Have you seen 'Swept Away'? I wanna see it just so I can witness how bad it really was.
Heh... no. Don't have any clue what that movie is about.

crisaor

11-06-2003, 02:37 PM

Yes - I meant another one. :D Did not know there was one called that with Dustin Hoffman. Hero is a movie in the same style as Crouching tiger.
Could be interesting though. Hoffman running on water...
It's the one he rescues a bunch of people out of a plane in flames and refuses to take credit for it, since he believes himself to be an awful human being. Hardly anything to do with crouching tiger. Oops. My bad :)

Maybe I'll check out this movie you mention. Is it recent?

sloegin

11-08-2003, 05:45 AM

Magnolia, P.T. Anderson, has a dark sense of humor.
Mulholland Drive

AbdoRinbo

11-08-2003, 05:47 AM

'Mulholland Drive' has the best cowboy character I've ever seen.

The Cowboy.

He reminds me of a guru . . .

THE BIG DICK CHENEY

11-08-2003, 05:51 AM

GGLUHPT!

sloegin

11-08-2003, 05:52 AM

Club Silaco (sp?), was great. I want to go.

AbdoRinbo

11-08-2003, 05:54 AM

Quiet, you.

sloegin

11-08-2003, 05:58 AM

There's another movie, Mood Swingers. With a club sortof like that. Two guys from the audience get up and piss on the stage. It was quite funny.

AbdoRinbo

11-08-2003, 06:06 AM

Heh, reminds me of a G.G. Allin video I saw a friend's house once. The guy pisses in other people's mouths onstage while slicing his face open with a broken bottle.

sloegin

11-08-2003, 06:10 AM

:D
Have you ever seen the original Freaks.

AbdoRinbo

11-08-2003, 06:13 AM

No, what is it?

sloegin

11-08-2003, 06:27 AM

Not the original, the '32 (damn mind). Anyway, it is about the freaks in a circus. The whole thing is in B&W. It has quite a colorful history. I think Mr. P alluded to it in GR. It is one of the two movies that made me cringe. Here (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/) is imdb's page about it.

hotfuss

07-20-2005, 09:01 AM

i have so many favourite films i could never single out the best film of all time i love mostly violent/comedy/weepy films especially:
lord of the rings, finding neverland(made me cry soooo much!), trainspotting(the best british film ever made), city of god, the godfather(1 and 2), fight club, magnolia, pulp fiction, snatch, lock stock, gangster Number 1, reservior dogs, scarface, life of brian,(actually all of the MP stuff) eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, seven, It, pirates of the C., shawshank redemption ,the greenmile, shrek, romeo and juliet, moulin rouge, wizard of oz, and i cant wait to see the new charlie and the chocolate factory

NNoah3

07-26-2005, 03:34 PM

I love watching movies, here are some of my favourites:

The Godfather (The three of them), Don Juan de Marco, The Sound of Music, The Bridges of Madison County, City of Angels, An Affair to Remember, The House of The Spirits, Chocolat, Revenge (with Anthony Quinn), Dances With Wolves, No Way Out, The Lord of The Rings (The three of them), The Usual Suspects, Forrest Gump, Ben-Hur, My Fair Lady, Schindler's List, The Color Purple, The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense. As for kids movies my favourites are The Lion King, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Shrek, Monster Inc., Ice Age, Tarzan, and Home Alone (I and II).

ArcherSnake

07-26-2005, 05:15 PM

Since I've seen so many good films in my lifetime, I can't give you a definitive list, but my favorites off the top of my head would be Kill Bill, Signs, The Village, and Stephen King's The Stand.

chmpman

07-29-2005, 02:40 AM

I agree with Hotfuss's pic City of God for one of my favorites. The ending scene is a killer. Also Dr. Strangelove, Apocalypse Now, and Schindler's List are great. But it's so hard to pick a favorite of all time. One real good one I've seen lately is A Very Long Engagement, by the directer and starring the girl from Amelie. 2001: A Space Odyssey hasn't been mentioned yet? wth

Monica

08-01-2005, 08:27 AM

Lost in Translation. Great film, great music, great plot. Actually beyond adjectives :D

Mark F.

08-01-2005, 09:46 AM

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, it's just such an epic movie.
The Big Lebowsky, the funniest film I've ever seen.
Apocalypse Now, beautiful cinematography, great acting.
Ran, as far as esthetics go this is a masterpiece.
The Night of the Hunter, chilling portrayal of evil vs good.

runners up would be One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest, Reservoir Dogs and Doctor Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

deborah

08-01-2005, 02:54 PM

my favorites are
tuck everlasting
everafter
lord of the rings
legend falls
troy
good will hunting
the prince and me

those are only a few.... :wave: :brow: ;) :yawnb: :lol:

scruffy_danny

08-01-2005, 03:17 PM

Lost in Translation. Great film, great music, great plot. Actually beyond adjectives :D

Totally agree with you there Monica. It's one of those films that you think about even weeks after you watch it.

Other favourite films of mine are Magnolia, Waynes World, American Beauty, House of Sand and Fog, and many more I can't write otherwise I'd just be silly because I'd be here all night.

angeltrick

05-24-2006, 07:12 AM

Boris239

05-24-2006, 08:53 AM

Memoirs of ageisha
Its a beautiful film with a real heart breaking story line. definalty worth watching. The music is moving and oreintal. The costumes deserved the golden globe they won at the oscars!

The movie was good, but I liked the book better.

My favorite movies are "One flew over the Cuckoos nest", "Shining", "Godfather", "Pulp Fiction", "Undergroud", "Time of the gypsies", "Talk to her", "Zentropa"(by Lars von Trier), "Fanny and Alexander", "Solaris"(Russian version by Tarkovsky). There is also a bunch of Russian movies that I like, but most of you haven't even heard about them

Satine

05-24-2006, 09:01 AM

Without a doubt... Moulin Rouge. Can you tell? lol. Great chemistry, great music, great story. Loved it. And... who knew Ewan McGreggor could sing so well??

Shannanigan

05-24-2006, 09:35 AM

The Lion King :D

I'm so childish...but I like it!

Bysshe

05-24-2006, 12:02 PM

Dog Day Afternoon.

Both Al Pacino and John Cazale (R.I.P) are amazing in it, and it's one of the saddest films I've ever seen...I keep re-watching it, but it never gets boring.

rachel

05-24-2006, 12:22 PM

That's not childish Shann.One of the most important truths I ever learned was from the lion king. when the deceased father tells his lion son"YOU ARE MORE THAN YOU HAVE BECOME" It made me wake up and try harder, fight harder for that which I believe in and strive to do.

I cannot pick ONE favorite, but one certainly is To Kill a Mockingbird.

Bysshe

05-24-2006, 01:44 PM

Yeah, I loved the Lion King. In fact, it was the first film I ever saw - I was three at the time - and it's definitely my favourite Disney film.

Dirt McKert

05-24-2006, 01:52 PM

boondock saints
domino
spaceballs
american beauty
walk the line

Idril

05-24-2006, 02:27 PM

Harold and Maude
The Mission
Jesus Christ Superstar...and yes, I know how incredibly dorky that is.
Jean De Florette
Manon of the Spring
The Pianist
Serenity
Raising Arizona
Star Trek 2,3 and 6

rachel

05-24-2006, 02:44 PM

Narnia
the tilogy of Lord of the Rings
Gladiator
Where the heart Is
Casablanca
Letters to Jacky

chmpman

05-24-2006, 02:44 PM

City of God
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
A Clockwork Orange
Schindler's List

...I'm a downer.

