Fave films thread

[Manwithaview1]

TAXI

[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Fy1VT0Zjc[/youtubes]

Or part 1 with subtitles

[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bICH9HEJelY[/youtubes]

More of a bloke film due to car chases but still funny and clever. The US version is just awful.

[marymck]

I wish I could get a DVD of one of my favourites - The Night of Counting the Years. It's in Egyptian Arabic with English Subtitles. I can't even get a copy from the BFI or the Egyptian Embassy, but someone has kindly made it available on You Tube. Not the greatest sub titles in the world, but visually it's a stunning film and very moving.

Part 1 ...
[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjR7JO5 ... sponse_rev[/youtubes]

Part 2 ...
[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgmNfliG ... h_response[/youtubes]

[Annie.]

TAXI

[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Fy1VT0Zjc[/youtubes]

Or part 1 with subtitles

[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bICH9HEJelY[/youtubes]

More of a bloke film due to car chases but still funny and clever. The US version is just awful.

Mwav,how can you do that to me? I was watching Taxi with sub titles and then it stopped! Just when he got his new job! Wheres the rest? ;0))))) pretty please.

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[Voyageur]

Favourite films... ok, at present:

The Lives of Others
Brazil
Some Like it Hot
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
Muriel's Wedding
After the Wedding

[Annie.]

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - is a fun film, with Judy Dench

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[ClaireyM]

Ah, Taxi... I LOVE hearing the Marseille accent! I used to live in Marseille - one of the chase scenes goes past the road I lived on, and the police station in the film is actually the outside of the Lycée that I used to teach in

My favourite films are:
Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
Amelie
My Life as a Dog
Together
As It Is in Heaven
Pan's Labyrinth
Motorcycle Diaries

[leenewham]

• It's a Wonderful Life
• City Of God
• Amores Perros
• Carandiru
• Voice Innocentes
• The Corporation/Food Inc/An Inconvenient Truth (we like good documentaries)
• I'm a huge Bond fan so On Her Majesties Secret Service, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Casino Royal, From Russia With Love and Quantum of Solace
• The Lives of Others
• La Vita Bella
• Shawshank Redemption
• Tell No One
• The Diving Bell & the Butterfly (if you haven't seen this, please do, it's amazing)
• Lawrence of Arabia (basically anything directed by David Lean)
• Wall-e (although most Pixar films are great except Cars 2, Nemo and the second half of UP)
• The Sound Of Music
• Singing in the Rain
• Penny Serenade
• North by North West
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• 12 Angry men
• Four Weddings/Notting HIll
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Dancer in the Dark

God, the list could go on and on.

Anything with Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn, Hugh Grant, Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ingrid Bergman, Charlie Chaplin…

[marymck]

Some nice suggestions on here.

I ditto Lee's quite a bit, with: It's a Wonderful Life, Wall-e (to which I must add Hello Dolly!), North by NorthWest, To Kill a Mockingbird and Breakfast at Tiffany's. A couple of your others I haven't seen Lee, but will check them out.

I don't understand why my Night of Counting the Years link didn't work, but I do urge people to seek this out on You Tube (can't get it on DVD). It's a once seen, never forgotten, kind of movie.

I'll add ...

A Matter of Life and Death
Peeping Tom
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
and (my favourites in the theme you can see I'm going for here!) A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going

Also loads of the Ealing Comedies, especially The Lavender Hill Mob and Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Pan's Labyrinth - so, so scary.

Stardust (especially for Robert de Niro in a tutu ... yaarrrr!)

And - gulp, if I can type it without welling up "Daddy, my Daddy" ... the Railway Children.

[leenewham]

Yes Mary A matter of Life & Death is up there. I was never a fan of Peeping Tom.

I"ve never seen the life & death of Colonel Blimp. Should I?

The red shoes is great too and I'm not kicking myself for missing off Kind Hearts and Coronets which is genius.

Perhaps I should start another thread…what films made you cry?

[Voyageur]

OOh - thought of another! School for Scoundrels - 'oh to be in England, now that April's here' 'Dunstan and Dudley Dorchester'

Agree re Pan's Labyrinth too.

[Tim Lund]

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God, the list could go on and on.

Anything with Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Hitchcock, Audrey Hepburn, Hugh Grant, Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ingrid Bergman, Charlie Chaplin…

So why not Casablanca, where she plays Ilsa Lund - (no relation, AFAIK)

I'm not such a film buff, but it's not just Lee giving me idea for films to put on my bucket list. Wonderful Life is definitely on it. Three more, slightly at random:

Brief Encounter - it was lovely seeing my daughters being completely absorbed by such a classic, and one to bring the tissues to

Walk the Line - I love Johnny Cash, so it was also gratifying that the rest of the family this one too

The Wind that Shakes the Barley - I came away from this thinking that no other medium can do realism to make you feel you're there like film; the scenery, the costumes, just brilliant and an eternal story of human conflict.

[marymck]

The Wind that Shakes the Barley - I came away from this thinking that no other medium can do realism to make you feel you're there like film; the scenery, the costumes, just brilliant and an eternal story of human conflict.

I hated The Wind That Shakes the Barley". I know it got good reviews. But everything was done at a shout and no shades of grey. British = bad; Irish = good. Followed hotly by, Fianna Fáil = good; Fine Gael = bad. It wasn't as simple as that.

I like all your other film suggestions Tim.

I'd also like to add a TV film: Shadows on Our Skin. This was a Play for Today, based on Jennifer Johnston's book.

And the first ten minutes or so of Saving Private Ryan.

On and another BBC film ... A Foreign Field. I defy anyone not to cry over that one.

[CaptainCarCrash]

I defy anyone to find me a more surreal creepy totally nuts film.

[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU7OqGCIcak[/youtubes]



[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixZ07jg94EU[/youtubes]

Jack at his best.

[Janeco]

I haven't seen any mention of some of my favourites but gosh there are so many once you start thinking:
Field of Dreams
Dances with Wolves
The Graduate
Kes
Un Homme et une Femme
My Night with Maud
Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Once upon a Time in America
Annie Hall
Manhattan
The Godfather, I, II, III
Heaven's Gate (the long version)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Forrest Gump
Schindler's List
The Taking of Pelham 123 (original version)
Jaws

the list goes on and on