My Favorite Year (Peter O'Toole as a Errol Flynn-type character about to appear on live TV in the 50's) -- my all-time favorite movie
Star Wars (Han shoots first!)
The Name of the Rose (dark murder mystery with Sean Connery as an investigator during the Inquisition)
Field of Dreams
Dances with Wolves
Fail Safe (early 60's nuclear thriller)
Kelly's Heros (WWII bank heist w/all-star cast)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Dr. Strangelove
Silver Streak ("buddy" comedy w/Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor)
As long as we're at it, my all-time favorite TV Shows, in no particular order:
Time Tunnel
Green Hornet (Bruce Lee as Kato!)
Star Trek
Ernie Kovaks
Good Eats
Stargate SG-1
Frasier
Crap, Mark, Now you're starting favorite TV shows!!!!
Barney Miller
Night Court
MASH
Law & Order (especially since they introduced Joe Fontana)
CSI (not Miami or the NY versions, but Las Vegas)
Twilight Zone
The Lieutenant
Combat
The West Point Story
Walt Disney (remember Spin & Marty and The Scarecrow...great stuff!)
The Avengers (very sophisticated)
Paladin (also very sophisticated for a Western)
How could I forget Night Court, Barney Miller, and Twilight Zone on my list too--*gasp*! Add that to mine, plus Man from UNCLE (a guilty pleasure), Outer Limits, and 12 O'Clock High.
Damn guys, you keep taking me away from work. My favorite tv shows in no particular order:
The Brady Bunch
Gilligan's Island
American Chopper(discovery Channel)
ESPN Sports Center
The Best Damn Sports Show Period
Friends
The Simpsons
King of the Hill
The Cosby Show
Hey, Todd, the SciFi channel is running a Night Stalker marathon from 8:00am - 4:00pm today. Wouldn't you know it, the first two episodes were among my favorites: Jack The Ripper and The Zombie. In any case, my sweetie had the good sense to tape them ... in fact, she's taping the whole marathon (put Night Stalker whistle theme here). Do you remember Playhouse 90 on TV? Was it there I first saw Requiem For A Heavyweight? Charles QED
Got to watch perhaps my favorite film on one of the PBS stations last night, CASABLANCA. Incredible acting by both Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains. Easy to see why this film was nominated for 8 Academy Awards ... and this during an era of numerous great actors and films. Nominations:
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart
Best Supporting Actor: Claude Raines
Best Black & White Cinematography: Arthur Edeson
Best Score: Max Steiner
Best Film Editing: Owen Marks
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Screenplay
And what a great supporting cast: Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, Dooley Wilson.
Rick: "Here's looking at you, kid."
Ugarte: "You despise me, don't you?" Rick: "Well, if I gave you any thought, I probably would."
Gentelman customer: "Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam." Carl: "The second largest? That wouldn't interest Rick - the leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen - and his father is the bellboy."
I never grow tired watching this masterpiece of story-telling and great acting. There isn't one wasted line in this movie. A wonderful mixture of romance, comedy, intrigue, and danger.
In fact, I believe Sahara was made the same year as Casablanca. And if memory serves me correctly it was Louis Mercier who played "Frenchie LeBeau". Though Humphrey had MANY excellent films, my favorite remains Casablanca. But consider some of the others: The Petrified Forest ("I'll be glad to kill ya"), Angels With Dirty Faces, They Drive By Night (with that dish, Ann Sheridan), High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, To Have And Have Not (with that sizzling 19 year old dish, Lauren Becall), The Big Sleep, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, Key Largo, The Arican Queen, The Caine Mutiny, The Barefoot Contessa, We're No Angels ...
1) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2) My Man Godfrey (The William Powell/Carole Lombard version)
3) The Godfather 1 & 2
4) The Shawshank Redemption
5) Schindler's List
6) Apocolypse Now (NOT Redux)
7) Secondhand Lions One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
9) Blazing Saddles
10) every Clint Eastwood movie
Ok, so I cheated on the last one. Two Mules for Sister Sara is one of my favorites. But then sa are the rest of his (Even the new one: Million Dollar Baby)
1. IN COLD BLOOD - Back when Robert Blake could act. A riveting film with a fantastic score by Quincy Jones. Just as great as the book, though in different ways.
