Favorite Films
 

Pretty straightforward.

My favorite movie ever is Woody Allen's Stardust Memories.

I also love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dead Poet's Society, 8 1/2, the Virgin Suicides, La Belle Et La Bete, The Hours, Wedding Crashers, Something's Gotta Give, Manhattan, and.... the Hangover.

Anything with Meryl Streep in it is gold in my eyes.

Ahhh Danielle, I wondered if you'd do this -haha! I was waiting for the bands one to go on for a bit before doing it myself but now you have, great! :nod:

I always have a tough time picking favourite films. Trust me, when someone hears you're studying film it's always the first question you get asked and it's pretty impossible! I usually have a list of 10-15 that are in no particular order and depends on my mood etc... Here goes

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Stunning in every way and if I had to choose one this would maybe be it. Jodie Foster is fantastic in almost everything, apart from a few of her more recent movies.

Double Indeminty (1944) - The best film noir ever. In my opionion of course, lol.

Superman (1978) - I loved this as a kid and never grew out of the fandom for Superman! This gets better when you're older though.

Almost Famous (2000) - I fell in love with Penny Lane! Is there a cooler real-life couple than Cameron Crowe and Nancy Wilson from Heart?!

When Harry Met Sally (1989) - I think this is one of the best romantic comedies ever.

Back To The Future (1985) - Michael J Fox is one of my favourite actors. I'm such a fan. I've seen all of his stuff (The Hard Way is especially good) but I still think that these movies are the best franchise ever. They beat Lord of the Rings (and I like those films too!)

Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) - Doris Day's finest film. I'm a big fan and think she's totally underrated in dramatic roles. The only time James Cagney accespted second billing.

Pillow Ralk (1959) - Another one of Doris' best. The so-called "homage" Down With Love from a few years ago was dreadful!

Moulin Rouge! (2001) - Wow! I was blown away by this in the cinema.

Overboard (1987) - Goldie rules! This film is endlessely quotable.

Anchorman (2004) - Again, the quote factor...

Gone With The Wind (1939) - Epic,

Rear Window (1954) - I think this is Hitchcock's best.

To Die For (1995) - Nicole's best performance. Fantastic.

Bringing Up Baby (1938) - So, so funny. Katharine Hepburn. Cary Grant. A leopard. What's not to like!

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) - Such a great teen movie!

Mary Poppins (1966). So much fun!

St. Elmo's Fire (1985) - A darker version of the brat pack films. Ally Sheedy and Andrew McCarthy are great in this. It also has one of the best movie theme songs ever!

All About Eve (1950) - Possibly the best film about Hollywood there's been. Although any fans of The Player may disagree with me.

Phew!! Sorry - this post has gone on for ages. See, this is what happens when I start to make lists, haha! Good call on Eternal Sunshine by the way. Kate Winslet is fantastic and really should have got the Oscar for this. Have you seen Heavenly Creatures (1994)? Her first film, made in New Zealand by Peter Jackson. It's brilliant but very dark.

How can you not love Meryl Streep? She can do anything, Death Becomes Her (1992) with Meryl and Goldie is so great!

God, there are so many more movies I could add to this....I'd better stop now!

By the way, sorry if putting the years in is annoying. I noticed I'd done it just now (force of habit)....

1. Citizen Kane

ten others (in no particular order)

North By Northwest
M
Chinatown
LA Confidential
Sexy Beast
Fight Club
Goodfellas
Sunset Blvd
The Shining
French Connection

love, love this movie~ when henry hill went into witness protection, he came here to omaha where i live~ he used to cook at a diner in north platte in 2003 & i got to speak w/ him several times~ he was always very nice to me & said if i ever make it out to the diner he would cook for me~ i have his cookbook & the recipes are wonderful~

my list:
titanic, chessy to some, but i love it~
a christmas story, even in the summer & i have a leg lamp from the movies gift shop
scarface
hollywood knights
steel magnolias
stand by me
woodstock
sid & nancy
bull durham
that's all i can think of right now, it's early yet:p~

