What's your favourite film ever?
Mine is “The Kids” (1995).
And what about you?
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The first Raider of the lost ark.
No question about it. Blazing Saddles.
I could easily name 100 favorite films but I’ll just give you three: The Thing (from Another Planet), The Red Shoes, and The Best Years of Our Lives. I never tire of watching any of them.
Drama – Casablanca
Musical Comedy – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Comedy – M*A*S*H
Impossible. There are just too many truly great films. Just reading the selections above makes the decision like picking your favorite kid.
I would have to say The Princess Bride.
The Big Chill is a close second.
I couldn’t possibly pick just one. So I shall name some movies that I love, that I’ve see at least 10 times, and one that I’ve only seen once, but fell in love with immediately.
The one that I’ve only seen once (not sure how I lived 51 years without seeing it until last year, and was lucky enough to see it on the big screen instead of a video) is Singin’ in the Rain.
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
A Hard Day’s Night (The Beatles’ first film)
Sense and Sensibility (the one with Alan Rickman)
Young Frankenstein
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Like everyone else here, I feel it’s an impossible question. The answer has changed over time and even with mood. These are films you can watch over and over again and still find them entertaining. I’m with @zenvelo on Casablanca. Every time I see it, I find a new laugh, or a new wrinkle.
The Sting is one of those. Love those old grifter stories when nobody experiences real bodily harm. This is a good one based on the exploits of one of the greatest American conmen of all time.
A couple of years ago, I dug up a sweet old film I watch a couple of times a year. Charles Laughton and his wife Elsa Lanchester in The Beachcomber, 1938.
A lot of Frank Capra’s work falls into this category.
I never tire of watching Chinatown, 1974 with Jack Nicholson. Greatl color, cars, theme music and period dress. I like LA in the late ‘30s through the early ‘50s. And I like to watch the sequel, The Two Jakes afterwards.
Then there are all those Noir classics that I can watch over and over. The Big Sleep is complicated—even author Chandler couldn’t tell the producers who actually committed the murder when they wrapped. Every time I watch it, I find more clues. And all the code and euphemisms they had to use for the types of sex and sexual orientation described in the book. They got in real trouble for mentioning “the Singapore Sling” in that film. The censors were all over them during filming and that one got through. It’s fun to pick these things out. New stuff every time.
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Kuroinu: Kedakaki Seijo wa Hakudaku ni Somaru
- Gone Baby Gone
– Road to Perdition
– Out of the Past
– Detective Story (1951)
– You Only Live Once (1932)
A three way tie between Pan’s Labyrinth, Chinatown, and Rear Window
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Ehhhh, it’s a toss up between Memento and Revolver at the moment. I can watch both of those films over and over again and still be quite certain that there is something that I missed.
Some of my favorites are:
A Night at the Opera
The African Queen
Night of Shooting Stars
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Gods Must be Crazy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cinema Paridisio
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Nearly impossible to choose. Would it be one that I can watch hundreds of times without tiring of it, like The Big Lebowski or Goodfellas? Or one that stuck with me for a long time after viewing and required multiple viewings, like Muholland Drive or Synecdoche, New York? Would I have to pick from my favorite Cohen brothers, Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Woody Allen, or Jim Jarmusch films? Would it be the movie I’d most want to be watching right now? I have no idea.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Together, they form a personal Christmas tradition every year.
A very close runner-up is Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home.
Star trek two the wrath of Khan. The fighting bits. “Let them eat static”.
I too have a few! The Wizard of Oz, Willow, Serenity, The Breakfast Club. These are all I can think of at the moment.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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