Oh, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

rachel

05-24-2006, 04:52 PM

being a Jew I nearly died of fear and grief watching Schindlers list.
loved Dr. Strangelove, that HAND
hope you are doing well Chmpmn.

chmpman

05-24-2006, 05:08 PM

Same with you Rachel. Glad to see you still around.

Manfred

06-05-2006, 08:09 AM

Das Boot
Double Indemnity
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Sunset Blvd.
Dr. Strangelove
Network
The Maltese Falcon
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Goodfellas
Young Frankenstein

I love Noir and Bogart, but have eclectic tastes in movies.

SmokeBellew

06-05-2006, 10:13 AM

In no particular order:
---------------------

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Rounders
3. Shindler's List
4. Dead Poets Society
5. Braveheart
6. Gladiator
7. Legends Of The Fall

all I can remember...

EDIT: Oh, how dare I forgot the good old:
8. Exorcist (1974 version)

Pensive

06-05-2006, 10:35 AM

Oh yeah, I also loved Exorcist (1974 version) and Braveheart.

formality hater

06-05-2006, 04:33 PM

I love "MVP"(Most Valuable Primate) and this is because I have a feeling for the handicaps.

SmokeBellew

06-07-2006, 04:22 AM

Oh yeah, I also loved Exorcist (1974 version) and Braveheart.

Glad you like them.
Braveheart is probably the best historical movie out there. Gibson did a good job. I can't remember how many times I watched it. And every time I watch it I cry like a baby in the end despite being a 21 y.o male.
13th warrior, King Arthur, Alexander..........none can be compared to Braveheart.

And Exorcist is the only horror movie which actually did frighten me so much that I didn't turn off the lamp while sleeping for almost a week. I was 12-13 then. :p

Mark F.

06-07-2006, 05:16 AM

The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Ran
Apocalypse Now
The Seventh Seal
The Big Lebowski

Themis

06-07-2006, 06:53 AM

Hm, the first that come to mind are ...

The Thomas Crown Affair
Around the World in 80 Days ...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The House of Flying Daggers
Hero

Inside Man

caesar

06-29-2006, 08:28 AM

Forrest Gump
Life is Beautiful
The Godfather I & II
Casino
Taxi Driver
Sound of Music
Little Nicky
Anger Management
Amilie
Midaq Alley

SleepyWitch

06-30-2006, 09:41 AM

*Star Trek IV
*Star Trek VIII
*Star Trek IX
*Shadowlands
*The Remains of the Day
*A Fish Called Wanda
*The Silence of the Lambs
*LotR I and III

TEND

07-03-2006, 12:58 AM

Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Practically anything Kubrick

Absolute favorite though, definitely goes to 'Raging Bull.' Yes, as you can tell I'm a huge De Niro and Scorsese fan.

Behemoth

07-05-2006, 06:52 AM

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Secretary
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Stargate

:nod:

Idril

07-06-2006, 02:50 PM

*LotR I and III

You left out the second one and it makes me laugh because that was easily my least favorite of the three as well. Just out of curiosity, what was it about the movie you didn't like...or at least didn't like as well as the other two?

downing

07-08-2006, 06:13 AM

Gone with the Wind(1939)
It's a wonderful life(1946)
Pride and Prejudice(2005)
Hitler:the rise of eveil(2000)
Ben Hur(1951)
Titanic(1997)

Madhuri

07-08-2006, 06:48 AM

Hum Tum....I can watch it another 100 times

(it is one of my favourites, i'll keep posting my other favourites as well)

Shalot

10-05-2006, 09:54 PM

You left out the second one and it makes me laugh because that was easily my least favorite of the three as well. Just out of curiosity, what was it about the movie you didn't like...or at least didn't like as well as the other two?

I'll tell you what I didn't like about The Two Towers: Rohan and all the fighting. The whole movie was about the battle at Helms Deep. Do we have a snoring Smiley here? Because it was not so great.

Now, my favorite movies:

1) All Star Wars
2) FOTR
3) Friday Night Lights
4) The Hours
5) Imaginary Heroes
6) Clay Pigeons
7) Bad Santa

Idril

10-05-2006, 11:03 PM

I'll tell you what I didn't like about The Two Towers: Rohan and all the fighting. The whole movie was about the battle at Helms Deep. Do we have a snoring Smiley here? Because it was not so great.

For me it wasn't the time devoted to the battle that rankled me, it was the fact that A) there were Elves there and B) the Rohirrim looked like a bunch of weak, scared old men which they most certainly were not and C) Eomer wasn't there. :rolleyes: Actually, there was very little I did like about that movie, very, very little.

alhara

12-03-2006, 05:09 PM

Snatch
starwars (I like the originals the best)
Harvey
Donnie Darko
The cartoon version of Watership Down(the book is better but that goes without saying)
anyone notice a theme here (I would put the noise rabbits make here but they don´t really make any noises)
The secret of Nihm
Fight club
Interview with a Vampire
Queen of the Damned(its difficult because QDmovie only vaugely reasembles the book)
Pulp Fiction
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
LORT series(both peter jackson and cartoon)

These are in no particular order I love them all. Also other than Donnie Darko and Harvey(which began as a magnificant play) they are all based on some really goof books. All of the books are better than the movie. The reason reality and CGI are to restraining. Words are free.

TEND

12-03-2006, 06:10 PM

Well, I want to update mine, since I've grown quite a bit more fond of movies in the last few months. My new favorite list will go something like....
Wild Strawberries
The Seventh Seal
Ran
Taxi Driver
Dr. Strangelove (most Kubrick actually)
Chinatown
On The Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
hmmm.....good starting point I suppose.

Guzmán

12-03-2006, 10:25 PM

"The Mirror" -Tarkovsky
"Hiroshima, mon amour"- Resnais
"The Trial"- Welles
"The Red Desert"-Antonioni
"Pierrot le fou"- Godard
"Hour of the wolf"- Bergman

Mark F.

12-04-2006, 05:30 AM

Heh, I've seen "Hour Of The Wolf" since making my list, it's great but I still prefer "The Seventh Seal".

davoarid

12-04-2006, 11:45 AM

1. Amelie.
2. North by Northwest
3. Once Upon a Time in the West

Guzmán

12-04-2006, 12:10 PM

I saw "the seventh seal" a while ago, and, while i really liked it i liked wolf better. My favorite scene is whe Max Von Sydow is showing Alma his notebook and describing his drawings; his face hidden in darkness, hers illuminated and the expressions on both of their faces... wow...

