1. To Kill a Mockingbird 2. Brokeback Mountain 3. Billy Elliott 4. Dead Poet's Society 5. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the orginal w/Gene Wilder) 6. Silence of the Lambs 7. The Birds 8. Priest 9. Shawshank Redemption 10. Frist Star Wars Trilogy 11. Lord of the Rings Trilogy 12. Truly, Madly, Deeply 13. Mulan 14. Latter Days 15. Driving Miss Daisy 16. Phantom of the Opera 17. Donnie Darko 18. A Home at the End of the World 19. The Green Mile 20. The Childrens Hour 21. The Mission 22. Street Car Named Desire 23. The Uninvited (1944) 24. The Haunting (1963) 25. The Innocents (1966) 26. All This and Heaven Too 27. The Joy Luck Club 28. Road to Perdition 29. Master and Commander 30. Rosemary's Baby 31. Mrs Miniver 32. Little Women (1994) 33. Pride & Prejudice (1995) |
34. Searching for Bobby Fisher 35. Auntie Mame (1958) 36. Strictly Ballroom 37. FRIED GREEN TOMATOES 38. The Unforgiven (1960) 39. Long Days Journey into Night(1962) 40. The Lion in Winter 41. The Glass Menagerie (1973) 42. A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975) 43. Belle et la bête, La (1946) 44. The Color Purple 45. Million Dollar Baby 46. Sense and Sensibility 47. Gods and Monsters 48. Good Will Hunting 49. Erin Brockavich 50. Little Man Tate 51. The Illusionist 52. The Queen 53. The Others 54. 3:10 to Yuma (2007) 55. Secretary 56. Pan's Labrynth 57. Beautiful Thing 58. The Horatio Hornblower Series (1998-2003) 59. North by Northwest 60. IL postino 61. Tea with Mussolini 62. Steel Magnolias 63. Rabbit Proof Fence 64. Two Hands 65. Silence of the Lambs 66. Benny and Joon 67. Brideshead Revisited 68. The Corn is Green (thanks David! ) 69. The Education of Little Tree (thanks again David) 70. The Ice Storm 71. Maurice 72. Wilde 73. Tom Brown's School Days 74. Chairots of Fire 75. Big Eden |
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN on so many levelsgreat list...lots of my favs too
SOLARIS (!972) great philosophical science fiction
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (original) shocking revelation, excellent suspense
CRASH, HAH! GOT YOU
VERTIGO, best Hitchcock film, it's been said that SOLARIS borrowed a bit from this film in so much as how real is a replica if she looks, talks, dresses likes the original.
HOWARDS END yep it humorless, but the characters are great. Like BBM, much use of symbolism. The old house represents England. The characters represent their respective class.
ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) the most popular Shakespeare film ever on cinema. It was a blockbuster and with good reason.
CHINATOWN great film noir. Complicated plot with a dark secret at the center. Acting doesn't get much better. Nicholson and Dunaway are great
BONNIE AND CLYDE. GReat gangster film. So much style for this sort of film. French new wave I think they called it.
2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY. The grandfather of science fiction film.
THE LITTLE FOXES. Older movie, based on the Lillian Hellman play. Greed in the Deep South. Betty Davis is at her best.
Silent films are even harder. I really did love Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La by Carl Theodor Dreyer. I'm not religious, but the film did move me. I strongly recommend it.Falconetti's performance as Joan is magnificent...surely one of the great performances of film history. This isn't my favorite Dreyer work, but it's certainly a masterpiece.
WOW! Impressive list Moremojo ... I couldn't even pronounce most of those! I'd like to see some of them, but they don't look like the sort of films that get shown too often on Satellite TV!Thanks, Susie. I know that Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo (which is known in English-language discourse as I Was Born, But...) is available on DVD, and, here in the States, Meet Me in St. Louis, Ordet, and Gertrud are shown from time to time on Turner Classic Movies. The Scenic Route was released in videocassette format some years ago, but I don't know how easy it would be to find that.
Thanks for the info moremojo .... is that downloadable one a German film?Jawohl! Actually, though, a few lines are in English, and if you and your dad watch it, be prepared for a film that is primarily non-narrative for its first half--understanding here can be challenge quite apart from the issue of language! Nonetheless, a masterpiece, in my opinion.
But amazingly, probably the most obscure of my choices, Der Tod der Maria Malibran (The Death of Maria Malibran, in English translation), is available for complete and free downloading from the following website:
I've thought of another 10 films that I love! That brings my total to 40 ... who's dum idea was it to limit it to ten anyway?? ;)
Hmmmmmmm ... I'm sure there's more!
