Forum / Favorite movies

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    Dolemite
    Jan 20, 06:40pm

    (I think this could be a phun phread...)

    The Saddest Music in the World
    Terribly Happy
    Tuvalu
    The Violin
    Santa Sangre
    Following
    As it is in Heaven
    Sin Nombre
    Bad Day to Go Fishing
    The Law (1960- Italian)
    Fear and Trembling
    Buffalo '66
    Trees lounge
    Hour of the Wolf
    In the Realms of the Unreal
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    An Awfully Big Adventure
    Tom & Viv
    The Machinist
    Faces

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    Bill Yarrow
    Jan 20, 07:42pm

    The Man Who Laughs (Leni)
    Variete (Dupont)
    The Unknown (Browning)
    Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst)
    Faust (Murnau)
    The Wind (Sjostrom)
    The Crowd (Vidor)
    The Last Command (Von Sternberg)
    Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Brenon)
    Zoo in Budapest (Lee)
    The Fallen Idol (Reed)
    Dodsworth (Wyler)
    Midnight (Leisen)
    Cause for Alarm! (Garnett)
    Crumb (Zwigoff)
    The Wrong Man (Hitchcock)
    Queen Christina (Mamoulian)
    Le Million (Clair)
    The Kid Brother (Wilde)
    Zvenigora (Dovzhenko)
    Beggars of Life (Wellman)
    Mother (Pudovkin)
    Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
    L'Atalante (Vigo)
    Toni (Renoir)
    La Chinoise (Godard)
    Sparrows (Beaudine)
    Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
    Sudden Fear (Miller)
    Apu Trilogy (Ray)
    Champion (Robson)
    Bob Le Flambeur (Melville)
    Blood of a Poet (Cocteau)

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    Dolemite
    Jan 20, 08:05pm

    That's what I'm talkin' about!

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    David Ackley
    Jan 20, 08:10pm

    The Green Room(Truffaut)
    Fear and Loathing in Vegas
    Zero Pour Conduite
    The Steel Helmet
    Berlin Year Zero
    Lulu en Mai
    Aguirre The Wrath of God
    L'enfant
    Steamboat Bill Jr./ The General

    just a few...

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    Darryl Price
    Jan 22, 05:50pm

    A Hard Day's Night (Lester)
    Manhattan
    Casablanca
    Citizen Kane
    Spirited Away
    Rear Window
    The Gold Rush
    City Lights
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Finding Nemo
    The Artist
    City Lights
    Any Marx Brothers
    King Kong
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The Royal Tenanbaums

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    David Ackley
    Jan 22, 07:16pm

    Almost forgot:
    The Decalogue

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    David Ackley
    Jan 22, 07:32pm

    Seven Samurai
    Stray Dog (Sleeper Kurosawa from a story by Simenon.)
    My Bodyguard
    Full Metal Jacket
    Annie Hall
    The Wild Bunch

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    MaryAnne Kolton
    Jan 23, 06:31am

    The Hours
    Angels In America
    Raging Bull
    The Grapes Of Wrath
    Pulp fiction
    Unfaithful
    American Gigolo
    The Big Lebowski
    Casablanca
    Citizen Cane
    The Godfather II
    Dog Day Afternoon
    The Fisher King
    Good Will Hunting
    Dark Passage
    The Wrestler
    La Strada
    Taxi Driveer
    The Mission
    Shindler's List
    Blue
    White
    Red
    City of Angels
    To Kill A Mockingbird
    The Elephant Man
    Gran Torino
    Bridges of Madison County
    No Country For Old Men
    The Sixth Sense
    La Strada
    Chocolat
    Amores Perros
    Oldboy
    Pan's Labyrinth
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
    The Professional
    What About Bob?
    Cape Fear - De Nero
    and about 500 others. . .

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    RW Spryszak
    Jan 23, 06:59am

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    Unforgiven
    The Thin Man

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    stephen hastings-king
    Jan 24, 02:11am

    some of them in no particular order

    the saragossa manuscript (wojiech)
    kwaidan (kobayashi)
    woman in the dunes (teshigahara)
    face of another
    la jetee (chris marker)
    sans soleil
    stalker (tarkovsky)
    solaris
    third man (carol reed)
    the kieslowski films mentioned earlier
    le circle rouge (meville)
    un bande a part (godard)
    8 1/2 (fellini)
    5 obstructions (von trier)
    most everything my svankmajer. brothers quay too.
    eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
    last wave (wier)
    daisies (chytilova)
    closely watched trains (menzel)
    hukkle
    the three monsieur hulot films (tati)

    there are a lot of others. favorite usually means what i can remember when you ask me.

