What is your all time favorite movie?

[leica M2 fan]

After responding to Dave Lackey's thread about the 70th anniversary of 'Casablanca" I thought it might be interesting to find out RFF member's all time favorite movies.
I'll start :
1. Casablanca
2. Lawrence of Arabia

[jippiejee]

Measured by the number of views, 'Sideways' and 'Annie Hall' could be considered my faves.

[thegman]

For number of views, Die Hard.

[J. Borger]

Cat on a hot tin roof

[jsrockit]

Honestly, too many to choose from... I could never just pick one.

[doolittle]

I have no absolute favourite, but would include Goodfellas, Inglorious Basterds and Lawrence of Arabia. By number of views probably Star Wars or LOTR, as watch those with the kids.

[gns]

Honestly, too many to choose from... I could never just pick one.

Ditto. But just for fun, Chinatown.

[ThangNguyen]

Forrest Gump for me

[Tom A]

" The Third Man"
"Cinema Paradiso"
"The Seventh Seal"

[nikon_sam]

1. The Graduate
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Antwone Fisher
I can pick up these movies at any point and watch it to the end...

[filmtwit]

According to my netflix rating (6000+ club) these are my top (5 star) movies and some TV

Five Stars

The Asphalt Jungle
Spirited Away
Stalag 17
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Big Lebowski
The Sorrow and the Pity
Key Largo
Red Beard (note this film needs to be viewed more then once to really absorb all the story lines).
East of Eden
Closely Watched Trains (I actually have this on 16mm film)
Smiles of a Summer Night
In Cold Blood (easily one of the best B&W films ever shot)
Blue (Tri-Colour)
Breaking Away
The 400 Blows
The Seventh Seal
Connections
A Clockwork Orange
Babe
Ran
Once Upon a Time in the West
Red (Tri-Colour)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Brazil
Wild Strawberries
Trainspotting
To Kill a Mockingbird (Possibly one of the best films ever made)
The Godfather
The Stax Records Story
The Enemy Below
Slumdog Millionaire (I need to see this again in a year or two and see if it stands up to my 5 rating)
The Cove Documentary (I need to see this again in a year or two and see if it stands up to my 5 rating)
Ugetsu
Last Exile
Ken Burns' America: Brooklyn Bridge
Ken Burns' America: Huey Long
Hotel Terminus
Harlan County, U.S.A.
La Strada
The Apartment (another nearly perfect film)
Roman Holiday
My Neighbor Totoro
Ikiru Foreign
The Rules of the Game
Yojimbo (Another nearly perfect film and almost as well shot as In Cold Blood).
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (I need to see this again in couple of years and see if holds up).
Howards End
The Wire:
The Corporation
The Great Escape (Another nearly perfect film)
Ken Burns: The Civil War
The Man in the White Suit (ealing comedies, need I say more?)
Traffik (Almost as perfect as The Wire).
My Life as a Dog
Princess Mononoke
The Conformist
Shoot the Piano Player
L.A. Confidential
Odd Man Out
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Wallace & Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures Children & Family
The Brother From Another Planet (first indie film I ever saw)
The Thin Red Line
The Seventh Seal
Ulee's Gold
The Double Life of Veronique
Salesman (2nd best documentary ever made)
Rushmore
The Devil Came on Horseback
The Graduate
Fargo
Billy Liar
The Conversation
The Last Emperor
Pan's Labyrinth
Seven Samurai
Grey Gardens (the Documentary, not the movie)
Dead End
Dr. Strangelove
Billy Bragg and Wilco: Man in the Sand
Night and the City
Mad Men
No Country for Old Men
Down from the Mountain
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Le Grand Illusion

[paulfish4570]

blade runner
the searchers
serenity
ran
hero
as it is in heaven
once upon a time in the west
lawrence of arabia
dr. zhivago
braveheart
gladiator
paris, texas (haven't thought of that for a while)
usual suspects

[River Dog]

The Godfather (parts 1 and 2)

[KenR]

"Raiders of the Lost Ark"

[taskoni]

Uh, that's a hard one.

I have seen them all, and I have made some too...

[paulfish4570]

yes, the godfather trilogy.

