Favorite Movies ... that you would recommend

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by Maggie May

Here are some of my favourite movies. No particular order.

Double Indemnity......... with Fred McMurray.
The Apartment............ " "
Now Voyager.............. Bette Davis
Tender Mercies........... Robert Duvall
Goodbye Mr. Chips....... Greer Garson. Earlier version and the best.
Random Harvest.......... " "
Some Like it Hot..........
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe.
Two Mules For Sister Sara.
Monsoon Wedding..........Excellent film.

Hope you find something there to your liking.


Slan
Mag.

It's not so much of finding something to my liking as it is finding something that I haven't seen among movies I've seen and do like (so I know the poster and I share something of a common taste).

I've been marking the ones I haven't seen in red so that I can find them later easily in the thread. "Some Like it Hot" was just too funny for words. AND, they even filmed it at one of my favorite places on earth ... the Hotel Del Coronado in the San Diego area in California. I still love going there ... although they've built up the area in front of it so much that it's not as mystical an experience as it used to be ... when you'd drive up the Strand through a dense fog, and then this fairy tale castle would appear in the fog.

That's how I thought of it anyway ... then they built condos and other crap, and just ruined a perfectly good mystical experience.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by kilohertz53

I don't recall anyone mentioning "Excalibur" (1981), my favorite retelling of the King Arthur legend. It's gorgeous to look at and stars the divine Helen Mirren as Morgana.

(And speaking of Helen Mirren, she made "Prime Suspect" one of the greatest television series of all time.)

I liked that film .... it's been so long since I saw it, however, I think I'm going to have to stick it on the list anyway.

[IceHand]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention:

- The Magdalene Sisters
- Whale Rider
- Finding Forrester
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
- Lost and Delirious
- Rocket Science

EDIT: And ...
- Grace is Gone
- Juno
- As in Heaven (Så som i himmelen)

[MickeyC]

Virtually all the Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare films especially Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet

[Ea]

Originally Posted by cassidym

Virtually all the Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare films especially Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet

I loved his Hamlet. It really works for me that Branagh moved it out of it's (pseudo)historical setting; it sort of puts greater focus on the play and I'm less distracted by knowing that Kronborg was build (as a castle) in Shakepspeare's own time and that the earlier version of the story behind the play is somewhat different from Shakespeare's Hamlet. In this adaptation, Hamlet is most definitely Shakespeare's and no-one elses (well, perhaps Branagh's, too, a bit).

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by GypsyWoman

While I agree, she is a sight to behold, lol. I thought she was very entertaining as Miss Marple.

Not sure how well known a bit of trivia this is, but Stringer Davis who played Margaret Rutherford's sidekick (Mr. Stringer) in the Marple films was her hubbie in real life.

On the topic of Agatha Christie; I recently watched Rene Clair's film of 'And Then There Were None' which was very good.

'Witness for the Prosecution' is another Christie adaptation worth a watch on a rainy afternoon .

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by _Ea_

I loved his Hamlet. It really works for me that Branagh moved it out of it's (pseudo)historical setting; it sort of puts greater focus on the play and I'm less distracted by knowing that Kronborg was build (as a castle) in Shakepspeare's own time and that the earlier version of the story behind the play is somewhat different from Shakespeare's Hamlet. In this adaptation, Hamlet is most definitely Shakespeare's and no-one elses (well, perhaps Branagh's, too, a bit).

I was lucky enough to see Hamlet on a very snowy day and that really set the mood. In fact, I have the DVD and reserve it for snowy days to watch.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by cassidym

I was lucky enough to see Hamlet on a very snowy day and that really set the mood. In fact, I have the DVD and reserve it for snowy days to watch.

Ooh, I can see that would have made the perfect start of the movie!

I lived in a town, with a small-town cinema, at the time the film was out, so I first saw the abridged 2.5 hours version. Then I decided it was worth traveling to the nearest bigger city to watch the full-length version. Wow!

[GypsyWoman]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Not sure how well known a bit of trivia this is, but Stringer Davis who played Margaret Rutherford's sidekick (Mr. Stringer) in the Marple films was her hubbie in real life.

On the topic of Agatha Christie; I recently watched Rene Clair's film of 'And Then There Were None' which was very good.

OMG!! I love that movie! I forgot all about 'And Then There None'. I have that version on DVD, it's a bad copy but enjoyable nonetheless.

Actually I liked all versions of it, even the really bad one. with Fabian called 'Ten Little Indians'.

Great story with a great ending.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by GypsyWoman

OMG!! I love that movie! I forgot all about 'And Then There None'. I have that version on DVD, it's a bad copy but enjoyable nonetheless.
...
Great story with a great ending.

I know we're talking movies, but I just had to say that the book version of that one was great. Christie may not have been the most innovative writer, but when she's good, she's really good in her field.

[GypsyWoman]

Originally Posted by _Ea_

I know we're talking movies, but I just had to say that the book version of that one was great. Christie may not have been the most innovative writer, but when she's good, she's really good in her field.

I do agree!

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by IceHand

Oh yeah, forgot to mention:

- The Magdalene Sisters
- Whale Rider
- Finding Forrester
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
- Lost and Delirious
- Rocket Science

EDIT: And ...
- Grace is Gone
- Juno
- As in Heaven (Så som i himmelen)

A bunch of those I haven't seen!! I've got "Rabbit Proof Fence" ... but haven't watched it yet.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by _Ea_

I know we're talking movies, but I just had to say that the book version of that one was great. Christie may not have been the most innovative writer, but when she's good, she's really good in her field.

I loved the book ... also "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" ... I think those two were my favorite of Christie's.

I don't know if they ever made a movie of Ackroyd. It would be hard to pull of the twist at the end ... which really sort of requires it to be in book form.

[GypsyWoman]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

I loved the book ... also "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" ... I think those two were my favorite of Christie's.

I don't know if they ever made a movie of Ackroyd. It would be hard to pull of the twist at the end ... which really sort of requires it to be in book form.

Yes, David Suchet did it for BBC and it was on A & E TV about 5 years ago, last time I saw it anyway. It was very well done, IMHO.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by GypsyWoman

Yes, David Suchet did it for BBC and it was on A & E TV about 5 years ago, last time I saw it anyway. It was very well done, IMHO.

But .... it still makes me wonder how they pulled off the literary trick?? I don't want to blow it for anyone who hasn't read it ... but, you know what I mean??