Favorite Movies

[narfstar]

Speaking of Jimmy Stewart makes me think of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Lets us all know how, unfortunately things really have not changed. R of D does not matter. The system is completely corrupted. A good man can make little headway.

[josemas]

I like your taste Lady.
I'll drop anything if there's a Blondell or Cagney (or both if I'm lucky) on TCM.
The others on your list were pretty cool too.

In addition to Blondell and Stanwyck Warner Brother's also had the always delightful Glenda Farrell.  Some tough dames who could hold their own with the tough guys at that studio.

Best

Joe

[bminor]

Jeeves & Wooster, broadcast back in the early 1990's on PBS.
Introduced me to the very dry and wonderfully witty world of P.G. Wodehouse.
It doesn't hurt at all the Stephen Frye portrayed the imitable Jeeves and the addle headed Berty Wooster was portrayed by Hugh Laurie.
For many years after it was broadcast we would check out the VHS tapes of the series from our library. Five years ago the family chipped in and bought the entire series on DVD for my birthday, or so they say. They enjoy it as much as I. We watch it still.
It is fantastically funny send up of the British upper class.
Here is some dialogue between the Wooster and his valet Jeeves.

Bertie Wooster: Ah, Jeeves, how was the little chap this morning?
Reginald Jeeves: Distressingly willful, sir.
Bertie Wooster: Ah well, we must look on the bright side, Jeeves. We must think of the untold goose we have done ourselves by nannying the beast until Aunt Agatha has finished her inspection of the continent.
Reginald Jeeves: True, sir. Um, pardon me for asking, sir, but are you proposing to appear in public in those garments?
Bertie Wooster: What? Certainly, Jeeves. What, a bit vivid do you think?
Reginald Jeeves: Not necessarily, sir. I am told that Mr Freddy 'He's a Riot' Flowerdew often appears on the music-hall stage in comparable attire, but...
Bertie Wooster: No, no, no. No, no, no. No buts, Jeeves. I happen to think very highly of them."

If you have not heard of the gems I envy you on your first viewing of them.
Well, I must tottle off the Drones now a play a bit of indoor rugby with the blokes....

[paw broon]

Most films we watch are old(er) and often b&w.  And British.  Doesn't stop us digging out the Bourne trilogy regularly.  I recently bought the re-release of an old British comedy thriller, The Black Rider, which had been cleaned up and re-issued.  Stars Jimmy Hanley, Kenneth Connor, Lionel Jeffries and a number of other well known British bit part players. Smugglers, Eastern spies, Haunted Abbey and '50's Britain.  I could act it by now.
A couple of others we enjoy re-watching are, Jigsaw, a police procedural, with Jack Warner (of Dixon of Dock Green fame) and Dry Rot, a film version of a stage farce which stars, Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix and Sid James.  Still makes us laugh.
Jeeves and Wooster are regularly re-shown on cable and satellite here but as far as the books are concerned, I prefer, the Blandings Castle series - giant marrows, prize wining pigs, intrigue, misunderstandings, fearsome aunts, impersonations and wonderful language.

[Greekcarrot]

 My top 5 movies of all time:

1)  Frank Capra's "it's a wonderfull life". James Stuart's so brilliant there, and the whole film is captivating.
2) "Dancer in the dark". Very powerfull film and such a great surprise for me because Lars von Trier's not normally my cup of tea.
3) "Head on" (or Gegen die Wand). Very harsh but also sentimental movie about Turkish people living in Germany.
4) "Broken Embraces". A bold movie that works well on so many levels. You just have to watch it unfold
5) "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Awesome film way ahead of it's time.   

I used to watch a movie per week at least but nowadays I have become more selective. If it's a movie by certain directors (Almodovar, Eastwood, Woody Allen and David Cronenberg are the most shining examples) I will attend the screening immediately. For the rest will  I simply go for the dvds (with some exceptions made when dealing with comic book movies then again not always)

[cimmerian32]

Raiders of the Lost Ark
John Carter
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Better Off Dead
Outlaw Josey Wales
Aliens
My Science Project
Love and a .45
From Dusk 'Til Dawn
Snatch


These are the forever movies... the ones I can and will watch in whole and in part whenever and wherever I encounter them.

And, yes, John Carter joined these hallowed ranks instantly...  Such a fun film!

[narfstar]

I just do not watch movies or TV shows over and over. Once every ten years is my norm. I seldom enjoy a movie as much as the first time. I have to judge a movie based on how much I loved it the first time. So I go with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom, Star Wars 4-6, The Gods Must be Crazy and yes I will add John Carter to the list. The list does not include Disney/Pixar, etc or comedies which is like comparing apples to oranges. I can not rank comedies compared to action, etc

[watson387]

My favorite movies (in no particular order):

Pulp Fiction
North by Northwest
Clerks
A Clockwork Orange
True Romance
Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind
Kick-Ass
Army of Darkness
Full Metal Jacket
Akira

There are a ton of movies I can watch over and over, those are just the ones that come to mind in an instant.

