10 Favorite Films...

[broadway86]

10 Favorite Films...#0

Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:23pm

For those who don't know me, let me just tell you that I am as passionate about film as I am about theatre. I am the biggest movie fan I know.

Just curious... what are YOUR favorite films? If you wanna talk cinema, please write your top 10. Maybe some interesting discussions will come out of this.

My top 100 films of all time (in order of preference). Look over the list. I'm sure you'll see movies you may have forgotten about.

Gone with the Wind
All About Eve
Pulp Fiction
Casablanca
Singing in the Rain
Far From Heaven
Moulin Rouge
From Here to Eternity
Rear Window
The Exorcist
American Beauty
The Graduate
Gentleman’s Agreement
The Manchurian Candidate
To Kill a Mockingbird
Psycho
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
Vertigo
Ordinary People
Before Sunrise
Eyes Wide Shut
Miracle on 34th Street
Kill Bill
The Apartment
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
Annie Hall
Mrs. Miniver
12 Angry Men
Terms of Endearment
North by Northwest
The Sting
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Philadelphia Story
Double Indemnity
Fatal Attraction
It’s a Wonderful Life
The African Queen
On the Waterfront
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Maltese Falcon
8 1/2
Schindler’s List
The Godfather, Part II
Requiem for a Dream
Now, Voyager
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Hustler
Ben-Hur
Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Bringing Up Baby
The Accidental Tourist
Good Will Hunting
The Crying Game
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Some Like it Hot
Alfie
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Mulholland Drive
The Empire Strikes Back
Citizen Kane
Doctor Zhivago
Jaws
Almost Famous
It Happened One Night
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Snake Pit
Shakespeare in Love
Fargo
Roman Holiday
Short Cuts
Field of Dreams
All the President’s Men
The Lost Weekend
Midnight Cowboy
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunset Boulevard
The Truman Show
Lost in Translation
The Sixth Sense
Network
Ghost
Apollo 13
Lifeboat
Out of Africa
Adaptation
Lilies of the Field
Five Easy Pieces
Stage Door
One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest
AI: Artificial Intelligence
Gaslight
Lawrence of Arabia
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Ship of Fools
Jackie Brown
The Divorcee

[spiderdj82]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#1

Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:28pm

1. Breakfast Club
2. Back to the Future
3. Back to the Future II
4. Wonder Boys
5. Somewhere in Time
6. Sunset Blvd
7. High Fidelity
8 Psycho (original version)
9. Singing in the Rain
10. About a Boy

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[ShbrtAlley44]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#2

Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:31pm

(in no particular order)
Time Bandits
Lord of Rings Trilogy (that counts as one)
Back to the Future (even though I like the other two as well)
1776
Annie Hall
Amadeus
Young Frankenstein
When Harry Met Sally...
Pulp Fiction
The Exorcist
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[CATSNYrevival]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#3

Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:39pm

1. Clue (all time fav.)

2. The Wizard of Oz (even though this movie was completely butchered in the editing room, I still love it. Who doesn't?)

3. Gods and Monsters (favorite scene: "You're a dirty old man.")

4. The Phantom of the Opera (silent version)

5. Titanic (1997)

6. Sunset Boulevard

7. Ghost (this is my mom's favorite movie ever!)

8. X-Men 2: X-Men United... (don't judge me!)

9. Johns (I never thought in a million years I'd find David Arket attractive....)

10. and all three Austin Powers movies. Mike Myers is a God. He makes 54 watchable. Well, okay Ryan Phillipie's ass makes 54 watchable but Mike was snubed an oscar nod. Updated On: 9/26/04 at 08:39 PM

[Millie42]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#4

Posted: 9/26/04 at 8:56pm

Ohh... hard to pick.

1. Sound of Music
2. Titanic
3. X-Files Movie: Fight the Future.
Then, in no particular order:
4. Love Actually
5. Chocolat
6. Princess Diaries
7. Legally Blonde
8. Sleepless in Seattle
9. Miss Congeniality
10. Chicago

Hm... i could change my mind on some of these as I think of others!

