The best film, for you

BAYLOR said:
Its the best version of all.
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I have never seen any of the Christmas Carol films make before 1951 , but indeed that black and white film is the best I know of.
The TV movie versions with George C Scott (1984) and Patrick Stewart(1999) are very good.
 
BAYLOR said:
All About Eve 1950. Bette Davis, Celeste Holmes , George Sanders , Marlyn Monroe. This is a facinating film to watch. I love the dialogue . :cool:
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There are a lot of really great films from the 1950s , but Touch of Evil (1958) (Orson Welles) really sticks with me. (The restored version in recent years is even better.)
There is a case of Hollywood's tin ear . Touch of Evil was nominated (like The Searchers) for zero academy awards in any category.
 
BAYLOR said:
Things to Come
Gunga Din
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Well the middle section of Things to Come is one of the best dystopias I have ever seen.
The first third is ok, the last third of the film has great production vales but is ponderous and does not work.

Gunga Din is goofy fun.
 
Al Jackson said:
Well the middle section of Things to Come is one of the best dystopias I have ever seen.
The first third is ok, the last third of the film has great production vales but is ponderous and does not work.
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I would normally agree with you. But I recently got a blu-ray copy of the remastered film and found it to be fascinating from start to finish, Something I wouldn't have been able to say during the first ten or so times I've seen the movie. Something to be said for a good clean copy.
 
I'd add Sunshine to this. I loved it, but my GF thought that it was really dull.
 
Al Jackson said:
There are a lot of really great films from the 1950s , but Touch of Evil (1958) (Orson Welles) really sticks with me. (The restored version in recent years is even better.)
There is a case of Hollywood's tin ear . Touch of Evil was nominated (like The Searchers) for zero academy awards in any category.
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Touch of Evil has an absolutely brilliant opening scene. Everything about it seems spot-on. I can't remember many opening scenes, but I remember that one.
 
I'd add Danny Boyle's Sunshine to my list of "Best Movies" for me.

My friends and GF all found it really boring, but I loved it. It looks phenomenal and had a wonderful soundtrack. I watched it twice, back to back.
 
Two other great films that will always be in my "best collection":-

King Kong (1933) - truly terrifying from start to finish, and benefits greatly from a black & white production (which I realise was all that was available back then), but I don't think colour would have been quite so dramatic and eerie.

The War of the Worlds (1953) - The sight of those alien war craft hovering through the clouds of planet Earth and torching everything in sight, still lingers decades after first watching it as a child. A little hokey by today's standards of course, but back then the concept of "close encounters" with alien kind was novel to say the least, and the design of those war machines was outstanding in concept!
 
HanaBi said:
Two other great films that will always be in my "best collection":-

King Kong (1933) - truly terrifying from start to finish, and benefits greatly from a black & white production (which I realise was all that was available back then), but I don't think colour would have been quite so dramatic and eerie.

The War of the Worlds (1953) - The sight of those alien war craft hovering through the clouds of planet Earth and torching everything in sight, still lingers decades after first watching it as a child. A little hokey by today's standards of course, but back then the concept of "close encounters" with alien kind was novel to say the least, and the design of those war machines was outstanding in concept!
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King Kong (1933) scared the pee didiledy me when I was 12 years old. That film has more pace than the 1953 War of the Worlds. Unlike the Peter Jackson Kong was nasty , Kong was jungle visceral and that was scary. It's too bad that the 1977 Kong was such a clumsy mess.

War of the Worlds (1953) was also edgy , I mean up close and personal 3 guys and a priest trying to be friendly are made crispy critters. In the Spielberg version a similar , but different, sequence has people vaporized in a Disney way! (There is a more frighting Martian marauders scene later but it cuts off before anything edgy happens.)

I swear that big disaster movies in the last 10 years have killed off billions in a family friendly way! There is nothing scary in that! Victims die like blips on a pac man screen.
 
I apparently have a mild thing for weirdo romantic comedies: Tampopo, Cashback, Gross Pointe Blank, Orlando and Barcelona.

More serious films: Michael Clayton, I Am Love, 12 (2007)

I'm leaving off all the SF or action movies.
 
Onyx said:
I apparently have a mild thing for weirdo romantic comedies: Tampopo, Cashback, Gross Pointe Blank, Orlando and Barcelona.

More serious films: Michael Clayton, I Am Love, 12 (2007)

I'm leaving off all the SF or action movies.
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I think Tampopo has almost everything one could wish for in a film. It is a romantic comedy but it is also much more than that.
 
hitmouse said:
I think Tampopo has almost everything one could wish for in a film. It is a romantic comedy but it is also much more than that.
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Agreed. But I would say the same of all five of those films I listed under that heading.
 
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