Your personal film classics

[naughty]

Hi ,
This thread differs from an earlier on in that it is not asking for reviews.We have done this before but since that time we have gain a myriad of new members. SO here goes...

My personal film classics are:

Bride of the Wind
Bastard out of Carolina
Casablanca
Glory
The Beguiled
Gods and Monsters
Angela's Ashes
Empire of the Sun
Kundun
THe Last Emperor
Practical Magic
The Red Violin
Raise the Red Lantern
Like Water for Chocolate
House of the Spirits
The Heiress
THe Old Maid
Cousin Bette
OUt of Africa
How to make an American quilt
The Joy Luck club
Artemesia
Malena
Dancing at Luhgnasa
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
THe Mists of Avalon
The Feast of All Saints
My Family
The Harry potter fims
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Black Orpheus
Orfeo
City of God
Ever After
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (the remake)
The Hours
Splendor in the Grass
HOuse of Mirth
Remains of the Day
The Bucaneers
House of Mirth
The Five heartbeats
Oh Pioneers
Sabrina
Johnny Belinda
Two for the road
Fanny
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Seven
Sixth sense
Dr.Zhivago
Passage to India
Come back, Little Sheba
Desire under the Elms

There will be more to come as I think of them

 

[Pecker]

C'mon, don't hint. Get specific.

 

[Chuck64]

Chuck's video collection... Hardly any of them qualify as classics, but I'm only 26.

Way-Gay & Chick Flicks:
Latter Days (Can't watch without crying)
Philadelphia
Kinsey
De-Lovely
In & Out
The opposite of sex
The truth about cats and dogs
Pearl Harbor
The Mexican
Moulin Rouge
The Wizard Of Oz
The Sound of Music
Oklahoma
The King & I
Gone with the Wind
It's a Wonderful Life


Thriller / Horror:
The Cell
Hannibal
From Hell

Fantasy / Sci Fi:
Lord of the Rings
Final Fantasy
Practical Magic
The Matrix series
Big Fish
The Cell
Hackers
Star Trek: Insurrection
Artificial Intelligence
Minority Report
Tron
Back to the Future (All of them on VHS...)

Comedy:
Kung Fu Hustle
Office Space
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Wild Wild West

Action:
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Three Kings
Kung Fu Hustle
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Spider Man

Political & Stand-Up (hard to find a stand-up comedian that isn't politcal):
Margaret Cho
Enron: The smartest guys in the room

Animated:
The Emperor's New Groove
Shrek
Madagascar
Titan A.E.
Monsters Inc.
The Animatrix (animated short stories about the Matrix, much better than the Matrix itself)

Crappy movies that I shouldn't have spent money on:
Team America
The Mask

 

[Pecker]

You don't want me to list my video collection. I have over 1000 VHS's and I'm up to 188 DVD's.

I like Indies and Foreign Language films best.

 

[SpeedoGuy]

You don't want me to list my video collection. I have over 1000 VHS's and I'm up to 188 DVD's.

I like Indies and Foreign Language films best.

Pecker:

Do list a few as I'm interested to learn what films others enjoy.

A smattering of my various favs:


Amadeus
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Wind and the Lion
The Sound of Music
True Grit
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Big Boys Don't Cry
An American Werewolf in London
Tora Tora Tora
Scent of a Woman
The Body
Three Kings
Thin Red Line

 

[naughty]

YEs Pecker !

Please, please, please, please! ( Naughty throws down her cape in a James Brown pose) I love Independent and foreign language films as well! I hope you have some good ones to suggest that i havent seen yet!

Naughty

 

[Dorset]

If you want to get into French cinema try watching Betty Blue, it'll get you hooked. A more recent film I like is 'A Very Long Engagement', it's a bit girly but still has the war scenes for the boys and the occasional injection of comedy that you expect from the French.

I really want to get into Asian cinema more, anyone know a good movie to start with?

 

[naughty]

Hi ,

Check out "Raise the Red Lantern","Farewell ,my Concubine", "Memoirs of Geisha," and Kurosawa's "Dreams" I think you might like it. Also almost anything from Akira Kurosawa.

Naughty

If you want to get into French cinema try watching Betty Blue, it'll get you hooked. A more recent film I like is 'A Very Long Engagement', it's a bit girly but still has the war scenes for the boys and the occasional injection of comedy that you expect from the French.

I really want to get into Asian cinema more, anyone know a good movie to start with?

 

[Pecker]

If you want to get into French cinema try watching Betty Blue, it'll get you hooked. A more recent film I like is 'A Very Long Engagement', it's a bit girly but still has the war scenes for the boys and the occasional injection of comedy that you expect from the French.

