Your ONE Most Favorite Film of All Time? - Page 4

Although I like to think of it as Groundhog Day, I'm glad to find someone else feel the same way about it. While I don't feel it encompasses everything I love about movies (cinematography and visual not verbal language, for example), its the only movie on earth that feels like coming home to me.

The Lord of the Rings...as I see it, it's one extremely long movie.

Disney's Beauty And The Beast. Pure magic and a very personal film to me.

As it was over thirty years ago for me Close Encounters of the Third Kind still remains my all time favourite film.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy E.E. without even thinking twice about it.
They are my favorite books (along with The Hobbit), and my favorite movies. Will hold judgement for now on Del Toros version of The Hobbit. I sure wish Jackson was directing it................

What an interesting question.  I don't know if I can answer this definitively, but maybe after I give it some more thought.

Aliens - It gave my my favourite character (Ripley), Director (Cameron), Composer (Horner), and so much more. I was terrified by it when I watched it as a teen - and have loved it relentlessly since.

If I had to pick one to be my favorite movie I would choose
Somewhere in Time.

A man falls deeply in love with someone after he sees a photograph of her taken nearly a century earlier.

The tagline back in 1980 when it was released,
"Beyond Fantasy. Beyond Obsession. Beyond time itself...He will find her."

Richard does find her, but in a most unusual way.
His journey starts as an old woman pushes a very old pocket watch into his hand and says, "Come back to me".

Now I have to also include
Heaven Can Wait (Beatty)
Somewhere In Time

These are equal to me as my favorite 3 movies.

You have Somewhere in Time listed twice. I'd be interested to know what your third pick is. 

Raiders of the Lost Ark will always be my favorite movie of all time. The Empire Strikes Back and LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring usually fight it out for second.

It's so much my favorite it's my favorite twice.

Actually the other one should be

On Borrowed Time

Borrowed from Somewhere in Time?

My choice for All Time Favorite would have to be the original MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Apart from regular home viewings, I've seen it several times on the big screen, starting with its first release, and there are always moments that feel like the air has been sucked out of the theater. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, with Angela Lansbury's Mother From Hell standing as one of the best performances I've ever seen. Close Runners Up would be SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Best Musical) and WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (Most Constantly Delightful).

Edward Scissorhands

The only films I revisit on a regular basis are 'Alien', 'Singin in the Rain', and 'Apocalypse Now'.  The fact that I have actually sought out theater showings of 'Alien' over the years probably means that it tops my list.  A BR of 'Alien' would make my decade.

Blues Brothers

Surprised I hadn't posted in this thread back during the '06 period.  There are at least five or six films that I could list as my "one favorite".  Today, that one would be The English Patient.

- Walter.

Part of me feels disappointed at having such a conventional favorite, but there really is no contest for me...

Casablanca.

The truly perfect screenplay, the performances, the camera work, the music.  Ilsa's entrance into Rick's, As Time Goes By, "Are my eyes really brown?", "Your winnings, sir", La Marseillaise vs. Die Wacht am Rhein, and what an ending... I could literally list every line and scene in the film as a favorite.  There isn't a better way to spend 100 minutes.

My favourite film of the 1940's. I've watched it every Christmas for the past 25 years.

I would have to say "The Birds." I first saw it as a kid (on an ancient b/w upright console tv with a small screen) and it scared the bejesus out of me-it seemed plausible unlike most horror movies. I was scarred for life regarding birds. I've seen it countless times since but I still stop if I run across it on tv. To this day too many birds in one place makes me nervous. A few years back I was walking my dog when a red winged blackbird started dive bombing my head from behind. Since the sun was at my back I saw big bird shadows on the ground in front of me as it swooped down. I just about died. Turns out it was baby season for that type of bird and similar "attacks" were commented on in the Chicago Tribune-those birds are very territorial & will chase you for up to 100 feet according to the story. Anyway, that's my choice for today-please pardon my bird ranting. On another day my selection might be "Some Like it Hot," "The Godfather," "Singin' in the Rain," "Sunset Boulevard," "Shadow of a Doubt," "Double Indemnity" or "Meet Me in St. Louis" or even "Gone With the Wind." I've seen all of them in a real movie theatre too.

Casablanca - It gets to me every time I see it.

Second place - Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

Third place - Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Fourth place - The Maltese Falcon

The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind...I can't choose one over the other (although Oz was the film that began my wonderful journey into the love of cinema.)

Since 1957, BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI has been, and I suspect will always remain, my most cherished movie ever. I hope Sony gets this out on Blu-ray rea-l-l-l soon.

 Don't think anything will ever beat City Of God in my book.  The only subtitled movie that I've ever been so engrossed in that I was able to subconsciously forget that I was watching it in subtitles.  I think it would still be in my top 5 just watching it in straight Portugese with no subtitles and having no clue what they were saying.  My top 5 change sporadically every now and again, but this one is always at the top consistently.  Only thing else that would ever come close is Heat, which in my opinion is the perfect action movie.  I'd gladly shell out $100 for it if it would EVER come out on Blu Ray.

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Pulp Fiction gets my vote.  There are a half dozen or so movies on my all time favorites list which I will never grow tired of, and Pulp Fiction is on the top.

Tough question for a film junkie.


Ummmm....

Rocky.  The ultimate down and out to the top of the world story.

Superman: The Movie. I've had a couple opportunities to see it on the big screen that fell though, so that's definitely on my Bucket List.

About 5 years or so ago a former htf member hosted a showing on a screen in Jersey.
I wasn't a fan of then screen because it was curved and it distorted the edges but it was still fun to see it on a ig screen again as I was lucky enough to see it on it's original run and I did believe a man could fly.

The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA had a screening in May 2008 that I had tickets to. Unfortunately, they moved up the date by a week and I was out of the country for the new date.

The Queen of Spades (U.K., 1949)  Great cast, atmosphere, photography, music and script.