Shadowsarin

12-08-2006, 02:03 PM

These are the ones that come to mind:

Aliens
The Terminator
Donni Darko
Amélie
The Warriors
Braindead
Day of the Dead
John Carpenters The Thing
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Thirteen

And probably a billion others I have forgotten...

downing

12-15-2006, 10:10 AM

Gone with the Wind
Lady Hamilton

Alexei

12-15-2006, 03:38 PM

Tim Burton's films, aspecially The Nightmare before Christmass... Of course, there are others too...

mtpspur

12-16-2006, 03:00 AM

Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
Goldfinger (changed my life forever--(but I was still a nerd)
Zulu (Michael Caine)(the Rider Haggard historical connection
Corvette Summer--a very guilty pleasure
Alien/Aliens--depends on my mood
Witness--the Amish barn raising scene I watch over and over

To name a few

paranoyalarim

04-01-2009, 03:27 PM

Lost Highway
Rope
V for Vendetta etc.

amalia1985

04-01-2009, 03:37 PM

"The Last Of The Mohicans"
"Autumn Sonata"
"The 7th Seal"
"Macbeth" (1973)
"Romeo and Juliet" (1968)

MissScarlett

04-01-2009, 03:51 PM

"Rear Window"
"Doctor Zhivago"
"Laura"
"It Happened One Night"
"Lawrence of Arabia"
"Casablanca"

Those are some of my favorites.

Damaster4u

04-08-2009, 04:47 PM

Ace Ventura (both movies)
Kung pow: enter the fist
Grandmas boy
40 year old virgin
Stealth

I know theres more but i cant think of any right now

Don Quixote Jr

04-09-2009, 08:20 PM

Five favorites isn't enuff, but anyways...
1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
4. 2001
5. Annie Hall

Zee.

04-09-2009, 08:26 PM

1. Cashback
2. The Virgin Suicides
3. The Basketball Diaries
4. Crazy Beautiful
5. The Invisible
6. Brick

*Classic*Charm*

04-09-2009, 09:38 PM

In no particular order:

1. Dial M for Murder
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Casablanca
5. Beauty and the Beast (yep, I admit)

Edited to add:

6. White Oleander

The Comedian

04-09-2009, 09:43 PM

I don't watch many films, so don't take my list too seriously:

In no particular order. . . .

Off the Map
Star Wars (IV)
Crimes & Misdemeanors
LOTR
The Unforgiven

Janine

04-09-2009, 09:46 PM

Out of Africa
Lawrence of Arabia
Hamlet and Henry V (Ken Branagh)
Room With a View
Anything Hitchcock, how can one choose?

This is just a sampling. I love zillions more!

Michael T

04-21-2009, 06:08 PM

I’ve watched so many great films…I’m not sure where to begin. I’ll try.

SOME COLOUR FILMS:

I'd have to mention Krzysztof Kieslowski's films, especially 'The Three Colours Trilogy' with 'Blue' and 'Red' being my favourites. Juliet Binoche could have played an influence in my choice of ‘Blue' over ‘Red’ though.

‘Blade Runner’. It may not be the best film in the world but it certainly always comes to mind, so it must have left an impression on me.

‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’. Fantastic acting from Newman and Taylor.

‘Pulp Fiction’. So refreshing at the time.

‘The Good the Bad and the Ugly’. Ice cool Eastwood and ice cool music.

‘The Horseman on the Roof’. Could be because of Binoche again!

‘Labyrinth’. Haunting.

'The Scent of Green Papaya'. Beautiful, gentle film.

'The English Patient'. Quality film and quality music.

SOME BLACK AND WHITE FILMS:

‘To Have and Have Not’. If only for the dialogue between Bogart and Bacall.

‘Some Like it Hot’. Seen it too many times to get excited about it now, but a classic.

‘Random Harvest’. If you need to shed a tear, but can’t find any other way because you’re the hardest man on earth. This will do it!

‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’. Fantastic acting from Burton and Taylor.

Any of the 'On the Road' movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.

I’ll probably think of a few dozen more after I finish this post. Isn’t that always what happens!

AmericanEagle

04-23-2009, 06:39 PM

1. Titanic
2. Infernal Affairs
3. Vertigo
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. Psycho

Mortis Anarchy

04-23-2009, 11:00 PM

1. Zorba the Greek
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Notorious (1946 film with Carey Grant, not the BIG movie)
4. Love Actually
5. O drakos

Adagio

04-30-2009, 11:44 AM

Donnie Darko
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Titantic
Beauty and the Beast
Forrest Gump
City of God
American Beauty
Stand by Me
Amelie
Taxi Driver

metal134

04-30-2009, 06:09 PM

Magnolia, P.T. Anderson, has a dark sense of humor.
Mulholland Drive
I second "Mulholland Drive"

Stargazer86

04-30-2009, 06:42 PM

I have about a million favorite movies...

The Godfather Series
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Boondock Saints
American Beauty
Gladiator
Elizabeth & Elizabeth the Golden Age
City of God
Casablanca
Giant
Hannibal
Monster
Pirates of the Carribean (1 &2...I didn't like 3 as much)
Walk Hard The Dewy Cox Story
Mongol
The Elephant Man
Memoirs of a Geisha

And about a trillion more...will probably post again in here soon...

seanlol

04-30-2009, 11:26 PM

The Fountain
Donnie Darko
Tommy Boy
Gangs of New York
Twilight
Old School
A Knight's Tale
Stranger Than Fiction

some off the top of my head

librarius_qui

05-02-2009, 08:18 PM

Let' see ...

from childhood & youth

Star Wars IV & V
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ladyhawke
Back to the Future

late youth

Dances-with-wolves
Last of the Mohicans
Treasure Island (tv version, with Charlton Heston)
The hunt of the Red October
The Russia House
Scent of a woman

adult (those that came from behind, plus ..)

Casablanca
The sound of music
The Great Escape (because of my father ...)
Reign of Fire
Master & Commander
Big Fish
School of Rock
Seven Samurai

I think it's mostly all I can remember, for now.~

lq

Stargazer86

05-02-2009, 08:21 PM

‘Pulp Fiction’. So refreshing at the time.

Not anymore? Did you get burned out on it? I have the bad habit of overwatching movies that I enjoy until I'm sick of them.

If you're a Tarentino fan you should check out Ed Wood (if you haven't already) and then, of course, Plan 9 From Outer Space :lol: :alien:

Niamh

05-03-2009, 03:21 PM

Now this is a tricky one for me... i just love so many movies!
Pans Labyrinth
Amelie
Night of The Hunter
Carousel
The Informer (B&W )
Nosferatu
Psycho
Changeling
Stand By Me
Nothinghill
Stardust
Last King of Scotland
27 Dresses
Beauty and The Beast

there are so many many more that i cant think of (cause i've a pain in my head)

Stargazer86

05-03-2009, 04:04 PM

Pans Labyrinth is amazing

Haunted

05-03-2009, 06:12 PM

it keeps changing
like a moving target

when you think you like a movie because you like the actor, then that actor throws a cellphone at a reporter, or worse, makes a political ranting, then i don't like that movie anymore....

JuniperWoolf

05-13-2009, 08:30 PM

‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’. Fantastic acting from Newman and Taylor.

I love Paul Newman, and I tried really hard to like this movie, but my brain kept screaming "HE'S GAY! PORTRAY HIS GAYNESS OR ITS ALL RUINED!" I liked the acting, but not the story adaptation.

I love movies. I can't pick a favorite, so my top five aren't in order.

