What are your ten favorite movies? You don't have to rank them.

[Bertha Venation]

But give your # 1 if you can.

My # 1 is Shirley Valentine.

Amadeus
Baghdad Cafe
Europa Europa
Kramer vs Kramer
Passionfish
Postcards from the Edge
Silverado
Tootsie
Working Girl

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. hmmmm....

Gladiator
Braveheart
Out of Africa
Terms Of Endearment
Knotting Hill
Almost Famous
Moulin Rouge
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Sound of Music
The Houseboat

just off the top of my head, list could change at a moment's notice. :hi:

[sixstrings75]

2. This is Spinal Tap #1

This is Spinal Tap - #1

Monty Python - Holy Grail

Monty Python - Life of Brian

Shawshank Redemption (Perfect movie)

Waiting for Guffman (Is it sad that I hum those tunes at work?)

One flew over the Cuckoos nest ( best acting in any film - period)

Knocked Up (Stellar acting - stellar soundtrack. Introduced me to Loudon Wainwright - thank you)

Dragonslayer (yes, that campy 80's dragon movie - so bad it's good)

The Green Mile (another perfect movie)

The Dirty Dozen (that campy dialogue is great)


What's it say about me after reading this list? Pathetic? Hopeless?

[sarge43]

4. Nah. This is pathetic and hopeless.

From my DVD collection

Ben Hur

Bull Durham

Casablanca

The Dish

The Duelists

The Ghost and Mrs Muir

Lawrence of Arabia

The Manchurian Candidate

Singin' in the Rain

Some Like It Hot

(Just some of my favorites)

[Patiod]

11. I love "The Dish" - no one I talk to has ever seen it

Especially apt this week, with all the moon landing stuff in the news again.....

[sarge43]

22. It caught the awe and wonder of that day perfectly.

Some snarky humor, too.

Mayor Mac: You just got to tell them.

Cliff: That we lost Apollo 11?

Mac: Well, I wouldn't say that.

Cliff: What would you say?

Mac: How about "hey you'll never guess what's happened."?

And the Oz version of the US National Anthem

[raccoon]

3. Not in this particular order, here are mine:

Places in the Heart
Hud
Ghost
The Blair Witch Project
Around the World in 80 Days (the 1956 one)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rebel Without a Cause
Saving Private Ryan
Old Yeller
Carousel

[peacefreak]

5. This week...

Love Actually (although I haven't been able to watch it since Natasha Richardson's death)
Off the Map
American President
Antonia's Line
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Mama Mia
Philadelphia Story
Songcatcher
Pleasantville
Red Violin

[Richardo]

6. #1 - Godfather I & II

All the President's Men
Dr Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
A Night at the Opera
Blood Simple
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[Haole Girl]

9. Glad I'm not the only one...

who likes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid! That Blood Simple movie gave me nightmares! :scared:

[Richardo]

10. I saw Blood Simple in 1985 based on a Roger Ebert review....

...After I saw it I knew I would be a fan of the Coen Bros. It is amazing. The sequences in the loft apartment are haunting, especially the dream.

[Patiod]

12. Butch has always been on my list

I just wish the music didn't date it so badly.

[Eyerish]

7. My list...

Singing in the Rain
The Nightmare before Christmas - obviously :)
A Hard Day's Night
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
High Fidelity
Night of the Living Dead - 1968
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Commitments
Shawn of the Dead
The Empire Strikes back

[Haole Girl]

8. I'll try:

Out of Africa
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Cast Away
Gone With The Wind
Meet The Parents
The Bourne Identity
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Jeremiah Johnson
Roman Holiday
Star Trek (I can't help it, I loved this movie! :-))

[PRETZEL]

13. Ten was too hard for me,

I generally turn the brain off when I watch movies.

The number 1 is easy. Wizzard of Oz will forever be my all time favorite.

What's left,

Color Purple
Forrest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Gilbert Grape
A Time to Kill
Godfather I & II
Star Wars
Harry Potter

That's really all I can think of.

