I am the biggest cinema fan. I love films just as much as I love music. I just love arts in general.

My all time favorite movie, if I have to name only one, it'll be Cinema Paradiso.

I love films by Wong Kar-Wai, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Hayao Miyazaki, and screenplays by Charlie Kauffman.

For those of you who like independent movies, you have to watch The Station Agent, one of the best indies ever!!!! I'm a sucker for perculiar friendships.

Ah a movie lover! I love love love movies.

I'm still debating on what my favourite film ever is.

I want to say Monkey Business (Only because I'm completely enamored with the Marx Brothers.)

I think I'll have to say The Seven Samurai(Shichinin no samurai) or The Seventh Seal. (Sjunde inseglet, Det)

I love Jim Jarmusch films. Paris, Texas is my favorite of his. Also love the Charlie Kaufman screenplays.

My favorite movie of all time is Contact, but I am a science geek at heart :)

:rolleyes: Sooo many to choose from.....most of what's produced today is such drivel.

In no particular order:

L.A. Confidential
Out of Africa
The Rear Window
Casablanca
The Joy Luck Club
Citizen Kane
The Wizard of Oz
The Passion of the Christ
The Godfather + sequels
Those crazy, crazy Christopher Guest movies (Best in Show is my favorite)
I could go on, but I won't :rolleyes:

I Loooove the cinema! I really love going to movie houses and watching on the big screen with others and enjoying the collective experience. I feel we are losing a lot of the magic of film when we watch films in the privacy of our homes instead of sharing the immersion experience with others. I go to as many film festivals as I can because alot of these films are incredible and often unfortunately never make it beyond the film festival circuit which to me is a huge injustice.

Anyhow, of the films that people do get to see, here are some of my favorites so far:

My favorite directors right now are Pedro Almodovar and Ang Lee.

My favorite relatively current movies are:
La Mala Educacion
Look Both Ways (Australian film, definitely check it out!)
Brokeback Mountain
Transamerica
Millions
Good Night and Good Luck
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (what a hoot! - Robert Downey Jr. pairing with Val Kilmer)

And overall (at this moment in time):
Adaptation
All About My Mother
Amelie
Billy Elliot
Birdcage
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
High Fidelity
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Shakespeare in Love
Seventh Seal

Well to top my list is:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

followed by:

Godfather Trilogy
Garage Days
Rent
Star Wars, all six of them
Harry Potter series
Gone With The Wind

Some of my favorite movies are:

Life is Beautiful (a subtitled Italian film with Roberto Banini(sp?) about the Holocost)

O Brother Where Art Thou
Forrest Gump
The Green Mile
Signs
The War (I love this movie! If you haven't seen it, check it out)
Napolian Dynamite (hilarious!)
All That Jazz
Any Adam Sandler movie
The Butterfly Effect
Shrek and Shrek II
Second Hand Lions (Awesome movie!)
Dude, Where's My Car
The Big Lewbowski

You've Got Mail
Pretty Woman
Star Wars series
Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Walk The Line
Finding Neverland
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Notebook
Tristan & Isolde
Remember The Titans
Breakfast At Tiffany's
My Fair Lady
Grease
Gidget
The Goonies
The Breakfast Club
St. Elmo's Fire
Dead Poets Society

too many more to name

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editing because I can't believe I forgot these:
A Christmas Story
Pure Country

I'm know I'm probably alone in this...but The Boondock Saints is one of my favorite movies. I'm into action movies, thrillers and dramas. I can't stand typical "chick flicks", so my boyfriend has no problem with me picking the movies we watch!

I also like most of Christian Bale's movies. :thud:

Anyone like foreign movies? I don't know anyone who does and I don't know how to pick them. I just recently watched The Dinner Game, it's a French comedy. It was pretty funny!

Braveheart
Shawshank Redemption
Shine
Silence of the Lambs
Crouchign tiger Hidden Dragon
Usual Suspects
Glory

Crash
Shawshank Redemption
Notebook
And drum roll ....... Dirty Dancing :rotfl:

Hey you and I can be friends.

