Marky B

Right,I've had a nap,coffee with trifle and a shower...
Apollo 13;Leon;To Kill A Mockingbird (anything with Gregory Peck);JFK;Platoon;M*A*S*H (and subsequent television series);The Usual Suspects;LA Confidential;Gladiator;Billy Wilder films;The Taking of Pelham 123;The Jack Ryan films;Dumb and Dumber;His Girl Friday;Frankenstein (with our Boris) and The Bride of Frankenstein;The Mummy and The Mummy Returns;A Few Good Men;City Slickers;The Blues Brothers;Twister;Nighthawks and Cliffhanger (the only two Stallone films I like);In The Heat of the Night;Deadly Pursuit;The Odd Couple;This Is Spinal Tap;Poltergeist;Men In Black;Crimson Tide;The Bone Collector;anything with Ed O'Neill (Al Bundy);anything with Jeff Daniels;Black Hawk Down;The French Connection;anything with Gene Hackman;anything with Morgan Freeman;anything with Jodie Foster;Who Framed Roger Rabbit;An American In Paris;most Kirk Douglas films;The Great Escape;The Magnificent Seven;Thelma & Louise...man I love movies!
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Marky B

Of course,the question is about favourite non-Britsh films. Here are some of my favourite non-American/British films.
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari 1919;
Nosferatu 1921;
M 1931;
Le Grande Illusion 1937;
Les Enfants Du Paradis 1945;
Miracle In Milan 1951;
Les Diaboliques 1954;
Seven Samurai;1954;
Das Boot 1981;
Cinema Paradiso 1989;
Although not a Ingmar Bergman fan,I would like to see The Seventh Seal 1957.
I found pre-war European cinema had a more mature sense of dialogue than that of the British and US film industries.
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ollie

Just a few of my fave's:
Affliction,
Leaving las vegas,
Taxi driver,
Betty blue,
Le mepris,
Wings of desire,
Butterfield 8,
Alice et martin,
Lite sleeper,
Paris texas,
Happiness,
Breakfast at tiffany's,
Wild at heart,
Midnight cowboy,
The deer hunter,
Lost highway,
ordinary people,
Your friends and neighbours,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest,
Who's afraid of virginia wolf,
The swimmer
Blue velvet,
Cat on a hot tin roof,
The sandpiper,
Big blue,
Little odessa,
The fabulous baker boys,
Angel heart,
Fargo,
Trees lounge,
Jackie brown,
Amores perros,
The three colours trilogy(especially blue),
true romance,
Round midnight,
Beautifull girls,
on the water front,
lantana,
last tango in paris.

"one maybe two to be taken per day,with gin."
:)
cheers Ollie.

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"Bullseye !!"

David Brent

Ollie,

What was it that you liked about "Last Tango in Paris"? eek!
And do you prefer butter or margarine?

Dave.

ollie

I love everything about bertolluci's last tango,it's look,brando's intense performance,and i like the concept of the fact the relationship initially only existed within the confines of the appartment,no names personnal info etc.

Also it has to be OLIVIO(an olive oil based spread) it's better for your Heart. wink
cheers Ollie.

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Ascoyne D'Ascoyne

Maybe not absolute favourites, but I always thought that the old Hollywood film-makers were rather good at films with a certain "haunting" quality such as "The Uninvited", "Portrait of Jennie" and the splendid "The Enchanted Cottage",the last one guaranteed to bring a lump to the eye and a tear to the throat. They really don't make 'em like that anymore.

Rob Compton

I quite agree, Al! :)

As I've said on these boards before, The Uninvited is a superb film. Just wish it would be shown again on TV, all channels seem obsessed with stuff from 1999 onwards

rgds
Rob

Ascoyne D'Ascoyne

The NTSC edition of The Uninvited now seems to have been deleted but the last time I looked was still available from a few sources at exorbitant prices. Glad I bought mine when it was readily available!
I have noticed one or two pre-1999 rarities popping up on TV lately. In my opinion BBC need not have bothered with "Trouble in the Glen" yesterday which I thought was dire, in spite of the interesting cast. As has been pointed out elsewhere on this site, several "Falcon" films are soon to be broadcast. Let's hope that someone with imagination is now in charge of scheduling film-broadcasts for the BBC. :)

Jim

Yeah! I sat through 'Trouble in the Glen' and in spite of Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker and Victor MacGlagen and the beutiful scenery - it was a bit of a dud. Better on the other side, or was it on t he same side: 'The Foreman Went to France'. :)

Good morning boys.

ZZ_ PICK _ ZZ

One of my all-time favourites is "The Last Picture Show".

Everything about it - from the brilliant black and white cinematography, to the inspired casting and intelligently crafted script is perfect.

The locations are obviously real, and give it an almost documentary feel.

A absolute gem, that I never tire of !

Darling

Most of my favourites (all American) were made in the '60s.

James Coburn:
Duffy
In Like Flint
Our Man Flint
The President's Analyst

Burt Lancaster:
The Swimmer

Paul Newman:
Cool Hand Luke

Gregory Peck:
To Kill a Mockingbird

Steve McQueen:
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Great Escape

I also never get sick of The Big Chill.

Hell_driver

Inherit the Wind - Spencer Tracey/ Frederick March version

L.A. Confidential
Rain Man
The Searchers in fact most John Wayne westerns
Bad day at Black Rock
Mr Smith goes to Washington
The Thin Man films
Any James Cagney gangster movie
Maltese Falcon
You can't take it with you
Adventures of Robin Hood

to name but a few with apologies if I've repeated any.

maggie

One of my top favourites of all time has to be Summer Madness with Katherine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi. secret

Soapy Stevens

Too many to list, but here are two films that amongst my favorites:-

Jean de Florette
Manon Des Sources

Paul E

French stuff - les quatre cent coups, asenseur pour l'echafaud, bout de souffle, regle du jour, un feu follet, la vie et rien d'autre, la haine, 3 colours trilogy, les enfants du paradis, les valseuses, monsieur hire, mon oncle, tenue de soiree, au revoir les enfants, les miserables (
Russian - Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky
US - ace in the hole, sweet smell of sucess ("the cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river")the appartment, Hitch stuff - vertigo, n by nw (again) rear window (again), apocalypse now, the wild bunch, two lane blacktop, easy rider, night of the hunter, the front page blah di blah di blah.........