Favorite Movies (page 2)

1.) Fanny and Alexander (1984): A perfect movie IMNSHO. Has all the qualities. An amazing work from the standpoint of a child caught in a dream world trying to survive the stifiling of children's imaginations by adults. Like a Dicken's Novel: Family Interludes, Sex, Death, Ghosts, and Witches....

2.) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): I love the unspoken narrative. There's a subtely in the this film that I think went over people's heads when it first came out It really is about God and man's spiritual evolution on closer inspection.

3.) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001): I can't think of a better mix of music and story. When I saw this in a theater people were actually singing and dancing during the film...and on a weekday!

4.) Andrei Rublev (1964): The path of the artist is a harsh one. Amazing for its throwing away traditional narrative, leaving out the main protagonist completely for most of the film, great viginettes, brilliant action sequences. The story about the bell is the best 30 minutes put to film.

5.) The Godfather (1972): I feel kind of guilty for putting this my my top 10 because its been praised to death, but it is a well put together film, you have to admit.

6.) Sansho the Baliff (1954): Damn good storytelling!

7.) Miller's Crossing (1991): The best study in film noir: made 50 years after its golden age.

8.) Akira (1989): I think animation works when it puts to the screen what definitely cannot be put on celluloid in real life. Akira works on the level of brilliant sci-fi and a killer imagination. This is what I think fo when I think fo modern-day filmmaking and testing the boundaries

9.) Mulholland Drive (2001): I think above the weirdness is a sweet and touching love story.

10.) The Rapture (1990) and The Seventh Seal (1957): Two of the most thought-provoking religious films of all time. The low-budget aspect shows but the premises and conclusions are utterly startling: Imagine if everything.....everything in the Bible was true...and you were thrust in the center. May be the best horror movies ever made.

That's my top ten.

- Preston

Pwned

its hard to pick a fav of all time but fav movies i've seen lately:

1. The Girl Next Door

2. Saved (reminded me of JWs, great satire)

3. The Motorcycle Diaries

theotherside

anything with my boy Brad Pitt

A River Runs Through It

Legends of the Fall

Interview with a Vampire

Seven

Pwned

i forgot, the funniest movie i have seen in a long time is

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

if you havent seen it please rent it, the fate of the sequel depends on how well it does on dvd.

prophecor

Scent of a Woman, with Al Pacino. Pacino is exceptional in this film, playing a blind man in desperation, seeking all the lost thrills of his life. All to be culminated over the course of some 72 hours. At the end of those, his life is to be brought to an end by his comitting suicide.

He begins a journey to New York with a naive young man, Chris O'donnel, who is to be a caretaker of him as he makes his way to the Big Apple. Though unbeknownst to him, the caretaker, Charlie, unwillingly takes him to NY, long enough for him to forge a bonding with the character of Pacino, Colnel Frank Slade, an ex-Marine who suffered a horrible accident at his own hands, causing his blindness and is now being compensated with a pension for his past service.

He is vitriolic, bitter, and makes it known to those who don't take the time to possibly get to know him. A very tough hardcore exterior, however, belies a very passionate, loving, giving man, who is reeling in his own morass of guilt and self pity, as he desperately tries to milk the world for one last, hooahh!!!

A pathetic meeting with family members at a Thanksgiving Feast, a dazzling dance, the Tango with a beautiful young woman, for a blind man, he does a spectacular rendition. Makes love to a beautiful woman, a high priced Lady of the Evening. A spectacular drive in a red Ferrari for which he's actually depicted as driving while blind, all of this so he can enjoy a few final hours of his life, only to be averted by the young naive gentleman who tries to get him to see that his life, although difficult, is by no means pointless. He was instrumental in helping Pacino see that maybe he need look at his life with a different perspective. Imagine that, older ones who actually allow themselves to be taught by the youth, impossible!!!

The movie has many twist and turns and if you're a hopeless romantic as I am, you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get angry, all those emotions and more within the spanse of little more than 2 hours.

Definitely worth the watch, you'll not be disappointed.

Just a side note, I was given this movie as reason to watch, because a dear friend and brother, suggested that he was able to see me in that movie, me as the person of Al Pacino. Though it took me a while to finally watch it, when I did, it quickly came to be one of my favorite movies to watch, of which I've probably viewed 100 times. I, too, tend to be a bit acerbic and caustic myself, despite my seemingly chipper attitude here.

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