response 1 of 171:

Mar 26 22:27 UTC 1995

  Okay since I asked the question, I will go first...there are a lot of
films that I really like, but my personal favorite is the mid-1920s
Charlie Chaplin silent film, "City Lights"  This is the film where
Chaplin really mastered the combination of comedy and pathos.  It is
the story of how Chaplin's Little Tramp character falls in love with a
beautiful blind girl who mistakenly thinks he is Prince Charming instead
of a bum.  It is a deeply moving film that has one of the most debated 
endings in cinema history, when the blind girl gets her sight back and 
sees the Tramp on the street and patronizes him until they inadvertently
hold hands and she recognizes him.
  I guess you could say that ending is testimony to the cruel ironies of life
where one's dreams turn out often to be quite different than reality.  It is
impossible not to get worked up seeing "City Lights"
                        RJW (Kerouac)

response 3 of 171:

Mar 26 23:21 UTC 1995

A League of Their Own...It makes me laugh and in the end makes you cry.  I've
watched it at least 50 times.  A lot of people don't like MAdonna but she does
an excellent job in it.  

response 5 of 171:

Mar 27 04:33 UTC 1995

I can't name a favorite movie.  Some of my favorite movies I can hardly bare
to watch.  Like "City Lights" is a fine film, but much too sad to watch on
any regular basis.  Maybe one once a millenium or so.

I can however name the films that I love seeing over and over again.  I've
got them on video, and I could watch the dang things ever other day for the
rest of my life and be a happy man.  I don't claim they are the best films,
just that I love them:

  African Queen
  Cat Ballou
  Room With a View
  Groundhog Day

They are all romances, all fine comedy, all deep observations of the state
of being human.  Cat Ballou and African Queen both have fine fun music.  
Love the Queen's theme tune.  "Silver Streak" just misses the list.  It just
seems a bit clumsy at times and I started seeing flaws after two dozen or
so viewings.  "Groundhog Day" appeals to my love of repeatition.  It reminds
me of some of Steve Reich's music.  The same scenes happen over and over
again, but with gradually evolving emotional content.  I should probably add
"Diva" to the list.  Yeah, consider it added.  "One, Two, Three" comes close
but just misses.

Dang there are so many wonderful films.  "The Adventures of Baron Von
Muncshausen," "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing," "The Seven Samari," "Bringing
Up Baby," "Back to the Future," "Time After Time," "Tampopo," "Lady and the
Tramp," "North by Northwest," "Edward Sissorhands."  How can anyone have a
favorite?

response 7 of 171:

Mar 27 06:57 UTC 1995

"To have and have not" and "the third man".

response 9 of 171:

Mar 27 13:16 UTC 1995

I don't know that I have a single favorite, or that any movie particularly
changed my life, but since somebody already mentioned it I'll throw in
"To Have and Have Not".

response 11 of 171:

Mar 27 15:39 UTC 1995

"Night of the Living Dead" changed my life.  Twas the first horror film I
stayed up late watching on TV.  Scared the pants of me and began my love 
of horror films.
 
As far as films I can watch over and over:  "The Court Jester" starring 
Danny Kaye.  Just brilliant every time I see it.  "Cat Ballou" is also right
up there near the top.

response 13 of 171:

Mar 27 17:16 UTC 1995

I find it imppossible to pick one "favorite" out of all the
movies I've ever seen. Off the top of my head I'm able to think
of 4 movies that struck a chord with me, that I caould watch over
and over again: A Room With A View  Harold and Maude  Creator  The Crow

response 15 of 171:

Mar 27 19:10 UTC 1995

I couldn't name all of my favorite movies. But the ones I watch the
most are Natural Born Killers, The Lion King, and A Cloakwork Orange.
Oh, and we can't forget Nine Inch Nails Broken. Gory, but great!

response 17 of 171:

Mar 28 03:57 UTC 1995

Withnail and I is so exceptional that I have trouble believing it.  It is a
british cult movie  about a couple of actor friends who go on vacation to the
country after a seven day drunk.  There's a man with eels, a gay uncle and some
guy with wigged out eyes and a joint the size of a carrot.  Wickedly funny. ..

response 19 of 171:

Mar 28 19:58 UTC 1995

Nine Inch Nails: Broken (thanks for the show peacefrg)
The Lion King
Aladdin
Natural Born Killers
Pulp Fiction
The Doors
The Princess Bride
Labyrinth
Willow
Anything with Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, or Abbott and Costello (radio
recordings)

response 21 of 171:

Mar 30 15:45 UTC 1995

Re #19:  Wow, Disney and Tarantino, what a combo.  I wonder if Tarantino
will ever make a Disney movie.

response 23 of 171:

Mar 30 17:46 UTC 1995

The Last Unicorn is still my favorite movie, no matter what some people have
to say about it <ducking from flying brocoli>