1. Breakfast on Pluto
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
3. Cool Hand Luke
4. The Breakfast Club
5. Lolita

Eryk

05-20-2009, 05:44 PM

mulholland drive

Mathor

05-21-2009, 12:20 AM

start with hitchcock's first film and end with his last. that's all I REALLY need and Silence of the Lambs and Good Will Hunting and a few others. and Amelie and other things like it. the problem is i like like A MILLLLLLLLION movies. Ask anyone who knows me.

Helga

05-22-2009, 06:32 PM

I love Kevin spacey, most of his movies are great... american beauty, the life and death of david gale and I once saw him on stage playing Richard II... also I love casablanca... and most woody allen movies.. and star trek movies... and star wars... I could probably go on foreverer... but I recently saw Juno and that was really good too, I like that actress but I don't remember her name...

kilted exile

05-27-2009, 05:03 PM

On the Waterfront, followed by cat on a hot tin roof

breathtest

05-27-2009, 05:22 PM

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. An amazing psychedelic journey. The fact that it is a true story makes it so much more astounding.

manolia

05-28-2009, 04:59 AM

1. Zorba the Greek
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Notorious (1946 film with Carey Grant, not the BIG movie)
4. Love Actually
5. O drakos

Is your number 5 this one
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124437/ ?

ris

05-29-2009, 01:28 AM

Well, considering i work at a cinema and watch a lot of movies, this is rather difficult for me....
however, i love all of the following ~ (they're not in any particular order)

1. Donnie Darko
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Annie Hall
5. V for Vendetta
6. Elephant
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Closer
9. The Breakfast Club
10. The Prestige

and so many more...
:)
If you have any recommendations for me, considering the list i've put forward here, pm me or some such! I love getting new suggestions.

Desolation

05-29-2009, 02:11 AM

Rebel Without A Cause
I'm Not There
When Nietzsche Wept
V for Vendetta
The Dark Knight

Helga

05-29-2009, 02:37 PM

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. An amazing psychedelic journey. The fact that it is a true story makes it so much more astounding.

I have to agree that one is great, the book is very good too, Depp is perfect in it! he is perfect in almost anything else too...

joao_oliveira

05-30-2009, 04:26 PM

My favourite movie of all-time is, without a shadow of a doubt, "Baraka". It is ethereal. Anyway, if I was to chose a narrative one, I would go for "2001: A Space Odissey". It is... ethereal. :P

Stargazer86

05-30-2009, 05:50 PM

I have about a million favorite films. I think my current favorite is Giant with Rock Hudson, James Dean, and Elizabeth Taylor

Michael T

05-30-2009, 06:41 PM

On the Waterfront, followed by cat on a hot tin roof :thumbs_up

I love 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'...Have you ever seen 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? I haven't seen it on the telly for years but would really like to see it again. You can tell they were married! :D

Emil Miller

05-31-2009, 02:32 PM

:thumbs_up

I love 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'...Have you ever seen 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? I haven't seen it on the telly for years but would really like to see it again. You can tell they were married! :D

I never cared for Newman who always came across as a second hand Marlon Brando to me, and Elizaberh Taylor was sometimes too beautiful for her own good. Richard Burton, however, was terrific in The Spy who Came in From the Cold. Like all of them he appeared in some rubbishy films, but when he was on form and with the right director and co-stars, he was really worth watching.

Mathor

06-01-2009, 11:15 PM

Look up Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant's entire career and you have all of my favorite films. Most notably their paring in "Notorious".

billl

06-01-2009, 11:31 PM

It might depend a bit on the mood, and I would generally have to wait at least a year (maybe even five or more) before I'd really want to re-watch any movie, but when asked this question, I go with the answer:

The Fifth Element.

Rolls_Rave

06-02-2009, 02:41 PM

I have more favourite movies:
Just A Kiss
Lord Of The Rings I/II/III
Little Princess

Ebonon

06-02-2009, 02:44 PM

The Cartaker by Harold Pinter

French New Wave

Fassbinder movies
a lot of them actually

manolia

06-02-2009, 02:48 PM

Fassbinder movies
a lot of them actually

Nice to meet a fellow fassbinder fan :)
May i ask which is your favorite?

Mark F.

06-09-2009, 06:08 AM

1 Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky
2 An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Yasujiro Ozu
3 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Sam Peckinpah
4 Punishment Park (1971) Peter Watkins
5 Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman
6 Cria Cuervos (1976) Carlos Saura
7 A Woman Under the Influence (1974) John Cassavetes
8 The Tragedy of Othello (1952) Orson Welles
9 Woyzeck (1979) Werner Herzog
10 Lost Highway (1997) David Lynch
11 Arabian Nights (1974) Pier Paolo Pasolini
12 Werkmeister Harmonies (2000) Bela Tarr
13 Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
14 Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray
15 M (1931) Fritz Lang

NickAdams

09-02-2009, 02:48 PM

There are far too many, but Love Streams and Julien Donkey-Boy are two films that I saw this year and couldn't get out of my head, especially the opera sequence in Love Streams.

rimbaud

09-03-2009, 01:05 PM

Fight club
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Vol 1&2
Dead poets society
Mozart and the Whale
Total eclipse
Perfume...

MANICHAEAN

09-03-2009, 01:49 PM

Rimbaud.
Kill Bill I must agree. God knows how many times I've played it & still come back for more. Others are a bit more dated:
1. Schlindlers List. If I've had a drink while I watch it, I'm in tears.
2. The Hill. Sean Connery breaking out of the Bond role.
3. Casablanca.
4. Ice Cold In Alex with John Mills, Anthony Quayle & Harry Andrews.
5. Patton with George C.Scott.
6. Pretty Woman, especially the guy who played the hotel manager.
7. The Godfather Series.
8. Straw Dogs with Susan George & Dustin Hoffman.
9. The Pawnbroker with Rod Steiger.

pjjrfan1

09-03-2009, 08:29 PM

I liked Cat on a hot tin roof, but I was unaware of the homosexual aspect of the movie, to me the chemistry between Burl Ives and Paul Newman is what really moved me, the scene in the basement between them to this day brings tears to my eyes that is just great acting.
I like the Godfather series
Casablanca,
The Wizard of Oz
the Wild Bunch
Ran
Los Olvidados
Fort Apache
Fail Safe
Lawrence of Arabia
Love and Death
both versions of the Thing
Goodwill Hunting
Citizen Kane
there's so many movies I really like but these come to mind right now. If I give it some thought I could name at least a 100 movies that I really like.

rimbaud

09-05-2009, 11:28 AM

Rimbaud.

