Six favourite films (Movies)

[andy]

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

I can say you won't be disappointed if you do.

I recommend this one
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Masterpiece-Collection-Saboteur/dp/B000A1INJE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1208141700&sr=8-1
just slightly over the other box set because this one has Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, Rope, and Marnie. In my opinion, Marnie is one of his most underrated films, it's got some flaws, but it beats the pants off most other director's best films.

[George]

I can say you won't be disappointed if you do.

I recommend this one
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Masterpiece-Collection-Saboteur/dp/B000A1INJE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1208141700&sr=8-1
just slightly over the other box set because this one has Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, Rope, and Marnie. In my opinion, Marnie is one of his most underrated films, it's got some flaws, but it beats the pants off most other director's best films.

Thanks. I think the reason I don't have one is because I couldn't decide between the two. They cleverly distributed his best films between the two. 

[Papy Oli]

I am not a huge film fan, but there's a handful of movies i have seen several times with the equal enjoyment on each occasion :

O Brother Where Art Thou
Usual suspects
Bullitt
4 Weddings and a Funeral
Leon

And the overall favourite of mine : Les Tontons Flingueurs (French 60's "gangster" comedy) 

A few special mentions on the French side that I like as well  :

- Le Cercle Rouge
- Police Python 357
- Le Samourai
- L'Armée des Ombres

[Bogey]

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.

Had to have a Hitch on the list.  Rope was a close second....but Grace Kelly was the deciding factor. 

[Danny]

"Rear Window" is playing next Sunday at a local art theater; can't wait to see it on a big screen. Would rather see "Shadow of a Doubt" but beggars can't be choosers, I reckin'

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

"Rear Window" is playing next Sunday at a local art theater; can't wait to see it on a big screen. Would rather see "Shadow of a Doubt" but beggars can't be choosers, I reckin'

"Shadow of a Doubt" - one of my favourites (not in the list, due to restrictions...) I don't know 'small-town America in the 1950s', but I always think I know it when I see this movie.

[Kullervo]

"Shadow of a Doubt" - one of my favourites (not in the list, due to restrictions...) I don't know 'small-town America in the 1950s', but I always think I know it when I see this movie.

A friend and I watched this together and were discussing whether or not there was a sexual undertone in regard to Joseph Cotten's character and the girl. What do you think?

[Shrunk]

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.

It almost made my list, but I went for Vertigo instead.  A toss up, with North by Northwest also in the running.

"Shadow of a Doubt" - one of my favourites (not in the list, due to restrictions...)

Apparently Hitchcock's personal favourite of his own films.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

A friend and I watched this together and were discussing whether or not there was a sexual undertone in regard to Joseph Cotten's character and the girl. What do you think?

Of course there is. She is infatuated with her glamorous-seeming uncle, who is so much more a man than her own father. And her mother adores him, too, named her even after her brother (Charlie). Great movie, very subtle.

[Great Gable]

My next six:

Andromeda Strain, The (1970)
49th Parallel (1941)
Small Back Room, The (1949)
Green for Danger (1946)
It's A Wonderful Life (1947)
Sealed Cargo (1951)

Followed by my top six French films (some of which would make my all-time top 10)

Amelie
Cercle Rouge, Le (aka The Red Circle)
Death In A French Garden (aka Péril en la Demeure)
Diva
Flic, Un
Wages Of Fear, The (aka La Salaire De La Peur)

[vandermolen]

My next six:

Andromeda Strain, The (1970)
49th Parallel (1941)
Small Back Room, The (1949)
Green for Danger (1946)
It's A Wonderful Life (1947)
Sealed Cargo (1951)

Followed by my top six French films (some of which would make my all-time top 10)

Amelie
Cercle Rouge, Le (aka The Red Circle)
Death In A French Garden (aka Péril en la Demeure)
Diva
Flic, Un
Wages Of Fear, The (aka La Salaire De La Peur)

Nice to see another vote for "It's a Wonderful Life" (correct use of apostrophe without Freudian slip )

My next 6:

Amelie

Murder My Sweet

The Dish

The Masque of the Red Death

The Bride of Frankenstein

The Man who never was

[Bogey]

Murder My Sweet

Love that one.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

You can see 'Shadow of a Doubt' here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCv5_l1UMG0

[vandermolen]

Love that one.

I actually preferred Dick Powell to Humphrey Bogart as Marlowe (you might not agree in view of your GMG name!)

[Bogey]

I actually preferred Dick Powell to Humphrey Bogart as Marlowe (you might not agree in view of your GMG name!)

I liked them both as Marlowe and cannot see either playing in the other's movie role because they are what they are at this point for me.  Would change either at this point.

[vandermolen]

I liked them both as Marlowe and cannot see either playing in the other's movie role because they are what they are at this point for me.  Would change either at this point.

I agree but "Casablanca" was, for me, Bogart's Finest Hour (and "The African Queen").

[Hector]

I agree but "Casablanca" was, for me, Bogart's Finest Hour (and "The African Queen").

No, 'The Maltese Falcon' or 'The Big Sleep.'

Six more you should see after the school holidays are over:

'Delicatessen.' Who says the French do not have a sense of humour?

'Hero,'

'Memento',

'Insomnia' in the original version as well as the director of the above's remake,

'Shaun of the Dead.' Funnier the second time you see it (the use of the surviving zombies to stack supermarket trollies ),

'The Third Man' if only for Orson Welles' speech, as Harry Lime, on the Swiss!

[Sergeant Rock]

Six aren't enough. I'll break it down by genre:

SIX WAR FILMS:

Castle Keep
Gettysburg
Zulu
The Bridge at Remagen
Apocalypse Now Redux
A Bridge Too Far

SIX B/EXPLOITATION FILMS

Faster Pusscat, Kill! Kill!
Thriller: A Cruel Picture
Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô (Sex & Fury)
Two Moon Junction
Vixen
Jackie Brown

SIX COMEDIES

Top Secret
Life of Brian
Duck Soup
Dogma
The Big Lebowski
A Shot in the Dark

SIX WOODY ALLEN FILMS

Manhatten
Annie Hall
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Love & Death
Play It Again, Sam

SIX CLASSICS (pre-1950)

Casablanca
Wizard of Oz
The Big Sleep
Arsenic and Old Lace
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Thin Man

SIX FILMS (post-1950)

Dr. Strangelove
Lolita
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Henry & June
Blow Up
The Dreamers

SIX ACTION/ADVENTURE FILMS

The Empire Strikes Back
Leon: The Professional
Last Action Hero
The Fifth Element
Casino Royale
Kill Bill

SIX FOREIGN FILMS (foreign from an American's perspective)

Ran
Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai)
Le Mépris (Contempt)
Le Genou de Claire (Claire's Knee)
Good Bye, Lenin!
Amelie

SIX TARKOVSKY FILMS (just so I won't piss off Christo  )

Offret
Mirror
Nostalghia
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
Solaris


Sarge

[MN Dave]

Good list, Sarge!

[Sergeant Rock]

Good list, Sarge!

I think so