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Old 06.09.2009, 21:49
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

Educating Rita. Not just a film but a whole new attitude to life.
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

Angel A - by Luc Besson because it is simply the most sensuous movie that cuts me up every time I see it. Even if it hits a little too close to home.
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Old 06.09.2009, 22:00
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

My favourite is not a big deep intellectual movie, but I just adore Love Actually

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Old 06.09.2009, 22:05
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

A hard choice to make. There are few films I watch again and again, and it's hard to choose between them.

But, I'll go for....

Aliens, the best sci-fi film ever made, nothing else come close, brilliant action, quotable lines, excellent characters and a gritty realness throughout, hard to achieve in sci-fi, and I don't think anything in the genre has since come close.

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Old 06.09.2009, 22:06
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

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Angel A - by Luc Besson because it is simply the most sensuous movie that cuts me up every time I see it. Even if it hits a little too close to home.

Angel A (2005)




Trailers or samples please people. It helps us to get an idea of what your favourite film is like...
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Old 06.09.2009, 22:26
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

Jeremiah Johnson. Great story (based on the real John Johnson), great characters, great dialogue.

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Old 06.09.2009, 22:26
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

I do love "Out of Africa", which has already been mentioned, and "Diva"... but I think my ONE favourite film would have to be "Notorious" (Hitchcock film with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergmann).

Wonderful thread idea, and sorry, Sharkey, but I don't know how this works with putting a trailer into my posting...
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Old 06.09.2009, 22:36
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...I think my ONE favourite film would have to be "Notorious" (Hitchcock film with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergmann).

Wonderful thread idea, and sorry, Sharkey, but I don't know how this works with putting a trailer into my posting...
No problem Frollein. It's just a matter of pasting the URL into the post (Details Here)



Notorious
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I was almost going to put up the Trailer for the new Biggie Smalls biopic, also called Notorious, as it was the first thing that came up on youtube, but I couldn't even bring myself to watch it...
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Old 06.09.2009, 22:42
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

Tough to pin it to one film, but I'd go for Swingers...early Vince Vaughan at his cocksure best..."You're so money!"
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

Delicatessen?
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Old 06.09.2009, 23:21
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

impossible to pick one but ferris bueller sums up my teenage yrs...brings back alot of memories during that time...(john hughes RIP...)



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One day while he’s lying sick in bed, Cameron lets “Ferris” steal his father’s car and take the day off, and as Cameron wanders around the city, all of his interactions with Ferris and Sloane, and all the impossible hijinks, are all just played out in his head. This is part of the reason why the “three” characters can see so much of Chicago in less than one day — Cameron is alone, just imagining it all.

It isn’t until he destroys the front of the car in a fugue state does he finally get a grip and decide to confront his father, after which he imagines a final, impossible escape for Ferris and a storybook happy ending for Sloane (”He’s gonna marry me!”), the girl that Cameron knows he can never have.
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Old 06.09.2009, 23:29
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

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A hard choice to make. There are few films I watch again and again, and it's hard to choose between them.

But, I'll go for....

Aliens, the best sci-fi film ever made, nothing else come close, brilliant action, quotable lines, excellent characters and a gritty realness throughout, hard to achieve in sci-fi, and I don't think anything in the genre has since come close.
close call between that and Alien
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Old 06.09.2009, 23:50
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

There is only one 'Watership Down', it is beautiful and never fails to make me blub!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw

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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

My all time favourite is "One, two, three" by Billy Wilder. It was shot in Berlin only months before the wall was set up, so it has a really unique setting.

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One of my favourites, the "torture scene"
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Old 07.09.2009, 00:32
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Difficult decision. Too many different genres. Too many different flavors to chose from.

Blade Runner:
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

Hard to pick a favorite as I like many... But I thought "Fail Safe" (1964) was excellent. It is often compared to Dr. Strangelove as they are both about cold war tension. However, Fail Safe is not funny - it's serious and suspenseful. The whole movie is mainly dialogue without many special effects. Cast includes Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau.

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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

Excellent post, Sharkey...so many to choose from...I enjoy certain movies better at certain times of the year, and when I'm in different moods.

But overall I'd probably have to settle with Gladiator:



The storyline is so simple yet so well done. It's not a typical revenge fantasy. And the characters are not cardboard cutouts - Commodus (River Phoenix) in particular is a seriously flawed person who wants nothing more than his father's approval and when it is denied, he is pushed over the edge. Maximus (Russell Crowe) is extremely convincing as the grieving father and gladiator. Connie Nielsen as Lucilla, the semi-love interest of Maximus and the sister of Commdous, a schemer who is fiercely protective of her son, is also spot on.

Derek Jacobi as Gracchus deserves special mention, and he has one of the best lines in the movie:

"He will bring them death...and they will love him for it."

Oh, and the score is amazing - especially this song playing over the clip.

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I have to vote for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Now look here, luminousmind, sharkey's rules were very clear: you're not allowed to nominate more than one film! So make your choice, which one is your favourite? Hmmm?
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

Without a doubt, Glengarry Glen Ross



A testerone fuelled epic set in the world of real estate. The film is based on a David Mamet play and its enduring appeal for me lies in the dialogue.
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Old 07.09.2009, 09:30
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Re: Your ONE Favourite Film

my favorite movie is .... Man on fire
i love it ...

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