Any over five get discarded.
Three Days of the Condor
Remains of the Day
Rear Window
It Happened One Night
The Apartment
I am seeing an issue with my list, These are male-centric movies. The women in them are in secondary roles. They are not the POV. Also where are the black actors?
A friend said my movies would depress him and chose: HIGH SOCIETY, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, GIGI and MEET ME IN S. LOUIS
What would you choose?
I have mentioned before that my two favorite movies were PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK and BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, but I would not take either of those or any others onto a desert island. I'd be too busy trying to build a raft.
ReplyDeleteBut you were stranded with a solar-powered video device in a box with those two and what other three films? Raft building while those played, as background or during breaks...
DeleteTwo For The Road
ReplyDeleteWhen Harry Met Sally... (these are the two we watch every New Year's Eve)
Casablanca
The Godfather Saga (the first two movies in chronological order)
Groundhog Day (or Animal House)
Great choices, Jeff. I loved PICNIC too but BIG TROUBLE eluded me. We saw it after driving all day and that may have affected it.
ReplyDeleteTracy's list of five favorite desert island movies:
ReplyDeleteCasablanca
Grosse Pointe Blank
Big Trouble in Little China
North by Northwest
Footlight Parade
If I could have another pick it would be The Manchurian Candidate with Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, and Angela Lansbury.
Yeah, Tracy, NORTH BY NORTHWEST probably should have been on my list, but I didn't think of it. I'd replace the last one with it.
DeleteGlen's list is:
ReplyDeleteNorth by Northwest
The Pirates of Penzance
The Sting
Bullitt
The Maltese Falcon
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ReplyDeleteLes Enfants du Paradis
ReplyDeleteStalker
Marketa Lazarova
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Welles's The Trial (originally written as The Trual, but I resisted the temptation to leave it and have everybody looking for it!)
Some I have never seen. I have only seen Kind Hearts from James' list. NBNW is certainly the most exciting Hitchcock. Love The Maltese Falcon, and the book. Have never seen Footlight Parade. Casablanca is probably the all-around best film Hollywood ever made.
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Jackie's picks:
ReplyDeleteThe Godfather
A Star Is Born (Judy Garland)
Gone With the Wind
When Harry Met Sally...
It's a Wonderful Life
I have seen none of these other than THE HAUNTING. I am not a horror film guy. Megan is though.
DeleteI can't watch GWTW anymore but the other four are terrific.
You might try THREE CASES OF MURDER most fruitfully, Patti...the truest horror segment of three is very black humor, the Brett Halliday adaptation is a straight up if odd crime story, and the Somerset Maugham segment Orson Welles more or less took over as director as well as lead actor is also a blackly comic ghost story.
DeleteI've seen all but ENFANTS, MARKETA, FOOTLIGHT PARADE and PENZANCE as film, and think these are good lists.
ReplyDeleteFor me, my favorite film lists often run to horror selections, since so much of the good stuff is obscured in that field by the likes of ASTRO-ZOMBIES and I EAT YOUR SKIN, to say nothing of some of our overpraised if more professional recent items. Also, a good horror film might help remind one that things Can be worse.
So, here's the Horror Handful:
THREE CASES OF MURDER
ONIBABA
THE HAUNTING (1963)
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1963)
BLACK SABBATH (I tre volti della paura in the original Italian release, THE THREE FACES OF FEAR) 1963
I've not seen all of that version of A STAR IS BORN, either, but it was good.
DeleteHorror-exclusive:
THE CANDIDATE (I like THE THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, but the hostage is less "tame" in the TV series CONDOR. Still haven't read the novel)
I MARRIED A WITCH
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964)
and while already cited, and at least as downbeat as THE CANDIDATE and WOMAN IN THE DUNES (both with redemption possible, but it'll Take Work),
BULLITT
or is this whole list a cheat?
You only get five picks. That's the rub of it.
ReplyDeleteImpossible. Can take months to compile, but I'll throw five out that randomly pop into my head.
ReplyDeleteAlien
Incendies & Le confessionnal (ok that's two)
Pan's Labyrinth
Brazil
Psycho
Ran & Seven Samurai
Bicycle Thieves
(Once Upon a Time in the West, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, The Thing (1982), Rear Window, The Conversation, Charade...)
Yup, impossible.
For the purposes of the game, I'd go with one handful or another. THE CONVERSATION might well dislodge one of my non-horrors, as might IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. In some moods, THE LAST WAVE definitely dislodges BLACK SABBATH among the horrors. As might THE VIRGIN SPRING.
ReplyDeleteAnd I still think Someone should publish a double volume of Bloch's PSYCHO and Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, published in the same year and with such a similar trail of a/v adaptations, along with other more-direct literary influences and children.
Today is the anniversary of Bloch's death.
DeleteBoy, I haven't thought of Brazil in years. Wonder if it holds up. The Conversation is a great one. Every day my list would be a bit different. Only THE APARTMENT and REAR WINDOW would always make the cut.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, I forgot CAT PEOPLE, the RKO film, somehow. Remarkable.
ReplyDeleteDIE HARD
ReplyDeleteA FISH CALLED WANDA
ANNIE HALL
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
THE BIG SLEEP
Love these!
DeleteHonestly, if it were for desert viewing, I would not include Incendies or Le confessional as they are gut wrenching & I wouldn't be able to sit through them through multiple viewings.
ReplyDeleteDie Hard and A Fish Called Wanda are great selections as well.