forumites fave films

[steve56]

davids done some good solo stuff to heard bits in a cafe few months back.

[steve56]

tom tom clubs wordy rappinghood i wore out that 12 inch in the 80s,i recall taping it.

[The Last Word]

No particular fave, but a select cabal of knock-outs. Take yer pick...

Dead Ringers, The Conformist, Rumblefish, Apocalypse Now, The Passenger, Paris Texas, Black Narcissus, Weekend, Eyes Wide Shut, The Wages of Fear*, Touch of Evil, If....

*Original, not the remake Friedkin blew his career with.

Happy viewing:~)

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[pussyclart]

Raging Bull is my fav but I like so many and now with dvds you get to find out how they make them.

[WillieBo]

I know it's a bit of a cop-out, but these have immediately come to mind as personal favourites and ones we often watch on DVD :

-Henry V (Oliviers's 1944 version)
-Jour de Fete (1948 Jacques Tati)
-Smiles of a Summer Night (1955 Bergman)
-Love Me Tonight (1932 Mamoulian)
-Point Blank (1967 Boorman)
-Great Expectations (1948 Lean)
-The Godfather I and II (Coppola 1972 and 1974)
-Kagemusha (1980 Kurosawa)
-Les Enfants du Paradis (1945 Carne)
-The Searchers (1956 Ford)

I suppose some people will see this as a one of the most boring lists ever compiled. But I do love these films.The Last Word wrote:


'I've got a little list, I've got a little list..'

[woodgnome]

if only 'point blank' were out on dvd... the same goes for 'the magnificent ambersons', 'the incredible shrinking man', an oar version of 'ju dou', 'woman in the dunes', 'ballad of narayama', 'meet me in st. louis', 'eagle's wing', 'the happiest days of your life', etc, ad nauseam. instead we're condemned to an ever rising tide of hollywood 'c' list crapola!

at least the orginal and greatest version of 'mutiny on the bounty', starring the incomparable charles laughton, is due in the new year.

excellent list, btw.

[steve56]

hi woodgnome,the magnificent ambersons was on bbc 2 recently im sure and meet me in st louis loiue is on quite a lot on 2.

[The Last Word]

Er, did I? Anyway, good of you to give Kagemusha the nod over K's earlier (more pedestrian?) films that get certain circles salivating, but Joue de Fete? really? I would nitpick further if my own 'little list' didn't contain at least two deeply despised choices. And if you're suggesting GE is Lean's best, you're bang on the ball.

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[Bill500]

i have few fave movies: 12 angry men, goodfellas, the godfather(more first&second not so much the third) moonstrike, seven, psyco, someone like's it hot, the longest day, the gateway( the one with Steve McCueen),dog afternoon(it's the right title?)anyway the one with al pacino,
alien(1&2)not the others,the great escape, the green miles(Tom Hanks),
ET, tombstone (with kurt Russell) close encaunter of third kind, i 've wached this movie first time when i was a kid early eighty's(back in Italy) so this ,but also many others films, remind me of my teeneger years. ha not forget the sting (newman-redford).

Bill500