[Phil_F_NM]

Another vote for "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Phil Forrest

[paulfish4570]

amen, roland, amen. fonda is fantastic in that movie. the soundtrack? could be my no. 1, too ...

[Beemermark]

The"Unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood
The OK Corral - all the movies (4 I think)
Any Cowboy movie with John Wayne.

OK, I like cowboy movies.

[BSchall]

Animal House

Brings back fond memories, at least what I can remember.

[paulfish4570]

yes, unforgiven, how could i forget that. searchers, unforgiven, one upon a time in the west all tied for no. 1 western for me ...

[Lflex]

Diva (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082269/) - this movie is bad in the good way.

[Mr_Toad]

Aliens2 gets me in a killin' mood, for when I have to go out front to spray the weeds.

[Borghesia]

La Haine
The grapes of wrath
Control

[jamesbf]

Any of the old Indiana Jones' & 28 Weeks later!

[batterytypehah!]

My Life as a Dog
Local Hero
Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World

[leica M2 fan]

Since no one has mentioned this one- another favorite:
Roshomon by the great Akira Kurosawa.

[filmtwit]

Roshomon is a very good film, but I'd say that Kurosawa did better in such films as

Yojimbo (Music, cinematography and dark comedy, plus every spaghetti western ever made plays some homage to this film)
Red beard (Story and a 180 in subtly in film making)
Ran (the visual story telling is unsurpassed)

Since no one has mentioned this one- another favorite:
Roshomon by the great Akira Kurosawa.

[ChrisLivsey]

"Silent Running" directed by Douglas Trumbull

[geotrupede]

Obviously... "M"

[KoNickon]

It's a Wonderful Life
Slap Shot
Das Boot
A Room with a View

[Meakin]

Too many to mention - but one that does seems to stick in my mind is : Wim Wenders "Until the end of the world" (179min. european version)

/Meakin

[Mablo]

"La Strada" by Fellini.

[paulfish4570]

das boot, yes ...

[seakayaker1]

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai
4. The Godfather
5. Amadeus
6. Tombstone
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Apocalypse Now
10. Ghandhi

. . . . . to name a few, and there are dozens of others which fit into a favorite category.

[egor]

I was surprised to see so many of us decidedly non-mainstream rangefinder users name so many mainstream films.

At the risk of getting permanently banned over my dubious taste, here are my top-5, in alphabetical order:

* Alucarda - Juan López Moctezuma
* Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - Russ Meyer
* Danger: Diabolik - Mario Bava
* Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô - Shunya Ito
* Le frisson des vampires - Jean Rollin
* Visitor Q - Takashi Miike

Oops, that's 6… and there are at least several dozen more from Jess Franco, Pete Walker, Paul Naschy, Norifumi Suzuki, Doris Wishman and several others that belong in my "top 5."

[Richard G]

Sophistication award goes definitely to the Vancouverites. Too many to mention. Based on instant impression and number of times watched:
The first four Sean Connery James Bond films,
Bergman's 'Virgin Spring',
Tarkowsky's 'Mirror',
Casablanca,
Rear Window

[finguanzo]

almost an impossible question to answer, but, some of them include,
Rushmore,
Election
Groundhog Day
Seems like anything with Bill Murray......

[Richard G]

Of course, Bill Murray: 'Lost in Translation' for instance and for other reasons, but chiefly
'Stripes'.

[Matthew Runkel]

Dr. Strangelove

Many are tied for second, including:

Notorious
North By Northwest
Being There
Vertigo
The Player
The Big Sleep
Chinatown
Kill Bill 1 and 2
Terminator 1 and 2

[swoop]

Sweet and Lowdown

[hteasley]

High and Low
Yojimbo
Dr Strangelove
Pickup on South Street
The Apartment
Gosford Park
Topsy-Turvy

Those are the biggies. For brane candy that I can always watch, there's the original trilogy Star Wars, Master & Commander, Galaxy Quest, the Schwarzenegger Conans, and lots more.

[paulfish4570]

being there, high and low, strangelove, all excellent.
barry lyndon if only for the exquisite available light cinematography ...

[Richard G]

I should have included 'Chinatown'. ("Bad for glass.")