"My friends have made the story of my life." -Helen Keller

[CurtainUp2]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#5

Posted: 9/26/04 at 9:16pm

Most Favorite... in no specific order (except for #1)

1. Sophie's Choice
2. Apocalypse Now
3. All About Eve
4. Ordinary People
5. Coming Home
6. The Deer Hunter
7. Blue Velvet
8. American Beauty
9. Natural Born Killers
10. Raging Bull

Honorable Mention:
The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolfe?, The Color Purple, Schindler's List, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Crash, Magnolia, Funny Girl, The Exorcist, Evita, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, A Clockwork Orange, Midnight Cowboy, Wuthering Heights, The Wizard of Oz, Rosemary's Baby, Goodfellas, Sunset Boulevard, Dark City, Cabaret, Born on the Fourth of July, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Network.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson Mandela

Updated On: 9/26/04 at 09:16 PM

[NYadgal]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#6

Posted: 9/26/04 at 9:26pm

In addition to the excellent films already cited, I add:

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Out of Africa

An Affair To Remember

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

Updated On: 9/26/04 at 09:26 PM

[musicalmjk]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#7

Posted: 9/26/04 at 9:39pm

I cannot rank movie that well.
right now though
1. 8 1/2
2. Singin' in the rain
3. Lord of the Rings (it one book so its one movie)
4. Star Wars (its a 6 part story)
5. Monty Python...Holy Grail
6. The Producers
7. Young Frankenstein
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Wizard of Oz
10. Red Curtain trilogy Baz Luhrmann

need to defrag my brain.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#8

Posted: 9/27/04 at 12:29am

Sound of Music
While You Were Sleeping
Anne Of Green Gables
Bridget Jone's Diary
Top Hat
The Philadelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby
When Harry Met Sally
The Goodbye Girl
Arsenic and Old Lace

"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL

[BwayLover]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#9

Posted: 9/27/04 at 2:33am

How come you get to name 100 and we 10?
And btw, I'm the biggest movie buff I know....so it'll be nice to strike up a conversation.(Even though I hated "Requiem for a Dream" with a PASSION).


My favorites, in no particular order:

From Here To Eternity
The Quiet Man
Yentl
Under The Sand (French film - "Sous Les Sable")
Two For The Road
The Searcehrs
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
The Parent Trap
The Prince Of Tides
Afterglow

Honorable mention:
All About Eve, The Philadephia Story, My Favorite Wife, Holiday, The Awful Truth, Beaches, Far From The Madding Crowd,
Funny Girl, A Star Is Born (Judy+Barbra versions), California Suite, Don't Look Now, The Princess Bride, Much Ado About Nothing, Dead Again, The Shawshank Redemption, Anne Of Green Gables, The King and I, Venus Beauty (French), The Sound Of Music, An Affair To Remember, How Green Was My Valley, The Sundowners, The Grass Is Greener, Bringing Up Baby, Dr. Zhivago.

"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "

[MyNameInLights]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#10

Posted: 9/27/04 at 2:42am

No order:

1. True Romance
2. Little Shop of Horrors
3. FAME
4. Almost Famous
5. The Philadelphia Story
6. Rocky Horror Picture Show
7. Singin' In the Rain
8. The Princess Bride
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. Some Like It Hot

"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

Updated On: 9/27/04 at 02:42 AM

[Mamie]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#11

Posted: 9/27/04 at 4:16am

I have lots of favorites. I don't think I could begin to list them. Top of any list though would be "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Caine Mutiny", and "Wings".

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[AdamIsGodImJesus]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#12

Posted: 9/27/04 at 5:32am

1. Joy Ride
2. Home Room
3. Monster
4. American Beauty
5. Cruel Intentions
6. Garden State
7. The Notebook
8. The Patriot
9. Pearl Harbor
10. Dead Poet's Society

[CJR]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#13

Posted: 9/27/04 at 8:18am

In no particular order...

