Your favourite films!

Hard to bring it to 10.

First, easy for me

The Godfather
Then, in no certain order, off the top of my head

Godfather Part II

Hoosiers (just enjoy it)

Braveheart

In the Heat of the Night

The Guns of Navarone

On the Waterfront

To Kill a Mockingbird

Bridge on the River Kwai

Silence of the Lambs



Like Justice Potter Stewart wrote about pornography, "I know it when I see it", these movies are some of the ones that ....if I flip through the channels, no matter how late, it's, watching til the end time... even if I own the damn thing on DVD or VHS!! That is how I know it's one of my favorites.

 

I like wide-screen technicolor huge spectacles.

BTW everything listed would be widescreen. If it was originally in Black and white..then that way. No colorizing. No pan and scan.

Ben Hur
Ten Commandments
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape
Lawrence of Arabia
Citizen Kane
Gladiator
Gone with the Wind
Amadeus
Jaws
Dances with Wolves
Planet of the Apes (first one only)
The Hunt for Red October

I like swashbucklers:

Captain Blood - Errol Flynn
Adventures of Robin Hood - Errol Flynn
Mask of Zorro - Tyrone Powell
Mark of Zorro - Antonio Banderas
Prisoner of Zenda - Both the Stewart Granger and the Ronald Coleman
Princess Bride
Ladyhawke
Ivanhoe - A & E miniseries
Man in the Iron Mask -Richard Chamberlain
Count of Monte Cristo - Richard Chamberlain
Three Musketeers - Richard Lester
Four Musketeers - Richard Lester

I also like comedies, especially if they parody something else.

The Great Race
The Assassination Bureau
The President's Analyst
Our Man Flint movies
Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers (except the last one)
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Producers -Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder
Bell, Book and Candle
Some Like it Hot

Blackadder: british series with Rowan Atkinson

For Romances:

Sabrina - Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Boghart, William Holden
Pride and Prejudice - A&E miniseries with Colin Firth
Funny Face
Roman Holiday (hmmm. Seems to be an Audrey Hepburn pattern here.)
Gambit
The Thin Man series (well, *I* find them romantic)
Pretty Woman
Dracula - Frank Langella

My all time favorite Boghart film?

We're No Angels, with Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone and Leo G. Carroll. Include this with Holiday Fare.

Okay include:
Maltese Falcon
Casablanca

But if you do noir you have to include:
Sunset Boulevard

Hitchcock. Well..any Hitchcock film.

Holiday Fare:

Charlie Brown Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Miracle on 34th St. -Edmond Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Maureen O'Hara
Holiday Inn (original black and white, uncut)
White Christmas

The Classic Musicals

Oklahoma
South Pacific
Carousel
The King and I
Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
West Side Story
Wizard of Oz
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Singing in the Rain
American in Paris

anything with Fred Astaire

Foreign films:

Carmen - Carlos Saura, Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol
Beauty and the Beast - Jean Cocteau

Opera:

Carmen - Julia Migenes-Johnson, Placido Domingo

Ballet:

Nutcracker: Mikhail Barishnykov

Other:

Any Bond movie, but especially the early Connery and later Brosnan
Hatari
The Quiet Man
Clint Eastwood's spaghetti Westerns
Three Mules for Sister Sara
Cat Ballou
Shawshank Redemption
Close Encounters of a Third Kind
The first three Star Wars I.E. IV, V and VI
The Raiders of the Lost Ark movies
2001: a Space Odyssey
Soylent Green
Silent Running
Dr. Strangelove
Jurassic Park
Forrest Gump
Batman and Batman II (Keaton only)
Mummy I and II
Silence of the lambs

Documentaries:

March of the Penguins
Mad Hot Ballroom

Shakespeare:

Hamlet (the best production I saw was Hallmark Hall of Fame with Richard Chamberlain. It's unavailable)
Romeo and Juliet - Franco Zeffirelli
Much Ado About Nothing -New York Shakespeare, Joseph Papp production, Sam Waterston
Taming of the Shrew - American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, Marc Singer
Twelfth night- two best I saw were both TV productions. 1998 Helen Hunt and 1980 Felicity Kendall
Midsummer Night's Dream - James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Joe E Brown, Dick Powell, Victor Jory first on my list. Second would be the 1999 remake with Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Sherlock Holmes:
I'm partial to Basil Rathbone but Jeremy Brett was probably truest to the canon.

TV Miniseries:

Shogun

Of course, everything is subjective.

You can see the top 250 movie list at Internet Movie Database. Also top movies for women, men, and 100 worst films. You can also search by decade as well as search by title, actor and genre.

Internet Movie DataBase

 

This is just my top list as of right now...it changes with my mood:

Big Night
The Breakfast Club
The Big Chill
To Kill a Mockingbird
Moonstruck
The Life of Brian
Best in Show
Bread and Tulips
If These Walls Could Talk
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Big Lebowski
Ordinary People
Parenthood
Schindler's List
...And Justice for All
Animal House

 

Fight Club. Truly awesome. My most favorite movie of all time.