[leica M2 fan]

How about Tootsie?
or Midnight Cowboy.

[Ken Smith]

Casablanca
African Queen
Battle of Britian
A Bridge Too Far
When We Were Soldiers

[helenhill]

Too Many to Name but the first few that Come to Mind,

B&W :
M
The Night of the Hunter
Yojimbo
Coffee & Cigarettes

Color :
Red Sorghum
Ran

[Eric T]

Billy Crystal's 61*

[JayC]

There can be only one: Highlander

[Taipei-metro]

Too Many to Name but the first few that Come to Mind,

B&W :
M
The Night of the Hunter
Yojimbo
Coffee & Cigarettes

Color :
Ran
Cinema Paradiso
Hi,
You withdrew 'Red Sorghum' from the list...
Mr. Zhang's every pre Hollywood movies are great, my 3 favorites,
1. Not One Less
2. Story of Qiu Ju
3. Shanghai Traid

[leica M2 fan]

Year of Living Dangerously

[Taipei-metro]

At this time, one movie that I can think of as my favorite one will be,
'The Eel' (1997),
by Shohei Imamura 今村昌平

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120408/

[PhotoMat]

+1 M2 fan.

Also, in no particular order:

Twelve O'Clock High
The Shining
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Cinderella Man
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
The Shawshank Redemption
Vanishing Point
American Graffiti
Sling Blade
Paint Your Wagon

[K14]

Tampopo タンポポ, the only one that comes to mind right now.

Gary

[DanOnRoute66]

Chariots of Fire -- great story, exceptionally talented cast (I named one of my two sons Ian, after Ian Holm) and beautiful cinematography. I never get tired of watching it.

Among all the westerns mentioned and no one listed The Magnificent Seven? Another superbly made film that was influenced by Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, which in turn was influenced by Hollywood westerns.

[MikeL]

Yojimbo

Jaws

[seakayaker1]

. . . . . .

11. Bullett
12. Con Air
13. In America
14. The Limey
15. Mystic River
16. Mercury Rising
17. Million Dollar Baby
18. Hurt Locker
19. Independence Day
20. Out of Africa

. . . . . .

The List is endless for movies I enjoy, picking one would be difficult, but today I would have to stick with the number one from above.

Lawrence of Arabia

[leica M2 fan]

seakayaker1 I think your first list of 10 probably has the best movies of all time for most people. Yo are a very discerning movie goer!

[Rico]

Zardos (although I admit it's an acquired taste).

"What do you see in the crystal ball?"
"... Nothing."
“Nothing? Then I have nothing to tell you.”

[taskoni]

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/aa/82/9432e03ae7a0e6ac19e0f110.L.jpg

[lacavol]

Dr. Strangelove

and Stroszek one of Herzog's best.

[redisburning]

I want to say a few things before I get to my choice.

first: I am surprised to see a takashi miike film. I, too, am a fan of his work.

secondly: my personal favorite Kurosawa film is the sequel to Yojimbo; Sanjuro.

now my 2-5 favorites are:

2. Drive
3. Kanashimi no Belladonna
4. The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

but my absolute favorite film is without a doubt Tenshi no Tamago. I refuse to talk about this movie beyond the fact that it exists and it amazing.

as an FYI It is directed by Mamarou Oshii, my favorite director. The art is by Yo****aka Amano, IMO the greatest illustrator since the days of Arthur Rakham and Kai Nielsen. The film was published by Tokuma Shoten which spawned Ghibli.

[Richard G]

+1 M2 fan.

Also, in no particular order:

Twelve O'Clock High
The Shining
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Cinderella Man
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
The Shawshank Redemption
Vanishing Point
American Graffiti
Sling Blade
Paint Your Wagon


PhotoMat, with your Avatar and you don't list "2001"?

So, '2001, a Space Odyssey'

[sebastel]

2046 (wang kar wai)
merry-go-round (jacques rivette)
8 1/2 (federico fellini)

[AndysRollei]

My favorite would be any movie that my great Uncle was the still production photographer for. The Ten Commandments, Some Like It Hot, The Great Escape, West Side Story, The Apartment and many more.

Andy

[DSkjaeve]

Taxi driver.

