Six favourite films (Movies)

[Great Gable]

Previous post has inspired me to add 6 more:

A Night at the Opera (Marx Bros)

Bicycle Thieves (wonderful)

Mr Hulot's Holiday

The Ladykillers (Ealing version not terrrible Tom Hanks remake)

Twelve O'Cock High (note correct, I hope, use of apostrophe)

The Omen

I'm more worried about the Freudian slip than the apostrophe!

[DavidRoss]

I'm going to just pick some of my favorite films from the '30s & '40s that I've watched repeatedly over the years & now own on DVD - might add some more later (and of course, can't just pick six

Nice selection, Dave!  Most of those are favorites of ours, too.  Thank God wifey's a fan of screwball comedies!

Six relatively recent goodies:

Breaking the Waves
Coup de Torchon
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Secrets and Lies
Dersu Ursala

[greg]

Go watch "Night of the Living Dead" or "Dawn of the Dead" (original or sequel are fine). Check out "Return of the Living Dead" for creepy laughs. But chuck "I am Legend". Boring garbage, in my opinion. Will Smith just ain't making the horror scene.

Well, I watched "I am Legend"...... and wow, has to be maybe even one of my favorite movies.

I didn't consider the movie to be a horror movie, more like action/adventure. And I love the contrast between other hollywood movies where it simply ends up where (nearly) everyone dies. It's all grim, probably it just helped to keep in mind cheesy movies while watching this one. And it's extremely sad, all the way through.

"Night of the Living Dead" or "Dawn of the Dead" I haven't seen. I'm only 20, and my parents wouldn't let me watch any R movies until I was the right age. 

[MN Dave]

Well, I watched "I am Legend"...... and wow, has to be maybe even one of my favorite movies.

Now read the book by Richard Matheson. Different, better ending.

[Bogey]

Secrets and Lies

Caught that one on its first run at the theater David as it was an Oscar nominee.  My wife and I both enjoyed it.

[Renfield]

"Night of the Living Dead" or "Dawn of the Dead" I haven't seen.

Dawn of the Dead is excellent, I can attest.

[Shrunk]

In no particular order:

Touch of Evil
The Apu Trilogy (cheating, I know)
Vertigo
La Règle du jeu
Mean Streets
The Conversation

Subject to change at any moment.

[Haffner]

Now read the book by Richard Matheson. Different, better ending.

Oh yeah! Also the old Vincent Price movie, "Last Man On Earth".

[SonicMan46]

Nice selection, Dave!  Most of those are favorites of ours, too.  Thank God wifey's a fan of screwball comedies!

David - yes, those 'screwball' comedies from the '30s certainly require a different perspective from the 'bathroom' humor of recent films -     Dave

[E d o]

Vertigo
12 Monkeys
Seven Samurai
Night of the Hunter
Woman in the Dunes
American Beauty

Tough to limit to 6, especially considering my tendency to disregard rules.

[vandermolen]

I'm more worried about the Freudian slip than the apostrophe!

What Freudian slip?

Also Lost in Translation was a great film IMHO. People seem to love or hate it.

[Great Gable]

What Freudian slip?

Re-read your post

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Re-read your post

I think he's joking... 

[ezodisy]

Tarkovsky is all there is to say about film.

luckily he's just one of many

He didn't live long enough to complete his series

what series?

1. The Return (Russia)

beautiful and wonderful, last week I saw it for the third time.


Mirror / Nostalgia - Tarkovsky
Last Year in Marienbad - Resnais
Satantango - Tarr
Le Feu Follet - Malle
The Passenger - Antonioni

[vandermolen]

Re-read your post

Okay, I get it now 

[DavidRoss]

What Freudian slip?

Also Lost in Translation was a great film IMHO. People seem to love or hate it.

Count me high on the list of the latter.  Actually, it's not the film that I hate so much--it's just a surprisingly racist bit of cinematic mediocrity that never would have gotten financed if the director's name weren't Coppola.  Rather, it's the critics who praised this nothing--as they did her previous piece of dreck--whom I dislike.

[Bogey]

Count me high on the list of the latter.  Actually, it's not the film that I hate so much--it's just a surprisingly racist bit of cinematic mediocrity that never would have gotten financed if the director's name weren't Coppola.  Rather, it's the critics who praised this nothing--as they did her previous piece of dreck--whom I dislike.

I despised the film for other reasons David, but yours will do nicely. 

Didn't you really like this one Sarge?

[George]

6 Greats that I own:

Fight Club

The Big Lebowski

High Fidelity

Ordinary People

Happiness

Through a Glass Darkly


(plus Family Guy, Volumes 1-5. I know, not a movie, but I store these with my movies.
Plus, I've gotten more mileage out of these DVD's than a cheap pair of sneakers) 

[andy]

and my next seven:

7. Master and Commander
8. Rio Bravo
9. 12 Angry Men
10. Rear Window
11. The Wizard of Oz
12. Mission Impossible I (A definite guilty pleasure, but I have seen it probably 15-20 times and still have not tired of it yet.)
13. Das Boot

Quite a bit of Hitchcock has been mentioned, but you're the only person I've seen who mentioned Rear Window thus far. I have to say, it's my favorite of his.

Here's my list:

Top 3 in no order:
Eraserhead - David Lynch
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock

Pick any 3 for the remaining 3:
Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese
Mulholland Drive - David Lynch
Dr Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick
Pulp Fiction - Tarantino
A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick

I'd probably add No Country for Old Men, but I have to give it some time and more viewings to make sure.

[George]

That's it. I gotta get me a Hitchcock box set.