BS: what are your favourite movies?

Subject: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Leo Condie
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 08:06 PM

come on, this is a simple one. up and at em!

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: akenaton
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 08:14 PM

Iv seen Cabaret loads of times and stil cant believe Joel Grays performance as the MC....Lisa wasnt bad either..

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 08:16 PM

I loved Chicago. But I think there maybe prior threads on this theme...

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Leo Condie
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 08:18 PM

oh i'm sure there are amos. but i fancied starting a new one :(

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Leo Condie
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 08:21 PM

plus - i bet they were all favorite. this is favoUrite.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Ely
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 08:25 PM

(in no particular order)Matewan, The Field, The Iron Giant (awesome for an animated film), and I've always been a fan of silent comedies (Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, etc.)

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 10:39 PM

Without a doubt, Amadeus. First video I ever bought, have watched it repeatedly, have just bought it on DVD, it's downloaded on my computer -- a truly magnificent film.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 11:04 PM

"The Wrong Box"--Peter Sellers

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Benjamin
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 11:16 PM

The Blues Brothers, Chicken Run, Come See the Paradise (I think that's what it was called). There are probably more, but I'm just not thinking about movies much right now.
Benjamin

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 12:21 AM

Being There - Peter Sellers

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 01:14 AM

It's a Wonderful Life
Lonesome Dove
Monsters Inc.
Lady and the Tramp
O Brother Where Art Thou
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Long Riders
Princess Bride
Tombstone
Aristocats
Fargo
Little Big Man
Quigley Down Under
Anything with Jackie Chan
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Red Violin
both Lord of the Rings movies
Shakespeare in Love

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Chip2447
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 03:43 AM

His Girl Friday...Cary Grant and Rosilund Russell;
Zulu, with Michael Caine;
All of the new LOTR flix. even return of the king;
Glory, Gettysburg, and Gods and Generals;
Tora, Tora, Tora, and Midway, Nearly anything with THE DUKE. (do I sense a theme here).
The Blue Max.
All of the A&E Horatio Hornblower flix.

Probably more to be had, but I cant think of them right now...

Chip2447

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 03:50 AM

West Side Story
The Children Of Paradise
The Godfather, parts I and II
12 Angry Men
The Bicycle Thief
It's A Wonderful Life
The Best Years Of Our Lives
The Seven Samurai
Greed
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
Fantasia
Topsy Turvy
David And Lisa
Holiday Affair
The Temptations
Hoosiers
D.O.A. (original 1947 version)
Ordinary People
Dead Poets Society
Chariots Of Fire
Woman In The Dunes
Lord Of The Flies (original version)
Radio Inside
That Thing You Do
The Ten Commandments (cornpone, dated effects, etc., but I still love it!)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
The Deer Hunter
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Charles Laughton version)
Zeffirelli's Romeo And Juliet
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh version)
Forrest Gump
Cabaret
Harold And Maude
Big
Crossfire
Killer's Kiss


...and my favorite movie when I was a boy: Jason And The Argonauts

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 04:06 AM

There are sooooooo many.

Even if I had to choose only one I'd still have trouble choosing between two Bogart films -- "The Left Hand Of God" (with Lee J. Cobb) and the original "We're No Angels" (with Peter Ustinov, Aldo Rey, Leo G. Carrol, and Basil Rathbone).

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 04:07 AM

D.O.A. - hmmm, maybe was 1948 or '49. Good noir, whenever it was made. Anyone know what year? Edmund O'Brien plays a man poisoned - murdered -while on a trip to San Francisco, and while he has little time left to live until the incurable poison sets in, he searches for his murderer and the motive. Great jazz scene in a fictional waterfront bar, "The Fisherman," and some humorous scenes early on where he ogles attractive women in a hotel lobby, and a slide whistle goes off on the soundtrack.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Jeanie
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 04:41 AM

I've seen these films several times over, and would happily watch them many times more, always something new to notice and favourite scenes to re-live:

'Truly, Madly, Deeply' (Alan Rickman, Juliet Stevenson: grief and moving on - wonderful)

'Fairy Tale' - the little girls who "saw" the Cottingley fairies

'In the Bleak Midwinter' - not such a well-known film directed by Kenneth Branagh. Excellent cast (e.g. John Sessions, Richard Briers, Julia Sawallah, Joan Collins, Celia Imrie). Motley crew of "thespians" put on a production of Hamlet.

