Favorite Movies

wow, that really is a good one. i'd like to watch it again.

the tenant is another film i like.
and un chien andalou. both are a little hard to explain.

Before this thread dies, I'll name even more, "Logans Run" "Charade" "The Naked Kiss" , "Trust", "The unbearable lightness of being", "Chocalat", " Close encounters of the third kind", "Amelie", "The China Syndrome", "Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill" "The Limey", "My left foot", "Life is Sweet", "Cinema Paradiso", "Last house on the left" ,"Over the Edge", "Run,Lola Run", "Adams rib".....i could keep going...but that wouldn't be very nice now would it?

I watch too many films to have a favorite, but I’m a big fan of horror. I’ve always had a great apperception for James Whale’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. I think his ideas of horror in the 30’s were fantastically shocking but still maintained a bit of style rooted in the expressionist movement (sorry if I’m coming off as arrogant). Also, the amount of flamboyantly gay imagery that he worked into the movies and managed to get past Universal is impressive – I think it goes to show that if you have something to say, you will find a way to say it.

The Loved One, Performance, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Dawn of the Dead '79, La Dolce Vita, The 10th Victim, Go Go Second Time Virgin, Red Desert, Wild Wild Planet, L'Age d'Or, Zardoz, Supervixens, Branded to Kill, Tribulation 99, Shame, Smile, Nashville --and the list goes on.

The Loved One and Performance, in particular, are in dire need of a DVD release.

Baraka, Avalon, The City of Lost Children, Amelie, Delicatessen, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, Donni Darko, Jin-Roh, Zoolander, Grave of the Fireflies, Dancer in the Dark, Harold and Maude, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Big Trouble in Little China (fuck yeah!)

[Edited on Sep 12, 2005 by Megalomatthew]

I'm far too lazy for synopses, but they're all well known films anyways.

Magnolia, Pieces of April, Ghost World, Big Lebowski, Saved!, Fargo, Boondock Saints, Suicide Kings, Big Fish, Reservoir Dogs.

I've seen a lot of movies that I really loved, but oddly enough, and I can't really explain it, I still stand by "The 5th Element" and "The Princess Bride" as my all time favorite movies, if not the best movies of all time.

I haven't met anyone who didn't like/love those movies. I bet a few here'll show the other side though, and poo to you guys. =P

Just a few of recommendations of favorite films that don't always seem to get a lot of mention. I tend to plug them a lot:

Salome's Last Dance - Ken Russell's play within a play has Oscar Wilde retiring to his favorite brothel one evening where the owner, friends, and protitutes perform an elborate production of his banned play, Salome. Decadent, hilarious, and delicious entertainment all around. My absolute favorite Ken Russel movie.

Ruling Class - A British comedy / musical that centers on a young Peter O Toole as the next in line of a "Lordship" who thinks that he is really Jesus Christ. His family's attempts to cure him appear to succeed but go horribly awry. A social commentary that asks some of the same questions of Clockwork Orange, is the cure necessarily better than the infliction.

Cyrano De Bergerac - This is the Depeardiu version of the story with subtitles masterfully provided by Anthony Burgess. A romantic exciting adventure pulsing with living language. Best version ever - Even better than Roxanne!

Ikiru - Not one of Kurosawa's more well know samurai films, this tells the story of a mid level beleagured beurocrat who finds out he is going to die. He goes through several stage of acceptance until deciding on a course of action that makes a difference. Sometimes a bit slow in the telling, it never fails to touch me. An extrodianary movie about a man who does something with an ordianary life.

Less Than Zero

Rush

Igby Goes Down

Jackie Brown

Across 110th Street

Goodfellas

Kill Bill 2

You two might like a flick from France, it's a few years old now, it's called, in french, "La vie reve des anges", the dream life of angels. It's fabulous.
--Lotus--

You two might like a flick from France, it's a few years old now, it's called, in french, "La vie reve des anges", the dream life of angels. It's fabulous.
--Lotus--

A friend told me about that film and i never got around to seeing it, thanks for the recommendation. Here's a few more for the list "The thin Man' "Destry rides again", "All that Jazz", "Life is sweet", "spider baby" , "The wicker man", "Babette's feast", and "The sweet hereafter". I'll think of some more later

Yay, hurray for Jodorowsky fans. Did you know about the second part of El Topo Abelcain apparenlty there were some legal problems and Jodorowsky has to change the name of Ell Topo to El Toro, and he couldnt name the movie "the sons of el topo"


But going back to the subject, my fav movies are Amores Perros and Last life in the universe.

I did hear about this, it's a shame. I also heard Marilyn Manson has a part in it as well, should be interesting no matter who is in the cast.

The Big Lebowski
Lawrence of Arabia
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
LA Confidential
Miller's Crossing
Aliens
The Hunt for Red October
Dr. Strangelove
City of God
The Empire Strikes Back

How about these? "Billy Jack", "Shock Corridor","two for the road", "The honeymoon killers", "Blue Angel", "Badlands", "La Cage aux folles", "Pretty Poison", "Black Sunday", "They shoot horses, dont they?", and "Harold and Maude" or was that already mentioned?
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Here's a few not on my profile:

The Groove Tube
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Incredible Shrinking Man
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Bubba Ho-Tep
Punch Drunk Love
Magnolia
Jacob's Ladder
True Romance
Following
Down By Law
Raging Bull
The Producers
Frida
Heroic Trio
The Legend of Drunken Master

High Fidelity -overall great movie (and soundtrack)

Glory -Story of the first black regiment in the civil war (3 academy awards)

Forbidden Planet -Truelly the greatest sci-fi movie ever, watch it and find out that star trek and star wars weren't the first at everything they did.

and one more...

Casablanca -Humphrey Bogart, enough said.

Yes. Coolest soundtrack EVER...

A truly great film that avoids the kind of cheesy, maudlin, sentimentality that you'd expect from a "serious" movie about death.

I suppose it's only a matter of time before some studio cranks out a cheesy, maudlin, remake starring the likes of Robin Williams or Tom Hanks, etc...

Real Genius -Smart kids have fun. Smart kids accidentally build superweapon. Smart kids get even. Along the way many quotable lines are delivered and Michelle Meyrink shapes many of my teenage fantasies.

This is going to be tough, The Dark Crystal is deffenitly one, City of The Lost Children, Angel Heart, May, Thunder Heart, Wakeing the Dead only seen it once but it was a good film, The Profesional, Lost Highway, theres heaps more it's just remembering them all.