[backtoblue]

15. add the color purple to my list , too

[backtoblue]

14. Ok, I'll play

it's a wonderful life
shawshank redemption
green mile
days of thunder
a few good men
city of angels
grapes of wrath
disney's christmas carol
armageddon
patch adams

[Patiod]

16. Today's list

Tombstone
Unforgiven
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Committments
After Hours
American Werewolf in London (Yes, I am a Griffin Dunne fan)
Blood Simple
Truly Madly Deeply
Donnie Darko
Jeanne de Florette/Manon of the Spring

Older movies

Casablanca
Gone with the Wind
Wizard of Oz
It's a Wonderful Life (hey, they're classics for a reason)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (with Errol Flynn)
Captain BloodChildren of Paradise
The Gold Rush
The Philadelphia Story

[Burma Jones]

19. A big thumbs up for Florette/Manon

Now THAT (two part) movie is a Tragedy......

[Patiod]

20. Devastating

But beautiful. Don't know if I could watch it again.

[begin_within]

17. Easy...

Tokyo Story (1953)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Soy Cuba (1964)
Psycho (1960)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill (1966)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
El Norte (1983)
Contact (1997)

[_dynamicdems]

30. I loved The Bicycle Thief & Au Hasard Balthazar.

Those two movies would tear your heart out.

[begin_within]

32. Awesome... many people know "The Bicycle Thief" but

"Au Hasard Balthazar" is still relatively unknown in the U.S. ... you definitely get bonus points for knowing about that one!

[_dynamicdems]

34. That one gets to me because I'm an animal lover. n/g

[begin_within]

36. It made me sad and depressed, but

as I have understood it since, after reading evaluations of it and Robert Bresson's own remarks in a TV interview included on the DVD, it's not mainly about the donkey. It's about (in Bresson's words, more or less) our anxieties and desires... in the face of a noble creature, who happens to be a donkey." And it's about the twin, parallel lives of Marie and the donkey. I see it as almost a catalog of human sins, almost an indictment of human nature in general and in specifics, contrasted with the innocence and nobility of the animal. I still don't find it an uplifting film at all, it is pretty much of a downer. But reflecting on it makes it clear that the blame is placed squarely on human traits.

[_dynamicdems]

40. Absolutely.

It's both sad and beautiful. Not uplifting, but thought-provoking and emotive. It touched me because of the contrast you describe. There is nobility in "beasts" that humanity could use a little more of.

Curious, have you ever seen Un chien andalou?

[begin_within]

58. Yes I saw that in about 1981 or 1982, as part of a Buñuel festival.

I wasn't all that shocked by the eye-slicing opening scene because I had read about it in detail beforehand, so I knew what to expect. I don't remember too much else about the film though. It's only about 30 minutes long, right? I have seen a couple of other Buñuel films including Viridiana and L'Age d'Or, but I still haven't seen Los Olvidados yet.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

74. I like how "Pussycat" snuck in there.

:rofl:

I agree with many of your choices (see my post), and I plan on seeing Tokyo Story and Au Hazard Balthasar ASAP. I actually own them on DVD but haven't gotten around to them yet.

And I did see El Norte recently, partly as research for a screenplay, and found it excellent.

[Burma Jones]

18. Today?

Wall-E
Duck Soup
Blazing Saddles
Citizen Kane
Babe
A Clockwork Orange
Yojimbo
The Big Lebowski
Taxi Driver
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance


My youngest is obsessed with Wall-E and I am just not getting tired of watching bits and pieces of it.

[bif]

21. #1=2001 A Space Odyssey

Spinal Tap
Best in Show
Station Agent
Dogma
The Year of Living Dangerously
Blade Runner
Dr. Zhivago
Amaracord
The Commitments

[Flaxbee]

23. Today, it would be

The Shawshank Redemption
The Man from Snowy River
Passionfish
The Station Agent
Sneakers
Sense & Sensibility
Chocolat
Notorious / North by Northwest
The Bourne Identity
Seabiscuit

There are others rattling around in my head that I can't recall right now -

I'm going to have to add Dr. Strangelove, and the Pink Panther where Herbert Lom (Inspector Dreyfus) escapes from the asylum... absolutely classic Peter Sellers. But I can never remember the name of that movie... is it "The Pink Panther Returns"? "Return of the Pink Panther"?