My God! I cxan't believe I forgot Stand By Me. I love it!

my stepma bought me this super deluxe dvd of it, my other dvd wouldnt play anymore & i cried like a little bitch at the end again:D;)~

The Tales of Hoffmann
Morocco
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Henry V (1945)
The Letter
His Girl Friday
The Greeks Had a Word For Them
The Old-Fashioned Way
Hail the Conquering Hero
The Golden Coach
Ugetsu
Fists in the Pocket

Oooooh yes, someone mentioned Fight Club. That's defiinitely on my list. Helena Bonham Carter is absolutely awesome in her creepy glory. And her and Stevie have the same birthday! May 26th is the day for all things dark and ethereal :)

Some of mine are:

Steel Magnolias
Notting Hill
Love Actually
Gladiator
A Star is Born (Judy Garland version)
Pretty Woman
Thoroughly Modern Millie

I'm sure there are more.. can't think right now...

The Jackal
Unfaithful
Runaway Bride
A Perfect Murder
Wonder Boys
The Game
Wall Street
Romancing The Stone
Shawshank Redemption
Moonstruck
Cider House Rules
Manhattan
The Mermaid Chair
You've Got Mail
Kate and Leopold
Salem's Lot
Goodfellas
The Abyss
Serendipidy
Sex, Lies & Videotape
Field Of Dreams
Wolf
....and so many more!

Love Actually is one of my absolute favorites. Probably THE favorite, in fact. I also love:
Silence of the Lambs
Psycho
Sixteen Candles
The Dark Knight

I loved Dead Poet's Society when I watched it, though I've only seen it once (and a LONG time ago). All I remember is that it made me cry. Should I be embarrassed by this? :o

Hurrah! Silence of the Lambs is amazing!

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jacob's Ladder
Fried Green Tomatoes
Silence of the Lambs
The Titanic
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Raising Arizona
Grease

So many films, so little time...(in no particular order)...off the top of my head...

A Hard Day's Night
Help!
A Day At The Races
A Night At The Opera
Cocoanuts
Animal Crackers
The Usual Suspects
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
When Harry Met Sally
Enemy Of The State
Face Off
O, Brother Where Art Thou
Orlando
Dodgeball
Dan In Real Life
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
The Last Supper
Seven
Kiss The Girls
Along Came A Spider
Grand Canyon
11:14
Memento
High Fidelity
Saw
Saw II
Scream
Scream II
Scream III
The Game
The Abyss
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

more as I think of them.

EDIT: After thinking a bit...

Fire Walk With Me: Twin Peaks
The X-Files (the first movie)
National Lampoon's Vacation
Slap Shot
Forrest Gump
Silence Of The Lambs
Sleepless In Seattle
Pulp Fiction
Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny
Pootie Tang
Milk
W.
The Wrestler
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Casablanca
Gunga Din
Wizard Of Oz
The Graduate
Carnal Knowledge
The Shining
Young Frankenstein
Contact
The Panic Room
Maverick
Star Wars (the original trilogy..parts IV, V & VI)
Ocean's Eleven (the Clooney-Pitt remake)
Manchurian Candidate (the original)
any James Bond movie with Sean Connery
Vacancy
Rest Stop
Psycho
Rear Window
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
The Philadelphia Story
It's A Wonderful Life
The Birds
North By Northwest
Notorious
To Catch A Thief
Suspicion

As everyone seems to be sticking to English language films - my favourites in that category are -

Chinatown
Dogville
The Pianist

(depending on my mood, one or other of these three ^^^ would be my english language favourite)

The only others that I watch on a monthly basis are -

Apocalypse Now
Bladerunner
Get Carter
French Connection

My God - that list of English language films, while all brilliant, is perhaps the bleakest list of favourite films I've ever seen! I do love a good harrowing film though!

Those are two of very few films I can watch over and over without losing interest!

Some of my favourites:
The African Queen
I Want to Live
Mullholland Dr.
Postcards from theEdge
When Harry Met Sally
Hannah and Her Sisters
Nashville

There are definately more that I've forgotten about, the moment someone asks what my favourite of anything is, it goes straight out of my head!

