Favourite movies?

[Becky]

What movies do you enjoy, other than what Doris has done?

I really like period dramas, anime movies and romance movies. My favourites are:
Pride and Prejudice (2005 version)
Leap Year
Marie Antoinette
Nanny Mcphee
Persuasion (2007 version)
Sense and Sensibility (BBC 3 part version)
Lost in Austen (this was in parts)
Nights in Rodanthe
The Notebook
Bridges of Madison County
Message in a Bottle
Enchanted
The Lake House
Snow White
Beauty and the Beast
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Home Alone 1 & 2
See Spot Run
Tinkerbell movies
Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie
All the 'Sailor Moon' movies
A majority of the first 'Pokemon' movies
+ a lot more!

[Jas1]

Off the top of my head:-

Love Fred and Ginger (art deco/ classic Gershwin) - e.g. Tophat;

Love film noir- e.g. Maltese Falcon; Postman Always rings twice; Gilda; The Dammed Don't cry; (think Storm Warning = good noir);

Love 1940s musicals with the likes of Betty Grable - though don't see too much now on TV;

Love "The Apartment" (Jack Lemon/Shirley MaClaine);

Love "Imitation of Life" - Lana again;

Quiet Man (classic Wayne/O'Hara) and a very idealised Ireland!

Love Hepburn and Tracy;

Love Liz in "Cat on a hot tin roof"; "Suddenly Last Summer";

Love- "From here to Eternity";

Love X-MAS Classics - "It's a wonderful life" ; "the Bishop's wife"

Love "Mildred Pierce" (hate the Kate Winslet version)- took classic noir chic and made it drab -

Also love -"Now Voyager"

Finally (for now) love Cary Grant in the likes of North by Northwest; and To catch a thief;

And love James Stewart in "Rear Window".

[DayDreamer]

I'll make a Top Ten:

1. The Godfather I
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. 12 Angry Men
4. Safety Last!
5. Titanic
6. The General
7. The Sting
8. American History X
9. The Green Mile
10. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

But I cannot leave masterpieces like The Silence of the Lambs, Inception, Saving Private Ryan, Goodfellas, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, City Lights, Rear Window and The Shining unmentioned.

[DorisIsTerrific]

Here are some of my fav movies

Ghost
An Affair To Remember
The Wizard Of Oz
Gone With The Wind
Steel Magnolias
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Bridges Of Madison County
Thelma & Louise
A League Of Their Own
Forrest Gump
Dirty Dancing
The Goonies
Back To The Future 1, 2 & 3
Grease
The Sound Of Music
Mary Poppins
The Parent Trap old version
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
The Fifth Element
Meet Me In St. Louis
Robin Hood Men In Tights
Tommy Boy

[Ania]

"Out of Africa"
"Falling in Love"
"Bridges of Madison Count"
"Postcards from the Edge"
"Hours"
"Devil Wears Prada"
"An Affair To Remember" - Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr [ 1957]
"Casablanca"
"From Here to Eternity"
"The Sound Of Music" - Julie Andrews (Eng 1965)
"Wizard of Oz"
"Mary Poppins"
"Night of the Iguana"
"Parapluies de Cherbourg"
"Repulsion"
"Belle de jour"
"Mayerling"
"Sauvage"
"Dernier métro"
"Indochine"
"Julia"
"Isadora"
"Rio Bravo"
"Singin' in the Rain"
"Hair"
"My fair Lady"
"West side story"
"Victor, Victoria"
"Broadway Melody" of 1940 Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell
"Roman Holiday"
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"
"Apartment"
"Some Like It Hot"
"Grumpy Old Me"
"Hello, Dolly!"
"Funny Girl"
"Mogambo"


Ania

[Johnny]

My favourite films are always the ones that I watch countless times and tell a wonderful story.

Days of Heaven
A Patch Of Blue
The Blue Veil
Laura
Leave Her to Heaven
The Help
The Wizard of Oz
I Never Sang For My Father
West Side Story
The Lion In Winter
Anne of A Thosand Days
Jesus Christ Superstar
Harold and Maude

[Sinem]

All About Eve
Gone With the Wind
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Life is Beautiful
Pride and Prejudice(1995)

[Johnny]

Adore with Naomi Watts and Robin Wright is my favouite film of 2013. It is a beautiful, lyrical film that visually lingers with the audience. It is thoughtful and memorable.

[howard]

I saw it and I agree, Johnny. Lovely film.

[Johnny]

All That Heaven Allows with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson was on TCM this week and I saw it for the first time. It is a really good movie and is photographed beautifully. The music soundtrack by Frank Skinner is lush.

Doris made many romantic comedies but not any serious romantic love stories that I can recall. I think Doris would have been great in Back Street with John Gavin. Susan Hayward did and excellent job in the lead.

[Jas1]

I love that film "All that Heaven Allows" - with Rock and Jane Wyman - much prefer it to Magnificent Obsession. It also dealt with a taboo subject - still not quite accepted which is absurd - the older woman with the younger man.

[Ania]

"Nuovo cinema Paradiso", "Ladri di Biciclette", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "La Legge"

[Johnny]

The 1999 film, The Legend of 1900 with Tim Roth is a rich and emotional film not to be missed. It is the story of a child abandoned on a ship in the year 1900. He grows up on the ship and becomes a brilliant musician.

It is now one of my all- time favourites.