Skip to main content
My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
Home For You Chat My Shows Register/Login Games Grosses

What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

New Post Search Report Abuse Rules

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.

#1

What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/30/07 at 9:59pm

In honor of Ingmar Bergman's passing.

In no particular order:

INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2006) - The ultimate Lynch film. Every image, every theme, every plotline finally comes to the highest possible boil. Watching this film on the big screen was one of the greatest moments of my life and that is not hyperbole.

NASHVILLE (Altman, 1975) - Simultaneously the most brutal and the most beautiful love letter to the human spirit in general and the American way in specific. It's an amazing piece of cinema.

PERSONA (Bergman, 1966) - The single most powerful film ever made. I struggle for the right words to say about this masterpiece. Only two words bubble up to the surface of my brain: See it.
#2

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/30/07 at 10:10pm

Schindler's List
The Color Purple
All About Eve

Edit: I have to qualify those as my favorite dramas. I find it difficult to mix drama, musicals and comedies (maybe a cop out).

Musicals: Sound of Music, West Side Story, Singin in the Rain

Comedies: Auntie Mame, Arsenic and Old Lace, My Cousin Vinny
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

Updated On: 7/31/07 at 10:10 PM

#7

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 9:13am

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Casablanca
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
"Love the Art in Yourself. Not Yourself in the Art." -- Stanislavski
#8

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:27am

-Annie Hall
-Jules et Jim
-Manhattan
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#9

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:32am

The Sound of Music
The Color Purple
The Exorcist

...and about a thousand more. Honorable Mentions go to GWTW, Oz, AA Eve, Sunset B.....

...oh jeez.
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

#11

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:33am

All About Eve
Gone With The Wind
Star Wars (the original, none of the sequels)
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#12

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:51am

Namo, them is GOOD ones.

You should run your own film festival.

Actually---I saw House of Dark Shadows in the movie theatre when I was eight. I LOVED every minute of it!

I was eight.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#13

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:54am

I saw it when I was nine! My classmates and I were tingling in anticipation for a week before it opened. We were all obsessed. When the Saturday matinee finally rolled around, the movie house in our town had to open its balcony, which is something none of us had ever seen before. It was one of the most ecstatic afternoons of my childhood.
Twitter @NamoInExile Instagram none
#15

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 11:08am

People don't just open up their balcony for anything that comes along, you know.


We had a theatre in town with an on-again-off-again balcony as well! And House of Dark Shadows played there. I can't remember if it was a "balcony" movie or not. It's just been too long.

BUT... I remember (and I kid you not), they gave out glow-in-the-dark plastic ghosts (or was it vampires?)... about 4 inches tall. I thought that was SO cool, and I kept mine for ages. I have no idea where it is now, though.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#18

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 3:32pm

All About Eve
The King and I
The Thin Man

My list could go on--Sunset Blvd..Mary Poppins..Auntie Mame..The Godfather....:)

Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men. --Margo Channing
#19

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 3:40pm

These are favorites, not bests.

Peggy Sue Got Married
Brokeback Mountain
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#20

re: What Are Your Top Three Films Of All Time?

Posted: 7/31/07 at 3:50pm

Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL
THE GODFATHER I and II (two movies, sue me)
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

← Back to Message Board

BroadwayWorld TV

View all Videos

Ticket Central
Ticket Central
Ticket Central
Hot Show
Tickets From $70
Hot Show
Tickets From $77
Hot Show
Tickets From $106
Hot Show
Tickets From $75
More Hot Shows Discounts
Recommended For You