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Jan 24, 02:36am

    Absolute best movie ever made...

    The Orphanage (2007 Spanish film)

    Of course, I like movies, films of all kinds, but that one is my favorite. If you haven't seen it, you should. It's called a horror film, but it's anything but a horror film, more like an emotional roller coaster and beyond perfect.

    Oh. Did I say it was my favorite?

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    Dolemite
    Jan 24, 04:10am

    I saw that movie, Mr. Davis...

    It was PITIFUL!

    THE PIGKEEPER'S DAUGHTER was better than that!

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    (hee! will check it out. Thanks for checking in!)

    ;-)

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Jan 24, 05:24am

    Matt, I think you'll enjoy it.

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    Dolemite
    Jan 24, 06:09am

    Watching Death of a Salesman (Dustin Hoffman/Malkovich) right now.

    Attention IS being paid.

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Jan 24, 01:52pm

    "He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine." Gotta love that one.

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    Dolemite
    Jan 24, 11:22pm

    "Magic Bus," about Ken Kesey's cross-country trip in the schoolbus (driven by Neal Casady) is also very good. 90% is footage shot on the trip with voice-overs from some of the Pranksters.

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    Dolemite
    Jan 25, 02:25am

    Oh, and of course "Withnail and I"

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    Sam Rasnake
    Jan 25, 02:46am

    Persona / Ingmar Bergman, dir. (1966)

    Vertigo / Alfred Hitchcock, dir. (1958)

    Zerkalo / Andrei Tarkovsky, dir. (1975)

    L’Avventura / Michelangelo Antonioni, dir. (1960)

    Rashomon / Akira Kurosawa, dir. (1950)

    Dekalog / Krzysztof Kieślowski, dir. (1988)

    Fa yeung nin wa / Wong Kar-Wai, dir. (2000)

    2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick, dir. (1968)

    Ordet / Carl Theodor Dreyer, dir. (1955)

    Au hazard Balthazar / Robert Bresson, dir. (1966)

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    Dolemite
    Jan 26, 06:25pm

    Lest we forget...

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467304/

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    Neil Serven
    Jan 27, 03:43am

    Ascenseur pour l’echafaud (Malle, 1958)

    Bande a Part (Godard, 1964)

    Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)

    In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967)

    Quiz Show (Redford, 1994)

    Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Edwards, 1961)

    Rushmore (Anderson, 1998)

    The Ice Storm (Lee, 1997)

    Closely Watched Trains (Menzel, 1966)

    The Third Man (Reed, 1949)

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    Dolemite
    Feb 05, 01:52am

    Scott Walker: 30th Century Man

    Interesting docu of musician.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker:_30_Century_Man

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    Dolemite
    Feb 05, 07:47pm

    And of course this Jim Morrison avant-garde short film he starred in even before going to film school in LA:

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

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    Dolemite
    Feb 26, 04:17am

    Winter's Bone
    The Poker House

    Both excellent movies with the very talented Jennifer Lawrence.

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    eamon byrne
    Feb 26, 04:51am

    Here's one great director and I haven't even seen any of his films, only a couple of you tube clips. Watch this and be in awe:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffl19v5ZbyQ

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    Dolemite
    Feb 26, 05:03am

    I believe I started that movie about a year ago but didn't finish it for some reason.

    Does it start out in a bar, with a fellow describing how the solar system works by having people play the various parts (sun/moon/earth/etc.)?

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    eamon byrne
    Feb 26, 06:31am

    Dunno Matt. But click on the link. Then weep.

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    Marcus Speh
    Feb 26, 03:57pm

    Cranford, the BBC series in 5 parts based on not one but several novels by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858. Riveting performances. Wept almost continuously for the British Amazons and their Merry Men:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranford_(TV_series)

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 12:06am

    Damn. I feel common. I need to catch up with you guys! This will illicit laughter, no doubt, but here goes...

