What is your all time favorite movie?

[swoop]

Sweet and Lowdown

 

[hteasley]

High and Low
Yojimbo
Dr Strangelove
Pickup on South Street
The Apartment
Gosford Park
Topsy-Turvy

Those are the biggies. For brane candy that I can always watch, there's the original trilogy Star Wars, Master & Commander, Galaxy Quest, the Schwarzenegger Conans, and lots more.

 

[paulfish4570]

being there, high and low, strangelove, all excellent.
barry lyndon if only for the exquisite available light cinematography ...

 

[Richard G]

I should have included 'Chinatown'. ("Bad for glass.")

 

[leica M2 fan]

How about Tootsie?
or Midnight Cowboy.

 

[Ken Smith]

Casablanca
African Queen
Battle of Britian
A Bridge Too Far
When We Were Soldiers

 

[helen.HH]

Too Many to Name but the first few that Come to Mind,

B&W :
M
The Night of the Hunter
Yojimbo
Coffee & Cigarettes

Color :
Red Sorghum
Ran

 

[Eric T]

Billy Crystal's 61*

 

[JayC]

There can be only one: Highlander

 

[Taipei-metro]

Too Many to Name but the first few that Come to Mind,

B&W :
M
The Night of the Hunter
Yojimbo
Coffee & Cigarettes

Color :
Ran
Cinema Paradiso

Hi,
You withdrew 'Red Sorghum' from the list...
Mr. Zhang's every pre Hollywood movies are great, my 3 favorites,
1. Not One Less
2. Story of Qiu Ju
3. Shanghai Traid

 

[leica M2 fan]

Year of Living Dangerously

 

[Taipei-metro]

At this time, one movie that I can think of as my favorite one will be,
'The Eel' (1997),
by Shohei Imamura 今村昌平

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120408/

 

[PhotoMat]

+1 M2 fan.

Also, in no particular order:

Twelve O'Clock High
The Shining
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Cinderella Man
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
The Shawshank Redemption
Vanishing Point
American Graffiti
Sling Blade
Paint Your Wagon

 

[K14]

Tampopo タンポポ, the only one that comes to mind right now.

Gary

 

[DanOnRoute66]

Chariots of Fire -- great story, exceptionally talented cast (I named one of my two sons Ian, after Ian Holm) and beautiful cinematography. I never get tired of watching it.

Among all the westerns mentioned and no one listed The Magnificent Seven? Another superbly made film that was influenced by Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, which in turn was influenced by Hollywood westerns.

 

[MikeL]

Yojimbo

Jaws

 

[seakayaker1]

. . . . . .

11. Bullett
12. Con Air
13. In America
14. The Limey
15. Mystic River
16. Mercury Rising
17. Million Dollar Baby
18. Hurt Locker
19. Independence Day
20. Out of Africa

. . . . . .

The List is endless for movies I enjoy, picking one would be difficult, but today I would have to stick with the number one from above.

Lawrence of Arabia

 

[leica M2 fan]

seakayaker1 I think your first list of 10 probably has the best movies of all time for most people. Yo are a very discerning movie goer!

 

[Rico]

Zardos (although I admit it's an acquired taste).

"What do you see in the crystal ball?"
"... Nothing."
“Nothing? Then I have nothing to tell you.”

 

[taskoni]