Favourite Film(s).

[tbaldwin]

For me Matewan or Time Bandits....
For you ?

 

[Reno]

Vertigo
The Night of the Hunter
I Know Where I'm Going
Alien
Cat People/Curse of the Cat People
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
The Elephant Man
Imitation of Life
Chinatown
The Lady From Shanghai
A Woman Under the Influence
Halloween
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Funny Face
The Wizard of Oz
Meet Me in St Louis
Suspiria
Possession
Don't Look Now
The Wicker Man
You Can Count on Me
Petulia
Rosemary's Baby
Marnie
Black Narcissus
The Night of San Lorenzo
All About Eve
Johnny Guitar
Once Upon a Time in America
Fear Eats the Souls
Pandora's Box
Viridiana
Careful
Wild at Heart
Three Women
Dark Water
Peter Ibbetson
The Rapture
Miracle Mile
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
The Iron Giant
Read My Lips

 

[Spandex]

How do you go about choosing a favourite film? I've seen so many, it's impossible to narrow it down to one. Even thinking of a list of favourites makes my head spin; it just keeps getting longer and longer:

Double Indemity
Planet of the Apes
Alien
Aliens
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Night of the Living Dead
Key Largo
Cassablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Our Man in Havana
Kind Hearts & Coronets
North by Northwest
Freaks
M
Spirited Away
Kiki's Delivery Service
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Porko Rosso
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Godzilla (the original)
Terminator
City of God
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Titanic
Gone with the Wind
The Possiedon Adventure
The Towering Inferno
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Brazil

If I had to, I could just keep going.

I like all of these (and loads more) just as much as each other, varying depending on my mood.

 

[fear-n-loathing]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ghostbusters
Pulp Fiction
Training Day
Donnie Darko
Scarface
Super Trooper
City of God
The Wicker Man
The Ring
American Beauty
The Evil Dead 3
Beverly Hills Cop
The Blue Brothers
Casino
Clerks
Dead Man's Shoes
Dirty Harry
Leon

 

[django]

No order but here's my faves off the top of my head:

The Good the Bad & The Ugly
Django
The Harder They Come
Sex & Fury
The Dirty Dozen
A Bullet for the General
Hana Bi
Lone Wolf & Cub series
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Taxi Driver
Brazil
Jackie Brown
Black Caesar
The Stunt Man
Rififi
Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
Once Upon a Time in the West
Aguirre
Le Trou
The Street Fighter
Torrente
800 Bullets

 

[N_igma]

Fargo
Dumb and Dumber
In the Name of the Father
Some Mothers Son
Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Big Lebowski
Man About Dog
Raising Arizona
The Boondock Saints
Godfather trilogy
Indiana series
Rambo series
Trainspotting
Human Traffic
Edward Scissorhands

 

[Unseen_Unheard]

Persona
Battle of Algiers
Lawrence of Arabia
The Devils Backbone
Night of the Hunter
Delicatessen
Raging Bull
Spirit of the Beehive
M
The City of Lost Children
Blow Up
What about Bob?
Citizen Kane
Pecker

 

[Kid_Eternity]

In no particular order

Fight Club
Vanilla Sky
Munich
Talk Radio
Syriana
Way of the Gun
As Good As It Gets
Donnie Brasco
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Eternal Sunshine
Batman Begins
Superman Returns
Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
Goodfellas
Basketball
This Is Spinal Tap
The Life of Brian

To name but a few...

 

[Groucho]

