Three Favourite Films Of All Time

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Played this game with some friends the other day

I chose :

1 Citizen Kane ( nothing need be said !!!!)
2Good Fellas ( just the best Scorsese )
3The Awful Truth ( a 1937 screwball comedy with cary Grant and Irene Dunne - always makes me happy )
 
Questions like this are always so hard for me because I don't watch many films :confused:

Erm..............

Moulin Rouge (because I like singing along to it)
Sense And Sensibilty


Oh lordy I can't even think of a third one! I'll come back to this later :lol:
 
3The Awful Truth ( a 1937 screwball comedy with cary Grant and Irene Dunne - always makes me happy )
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ARDROSS we'll have it played daily before you come on line.............. :D :D

Difficult situation with old and new type films I could not get it down to three and I don't watch many films!! either..... only PAWN.... that's sex films for the older man/women... :o :D (its my joke too don't let others take it either)

Marlon Brando Films

Harrison Ford films

Treasure Island

Mutiny on the Bounty

Most of the biblical epics

Someone up there likes me

White Christmas

The Vikings

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock films
but thats just a few.........

hundreds more

I am downloading now HOTEL RAWANDA as anybody seen it ????
 
Some like it Hot ( Curtis/Lemmon ) :lol:

12 Angry Men ( Fonda ) :angy:

Double Indemnity (Edward G/ McMurray/Stanwick ) :ph34r:
 
Impossible to narrow it down to three, so perm any three from these (in random order, well almost almost):

Godfathers I & II
Casablanca
Some Like It Hot
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Once Upon A Time In America
Manhattan
The Third Man
Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Twelve Angry Men
To Kill A Mockingbird
Paths Of Glory
Singin' In The Rain
Life Of Brian
Chinatown
The Maltese Falcon
Raging Bull
The Sting
On The Waterfront
Blade Runner
The Apartment
Cool Hand Luke
Apocalypse Now
The Shawshank Redemption
The African Queen
Rounders
The Hustler
The Killing
Goodfellas
Casino
The Conversation
The Producers
Get Carter
The Long Good Friday
Lost In Translation
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Network
The Lion In Winter
Bad Day At Black Rock
Being There
Kind Hearts And Coronets
Fargo
Millers's Crossing
In The Heat Of The Night
Guys And Dolls
The Manchurian Candidate
From Here To Eternity
Some Came Running
Rain Man
The Graduate
All The President's Men
Ace In The Hole
The Sweet Smell Of Success
This Is Spinal Tap
Gladiator
The Cincinnati Kid
The Wild Bunch

But tomorrow I'll want to add to the list
 
Some crackers there Brian.

I would expect my no.2 (Falling Down) to be in no one else's top 100, never mind top 3. As someone who (on a daily basis) is tempted to take a baseball bat out of a suitcase and batter people to a pulp, I empathise very much with the Michael Douglas character. The scene when the McDonalds jobsworth tells him at 12.05pm that breakfast has finished and can no longer be served is priceless.
 
I like most of Brian's yard o'films, to which I'd add BLAZING SADDLES, which still has me in stitches.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, too, with an icy-eyed Henry Fonda playing against type, is a very rich, satisfying stew of a film.

I love REAR WINDOW, which I never tire of seeing, with its brilliant miniature depictions of so many lives being lived at once.

DELIVERANCE, another film really satisfying in having fully-developed characters, none of whom take a back seat, and amazing river scenes.

APOCALYPSE NOW - gruesome and truthful, with unforgettable scenes and lines like "I love the smell of napalm in the morning".
 
Brian, I can't believe It's A Wonderful Life didn't make it on to your list :huh:

I'd find it hard to narrow it down to three but the ones I'd nominate tonight since they're in my mind are:

1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. Casablanca
3. :huh: :huh: :huh: (Can't decide between many of Brian's list.)
 
From:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jean De Fleurette
Once upon a time in the West
Godfather part 2
Three Colours Red
 
I tend to like Westerns and comedies, so perm any three from four. :D

Coming to America
A few Dollars more
The magnificent 7
Trading places
 
Rear Window is wonderful as is just about all Hitch . Grace Kelly is particularly stunning in RW
 
Wandering a bit off-topic, I was musing over how Kate Moss is to bag lady as Grace Kelly was to princess in natural elegance, beauty, warmth, and real good grooming. She was SO beautiful in REAR WINDOW, but projected a sense of fun, sexiness without having to rip off her clothes, and immense charm. Her kind of actress makes today's female 'celebriteeze' look for the most part like pigs in rut or refugees from tree house sites. How I miss the truly glamorous actress.

Oh, add TRADING PLACES - Eddy Murphy's fake amputee scammer was hilarious.
 
You are, of course, ignoring for the pupose of beatifying the lovely Grace that she shagged most men that she met.

She allegedly lost her virginity to a friend's husband. The story goes she was visiting a friend who wasn't home. She was made welcome by the friend's husband and they decided to sleep together. This was before she enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in October 1947. She claimed later to have engineered the liaison, not wishing to arrive at college inexperienced in the ways of love. Later when her prospective marriage to Prince Ranier required her to be virgo intacta she was examined by the Royal Monegasque surgeon and allegedly claimed her hymen had been broken while playing hockey at school.

The list includes (chronologically):

Harper Davis

Alexander D'Arcy

Don Richardson

Prince Aly Khan

Gene Lyons

Gary Cooper

Clark Gable

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Ray Milland

Oleg Cassini

William Holden

Bing Crosby

David Niven

Cary Grant
 
I will add La Haine to those above. Also Le diner des cons - simply the funniest film I have ever seen. I also loved the Todd Solondz film "Happiness. " It is a very brave piece of film making but not for the faint hearted. Ditto, Neil LaBute's "In the Company of Men."
 
Smartarse! I suppose you also loved 'Los Olvidados' (Luis Bunuel) and 'Los Perros Amores' and 'Rashomon', too?
 
Never seen any of them. I was dragged along to watch La Haine by my A-level teacher and loved it. Le Diner des cons was the same thing but this time by my lecturer at University. I would not recommend In the Company of Men for women. It is very derogatory and mysogynistic in places. A very brave peice of film making though.

I am a smartarse though!! ;)
 
Let's not forget some great musicals:

WEST SIDE STORY

GUYS 'N' DOLLS

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS

CAROUSEL (what a weepie!)

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

ON THE TOWN

To make up just three, I'd have to choose one musical, one drama, and one really good western.
 
Most of the ones on Brian's list but...

1. Godfather Part II - De Niro, Pacino, and Brando in one film, only sequel to win an oscar etc..

2. Man on Fire - Best directed film of recent years, stunning performances by Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning

3. Taxi - Cult French language film, with better car chase scenes, than French Connection, Ronin, Bourne Supremacy added together.

Others that nearly made the list: Y Tu Mama Tambien, City of God, Scarface and about a hunded others...
 
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