FAVORITE MOVIES - SHORT LIST

I have searched in the database and I haven?t found this topic. Maybe it was in the past, anyway....
I am a big cinema fun, and I would like to take a look to the list of some of your FAVORITE-RECOMMENDED films.
They haven?t to be your ULTIMATE LIST, just films you would highly recommend to another person. I suggest 3 points, in order to be easy to answer:

1. ALLTIME 2-3 FAVORITE MOVIES (classics)
2. YOUR 2-3 RECENT FAVORITE MOVIES (filmed from 10 years ago to the present, aprox)
3. FAVORITE 2-3 MUSIC RELATED MOVIES.

Sure I leave a lot of good titles out, but this is my (thinking fast) recommended short list:

1. The appartment. Amadeus. Key Largo
2. In the name of the father. Magnolia. The hurricane
3. * AMADEUS*. Almost famous. The Commiments

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 12, 2006 04:05 PM: Message edited by: Juan Exp?sito ]</font>

1. The Third Man, Metropolis, Leon (this is a classic in my opinion)

2. Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Incredibles, Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime).

3. Almost Famous, The Commitments, West Side Story. Not released yet, but Icons Among Us ( www.iconsamongus.com ) looks pretty exciting.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 12, 2006 05:28 PM: Message edited by: LDGuy ]</font>

1.
The Lion in Winter
Camelot (also a great musical)
A Man for All Seasons
A Clockwork Orange

2.
Pulp Fiction
Good Will Hunting
Shawshank Redemption
Dangerous Liaisons

3.
West Side Story
The Sound of Music
The King and I
Amadeus

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 12, 2006 05:26 PM: Message edited by: Henry II ]</font>

Glen Garry Glen Ross
Shawshank Redemption
Tucker
Best In Show
Goodfellas

Hey Randy...just saw GlenG Glen Ross (Porcaro did that sndtrak I believe) for a writing thing. In fact, if anyone in the LA area (Glendale) is interested, there's a free screen writing workshop once a month. You see a great movie and then there is a discussion...sometimes the screen writer or someone else involved in the film present. The February film for discussion is: The Incredibles

Dramatic Events

My List:
1. Bridge On the River Kwai--1957 * Planet of the Apes--1968 * Willy Wonka--1970

2. Fearless (Jeff Bridges should have won the Academy Award) * Jennifer 8 * Shot Through the Heart * Inner Circle

3. Passenger 57 * Grand Canyon * Jennier 8 * Dave (these are the only movies I bought soundtracks from)

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 12, 2006 08:02 PM: Message edited by: PocketPlayer ]</font>

1. Godfather I, II, blade Runner
2. Wedding Crashers, Gladiator, The Great Raid
3. This is Spinal Tap, The Kids are Alright

Being There
A Clockwork Orange
Leon (The Professional)
Sexy Beast
After Hours
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 12, 2006 08:42 PM: Message edited by: Avi_drums ]</font>

1. Apocalypse Now, Forrest Gump, Life is Beautiful, Ben Hur
2. The usual suspects, Memento, Boogie Nights, The Insider
3. Bird, Almost Famous, Shine, The red violin

I also dig French comedies (Les visiteurs, Le diner de cons,...)
...and dinosaur movies [img]redface.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 12, 2006 09:02 PM: Message edited by: Tombo 7/4 ]</font>

1)

One flew over the Cukoo's Nest
with Jack Nicholson

The Godfather series

Decline of the American Empire
by Denys Arcand

Being There
with Peter Sellers


2)

Gladiator

Farenheit 9/11
by Michael Moore

Hotel Rwanda

Traffic
with Michael Douglas

3)

West Side Story

Calle 54

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

Chicago

Both Jeff and Peter Erskine plaed on the soundtrack.

"That Thing You Do"--faaaantastic.

Billy Ward was the special drum advisor on That Thing You Do...he has good stories of working with that actor.

So many to choose.

1. Planet of the Apes (original)-
The Great Escape-
Willy Wonka (original)

2. Heat-
The Vanishing- (George Sluizer original version NOT the cheesy American version.
The Straight Story- (David Lynch's tamest film)

3.Bring on the Night
The Commitments
Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Some great picks, guys. Here are mine:

1. ALLTIME 2-3 FAVORITE MOVIES (classics)

-Batman (Tim Burton's)
-Edward Scissorhands
-Amadeus

2. YOUR 2-3 RECENT FAVORITE MOVIES (filmed from 10 years ago to the present, aprox)

-DONNIE DARKO
-Fight Club
-Magnolia

3. FAVORITE 2-3 MUSIC RELATED MOVIES.

-It's All Gone Pete Tong (RENT IT!)
-Spinal Tap
-Almost Famous

ALL TIMES FAVORITE MOVIES
- The Godfather I, II & III
- Pulp Fiction
- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

RECENT FAVORITE MOVIES
- The Good Will Hunting
- When Harry Meet Sally
- Shawshank Redemption

FAVORITE MUSIC RELATED MOVIES
- Mo' Better Blues
- New York, New York
- Bird

TV MOVIES (soap)
- The Soprano
- Friends
- Game On (UK)

Great topic

1. Matter of Life and Death
a very humanistic and liberal film

Wizard of Oz
The greatest athiest movie of all time

La belle et la Bete
as magical is cinema gets


2. Eternal Sunshine
...free will vs determinism. and a good argument to LIVE your life (anti Pascals wager!)

The Incredibles
We are not all created equal...

3. Spinal Tap
Because its true

Mighty Wind
a brilliant essay on the three psychologies you tend to find in the music biz

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 13, 2006 05:40 AM: Message edited by: Andy Edwards ]</font>

A lot of good titles to see,re-view or rent in the video store, mates.
If you want to look for info about some movie, search in this fantastic cinema website. It?s in english and spanish.

http://www.filmaffinity.com
(search for movies)

This is what I found looking for music related Spinal Tap, a film I didn?t know (never seen in my videostore or shop)and it was directed by Rob Reiner, one of my favorites.

http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film691684.html

If you like it and have time: register, do a rating tour, find some people with the same tastes,and read some great critics about any film, director, etc...
Bye.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 13, 2006 06:23 AM: Message edited by: Juan Exp?sito ]</font>

...and don't forget the internet movie database:


http://www.imdb.com

P.S. A Mighty Wind is the folk version of Spinal Tap, same writers/actors too [img]smile.gif[/img]

Thanks for the link Chris. Trailers included in IMDB. Excellent site.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 13, 2006 06:34 AM: Message edited by: Juan Exp?sito ]</font>

School of Rock

1. The Six Degrees of Separation, The Matrix, Fearless
(Honorary mention: Sense & Sensibility, Pillow Book, Groundhog's Day, Shawshenk Redemption, Breaking the Waves)
2. Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Nowhere in Africa
3. Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Bring on the Night

My favorite movies short list
- Dog Day Afternoon
- The 400 Blows
- Star Trek
- The Truman Show.