[alan davus]

The African Queen
Casablanca
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
and a couple of Aussie favourites
The Castle
The Dish
Strictly Ballroom

[Strangeluv]

Way to many but to name a few:

Metropolis and M by Fritz Lang,
Kubrick's 2001: A space odyssey,
Stalker by Tarkovsky,
Burnt by the sun by Mikhalkov,
Wenders' Paris, Texas
Most of the classic western movies by Sergio Leone. The ones with Eastwood and Bronson mind you :)

[helenhill]

Hi,
You withdrew 'Red Sorghum' from the list...
Mr. Zhang's every pre Hollywood movies are great, my 3 favorites,
1. Not One Less
2. Story of Qiu Ju
3. Shanghai Traid


Your Right... Its Back up There ;)
He is one of my FAV directors ... He & Gong Li were Magnificent Together
Story of Qui Jui was GREAT, Shanghai Triad too
Though i have not seen 'Not One Less', now I must Watch it
Thanks for the Tip
Best- H

[bgb]

Only one that springs to mind is Cinema Paradiso ...

[Johnmcd]

Mad Max
Mad Max 2
The Seven Samurai
Zulu
My Life as a Dog
Dusk till Dawn
The Princess Bride
Spinal Tap

And so many more...

[Sparrow]

Thank goodness someone mentioned Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, I'll add Throne of Blood , Alan Parker's Evita, Umbrellas of Cherbourg (can't remember the director), The Dish, that someone mentioned earlier ... Lawrence of Arabia, The Bofors Gun, La Dolce Vita ... it's endless really

[shimokita]

Wizard of Oz... let's be serious here
Caddyshack

Sixth Sense
Salem's Lot
Blair Witch Project

[Richard G]

Caddyshack - yes! "A thousand bucks says you miss that putt!"
Dark Star (John Carpenter)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
The Road Home [My Father and Mother] (Yimou Zhang)
........

[pitadotcom]

The Shawshank Redemption

[Johnmcd]

Wizard of Oz... let's be serious here
Caddyshack

Sixth Sense
Salem's Lot
Blair Witch Project

Blair Witch Project remains the scariest movie I've ever seen. It was the unknown thing under the bed when I was a kid.

Caddy shack - hey, graveyard two blocks that way....

[mugent]

Die Hard
Lost in Translation
Drive

[mynikonf2]

The Big Blue
Band of Brothers
K-Pax
Kelly's Heroes
Saving Private Ryan
Jeremiah Johnson
Charlie Wilson's War
Black Hawk Down
...just to name a few.

[Sparrow]

I forgot to mention "the un-makable film" Anthony Minghella's The English Patient ... not as brilliant as the book but still a bloody good film ... just like the film of Captain Corelli's Mandolin isn't

[Sparrow]

... Oh, and Walkabout

[BobYIL]

Great movies so far.. let's add a few memorable ones:

Dersu Uzala by Akiro Kurosawa
La Nuit Américaine by François Truffaut
The Marriage of Maria Braun by Werner Fassbinder

[astro8]

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Maltese Falcon
Cape Fear
Cinema Paradiso
Das Boot
Breathless
Closely Watched Trains
La Grande Bouffe
and many, many more....

[zuiko85]

Too old to have a favorite. But some I liked in the last few decades;
Good Night and Good Luck
Apollo 13
O' Brother, Where Art Thou
The Twelve Chairs
Silverado
Tinker Taylor (1980 BBC miniseries with Alec Guinness)
Smiley's People (follow up series)
The Man in the White Suit
The Bridge over the River Kwai (must have Alec Guinness on the brain)
Alegro Non Troppo
Strictly Ballroom

I dunno, lots more.

[zuiko85]

Back again.

We need a thread on 'favorite movie lines'

From Bridge Over the River Kwai, the last spoken lines; 'madness.....madness....'
kinda sums it up, don't you think?

[Sparrow]

Back again.

We need a thread on 'favorite movie lines'

From Bridge Over the River Kwai, the last spoken lines; 'madness.....madness....'
kinda sums it up, don't you think?

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."