For a while, DPS was like a religion for me. I can quote basically the entire movie and I cry EVERY time I watch it without fail. I've probably seen it 50+ times.

Nope-- I mentioned 8 1/2 which is in Italian!

The Big Chill
CAMP
Saved
Mamma Mia!
Love Actually
13 Going on 30
Practical Magic
Hope Floats
Dr. Zhivago
Dreamgirls
Mean Girls


I love campy, cheesy, fabulous movies. It makes it so much better if it's a musical. Mean Girls is probably the Clueless of my generation...(early 20's).

I'm 21 and I though Clueless was the Clueless of my generation!
lol I love that movie. Mean Girls was okay...kind of predictable.


anyway, I have a soft spot in my heart for movie I watched as a kid:
Beetlejuice, A League of Their Own, Fried Green Tomatoes, Tommy Boy, etc.

as you can tell I like deep, meaningful movies.

Beetlejuice
Practical Magic
Clue
The Omen
Young Frankenstein
National Lampoon's Vacation
I <3 Huckabees
Batman (Michael Keaton)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
All of the Scream movies
All of the Die Hard movies
Steel Magnolias
Happy Texas
Ghostbusters
The Shining
Shaun of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Death to Smoochy
The Cat in the Hat (Because I'm just a big kid...)


I loooove horror movies, especially zombie movies. I am also a big fan of Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Bruce Willis so you'll catch me watching alot of their stuff if I'm not watching one of the above movies.

Oh I'm with you on that. Tina Fey wrote the screen play for it so that makes it completely awesome in my eyes.

I hated Mamma Mia!

me too, i thought i was the only one~

i have to add practical magic to my list too~ i love that movie~

:laugh::laugh:......... yeah I guess you're right! I have the original 'Italian Job' on my car's DVD player at the moment so I don't do 'harrowing' everyday.

my top ten:
Dangerous Liasons
Moonstruck
Gone with the wind
An affair to remember (Grant & Kerr)
Planet of the Apes (Heston)
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
Elephant man
Benjamin Button
Jurassic Park (I love dinos)
Sixth Sense

other nice movies I love:
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Mamma Mia
Grease
Phantom of the Opera (though actually is my favorite Broadway play)

Gone with the Wind
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars episodes 3-6 (I like to pretend the prequels don't exist)
Lost in Translation
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
The Lion in Winter ("Peace? How about eternal peace?")
The Princess Bride
Pride and Prejudice (BBC Colin Firth version, okay technically a made for tv miniseries, but I'm counting it!)
North and South (Another BBC miniseries, not the 80's miniseries with Patrick Swayze which I also own)
Sliding Doors
Shaun of the Dead

I'm apparently living in the wrong country.

Now, Voyager
Gaslight
Bringing Up Baby
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Sunset Boulevard
Anna Karenina (1935 w/ Garbo)
Mildred Pierce
Sideways
Back to the Future

I forgot about these! I love them, especially Bringing Up baby, Kate Hepburn is hilarious in that.

Harvey
Harold And Maude
Brazil
Paris, Texas
King Of Comedy
Rushmore
Halloween
Pan's Labyrinth
An American Werewolf In London
Jaws
A Touch Of Evil
Gilda
It's A Wonderful Life

Oh my God!! You mean the BBC series from about 5 years ago with Daniella Denby-Ashe as Margaret? I have that dvd. It's wonderful. Second only the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. It's absolutely fantastic!

Yes! I go back and forth between that and P&P as well. I love the score by Martin Phipps as well, too bad it's not comercially available.

Ooo, fun!