6. Pretty Woman, especially the guy who played the hotel manager.

i LOVED him, and now i wanna watch the movie again :)

MANICHAEAN

09-05-2009, 12:16 PM

Rimbaud
Dont you think he stole it from the star actors? The irony of "This is your uncle? Right?", giving Julie Roberts a way out from humiliation as a "working girl" / the diplomacy of a consummate hotel manager in arranging a suitable wardrobe for a "guest" as an integral part of his job responsibilities / the pride almost of a father when seeing his creation transform into a woman any man would be proud to be seen with / the supressed hurt when not even being recognised by Richard Gere as someone of significance in people's lives.
It gave me a perspective of hotel managers that I focus in on every time I book into one of those so called 5 star hotels and judge whether like "Pretty Woman" they come up to scratch. I must confess that I have found it in the Peninsular Hotel in Manila, the Holiday Inn in Rome & the Regency in Doha.

rimbaud

09-05-2009, 12:47 PM

when I think of a hotel, i think of the bell hopper from four rooms, im a huge tarantino fan

MANICHAEAN

09-05-2009, 01:19 PM

There is an establishment in Dubai called "The Panorama Hotel" that was recommended to me by a crane operator purely in the terms: "clean with reasonable rates". Having booked in, I descended to the ground floor bar where I kept getting eye contact & winks from what I percieved to be an inordinate number of young female patrons. Reality dawned as I stood there with my pint, focusing in an intense manner on some boring Sky News cricket udate, attempting a composure consummate with the prevailing circumstances and not wishing to be thought gay. Looking back, it was quite funny actually. I had just finished a two year contract in The Islamic Republic of Iran where to even think of looking at the opposite sex was anathema. Now here I was like a fish out of water, the tables reversed as it were.
Exact opposite of the "Pretty Woman" scenario. After a number of drinks I relaxed enough to enjoy their company & get away from the sterotype labelling so often applied to these girls. As you know, or as you should know from your Bible, there is a passage: " Take care lest you find yourself in the company of angels". Even fallen ones!
Might I relate this to a thread at the current juncture on Lit Net as to whether the Bible is boring. Are there any others who connect passages from the Good Book to their personal experiences?

Mathor

09-06-2009, 10:38 AM

Notorious
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
All About Eve
Back To The Future
Silence of the Lambs
Good Will Hunting

toni

09-06-2009, 02:33 PM

Trainspotting
The Other Boleyn Girl
Vanity Fair
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reader
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Hamlet
The Bee Movie
Changeling
Dead Poet's Society
Freedom Writers

DanielBenoit

09-06-2009, 04:17 PM

Notorious
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
All About Eve
Back To The Future
Silence of the Lambs
Good Will Hunting

Great first three choices.

I liked Good Will Hunting, but I still believe that it was just one of those mainstream films van Sant had to make so that he could finance more artistic and ambituous films like Elephant.

Also, why the hell doesn't Bela Tarr get the attention he deserves? His work is comparable to that of Welles or Fellini and yet nobody pays any attention to his films? None of his films would ever have any chance of making it to even a limited release in America! By the way, van Sant credited Tarr as a major influence for his "Death Trilogy" (Gerry, Elephant, Last Days).

Please, somebody tell me that they've heard of Bela Tarr.

Hamlet

Oooooo, which one?

As for me, this would be by no means an accurate list, but anyway:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. 8 1/2
3. The Third Man
4. Citizen Kane
5. Apocalaypse Now
6. Through a Glass Darkly
7. Bonnie and Clyde
8. Hamlet (1949)
9. Chimes at Midnight
10. Werkmeister Harmonies
11. Raging Bull

Favorite Directors:

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Orson Welles
3. Federico Fellini
4. Ingmar Bergman
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Bela Tarr
7. Martin Scorsese
8. Yasujjo Ozu
9. Francis Ford Coppla
10. Andre Tarkovsky
11. David Lynch

DanielBenoit

09-06-2009, 07:26 PM

1 Andrei Rublev(1966) Andrei Tarkovsky
2 An Autumn Afternoon (1962) Yasujiro Ozu
3 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Sam Peckinpah
4 Punishment Park (1971) Peter Watkins
5 Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman
6 Cria Cuervos (1976) Carlos Saura
7 A Woman Under the Influence (1974) John Cassavetes
8 The Tragedy of Othello (1952) Orson Welles
9 Woyzeck (1979) Werner Herzog
10 Lost Highway (1997) David Lynch
11 Arabian Nights (1974) Pier Paolo Pasolini
12 Werkmeister Harmonies (2000) Bela Tarr
13 Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
14 Johnny Guitar (1954) Nicholas Ray
15 M (1931) Fritz Lang

Oh my God! I love you for life!

toni

09-07-2009, 03:01 AM

Oooooo, which one?

The one in which Kenneth Brahnagh (however you spell it) acted in will always be number 1. :nod:

Favorite Directors:

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Orson Welles
3. Federico Fellini
4. Ingmar Bergman
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Bela Tarr
7. Martin Scorsese
8. Yasujjo Ozu
9. Francis Ford Coppla
10. Andre Tarkovsky
11. David Lynch

:thumbs_up Excellent choices. I particularly adore Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho. It's sad they don't make movies like that anymore :cold:

balehead

10-14-2009, 07:14 PM

My all-time favourite movies are deffinately

Empire of the Sun (1987)
Treasure Island (1990)
Newsies (1992)
Little Women (1994)
Pocahontas (1995)
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
A Midsummer night’s Dream (1999)
American Psycho (2000)
Equilibrium (2002)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Prestige (2006)
Rescue Dawn (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Terminator: Salvation (2009)

DanielBenoit

01-16-2010, 06:02 PM

Okay, I was bored and since I love making lists, here's my top 20 favorite movies of all time revised:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
2. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
3. The Third Man - Carol Reed
4. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
5. Singing in the Rain - Gene Kelley and Stanley Donen
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl T. Dreyer
7. Persona - Ingmar Bergman
8. Apocolaypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
9. Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn
10. Killer of Sheep - Charles Burnett
11. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughten
12. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
13. Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman
14. Hamlet - Laurence Oliver
15. Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
16. M - Fritz Lang
17. Stroszek - Werner Herzog
18. Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles
19. Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr
20. Floating Weeds - Yarujio Ozu

tgrert

08-11-2010, 07:23 PM

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Piano
Pirates of the Carribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The City of Lost Children
The African Queen
Love Actually
Fudge 44
Strictly Ballroom
Wings of Desire

Patrick_Bateman

09-10-2010, 11:11 AM

Se7en
The Departed
Good Will Hunting
LA Confidential
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest/Fight Club/Jerry Maguire/The Usual Suspects

DanielBenoit

09-10-2010, 11:49 AM

I figured I'd just revise my list just for the hell of it lol:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick

http://www.nogodhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/kubrick2001.png

2. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID3880/images/Otto_e_Mezzo.jpg

3. The Third Man - Carol Reed

http://www.moviezeal.com/wp-content/uploads/thethirdman1.jpg

4. Tokyo Story - Yasujio Ozu

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/500Tokyo_Story_Scr_1.jpg

5. Play Time - Jaques Tati

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album5/playtime.jpg

6. Singin' In the Rain - Gene Kelley and Stanley Donen

http://hampshiredance.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/singin_rain.jpg

7. Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa

http://cinemastubble.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ikiru.jpg

8. Sans Soliel - Chris Marker

http://www.longpauses.com/blog/02_06_08a.jpg

9. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles

http://nighthawknews.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/citizen_kane_4.jpg

10. The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/ambersons-4-500a.jpg

11. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer

http://www.geist.com/files/falconetti.jpg

12. Persona - Ingmar Bergman

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ucAE_GrFrfM/TDOG2bOMAXI/AAAAAAAAEkQ/-e3KjHWJng4/s1600/Persona.jpg

13. Jules et Jim - Francis Truffaut

http://dickgraves.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/jules_et_jim1.jpg

14. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky

http://www.russiablog.org/AndreiRublevObservingthePagans.jpg

15. Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_01_img0104.jpg

16. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/apocalypse-now_01.jpg

17. Killer of Sheep - Charles Burnett

http://www.deep-focus.com/dfweblog/images/480_killer-of-sheep.jpg

18. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir

http://www.fredonia.edu/department/english/shokoff/renoir.jpg

19. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock

http://nighthawknews.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/vertigo3.jpg

20. It Happened One Night - Frank Capra

http://dyallo.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/it-happened-one-night-5-clark-gable-claudette-colbert-peter-warne-ellie-andrews.jpg

21. Hitler: A Film from Germany - Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

http://wondersinthedark.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/hitler.jpg?w=500&h=375

22. The Trial - Orson Welles

http://www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/dgdn/wp-content/images/DGmagazine132/Setting-the-Scene/The%20Trial.png

23. Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn

http://andrewsidea.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/bonnieclyde.jpg

24. Greed - Erich von Stroheim

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/8568/ericvonstrohimgreedpartui7.jpg

25. Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr

http://www.gravity7.com/blog/film/uploaded_images/medium_werckmeister-harmonies_1.2-777715.jpg

26. The General - Buster Keaton

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_01_img0193.jpg

27. Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman

http://blogs.indiewire.com/images/blogs/reverseshot/archives/images/Cries%20and%20Whispers.png

28. The Man with the Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_01_img0102.jpg

29. Hamlet - Laurence Olivier

http://colindickey.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/laurence6-44391.jpg?w=450&h=405

30. Regen - Joris Ivens

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/6696/regen6jm.jpg

31. Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3462/3895208680_638ef57156.jpg

32. House is Black - Forough Farrokhzad

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z43/sevenarts/cinema/houseisblack1.jpg

33. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini

http://www.wendybevan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/la-dolce-vita-1.jpg

34. The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky

http://www.cineaste.com/343images/screening4.jpg

35. Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese

http://img.listal.com/image/521757/600full-raging-bull-screenshot.jpg

36. Come and See - Elem Klimov

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreview2/comeandsee/CS_MovieCap_3.jpg

37. Late Spring - Yasujio Ozu

http://horsesthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/late_spring.jpg

38. (nostalgia) - Hollis Frampton

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/69/69_images/69elegy_head.jpg

39. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quia du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantel Akerman

http://kistenet.com/brandon/images/Blog/2009/December/Year/Jeanne%20Dielman,%2023%20Quai%20du%20Commerce,%201 080%20Bruxelles.jpg

40. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes - Stan Brakhage

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dtZkYJTYXuc/THw-S3-r6WI/AAAAAAAAAeY/u3PSFPIDX-0/s1600/owneyes.jpg

41. La Jetee - Chris Marker

http://mmimageslarge.moviemail-online.co.uk/La-Jetee-2.jpg

42. Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean

http://www.cinema.com/image_lib/3416_001.jpg

43. Pierrot Le Fou - Jean-Luc Godard

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/06/10/arts/week_3_600.jpg

44. Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman

http://images.dvdtimes.co.uk/protectedimage.php?image=JohnWhite/THROUGH_A_GLASS_DARKLY-tart.jpg_05022008&cachedimage=true&width=600

45. The Wind Will Carry Us - Abbas Kiastromi

http://auteurs_production.s3.amazonaws.com/stills/16693/the-wind-will-carry-us-1999.jpg

46. Trip Down Market Street Before/After Earthquake - Edison Studios

http://img.youtube.com/vi/IKRbTF5afSE/0.jpg

47. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Paul Schrader

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/5493/mishima2ca9.jpg

48. Foolish Wives - Erich von Stroheim

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_goOTcYF7VN4/S1zY24ZGKJI/AAAAAAAAEgo/M_JcntwFuuA/s400/Foolish1.JPG

49. M - Fritz Lang

http://filmjournal.net/clydefro/files/2007/12/m-must.jpg

50. Casablanca - Michael Curtiz

http://images.picturesdepot.com/photo/c/casablanca_kiss-2520.jpg

breathtest

09-10-2010, 11:52 AM

Mullholland Drive is my favourite film. Directed by David Lynch. I cried and i was scared and i laughed.

Armel P

09-22-2010, 07:33 PM

I figured I'd just revise my list just for the hell of it lol:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
2. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
3. The Third Man - Carol Reed
4. Tokyo Story - Yasujio Ozu
5. Play Time - Jaques Tati
6. Singin' In the Rain - Gene Kelley and Stanley Donen
7. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer
9. Persona - Ingmar Bergman
10. Jules et Jim - Francis Truffaut

Great taste.

It's always very unsatisfying answering these questions but for me I'll say:

8 1/2
Mulholland Dr.
Werkmeister Harmonies
Satantango
Street of Crocodiles
2001: A Space Odyssey
Seven Samurai
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Out 1: noli me tangere
Celine and Julie Go Boating

DanielBenoit

09-22-2010, 07:39 PM

Great taste.

It's always very unsatisfying answering these questions but for me I'll say:

8 1/2
Mulholland Dr.
Werkmeister Harmonies
Satantango
Street of Crocodiles
2001: A Space Odyssey
Seven Samurai
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Out 1: noli me tangere
Celine and Julie Go Boating

Thanks, you have great taste yourself. Bela Tarr is without a doubt my favorite living director (with the exception of Scorsese). Also, how the hell did you find Out 1? Rivette is so hard to find, even on netflix.

Armel P

09-22-2010, 07:48 PM

Thanks, you have great taste yourself. Bela Tarr is without a doubt my favorite living director (with the exception of Scorsese). Also, how the hell did you find Out 1? Rivette is so hard to find, even on netflix.

They screened it at the UCLA Film Archive over 2 days in July 2007. I can't wait to see it again. I was floored.

reet

10-05-2010, 12:49 AM

The Prestige
Rescue Dawn
The Dark Knight

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iRead

10-05-2010, 01:34 AM

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Heck yes)
Pride and Prejudice
Avatar
Kung-Fu Panda
Spirit (yeah, the horse one)

Based on the movies I watch, you can kind of guess I'm young ^^;

Emil Miller

10-09-2010, 04:38 PM

DanielBenoit

10-10-2010, 01:15 AM

I would agree with pretty much all of this list as being among the greatest films ever made, especially Tokyo Story, Citizen Kane and Greed which, if you haven't read the book on which it is based ( McTeague by Frank Norris) I suggest you might find it worthwhile. Von Stroheim almost bankrupted the studio in making the film which he wanted to be as close to the novel as a film could be. Both the book and the film are monuments to their respective art forms.

