For pure entertainment value…The Princess Bride
Doctor Zhivago – but it took more than one viewing.
Schindler’s List was the most emotionally affecting movie i’ve ever seen.
Either To Kill a Mockingbird or Office Space (obviously for completely different reasons and using completely different criteria)
Why not? Sight and Sound did.
For me it’s The Lion in Winter ever since I first saw it at the age of 13 (Which would have been about eight years after it came out. Ouch, where has the time gone?)
Fight Club
I’d have to say Heathers
One flew over the Cukoo’s nest
Deerhunter…tie for first place
The Gods Must Be Crazy. Interesting film that can be viewed at many levels.
Many of my favourites have already been listed, but my absolute, honest-to-god(d(l)ess), couldn’t live life without it, movie is 2001: A Space Odyssey. The star-child is a stunning symbol of hope for the future of the human race.
Fnoonf, Waking Life is the very best animated movie I’ve ever seen. Good choice!
ArchiveGuy, The General is both my favourite comedy and favourite silent movie. Buster Keaton is god.
Hmmm maybe Miller’s Crossing
Jim
I third Fight Club.
Notorious
Sight and Sound did some funky things with the voting for those. Some of the voters voted for The Godfather as an individual movie, some for The Godfather Part 2 as an individual movie, some for the two of them taken as a unit, and one or two for the trilogy. All of these were counted as a vote for The Godfather and The Godfather Part 2 taken as a unit, even though this was probably not the intent of the voters (though I suspect few would object). Of the first two, I think 2 is the marginally better film.
If we are allowed to include multi-part stories as a single movie, I’d have to change mine to Jean de Florette/ Manon of the Spring, The Apu Trilogy, or The Decalogue.
30 or so posts and nobody has voted for Citizen Kane yet. I’m going to have to give my vote to The 3rd Man though.
Shakespeare in Love
The Ring. we need more movies like The Ring… or fight club.
Again, Fight Club
It’s so different from everything else, and that’s so refreshing in a world with so many cookie-cutter movies coming out all the time. Fight Club is it’s own thing, and it’s probably the best movie I’ve ever seen.
Well, that and . Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I’ve seen so many movies by this point in my life that I don’t think I could say my favourite.
The movies I’ve rewatched the most since I grew out of watching every movie 100 times are Aliens and Fellowship of the Ring. That doesn’t really mean much since the most powerful movie I’ve ever seen is Schindler’s List and I’ve never been able to watch it again.
Touch of Evil for noir
Dr. Strangelove for black comedy
Children of Fate for documentary
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for Western
But my personal favorite is Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player.