I love foreign movies. In fact, I watch mostly foreign movies, Indies, and documentries. Not a big fan of the mainstream hollywood blockbusters.
I also CANNOT stand typical chick flicks. I like certain kind of romance movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Brokeback Mountain.

I also love Christian Bale. He is a great charactor actor. I recently saw the Machinist. He is totally awesome.

loved this movie (i.e., cinema paradiso)!!! definitely my favorite foreign film. the musical score to the movie was so poignant. however, my ALL TIME FAVORITE movie and soundtrack is THE ENGLISH PATIENT. i was in love with ralph fiennes. awesome, awesome movie. the book, upon which the movie was based, was equally beautiful.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Harry Potter Series
All the X-Men movies
The Breakfast club
Star Wars Movies
Finding Neverland
Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Crash
Mrs. Henderson Presents

Few but not all movies that had an impact on me...
(Shown at a random order)

Braveheart
The Shawshank Redemption
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
Sleepless in Seattle
You've got Mail
When Harry Met Sally (ok by now you can tell that i love Meg Ryan)
Forest Gump
What Dreams May Come
Saving Private Ryan
Amelie
Leon
Spirited Away (Animation)
All animated movies from Pixar

Yeah, I loved The Station Agent too.

Let's see, favorite directors are Tarantino and Kevin Smith.

Favorite movies: The Godfather (Pacino is my favorite actor), Walk the Line, Love Actually, Trainspotting, Almost Famous, Say Anything, Casino, and Clerks.

I also love all the brat pack movies and anything with Will Ferrell. My friends and I can quote all the lines in Anchorman, heh.

Clue, Airplane!, Labyrinth, the Harry Potter movies, Amelie, pretty much anything by Miyazaki, the Hannibal series, Brokeback Mountain...

I like to think I'll add Snakes on a Plane to that list once it's out. ;)

I have three movies that I call my favorites....and Newsies just happens to be one of those. The other two are:

October Sky (I fell in love with Jake Gyllenhaal in this movie: I like to think I found him first :P )
Miracle

I seriously could recite all three of those by heart.

The Shawshank Redemption is my all time favorite movie.

But also: Enemy At The Gates, The Thin Red Line, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan... I am a big war movie fanatic. Oh, and I can't forget Forrest Gump :D

lol are you male or female? I can't go to movies with my girlfriends, I feel like I'm just wasting my money. It's specifically romantic comedies that I don't like.

Do you have any foreign movies that you would recommend? I rent them once in awhile from Netflix but I have no idea what to look for. I like movies with intricate stories, like Intermission. Right now The Motorcycle Diaries is waiting for me on my DVD player. And so far the only foreign movie I did not enjoy was Y Tu Mama Tambien.



Oh, and YAY there are Christian Bale fans here! :D :D :D

duh.. of course i'm female. do men like "chick flicks"? lol.. anyway i hate watching romantice comedies. they are all the same.

Motorcyle Diaries is a very inspiring film with beautiful scenaries. You'll enjoy it.
You should watch my favorite movie - Cinema Paradiso. it's italian. i have not met anyone who doesn't like this movie. If you like heart-breaking dramas, there are a couple chinese movies that I really like, Farewell My Concubine and To Live. Tell me if you like art-house films, I watch lots of those but I know some people prefer commercial movies.

Yes, LA Confidential, Wizard of Oz, and the Passion of the Christ are amongst my favs.
My alltime favorite EVER is The Color Purple with Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah. I also like Throw Momma from the Train, and Disney movies (lol), and Coming to America (a classic! hehe)

Thanks for the recs, I added Cinema Paradiso and To Live on my Netflix queue.

What are art-house movies?

Oh Gosh.. I love so many movies... but here are some in no particular order heh....


