Favourite Films

In no particular order

- All three Monty Python Movies
- Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
- 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
- (From The Cremaster Cycle:) The Order (Matthew Barney)
- Reservoir Dogs
- Pulp Fiction
- Kill Bill, Vols. 1 & 2
- A Clockwork Orange
- Star Wars (IV-VI)
- The Matrix
- The Truman Show

And maybe some more, but I forgot

Richardw wrote: The Wicker Man. I just love the atmosphere of the film. It's really unsettling. A great 'over the top' performance by Christopher Lee, and the original music is great too.

Great choice!

Its a classic, and despite Edward Woodward being the 'goody' you cant help but hate the sanctimonious bastard.. Very atmospheric film. The sound track was written by Paul Giovanni (I think) and performed by Magnet. I bought the CD only last month.

The Landlord's Daughter.

Much has been said of the strumpets of yore,
Of wenches and bawdy house queens by the score.
But I sing of a baggage that we all adore,
The Landlord"s Daughter.
You'll never love another,
Although she's not the kind of girl,
to take home, to your mother.
Her ale it is lively and strong to the taste.
It is brewed with discretion and never with haste.
You can have all you like
If you swear not to waste.
The Landlord's Daughter.
and when her name is mentioned
The parts of every gentleman
Do stand up at attention.
Oh nothing can delight so,
As does the part that lies between
Her left toe
And her right toe. 
 

I'll never forget that scene where Ed Norton makes the kid put his mouth on the curb...

I get the same nagging feeling from American History X that I get from Full Metal Jacket...the first third is exceptional and the rest doesn't totally measure up. Don't get me wrong, they're both great films all the way through, but they definitely put the best scenes first.

Wow Reed those are three incredibly dark (but very well made) films.  I American History X is one of the saddest pictures I have ever seen.  You know they just broke up a ring of WS in So California and found that most of the leaders were as FZ would say Only in it for the money.  Mostly cyrstal meth producers and recruited kisds in for distribution. So very sad.

The film I enjoyed most recently was Ghost World. It's four years old but I finally got a chance to see it, and loved it...it's a realistic portrayal of outsiders and eccentricity, based on a classic graphic novel (don't call it a "comic book" LOL) by Dan Clowes. My favorite scene is where the main characters (Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch) go to a bar to hear a blues legend perform...the band that he opens for is a perfect representation of all the crappy pseudo-blues bar bands I've ever heard. They get a warmer reception than the actual blues player, of course...

And along with many of you, I'm a huge fan of Tarentino, Kubrick, David Lynch (anxiously waiting for the 2nd season of Twin Peaks to come out on DVD), and Ridley Scott (the Alien, Blade Runner and Legend years, mostly). I'm also inordinately fond of Goodfellas, The Princess Bride and Indiana Jones films. And River's Edge. And just about anything with Christopher Walken (even A View to a Kill ).

I also enjoy just about any horror film, even the really amazingly bad ones, like classic 70s Hammer films, the Phantasm series, and Brian Yuzna's Lovecraft pastiches. My favorite is Carnival of Souls, a cheap B&W film that is really eerie. I've also been slowly getting into the Japanese horror scene. The Eye is my favorite of that particular genre, although anyone more familiar with The Sixth Sense may feel the two films cover too much of the same territory. I haven't seen The Grudge yet but I liked the original, Ju-on, and I'm looking forward to another adaptation as good as The Ring.

And I still think I'm the only person in the world who likes Hudson Hawk. 

Blacksword wrote:   The Shining - (The best horror/thiller ever made. Emphasis on atmosphere and feelings of isolation, rather than splatter and gore. Great performances, and a fine soundtrack)

The most horrible overrated film ever for me.Boring as hell.