Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[Robert]

The Lady Vanishes
Night Train To Munich
Double Indemnity
Libel (Dirk Bogarde)

[Abby Normal]

By genre, but some are hard to categorize, or fall into multiple ones, but here goes:

Comedy:
American graffiti
This is spinal tap
Neighbors (ackroyd and belushi)
A Christmas story
Christmas vacation
16 candles
Men in black
Sideways
Groundhog Day
The hangover
Planes, trains and automobiles
Fast times at ridgemont high
Young Frankenstein
Manhattan murder mystery
Monty pythons holy grail
Gung Ho



Fantasy:
Lord of the rings
The wizard of oz
Jason and the argonauts
Spirited away(animated)
Pans labyrinth
The thief of Baghdad
The seventh voyage of sin bad
Clash of the titans
The ant bully(animated)
Company of wolves
The jungle book(animated)
Naked lunch
Beetle juice
Willy wonka and the chocolate factory
Peter pan(animated)
A Christmas carol (Alister sim)
Sante sangre

Other genres to follow...

Forgot beauty and the beast (1946)!!!! For fantasy genre.
One of the first movies I ever recall seeing. It gave me wonderful dreams and horrible nightmares. A truly magical fantasy if ever there was one.

[sdreid]

My top 20 science fiction movies from the 1950s with date of release:

20-Revenge of the Creature(1955)
19-The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
18-Them!(1954)
17-Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)
16-Return of the Fly(1959)
15-Destination Moon(1950)
14-The Atomic Submarine(1959)
13-Earth vs. the Flying Saucers(1956)
12-It Came from Outer Space(1953)
11-Forbidden Planet(1956)
10-When Worlds Collide(1951)
9-The Fly(1958)
8-Invaders from Mars(1953)
7-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1954)
6-The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957)
5-The Colossus of New York(1958)
4-The Blob(1958)
3-The Thing from Another World(1951)
2-The War of the Worlds(1953)
1-Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)

[Abby Normal]

My top 20 science fiction movies from the 1950s with date of release:

20-Revenge of the Creature(1955)
19-The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
18-Them!(1954)
17-Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)
16-Return of the Fly(1959)
15-Destination Moon(1950)
14-The Atomic Submarine(1959)
13-Earth vs. the Flying Saucers(1956)
12-It Came from Outer Space(1953)
11-Forbidden Planet(1956)
10-When Worlds Collide(1951)
9-The Fly(1958)
8-Invaders from Mars(1953)
7-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1954)
6-The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957)
5-The Colossus of New York(1958)
4-The Blob(1958)
3-The Thing from Another World(1951)
2-The War of the Worlds(1953)
1-Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)

Awesome list.

Did you ever see This Island Earth? It's one of my favorites.

[robhouse]

Hello there, Fun list, actually made me laugh as some of my favorite filmmakers are on your list, but you picked some of my least favorite films of theirs (not that they are great films... they are, but for each i would have picked other films )

for instance Elephant Man- David Lynch- I would put Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet and Fire Walk with me over Elephant Man.

Barry Lyndon (which is a very underrated and almost forgotten film!!) By Stanley Kubrick- i would have put Killers Kiss, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket above it though.

Fanny And Alexander- Again, great film, and I am a Bergman Freak...Being an American, I had only seen the "American Theatrical release of this film for years, and thought it was blah, very overrated, then, I bought the box set and got to see the full film.. wow.. it is amazing....but I would put several of his films above F &A- Seventh Seal ( which is there), but also, Wild Strawberries, Sawdust And Tinsel, The Magician, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, Persona, Hour of the Wolf ( I'll stop there, see I am a bit of a Bergman fanatic)

and Mean Streets- another great film by Scorsese- But I would put Taxi Driver , Raging Bull and the King Of Comedy higher then Mean streets..

these lists can be great fun..

Steadmund Brand

Sometimes it is hard to say which film is better than another... if both are great. This list was really off the top of my head. I think I have to disagree about Lynch, Scorcese, and Kubrick though.

I do love the Shining, and Clockwork Orange, but I certainly think BL is better than Killers Kiss, full Metal Jacket, and Dr. Strangelove. Barry Lyndon, incidentally, is one of Scorcese's favorite films.

For Scorcese.. I find Mean Streets to be his most honest and powerfully raw film. It is the closest to an art film, in my opinion. Raging Bull is great, and Taxi Driver is great. I also like Kundun and Age of Innocence. But some of his later films, including Good Fellas and Casino, follow a sort of formula laid down by Raging Bull. They lack something that makes Mean Streets special. ("You calling me a mook? What's a mook?")

