Desire Avenue

hello my name is jimmy Adams and i am new in this forum my hobby is watching movies so i introduce myself for making this interesting topic.share your favorite movies here
1.inception
2.x-men
3.American pie
4.fast five
5.breaking dawn
these are my favorite movies

Thats quite a difficult question to answer really. Five come to mind and then i remember another fifty,any five of which could also be amongst my favourite films.

Erm...as of now and without thinking too hard i'll go with:

Is-slottet
Heavenly Creatures
The Others
The Truman Show
Memento

Hello, jimmy adams.

Magnolia
Vanilla Sky
Almost Famous
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

and there are some that I just have to watch every single time I see them on tv:
The Shawshank Redemption
Dirty Dancing
Footloose
Grease

My favourite movies are:
1. Brokeback Mountain (saw it once, will never see it again)
2. Amelie
3. Memento
4. A Single Man
5. Magnolia

I'm going to expand my original top 5 into a top 10, but I really can't place them in any order as i love them all. They are all films that I never tire of watching:

Is-slottet
Heavenly Creatures
The Others
The Truman Show
Memento
Never Let Me Go
Solaris
Atonement
Innocence
Take Shelter

In no particular order:

Dancer In The Dark
Little Man Tate
Moulin Rouge
Pulp Fiction
Wall-E
The Sound Of Music
The Wall
Star Wars 4/5
The Silence Of The Lambs

Alex, I remember being taken to the pictures as a six year old by my nana to see The Sound Of Music when it first came out.

Its a long film

RobB wrote:Alex, I remember being taken to the pictures as a six year old by my nana to see The Sound Of Music when it first came out.

Its a long film

You were too young to enjoy it, so it's easily understandable.

Some of mine-

The Seventh Seal
Angel-A (s/track Anja Garbarek!)
The Colour of Pomegranates
Light Years Away
Local Hero
Wings of Desire
Solaris (the original-haven't yet seen the US remake but I love the soundtrack)

There are a couple of new ones in my list since the last time we did this:

SHRINK Oddly sweet, delicate take on hollywood types from young director jonas pate, made in '09, with a lovely central performance by Kevin Spacey as a celebrity psychiatrist grieving the suicide of his wife. Despite dealing with quite sombre subjects it manages to be quietly hilarious at times in its portaits of the obsessions and neuroses of a group of patients, friends and aquaintances of the good doctor, with some pithy observations of the self serving quality of creative types. Beautiful, subtle perrformance by Spacey in particular, the best thing he's done in years and a needed reminder of what a terrific actor he is in material that's worthy of him.


CAPOTE Fantastic performance by another formidable actor, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, playing the wilfully eccentric Truman Capote around the time he was writing In Cold Blood, his groundbreaking faction account of a dreadful multiple murder in Kansas.

The rest of my top ten:

Mulholland Drive

The Others

Til Human Voices Wake Us

Solaris (the US remake, have yet to see the original)

Sophie's Choice

Memento

Is-Slottet

It's a Wonderful Life

Rear Window

For me, the trouble with films like Memento and Dancer in the Dark, (both of which were superb), is that they're so incredibly dark and hopeless that I could never call them a 'favourite'. Dancer in the Dark is the most depressing film I've ever seen, unbearable-but brilliant.

Has anyone seen 'Moon? (made by David Bowie's son 'Zowie', although he calls himself Nigel Jones or something nice and ordinary these days). If you enjoyed Solaris, you might enjoy that.

Also, thinking about 'Solaris', several of Tarkovsky's other films have been on my favourite list over the years-Stalker, Andrei Rublev (that's an astonishing film)

a few others:-

Shadow of a doubt
M.Hulot's holiday
Night of the hunter
Vertigo
Smiles of a summer night

sound world wrote: Dancer in the Dark is the most depressing film I've ever seen, unbearable-but brilliant.

ditto

sound world wrote:Has anyone seen 'Moon? (made by David Bowie's son 'Zowie', although he calls himself Nigel Jones or something nice and ordinary these days). If you enjoyed Solaris, you might enjoy that.

Duncan Jones.
'Moon' is a really good film. In some ways it reminds me of the self-sacrificial themes covered in 'Gattaca'.

I see 'The Others' is screening on Film4 this Friday.
Rob/Beth, tell me what you think is so good about it and I might watch it...although I'm no longer much interested in horror movies, so I'd normally give it a wide berth.

sound world wrote:I see 'The Others' is screening on Film4 this Friday.
Rob/Beth, tell me what you think is so good about it and I might watch it...although I'm no longer much interested in horror movies, so I'd normally give it a wide berth.

Firstly,its not really a 'horror' film. If you've watched a film where five kids in a car breaks down on an isolated road and who then go wandering off and get bumped off one by one in a grisly fashion.....then The Others will come as a pleasant surprise as its about as far as you can get from that as thematically possible.

The Others is heavy on atmosphere (set in and around a mist shrouded isolated mansion in the Channel Islands during the second world war) and is quite old fashioned in the way it tells a genuinely creepy story. Its really all down to light,shadows and sounds,plus Nicole Kidman's edgy performance as the slightly neurotic mother. There is is no gore or violence which so many 'horror films' have to rely on.

Really, I can't say too much without giving the plot away so just watch it....and enjoy.

Here's the trailer although I think you would appreciate the film more if you didn't watch it.