Nate

 

from my 5 star ratings on netflix:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Barton Fink (1991)
Being There (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blazing Saddles: Special Edition (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Fargo (1996)
Gattaca (1997)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Groundhog Day (1993)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Matrix (1999)
Metropolis (2001)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
The Producers (1968)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Ran
Ronin (1998)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Sleeper (1973)
Spirited Away (2002)
Les Triplettes de Belleville
Victor / Victoria (1982)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

 

Bladerunner and Gattaca. Both excellent films and warnings of the direction we're heading.

For silent films; Metropolis.

Disney is a whole other category.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Apr 14 2006, 12:16 PM) [snapback]239756[/snapback]</div>

That metropolis in my list was the anime flic. Although I highly rate the silent film as well.

Incidentally, if any netflix subscriber would like to become a "friend", I'm game. My tastes run to noir, sf, black comedy, anime. As my sons say, "why don't you ever get any good movies, dad?"

[moderator: I seem to have a problem with concatenating my submissions. This was submitted by itself then got inserted in a reply to another post, so I'm resubmitting it. My apologies if it shows up twice]

My 1 star ratings on netflix:

Alphaville (1965)
Batman Forever (1995)
Battlefield Earth (2000)
The Big Bounce (1969)
Club Dread (2004)
Clue (1985)
Four Rooms (1995)
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Ocean's 12
Paparazzi (2004)
The Player (1992)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Runaway Bride (1999)
Starsky & Hutch (2004) Top 100
The Stepford Wives (2004) Top 100
Wild Wild West (1999)
XXX: special edition

I don't include any MST3K type movies. I tend to save 1 star as a vindictive response to movies that waste my time and money under the pretense of entertaining me. MST3K type movies are invariably entertaining.

[moderator: post #10 should have been two replies and looked that way in the previews.]

 

Who Killed the Electric Car

Don't look for it on DVD just yet, but at least it is playing at the festivals now. Look for my name in the credits.

 

Some of my favs off the top of my head:


Sure-fire favorites (toss into the DVD player at almost any time):

Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Indiana Jones
The Black Hole
The Matrix
Mad Max
Aviator

Various others:

Baise Moi
Murderous Maids
Natural Born Killers
Fight Club
The Crying Game
Boys Don't Cry
Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Kill Bills

Pi
Requiem for a Dream
Run Lola Run
The Ninth Gate

The Outlaw Josie Wales
Unforgiven
Gladiator

Blazing Saddles
40 Year Old Virigin

2001
2010
First Contact
Final Fantasy

The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After
Impact
The Perfect Storm
Titanic

Coffin Joe (foreign)
House of 1000 Corpses
The Devil's Rejects
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
28 Days
Outbreak
Night of the Living Dead
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Damien, The Omen series
The Others

WWII Documentaries (I must have like 20)

A View to a Kill
Moonraker
The Professional

Russ Meyer Films
The ILSA Films
The Brown Bunny

and finally,

Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle B)

 

All-time favorite -- Amadeus, I just loved that movie.

Anyone remember I Love You to Death -- hilarious!


Peace --

 

I like Chaplin's short movies (The Mutual comedies, and the Essenay comedies.)

For a couple of modern movies:

Frida
The Widow of St. Pierre

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is worth it just for the drag-queen act song that Dr. Frankenfurter does near the beginning.

 

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Saw "love you to death" the other night on cable. Think Kline's character was reformed? Another good blue collar infidelity flick is "out cold" with John Lithgow. Terri Garr looked maaarvelous.

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from IMDB: baise moi: "Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences."

"breaking norms"? are there no standards in film today?

 

Godfather II: Best movie ever made IMHO

Godfather:Second Best

The rest in no particular order

Harold and Maude: Great dark comedy and Cat Stevens music. Death can be funny!

Ship of Fools: Relic from a bygone era, when actors were valued more than special effects.

Interview with the Vampire: My favorite vampire movie though many good ones have been made. This one never bogs down. Neil Jordan (the Crying Game) directed it.

Moulin Rouge: Brought back the musical to a generation who never knew what a musical was.

Shakespeare in Love: Until this movie came out Amadeus was my favorite but I think this movie is the
better of the two.

Auntie Mame: Just a personal favorite that never fails to make me laugh every time I see it. God Bless Peggy Cass.

HairSpray: John Waters first main stream movie and Divine's last. Great Camp

Rosemary's Baby: One of the few movies that actually followed the book. Suttle in the fact that they did not rely on shock horror. Ruth Gordon makes the movie.

 

Mine in no particular order...

anything by Mel Brooks

The Day the Earth Stood Still and 2001 (best 2 sci fi flicks ever)

all three Monty Python movies

The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, The Birds, and North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock

Way Out West - Laural and Hardy



Will probably think of more as time goes on...