Matrix trilogy
LoTR movies
All the Harry Potter movies
Fight Club
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Legend
To Wong Fu: Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar
Shaun of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Dogma
Mallrats
Dune
Zoolander
Chronicles of Riddick
Pitch Black
Big Trouble in Little China
Little Mermaid
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Waiting
Blade 1, 2, 3
Xmen 1, 2, 3
Eat Drink Man Woman
Raise the Red Lantern

etc etc etc

I could go on and on all day so I'll just say that I love too many movies heh

Yay, a lot of people liked Crash! I LOVED that movie...i definitely think it deserved to win the Oscar...some of my favorite movies include
Crash
Scream 2
Walk the Line
Jurassic Park
Titanic
Never Been Kissed
Con Air
Identity
Face Off
Into the Woods
Rocky horror Picture Show
There's Something About Mary
Zoolander
Meet the parents, Meet the Fockers ( i <3 ben stiller)
Saw 1 &2
and lots more =)

Adding "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Wizard of Oz" to the list in my previous post. :) :broccoli:

Movies that have a special place on my shelf (and my heart):

Donnie Darko
12 Angry Men
Sin City
Mulholland Dr.
Moulin Rouge!
Fun
The Thin Red Line
The Goonies

I have a million fav movies but i wanna make you guys laugh...my all time favorite movie is Lady and the Tramp...yup i am SUCH a dork! :rolleyes:

I love movies in general, but my favorites have personal connections. Not in any particular order:

Shawshank Redemption
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland
Anything else with Kate Winslet...
Blade Runner
Moonstruck
Cinema Paradiso
Cinerella Man
Gladiator
Mystery Alaska
Anything else with Russell Crowe
Walk The Line
Empire Of The Sun
Braveheart
Superman
Star Wars/Indiana Jones Series
Somewhere In Time

Wizard of Oz
Stepmom
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
Shag
Now & Then
Little Mermaid
Beauty & the Beast
Finding Nemo (LOVE Dory! :lol: )
Toy Story 1 & 2
Harry Potter Series
The Goonies
X Men Series





I'm a self-professed kid at heart! :dance:

It has to be Titanic... because I went out of my way to see it 3 times... and paid the $8.00 everytime... totally worth it.


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ALIENS



and many many more...

Lord of the Rings Trilogy...tops my list, especially the extended versions!

Harry Potter
Any disney animated film
50 first dates
Pirates of the Carribean
My Best Friend's Wedding
Star Wars
Jim Henson's Labyrinth

American Beauty
Sin City
The Crow
Mind Hunters
Be Cool
There's Something About Mary

lol, I love movies I could go on all day about my favorites! :silly:

OMG I LOOOOOOOVE 50 First Dates!!
The ending of that movie makes me want to sob... for one reason or another (don't wanna give anything away heh)

There are a lot of good movies, but one of stand out movie for me is Billy ELLIOTT!

Rock on, man! :D

My all-time favorite list (I love my British actors :wub:):

Fantasy/Adventure:

- Harry Potter series

Suspense/Drama

- Shawshank Redemption
- Titanic
- Dear Frankie
- Dead Again
- The Usual Suspects
- American Beauty
- Sunshine (Ralph Fiennes)

Action:
- L.A. Confidential
- The Patriot
- Black Hawk Down
- Gangster No. 1
- Timeline

Rom-Com:
- My Best Friend's Wedding
- Wimbledon
- Down With Love
- Pretty Woman
- Love Actually
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Shakespeare in Love

Musicals:
- Love's Labour's Lost
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Moulin Rouge!
- Garage Days

TV-movies:
- Conspiracy
- Warm Springs

Oh I totally forgot to mention Shawshank Redemption, LA Confidentiional, Seven, and The Usual Suspects. Pretty much any movie with Kevin Spacey :wub:

Spacey fan here!!! :woohoo: Can't wait to see Superman Returns!!!

I'm a big fan of Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Steven Spielberg, Kevin Smith, Woody Allen, PT Anderson and Tim Burton. I appreciate MOST of the movies they've made, most notably:

Pulp Fiction
Big Fish
Reservoir Dogs
Jurassic Park
Chasing Amy
Clerks
Minority Report
Hannah and her Sisters
Mighty Aphrodite
Match Point
Se7en
Fight Club
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
Other films I like: Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Shawshank Redemption, The usual Suuspects, Crash, 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, The Sure Thing, Being John Malkovich, Fargo, In The Mood For Love, Infernal Affairs, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Before Sunset, Memento, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, 21 Grams, Star Wars, HP series, LOTR, There's Something About Mary, Ace Ventura (haha) etc etc