I bow to your superior knowledge of Bergman. I do like several of his films, including Monika, and Scenes from a Marriage. I also like Eric Rohmer, Antonioni, Fassbinder. I could really go on for hours about films I like.

For Lynch, I do like his more Lynchian stuff... Inland Empire, Twin Peaks, etc. But the Elephant Man, I feel, is an odd mixture of his weirdness mixed with a seriousness and an emotional power and honesty that his later films lack a bit.

I am also a huge Hitchcoock fan, and could have added several more: the Birds, the Lady Vanishes, Blackmail, Murder!, Rebecca, etc. Some of his spotty films still have great qualities, like Jamaica Inn and Young and Innocent. Again, his more Hitchcockian films, like North by Northwest or Rear Window are, I think, not among his best. His early British films have an aura that I have never found in any other film. Even some of the lesser known ones, like Murder are pretty fantastic.

RH

[Errata]

Awesome list.

Did you ever see This Island Earth? It's one of my favorites.

This Island Earth is the ****.

[Errata]

Your #18 there --that alien Lattis -- aka Susan McConnell, was something else, eh?

I quote that movie like, every day. It's a whole shtick now between me and my fiance.

Like right before bed, he announces "I sleep now!" and I respond "I never liked you!"

It is the most brilliant thing ever. I have had four Halloween costumes from that movie.

[Mayerling]

Hello Jeff. Good Lor'! A Sim fan. Hmmm.

Cheers.
LC

Hi LC,

I've been a big fan since the 1970s. Such soulful poached egg eyes, that you knew had an ulterior motive. It was "Scrooge" and "The Green Man" that I liked so much that convinced me, along with "An Inspector Calls" (the best name for a mysterious detective, "Inspector Goole"). I also liked some films he was in that were not well received - Hitchcock's "Stage Fright" and "The Millionairess". His final film appearance, as the dotty bishop in "The Ruling Class" was a nice cameo.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

The man liked his scarves. I remember watching Hue and Cry at Saturday Morning pictures. Some great shots of the blitz ravaged London.

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I was told that when Alec Guiness portrayed "Professor Marcus" the criminal mastermind of "The Ladykillers", he based his appearance on Sim.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Alec Guinness:

Tunes of Glory
Last Holiday
The Man in the White Suit
The Lavender Hill Mob
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Bridge On the River Kwai
The Detective


Peter Sellers:

I'm All Right Jack
The Naked Truth
Two Way Stretch
Heaven's Above
The Mouse That Roared
The Waltz of the Toreadors
The Wrong Arm of the Law
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
The Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark
The Wrong Box (Cameo part, but a wonderful one - as is the film)

Terry-Thomas:

Make Mine Mink
Too Many Crooks
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

[lynn cates]

vanishing

Hello Robert.

"The Lady Vanishes"

Hmm, must show THAT one to my wife. (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Sir Alec

Hello Jeff. Thanks.

Good grief! When I watched "The Lady Killers" I was struck by the fact that Sir Alec looked SO much like Sim. Thought it was just my odd notion.

Cheers.
LC

[Jonathan H]

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Ivan the Terrible Part I (1944)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
1941 (1979)
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

Dressed to Kill (1980)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Amacord (1973)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920)
Moby Dick (1956)

Alphaville (1965)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
The Formula (1980)
Bombshell (1933)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Lolita (1962--Kubrick's greatest IMO)
All That Jazz (1979)
Shoot the Moon (1981)
Octopussy (1983)

[GUT]

Alec Guinness:

Tunes of Glory
Last Holiday
The Man in the White Suit
The Lavender Hill Mob
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Bridge On the River Kwai
The Detective


Peter Sellers:

I'm All Right Jack
The Naked Truth
Two Way Stretch
Heaven's Above
The Mouse That Roared
The Waltz of the Toreadors
The Wrong Arm of the Law
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
The Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark
The Wrong Box (Cameo part, but a wonderful one - as is the film)

Terry-Thomas:

Make Mine Mink
Too Many Crooks
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

G'day Jeff

Under Peter Sellers, you should just say, "Everything".

[sdreid]

Did you ever see This Island Earth?

I have seen the film. It would probably be in my top 25.

Globally, I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't more than 100 Sci-Fi films made in the 50s especially if you include some questionables like Around the World in 80 Days and The Naked Jungle, which are both very good btw. For whatever reason, I would have trouble naming even 5 Sci-Fi movies made in the 1940s