Favorite Movies of all-time?

[Dr Syntax Head]

I'd forgotten about Whiskey Galore. Great film.

[Dr Rock]

Build My Gallows High

[itsfredtitmus]

I'd forgotten about Whiskey Galore. Great film.

its just the best isnt it
actually i should watch it again

[DukeDeMondo]

I had a rummage about in the guts of the ages, and according to something I posted a million moons ago in the year 2015, my Top Ten Bestest Films are:

Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
Amityville II: The Possession (1982, Damiano Damiani)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998, George Miller)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies (1994, Todd Phillips)
Super 8 1/2 (1994, Bruce LaBruce)
The Passion of the Christ (2004, Mel Gibson)

I think that's more or less the time it is yet. Obviously Manhattan and I have had to have some difficult conversations over these past however longs. I dunno if we're still right for each other or we're not. I love it dearly, and it's my Bestest of the Best, and has been for as long as I can remember, but... I dunno. We'll see. See how we feel when it gets back from London. It has to go. All the plans have been made. Arrangements. Its parents are there now looking for a place for it to live.

Also: trouble, for I think both Shortbus and Tangerine are in my Top Ten these days too, but there's only room for ten in my Top Ten, and I don't want to lose any two of the ten that already is. But. Something has to give, for Christ sake, somewhere along the line.

[itsfredtitmus]

pig in the city i like you

[DukeDeMondo]

pig in the city i like you

It's a wonder of a thing, isn't it? Let's be the best of friends.

I love the first Babe too, like, and Pig In The City probably isn't as good scene-for-scene from one end to the other, but it's the more special of the two, I think. Goes to pot a wee bit for a minute or two in the final act, but fuck it, it's incredible for the most part, and there's not a thing else like it in the world.

[itsfredtitmus]

It reminds me of a lot of the second Gremlins wherein everything is upped from the previous film and anarchy  takes over

[zomgmouse]

The ones I usually rattle off when asked for top films are:

The Red Shoes
L'Atalante
Pink Flamingos
Wings of Desire
Wild Strawberries
Ran
The 400 Blows
Once Upon a Time in the West
Singin' in the Rain

... but any more and I'll just be sitting here listing shit for yonks. Here's all the films I've rated 5 stars: https://letterboxd.com/zomgmouse/films/ratings/rated/5/by/release-earliest/

[itsfredtitmus]

The Conformist
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Sherlock Jr.
The Long Goodbye
Bigger Than Life
Fat City
Limelight
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Week End
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Passenger
Providence
L'immortelle
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

make room for more peckin

[Monsieur Verdoux]

I forgot to put Cable Hogue on there

[BlodwynPig]

Minotaur

Mino4

Minotaur VI-VIII

Centaur

Cen2aur

[Shit Good Nose]

No love for Mino2aur, Minotaur 3 or 5otaur Blods?

I know they were troubled productions, but they're my favourites.  You were at the top of your game on those.

[Dr Rock]

[Small Man Big Horse]

And although people might not have mentioned it yet, it's a rule on this here forum that your favourite film must be Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

I'm appalled that you're the only person to mention it so far. Absolutely fucking appalled.

[BlodwynPig]

No love for Mino2aur, Minotaur 3 or 5otaur Blods?

I know they were troubled productions, but they're my favourites.  You were at the top of your game on those.

They also don't feature Jen. She lit up the ones she was in.

I didn't direct 5otaur after falling out with Weinstein

[studpuppet]

1. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) - 12
2. Kes (Ken Loach, 1969) - 10
3. The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1968) - 10
4. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) - 10
5. Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987) - 10
6. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980) - 10
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) - 8
8. Hoří, má panenko [The Firemen's Ball] (Miloš Forman, 1967) - 8
9. Charlie Bubbles (Albert Finney, 1967) - 8
10. Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970) - 8
11. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975) - 8
12. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992) - 8
13. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002) - 8
14. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1957) - 8
15. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) - 6
16. Blockheads (John G. Blystone, 1938) - 6
17. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014) - 6
18. A Night At The Opera (Sam Wood, 1935) - 6
19. Crimes and Misdemeanours (Woody Allen, 1989) - 6
20. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000) - 6
21. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) - 6
22. The Sunshine Boys (Herbert Ross, 1975) - 6
23. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970) - 4
24. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1974) - 4
25. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1998) - 4
26. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) - 4
27. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) - 4
28. Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997) - 4
29. National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis, 1978) – 4
30. Duck Soup (Leo Carey, 1933) - 4
31. International House (Edward Sutherland, 1933) - 4
32. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984) - 4
33. American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013) - 2
34. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960) - 2
35. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001) - 2
36. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993) - 2
37. 3 săptămâni și 2 zile [Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days] (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) - 2
38. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008) - 2
39. Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1976) - 2
40. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) - 2
41. The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) - 2
42. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973) - 2
43. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000) - 2
44. Borat (Larry Charles, 2006) - 2
45. Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993) - 2
46. Sedmikrásky [Daisies] (Věra Chytilová, 1966) - 2
47. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978) - 2
48. Angst Essen Seele Auf [Ali: Fear Eats The Soul] (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) – 2
49. The Odd Couple (Gene Saks, 1968) - 2
50. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1995) - 2