Susie 8)
:laugh: OY Mister! Have you ever heard the expression "...could talk for England"? ... Well I was their inspiration!!
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And yet all I hear is ble ble ble blaaaaaaah .... ble ble ble blaaaaaah ....
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I'll ask Dagi some time ... brilliant film by the way .... very scary and unsettling .... and I hated that pointy little thing on his thumb for piercing through their veins *shudder* but excellent all the same ... and Brad Pitt was a bit-of-alright in it too!
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Have you read the book The Historian ... I recommend it if you want to poo your pants!!!
I'm not sure if that phrase was mentioned in the movie or not. It might have been. I remember reading it in the original novel, and it gave me cold chills. There's something very spooky about it.That line makes me think of an intertitle from the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (directed by the great F.W. Murnau, and essentially a film adaptation of Stoker's novel), where, at the moment Hutter arrives at the count's castle, "The phantoms came to meet him." I'm not sure if this line was found in Stoker's original novel.
Maybe Chrissi, Anke or Dagi could help me out here, but I think Denn die Todten reiten schnell means "For the Dead travel fast". Spooky!
*cold chill*
Spooky spooky SPOOKY!! :o
Actually you translated it very good. Literally it's "For the Dead ride fast".
To be a bit smart-alecky here: "die Toten" is written with only a t in the middle ;D
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SUMMERTIME 1950's Katharine Hepburn movie filmed in Venice, Italy. Hysterical! Katharine Hepburn at her comedic best! I love the scene where she falls into the canal! :laugh:
Here's another one....Yes, wonderful movie! Thanks for reminding me of this one, David. I loved the sequence where Desi and Lucille make the perilous, nerve-shattering trek over the mountain, with the trailer overloaded, unbeknownst to Desi's character. As someone who is phobic about heights, I can relate to that, but I love how the sequence can make you laugh at the characters' fear, and thus helps you laugh at yourself.
THE LONG LONG TRAILER Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Anyone who has ever tried to tow an RV behind their car or truck will LOVE this movie! :D
I loved Madge Blake's cameo as Aunt Anastasia. "OH MY ROSES!! MY BEAUTIFUL ROSES!!!!" :laugh: :laugh:
Yes, wonderful movie! Thanks for reminding me of this one, David. I loved the sequence where Desi and Lucille make the perilous, nerve-shattering trek over the mountain, with the trailer overloaded, unbeknownst to Desi's character. As someone who is phobic about heights, I can relate to that, but I love how the sequence can make you laugh at the characters' fear, and thus helps you laugh at yourself.
Yes, wonderful movie! Thanks for reminding me of this one, David. I loved the sequence where Desi and Lucille make the perilous, nerve-shattering trek over the mountain, with the trailer overloaded, unbeknownst to Desi's character. As someone who is phobic about heights, I can relate to that, but I love how the sequence can make you laugh at the characters' fear, and thus helps you laugh at yourself.
Oh wow, David, you are bringing all those details back to life for me! I'm gonna have to see if I can rent this one sometime.
I also loved the scene where she's trying to fix dinner while the trailer is moving! She ended up wearing most of it. :laugh:
Oh wow, David, you are bringing all those details back to life for me! I'm gonna have to see if I can rent this one sometime.
Did you know the director was Vincente Minnelli, the same man who helmed Meet Me in St. Louis? No wonder I love these two films so much.
I never got this one.
But I got this one. I thought of mentioning it on my list. Technically, it's a made-for-TV special. I figured I'd save it for a "Favorite Holiday Specials" thread (which has probably already been done). Whatever. It's wonderful.
It kinda reminds me of "Brokeback Mountain." Both started as short stories; both were then filmed and rather faithfully followed the original stories; both were about outsiders who developed a deep, loving relationship in the rather short time they were together, a relationship that made their hard lives happier.
I saw on IMDb that a sequel of sorts was made in 1967 called "The Thanksgiving Visitor" http://imdb.com/title/tt0324218/. I've never heard of nor seen it before. Also according to IMDb, there was a remake of this one starring Patty Duke, http://imdb.com/title/tt0135187/. I don't know how I missed it, but I don't know that I would have liked it much.
Since I live in New York City, it's always been on my list of things to do to visit the Museum of TV and Radio often, but I never seem to get around to it. I should take a day off and go in the coming months to see this one and its sequel. Part of me fears that I will be overwhelmed by all that's available to me there and just short circuit. I get that way in Blockbuster or the public library.
