What our your top ten films of all time?

[stephenS50]

'Don't Look Now' is on my list too: the shot where Julie Christie's face crumples when she sees her dead daughter is

It's a heartbreaking moment...and it comes shortly after what's in my opinion one of horror cinemas most chilling scenes...when the late,great Donald Sutherland comes out of water holding his dead daughter and cries out in horror...truly iconic and one of the few moments in horror cinema that sends a shiver down my spine.

 

[stephenS50]

Yes: such a shocking ending! Christopher Lee's not given enough credit for his acting skills: he completely stole 'The Man with the Golden Gun' from Roger Moore.

You absolutely right @CliffH about this. Christopher Lee wasn't given enough credit for his performances was he?....and yes he did steal the Man with the Golden Gun from Roger Moore.By the way Sky Arts will be showing a new documentary about his life and career called "The life and deaths of Christopher Lee" on the 24th of October.

 

[CliffH]

A Perfect World
The Mule
The Good,The Bad, The Ugly
Goldfinger
Funeral in Berlin
Big Wednesday
The Deer Hunter
American Graffiti
The Alamo
Death Rides A Horse
The African Queen
Oliver Twist

"Do you exhpect me to talk?"

 

[CliffH]

It's a heartbreaking moment...and it comes shortly after what's in my opinion one of horror cinemas most chilling scenes...when the late,great Donald Sutherland comes out of water holding his dead daughter and cries out in horror...truly iconic and one of the few moments in horror cinema that sends a shiver down my spine.

... together with Sadako coming through the TV screen 😱

 

[harbottle]

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Spanish/Italian horror film made in the Peak district!)
Goodfellas
Downfall
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Schindler's List
Alien
The Wicker Man
The incredible Mr Blunden (Tied with The Railway Children)
The Black Hole (Mainly for the music by John Barry and the amazing sets/effects)
Scrooge (With Albert Finney)

 

[CliffH]

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Spanish/Italian horror film made in the Peak district!)
Goodfellas
Downfall
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Schindler's List
Alien
The Wicker Man
The incredible Mr Blunden (Tied with The Railway Children)
The Black Hole (Mainly for the music by John Barry and the amazing sets/effects)
Scrooge (With Albert Finney)

No Will Hay?

 

[harbottle]

No Will Hay?

Oh Mr Porter is a contender, but that was mainly something I used to watch as a kid - I haven't seen them for years.

 

[stephenS50]

How about 'Truly, Madly, Deeply'?

"Truly...Madly...Deeply"was a beautiful little film with great performances from both Alan Rickman and Juliet Stephenson and it was directed by the equally late Anthony Mingella...but i remember it didn't have the biggest cinematic distribution so it's rather underrated in my opinion.

 

[stephenS50]

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Spanish/Italian horror film made in the Peak district!)
Goodfellas
Downfall
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Schindler's List
Alien
The Wicker Man
The incredible Mr Blunden (Tied with The Railway Children)
The Black Hole (Mainly for the music by John Barry and the amazing sets/effects)
Scrooge (With Albert Finney)

This is a good little list @harbottle...with some good choices...I mean you pick The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue as one of them...I tilt my hat to salute this great choice.I think it's one of the best Zombie films of all time.

 

[PaulG]

I don't have a favourite, it fact I don't watch any.
I took my son to the cinema once to watch The Flintstones while my late wife went dress shopping but
my boy said he was embarrassed because I snore loudly and he had to change seats and move 6 rows back.

 

[stephenS50]

I can understand fully why you slept through that godawful Flintstones movie @PaulG...I walked out of the press screening I went to.It's one of the worst movies of the Nineteen nineties...and Steven Spielberg shouldn't have put his name on it.

 

[harbottle]

This is a good little list @harbottle...with some good choices...I mean you pick The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue as one of them...I tilt my hat to salute this great choice.I think it's one of the best Zombie films of all time.

I love it. I saw it when I was a kid and though it was creepy as hell.
Years later, when I was a student in Sheffield in the 1990s, I did a walk across the peaks with some friends. We came to a church and I thought I recognised it, but didn't know from where. Then it hit me: it was the church from the Living Dead at Manchester Morgue! I was so excited and all my friends thought I'd gone mad. Of course, I had to walk around like a zombie. Apparently while they were filming there the crew made a mess and got chased out of town! (They were all Italians and Spanish and had to bring all their food over with them!)

There's quite a strange atmosphere in the whole film and the way it uses the landscapes is just brilliant.