Here's some

The Wicker Man
Strike/Battleship Potemkin/October (although Oktober is corrupted by Stalinist distortion/censorship)
The Fantomas series
Cronos/The Devils Backbone/Pans Labyrinth
Ring/Ring Too/Ring Zero (that's Hideo Nakata's first two and Norio Tsuruta's prequal) (Nakata's Sleeping Bride is worth a look too)
Ju-On and Ju-on two.
Blue Velvet/Mulholand Drive/Wild at Heart
Land and Freedom/Carla's Song/Bread and Roses
The Cradle will Rock
Frida
Alice/Faust (Svankmejer)
Twins of Evil/Vampire Lovers/Vampire Circus/Lust for a Vampire/Dracula Ad 1972/The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Nosferatu
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Metropolis
Bonnie and Clyde
The Wild One
King Creole
Rebel Without a Cause
Matewan is good - it shows how immigrant and indigenous labour need to unite!
Un Chien Andalou/L'Age D'or/Belle De Jour/The Milkyway/Diary of a Chambermaid/Phantom of Liberty/The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (the first two of these are showing soon at a 'Dali' film event - Luis Buniel films all.)
Blair Witch Project
American Werewolf in London
Suspiria
High Noon
Soldier Blue
Amelie (she's good in He loves me, he loves me not, too)
Young Poisoners Handbook
Heathers
Haxan: Withcraft Through The Ages
Mars Attacks! (yes, really!)
M
Alien
The Company of Wolves
The Birds/Vertigo/Rear Window/Rebecca
Bell, book and candle
Reds
Quadrophenia
Twelve Monkeys/Brazil
Blue Angel
Last Exit to Brooklin
Don't look now!

 

[Groucho]

...
Battle of Algiers
Lawrence of Arabia
The Devils Backbone
...
Delicatessen
...M
The City of Lost Children
...

Excellent films

 

[Groucho]

...Freaks
....

How could I forget Freaks?

And Wolfman.

 

[safronlove]

My Choice

300
Ten commandments
Black
Nun and bendit

 

[Leica]

October (although Oktober is corrupted by Stalinist distortion/censorship)

You're so funny Groucho

 

[The Groke]

You Got served
From Justin To Kelly
The Nutty Professor 2 - The Klumps
House of Wax (the 2005 remake of course)
RV
Are We There Yet
Daddy Daycare

 

[Bonfirelight]

Rocky IV

 

[billy_bob]

You Got served
From Justin To Kelly
The Nutty Professor 2 - The Klumps
House of Wax (the 2005 remake of course)
RV
Are We There Yet
Daddy Daycare

No Police Academy 3?

Fucking Philistine

 

[thefishdead]

His Girl friday.
Fargo.
Raising Arizona.
Jackie Brown.
The Great Escape.
The Thin Red line.
The Third Man.

And Dozens of others I can't think of right now.

 

[Pigeon]

Kes
City of God
Spirited Away
Battle of Algiers
dead man's shoes
La Haine
No man's Land
Pan's Labyrinth
Scum
Ratcatcher

 

[Groucho]

You're so funny Groucho

it can't be denied, or do you want to rewrite history?

 

[Mrs Bradley]

Hard one this...recently did 5 fav films on different thread, but if it could be just one film then probably Withnail & I...sooooo quotable

 

[tbaldwin]

Crikey i only chose 2 and other people got to choose loads....
And some one just chose Withnail and I!!!!!!! A really shit film.......No offence meant....

I like films that either make me really think like Matewan...I also really liked Schindlers List as i think its a really moving film..
And obviously stuff that made me laugh like Time Bandits.....John Cleese as Robin Hood seems to sum up a lot of idiotic do gooders......

 

[imposs1904]

Sleepless in Streatham

 

[Badgers]

Natural Born Killers

 

[mk12]

last of the mohicans
donnie darko

 

[tbaldwin]

Im looking forwards to seeing that taking Liberties film...It sounds like it could be very amusing....Loads of hysterical liberals trying to pretend that the UK in 2007 has loads of similarities with Nazi Germany.....

 

[Blagsta]

Land and Freedom. Watched it again yesterday, never fails to make me cry.

 

[tbaldwin]

Land and Freedom. Watched it again yesterday, never fails to make me cry.

Have to agree with you Ken Loach films are really fucking funny.

I love the way certain people ( i think you know who i mean) take them oh so seriously and put that miserable bastard on a pedestal.

He has certainly made a career out of portraying working class people as miserable victims....

If i wanted to watch shit like that id watch east enders....

 

[Blagsta]

You really are quite insane.

 

[Reno]

I wouldn't go as far a tbaldwin, but I find Loach massively overrated.

 

[tbaldwin]

You really are quite insane.

One flew over the cuckoos nest and Frances..I like that film with Jessica Lange about the life of frances farmer who was a bit of a leftie actress that got put away in an asylum for being a bit outspoken and not shagging the right people.