I am currently wading through my huge collection of videos as we need to dispose of them,but it is so hard. I have some real old favourites and was wondering which other folks would have a problem parting with.
Crossing Delancy.........feel good movie
My Cousin Vinny.......... hilarious , with a great script
The Turning Point.........good story but wonderful ballet dancing
See How She Runs... Joanne Woodward at her best, forty and takes up jogging, runs in the Boston Marathon,has to make you cry.
Shawshank Redemption, excellent script and just works
Bill, and the sequel Bill on his own.
In the Name of the Father.
Oh tons more
XX Jeannine
Oh, I watched one of my old favorites on TV Saturday' The Red Shoes'
and what about 'Steel Magnolias' makes me cry every time I see it :'(
My spaghetti western trilogy with Terence Hill & Bud Spencer:
My Name Is Nobody
They Call Me Trinity
Trinity Is Still My Name
Been after them for years then released this year on DVD.
Also love Tombstone with Val Kilmer. Watched this loads.
I love Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone & Ben Kingsley watched this loads of times!!
Grow your own was very good...
Longest Day... as a family lacks the realism of Private Ryan but better film..
:)
Well I have Red Shoes, oh the bit at the end when the big cheese is explaining why she can't dance... the hesitation in the voice..tissues needed here
Have Longest day, got some good stuff there too.
Steel Magnolias I have but never could get in to that one.
OH Places in the Heart, anyone know that one.
Westerns are not my thing, excepy myall time favourite Westward the Women,oh that would have been me for sure,has anybody seen it ?? I have TV copy in colour, could never part with that one
I love Cimmaron and How The Way The West Was Won.
I adore Ben Kingsley so Ghandi is high up there and Silas Marner
The Thomas Crown Affair - the newer version - I wanna be Rene Russo, she's sexy & glam & has brains.
The English Patient - love those repressed Britishness type flicks.
Point Break - Sunshine & surf & Bhodie. Hubba Hubba
Any episodes of Star Trek TNG or Babylon 5.
and finally, before I must dash....
Deep Blue, Version Longue.
:)
Ta ra
my trouble is - I forget the titles but can remember these that I liked
Dirty Dancing - love all dance and loved the music especially
The Red Shoes
How to Make an American Quilt
Wuthering Heights - seen when very young and it's always haunted me...not the latest version
Four Weddings & a Funeral
and Beaches.......so sad- love the music
the green mile always makes me cry the book did too
road house
pretty in pink
silence of the lambs
A Matter of Life and Death
The Producers (the original)
Wallace and Gromit The Wrong Trousers
The japanese cartoon Spirited Away
Spirit of the Beehive
if i'm slumming it
Star Trek First Contact
if i'm really slumming it, something like
Psychomania, tho I don't have it on video nomore
Lord of the Rings!! My favourite, favourite!!
I also like the X men and Matrix.
And lots more, but those are my favs!
The English Patient is my number one, despite the fact that it has me in floods of tears everytime I watch it.
Pride and Prejudice (BBC Version) is a close second.
Ryan's daughter is perhaps my third favourite.
so many, i can't find a favie
all the star trek ones with jean luc in,
lord of the rings trilogy
wallace and grommit
harry potters
elvis presley in girls girs girls if I'm in the mood
john wayne films, well, most of them..the one with the big fight scene where the indian's shouting about the whisky..very silly but funny
srek films, well, 1 and 2
ice age
fantasia
too, too many ;D
:-[
Truly, Madly Deeply.
Brief Encounter, the original one.
Lawrence of Arabia...all David Lean fans, just sign here...
Star Is Born with Barbra and Kris (even though neither of them can spell their own names!)
The Commitments
I like a good old western or any war films.
so many to choose from...............agree with many above, included Spirited Away and the Matrix, but think my all time faves are.................The Green Mile with Tom Hanks and the Shawshank Redemption, oh and many a Disney film, Alladin being my top I think....oh and Babe! I could go on! ;D ;D
Cantebury Tale (old B&W wartime film)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (Ealing comedy type thing)
On the Waterfront (I could have been a contender...)
The Big Blue (strange swimming film)
The Wizard of Space and Time (an anti computerised special effects film)
To Have and Have Not (Ever been bit by a dead bee?)
...to name but a few
Dead of Night. 1945. The one with the ventriloquit's dummy.
Rita,Sue and Bob too. Just brilliant.
Carry on sceaming . We all need a laugh!
Oh you all have some of my favourites , Ryans Daughter.Green Mile, Titfield Thunderbolt,Green Mile,Brief Encounter,Whisky Galore, I haveall these and Hot Potato I have all your favourite 5!!
I also like..no like is the wrong word.. Holocaust and QBV11 and of course Roots,
oh I don't think I can part with any.
I think I will have to buy one of those DVD machines that record from video, does anyone have any advice on these.
XX Jeannine
yes A Canterbury Tale. Lovely film. The opening bit where the hawk turns into a spitfire was copied by 2001 A Space Odyssey where the flying bone turns into a spaceship (and copied by Monty Python where the flying bone turns into a spaceship, and then falls back down onto the ape's head)
has anyone chosen The Wizard of Oz yet?
or Withnail and I?
