My Favorite Movies, which have often been a type of cinematic therapy.
in descending order:
1. Charade, with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant;
2. The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara;
3. The Sound of Music, with Julie Andrews;
4. To Catch a Thief, with Grace Kelly and Cary Grant;
5. Mary Poppins, with Julie Andrews;
6. An Affair to Remember, with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant;
7. The Princess Diaries, with Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews;
8. The Prisoner of Zenda, with Ronald Colman and C. Aubrey Smith
9. Sleepless in Seattle, with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks; and
10. My Fair Lady, with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison
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Excellent Choices
I guess I'd better see "The Prisoner of Zenda".
Portia
There are other great love stories
The fifth element
Galaxy quest
Big trouble in little china
Just finished watching ...
... 'Billy Elliot' on the BBC iPlayer. I think that would rate amongst my favourites. The RAF Memorial Flight Lancaster flew over our house at lunch-time today for some reason which reminds me of two more favourites: 'The Dam Busters' and 'Battle of Britain'. That's because I like aeroplanes rather than war, btw.
However, the film everyone should see at least once in their lives (particularly politicians) is 'Doctor Strangelove'.
For fun, it would be 'The Full Monty' which I actually saw in the USA. I think I was one of the few in the cinema who followed every word but then, I have great difficulty understanding the accents in US films. It works both ways.
Robi
Charade is great
It's one of my favourites too, if anyone watching for the first time says they know the ending they are full of it :)
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My favorite movies are those
with lots of action/adventure or comedy, especially when there are sequels.
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In no particular order
Cinema Paradiso
The Machinist
Three Colours: Red
The Swimmer
Artificial Intelligence
A Very Long Engagement
The Artist
Far From The Madding Crowd
Brief Encounter
The Lost Weekend
and all the others I'll think of the moment I click on 'save'
Ray Milland vs. The Train
The delirium tremens sequence in Lost Weekend scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.
And The Swimmer, was that with Burt Lancaster? Though I haven't seen it in years it made
an impression on me. The Colors trilogy? Cinema Paradiso? Check, check...
Thank you Nicki; I don't feel like quite such a freaky alien
(or maybe a robot looking for the Blue Fairy
to turn me into a real girl...) now.
~~hugs, Veronica
(I don't really have a ten favorite movies list, I do have some favorite directors.
Starting with Murnau, Fritz Lang and Hitchcock up thru Tom Tykwer
and whoever it was that made HANNA...)
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Burt Lancaster In One Of His Finest Roles
The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster, 1967. A man's life falling apart in front of your eyes as one delusion after another is stripped from him. Like all the very best stories it affects your subconscious first and leaves your conscious mind to catch up.
I don't know about directors, sometimes they let you down. But they have a way of putting people in their place.
I think it was Otto Preminger (I may be mistaken about this) who was approached by a young actress when he was deep in conversation with one of his producers.
'Mr Preminger! What sign are you?'
'I am a do not disturb sign.'
some of my favorites
Princess Bride
Pretty Woman
Sound of Music
Annie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Miss Congeniality
Sister Act
Hugs,
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Oh just had to share a few of mine
Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, Gone With the Wind and Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Love Desiree
Hmmm.. favourite NOW, or favourite THEN?
This is a great blog topic, since we all share some affection for stories.
Mine, well the ones I watch over and over through the years, are:
Meet Me in St. Louis
any of the Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers dancers
The Thin Man movies
(and I must sound *ancient* by now!)
Baz Lurman's Moulin Rouge (and recently, his Australia)
and, odd man out, Iron Man.
Thanks, that was fun, and I think I'll put on The Gay Divorcee ;-)
I wanna be...
Audrey Hepburn when I grow up!
Love, Andrea Lena
Favorite Things
2001
Salt ---Great acting great story.
Entrapment
Wizards
Lord of the Rings series
Just Ballroom quirky but good come back story
Tap Gregory Hines at his best.
Serenity
Star Trek Journey home.
Singing in the rain.
Not in any order except these have stayed with me sorry we are limited to 10
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
Oooh, Just Ballroom
or am I thinking Strictly Ballroom? Girl from family that loves dancing and boy that loves it while family hates it, and they go to the Pan-Nationals or something
Strictly Ballroom
Baz Lurman before he was famous over on this side of the ocean! I love that movie!