    "Flash Gordon" (Sam J. Jones)
    "Purple Rain"
    "Annie Hall"
    "She's So Lovely" (Robin Wright-Penn)
    "Jackie Brown" (Tarantino)
    "Sylvia"
    "Frida"
    "Pollock"
    "Henry & June"
    "Stealing Heaven" (story of Heloise & Abelard)
    "Wild at Heart" (David Lynch)
    "Saturday Night Fever"
    "Rachel Getting Married"
    "The Last Picture Show"

    ...recently read The Real West Marginal Way by Richard Hugo...his favorite movie was "Man on a Tight Rope"...said that if he met someone who didn't like that movie it wasn't likely they would be friends...so I definitely want to check that one out.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 12:07am

    I forgot "Crumb"...I LOVE "Crumb." My husband was good friends with Don Donahue, who appears briefly in the film.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 12:09am

    (sic) "elicit laughter," rather...I am quite the dope

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 12:14am

    for future reference:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046040/

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 12:16am

    I forgot "Leaving Las Vegas" and "Bad Lieutenant." I love me some Nicolas Cage.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 12:18am

    okay okay one more I forgot that I have to mention because it is extremely close to my heart..."The Royal Tenenbaums." And "Sid and Nancy." And "Prelude To A Kiss" (Alec Baldwin). I am truly done now.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 12:19am

    "THE HOURS"!!!!!!!!!
    geeezus. really done now.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 12:22am

    p.s. "The Decline of Western Civilization: The Metal Years." That guy on the raft in the pool, drinking vodka...priceless.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Feb 27, 02:37am

    Fuck. I forgot "Vertigo" and "The Shining."

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    Matthew Robinson
    Feb 28, 07:19am

    Tried this twice and accidentally deleted both times. I got some serious Netflixin to do after reading this thread.

    Just a quick few here:

    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    The Royal Tenenbaums
    There Will Be Blood
    The Long Goodbye
    Magnolia
    Zodiac
    City Lights
    Barton Fink
    Exit Through the Gift Shop
    A Single Man
    Network
    Jurassic Park

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    David Maverick
    Feb 28, 11:56am

    As a child, one of my favourite movies was 'Silent running'. I recently watched it again and I was completely turned.

    'Same time, next year' (1978) still remains as one of my favourites.

    Matt - right there with you on 'Withnail and I'.

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    Marcus Speh
    Feb 28, 02:36pm

    @David does "I was completely turned" mean that you didn't like it when you saw it again? That happens to me ALL THE TIME now. We own "Silent Running" and I've resisted it for a while now...perhaps I'm afraid to be disappointed. With our daughter we're beginning to see oldies that we liked as teenagers or when we were much younger...and it is interesting to observe how many of those oldies still "work" for 11 year olds. Can't wait until we get to "ALIEN" in, well...seven years (we're quite conscientious parents).

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    David Maverick
    Feb 28, 07:00pm

    Marcus, that's exactly what I mean but it's not because it's old. I've seen it many times since childhood and still enjoyed it. The last time, a couple of weeks ago, it disappointed me. Actually, Bruce Dern's Character did. I actually disliked him a lot this time... I was not alone in that. As for Alien... still a timeless classic.

    I love science fiction (I believe I get withdrawal symptoms if I haven't watched some for a while lol), which is why I mentioned Silent running's disappointment. When I was 12, another much bigger favourite was 'Tron' from 1982. I still love it today and I think I'll still love it in another 20 years.

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    Darryl Price
    Mar 02, 09:07pm

    King of Hearts with Alan Bates

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    Gessy Alvarez
    Mar 02, 10:38pm

    Here are just a few more:

    La Dolce Vita; Amarcord; 8 1/2(Fellini, of course)
    Vivre Sa Vie, Bande à part (Godard)
    Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuarón)
    Amores Perros (Iñárritu)
    All About My Mother (Almodovar)
    Young Frankenstein & Blazing Saddles (Brooks)
    All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards)
    Shadows, The Tempest (Cassavetes)
    Pull My Daisy (Frank)

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    Dolemite
    Mar 04, 06:22pm

    Fascinating documentary on Harry Nilsson:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756727/

    (streams on Netflix)

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