What is your all time favorite movie?

[MV72]

American movies :
Dances with the wolves
Oh brother
The Big Lebovski
Babel
21 Grams
The Bridges of Madison County
Out of Africa
The Deer Hunter
Jeremiah Johnson
Derzu Uzala
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Heat
Taxi Driver
Easy Rider
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Alien (1)
Blade Runner
Bagdad Café
Metropolis
They kill horses don't they ?
Grapes of Wrath
Raging Bull
Aguirre
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Once upon a Time in America
Amelie from Montmartre

And most of Ken Loach's films :
The wind that shakes the Barley
Land & Freedom
Kes
Raining Stones

Many Italian movies by Dino Risi, Fellini, Visconti, Olmi, Rosselini, Taviani...

Many French films that probably never made it across the ocean, from prewar ones to recent stuff.
L'Atalante
Quai des brumes
La règle du jeu
Les tontons flingueurs
Le vieux fusil
Les valseuses
Le dernier métro
Cyrano de Bergerac
Tous les matins du monde
Le pianiste

German movies like Goodbye Lenin, Das Leben der anderen
Auf der anderen Seite
Die Blechtrommel

 

[MV72]

Made a few mistakes ;-((
Derzu Uzala is by Kurosawa (Japan)
Amélie is obviously French
Aguirre is by Werner Herzog a German film maker

 

[batterytypehah!]

^...and Bagdad Café/Out of Rosenheim and Metropolis are both German but I think you're excused for not remembering 😉 Nice additions.

 

[paulfish4570]

i have a director's cut dvd of BR. watched it again week before last.

 

[batterytypehah!]

Last one from me, I promise, but my list of favorites is just not complete without

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann (think Germany's George Clooney and Brad Pitt of the day) at their best. Escapist fare produced under the Nazis, sure, but an utter delight to watch just the same.

 

[wjgorham]

Tunes of glory.

 

[Rogier]

• Blade Runner
• Apocalypse Now
• The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo > The Girl Who Played with Fire > The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
• Bourne; Supremacy > Identity > Ultimatum

 

[Aristophanes]

Breaking Away

 

[paulfish4570]

the red shoes.

yes, the millenium trilogy and another swedish movie of this era: as it is in heaven.

 

[Richard G]

I knew I was missing something!

And how could I have missed Caddyshack? I can quote that movie verbatim (much to the chagrin of my wife).

Fun thread.

Never mind PhotoMat. At least on your deathbed you'll have total consciousness - so you've got that going for you.

 

[Iggy]

Excluding some already noted here goes...
Jason and the Argonauts, Tampopo, Casino, Red Firecracker Green Firecracker, Jean De Florette/Manon Des Sources, Mr Hulot's Holiday, Kick Ass, Yojimbo, Dead Man's Shoes, The Apartment, Magnolia, Kwaidan, Looking for Eric, Dangerous Liaisons, The Lives of Others, Youth in Revolt, Senna and (I'm) Spartacus.

 

[hteasley]

Oooh, yeah, how did I manage to leave Big Lebowski off my list? Because I was not thinking. That was very un-Dude. I will watch that anytime, anywhere (as long as the kids are asleep). Lebowski, Strangelove, Yojimbo, those might be my top three.

 

[seakayaker1]

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!

. . . . . thanks for you kind words.

A few foreign films that I have enjoyed the past few years. . . . . i.e., not made in Hollywood.

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo (Swedish) . . . . . actually all three in the series.
2. Biutiful (Spain/Mexico)
3. A Phophet (France/Italy)
4. The Motocycle Diaries (Argentina)
5. Once (Ireland)
6. Cache (France)
7. Volver (Spain)
8. The Lives of Others (German)
9. Des Hommes et des Dieux (Of Gods and Men) (France)
10. The Commitments (Ireland)

 

[reaperman]

Spirited away,
Blade Runner,
Blue Velvet,
Land and Freedom,
Kill Bill,
No Country for Old Man,
Night on Earth

 

[MikeL]

Folks, time to change/toughen up your passwords.

I just logged into about 6 accounts using your favorite movie as the password.

Then I posted new threads under your username, where you ask which are better, brass or zinc top plates, or you ask for opinions about build quality on items made in Canada, Portugal, and Germany.

Just wanted to let you know.

 

[Rico]

Multiple-choice time, excluding those already mentioned, and in no particular order...

Downfall/Der Untergang (Hirschbiegel)
Belly of An Architect (Greenaway)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch)
Trouble in Mind (Rudolph)
La Traviata (Zeffirelli)
The Elephant Man (Lynch)
Jabberwocky (Gilliam)

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Dr. Zhivago
No Country For Old Men
The Godfather

 

[johannielscom]

Kubrick junkie here. I love them for their sense of surrealism and alienation and his ability to tell straightforward stories with lots of layers and themes.


1. The Shining
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. 2001 a Space Oddyssee
4. Barry Lyndon


Also:

1. Blood Diamond
2. Inception
3. From Hell

 

[chasfreeland]

Let me add a film I watched just last evening, 'Only Angels Have Wings', 1939, directed by Howard Hawks, starring cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Rita Hayworth. Nominated for an Academy Award for cinema photography. While it isn't my absolute fav, it was fun to watch. And it has a memorable line: "Calling Baranca, calling Baranca."

 

[sazerac]

Here's another shout-out for Until the End of the World. Also, Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters is a beautiful movie that has excellent color and B+W! 😉