[jfglade]

  I don't really care for so-called "comic book movies" and the only three of that sub-genre I really enjoy are "The Shadow", "The Phantom", and "Mystery Men." I did enjoy "Iron Man" but I've found that I don't like seeing it again and I think the reason I liked it is simply that it was so much better than I thought it would be that I was impressed. I'm in a caregiver situation and it is not possible for me to go to movies, so I have not seen a movie in a theater since the very early spring of 2009. I would like to see "The Avengers" but I doubt I will have a chance until it is available on DVD and then only if my library buys a copy (the chance of that are very good, and they have copies of the second Iron Man movie (which I did not like), and "Captain America, the First Avenger" (which I thought was a little better than mediocre). I find movies and comics to be two completely different things, and move adaptions of comics don't work for me, although I do like some comic book adaptions of movies.

  Here is a list of movies which I consider to be first class:

  Los Olvidados
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  O, Lucky Man
  Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
  The Loved One
  The Bride of Frankenstein
  Yojimbo
  Seven Samuri
  Stray Dog
  Gran Torino
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  That Obscure Object of Desire
  Never Give a Sucker and Even Break
  The Cameraman
  The Lusty Men
  The Bank Dick
  The Gold Rush
  The Thin Man
   Z
   Annie Hall
   It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World`
   O Brother, Where Art Thou

   There are also a wealth of movies I love which I do not think are first class, ranging from things like "Rancho Deluxe" to "The Thing (from Another World)" to "Tarzan and his Mate" to "The Haunting (of Hill House)" to Ken Russel's "The Devils."  I enjoy 1950s Sci-fi movies, I like some very low brow comedies, and I like undubbed lowbrow Mexican movies still in their original form like "Juan Nadie" and "Narcosatanicos." My tastes aren't even terribly consistent. 

 For what it is worth,
 Jon
 

[bcholmes]

Jeeves & Wooster, broadcast back in the early 1990's on PBS.

Have you seen the "What if Bertie Wooster was Batman?" thing?

http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2010/02/22/what-if-bertie-wooster-rather-than-being-a-mere-layabout-was-also-batman/

BCing you

[shanoto]

Good fellas
True Romance
God of War
Analize this 1,2
The Scarface
21
Tha last casino
Shooter
12 - Nikita Mihalkov

Awesome movies

[jfglade]

It might be too soon to tell if they will become favorite films, but I ordered "The Complete Nancy Drew" from Amazon and it arrived yesterday. Bonita Granville starred as Nancy Drew in four movies in 1939 and 1940 which were quite popular, mainly because they are very entertaining. My wife is a mystery addict and she read all or most of the Nancy Drew books when she was in elementary school, and we had seen "Nancy Drew, Reporter" before and enjoyed it, so when I saw the collection was affordable I order it. Nancy Drew movies from the forties are probably an acquired taste but I enjoyed watching all four. My wife says the films aren't quite like the books and that Nancy shouldn't be quite as old as Granville played her but one of the nice things about these is that Granville was fifteen and sixteen when she made the films, so it seems perfectly natural to me. As mysteries go, the plots aren't much but the comedy aspects of the films are what carries them; basically well done low brow comedy carries the movies but the mystery conventions keep them from being just low brow comedies. The chemistry between Nancy, her father, and Nancy's long suffering boyfriend works very well. While these could be described as being something like "Andy Hardy Solves a Mystery," the films are a lot of fun. Granville was a very good child actress who was nominated for but did not win an Academy Award when she was eleven or twelve; the Nancy Drew movies served as a vehicle for her to transition from child star to grown actress which is something that not many juveniles of the thirties and forties managed to pull off; she went on to make a few good comedies and at least solid film noir before she married and became a successful television producer (she financed and piloted the "Lone Ranger" and "Lassie" series) and retired from acting. I wish she had been in a few more Nancy Drew movies but I'm happy with the four she did make. I know we'll watch them again but I'm not sure they will become favorites but they could.

[Drymonema]

There are also a wealth of movies I love which I do not think are first class, ranging from things like "Rancho Deluxe" to "The Thing (from Another World)" to "Tarzan and his Mate" to "The Haunting (of Hill House)" to Ken Russel's "The Devils."  I enjoy 1950s Sci-fi movies,

I'm the same way. Cheesy b-movies and classic sci-fi is endlessly amusing. Classic Italian and Spanish horror also never fails to hit the spot.

Eraserhead
Zombi 2
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Night of the Seagulls
Phantasm 1,2,3,&4
The Evil Dead
Messiah of Evil
Demons
Night Train to Terror
Brides of Blood
Two Thousand Maniacs
Poultrygeist

I watch these time and time again.

[mr_goldenage (RIP)]

anyone every hear of these?

Lady Black Cat (1966)
Lady Black Cat Strikes Again (1967)
Director: Cheung Wai-Gwong
Cast: Connie Chan, Wu Fung, Sek Kin

Or this one?

The Black Rose
(Hong Kong, 1965)
IMDB
In addition to The Spy With My Face, a direct sequel

been looking for these for a long long time....

Mr. Goldenage

[Yoc]

Five Deadly Venoms (78) was my favourite
I'll have to keep an eye open for yours.