"Addams Family Values" - I don't mind *how* many times I see this film ! I just love the gooey Summer Camp, the "Harmony Hut", the wonderful revenge the kids take on the goody-goodies. Superb stuff !!

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 07:19 AM

The Lecter Trilogy, Gangs of New York, The Streetfighter (Bronson), Cool Hand Luke, The Vikings, Seven, The Usual Suspects, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and loads more that will come to me later.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 08:01 AM

The Glen Miller Story
Field of Dreams
Spinal Tap
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday and almost anything made by the French and other Europeans, subtitled but not dubbed!
(Plus 100's of others)

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: lady penelope
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 08:01 AM

4 weddings and a funeral
Paulie ( a film about a parrot! Guaranteed to make me weep for both joy and sadness )
Shakespeare in Love ( 'cos I see different things each time I watch it )
A knight's Tale
Arsnic & old Lace
Harvey
Kiss Me Kate
Dogma
Lilo & Stitch
Muppet Christmas Carol ( "no more cheeses for us meeses" )
The belles of St. Trinians
Blue Murder at St. Trinians
Big Trouble in Little China
Shrek
The Mummy & The Mummy Returns (Brendan Frazer versions)
The Life Of Brian
Name of the Rose
The Night Of the Demon

TTFN Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: GUEST,Fred miller no cookie
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 09:25 AM

Jeanie? what a funny short list. Me too, except for Darryl Hanna as Morticia. But Harvey Keitel as Houdini in the other one makes up for it. I liked that song in Truly Madly Deeply--so much better than the syrupy chart version.

For some reason I can watch the documentary Dogtown and Z Boys over and over, though I've never had any interest in skateboards, and don't plan to start.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Jeanie
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 01:01 PM

Fred - yes, it is a funny short list, I agree ! I could have added plenty more, but these are the ones I could never see too often. It's Angelica Houston playing Morticia in "Addams Family Values" - I reckon she's great - I think Darryl Hanna must have been in another of the Addams Family films (which I don't think are as good as the Family Values one).

Yes - good actors in "Fairy Tale" - as well as Harvey Keitel, I liked one of the McGann brothers (I think it was Paul) playing the dad. A good actor.

I love 'Truly, Madly, Deeply' - you never quite know whether he really is there as a ghost, or in her mind, and in fact it doesn't matter. One of my favourite bits is when he brings home his mates from "the other side" to loll around watching videos (just as he did in this world !) and when one of the ghost mates gives Jamie a pat on the back as they wave her off, after they have finally both let go of each other never fails to have me reaching for the tissues... Aaaaah....

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Shelley C
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 02:33 PM

If its got to be only one film, it has to be 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'. I saw it three times the year it first came out. Needless to say, I was in love with Robert Redford.

Shelley

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: GUEST,fred miller
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 03:38 PM

Oh yeah, Jeanie, didn't like Huston either. I'd try the Lilith actress from Cheers. I think I mixed up the sequel--thinking the summer camp was in 2.

As usual I have to mention the Stone Boy, since no one esle ever saw it.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: akenaton
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 04:00 PM

The funniest film I have ever seen was "The life of Brian"...A pefect satire on the Christians ..The first time I watched it I was actually rolling about on the floor...

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Benjamin
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 06:33 PM

I should add Mr. Holland's Opus to my list

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: kendall
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 07:17 PM

Chantyranger, that movie was titled D.O.A. (dead on arrival)
my list,
Doctor Zhivago
Monty Python and the holy grail
High Noon (Gary Cooper)
Lonesome Dove
The Bounty (Anthony Hopkins)
The African Queen
The meaning of life (Monty Python)

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 08:09 PM

Kind Hearts and Coronets!