Oh yes indeed. It is probably the ultimate sin of Hollywood that the studio destroyed the eight hours of footage cut from Greed. Stroheim is really one of the American cinema's unspoken masters. His Foolish Wives is also a masterpiece and while not being as immense as Greed, is still as biting a satire on post-WWI European society as you can get.

byquist

10-10-2010, 09:16 PM

Bagdad Cafe
black & white: Random Harvest

faithosaurus

12-15-2010, 07:49 AM

The Dark Knight

Batman is the best superhero EVER.

weltanschauung

12-15-2010, 08:13 AM

I figured I'd just revise my list just for the hell of it lol:

marry me.

on topic, one at a time:

http://avantmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Persona.jpg

http://film.vtheatre.net/images/persona.jpg

DanielBenoit

12-15-2010, 05:42 PM

Lol. I think the list once again needs some revising:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
2. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
3. The Third Man - Carol Reed
4. Tokyo Story - Yasujio Ozu
5. Playtime - Jacques Tati
6. Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
7. Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi
8. Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa
9. The House is Black - Forrough Farrokhzad
10. In the Land of Silence and Darkness - Werner Herzog
11. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
12. The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles
13. Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles
14. Sans Soleil - Chris Marker
15. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl T. Dreyer
16. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
17. The General - Buster Keaton
18. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir
19. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
20. Satantango - Bela Tarr

I couldn't find room for Persona though, it probably most undoubtedly be number 21 lol. Bergman is a great director and probably the most personal of them all. Cries and Whispers is also his other masterpiece that comes at the summit of his career.

weltanschauung

12-16-2010, 12:20 AM

cries and whispers has some awesomely cruel moments, yes.but nothing will ever compare to the seventh seal, although i have this uncontrollable obsession with persona. its amazing how you chose tarkovsky's andrei rublev, and not solaris! and kurosawa's ikiru, instead of dersu uzala.
and you completely ignored this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VruioFzIwg), its very hurtfull, that!

ok, one more:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b55/KageNekoChan/Gallery/HowlsMovingCastle.jpg

ClarkPeterston

12-20-2010, 05:14 PM

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Avatar
3. Trainspotting
4. Gladiator

Emil Miller

03-10-2011, 01:53 PM

Take all the films that have ever been made and this still remains the finest. On present form it will never be bettered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuZ6fm5F7bE&tracker=False

bentley

10-07-2011, 05:34 PM

"the dead" directed by john houston
the life aquatic (michael gambon... C'mon)
the thirteenth warrior
blackhawk down
scent of a woman
dancing at langusa (michael gambon is a genius)

Laszlo Jamf

10-21-2011, 03:53 AM

one film per director

Three Colors: Red(Kieślowski)
Office Space(Judge)
Dumb and Dumber(Farrelly Brothers)
Raising Arizona(Coen Brothers)
The Purple Rose of Cairo(Allen)
Eclipse(Antonioni)
Through a Glass Darkly(Bergman)
North by Northwest(Hitchcock)
Dr.Strangelove(Kubrick)
Out of the Blue(Hopper)
Mulholland Drive(Lynch)
Rushmore(Anderson)
Star Wars episode V(Kershner)
A Woman Under the Influence(Cassavetes)
Synecdoche NY(Kaufman)
The Wind Will Carry Us(Kiarostami)
Paris, Texas(Wenders)
Sunrise(Murnau)
Trust(Hartely)
Dancer in the Dark(von Trier)
8 1/2(Fellini)
Breathless(Godard)
The 400 Blows(Truffaut)
Trafic(Tati)
The Long Goodbye(Altman)
Apocalypse Now(Coppola)
Chinatown(Polanski)
Badlands(Malick)
Kicking and Screaming(Baumbach)
Stalker(Tarkovsky)

Chris1991

11-19-2011, 06:38 PM

1.Excalibur
2.Kingdom of Heaven(Directors cut)
3.Arn the Templar
4.Seventh seal
5.Taras Bulba
6.Robin Hood
7.Monthy pithon and the holy grail
8.The Da vinci code/Angels and demons
9.The great dictator
10.Sweeney Todd

smerdyakov

11-20-2011, 06:47 PM

One of the best films I have watched in the last few years is "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" by Jacques Audiard. "A Prophet", by the same director, is equally beautiful.

stlukesguild

11-20-2011, 07:46 PM

Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
The Third Man - Carol Reed
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
Persona - Ingmar Bergman
Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather I & II- Francis Ford Coppola
Vertigo- Alfred Hitchcok
Psycho- Alfred Hitchcock
The Mirror- Andrei Tarkovsky
Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean
The Seventh Seal- Ingmar Bergman
Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman
Virgin Spring- Ingmar Bergman
M- Fritz Lang
The Elephant Man- David Lynch
Spellbound- Alfred Hitchcock
Notorious- Alfred Hitchcock
It's a Wonderful Life- Frank Capra
Double Indemnity- Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard- Billy Wilder
Some Like it Hot- Billy Wilder
Once Upon a Time in the West- Sergio Leone
The Maltese Falcon- John Huston
A Streetcar Named Desire- Elia Kazan
On the Waterfront- Elia Kazan
Suddenly, Last Summer- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Amadeus- Milos Forman
The Wizard of Oz- Victor Fleming and Noel Langley
Dr. Strangelove- Stanley Kubrick
Rear Window- Alfred Hitchcock
Nosferatu- F. W. Murnau
Nosferatu- Werner Herzog
The cabinet of Dr. Caligari- Robert Wiene
Europa- Lars von Trier
The Nightmare before Christmas- Henry Selick, Tim Burton

No particular order and open to change from day to day. Any number of films that I haven't seen in a long time (The Grand Illusion, anything by Fellini and Eisenstein) is always up to being added to this list.

Climacus

12-30-2011, 09:06 PM

Some that spring to mind:

A Man for All Seasons
A Touch of Evil
The Pianist
Snatch
Dr. Strangelove
Rear Window

B. Laumness

01-01-2012, 10:18 AM

Lawrence of Arabia
Ryan’s Daughter
Doctor Zhivago
Summertime
Barry Lyndon
2001: A Space Odyssey
Eyes Wide Shut
Modern Times
The Dictator
Citizen Kane
The Trial
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once upon a time in the West
The Leopard
Casanova
Rashômon
Ran
Napoléon by Abel Gance
La Règle du jeu
Madame de
L’Enfant sauvage
Jules et Jim
À bout de souffle
L’Armée des ombres
Que la fête commence
Buffet froid
Un héros très discret
Rear Window
North by Northwest
12 Angry Men
Splendor in the Grass
Rosemary’s baby
Taxi Driver
After hours
Deliverance
The Deer Hunter
Alien
The Thing
Solaris
Come and See
The Elephant Man
Lost Highway
Groundhog Day
Underground
Leaving Las Vegas
Requiem for a dream
Seul contre tous
Songs from the Second Floor
The New World
Pan’s Labyrinth
Black Book
There Will Be Blood
Moon

Etc.

JuniperWoolf

01-01-2012, 10:21 AM

^Moon is ****ing awesome, not many people have heard of it.

Gregory Samsa

01-09-2012, 05:23 PM

Fanny & Alexander
The Elephant Man
Eyes Wide Shut
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Godfather I & II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Solaris
Rear Window
Taxi Driver
Annie Hall
Der Untergang
Seven
Being John Malkovich
Into the Wild
Barton Fink
I'm Not There
Melancholia

And so on...