Oldboy - I never get tired of watching this film. Contains one of the greatest fight scenes EVER made, wherein they manage to make one dude with a hammer taking on about 20 other dudes and winning look realistic. And it was shot all in one take. Park Chan-Wook for the WIN. (Here's the scene, if you're interested, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wha0brbb_44 )

And some more, in no particular order:

Halloween (The original. Go away, Rob Zombie.)
Clerks & Clerks 2
The Hitcher (The original. Go away, Sean Bean. I want to like you, but you are not Rutger Hauer. Stick to Sharpe's Rifles.)
The Shining (Kubrick's)
Silence of the Lambs
Escape from New York
Carpenter's The Thing
Audition
Martyrs
Dawn of the Dead (The original. Go away, Zack Snyder.)
Night of the Living Dead
Teeth
Feast
Midnight Express
The Departed
Reservoir Dogs
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
The Evil Dead series
Lost Boys
Tale of Two Sisters
Original Star Wars trilogy
Robert Rodriguez's Mexico trilogy
Hard Candy
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Three Extremes
The Descent (with the original UK ending, not the American theatrical release ending)

Guess I should stop now. Many of those are horror films, because that's kind of my thing.

Wow alot of great posts in this thread. I'm not a 'big' movie watcher. Heck there's probably a list long of movie's I've not ever seen yet...but know all about them....but some of my favorite movies are:

** Shadow Of A Doubt -Alfred Hitcock/b & w...wonderful, suspenseful....one of those movies of his you don't hear about...has Joseph Cotton and Teresa Wright in the leads...watch it...awesome!!!
**House On Haunted Hill/original b/w with Julie Harris (she later played on Knots Landing /Val's mother....not seen the remake but I'm sure it can't compare to the orginial....very suspenseful....love it...
**Halloween---original 78 /no sequels either....the first will always be the best... & I don't really like 'scary' movies either.
**The Glass Menagerie--another old b/w with a very young Kirk Douglas & Jane Wyman--its wonderful....
**Its A Wonderful Life....always a classic & always timeless....Jimmy Stewart rocks....wonderful b/w ...a movie with heart & soul....
**Gone With The Wind...another classic
***The Wizard Of Oz....ditto....I repeat myself again.....
**Goldfinger-with Sean Connery....the #1 James Bond
**Batman with Micheal Keaton (1st 2 only)
Well....can't think of anything else right now.....I love older movies.....I have seen other movies but nothing that I just have to watch again & again really....I used to love the Star Wars orginials but when Lucas messed with them....and all the stupid prequels....lost interest .....I guess there ok....but I haven't watched them in sometime.....if I think of others I'll post another one......:thumbsup::shrug:

Zombie, this was released today. Mean Magazine's cinemash of Old Boy with Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes.

I was a movie buff. up to the mid 1990s.until acting and the storylines went awash.
I love old movies from the heyday of films,they are some newer films out there that are good, but at the time im posting this message ,i cant think of any.

AGreed with Halloween.. thought I didn't mind the second one.. and Jamie Lee was in it too!

It's the 70th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz this year. All sorts of celebrations going on

SPOLIER for The Descent...




In the American version of The Descent the film ends with the heroine escaping from the cave and driving away. In the original version as she is driving sort of wakes up and is still in the cave. In the forthcoming sequel, the same actress returns to the cave, but I'm not sure of the circumstances. Here's the leaked trailer for the sequel which hits UK theaters next month.

****here there be spoilers for The Descent****

Yeah, as GoldDustOrphan said, the theatrical release ended on the "jump scare" bit with her in the car, Juno going "boo!" and the girl getting away, instead of continuing like the UK one does, which I prefer greatly, due to its sad, slow weirdness.

I also have a bad feeling about the sequel, but I am willing to give it a shot because I was so enamored of the first one. Why do they show us Juno is still alive in the trailer? That should be a good surprise, even if she ends up being a hallucination or something. Meh.

And yes! I have seen all of the Vengeance films. Park Chan-Wook is a damn genius.

If you haven't seen it, check out "Three Extremes," which is also on my list. One of the segments is Park Chan-Wook (he wrote it and directed), the one called "Cut."

And another segment is called "Box," which was directed by Takashi Miike, another damn genius (he directed "Audition," also on my list).

And you have Pan's Labyrinth on your list! I should've put that on mine, too. I quite enjoyed that one. Good call.