[Lex]

24. My 10 + 10 more:

The Iron Giant
Times of Harvey Milk
The Imposters (Platt/Tucci)
Lost in America
My Mother's Castle
So I Married An Axe Murderer
Flirting With Disaster
Best in Show
Bob Roberts
Planes Trains and Automobiles
My Cousin Vinny
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Mrs. Miniver
Slumdog Millionaire
Dead Again
Pulp Fiction
Fire
Lawrence of Arabia
My Father's Glory

[Starbucks Anarchist]

25. I was about to start a thread like this.

Mine (unranked):

The Bicycle Thief (1948/Italy)
Network (1976/USA)
8 1/2 (1963/Italy)
Godfather I (1972/USA)
Godfather II (1974/USA)
Vertigo (1958/USA)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968/USA)
Raging Bull (1980/USA)
Taxi Driver (1976/USA)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972/Germany)

EDIT: I have to add Goodfellas (1990/USA), The Shawshank Redemption (1994/USA), City Lights (1931/USA) and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966/Italy) to this list as well.

[Forkboy]

26. I am SO going to forget some...

No order on these...

No Country For Old Men
Snatch
Godzilla (duh)
The Thing (remake version, though the original is great, too)
Das Boot
Grave of the Fireflies
Oldboy
Yellowbeard
Patton
Jaws

[pokerfan]

27. #1: Lawrence of Arabia

The rest in no particular order:

Casablanca
2001: A Space Odyssey
MASH
The Godfather
GoodFellas
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Fargo
Life is Beautiful

[Captain Hilts]

44. The AFI, here in DC, runs a beautiful 70mm version on a 70mm screen every summer.

Just STUNNING.

[pokerfan]

48. Never seen it in 70mm

There is a moment in the film when the hero, a British eccentric named T.E. Lawrence, has survived a suicidal trek across the desert and is within reach of shelter and water, and he turns around and goes back to find a friend who has fallen behind. This sequence builds up to the shot in which the shimmering heat of the desert reluctantly yields the speck that becomes a man - a shot that is held for a long time before we can even begin to see the tiny figure. On television, this shot doesn't work at all - nothing can be seen. In a movie theater, looking at the stark clarity of a 70mm print, we lean forward and strain to bring a detail out of the waves of heat, and for a moment we experience some of the actual vastness of the desert and its unforgiving harshness.
--Roger Ebert, 1989

Unlikely a major studio allow a David Lean to attempt such a thing today.

[Captain Hilts]

57. A friend of mine had never seen it. I made her go and explained as we sat down...

there are NO SPECIAL EFFECTS. It's all filmed.

It took her breath away.

[seemunkee]

59. Seen it and loved it all the more

I used to go to the Silver theater as a kid, great place and it really is wonderful to see movies on that size screen.

[seemunkee]

60. #1 Bladerunner

Lawrence of Arabia
Captains Courageous
Nosferatu
Fantasia
2001
Clockwork Orange
Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder version)
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Apocolypse Now

[Captain Hilts]

64. AFI ran Bladerunner too. Good to see "Captains Courageous." nt

[seemunkee]

65. Took my daughter to it

Unfortunately it was in one of the small side theaters and not in the main one.

[_dynamicdems]

28. Here's a list

Portrait of Jennie - #1

Vertigo
Dr. Strangelove
Harold & Maude
200l
Citizen Kane
Children of Paradise
Equilibrium
The Cabinate of Dr. Caligari
Thunderheart

[_dynamicdems]

29. Oh I forgot Amadeus. Great movie!

And Immortal Beloved was good too.

[nuxvomica]

31. 1. Citizen Kane

...and the other nine in no particular order:

The Third Man
Touch of Evil
Casablanca
Jumanji
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Lion in Winter
Being There
My Dinner with Andre
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

[enigmatic]

33. No order except for the first, which is my favorite film of all-time

My Dinner With Andre
Gates Of Heaven
Ikiru
Magnolia
Texas Chainsaw Massacare (the orginial)
Man Facing Southeast
Betty Blue
Eraserhead
Carnival Of Souls
El Topo

[recoveringdittohed]

35. Ten (plus 4 honorable mention)

The top 10 in no particular order and 4 more that missed it by that much.

