What is your favorite film?

[Miguel Antonio]

Feel free to post your favorite film or films. My favorite film is 8 1/2 at the moment.

 

[jpeirpont]

Wrong film. I use digital rather badly.

 

[tiecollector]

n/t

 

[Nantucket Red]

My favorite film is Kodak BW400CN followed closely by TMax 3200. The Ilford films are also very nice, but quite a bit more grainy in my experience.

 

[tiecollector]

wait, what kind of film are we talking about here? I don't use film, I use compact flash.

 

[Nantucket Red]

Black & white film.

I don't use flash. I'm strictly an ambient light photographer.

 

[Tsintaosaurus]

my favorite film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/

 

[Zubberah]

My Top 10 (in chronological order). If I were to choose one, it would be Persona.

Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
La Passion de Jeannne d'Arc (Carl Dreyer, 1928)
Journal d'un CurÃ

de Campagne (Robert Bresson, 1950)
Sansho Dayu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergeo Leone, 1968)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974)
A Short Film About Killing (Kryzstof Kieslowski, 1987)

Runners Up (listed chronologically): STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928, USA, Charles F. Reisner, Buster Keaton [uncredited] ), CITY LIGHTS (1931, USA, Charles Chaplin), LA GRANDE ILLUSION (1937, France, Jean Renoir), PINOCCHIO (1940, USA, Walt Disney), THE ILLIAC PASSION (1948, USA, Gregory Markopolous), LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948, USA, Max Ophuls), LA TERRA TREMA (1948, Italy, Luchino Visconti), LOS OLVIDADOS (1950, Mexico, Luis Buñuel), SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952, USA, Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly), SHANE (1953, USA, George Stevens), IKIRU (1953, Japan, Akira Kurosawa), CHIKAMATSU MONOGATARI/aka CRUCIFIED LOVERS (1955, Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi), PICKPOCKET (1959, France, Robert Bresson), SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959, USA, Billy Wilder), L'AVVENTURA (1960, Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni), PASSENGER (1960, Poland, Andrzej Munk), JULES ET JIM (1961, France, Francois Truffaut), VIVRE SA VIE (1962, France, Jean-Luc Godard), 8 1/2 (1963, Italy, Federico Fellini), LA RELIGIEUSE (1965, France, Jacques Rivette), ANDREI RUBLEV (1966, USSR, Andrei Tarkovsky), SHAME (1968, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman), DEATH BY HANGING (1968, Japan, Nagisa Oshima), A PASSION (1969, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman), TIMES FOR (1971, UK, Stephen Dwoskin), THE GODFATHER (1972, USA, Francis Ford Coppola), ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974, Germany, Wim Wenders), LA VILLE DES PIRATES/ CITY OF PIRATES (1983, France/Portugal, Raúl Ruiz), BELL DIAMOND (1985, USA, Jon Jost )

 

[Joel_Cairo]

If I had to pick one, I'd probably say Beat the Devil, which was this low-budget spoof made by Bogart's own production company, and which pretty much fell apart during filming, resulting in a movie that is almost more a documentary than a feature film, with its airy, quasi-improvised vibe, sort of like a full-length blooper-reel. It has a kind of neo-realist texture to it, except populated with familiar Hollywood actors of the noir cycle doing send-ups of their signature characters and generally romping about. Every one is kind of haggard and shopworn, none of them seem to care too much. In a way, it's a precursor to The Big Lebowski (which itself affectionately homages noir) because it really isn't about much of anything at all - the film itself as MacGuffin. I can watch it over and over, because it just seems to have so much authentic life in it. If you've seen The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca and the other Bogart "classics", Beat the Devil really is a lot of fun. It's fallen into Public Domain, so you can buy dvds of it for like $3, or even watch it on Google VIdeo. edit: also, to make matters even more absurd, the nominal plot (written by Truman Capote) centers upon the pursuit of significant quantities of uranium from Africa. I kid you not.

 

[Nantucket Red]

Is this thread about film or about movies?

 

[DocHolliday]

A lot of love for "8 1/2" already, but I'll toss in a vote for "La Dolce Vita."

 

[underwearer]

Goodfellas and 110

 

[Maharlika]

Gone with the Wind.

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Hmmm....


Even after everything I've ever seen, nothing is ever quite as enjoyable as the following three movies:


1: Raiders of The Lost Ark
2: Robocop
3: True Romance

I'm not going to blow smoke up your ass and tell you that Fellini's 8 1/2 is my favorite film, cause I'd be lying.
I hate art school dick measuring contests.

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

I'm not going to blow smoke up your ass and tell you that Fellini's 8 1/2 is my favorite film, cause I'd be lying.

lol

mine is Good Fellas still.