Aww, geez!
Ok, fine:
Metropolis
Gattica
V for Vendetta
Forbidden Planet
Soylent Green
2001, A Space Odyssey
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
BladeRunner
Oh! Plan 9 from Outer Space
And last but not least: Silent Running
Just some of them off the top of my head, and these are the ones I own...
edited to (re)move:
any and all of Mel Brooks' comedies!
since that would be 10 or more by itself :P
2001 was in my head the whole
2001 was in my head the whole time I was making the list. So were Citizen Kane, The Third Man, the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and the sublime Downfall.
Strictly Ballroom
The name sounds correct. the boy is a champion level dancer who needs to cut loose a little out of a straight jacked competition.
There is a dictatorial President of the dancing federation who demands absolute adherence to his ideals of how the dance should be done. It is full of spirit trying to be free inside an imposable soul killing system. The loony tunes people like his OCD mother and his silent father, his really high maintenance dance partner who wants to social climb her way to the top.
A bit of a my fair lady meets Alice in psi-co land when the young man chooses an untrained mousey local girl to replace his former partner. The new girl's parents are gipsies I think , but teach the young man how the tango should be done. In this time the new girl molts the frumpy shell to become a fantastic and passionate dancer who is graceful and beautiful.
The rest becomes too confusing to explain.
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
I'm not sure I could name all the movies that have impressed me
In no particular order:
Star Wars (the first one made, not episode #1)
Star Trek #4
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindler's List
Galaxy Quest
The Fifth Element (mainly for Bruce Willis' line about multilingualism and of course Mila Jojovich's body)
The Pink Panther movies (BUT only the ones with Peter Sellers)
Quiggley Downunder
Stardust
There are others but my memory isn't what it should be.
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
On the subject of movies
Wow...Nobody listed The Long Kiss Goodnight/ Gena Davis. Or Sleepless in Seattle/Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan, along with You've Got Mail by the same. Message In A Bottle/ Kevin Costner and Dances With Wolves as well. I am a movie buff so I could fill the page those are the just the ones I thought of quick to mention.. Joe.
Thanks BC....hope I got it right this time...lol
I Will Add to This Great Lists From the Blogger and Others:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Modern Times, also for "Smile"
The Dictator
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein and Young Frankenstein are two of the best horror comedies
Casablanca, the best propaganda movie ever made
Little Big Man
Tootsie
The Natural
Lincoln
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, also for The Overture and "(Everything I do) I do for You"
Sabrina (1995)
Orphans of the Storm (Silent)
The Last of the Mohegans (1992)
The Front, the only Woodie Allen movie I like
Dr Patch Adams
Hook
The Birdcage
Bambi
Cinderella
Batman
Glory
Saving Private Ryan
Paths of Glory
Forest Gump
A League of Their Own
Dick Tracy
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Runaway Bride
Pretty Woman
'nuf for now
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In No Particular Order...
LotR trilogy
Serenity
Ben Hur (1959)
Singing in the Rain
The Great Escape
The Sound of Music
Little Women (Judy Garland version)
The Wizard of Oz
The Brave Little Toaster
The Searchers
The Quiet Man
The Empire Strikes Back
A Beautiful Mind
ET
Exodus
To Catch a Thief
The Big Country
Guns of Navarone
North by Northwest
Charade
Whale Rider
and almost anything with the scores of Bruce Broughton (oooh Homeward Bound), Hans Zimmer, Alfred Newman, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Horner, and any movie whatsoever with Jennifer Connelly, Eve Marie Saint, Princess Grace, Connie Nielsen, and Elizabeth Mitchell.
Did I say Brave Little Toaster?
Love, Andrea Lena
Some of my "any time they're on" favs, too
Little Women: but the Kate Hepburn one ;-)
The Searchers: *YES!* and 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon', too :-)
To Catch a Thief: so yes! One of the classiest, prettiest films, ever. (And most things Cary Grant are a good bet, especially 'The Philadelphia Story' and 'Arsenic and Old Lace')
On a different track: anything by Studio Ghibli, especially notable being 'My Neighbour Tororo'. Beautiful beyond belief.
Thanks for the memories, Andrea and everyone :-)