Stories Collected While Living in France
Some of my Favorite Old Films are:
The Piano
Bonnie and Clyde
The Sound of Music
The Godfather
Amelie
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bright Star
Gone with the Wind
Rear Window
The Best Years of Our Lives.
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What are some of your favorite films?
What is your favorite film in the last three years?
Midnight in Paris, of course. Although I just heard today that The Way is amazing. I haven’t seen it yet.
I love the movies. Some of my favorites (that I can remember) this year are Midnight In Paris, The Help, Unknown, and Little White Lies.
The Blind Side and a funny/sweet French film that was on cable last month. It was about a guy who befriends some quirky people with special skills who live in tunnels under Paris. They help him seek revenge on someone. One person was a contortionist. Can’t remember the name of the movie.
I agree with all your choices and on a less epic scale I would have to say When Harry Met Sally.
Love Amelie, Cinema Paradiso, Harold and Maude, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, and-a real oldie-The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. In the alast 3 years, Hmmm, that’s difficult. When was Sideways released? THAT was funny!
My favorite movie is Bladerunner and my favorite of the last three years is Source Code.
One of my favorite’s is Babette’s Feast. The Mission. Places in the Heart. Millions. Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Last three years: Up. True Grit. Slum Dog Millionaire.
Definitely the favorite in recent years is “The Kings Speech”.
Love Rear Window and I’d add to that Pillow Talk, All That Heaven Allows, The Earrings of Madame de…, Two for the Road, Gigi, Meet Me in St Louis, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, I Know Where I’m Going, Mamma Roma. Oh it’s hard to keep the list brief!! Recently: Midnight in Paris for fun and Pina, Paris Je t’aime, Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs, Broken Embraces and Volver. I admit I’m a melodrama fan! and I absolutely adore reading other people’s favorite film lists.
Roman Holiday,Charade, The Wizard of Oz, To Kill A Mockingbird, Reds, Chocolat, Friends (particularly for Paul Buckmaster’s beautiful soundtrack – I Meant To Do My Work Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2HUBtRBVjA
The Pink Panther, Three Days of the Condor (great Dave Grusin soundtrack, plus Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway)and too many more to list. Have not been to many movies of late, but The Help would be on my list for the last three months. Thank you for an interesting post!
“The Red Violin”, without question. Movie starts in auction house in 1998 as the bidders arrive for a famous 300 year old violin known for its fabulous red color. The story unfolds and we learn the story of it’s various owners through 5 countries. Only in the last minutes of the movie, do we learn why the red color….
I’d forgotten all about Inn of the Sixth Happiness! Loved that movie. Also on the list, Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (visually stunning),The Man Who Would be King, My Brilliant Career (inspiring), House of Sand and Fog, Passion Fish, Elizabeth, Big, Baby Boom, My Left Foot, Beetlejuice, The Piano, Same Time Next Year, The Spitfire Grill, Elizabeth, Gangs of New York, The American President (fairy tale), A Knight’s Tale (makes me smile), As Good as It Gets, The L-Shaped Room (with Leslie Caron), Gigi and Under the Tuscan Sun (every time I see it, I’m transported back to my three week trip to Italy…heaven). Sorry, got a little carried a way 🙂 Haven’t been to any movies lately, but could watch these repeatedly and never tire of them!
Oh, and one more, It’s a Wonderful Life (with James Stewart).
I love The Piano too. It is a long movie and every time I tried to watch it I fell asleep. It is a beautiful strange story..I did finally get through it. I have the music un my mind every now and then.
Yes!
Picnic at Hanging Rock, to name one.
Two of my favorites are
Séraphine
The King of Masks
both area amazing
I love many of the movies that have already been mentioned. One of my all time favorites is a 2005 film called, Sweet Land”. It’s a beautiful movie.
Yes, absolutely love your list. I would add Manhattan, Anne Hall, To Catch a Thief, Out of Africa (I actually went and visited Karen Blixen’s house, as in the movie and the scene was just as in the start of the film), Born Free, The African Queen, The Wayu We Were….I could go on endlessly, but that will do.
Jane Campion ( a Kiwi like me) made two of your favourites…The Piano and Bright Star. If you come visit NZ some time you can walk on the beach where the opening scenes are shot and from which you have taken your image!
Nice reminder of favourite films, I must watch some of them again… Cheers
To Kill a Mockingbird is my all time classic. I am still in love with Gregory Peck….sigh
Newer ones include:
French Kiss, Failure to Launch, The Love Letter (with Kate Capshaw), Love and Other Disasters, All Good Things, of course Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. Not sure of the dates on these but I could watch them over and over.
If I could only watch four movies…well make that five for the rest of my life they would be
“The Holiday” with Kate Winslet,
“Somethings gotta give” with Diane Keaton,
“It’s Complicated” with Meryl Streep,
“Elf” with Will Ferrell and
“Miracle on 34th Street”, old and new versions.
Of Gods and Men, EXCELLENT!
…and in French.
I love Amelie also, but of course I have to read the subtitles. And, I love all of Jane Austen’s novels that have been made into movies. Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth is the BEST !
Enchanted April is a fabulous film!