Other Ealing comedies like the Lady Killers would be up there on my list too. Rick Fielding once mentioned a film in an Annexe thread, "School For Scoundrels" - a great one (I think) for those who like that old Brittish humour.

Other favourites would include the Laurel and Hardy gem "Way Out West" (the one which has the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia"), any old Hammer Horror, Airplane, African Queen, Casablanca, American Werewolf in London...

All this from someone who rarely watches films...

My bigget dislike is things like the stuff from Stallone like Rambo, though at times, maybe it gives a scarey insight into what I'd call the American "Bush" type mentality or the shoot them up mentality that seems to support it...

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: poetlady
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 09:26 PM

My eclectic tastes:

Harold and Maude
   Life is lovely. Enjoy it.
Amadeus
   Beautiful.
The Matrix
   Interesting and different.
Singing in the Rain
   Joyful.
Dr. Strangelove
   Odd and deathly funny.
Braveheart
   Sad.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
   Also odd and deathly funny.
Gettysburg
   Made me cry.
Elizabeth
   I just liked it.
The first Lord if the Rings movie
   I was being distracted by a lovely young man when I watched the second, so I don't remember it. :)

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: izzy
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 09:41 PM

The Red Shoes, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death), A Canterbury Tale, Chariots of Fire, 84 Charing Cross Road, Billy Liar, Brief Encounter, The Man in the White Suit, A Hard Day's Night, The Lavender Hill Mob, In Which We Serve, Les Enfants du Paradis, Richard III, Henry V, Hamlet (all Olivier), Casablanca, and many others which I'm sure I'll remember tomorrow morning.


Needless to say, watching films is one of my chief hobbies.

Cheers,

Isabel

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: annamill
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 09:44 PM

Freddie meets Jason! What else!!

There are so many and so many I have seen I couldn't even start..

Last night I re watched, for about the 100th time, "Joe and the Volcano" with Tom Hanks,

Night before I watched "Legend of the Fall" with Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt and Adrian Quinn.

I just finished watching "What a Woman Wants" with my personal favorite, be still my heart, Mel Gibson.

When I say I could go on, man, I mean I could go on and on...

Enjoy, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Mudlark
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 09:45 PM

Seconds for Truly, Madly, Deeply, Hulot (and follow-up Mon Uncle), and Stangelove.
Jim Jarmusch films, especially Down by Law
John Sayles films...all of them
Enchanted April
Winter Guest
Round Midnight
Withnail & I
Leaving Normal
Old Guinness comedies
And oddball quirky indie films )that don't involve violence, horror and perversion) - Palookaville comes to mind as an example.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: bflat
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 10:55 PM

Anything with Cary Grant in it.

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 12:34 AM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Usual Suspects
Doctor Strangelove
Babe
Little Big Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Blazing Saddles

and Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, all three of which are based on Stephen King non-horror stories. Oddly, I've never seen an adaptation of a King horror story that I've cared for.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 02:15 AM

FatB - Is the Bronson film "The Streetfighter" you list, the one where he's a bareknuckler during the depression, who is managed, sort of, by James Coburn? I have that as titled "Hard Times." If The Streetifighter is a different film, I'd be interested in knowing about it.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 03:04 AM

Hello, Chanteyranger. Yes. The English release was called "The Streetfighter" Oddly it was billed as "Hard Times2 on UK television recently. Nice theme tune and a great Cajun band. All the best from the fB.
More favourites, Get Carter (Caine of course) Gentleman Jim, Apocalypse Now, The Big Easy.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 04:08 AM

Twelve Angry Men
Ice Cold In Alex
monty Pythons Life of Brian.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 04:49 AM

Recent?

Both LOTR films to date (and I suspect Return of the King later this year!)
Moulin Rouge
Pirates of the Carribean
Donny Darko
and many more...

Older?
Original Star Wars trilogy
Easy Rider
Goldfinger
The Italian Job
The Maltese Falcon
and many many more...

In general though I enjoy most things I see on the big screen. There are very few that translate to DVD or video but wide screen TV and Dolby 5.1 are making things beter:-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 05:00 AM

2You only are sposed to blowing them bloody doors off!"