I love the music as well, have the soundtrack on various formats!

 

[stephenS50]

I love it. I saw it when I was a kid and though it was creepy as hell.
Years later, when I was a student in Sheffield in the 1990s, I did a walk across the peaks with some friends. We came to a church and I thought I recognised it, but didn't know from where. Then it hit me: it was the church from the Living Dead at Manchester Morgue! I was so excited and all my friends thought I'd gone mad. Of course, I had to walk around like a zombie. Apparently while they were filming there the crew made a mess and got chased out of town! (They were all Italians and Spanish and had to bring all their food over with them!)

There's quite a strange atmosphere in the whole film and the way it uses the landscapes is just brilliant.

I love the music as well, have the soundtrack on various formats!

It was one of the first Zombie films I ever saw and it remains an absolute classic in my view.I do like a good Zombie movie I have to admit...my favourite Zombie film of all time is George Romeros "Dawn of The Dead"...that film is truly something to behold.

 

[stephenS50]

OMG, forgot The Life Of Brian, my all time favourite comedy!!!! 🙂

I'm a huge Monty python fan and I think "The Life Of Brian "is one of the funniest films ever made...it's so laugh out funny...and never forget..."He's not the Messah...he's a very naughty boy "

 

[CliffH]

Oh Mr Porter is a contender, but that was mainly something I used to watch as a kid - I haven't seen them for years.

I'm a big Laurel & Hardy fan and I was tempted to include 'Way Out West' (their best feature-length film) but it's just a film that I really enjoy, rather than one that I'd think is close to being one of the ten 'best' films of all time. I don't think even Chaplin or Keaton would get a contender into that list. If only we'd been allowed to choose the ten best films of specific decades . Of course, with any list like this there's always a massive recency effect.

 

[CliffH]

"Truly...Madly...Deeply"was a beautiful little film with great performances from both Alan Rickman and Juliet Stephenson and it was directed by the equally late Anthony Mingella...but i remember it didn't have the biggest cinematic distribution so it's rather underrated in my opinion.

I think it was at the Greenwich Picture House that I saw it when it first came out: my partner at the time fancied Alan Rickman

 

[stephenS50]

I think it was at the Greenwich Picture House that I saw it when it first came out: my partner at the time fancied Alan Rickman

I think the Greenwich Picture House(one of my favourite independent cinemas in London by the way)was one of the only places in London that showed it on its rather limited release...I remember seeing it at the BFI Southbank.

 

[Ditto]

In no particular order:
Some Like It Hot
Galaxy Quest
Goodfellas
Blade Runner
Aliens 1 and 2 (stops there, hate all the rest)
The Fisher King
Dancing Through The Dark with Con O'Neil
Sound Of Music (took me around 25 years to get around to watching it then loved it and dressed up as a nun with my sisters and trooped across some stage somewheres.)
Fargo (luv that lady who play Olive Kitteridge and was in Billboards which I can't bear to watch again also it has fave actor Sam Rockwell in it from Galaxy Quest and the sad Moon).
Robin Hood with AR
Zulu
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Gone With The Wind
Partners with Ryan O'Neil and John Hurt who freaked me out in Whistle And I'll Come To You agh don't think about it!
Nuns On The Run "... especially our shape!"
Withnail and I " ... we came on holiday by mistake."
Full Monty
The Amazing Mr Blunden the fabulous Diana Dors
The Commitments " ... you're never taking that horse up in the lift - We have to the stairs would kill him"
All The Terminators
Tootsie even though feel iffy about watching Dustin Hoffman now
Raiders Of The Lost Ark all of them
Heaven Can Wait (both)
The Vikings
Tangled and anything with a funny horse in it, horses are the best
All the Scrooges and all the Christmas films really.

and a load of others but best stop now in case I run out of space. Love films. 🙂

 

[Sally71]

Nuns on the Run - nun leaping out of Mini Metro and yelling at lorry driver to “get out of the bloody way!!”
A friend of mine hated that film because it’s so obvious that the main two characters are men in disguise, but for some reason I can watch it over and over and still laugh, absolutely brilliant humour!

 

[CliffH]

It was one of the first Zombie films I ever saw and it remains an absolute classic in my view.I do like a good Zombie movie I have to admit...my favourite Zombie film of all time is George Romeros "Dawn of The Dead"...that film is truly something to behold.

Unfortunately for Romero, Sam Raimi dialled zombie films up to 11: "Groovy!".