Casablanca
A Clockwork Orange
Harvey
Network
Face In The Crowd
Godfather I & II (not III)
It's a Wonderful Life
Pleasantville
High Noon
Last Summer (The one made in 1969 not the 1976 TV movie with the same name)

Honorable Mention

Jackie Brown (my favorite Tarantino movie)
Running on Empty
Shine
Sleeper (Woody Allen back when he was still funny)

[tigereye]

37. Spinal Tap, Harold and Maude, Young Frankenstein, Casablanca, Harvey,

Blade Runner, Big Night, Almost Famous, The Bishop's Wife, and High Fidelity.


Also Ed Wood, Tampopo, Bull Durham, various Fellini films and Mulan. I suppose this list is really more of "movies I can watch anytime" and indicates that I am very romantic and sentimental.

[Ohio Joe]

38. hmmm... tough

If I were to answer this again in a week it might be different but tonight... lets see..

Rashomon
The Seventh Seal
Day of the Dead
Leon: The Professional (directors cut)
Romeo is Bleeding
The Thing (remake)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein
Unforgiven
Raiders of the Lost Ark

[ghostsofgiants]

39. Hmmmm....

INLAND EMPIRE


Masculin Feminin


Last Year at Marienbad


Mulholland Drive


Buffalo 66


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


Eyes Wide Shut


The Shining


Magnolia


Fight Club

[BuelahWitch]

41. I think "Auntie Mame" would be my #1

Rosalind Russell and a wonderful supporting cast

Singing' in the Rain
My Fair Lady
Mister Roberts
Msr. Verdoux (Chaplin)
The Student Prince of Old Heidlberg (1927 with Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer)
Roman Holiday
Some Like It Hot
Angels With Dirty Faces

[Captain Hilts]

45. "Aunite Mame says olives take up too much room in such a small glass." nt

[Captain Hilts]

46. Have you read the story in Tracy and Hepburn about their watching

Msr. Verdoux - not sure how it's spelled.

[BuelahWitch]

54. No I haven't

What was it?

[Broken_Hero]

42. Okay,

Superman the Movie, Conan the Barbarian, Sin City, V for Vendetta, The Dark Knight, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, The Matrix, American Psycho, Once Were Warriors.

[Captain Hilts]

43. African Queen, Great Escape, Some Like it Hot, Moonstruck, Constant Gardener, L of Arabia

Stalag 17, Adam's Rib, Twelve o'Clock High, Lives of Others, Mister Roberts.

This photo now graces the cover of the novel:

[fizzgig]

47. no. 1 is most definitely the dark crystal

station agent
shawshank redemption
fifth element
frida
grosse point blank
mostly marta (the catherine zeta jones remake made me want to scream)
bananas
chocolat
raising arizona

[newcriminal]

49. My list:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Nf5FfHNth64/SXzPC09mCyI/AAAAAAAAEAQ/XQF3OAFUif8/s320/He+Loves+Me.jpg

[BarenakedLady]

50. I'm all over the place

The Philadelphia Story
Valley Girl
True Romance
Amelie
Dracula (1992)
Nosferatu (1922)
Summertime
Kill Bill
Thirteen
Heathers

[InvisibleTouch]

51. The ones that come to mind at the moment:

Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan (my favorite)
The Last Starfighter (a close second)
Jurassic Park + sequels
Star Trek (the new one)
Raiders of the Lost Ark + sequels
The Road Warrior
The Fifth Element
Space Raiders
Q the Winged Serpent
The Day After Tomorrow

I could come up with a lot more great ones, but that's a quick list of 10.

Yes I'm a sci-fi fan, could you tell? :)

[wickerwoman]

52. Totally random order:

Lord of the Rings (can I count 3 as 1?)
Gladiator
Aliens
The Castle
The Wrong Box
Lion in Winter
A Mighty Wind
Hot Fuzz
Trainspotting
Still Crazy

[peacefreak]

55. Still Crazy!

What a great little movie. I think this is where Bill Nighy developed his character for Love Actually.

[laylah]

53. My list:

Wizard of Oz
Dances With Wolves
Ghost
Silence of the Lambs
Titanic (i know, I KNOW :silly:)
Forever Amber
Original Failsafe
Silverado
A Fish Called Wanda
It's A Wonderful Life

[mockmonkey]

56. Hard to do at first...

#1 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Buckaroo Banzai
In & Out
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Jeffrey
North By Northwest
The Four Seasons
Terms of Endearment
Bread and Chocolate

I'll have to watch Silverado again. The only ones on your list that I haven't seen yet are Europa Europa and Passionfish. I noticed that my list has all comedic movies. I find my #1 movie pick to be very funny, except for the ending of course.

