- Excalibur.
- My Brilliant Career.
- Persuasion.
- Romeo and Juliet (the Zeffirelli version).
- The Tin Drum.
Hit me with your top five all-time favourite movies!
16 July 2012
Best. Film. Ever.
Posted by Donna under Movies | Tags: best movies, Donna, Films, Movies |[34] Comments
16 July 2012 at 9:31 am
1. Starstruck (1981 – Australia)
2. The Devil’s Backbone
3. Baghdad Cafe
4. Blade runner directors cut
5. Cherry 2000
16 July 2012 at 9:46 am
Love your nicely diverse selection! Like that we both plump for Gillian Armstrong.
16 July 2012 at 10:06 am
Still thinking of my top 5, but I must make an honourable mention for The English Patient…
16 July 2012 at 10:08 am
in no particular order
1. the Fisher king
2. The Piano
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Being John Malkovich
5. Amelie
16 July 2012 at 10:11 am
Ooooh nice choices. The English Patient and Amelie are definitely up in my Top 10.
16 July 2012 at 10:30 am
OK – cannot be totally definitive but I do love
1. Breaking Away
2. My Brilliant Career
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Amelie
5. The Princess Bride
6. Cinema Paradiso
16 July 2012 at 2:15 pm
The Princess Bride — without doubt the best swordfight ever filmed
Blues Brothers — so many good things to say about this movie
Aliens (the second movie; preferably the director’s cut) — classic SF with some great lines
Apocalypse Now (director’s cut) — on the insanity of war
Up — because I can relate to the grumpy old man as hero
Honourable mention:
Pale Rider — my favourite Eastwood western
17 July 2012 at 8:10 am
I like your genre splicing – good to have a Western in the mix.
16 July 2012 at 3:28 pm
1. Pather Panchali–and the rest of the Apu Trilogy. (Satyajit Ray).
2. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
3. Aliens (James Cameron) (Not the directors cut… I think everything put back in belonged on the cutting room floor. A much tighter movie without the bonus footage.)
These are my top three, after that, I need a much larger list.
16 July 2012 at 5:02 pm
Some great choices above. Off the top of my head:
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Sergio Leone at his best with a quintessential Clint Eastwood performance and Ennio Morricone soundtrack
2. High Society – Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Grace Kelly; a swell party with true love the winner.
3. 2001 A Space Odyssey – All makes sense after the 10th watching, and it is timeless. Kubrick was a genius.
4. O Lucky Man – Lindsay Anderson’s follow-up (loosely) to “If” starring Malcolm McDowell.
5. The Road – bleak beyond redemption
17 July 2012 at 8:13 am
Nice picks. I remember watching 2001 at a midnight screening in Dunedin – quite an experience. Am too scared to watch The Road – the book was so inutterably sad I don’t think I could handle it on the big screen! Hmmm am also missing some Grace Kelly in my Top 5 & Audrey Hepburn …
17 July 2012 at 8:23 am
I can’t watch The Road in case it ruins the book. It resonated incredibly strongly for me — I have a son around that age .
17 July 2012 at 11:17 am
Oooh yes High Society – swellegant elegant
19 July 2012 at 3:24 pm
I had the chance to see 2001 on the big screen when I was still living in LA; it is amazing how different the pacing is. This is one film that does not transfer well to DVD. Like one of my all-time favourites, “Lawrence of Arabia”, some films will never be the same on small screens, no matter how hi-definition they are.
16 July 2012 at 7:36 pm
Here are a few of my faves:
1. Withnail and I
2. Roger and Me
3. Abigail’s Party
4. Old Boy (Korean)
5. Up
17 July 2012 at 8:14 am
Oh my goodness I had forgotten about Old Boy. That is an incredible thing – must watch again. And huge thumbs up for Withnail and I. The best grot movie ever.
17 July 2012 at 8:23 am
Just a few of my favourites and in no particular order
1. Some Like It Hot
2. African Queen
3. Bridge on the River Kwai
4. The Italian Job (original 1960s version)
5. Cinema Paradiso
6. Oliver (the Lional Bart musical)
7. Cabaret
8. Ladykillers (original 1950s version)
9. Princess Bride
10. The Thomas Crown Affair – both versions
17 July 2012 at 10:23 am
gosh, only 5 … can’t do it sorry, here are a few in no particular order… but by no means my only favourites!
Citizen Kane
Shawshank Redemption
The Road
Rear Window (any Hitchcock)
Pulp Fiction
Pan’s Labrynth
Mulholland Drive
Some like it Hot
When Harry met Sally
Wizard of Oz
Metropolis
Pulp Fiction
Arghh – must stop!
17 July 2012 at 5:23 pm
I have never liked Pulp Fiction and certainly it would not appear twice in my list. Now Reservoir Dogs on the other hand…not sure how I missed it off my list.
18 July 2012 at 11:23 am
oops, didn’t mean for it to appear twice! There are so many movies from so many genres, it’s interesting to think about favourites..
17 July 2012 at 2:19 pm
oh, and I just don’t get The Princess Bride and why everyone loves it so passionately!? Can anyone explain it to me?
17 July 2012 at 2:37 pm
Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…
18 July 2012 at 11:29 am
yeah but it’s so corny, with clunky dialogue and cliches everywhere… maybe i should have seen it when young and impressionable?
18 July 2012 at 11:48 am
Watched it with my kids the first time and maybe it just touched my inner kid. Scary and fun and done with style.
18 July 2012 at 11:50 am
Apparently the aspects of the movie that you find distasteful are what makes it so endearing to some of us.
18 July 2012 at 2:52 pm
Actually, the corny, clunky dialogue is intentional. It is a complete sendup of the genre, which is what makes it so fun.
18 July 2012 at 7:41 pm
Yes, that’s what my Husband says, and I’m all for the sendup, guess it’s just a defect in my genetic movie going gene!
18 July 2012 at 1:21 pm
Room with a view
Tampopo
Star Wars (the first one)
Zoolander
Back to the future
19 July 2012 at 3:10 pm
I’d forgotten Tampopo – it was great
18 July 2012 at 3:22 pm
Ooh, there look to be some fantastic films on these lists! I’m not much of a movie watcher, so I will be looking back here to find my next picks, I think. That said…
American Beauty
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Donnie Darko,
Edward Scissorhands
10 Things I Hate About You
Moulin Rouge
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Le Destin Fabuleux d’Amèlie Poulain
and
I Heart Huckabees
…all made strong impressions on me. =)
18 July 2012 at 7:42 pm
Yes to American Beauty (so good!), Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, I Heart Huckabees!
18 July 2012 at 3:25 pm
The Princess Bride
Wall-E
The Matrix
Down Periscope
Outland (Sean Connery)
19 July 2012 at 2:38 pm
High society is swell, but I’m going for the original with ‘The Philadelphia story’: no Louis to sing Gone fishin’ but it’s still mighty fine.
Rounding out my top 5 are: Roman Holiday, The Empire Strikes Back, Casablanca, and Hugo.
20 July 2012 at 11:13 am
Such great movies listed… will have to check out the ones I haven’t seen yet!