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?
The English Patient - for sheer impatience at such impossibly inadequate people
Brassed off - for the band music and fortitude of the miners
Cinema Paradiso (the long version) - for lost love and what might have been
The Third Man, could watch this a thousand times and not get bored
Philadelphia Story, why don't they make films like this any more? In fact, anything with Cary Grant in, but especially I Was a Male War Bride or His Girl Friday
Great Expectations, David Lean version of course
Withnail and I/Spinal Tap, I still quote chunks of these like a sad student. Spinal Tap once made me laugh so much I was sick.
Eat Drink Man Woman, a perfect portrayal of a father/daughter relationship, plus, oh my god, the food
Spirited Away. An amazing, beautiful film, blows me away
Fargo, those Coen brothers are just too clever
Jeannine. Is Westward the Women the film where a bunch of tough women cross Injun territory in wagons to get to their new husbands? If this is the same film then yes, I love it! Was sure it was b&w tho.
So, so difficult to choose..........
Blade Runner
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Carry on /Regardless/Cabby/Constable
The Return of Martin Guerre (original)
Birdy
Arsenic and old lace
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Mouse that Roared
The Great Race
and loads more...... ;D
Pye,Yes you have it right it is the one with the women and it was in black and white but they did a colourised version later,like they do, somehow dubbed the colur on. I love it,............... do you remember after the injuns had killed all the men but two and the wagon train leader said he was turning back and one by one the women shouted " not me" just leave us a map!!!
Oh how I would have adored to be there. I taped it from the TV in Canada years and yeras ago.
Rh. Thrasher. 2001 Space Oddyesey rank as the worst movie I have ever seen along wiith The Night of the Iguana. I have never even come close with anhything I disliked as much'
I am partial to the old Robert Newton Treasure Island but only cos I was in it, parts of it were filled near my aunts place and as she boarded their horses, they gave me a bit part.
David Lean is my personal fave film director, there are very few of his I don't have.
By thw way has anyone got a copy of Wee Geordie, the Scot who went to the Olympics.
We have all the Carry ons, and the Trinians,
Tonight we watched Peter Paul an Mary singing with children, super video.
HI Guys,
I love film and have a lot of time on my hands so sorry about the long list!!
Number One film has to be a toss up with Lord of the Rings
& Dune, David Lynch version although i have at least 4 different 'cuts' of this so i like to watch them all and pick out the differences.
Then i would have to say that my fav films are
-House of Flying Daggers
-Everything is illuminated
-Interview with a vampire
-Shindlers List (still not watched it though in one go or without crying)
-Terminal
-Paint your Wagon\Whisky Galore ( tie up between 2)
-Manga - Dominion: Tank Police and anything by Hayao Miyazaki.
-Most Doris day, bing crosby, dean martin and monty python films
-Seven Samurai
-Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
-Das Boot
-Green Mile
-Mother India
-Sleeper
-The perfect storm
-O brother where art thou
-shoes of the fisherman
-Personal Services
-Bugsy Malone(where the actors are all played by kids)
-Invasion of the body snatchers (original)
-Twelve Monkeys
-Day of the Dead (the one where there stuck in the shopping mall)
-28 days later
-Tootsie
-As good as it gets
-The Bourne Trilogy
-Clockwise (not only because its funny but it was filmed in OH school and his shoulder can been seen ;D)
I find most bond, matrix and star trek films are quite watchable
All of these have been in the DVD machine in the last month.
Cambourne7
Ooo I love The Piano - Jane Campion, Best In Show - Hilarious, Muriels Wedding - hilarious, Priscilla Queen of the Desert - hilarious,Strictly Ballroom, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Archer, Phar Lap.... oh just realised they are all aussie films.
French Kiss - romantic comedy, makes you wanna meet and fall in love with a frenchman (i did but it was nothing like the film unfortunately!)
Alfred Hitchcock films
Whatever happened to Baby Jane
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
How could I forget 12 monkeys, a corker!! or Withnail and I!
Great thread Jeannie
Jeannine, I saw 2001 in a fleapit in Aberdeen when I was about 12. You can imagine it knocked my socks off. Narrowly avoided getting thumped for being English on the way home. It's still amazing though annoyingly obscure. I suppose that's why the Vatican thought it was theologically sound
some great films cambourne7. I love Day of the Dead and Das Boot. Also 12 Monkeys
What about The Fisher King?
mmm, Rhubarb, I must ask my Aberdeen born husband why they would want to thump you, I never notived they could ne mean when I got married there in 59 LOL XX Jeannine
Oh Cambourne, Shoes of the Fisherman is another of my could not part with, we just watched that one last night, smashing.
Another love story set in France,,,who knows Until Sptember,, oh you could drown in his eyes.
Also last noght we waqtched a smasher. It was the concert of Peter,Paul and Mary.. the one called and Mommy too. Full of kids, grans, mums and dads.1993 so not so old, but you jsu had to sing a long.