Sido

03-24-2015, 03:53 PM

From the ones I can remember,

Amelie
The Bee Movie
Spirited Away
The Mummy
Stardust
Howl's Moving Castle
The Fall
Wall-E
The Red Violin
Casanova
Casablanca
The Sound of Music
Doctor Dolittle
LOTR trilogy
Underworld 1,2&3
Another Earth
Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
Source Code
The Time Traveller's Wife
District 9
Alien 1&2
Predator 1&2
AVP 1&2
Prometheus
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 1&2
Wild Wild West
Men in Black 1&2
Queen of the Damned
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Womb
Only Lovers Left Alive
Bicentennial Man
I robot
A.I
The Terminator 1,2&3
Night at the Museum 1&2
9
Corpse Bride
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ice age
The Matrix 1&2
Antz
Shrek
Hotel Transylvania
The Guest
Jumanji
Ratatouille
Dracula Untold
A Walk in the Clouds
Anna and the King

Lykren

04-18-2015, 10:02 PM

For North Star, who asked:

Goodfellas
Godfather I and II
The Departed
Ran
Rashomon
Seven Samurai
Fanny and Alexander
Late Spring
Floating Weeds
The Seventh Seal
Cries and Whispers
Through A Glass Darkly
La Regle du Jue
A Man Escaped
Bicycle Thief
La Grande illusion
The Spirit of the Beehive
Raise the Red Lantern
Solaris
Stalker
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
Andrei Rublev
Dogtooth
Maboroshi no Hikari
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Volver
The Skin I Live In
Ugetsu
Sanshō the Bailiff
Life of Oharu
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
Eyes Wide Shut
Barry Lyndon
Breathless
The 400 Blows
My Life to Live
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The White Ribbon
Amour
Pan's Labryinth
Annie Hall
Amarcord
8 1/2
La Dolce Vita
Spirited Away
L'Avventura
Vertigo
The Tree of Life
The Exterminating Angel
A Separation

EDIT: I forgot Wild Strawberries.

Pike Bishop

04-18-2015, 11:15 PM

Since we're doing the epic lists:

Blade Runner
The Searchers
Out of the Past
Adaptation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Vertigo
The Gold Rush
Rashomon
La Dolce Vita
Office Space
This is Spinal Tap
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Wild Strawberries
Boogie Nights
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Goodfellas
The Godfather Part II
Her
Primer
Minority Report
The Terminator
Chinatown
The Exorcist
Session 9
Alien
Aliens
The Thin Red Line
Memento
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Inglorious Basterds
Crimes and Misdemeanors
L.A. Confidential
Moulin Rouge
The Proposition
Apocalypse Now
Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
Seven
The Wild Bunch
Jaws
Sexy Beast
The Departed
The Dark Knight
Wall-E

North Star

04-19-2015, 06:27 AM

Nice list Pike, I've seen about half of them.

For North Star, who asked:
Goodfellas
Godfather I and II
The Departed
Ran
Rashomon
Seven Samurai
Fanny and Alexander
Bicycle Thief
Andrei Rublev
The Skin I Live In
Ugetsu
Apocalypse Now
Eyes Wide Shut
The White Ribbon
Vertigo
Great films, all. All of Tarkovsky is very high on my list to watch.

Lykren

04-19-2015, 07:21 AM

Tarkovsky is one of my all-time favorites :)

spikepipsqueak

01-10-2023, 07:53 PM

Thread resurrection. Delete if that's not allowed here.

V for Vendetta.

Life as a House.

The Red Violin.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Allegro Non Troppo.

The Princess Bride.

Gattaca.

The Ref.

Lady Hawke.

Serenity.

Avatar.

The Abyss.

The Croods.

The Castle

The Dish.

The Jerk.

tailor STATELY

01-11-2023, 05:20 AM

Some good lists in this thread. I just don't get The Princess Bride though, must be over my head.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

bounty

01-11-2023, 11:52 AM

hey spike...I have a fun question for you (since everyone else apart from tailor is long gone from the thread).

there are tons of movies I have enjoyed but only about a dozen or so that I would list as "favorites."

for you, whats the distinction between the two?

spikepipsqueak

05-07-2023, 02:28 AM

Sorry bounty, would have answered earlier but I don't get back here often.

Every one on my list moved me in some way and stayed with me long after the lights came on. Each was very well done for what it is, in my unprofessional opinion. There are a lot of comedies amongst my list but they are comedies with heart and not one has stereotyped, "phoned in" characters or plot. I watch most of those every few years and either see new details in them or fall in love anew with the aspects I liked in the first place.

(With the exception of Princess Bride, it's the stereotyping and variation within that makes that film. It's an intelligent fairy tale with humour.)

I would probably add

What We Did on our Holidays.

The Best Offer.

I would add Bel Canto but could never watch that again.

Interested to hear your own answer to your question?

bounty

05-07-2023, 07:30 AM

I think your statement of "my list moved me in some way and stayed with me long after the lights came on" captures my own sentiment really well spike. then the fun question after that is to explore what the "some way" is.

I believe that art is commentary on the human condition, and the best movies speak to some universal elemental aspect of being. its the common thread that allows for seemingly disparate movies to be held in mutual esteem on any one person's list of favorites.

as an offshoot---I read bel canto and liked it, but it never really occurred to me to watch the movie afterwards. the major attraction might be to see how well the creators of the movie deal with the powerful effect of music in people's lives.

to that point, have you ever seen the Shawshank redemption?

and as an aside---ann Patchett's book truth and beauty is one of the best written books ive ever read. if anyone ever sees this post and is inspired to give it a shot, read the autobiography of a face by lucy grealy first (which is also one of the best written books ive ever read).

spikepipsqueak

07-01-2023, 04:03 AM

I tried to put those on hold at the library just now.

Ran into that thing where we can now source books from the local region only. They used to be prepared to bring things in from all over the state. Radically improved the chances of reading something recommended.:) I'll note them. We will cross paths eventually.

Yes, I'd put Shawshank, and The Green Mile, in the category of films that say more than you see on the surface. I don't read King any more, grown out of horror, but he is a more thoughtful writer than I initially gave him credit for. I've read sentences in his books that have made me think for days.

bounty

07-01-2023, 09:14 AM

oh boy spike, if you can read those two books, id love to hear what you think. remember to read lucy first and ann second.

ive watched some really enjoyable movies recently---but I should also say that "enjoyment" for me doesn't really mean an entertaining distraction. as we're kinda talking about, there has to be something more going on.

free

07-10-2023, 11:54 AM

Generally, I like SF films and films based on literature.

bounty

07-30-2023, 04:00 PM

I've just recently re-watched ready, player one (even better the second time around!) which is maybe more fantasy than science fiction, but its at least a little bit of both, and I was just reminded that's also a book on my wish list.

bounty

07-30-2023, 04:38 PM

free

10-01-2024, 01:58 PM

I have just heard a Franz Liszt's composition (I do not know its name) and it occured to me that he was one of George Sand's lovers. The film about George Sand's very interesting life is lovely, but one scene remind in my mind so much. Alfred de Musset, also her lover, once treated her badly, so she spent a night crying in fron of his house. Authors of the film inserted there a music by Franz Liszt, (if I remember well), after that she became Franz's mistress. Maybe it is not much of an idea, but it was so emotionally exciting (knowing that they become lovers afterwards) that I think, I will always like it.

tonywalt

06-30-2025, 10:13 AM

Five Easy Pieces is my favourite independent film.

Five Easy Pieces is not just a character study. It’s a quiet, devastating meditation on what it means to be free, yet lost, in America—making it a timeless piece of Americana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtWasAUMYz8

bounty

07-06-2025, 06:20 PM

not my favorite film by a longshot but in an effort to add to the site---and maybe make a difference for someone someday, I recently watched midway, thoroughly enjoyed it and heartily recommend it.