... someone must have mentioned Strangelove already

[ALN]

In no particular order and woefully incomplete:

Kind Hearts and Coronets
Paths of Glory
The Searchers
The Joy Luck Club
Dinner Rush
Lord of the Rings x 3

Oh, and almost any 1950's B/W sci-fi/creature flick.

Regards,
Al

[SilverPix]

This is supposedly a photography forum and no one has mentioned The Road to Perdition.
That and...
The Shawshank Redemption
Green Mile
Castaway
Elf
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Gladiator

Are a few I will watch over and over.

[slowbicycle]

yes, hard to choose favorites, but on my list would be:

Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon
Naruse's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Bergman's Wild Strawberries
Godard's Une Femme est Une Femme
Truffaut's Jules et Jim
Bertolucci's The Conformist
Yoshida's Impasse (Hono to onna)
Woody Allen's Manhattan
Wong Kar-Wai's "Chungking Express" and "In the Mood for Love"
Zhang Yimou's To Live
Capra's "It Happened One Night" and "You Can't Take it With You"
Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt
Ford's The Man Who Shot Libery Valance
Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place

....and many more...

[Rob-F]

Some favorite actors are Meryl Streep, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman. Of course there are others I like. These are just the first to come to mind. And favorite movies that first come to mind include:

Out of Africa;
Sophie's choice;
Spy Game;
My Fair Lady;
Funny Face;
The Right Stuff;
Wag the Dog;
Kramer vs. Kramer
Two for the Road
How to Steal a Million
Love among Thieves

[batterytypehah!]

barry lyndon if only for the exquisite available light cinematography ...

How could I forget. Hands down the most impressive color work I have ever seen, even though sadly it was only on a humble 20 inch CRT.

I saw Lawrence of Arabia off a pristine 70mm print in my town's largest movie house and still, I think Barry Lyndon tops it.

[NickTrop]

Alphaville.

Jean-Luc Goddard's one and only noir science fiction film made in the mid-60's. Better than 2001, better than any other sci fi, in my opinion. Absolutely astonishing - "0" special effects. "0" budget - in fact, whether he knew it or not, he made mockery of such films.

Love. this. film.

[batterytypehah!]

I suspect if I watched Heaven's Gate again (the director's cut, of course), it would rank very highly, too. Even though I hate sepia.

[micromontenegro]

-Le chateau de ma mère, Marcel Pagnol
-Wild at heart, David Lynch
-Sur, Fernando Solanas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-LyvT52frY

[Beemermark]

reading the list makes want to run out and rent a couple of dozen movies.

Dr. Strangelove and A Boy and His Dog with Don Johnson ranks up at the top for what the future holds.

[zauhar]

Drama:
La Dolce Vita
Lawrence of Arabia


Sci Fi:

2001
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Carpenter's)

Horror
The Shining
The Eye 2 (Pang Bros)

Action:
Kill Bill I
Aliens II (or is that sci fi?)

Can't categorize:
Antichrist (although I never want to see it again)
The Fountain

Those are by free association, probably I am missing my all-time favorites.

Randy

[batterytypehah!]

Must stop going back to this thread... But I need to add some lighter fare:

Some Like It Hot
The Big Lebowski
The Fisher King (indeed, anything by Gilliam, my wife would vote for Time Bandits)

And, since this is favorite films, not "best" films, I probably never laughed harder than when I first saw A Fish Called Wanda.

[burancap]

So many great ones mentioned here!

For me...

Lawrence Of Arabia
or
Being There

Couple of curveballs...

300
Fight Club
The Chronicles Of Riddick

[Sparrow]

Must stop going back to this thread... But I need to add some lighter fare:

Some Like It Hot
The Big Lebowski
The Fisher King (indeed, anything by Gilliam, my wife would vote for Time Bandits)

And, since this is favorite films, not "best" films, I probably never laughed harder than when I first saw A Fish Called Wanda.

... SWMBO can't stand dwarves, but yes Time Bandits needs to be on the list ...

... I'm surprised Blade Runner hasn't featured more

[paulfish4570]

the fisher king is a fine movie.

speaking of jeff bridges: star man.

[PhotoMat]

PhotoMat, with your Avatar and you don't list "2001"?

So, '2001, a Space Odyssey'

I knew I was missing something!