How it's not a perennial classic like "It's a Wonderful Life" is beyond me. I'd love to see it and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" released on DVD. I can't imagine what kind of legal crap would prevent its release.
I highly reccommend everybody see "A Christmas Memory." At least read the short story. You can find it on the internet in its entirety by doing a simple search on the title and Capote. You won't be sorry.
Well you've managed to make a list afterall honey ... sort of! I've noticed that quite a few of you have mentioned the film MAURICE, I really must watch that one!!
Honorable mention:Wow, The Omega Man! I didn't know anyone else knew that one, I remember being so creeped out by it. This scary vision of a bleak future, Heston falling into the fountain. I liked him in a loincloth in Planet, especially pre-NRA. I had such a crush on Tom Hulce, I love how he played the Hunchback. And oh god, Maurice, what you can say about Maurice, except, Now we shan't ever be parted....it's finished....
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32, Amadeus Wonderful music and a cute Tom Hulce.
33, Omega Man 1971. Charlton Heston minus the Apes.
34, Planet of The Apes. 1968. The one with the apes. And a great ending!
35, Maurice The first gay flick I ever saw. Magnificent!
I'm sure there are more!
Maybe we should start a separate thread for our favorite Christmas movies....I love
A Christmas story, with the the boy wanting the Red Rider bbgun and his dad winning the Leg lamp...The little brother, dressed up so tight he cant move...That is a true gem..
I think its my familys favorite, we watch it several times thru the holidays...great humor.
Diva was the first foreign film I saw, I cut class and watched it by myself. It made me want to go to Paris so bad, and I loved le postman in the movie. One of the instrumental tracks, Sentimental Walk, is one of my all time favorite pieces of music. Awesome.
Here's my list. I'm using "watchability" as my criterion. These I could--and have--seen over and over again.
Diva by Jean-Jacques Beneix was the first film I was obsessed over. And it's a story of obsession.
Maybe we should start a separate thread for our favorite Christmas movies....I love
A Christmas story, with the the boy wanting the Red Rider bbgun and his dad winning the Leg lamp...The little brother, dressed up so tight he cant move...That is a true gem..
I think its my familys favorite, we watch it several times thru the holidays...great humor.
Diva was the first foreign film I saw, I cut class and watched it by myself. It made me want to go to Paris so bad, and I loved le postman in the movie. One of the instrumental tracks, Sentimental Walk, is one of my all time favorite pieces of music. Awesome.
Good call Rayn,
9. The Lion in Winter. Starring: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, and in his film debut Anthony Hopkins, Director: Anthony Harvey, Awards: 7 Academy Awards. I love this film because the family was soooooo dysfunctional... like mine! LOL
I'm so glad someone mentioned Harold and Maude! ;D
Gary
That's it! I have GOT to see Harold and Maude! What's it about? NO! Don't tell me!Okay, then...it'll be a nice warm surprise! ::)
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Warm ey? Sounds interesting! I hope you're not talking about what I think you're talking about! (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_4_4v.gif)
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Warm ey? Sounds interesting! I hope you're not talking about what I think you're talking about! (http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_4_4v.gif)There's a very brief clip from Harold and Maude on this Youtube compilation:
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Just to add a bit more to your enticement, Susie--The young man, Harold, played by Bud Cort, comes from an extremely privileged, pampered background, but finds no meaning in his emotionally frigid world, and dwells on thoughts of death and suicide (thus the compulsive visits to strangers' funerals). He is a deliberate thorn to his staid, genteel mother (played superbly by Vivian Pickles), who does her best to ignore all her son's attempts to shock and frighten her. The old woman, Maude, played so memorably by veteran actress Ruth Gordon, is as much in love with life as Harold is with death. She opens his eyes onto different perspectives on the world and its people.
This may all sound quite grim, but the film is actually a charming comedy. There is a great musical soundtrack by Cat Stevens that captures all the gentle allure of the early Seventies counterculture of which this film became an emblem. The screenplay is by Colin Higgins, and the film was directed by Hal Ashby, one of the most interesting directors working in the brave new world that was American cinema in the 1970's.
Oh Clarissa, I love so many of those films on your list, Parenthood, Moonstruck and Groundhog Days, to name but a few!! We should definitely have a girly night together, with a box of chocolates, a bottle of wine and a bucket of popcorn!
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