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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:39 am
by wirbel
gerryuk wrote:Not a top ten as such but some of my favourites.
Pans Labyrinth
I'm still waiting for this one to come out; love to see it! I've only heard good things about it...
Another very good movie i've seen recently was Hard Candy, after reading about it here on the board
And Serenity i'll also recommend to everyone!
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:34 am
by puce
In no particular order:
Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
Toto Le Héros (Jaco Van Dormael)
The Godfather and The Godfather 2
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
Una vita difficile (Dino Risi)
Gone With The Wind
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
Persuasion (Roger Michell)
Cold Comfort Farm (John Schlesinger)
The Winslow Boy (David Mamet)
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:18 pm
by blue
Wow, interesting choices there Paola.
'It Happened One Night' is such an under-rated movie IMHO, I think it may be Capra's best, but of course the one everyone loves is 'It's A Wonderful Life'.
'Rebecca' is a real old favourite of mine, such a glorious rainy afternoon movie. The atmosphere is so brilliantly done, it's one of the few movies-from-novels that holds up to the book.
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:49 pm
by blue
gerryuk wrote:
Double Indemnity
I watched this one for the first time yesterday afternoon as it was showing on TV - am I wrong or is the film 'Body Heat', with Kathleen Turner and William Hurt, a remake of this? The plot seems basically the same, but I didn't realise Body Heat was a remake.
Surprised at what a fox Barbara Stanwyck is in the original. Girl had it goin' on.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:45 pm
by la mome neant
My turn !
In no particular order...
The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
I married a strange person ! (Plympton)
Alice (Svankmajer)
Life of Brian (never knew which one of the Monty Python directed it ! )
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Herzog)
Gummo (Korine)
Mullholand Drive (Lynch)
Most hated :
The Dreamers (Bertolucci)
anything Cronenberg
But I still need to think about it
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:51 pm
by blue
Mulholland Drive, The Philadelphia Story and Alice are favourites of mine as well. I really need a top 100 films.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 7:57 pm
by sound world
Welcome back,mome!
Another Jan Svankmajer fan! I love his stuff,although I didn't go for 'Little Opik'.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:34 pm
by la mome neant
sound world wrote:Welcome back,mome!
Another Jan Svankmajer fan! I love his stuff,although I didn't go for 'Little Opik'.
hey ! I'm glad I'm back. I really like this forum... feels like an island...
and now my english has improved a little... I guess
What's Little Opik ? I don't even know... (checking imdb...)
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 11:56 pm
by wirbel
welcome back indeed! it's a very remote island you know...
so good you were able to find it
well i'm off now; i've just packed all my stuff for vacation, pff what a work..
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 6:24 am
by xxxxglosoli
it's a wonderful life.
simple concept but it made me realize there's a worth to life.
pans labyrinth is really good
howl's moving castle (barely beats off spirited away)
the truman show
science of sleep
eternal sunshine
etc
princess mononoke tomorrow
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:06 am
by d.a.walker
I adore Pan's Labyrinth
also on my ever growing list is:
Me And You And Everyone We Know
May
The Hamiltons
Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
Tra-la-laaah!
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:14 pm
by RobB
d.a.walker wrote:I adore Pan's Labyrinth
Thats on my ever growing list.
d.a.walker wrote:Me And You And Everyone We Know
Thats a good film but a tad overrated I think.
But at least its got Virginia Astley's 'A Summer Long Since Passed' over the end credits which certainly justify's having the dvd.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:33 pm
by d.a.walker
I picked it up on a friends recomendation, and I loved Me And You And Everyone We Know, it had something really charming about it, and I loved how it really wove the characters together. I managed to get it for $10 exrental here and really pleased I got it. I was dismayed to hear that the director had such an uphill battle to make the film that she has vowed never to make another one.
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:40 am
by paul-pgss
In no particular order:
Amelie
Breaking the waves
The virgin suicides
Memento
Mulholland Drive
Lost in translation
Dogma
Spirited Away
The Machinist
Birds
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:12 pm
by blue
pgss wrote:
Breaking the waves
The virgin suicides
Memento
Mulholland Drive
Lost in translation
Dogma
Fantastic sequence. I'm suddenly inspired to spend my entire day off tomorrow watching them back to back in that order.
Do you have the 3-disc edition of Memento, Paul? There's an option to watch the film in chronological order if you can find it, which gives an interesting slant on events.