And how could I have missed Caddyshack? I can quote that movie verbatim (much to the chagrin of my wife).

Fun thread.

[MV72]

American movies :
Dances with the wolves
Oh brother
The Big Lebovski
Babel
21 Grams
The Bridges of Madison County
Out of Africa
The Deer Hunter
Jeremiah Johnson
Derzu Uzala
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Heat
Taxi Driver
Easy Rider
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Alien (1)
Blade Runner
Bagdad Café
Metropolis
They kill horses don't they ?
Grapes of Wrath
Raging Bull
Aguirre
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Once upon a Time in America
Amelie from Montmartre

And most of Ken Loach's films :
The wind that shakes the Barley
Land & Freedom
Kes
Raining Stones

Many Italian movies by Dino Risi, Fellini, Visconti, Olmi, Rosselini, Taviani...

Many French films that probably never made it across the ocean, from prewar ones to recent stuff.
L'Atalante
Quai des brumes
La règle du jeu
Les tontons flingueurs
Le vieux fusil
Les valseuses
Le dernier métro
Cyrano de Bergerac
Tous les matins du monde
Le pianiste

German movies like Goodbye Lenin, Das Leben der anderen
Auf der anderen Seite
Die Blechtrommel

[MV72]

Made a few mistakes ;-((
Derzu Uzala is by Kurosawa (Japan)
Amélie is obviously French
Aguirre is by Werner Herzog a German film maker

[batterytypehah!]

^...and Bagdad Café/Out of Rosenheim and Metropolis are both German but I think you're excused for not remembering ;) Nice additions.

[paulfish4570]

i have a director's cut dvd of BR. watched it again week before last.

[batterytypehah!]

Last one from me, I promise, but my list of favorites is just not complete without

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann (think Germany's George Clooney and Brad Pitt of the day) at their best. Escapist fare produced under the Nazis, sure, but an utter delight to watch just the same.

[wjgorham]

Tunes of glory.

[Rogier]

Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo > The Girl Who Played with Fire > The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Bourne; Supremacy > Identity > Ultimatum

[Aristophanes]

Breaking Away

[paulfish4570]

the red shoes.

yes, the millenium trilogy and another swedish movie of this era: as it is in heaven.

[Richard G]

I knew I was missing something!

And how could I have missed Caddyshack? I can quote that movie verbatim (much to the chagrin of my wife).

Fun thread.

Never mind PhotoMat. At least on your deathbed you'll have total consciousness - so you've got that going for you.

[Iggy]

Excluding some already noted here goes...
Jason and the Argonauts, Tampopo, Casino, Red Firecracker Green Firecracker, Jean De Florette/Manon Des Sources, Mr Hulot's Holiday, Kick Ass, Yojimbo, Dead Man's Shoes, The Apartment, Magnolia, Kwaidan, Looking for Eric, Dangerous Liaisons, The Lives of Others, Youth in Revolt, Senna and (I'm) Spartacus.

[hteasley]

Oooh, yeah, how did I manage to leave Big Lebowski off my list? Because I was not thinking. That was very un-Dude. I will watch that anytime, anywhere (as long as the kids are asleep). Lebowski, Strangelove, Yojimbo, those might be my top three.

[seakayaker1]

seakayaker1 I think your first list of 10 probably has the best movies of all time for most people. Yo are a very discerning movie goer!

. . . . . thanks for you kind words.

A few foreign films that I have enjoyed the past few years. . . . . i.e., not made in Hollywood.

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo (Swedish) . . . . . actually all three in the series.
2. Biutiful (Spain/Mexico)
3. A Phophet (France/Italy)
4. The Motocycle Diaries (Argentina)
5. Once (Ireland)
6. Cache (France)
7. Volver (Spain)
8. The Lives of Others (German)
9. Des Hommes et des Dieux (Of Gods and Men) (France)
10. The Commitments (Ireland)

[reaperman]

Spirited away,
Blade Runner,
Blue Velvet,
Land and Freedom,
Kill Bill,
No Country for Old Man,
Night on Earth

[MikeL]

Folks, time to change/toughen up your passwords.

I just logged into about 6 accounts using your favorite movie as the password.

