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RE: Favourite films? - BAUER24 - 15-05-2011 07:34 PM
The Bourne Trilogy
Finding Nemo
Hollow man
Toy Story 1 and 2
RE: Favourite films? - Agent Acme - 22-05-2011 07:32 PM
My favorite films. The ones I can watch over and over again and still find them fresh.
Gone With The Wind
The 39 Steps ( Robert Donat)
My Fair Lady
Anne of a Thousand Days
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Unfaithfully Yours (Rex Harrison)
Singin' In The Rain
Remains Of The Day
Out Of Sight
Ice Cold In Alex
The Man Who Would Be King
Schindlers List
The English Patient
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
To Have And Have Not
The Green Mile
Notorious
The Sound Of Music
The Quiet Man
Three Godfarthers
Indiana Jones ( All of 'em)
Its A Wonderful Life
A Matter Of Life And Death
L.A. Confidential
The Pink Panther ( David Niven, Peter Sellers)
The Naked Gun
Phew, and thats only a few of them!
RE: Favourite films? - JHyde - 23-05-2011 03:31 AM
I am also a huge fan of the Robert Donat version of The 39 Steps. That movie always makes me feel better.
RE: Favourite films? - lottanyman - 23-05-2011 07:58 PM
My favourite ever film must be Cinema Paradiso, an Italian film from 1988 with Philippe Noiret.
I first watched it about 15 years ago, have rewatched it countless times since then and it still makes me cry every single time.
RE: Favourite films? - Agent Acme - 24-05-2011 08:59 PM
(23-05-2011 03:31 AM)JHyde Wrote: I am also a huge fan of the Robert Donat version of The 39 Steps. That movie always makes me feel better.
I big fan too ( he was born in my neck of the woods) He was a wonderful actor. I think his work is vastly underated as he died at a relatively young age. Goodbye Mr Chips (with a very young Sir John Mills) and The Magic Box are great films.
I'm a hugh fan of old British films in general really, but they do tend to suffer form the 'ever so' clipped English accents, which does tend to date them terribly, which is a shame, whereas the American films from the 30's, 40's and 50's seem to have aged better.
RE: Favourite films? - JHyde - 25-05-2011 03:03 AM
Yeah Goodbye Mr Chips is one of the very few films my family agrees upon. We even have family jokes that revolve around it, mostly to do with the name Martin and Camulia. As you say, such a pity that Donat died so young, he left a pretty great body of work under the circumstances.
I'm a massive Hitchcock fan too.
RE: Favourite films? - A Cousin - 25-05-2011 03:35 PM
(25-05-2011 03:03 AM)JHyde Wrote: I'm a massive Hitchcock fan too.
It is all about Rear Window. I never get tired of that movie. Lifeboat is another that just sticks with me.
RE: Favourite films? - JHyde - 25-05-2011 05:15 PM
Rear Window is actually one of my least favourite Hitchcock films. Two of my faves pretty much have the same plot (39 Steps and North by Northwest) and then Shadow of a Doubt too. Also love Saboteur.
One of the main reasons I love Hitchcock is that his films were and remain a wonderfully accurate barometer of cultural history. Rear Window being a wonderful example of 50s McCarthyism even down to James Stewart's casting - Stewart was in favour of the naming of names in Hollywood at the time.
RE: Favourite films? - xRuthx - 01-06-2011 03:42 AM
Mine are in no particular order;
Sweeney Todd
The Wings of the Dove
The Crying Game
Breaking the Waves
Hallmark's Merlin
Sleepy Hollow
Spider
Jesus Christ Superstar
The Heart of Me
Enid
Fight Club
Wah Wah
Moulin Rouge!