I really want to get into Asian cinema more, anyone know a good movie to start with?

Ran. If that doesn't get you started collecting Asian movies, you aren't really as interested as you thought you were.

 

[Dr. Dilznick]

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

http://www.blue-underground.com/movie.php?movie_id=40 (which links to the trailer)


Begotten (1991)

I really want to get into Asian cinema more, anyone know a good movie to start with?

I just saw The Untold Story (1993). That's what I'm talking about. Rape and child murder, cannibalism. Dope, dope, dope.

Ebola Syndrome (1996)

Hope this helps.

 

[B_HappyHammer1977]

Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo

 

[naughty]

Ran. If that doesn't get you started collecting Asian movies, you aren't really as interested as you thought you were.

Ran would fall under KUROSAWA! SO where is the list ,Pecker?

 

[Pecker]

Ran would fall under KUROSAWA! SO where is the list ,Pecker?

I completely forgot about "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" by Woodysan Allen.

 

[Dorset]

Thanks for those suggestions, I'll look up Kurosawa on pay day, bonus month so I'll be able to buy a few

 

[D_Barbi_Queue]

My all time fave is The Color Purple.

Some others that I really enjoy:

Steel Magnolias
Fried Green Tomatoes
Dazed and Confused
Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Anthony Hopkins)
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Star Wars trilogy (the orginal one, of course)
Pride and Predjudice
Sense and Sensibility
The Princess Bride

 

[D_Elijah_MorganWood]

From Naughty's list I take the following. Girl, you have good taste!
Casablanca
Like Water for Chocolate
The Harry potter fims
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (the remake)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Seven
Sixth sense
Dr.Zhivago
I add the rest of my favorites:
Maltese Falcon
Sunset Boulevard
It Happened One Night
Vertigo
Rebel Without A Cause
Ninotchka
North By Northwest
Streetcar Named Desire
Gone With The Wind
Hush, Hust Sweet Charlotte
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Burl Ives...)
Sweet Bird Of Youth
Sudden Fear
All About Eve
The Best Of Everything
Butterfield 8
Mildred Pierce
Humoresque
Grand Hotel
Marked Woman
The Bride Wore Red
Dancing Lady
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Manchurian Candidate
Harriet Craig
The Women
Mutiny On The Bounty
Midnight Cowboy
The Graduate
The All Kissed The Bride
When Ladies Meet
Cleopatra
Ben Hur
Torch Song
Johnny Guitar
Captain Blood
The Philadelphia Story
The Palm Beach Story
Double Indemnity
Rear Window
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Psycho (not the unfortunate sequel)
Dr. Strangelove
King Kong (I liked the first remake as well)
Some Like It Hot
How To Marry A Millionaire
Niagra
**newer ones (in the classic sense)
Crimes Of Passion
Grease
Saturday Night Fever
Sixteen Candles
Ghost World
Pecker
Pink Flamingos
A River Runs Through It
Fried Green Tomatoes
White Oleander
Working Girl
Barb Wire
L.A. Confidential
Sin City
Memento
A Bronx Tale
Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Paris Is Burning
Blade Runner
E.T.
The Godfather
Taxi Driver
The Exorcist
Shawshank Redemption
Silence Of The Lambs
American Graffiti
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
A Bronx Tale
Monster's Ball
What's Love Got To Do With it?
How Stella got her Vagina back
Moulin Rouge






I'm sure I can come back in a few and think of more. I'm a total movie junkie.

 

[RideRocket]

I've got a llong list of movies that I've enjoyed, but here's the short version:
- Star Wars (original trilogy)
- Shawshank Redemption
- Forrest Gump
- Band of Brothers
- Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
- Major Payne
- Napoleon Dynamite

 

[windtalkerways]

Cuckoo's Nest
Glory
Midnight Cowboy
The Graduate
Once Upon A Time In America
My Fair Lady
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
Miracle On 34th Street
A Christmas Carol
Gone With The Wind
Jeremiah Johnson
Truman
American Beauty
Silence Of The Lambs
The Green Mile

 

[B_gagger]

Movies I can watch over and over:

The Bridge on the River Kwai
King of Hearts
The Straight Story
To Kill a Mockingbird
O Brother

 

[ClaireTalon]

So here goes my list. Let me categorize.

Comedy
Local Hero
As Good As It Gets
The Great Dictator
Fargo
Good Morning, Vietnam
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
Blues Brothers
Wag The Dog
The Graduate


Action
The Final Countdown
The Enemy Below
The Hunt For Red October
Airport

Thriller
Mirage
The Day Of The Jackal
The China Syndrome
I comme Icare
The Odessa File
North By Northwest
Live from Baghdad
Blue Velvet