Then I posted new threads under your username, where you ask which are better, brass or zinc top plates, or you ask for opinions about build quality on items made in Canada, Portugal, and Germany.

Just wanted to let you know.

[Rico]

Multiple-choice time, excluding those already mentioned, and in no particular order...

Downfall/Der Untergang (Hirschbiegel)
Belly of An Architect (Greenaway)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch)
Trouble in Mind (Rudolph)
La Traviata (Zeffirelli)
The Elephant Man (Lynch)
Jabberwocky (Gilliam)

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Dr. Zhivago
No Country For Old Men
The Godfather

[johannielscom]

Kubrick junkie here. I love them for their sense of surrealism and alienation and his ability to tell straightforward stories with lots of layers and themes.


1. The Shining
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. 2001 a Space Oddyssee
4. Barry Lyndon


Also:

1. Blood Diamond
2. Inception
3. From Hell

[chasfreeland]

Let me add a film I watched just last evening, 'Only Angels Have Wings', 1939, directed by Howard Hawks, starring cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Rita Hayworth. Nominated for an Academy Award for cinema photography. While it isn't my absolute fav, it was fun to watch. And it has a memorable line: "Calling Baranca, calling Baranca."

[sazerac]

Here's another shout-out for Until the End of the World. Also, Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters is a beautiful movie that has excellent color and B+W! ;)

[scorpius73]

To Catch A Thief
Godfather Part II
Raiders of the Lost Ark

[slowbicycle]

Let me add a film I watched just last evening, 'Only Angels Have Wings', 1939, directed by Howard Hawks, starring cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Rita Hayworth. Nominated for an Academy Award for cinema photography. While it isn't my absolute fav, it was fun to watch. And it has a memorable line: "Calling Baranca, calling Baranca."

definitely a great film with an awesome cast, Jean Arthur with her throaty, squeaky voice being an all-time favorite!

[gavinlg]

- Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films - Howls moving castle, Princess mononoke, Spirited away (especially)
- Lost in Translation - captures the feeling of Tokyo so perfectly for me, makes me fall in love with Scarlett Johansson a million times every time.
- The Bourne Trilogy - Matt Damon in his perfect role.
- A Bronx Tale - perfection
- Rambo IV - brutal but so good
... Gotta try think of some more...

edit: childhood loves -
- The Karate Kid series (only the original ones)
- Terminator 1, 2, and salvation. (3 Is rubbish)

[tstermitz]

Without question: "Black Orpheus" ("Orfeu do Carnaval"). The tale of Orpheus and Euridice told set at carnival in Brazil. The figure of death pursuing Euridice through the wild partying is one thing. The joy of life with the little kids dancing at the end of the movie breaks me up every time!

[tmfabian]

The adventures of baron munchausen.

[mfunnell]

Both Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now benefitted from reedits as a director's cut / redux.I'm afraid I'll have to disagree - about both, but especially Apocalypse Now. I'm afraid that Redux reverted that one back to a series of all-too-disconnected (if sometimes well-crafted) scenes, with any attempt at plot, and character development of Willard, destroyed by undoing the no-doubt difficult and painstaking work some poor unsung editor did to try and graft some semblance of both onto material apparently produced with no thought to either. That was my thought the first (and last) time I watched the Redux version, anyway.

...Mike

[filmtwit]

Too many cuts and variations.


... I'm surprised Blade Runner hasn't featured more

[nikon_sam]

Searching for Bobby Fisher
Summer of '42
The Seven Year Itch
12 Angry Men

[andy_v]

Die Hard:D

At the same time I did not like Nothing Lasts Forever novel.

[paulfish4570]

i watched one of my favorites last night: michael mann's the last of the mohicans. a romantic story well told. well photographed. lovely score.

[MCTuomey]

Wizard of Oz

Or Mr Hulot's Holiday

Gran Torino and In Darkness lately, both are staying with me

[leica M2 fan]

How about Diabolique the French version with Simone Signoret.

[paulfish4570]

the ghost and the darkness.