Can you give it a bit more thought than this?

[Dr Syntax Head]

I forgot to put Reservoir Dogs. At the time of release it was my favourite film of all time and I went to see it 5 days in a row I loved it that much. It's the only Tarantino I can stomach these days.

[Twit 2]

Some more I like:

Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Heart of Glass (Herzog)
Days of Heaven (Malick)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron)
Pan's Labyrinth (Del Toro)
Manhattan (Allen)
Withnail and I (Robinson)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
Under the Skin (Glazer)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)

[Blumf]

I'm appalled that you're the only person to mention it so far. Absolutely fucking appalled.

Something should be done, that's for sure!

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
Dr Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
The King Of Comedy (1982, Martin Scorsese)
Love and Death (1975, Woody Allen)
Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman)
Rocky (1976, John G. Avildsen)

I also love Hitchcock's The Birds, The Lady Vanishes, North By Northwest and Psycho. Laurel & Hardy's Blockheads, Sons Of The Desert and Way Out West too, plus Duck Soup , Don't Look Back, Grey Gardens and Jerry Lewis' original The Nutty Professor.

Oh, and Being There, Boogie Nights, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, The Conversation, The Elephant Man, Goodfellas, Head, Mulholland Drive, Network and This Is Spinal Tap.

I like loads of films, me.

[Danger Man]

The Third Man
Vertigo
Blade Runner
Casino
A Clockwork Orange
Oceans Eleven (2001)
Mishima
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Naked
Toy Story
Crimes and Misdemeanors

[Kelvin]

I reckon Jaws is probably my favourite film. It's thrilling and exciting, like the best blockbuster, but also feels so much more intimate and naturalistic, by modern standards. The overlapping dialogue, the lack of melodrama, the very real emotion. It's also paced in a way that has aged better than many of the films of that era. I never get tired of watching it.     

[Sebastian Cobb]

Going by this thread cab's favourite directors are Lynch, Altman, Carpenter, Alex Cox and Wenders

I'm fine with that.

Good shouts on Scanners, Videodrome and Three Colours Red as well.

Kieślowski's Blind Chance is a belter as well.

Moscow Doesn't Care for Tears is another mosfilm classic.

[Dr Syntax Head]

Good to see Boogie nights showing up

[Sebastian Cobb]

Yeah Boogie Nights is decent, as is Magnolia.

I'd like to add The Cooler but I doubt it's on many people's favourite lists.

[Shit Good Nose]

I reckon Jaws is probably my favourite film. It's thrilling and exciting, like the best blockbuster, but also feels so much more intimate and naturalistic, by modern standards. The overlapping dialogue, the lack of melodrama, the very real emotion. It's also paced in a way that has aged better than many of the films of that era. I never get tired of watching it.   

Even though it's not my top favourite (although it is in my top 5), I think it's as close to being the most perfect film ever made as is possible.  Everything is just spot on - the pace, the performances, the script, the cinematography and, yes, even old Bruce.

[Dex Sawash]

Hasn't aged well but I did like Three Kings a lot, not sure if Cube had a circle-of-Jesus fire or a circle of Jesus-fire though.

Boyz n the hood

OSS 117

Luc Besson's Taxi (the french one, not the queen latifah one)
Prettty much anything Besson due to the OTT joyous daftness.

[Dr Syntax Head]

Three Kings is brilliant. I'm a massive fan of Clooney and Wahlberg anyway but I thought Cube was pretty good in it even if he was pretty much just playing himself.

Re my mention of Reservoir Dogs. It's on now, not seen it for a few years and it's hit me how bloody brilliant it is. In my top 5 easy.

2 more I should have mentioned...

Invasion of the body snatchers (The one with Don Sutherland).
The Crazies (The one with Tim Olyphant)

To make my list a film has to have re watchability at any time.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Sutherland's done some decent films hasn't he?

[bgmnts]

The Dirty Dozen and The Eagle Has Landed are pretty good also.