What is your all time favorite movie?

chasfreeland said:
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."
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definitely a great film with an awesome cast, Jean Arthur with her throaty, squeaky voice being an all-time favorite!
 
- Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films - Howls moving castle, Princess mononoke, Spirited away (especially)
- Lost in Translation - captures the feeling of Tokyo so perfectly for me, makes me fall in love with Scarlett Johansson a million times every time.
- The Bourne Trilogy - Matt Damon in his perfect role.
- A Bronx Tale - perfection
- Rambo IV - brutal but so good
... Gotta try think of some more...

edit: childhood loves -
- The Karate Kid series (only the original ones)
- Terminator 1, 2, and salvation. (3 Is rubbish)
 
Without question: "Black Orpheus" ("Orfeu do Carnaval"). The tale of Orpheus and Euridice told set at carnival in Brazil. The figure of death pursuing Euridice through the wild partying is one thing. The joy of life with the little kids dancing at the end of the movie breaks me up every time!
 
JSU said:
Both Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now benefitted from reedits as a director's cut / redux.
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I'm afraid I'll have to disagree - about both, but especially Apocalypse Now. I'm afraid that Redux reverted that one back to a series of all-too-disconnected (if sometimes well-crafted) scenes, with any attempt at plot, and character development of Willard, destroyed by undoing the no-doubt difficult and painstaking work some poor unsung editor did to try and graft some semblance of both onto material apparently produced with no thought to either. That was my thought the first (and last) time I watched the Redux version, anyway.

...Mike
 
i watched one of my favorites last night: michael mann's the last of the mohicans. a romantic story well told. well photographed. lovely score.
 
paulfish4570 said:
i watched one of my favorites last night: michael mann's the last of the mohicans. a romantic story well told. well photographed. lovely score.
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this was one of my favorites as a child, and still is. I like the older versions too, but like Mann's the best due to excellent cinematography, a bang up cast and the score.

another favorite from my childhood was the first Alien. funny that a sci-fi movie was one of the most believable to me. great acting in that one, great sets, killer sound design, perfectly woven suspense.
 
One favorite? Sorry, I can't quite decide.
But my top few are:
>The Man Who Would Be King
>Far Away So Close
>The Tenant
>Harry Brown
>Old Men in New Cars
>The Man From Nowhere
>The Long Riders
>Fitzcarraldo
>A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints
>Sleeper
>Duck Soup
>Blade Runner
>Murmurs Of The Heart
>District 13
>The Long Good Friday
>Wings Of Desire
>King Of Hearts
>Paris, Texas
>Schindler's List
>2046
>Four Rooms
>Casablanca
>The Maltese Falcon
>The Thin Man
>The Razors Edge--both versions
>Boxing Helena
Rob
 
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