XX Jeannine
it was after North Sea Oil was discovered. People seemed to go all Nationalistic. It didn't help that I went to Robert Gordon's School (For Boys) which was posh, and IMHO as close to Hell on Earth as makes no difference
films I watch over and over and over again:
Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House, with the very debonair Cary Grant
Some Like It Hot
The Money Pit, which is a bit of a re-make of Mr Blandings... with Tom Hanks
High Society, the musical â€" just love Frank, Bing and Satchmo!
A Room With A View
Raiders of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, and the third one (can't remember what it's called... ::))
Jaws ;D
Pride and Prejudice (BBC Version) is a close second.
:o
have to disagree there.....BBC's version far superior :D
OK I fancy Colin Firth more ;D
Quote from: wilko on August 07, 2007, 16:42:28
Pride and Prejudice (BBC Version) is a close second.
:o
have to disagree there.....BBC's version far superior :D
OK I fancy Colin Firth more ;D
Why are you disagreeing Wilko?
Are you saying that the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice is far superior to the English Patient or to the awful film version of P&P? Perhaps you haven't read my post properly and jumped in with both feet. ;D ;D lol
Ahhh but with P & P, it's not the "jumping in", it's the "exiting from" that makes it memorable - Colin Firth fan here too.
and I forgot to mention Men in Black - watched it so many times I can dliver most of the dialogue along with Will & Tommy.
That'll be the day. Filmed near me and I was an extra.
Waking Ned. I cannot stop laughing every time I watch it.
Hi all,
Fave ever movie is Blade Runner (esp. the director's cut without the voiceover).
Others that get regularly re-watched include:
Life of Brian
Moulin Rouge
Star Wars (first 3, not the rubbish new ones)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Matrix trilogy
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Pan's Labyrinth
Akira
Think there may be a bit of a sci-fi/fantasy theme emerging here...
But my current most-played DVD is probably Richard Thompson's 1000 Years of Popular Music - not a film at all!
Cheers,
Rob ;)
ooh, and Local Hero!
I've watched 'I Claudius' many times, but the more recent 'Rome' is even better. Apart from that, I like Dune, Lord of the Rings and the Sharpe films.
Read all the 'Sharpe' books, love 'em, but OH still sneers when he see Sean Bean in his greenjacket......not like the book; not supposed to be blonde, Sheffield accent etc etc.......personally I see nothing wrong with a bloke in a nice pair of tight breeches (be still my heart...) ;D ;D ;D
I could spend my life watching films. Some of my favourites are:
baz lurmans (sp?) Romeo & Juliet, Hitchcock's Rear Window, High Society, Donnie Darko, House of the Flying Daggers, Secretary, House of Fog & Sand, Strictly Ballroom, Crash, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Pulp Fiction, To Catch a Thief (in fact all the hitchcock films).
What's the one about two strangers who start a 'relationship' when they meet on a train ... its a black and white one.
cor I could go on forever...
Brief Encounter
ah ! Brief Encounter ... apparently our local cinema (Cineworld) did a special showing on Tuesday evening, but sadly I missed it. I'd love to see the others on the big screen.
I can't even BEGIN to put my favourites down on here! I've got so many :)
But here's a couple of clips that make me 'melt'!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKlfa3LKows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrzjGCi3gY
Bringing up Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoGTKwpI4rg
The books are a lot better, but then books always are as far as I'm concerned. I like the detail and the complexity that disappears in the film.
One of my very favourite films on BBC4 next week - My life as a dog.
Added bonus is, if you watch it often enough, you get to learn the words to "Yes,we have no bananas" in Swedish
Great film on Film Four tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon - It Should Happen to You - Jack Lemmon and the wonderful Judy Holliday. It's funny and charming and just lovely.
my first single was 'Soley Soley' can't remember who by
and my first album was Slade 'old new borrowed and blue'
went to see them at Sheffield City Hall, must have been 1973 ish
I then 'progressed' to the Bay city Rollers. David Cassidy, Donny Osmond,
then I grew up and discovered Motown :D
:o sorry posted in wrong place
Almost impossible to answer!
The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption
The World According to Garp
The VIP's (love Liz Taylor and Dicky Burton)
The Yellow Rolls Royce
Ghost Train (Arthur Askey.....yes I really am only 36 :-\)
The Sixth Sense
Any musical, especially 7 brides and Grease (but not number 2)
Brassed Off
Any Agatha Christy
Getting brain ache now.....
I'm glad I have no TV/VHS as I could never throw them out... I love Movies, almost always cry, I'm an embarrassment to my wife and Children!
All Quiet on the Western Front (1927)
Psycho...
The Talanted Mr Ripley...
The Italian Job (original)...
:-[
Oh blimey....war films....
Escape from Zobibor
Kelly's Heros
Escape to Victory
Dirty Dozen
Today i have seen 2 films i had not intended to watch but got so engrossed i could not pull myself away.
The Boys (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054697/)
Penny Serenade (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034012/)
Would definatly recomend both!!