top ten films....

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Having to amend my top 10 WWII films:

"The Foreman went to France" rocks as a propaganda-fest from Ealing. Gordon Jackson looks about 12 years' old.

Cavalcanti, assoc. producer, directed one of my all time faves: "Went the Day Well?".

This thread reminded me how wonderful SimonM was. RIP.

[jumpinjackflash]

1) The Silence of the Lambs

then in no particular order..

2) Apocalypto

3) The Godfather PT2

4) Goodfellas

5) Green Mile

6) Turner & Hooch (I love that Mutt)

7) The Lost Boys

8) The Exorcist

9) 4 Lions

10) The Wizard of Oz

[wildthing]

Bagdad Cafe

[camberwell70]

Europa Europa

Withnail & I

Blade Runner

Star Wars

I See Ice

A Day at The Races

Delicatessen

Babylon

Napolean Dynamite

Glengarry Glenn Ross

[uncleglen]

Total Recall

The Devil's Advocate

Pitch Black

The Crow

The Firm

Prophesy

Predator

Outlaw

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman)

The Full Monty

(and any film with Ewan McGregor)

[bon3yard]

Dekalog. There, easy.

[Michael Palaeologus]

A Canterbury Tale

Ronin

Apocalypse Now

Blade Runner

Lawrence of Arabia

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Fargo

Young Frankenstein

L'ete Meurtrier (One Deadly Summer)

Twelve O'Clock High

[dulwichgirl2]

Godfather - any of

Al Pacino - any of

Can't watch WWII movies any more when we have young people coming back maimed or in coffins. Too sad and close to home.

Casablanca obviously

Oh and an awful thing I once persuaded a v macho bf to attend with me: Serendipity.

['bout now]

Short cuts

Withnail and 1

Apocalypse now

The Deer Hunter

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

Platoon(guilty pleasure)

Team America

Pulp Fiction

African Queen

Spartacus

[Dopamine1979]

The Big Lebowski

Godfather

Godfather 2

Heat

Friday

Trading places

Casino

Goodfellas

Carlito's way

Jackie Brown

[Ted Max]

dulwichgirl2 Wrote:

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> Can't watch WWII movies any more when we have

> young people coming back maimed or in coffins. Too

> sad and close to home.

>

>

> Casablanca obviously

>

D'oh.

[bon3yard]

Arf!

[the-e-dealer]

Bladerunner, 2001, Planet of the Apes, Liquid Sky, Existence, Godfather, Clear and Present Danger, Annie Hall, Everything you wanted to know about sex, Indiana Jones. Mary Poppins, Eraserhead.

[dulwichgirl2]

Ted max, you raise an interesting point. I totally view Casablanca as a romantic movie as opposed to a resilience building, spirit raising, morale boosting war movie. However you are so right - apart from anything else, she does choose the war hero to help in his Resistance fighting at the end - cue Lockheed Martin. It is just more subtle than the typical aerodrome ones. Thank you for reminding me.

[Otta]

What do people think of Driver?

I appreciated the style it was done in, but basically thought it was just an overly graphic violent load of rubbish.

[the-e-dealer]

Good plot summary Otta.

[????]

Mine (today) is tragically predictable and looking through this thread, hardly unique!

Godfather

Godfather part 2

Sparticus

Good Bad and the Ugly

Chinatown

Life of Brian

Acopalypse Now

Wall Street

Goodfellas

Rounders

[Alec John Moore]

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is seen by some as the best British movie so far. Interesting that A Canterbury Tale and Went the Day Well? are also quoted above. I've watched the former a couple of times in the last year and I do like the way the stereotypes are crafted.

I don't know if I could get to ten but I think my favourite of all time must be Seven Samurai. For poignancy I would have to go for Bicycle Thieves and, slightly out of left field, Etre et Avoir. The Purple Rose of Cairo is my favourite Woody Allen film but I haven't seen many of his more recent ones.

[Otta]

3 golden oldies that I've only seen for the first time since this thread started

12 Angry men

To kill a mockingbird (watched after reading the book for the first time. Love the book, love the film)

Brief encounter (wonder if the writer of Before Sunrise is a fan?)

[the-e-dealer]

Yeah I used to see all of Woody's Films but he 'went a bit funny (and not in a good way)'

[buddug]

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison)

Brief Encounter

La Gloire de mon Pere

Schindler's List

Amelie

Look at Me (French film Comme une Image by Agnes Jaoui who also stars)

Hedd Wyn (Welsh film nominated for best 'foreign' film Oscar! Bloody cheek)

Hilary and Jackie

Wall-E

Lemon Tree (palestinian-jewish Israeli collaboration)