Man on Fire
Amelie
Love Actually
All That Jazz
Annie (with Ann Reinking -- not the remake)
Free to Be You and Me
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tadpole
A Chorus Line (shut up, I know it was horrible)
All About Eve

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

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[Marquise]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#14

Posted: 9/27/04 at 8:42am

1.) Do The Right Thing
2.) The Godfather
3.) The Godfather II
4.) Boyz 'N' The Hood
5.) Chinatown
6.) In The Heat Of The Night
7.) West Side Story
8.) The Graduate
9.) Carrie
10.) Splendor In The Grass

[broadway86]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#15

Posted: 9/27/04 at 9:11am

I like a lot of your lists!

"How come you get to name 100 and we 10?"
I don't think many people would be up to typing 100 titles.

"And btw, I'm the biggest movie buff I know....so it'll be nice to strike up a conversation."
Check your PM's.

PS - Why do you hate "Requiem for a Dream"?

[musicalmjk]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#16

Posted: 9/27/04 at 9:15am

which parent trap? Haley Mills or Lindsay Lohan

need to defrag my brain.

[laactress]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#17

Posted: 9/27/04 at 9:47am

This is a hard question:

Ok here we go,

1. Almost Famous
2. Fargo
3. Laurel Canyon
4. Monster
5. Schindlers List
6. Spaceballs
7. Pretty In Pink
8. Gia
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Girl Interrupted

etc., etc., etc.,

It started with a sipmle idea, collecting one paper clip for every life lost, the feelings that connect us...are greater than those that divide us!

[Unknown User]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#18

Posted: 9/27/04 at 11:17am

1) Braveheart (I am a hetero man after all)
2) Lord of the Rings (I agree counts as one)
3) Gone With the Wind
4) Sound of Music
5) Planet of the Apes (the original one, not the shatty remake)
6) Pulp Fiction (even thought I HATE Tartantino)
7) Dances With Wolves
8 Showgirls (I am a hetero man after all)
9) Eyes Wide Shut
10) Shawshank Redemption (but I will NOT play $10 to see the anniversary release)
Updated On: 9/27/04 at 11:17 AM

[mominator]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#19

Posted: 9/27/04 at 11:35am

just 10 huh??? in no order

1 Citizan Kane
2 Some Like it Hot (best last line in a movie EVER!)
3 It's a Wonderful Life
4 Mr. Smith Goes to Washinton
5 Singing in the Rain
6 Casablanca
7 Double Indemnity (good and creepy)
8 Psycho (ditto)
9 LOTR (it is one story!)
10 Rear Window (had to have one Grace Kelly movie in there)

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[Unknown User]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#20

Posted: 9/27/04 at 11:40am

I like all of mominator's also!

[Plum]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#21

Posted: 9/27/04 at 11:47am

1. L.A. Confidential

The rest are in no particular order.

2. 12 Angry Men
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
5. The Usual Suspects
6. Fight Club
7. The Sting
8. Annie Hall
9. X-Men
10. Lawrence of Arabia

But that's just the ones that came to mind. Ask me again in a week and the list will probably change.

[mominator]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#22

Posted: 9/27/04 at 11:47am

Thanks RodneyK! Rather sad that the only modern one is LOTR!
I really did try, I couldnt think of one that i liked better than the ones mentioned. Now if I could name another 90 it might be a wee bit easier. (tee hee)

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[BwayLover]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#23

Posted: 9/27/04 at 2:25pm

DUH - of course the Hayley Mills version!! It has Maureen O'Hara in it, after all.

I HATED "Requiem" because of the way it was cut, mainly. I couldn't stomach the ending, either - I was literally speechless for an hour!! Not kidding. But, I do agree that Ellen B. gave an AMAZING performance in it and she was robbed of the Oscar that year.

"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "

[Matt_G]

re: 10 Favorite Films...#24

Posted: 9/27/04 at 3:30pm

I suspect a lot of the ones listed below are listed for the sole purpose of "It's classic and I should say I love it" While I do love those, my FAVORITE films would have to include -

The Color Purple
Dead Man Walking
Eyes Wide Shut
Girl, Interupted
The Ice Storm
The Joy Luck Club
Peggy Sue Got Married
A River Runs Through It
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."