Great Movies Thread - Page 2

Serrart · #16 07-17-2005, 03:11 PM

-La vie et Rien D'autre - A beautiful compelling, striking movie by Tavernier with Philippe Noiret and Sabine Azema
-Umberto D - De Sica's masterpiece for me.
-The Remains OF The Day - My favourite actor and my favourite actress, who make together an amazing movie couple.

-Nelly et Mr. Arnaud - Last film by Claude Sautet acted by the incredible Michel Serrault and Emmanuelle Beart.
-Day For Night - I love Truffaut, and especially Truffaut doing Truffaut.
-The Son's Room - By Nanni Moretti, a director who influenced me a lot.
-California Suite - Even if mainly for the episode with Maggie Smith and Michael Caine
-The Elephant Man - Lynch when he's not hallucinating.
-Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie - Funny, violent, dreamy, nostalgic, ironic, portrait of today's society by Bunuel
-The State of Things - by Wim Wenders... What can I say, I love movies about cinema, and this one has a powerful ending.
-The Conversation - I'm intrigued every time i see it.
- In The Mood For Love - A beautiful love story told with a grace and a passion quite rare today.
-The Silence Of The Lambs - Best thriller of the last twenty years for me, and there's Tony.

-Scenes from a Marriage - Gotta love Marianne, great lady.
-Short Cuts - Altman and a close to perfection cast... beautiful.
-Zéro de conduite/L'atalante - Jean Vigo is more modern every time I watch his movies.
- Citizen Kane - Not a very original choice, but It made me love cinema thoroughly when I watched it the first time.
-Adam's Rib/Pat and Mike - Hepburn-Tracy... need I say more?
-Crouching Tiger Hiden Dragon - A beautiful and elegant martial arts movie, a genre I'm a fan of.
-The Man Who shot Liberty Valance - so poetic and autobiographic.
... and many more....

Romy

CreepingDeath · #17 07-17-2005, 03:19 PM

Alrighty--

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Godfather 1 & 2
Casino
The Usual Suspects
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
12 Monkeys
Alien/Aliens
Taxi Driver
Psycho
A Clockwork Orange
Requiem for a Dream
The Silence of the Lambs
Remains of the Day
Howard's End
Gone with the Wind
The Breakfast Club
This Is Spinal Tap
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Others
Moulin Rouge
Far From Heaven
Boogie Nights
The Hours

gldstwmn · #18 07-17-2005, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

How the hell did I manage to forget The Big Lebowski?????

Oh, man. I love that movie. Especially when Jeff Bridges is in the cab and freaks out on the cab driver playing The Eagles.

gldstwmn · #19 07-17-2005, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I love it too but the book is so much better. They're going to be blasting his ashes out of a cannon next month in Aspen. That was his request.

Also, Boogie Nights is one of my favs. I don't know how I forgot that one.

CreepingDeath · #20 07-17-2005, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I love it too but the book is so much better. They're going to be blasting his ashes out of a cannon next month in Aspen. That was his request.

Yes, the book is much better. I hesitated listing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for that reason. Same with LOTR.

GardenStateGirlie · #21 07-17-2005, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

Remains of the Day
Howard's End
The Breakfast Club
The Hours

Love them as well

I'm a big Emma Thompson fan. Wit should also be on my list. Her performance was incredibly moving.

Serrart · #22 07-17-2005, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Lux

That one got such attention but it put me to sleep. I felt the pace was all wrong and the whole thing seemed generally expository. I didn't need it spelt out quite like that, even just conversational dialogue. I don't think the camera was used to its potential either, it didn't seem to tell me anything that wasn't already set up.

I'm partial to Moretti, but I understand how the movie can bee seen like you said. It's difficult to explain if you haven't watched his other movies, but his pace is always very personal and anticlimatic, and this time for the first time he went with tragedy, telling it by glances, minutes, phrases. His cinema for me is a world that envelops, full of patterns and returning characters. As an example, for his fans it was a great emotion to see him act again with Laura Morante the star of Bianca, considered by many his masterpiece (if you got the chance to watch it, then please let me know what you think). They have an incredible chemistry, and he feels freer to act with her.

Romy

trackaghost · #23 07-17-2005, 04:30 PM

My favourite movies change all the time. Off the top of my head...

It's A Wonderful Life (yeah I know it's a cheese-fest but I don't care. This movie has wonderful memories for me. My dad gave it to me when I was just a kid and it makes me think of him).
Gilda
Waiting For Guffman
Brazil
Rushmore
Being John Malkovich
The Royal Tenenbaums
Bottle Rocket
Heathers
Jaws
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Quiet Man
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Groundhog Day
High Fidelity
Almost Famous
Harold & Maude
Ring (the Japanese original)
the Indiana Jones films
The original Star Wars trilogy
Halloween
This Is Spinal Tap
Blue Velvet
A Bout De Souffle
King Of Comedy
The Hudsucker Proxy
Nashville
Ed Wood
Withnail & I
Harvey
Chopper
Election
Heavenly Creatures
Night Of The Hunter
Amores Perros
Rebecca
Touch Of Evil
Hana-bi
Kikujiro
Paris, Texas

And many more...

amber · #24 07-17-2005, 04:33 PM

Will no one list All About Eve? Sheesh.

gldstwmn · #25 07-17-2005, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by CreepingDeath

Yes, the book is much better. I hesitated listing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for that reason. Same with LOTR.

I love the movie though. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro are great in it. And they did such a good job capturing the time period with the pink shag carpets and the cars and the cheesiness of it all.

trackaghost · #26 07-17-2005, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Will no one list All About Eve? Sheesh.

I thought someone had. Maybe not. Great movie as is Sunset Blvd - both about the Hollywood industry.

I recently saw All About Eve on the big screen. It looked great.

trackaghost · #27 07-17-2005, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I love the movie though. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro are great in it. And they did such a good job capturing the time period with the pink shag carpets and the cars and the cheesiness of it all.

I love Fear & Loathing. I'm more of a Gilliam fan than Thompson though, but I thought he definitely captured the spirit of his writing.

amber · #28 07-17-2005, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

I thought someone had. Maybe not. Great movie as is Sunset Blvd - both about the Hollywood industry.

I recently saw All About Eve on the big screen. It looked great.

big screen? Oh, man, I would kill. well, no, but the writing alone in that movie is the height of fifties clever. And that's totally excluding the magnificent performances of BD, GS, AB, and CH, Not to mention GM and MM.
I don't like Sunset Boulevard as much, but it's good, too. GS is a little more one note, to me. Still great, though.

Serrart · #29 07-17-2005, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

Hana-bi
Kikujiro

Another Kitano fan? He's fantastic, in my opinion, Zatoichi was beautiful too.

Romy

Claudia · #30 07-17-2005, 04:45 PM

I have been on a big classics kick lately, so excuse me if older movies is the only thing I seem to list:

- All About Eve - There, there Amber.

- Arsenic And Old Lace
- Breakfast At Tiffany’s
- Bringing Up Baby
- Gone With The Wind
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- Oscar and Lucinda
- The Petrified Forest
- The Philadelphia Story
- Psycho
- Rear Window
- Rebecca
- Roman Holiday
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Suspect
- Victor/ Victoria