What's your favourite film?

[Zetetic]

Brazil.

Partly because I can be happy with everything that is a bit rubbish about it.

[Danger Man]

Heimat

[Delete Delete Delete]

The Philadelphia Story

A film with three golden age Hollywood greats, all in there prime bouncing off each other. Whats not to love with a movie that has Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jame Stewart in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CtquHsxoZo

"Hello Dexter"

Edit to add this wonderful scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQC2guz8oGc

[buttgammon]

Wild Strawberries

It's poignant, funny, warm, and it beats Proust at his own game. It's about age and memory but it's also about youth and the future. Even though it's the 'arty choice' compared to the other films I had in mind (North by Northwest, for example) it's hugely entertaining too.

[BlodwynPig]

Heimat

I told you you were the king of cool. I'd like to put that into my favourite Televisual film of all time category.

My pick for movie I've seen on the big screen:

INLAND EMPIRE

"Brutal Fucking Murder"

Oh, hello!

[garbed_attic]

Braindead

It's perfectly structured (from basement --> the roof); balances earnestness with irony; has a whole host of glorious stop-motion and special effects; contains lots of attention to detail in its 1950s setting; is very, very funny and is startlingly chirpy and good-natured for such a gory film. I never tire of it and it always cheers me up.

[GeeWhiz]

'If...'

It makes me laugh, it's beautiful, fractured and poetic, and I always want to be up there on the roof at the end, pumping rounds out of a Bren gun.

[babyshambler]

Jaws.

[Garam]

The Shining



It's not a film, it's a dimension.

[Sony Walkman Prophecies]

Blowup because it's the best one.

[Sony Walkman Prophecies]

I feel the same way about this film as Kermode says he feels about The Exorcist in that every time I watch it I see something new.  People are still coming up with all sorts of explanations for the various plot points and character traits and script lines and a lot of them make sense. A beautiful, dark, rubiks cube of a film.

I think Exorcist is a very good film too. Like Saturday Night Fever[nb]A film I still think is better than anything Scorsese ever did during the same period. [/nb], it's largely nothing to do with whatever happens to feature on the front cover.

[thraxx]

I wanted to say Dawn of the Dead or Aliens, but they've already gone.  So:Dirty Harry.  Because the fusion with the music is astonishing, the 'do I feel lucky' quote is not even the best quote in the film, and Scorpio is a genuinely nasty villain, and you'd better agree with me because if you don't; dead girl!

[thraxx]

I think Exorcist is a very good film too. Like Saturday Night Fever[nb]A film I still think is better than anything Scorsese ever did during the same period. [/nb], it's largely nothing to do with whatever happens to feature on the front cover.

Saturday Night Fever is one of those films that many people really don't know - they think it's a 'good time' film because of the music (and the cover as you say) - but in reality it's pretty fucking grim film.

[mothman]

I could be ironic and say Dude, Where's My Car? (which I do love), or reflect on my inability to start watching True Lies without seeing it through till the end... But in truth there's really only one for me - 2001: A Space Odyssey .

[El Unicornio, mang]

Goodfellas - Like many of my favourites, I didn't like it much the first time. About 300 viewings later, I doubt anything will replace it as my favourite. It's like comfort food to me now (and I always watch it with actual comfort food - big plate of pasta)

[acrow]

I think The Thing is as close to perfect as a film can get.

[sirhenry]

Harold and Maude

For all the reasons I've mentioned previously. And Bud Cort.

[Default to the negative]

Goodfellas - Like many of my favourites, I didn't like it much the first time. About 300 viewings later, I doubt anything will replace it as my favourite. It's like comfort food to me now (and I always watch it with actual comfort food - big plate of pasta)

Used to be one of my favourites, but Ray Liotta brings it down for me. I can't look at him now without thinking about beer adverts and Guy Ritchie. He was never much of an actor anyway. I think he only got cast in "Goodfellas" because he had the right sort of look about him, when he was that age.

"Casino", on the other hand, doesn't have the Liotta problem. If we can only pick one favourite then I'm going to pick that. Brilliant film. The contrast between the glory days and the downfall is much stronger. Pesci's fate is just dismal.

[Zetetic]

And Bud Cort.

Can you recommend Brewster McCloud, or not?

[sirhenry]

Can you recommend Brewster McCloud, or not?

I just did, in the chatroom. Grimmer, but similar. And Shelley Duval is rather good in it.

But then I like almost all of Robert Altman's films.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Used to be one of my favourites, but Ray Liotta brings it down for me. I can't look at him now without thinking about beer adverts and Guy Ritchie. He was never much of an actor anyway. I think he only got cast in "Goodfellas" because he had the right sort of look about him, when he was that age.

"Casino", on the other hand, doesn't have the Liotta problem. If we can only pick one favourite then I'm going to pick that. Brilliant film. The contrast between the glory days and the downfall is much stronger. Pesci's fate is just dismal.

I'm not a big Liotta fan and I think they could have chosen someone better for the role (and someone closer to the real Henry Hill. In the film he's portrayed as kind of a quiet, strong but silent slick suave ladies man when in reality he was an odd looking barely literate babbling little alcoholic cokehead - (RIP)) but I think he works somehow.

Casino is awesome too though, possibly De Niro's last great performance.

[Blumf]

Just noticed Jackie Brown is on again tonight, and you know what, I'll be watching, again.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

It's A Wonderful Life. The most unfailingly uplifting film about a suicidally depressed man, ever.

[sirhenry]

It's A Wonderful Life. The most unfailingly uplifting film about a suicidally depressed man, ever.

Debatable. Harold and Maude edges it for me.

[Brundle-Fly]

I agree with so many choices on this thread but I think...

Hellzapoppin' (1941)

With the risk of sounding like the erstwhile TC? Catch the first fifteen minutes of this clip and you tell me this hasn't invented so much of the comedy CAB loves?

Pre- Milligan absurdism, Woody Allen's movie deconstructing, Airplane anarchy, pre-cursor to The Simpsons. tPre-post modernism? And the most fantastic dance routine in a film ever*. Lindy Hop joy!

It's like watching a medieval Spongebob Squarepants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr00G-UMgVU

*The Lindy Hop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkthxBsIeGQ

[Johnny Townmouse]

Just so everyone knows. Jaws and Blade Runner are neck-and-neck with two votes each.

[the psyche intangible]

The Thing now has two votes.

[thecuriousorange]

Annie Hall. Partly because it becomes a different film when viewed after the end of (your own) big relationship.

It's also one of the funniest films, but so much more than that.

[Bill]

I wanted to say Dawn of the Dead or Aliens, but they've already gone.  So:Dirty Harry.  Because the fusion with the music is astonishing, the 'do I feel lucky' quote is not even the best quote in the film, and Scorpio is a genuinely nasty villain, and you'd better agree with me because if you don't; dead girl!

Aliens isn't, but if you mean Alien we can swap; I almost put Dirty Harry.

[Famous Mortimer]

Three Colours Red

Julie Delpy sprawled on that bed is enough to bring tears to your eyes. One of the most beautiful things ever.