Favourite Films

Favourites are:

Withnail & I (Witty hilarious script, and brillant performances from Richard E.Grant, and Ralph Brown)

2001: A Space Odyssey (The best 'space' movie ever made. Captures the cold silence of space very effectivly. Kubrick at his best)

Cassablanca (Brilliant, classic & moving film)

Blade Runner (Dark atmospheric masterpiece of Sci Fi, with superb Vangelis soundtrack)

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)

1. Clockwork Orange
2. Blade Runner
3. The Shinning
4. Full Metal Jackett
5. Godfather Trilogy
6. 2001 Space Odyssey
7. The Silence of the Lambs
8. Farenheitt 451 (The Truffaut version, I read they were doing or already done a remake, not sure though)
9. Manhattan
10. Lawrence of Arabia (Any OLD movie with PeterO'Toole is a masterpiece)

Iván

Kubrick rules Ivan

You're right, Kubrick is the best.

Iván

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.

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. 

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.