2. IN A LONELY PLACE - Bogart as a bitter, violent screenwriter suspected of murdering his secretary. Overlooked in the Bogart canon, this one deserves a wider audience.
3. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - Resonates even moreso today. Peter O'Toole's finest hour.
4. BRIEF ENCOUNTER - Another David Lean film. This is the ultimate tearjerker.
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Nothing to be said except if you haven't seen this one you're robbing yourself of a great thing.
6. DOUBLE INDEMNITY - Who knew Fred MacMurray could act? Anyone who's seen this. Some crackling dialog and very good sexual innuendos between the leads.
7. THE LADY EVE - The movie that made me like Henry Fonda and adore Barbara Stanwyck. And my pick for Preston Sturges' best.
8. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND - Wonderfully inventive film. And forget about Kate Winslet in TITANIC; this is the one in which she truly shines. I fell in love with her in this (reminded me of an ex).
9. WHEN WE WERE KINGS - A fine documentary that makes it seem as if you were there for the Rumble in the Jungle.
10. THE IRON GIANT - Because every list desrves an animated movie. And this, by Brad Bird who did THE INCREDIBLES, is a gem. No one saw this when it was in theaters. A darn shame. Even if you don't have kids, rent this one.
No order, but last night I got to re-watch Scent of a Woman and now nine more:
As Good as it Gets
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (an annual family tradition for years)
The Godfather
Citizen Kane
North by Northwest
Stalag 17
An Officer and a Gentleman (best theme song)
Goodfellas
Schindler's List
Shawshank Redemption
Godfather
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings And a Funeral
As Good as it Gets
Prizzi's Honour
Dr Zhivago
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
Around the World in 80 Days 1956
The African Queen
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Being There
i have so man favs,but if pressed i guess it would be in no particular order
citizen kane
casablanca
watch on the rhine
the best years of our lives
the african queen
shadow of a doubt
city lights
high noon
the hustler
some like it hot
i have so man favs,but if pressed i guess it would be in no particular order
citizen kane
casablanca
watch on the rhine
the best years of our lives
the african queen
shadow of a doubt
city lights
high noon
the hustler
some like it hot
alright, here are a few of my favorites that haven't been mentioned:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) The Big Lebowski (Cohen Bros.) La Jetee (Chris Marker) Vertigo (Hitchcock) 8 1/2 (Fellini) Le Cercle Rouge (Mellville) Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah) Dirty Harry (Don Segal) Scarface (DePalma) On the Waterfront (Kazan) Animal House (John Landis) Chinatown
I know, the title is 10 favorite films, but i could never whittle it down to 10.
First, i'd like to say is that i saw an exquisite gem of a film yesterday: Woody Allen's Match Point. I have not been an Allen fan for some time now, but i believe this film is destined to become a classic, and it's truly sublime.
Here's a random short list of some of the films that i'd put into my top 50 list:
- Scarface
- Godfather 1 & 2 (preferred 1)
- Lost In Translation
- Bullit
- Casablanca
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Taxi Driver
- Top Gun (as much as i do not like the lead actor)
- Blue Velvet
- Pulp Fiction
- 12 Angry Men
- Carlito's Way
- Cape Fear (the remake with DeNiro)
- King Kong (1932 version)
- The Birds
- Psycho
- The Family Man (Nick Cage)
- The Pink Panther
- American Psycho (Javyn's list influenced me)
- 3 Weddings and a Funeral
- Mad Max and the Road Warrior
- Batman (the first with director Tim Burton, and the latest with Christian Bale)
- You Only Live Twice (Sean Connery as Bond)
- The Incredible Hulk
- Das Boot (is that the German submarine movie by Wolfgang Petersen?)
- Various older Paul Newman films.
- LA Confidential
- Breathless (the French original by Godard and the Richard Gere remake)
- Match Point
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