Under a Tuscan Sun
The Kingdom of God
Casablanca
Out of Africa
The English Patient
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Lover
The Girl With the Pearl Earring
Elizabeth
French Kiss
A Good Year
The Train (Oh, this one is wonderful and very old. About saving french art from the nazis)
All the Jason Bourne movies
American Beauty
There are so many great movies I can’t begin to list them all. I know for sure that I’m a sucker for a good Doris Day film. I love watching those classic films. The clothes, oh how I love those clothes.
oh and i have to add two that I can’t believe I overlooked: French Kiss and Moonstruck!
Carol L and I could watch movies together… Also an old one Mrs Aris goes to Paris. With Agnela Landsbury.
I loved The Help. Any old movie with Kate or Audry Hepburn I love.
“All The President’s Men” (starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman). We were living “Inside the Beltway” at the time of the Watergate break-in, so the crime was local as well as national news to us. We took off work the afternoon that the film opened in the DC area in order to go out to lunch, then catch the first screening of it at a theater in Chevy Chase, MD.
Oh I forgot to mention this one! I love that film too! And the book too.
Jane Champion is someone I would like to meet.
Hi Patty!!
Oh that one FB is haunting.
In the last 3 years, LOVED “Sarah’s Key”, “The Reader” and “The Help”
Too many to list but a few that come to mind in no paticular order:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lobowski
Rudy
Raging Bull
Dumb and Dumber
Dead Man Walking – great but hard to watch.
The Piano would top my list too! And Babette’s Feast maybe a close second – have you seen it Corey? I think you’d love it.
My Life as a Dog, Night of the Hunter, The Snowman, Wait until Dark, American in Paris
Oh my God, moviiies !! here comes my list in no particular order and short of the 9 999 other movies I liked :
– Singing in the Rain ,of course,best mood elevator I know !- Some Like It Hot and Gentlement Prefer Blondes and the Misfits – Gone with the Wind – To Have and Have Not – Daddy Long Legs – Ruggles of Red Gap (sooo funny !)- The Way We Were (ah Robert !!)- Pride and Prejudice (actually more the BBC series than the film but I must say, when Andrez Mac Fayden says ‘And I love…love…love you’the film version scores one point and I get weak in the knees…)- Love actually – All the Pirates of the Caribbeans – Sex and the City (includes all the episodes of the serie of course)- Tournée (french film about american burlesque strippers in France)- Casino Royale (with Daniel Craig )- Silverado (wonderful western !)- Little Miss Sunshine – Billy Elliot –
“AMELIE” comes first.
“Bagdad Café”.
“Himalaya, l’enfance d’un chef”.
“One flew over the cuckoo’s nest”.
“Rainman”.
“Dance with the Wolves”.
“Le dîner de cons”.
And very lately (saw it last Friday – must see it AGAIN!):
“Les Intouchables”
I was fascinated about Gone with the wind!I think i was 5 when i saw it!
The English patient
The Talented Mr.Ripley(love Minghella’s work)
Out of Africa
Barefoot in the park
The lover
The hours
you’ve got mail
Mar Adentro(spanish)
Lost in translation
Legends of the fall
..To be continued….:)
The god’s must be crazy..Charming film….
“The Graduate,” because part of it was filmed in Berkeley (my alma mater as well as my hometown!). Natalie, do you agree?
Of course, for those of us who grew up there so know the Cal campus like the proverbial backs of our hands, it’s jarring every time an error appears — including campus scenes that had to be re-shot, except there was no budget for a second location shooting in Berkeley, so they used the UCLA or USC campus as a fill-in, then spliced those scenes into the Berkeley ones! Or Dustin Hoffman in such a hurry to drive from LA to Berkeley that he instead takes the slow, scenic Pacific Coast Highway (bwa-ha-ha!) instead of the faster inland freeway — and then when he’s supposed to be driving east-bound across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland (which is the lower deck), he’s shown instead on the upper deck heading toward SF, with its trademark skyline and piers in the background. Despite those flaws, it’s still an entertaining film.
And anyone who’s ever been to Marseille and/or Cassis on Provence’s Mediterranean coast will enjoy seeing some of the earlier scenes in “The French Connection” (they still look pretty much the same as they did 40+ years ago).
Second whoever nominated “Some Like It Hot” (after all, nobody’s perfect!).
I LOVE AMELIE!!!! Sound of Music, The Parent Trap (the original version), Guns of Navarone, The Longest Day and Pretty in Pink. (odd assortment, huh!?)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Babette’s Feast
Gone With the Wind
Shawshank Redemption
(Solid thought provoking storylines)
Pulp Fiction
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
(I like a bit of rough sometimes)
The Castle
A Fish Called Wanda
(and I love to laugh)
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Singing in the Rain
(I love to sing)
The Lion King
(The first and last scenes especially)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
I see Dead People (or whatever its real name is)
(and I love a bit of scary)
Dances with Wolves
(I love a dancing man)
The Bodyguard
(Well, the music mainly)
Baghdad Cafe
(I didn’t know anyone else knew it)
Sammy & Rosie Get Laid
(Bet no-one else knows that one)
and on . . .
and on . . .
and on
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