My Ever-Changing Top Ten Favorite Movies

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12 Angry Men (1957) Henry Fonda and many others.
Jury drama.

Ciao Professore (1993) Italian w/ English subtitles

Pieces of April (2003) Katie Holmes
Thanksgiving dinner prepared by a wayward daughter at her teeny apartment on New York's Lower East Side. Fascinating study of stereotypes and families.

For Love of the Game (1999) Kevin Costner
It's about baseball, of course.

Casablanca (1942) Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Berman

Some Like It Hot (1959) Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis

Philadelphia (1993) Tom Hanks, Danzel Washington, Jason Robards, Joanne Woodward, Antonio Banderas
A gay lawyer, infected with AIDS, is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that others at the firm might contract AIDS from him. The gay lawyer sues his former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer.

Chocolat (2000) Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina
This film gives a whole new meaning to giving up chocolate for Lent.

On The Waterfront (1954) Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb,
Rod Steiger
Classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey.

Il Postino (1994) Italian w/ English subtitles

[DebinSC]

May I join in..or follow up.. as the case may be?
I saw that you had your top ten list, so I did an impromptu shuffle through my memory and these are the top ten that came to my mind. I'm going to post them before reading yours, so I won't start to second guess myself.

It's a little skewed toward more recent years. If I think longer, it could change. :)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Rear Window
Lawrence of Arabia
Children of Men
The Usual Suspects
Out of Africa
Local Hero
The Sixth Sense
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Auntie Mame

[roknrolhrt]

Deb, nice list. You have some titles we haven't seen; Children of Men, Local Hero, and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I'll check them out on the Blockbuster site. Thanks for sharing.

[DebinSC]

Rok:
12 Angry Men - a classic! Didn't think of it.
Casablanca - of course! :)
Haven't seen For the Love of the Game, but I really liked Field of Dreams.
I loved Il Postino.

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Of course, Nettie and I love baseball. This movie (For Love of the Game), though, is a love story told through the innings of a single major league baseball game. Costner is very into baseball and comes out here to Omaha each year for the NCAA College World Series.

[Bebop]

Okay, here I go... I've been thinking about this, and narrowing it to ten is really tough. So first I'll list 10 of the absolute best films I've ever seen. Then comes a second list of even more that are also films I love for various reasons. I've seen every one of these at least twice, sometimes much more. I can guarantee that I have left out some that should be on here. Oh well.
Top ten
-The Piano (1993) - directed by Jane Campion, with Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel (Australia)
-La Strada (1954) - directed by Fellini, with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (Italy)
-Jean de Florette and the sequel Manon des Source (1986) - directed by Claude Berri, with Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Beart (France)
-Dark Side of the Heart (1992) and the sequel Dark Side of the Heart, 2 (2002) - directed by Subiela with Dario Grandinetti (Argentina)
-Annie Hall (1977) - directed by Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton (USA)
-Secrets and Lies (1996) - directed by Mike Leigh, with Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn (England)
-Pow Wow Highway (1989) - directed by Jonathan Wacks, with Gary Farmer (USA)
-Girl on the Bridge (2000) - directed by Patrice Leconte, with Daniel Auteuil (France)
-Yes (2004) - directed by Sally Potter, with Joan Allen, Shirley Henderso, Sam Neill (England)
-Dead Man (1995) - directed by Jim Jarmusch, with Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer (USA)

and here are more that I absolutely love (but without so much detail)
-Why has Bodi-Dharma left for the East? (Korea)
-Passage to India - E.M. Forester adaptation (England)
-Miss Julie - directed by Mike Figgis, Strindberg adaptation (England)
-Pope of Greenwich Village (USA)
-High Hopes - directed by Mike Leigh (England)
-Volver - directed by Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
-Happy-Go-Lucky - directed by Mike Leigh (England)
-Naked - directed by Mike Leigh (England)
-Stardust Memories - Woody Allen
-Small Time Crooks - Woody Allen
-Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen
-Sweet and Lowdown - Woody Allen
-Painted Veil - Somerset Maugham adaptation (England)
-Exiles - directed by Tony Gatlif (France)
-Pulp Fiction - directed by Quentin Tarantino (USA)
-Un Coeur en Hiver (Heart in Winter) - with Auteuil and Beart (France)
-Monsieur Hire - directed by Patrice Leconte (France)
-Jeremiah Johnson - directed by Sydney Pollack with Robert Redford

[Bebop]

Oh no, I just thought of one that should have been in my top ten. How could I have forgotten:
Blue (1993) - directed by Krystof Kieslowski, with Juliette Binoche (France)

[Bebop]

More great favorites keep coming into my head but I promise, this last list is it.
-Casablanca
-Exotica
-Wings of Desire
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being
-Barfly
-Intimacy
-Sheltering Sky
-The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
-The Big Lebowski
-Five Easy Pieces

[roknrolhrt]

Oh, don't be concerned about the number of lists. You have a potpourri of films that me thinks Nettie and I would enjoy and there are many we have already enjoyed.

[roknrolhrt]

Smile. I enjoyed Red as well as Blue. I like your list and recognize many of the titles. Some are certainly worthy of another viewing while others warrant a first time look. I must confess, however, that I had great difficulty with Pulp Fiction.

[DebinSC]

Secrets and Lies! I forgot about that one, Bebop. Definitely waaay up there on my list, too. I'm going to check out some others you've listed there, though I recall seeing "Unbearable Lightness..." when it was first release and referring to it afterward as the "Unbearable Longness..". ;> Might feel differently if I saw it now.

Rok, "Lock, Stock, and...." is an funnier, less violent than "Pulp Fiction", British story of some hapless, low-level criminals who end up ok in spite of themselves. I know you'd love Local Hero, also a British film, set in Scotland. Wonderful! Children of Men, much more recent, future fiction kind of thing, but the cinematography and direction are pretty impresive.

Oh! Just remembered one more, My Favorite Year, if you are a Peter O'Toole fan.

[Bebop]

Unbearable Lightness of Being is definitely an acquired taste. Some of what I loved about it:
-The cinematography is gorgeous (as is any film by Philip Kaufman--think of Henry and June)
-I love the novels of Milan Kundera and this was one of his best, and beautifully adapted for film. He really got Kundera's feelings of angst, joy, kitsch and humor.
-Some of my favorite actors are in it: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
-I think it really got the feeling of the 60's and the Prague Spring.
-This was my introduction to Juliette Binoche. I loved her character...and she was a photographer!

[roknrolhrt]

Juliette Binoche is the bomb!!! Now, that I think of it, Ms. Bop, I have to add Chocolat to my ever-changing faves list.