I have to add Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and make it 11. Your pick of Shirley Valentine reminded me of Tom Conti and I had to add it.
:hi:

[cyberswede]

61. My 10 favorites today

The list changes from time to time. :)

An American President
Casablanca
Ocean's Twelve
Princess Bride
The Big Sleep
The Goodbye Girl
The Manchurian Candidate (original)
The Sting
This is Spinal Tap
Young Frankenstein

[driver8]

66. Great list, but "Ocean's Twelve" seems out of place.

Not that good of a movie, IMHO.

What did you like about it?

[Rambis]

70. Agree, Oceans twelve was rubbish!

:evilgrin:


Suburbia
Dazed and Confused
Jaws
Young Frankenstein
Spinal Tap
Princess Bride
History of the World Part I
Annie Hall
Silver Streak
Caddy shack

[cyberswede]

76. you're just jealous of my buddy Brad

LOL!

I like your list, though. Jaws really is good.

I'm disappointed that "Fatal Attraction" didn't make your list, since that's the first movie we went to together. :)

[cyberswede]

75. It's probably the soundtrack! LOL!

Seriously, I really liked the feel of the movie more than the plot - the style of it was great - the way the movie was executed.
Roger Ebert explains it better than I can:

The original original "Ocean's 11," made in 1960 by the Rat Pack, was a send-up of 1950s caper movies... The new original "Ocean's Eleven" (2001) was a successful attempt by Soderbergh to doodle with the formula, much as a pianist might pick out a tune just well enough to show he could play it if he wanted to. Now, with "Ocean's Twelve," Soderbergh and his scenarists, George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell and George Nolfi, are doing a jazz riff. This isn't a caper movie at all, it's an improvisation on caper themes. If at times it seems like a caper, well, as the fellow said when he got up from the piano, it might not be Beethoven, but it has a lot of the same notes.

A couple favorite parts (trying to avoid spoilers):
- the scene where the count does the acrobatics around the laser beams to get to the objet d'art
- the scene with the exchange of the backpacks on the train
- the scene with Linus in jail (with the lovely Cherry Jones)

I *detested* the Julia Roberts impersonation parts, though ...

[Va Lefty]

62. Tough to pick just ten but...

Here's mine:

Goodfellas
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Blazing Saddles
The Philadelphia Story
Manhattan
The Big Chill
Stand By Me
Shawshank Redemption
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
48 Hours

[Phentex]

63. Brazil, Fargo, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Muppet Movie...

Muppets Take Manhattan, Great Muppet Caper, Shrek, The Birds, Thelma & Louise, Harry Potter (all)

[gmoney]

69. Yay Brazil!

[Bennyboy]

67. Mine

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
Paint Your Wagon
M*A*S*H
The Sting
Schindlers List
Airplane
What About Bob
A Night At The Opera
The Jerk (Uncut version only)
Pappillion

[gmoney]

68. My memory is so bad, I'm even forgetting favorite things, but I'll try...

Brazil
Apocalypse Now
Fight Club
Citizen Kane
The Seven Year Itch
The Manchurian Candidate
Defending Your Life
It's a Wonderful Life
Groundhog Day
Cool Hand Luke
Raising Arizona
Dr Strangelove
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Broadcast News
The Apartment

OK, so I can't count or narrow down very well...

[joeybee12]

71. I saw Working Girl again a couple weeks ago, and while I really like the movie...

...boy, do those offices look outdated!

[AngryAmish]

72. Disorderlies

[Auggie]

73. The Maltese Falcon

The Godfather
Dr. Strangelove
Animal House
My Cousin Vinny
Singin' in the Rain
Goodfellas
Ratatouille
Frankenstein

About 25 are tied for tenth place

[bigwillq]

77. Goodfellas

Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Scarface
The Constant Gardener

[TheCentepedeShoes]

78. OK

B & W
Manchurian Candidate
Dr Strangelove
Hud
Harvey
Casablanca

Color
Tombstone
The Producers
The April Fools
The Odd Couple
Butch Cassidy