What is your favorite movie?
07-16-10, 07:34 AM
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07-16-10, 10:19 AM
#107
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Boogie Nights.
its not even what I consider PTA's best film anymore, but damn if I dont watch this once a month. My all time favorite.
its not even what I consider PTA's best film anymore, but damn if I dont watch this once a month. My all time favorite.
07-16-10, 12:23 PM
#109
Re: What is your favorite movie?
(Just pasting my post done this morning on the now-closed thread)
WEST SIDE STORY was my favorite film from childhood on up through most of my adulthood. The last time I watched it was for a paper on "Realism in the Cinema" in graduate school, 15 years ago. I had a very bad emotional reaction to that viewing and I haven't seen it since, nor do I think I want to. (I have seen a high school production of it since, at my daughter's school, but I wasn't crazy about that experience either.)
So, if I had to pick an alternate favorite, or an adult favorite, I can't right now. I have different favorites for different purposes. Different films fulfill different parts of me. It's THE WILD BUNCH vs. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO.
But for the longest time, WEST SIDE STORY was head and tail above all others and I saw it about 23 times on the big screen, back when it used to always come back to theaters (before its TV premiere in 1972). I even wound up meeting some of the cast members. One of them, one of the key members of the Sharks--and one of the three actual Puerto Ricans among them--even lived in my building for a while and we became friends. (He'd gone to the same high school I did.) My daughter's a WEST SIDE STORY baby (i.e. her mother's Puerto Rican) and I even introduced her to Rita Moreno once (and Jaime Sanchez from THE WILD BUNCH was sitting at the same table), so there's a lot of history there.
WEST SIDE STORY was my favorite film from childhood on up through most of my adulthood. The last time I watched it was for a paper on "Realism in the Cinema" in graduate school, 15 years ago. I had a very bad emotional reaction to that viewing and I haven't seen it since, nor do I think I want to. (I have seen a high school production of it since, at my daughter's school, but I wasn't crazy about that experience either.)
So, if I had to pick an alternate favorite, or an adult favorite, I can't right now. I have different favorites for different purposes. Different films fulfill different parts of me. It's THE WILD BUNCH vs. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO.
But for the longest time, WEST SIDE STORY was head and tail above all others and I saw it about 23 times on the big screen, back when it used to always come back to theaters (before its TV premiere in 1972). I even wound up meeting some of the cast members. One of them, one of the key members of the Sharks--and one of the three actual Puerto Ricans among them--even lived in my building for a while and we became friends. (He'd gone to the same high school I did.) My daughter's a WEST SIDE STORY baby (i.e. her mother's Puerto Rican) and I even introduced her to Rita Moreno once (and Jaime Sanchez from THE WILD BUNCH was sitting at the same table), so there's a lot of history there.
07-16-10, 12:37 PM
#111
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
So that no one else needs to do this I merged the more recent, closed thread into this one.
I'd like to add that, as a moderator, duplicating very common thread topics makes a forum, at least in my opinion, stale and uninteresting.
As a regular poster, it's far more valuable if I can see how these tastes develop over a few years. Just because someone posted their favorite movie five years ago doesn't make that thread less worthy.
I'd like to add that, as a moderator, duplicating very common thread topics makes a forum, at least in my opinion, stale and uninteresting.
As a regular poster, it's far more valuable if I can see how these tastes develop over a few years. Just because someone posted their favorite movie five years ago doesn't make that thread less worthy.
07-16-10, 02:31 PM
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Same as it was last year (and the year before that and the year before that...)
Jaws
Jaws
07-16-10, 03:46 PM
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07-16-10, 03:53 PM
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07-16-10, 04:01 PM
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
Any of these five (although the top spot is pretty much permanent):
THE FLY (Cronenberg, '86)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Kubrick, '68)
LATE SPRING (Ozu, '49)
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Kar-Wai, '94)
THE THIRD MAN (REED, '49).
THE FLY (Cronenberg, '86)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Kubrick, '68)
LATE SPRING (Ozu, '49)
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Kar-Wai, '94)
THE THIRD MAN (REED, '49).
07-16-10, 04:32 PM
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07-16-10, 04:36 PM
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
The Magnificent Seven Samurai
Saw both in the 60s when I was about 12 or so. Just great epics of soldiering. If they are on I watch them.
Saw both in the 60s when I was about 12 or so. Just great epics of soldiering. If they are on I watch them.
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07-16-10, 07:21 PM
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Re: What is your favorite movie?
07-16-10, 10:14 PM
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