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: kendall
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:29 AM

The original MOULIN ROUGE (1950)
Harold & Maude
Braveheart (even though it was far from historically accurate)
Bridge on the river Quai) "    "       "            "

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Mudlark
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 12:55 PM

Did anybody besides me see a movie w/Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Stockard Channing (a wonderful actress IMO)...I've only found it in video form and it has a couple of different titles (?), one of which is The Fortune. Very funny light comedy, Nicholson's turn much like his role in Going South. Other Nicholson favs: As Good as it Gets, Chinatown and Last Detail.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Midchuck
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 01:09 PM

The Outlaw Josey Wales
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The Great Race
The Matrix (the sequel was a dud for me, though)
The two LOTR movies thus far
All the James Bond movies with Connery (they've gone downhill ever since)
Predator (I wonder if everyone in it will eventually be Governor of some state...?)
The Terminator (the first one)
The Bronson Hard Times, as noted - I enjoyed the first fight scene - big buildup to one punch
The Thirteenth Warrior

Probably think of more later. But that will suffice to prove I have no class.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Kim C
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 01:39 PM

I have said this before, and I'll say it again.

I liked Ishtar, and I have my own copy.

Yes, it's stupid. But if you've ever played an open mic writers night, you've seen these people.

Kendall, I watched Lonesome Dove week before last. I had forgotten what a well-made movie it is.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Ely
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 02:02 PM

Chanteyranger--is that the Jason movie with the Colossus and the cheesy animated skeletons at the end? My brother and I were obsessed with that as children. We must have seen it 20 times.

I should probably add Into The West, Psycho, and The Blair Witch Project (which I thought was rather dull until I had to drive home alone through the woods).

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: mike the knife
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 03:12 PM

Delicatessen, Wings of Desire, Down by Law, Buckaroo Banzai, Anything Python, The "Heimat" series (German), Bedazzled (P. Cook & D. Moore version only), My Life as a Dog, Casablanca, Stranger Than Paradise, there are so many more...

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 03:41 PM

"Heimat"...superb...wish they'd show it again on TV.
I forgot Life of Brian,

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Renegade
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 04:18 PM

I could go for days, but wanted to get some of the great directors' movies on board. I apologize in advance for any duplicates:

4 directors immediately come to mind:

Alfred Hitchcock:
(dates approximate):

The 39 Steps (1939, Robert Donat, Madeline Carrol, I think)
To Catch A Thief (1955, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly)
Rear Window (1954 maybe? James Stewart Grace Kelly again)

Frank Capra:

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, James Stewart, Jean Arthur again)
It Happened One Night (1934, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert)
It's A Wonderful Life (already mentioned? 1946)

John Ford:

anything with John Wayne, most especially

The Searchers (1956)
Rio Grande (1950)
The Quiet Man (1953)
Liberty Valance (1962)
3 Godfathers (1948?)

or without John Wayne, like The Wagonmaster (1950)

Howard Hawks:

and John Wayne again: Red River (1948) Rio Bravo (1958)
or without, like The Big Sleep (Bogart and Bacall, 1946 or 8)

Like most of you, I'll think of a lot more sometime soon.
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Midchuck
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 04:40 PM

Thanks, Renegade. I left out The Quiet Man.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: kendall
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 07:22 PM

The Godfather

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: Micca
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 07:45 PM

Harvey, and Mike, YES!! to Heimat, Both series!! like a Fave book, I took the precaution of recording it all on Video and watch it every now and then,
also Three Colour ,Red White and Blue
Nikita,
Cinema Paradiso
almost anything by Eric Rhomer, Claude Chabrol, Luc Besson, and LOTs more,

Subject: RE: BS: what are your favourite movies?
From: The O'Meara
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:32 PM

There are so many - have to break it down in categories.
I. westerns:
Stagecoach (John Wayne version)
The Searchers
The Long Riders
Josey Wales
The Magnificent seven
Tombstone
John Ford's Cavalry trilogy - Rio Grande, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Anything with Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper (Esp. High Noon)
more later.

(How about the Coen brothers? especially Fargo, Raising Arizona and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.)

O'Meara