[redisburning]

i watched one of my favorites last night: michael mann's the last of the mohicans. a romantic story well told. well photographed. lovely score.

this was one of my favorites as a child, and still is. I like the older versions too, but like Mann's the best due to excellent cinematography, a bang up cast and the score.

another favorite from my childhood was the first Alien. funny that a sci-fi movie was one of the most believable to me. great acting in that one, great sets, killer sound design, perfectly woven suspense.

[rbiemer]

One favorite? Sorry, I can't quite decide.
But my top few are:
>The Man Who Would Be King
>Far Away So Close
>The Tenant
>Harry Brown
>Old Men in New Cars
>The Man From Nowhere
>The Long Riders
>Fitzcarraldo
>A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints
>Sleeper
>Duck Soup
>Blade Runner
>Murmurs Of The Heart
>District 13
>The Long Good Friday
>Wings Of Desire
>King Of Hearts
>Paris, Texas
>Schindler's List
>2046
>Four Rooms
>Casablanca
>The Maltese Falcon
>The Thin Man
>The Razors Edge--both versions
>Boxing Helena
Rob

[Dirk]

"Bladerunner", hands down.

[Travis L.]

"Bladerunner", hands down.

Beat me to it.....

[paulfish4570]

redisburning, yes to alien ...

and wings of desire ...

[driver]

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World :bang:

. . . makes me laugh.

[Vince Lupo]

Manhattan.

[Sylvester]

Stanley Kubrick's Doctor Strangelove or: How I Leaned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

[M.Nadz]

Apocalypse Now
or
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Pulp Fiction is a close third, actually. Hard decision.

[bigeye]

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World :bang:

. . . makes me laugh.

What can go wrong with an Old Fashioned? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i415QwSj0Og)

Favorite is Strangelove. Watch Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8L8NopVwdg&feature=related) in the background after "envy the dead". Sellers is brilliant.

[truefriendship]

Koyaanisqatsi.

[johannielscom]

Yay, finally more Kubrick fans in this thread! :):):)

Just a little link to Kubricks 'Barry Lyndon' on YT:
http://youtu.be/nfbL0EU2IdM

The music is great (and famous) but the imagery is superb. Just look at the light, the color rendering and the DOF. It was shot with large-aperture lenses, sometimes with only candle light on the set:eek:!

[Steve M.]

My first post was about my usual suspects. The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, 81/2, La Dolce Vita, etc.

But I saw "Children of Men" the other night for the second time and can't get it out of my head. Not so much the premise, which is old hand stuff for Sci Fi, but the incredible cinematography, with very long running shots that were shot in one take (or edited to appear that way). Wikipedia, of all places, has some fascinating info on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Men

Normally I don't watch movies that are shot on digital if I can help it, and indeed this one has a lot of the usual clamped down colors and blown highlights that are so popular now, but the camera work is just incredible (as is the acting and directing I might add). The horrific realness of the gorilla war being fought in the immigrant ghettos looks so real. Rightly or wrongly, and I haven't ever been there, but it's how I imagine the Gaza strip looks like, or will look like, if the media were allowed to get in there. The film is one of the best I've ever seen, and relates so well to our current world.

[StevenJohn]

In no particular order:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dr. Strangelove, Bladerunner, Apocalypse Now, Stranger than Fiction

[TXForester]

"The Big Sleep" and other film noir.

Most of Akira Kurosawa's films.

Turn Classic Movies is my favorite station on the "boob tube."

[Jubb Jubb]

Pulp Fiction

[Colin G.]

Blade Runner

[gb hill]

The Apostle (written by & starring Robert Duvall)

[kanzlr]

Orgazmo, by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

[fireblade]

anything Tarantino

[Vobluda]

Blade Runner

[Mongo Park]

Too many favourites to mention. Ones that immediately spring to mind:-

The Conversation
Pulp fiction
African Queen
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
French Connection
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
La Grand Bouffe
Tampopo
Diva
Death in a French Garden

there's plenty more...

[Mongo Park]

Oh - and the original Pink Panther series...

[zuiko85]

What? Did everyone forget 'Apollo 13'

Few more favorites;
Good Night and Good Luck
Oh' Brother Where Art Thou
Tora Tora Tora

From TV productions;
Tinker Taylor Solder Spy (series with Alec Guinness)
Smiley's People