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Top Favorite Films!
Front-Ranger:
Funny that more of us don't have recent favorite films that we've seen. Are our standards impossibly high now? That is the case with me, and I say, so be it.
Kerry:
My very most favourite movies of all time:
* Brokeback Mountain
* Beautiful Thing
* Maurice
* Romeo & Juliet (Zeferelli 1968)
* Cabaret
* Death in Venice
* Now, Voyager
* Dark Victory
* The Ghost & Mrs Muir (Gene Tierney 1947)
* My Fair Lady
* Priest
* The Sum of Us
* Moonstruck
* Alexander
ednbarby:
Kerry, I *love* the Zeferelli version of Romeo & Juliet! My English teacher showed that to our class in the 8th grade, and it is what started my life-long obsession with Shakespeare.
Nobody's ever done R&J (or any other Shakespeare play) better in movie form, IMHO, and I've pretty much seen them all, including all of Branaugh's stuff which is very good yet leaves me cold.
Kd5000:
Oh your lucky! My uptight school made us watch some low budget PBS production in 9th grade. Boy, was it dull. But there was no nudity. Maybe the film hadn't come out on video. Probably the school would have had to get approval from the parents. Like young ppl committing suicide they could handle, a few scenes of nudity would have been too much.
I think this generation is watching the one with Leo D set in modern times. Is that bad or what?? The Zeferrilli version is by far the best. Score, performances and scenery are great.
I like DR ZHIVAGO and used to have it ranked #1 on my IMDB.com profile. Now it's just jumbled up with the rest of them.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on February 09, 2007, 01:32:48 pm ---Nobody's ever done R&J (or any other Shakespeare play) better in movie form, IMHO, and I've pretty much seen them all, including all of Branaugh's stuff which is very good yet leaves me cold.
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Barb, have you seen the Orson Welles version of Othello? That is an outstanding film, fully worthy, in my opinion, of being placed alongside the Zefferelli Romeo and Juliet. I haven't seen Welles' Macbeth or his Chimes at Midnight (adapted from the Henry V plays), but critic Jonathan Rosenbaum argues that Othello and Chimes at Midnight remain the two greatest movie adaptations of Shakespeare.
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