Favorite Movie of All Time

[milly balgeary]

The one that does it for me is the Razor's Edge (not the version from 1946). I love this movie. It screams, with one fine fucking serious life affirming performance by my man Bill Murray. I saw it when I was a kid and it struck me then, the search for the meaning of life. Absolute affirmation. It is based on the novel by Maugham. Billy Murray is my Favorite. He's so the Bat of the Ball, and he's young here, and it beats anything he's done for Anderson since.

[convensive]

mine would be 'Tai Chi Master'... (although this does NOT extend to the Western edit called 'Twin Warriors' with the awful dubbing and mangled fight scenes...)...

[martin_van_buren]

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[SPACERACE]

Royal Tenenbaums. Probably the only movie right now that might make me cry.

[Nickosaurus]

High fives, reese, that's my favorite movie too.

[Good Intentions]

The first one that comes to mind is Cidade de Deus (City of God).  It is the single most complete film I've ever seen, deeply human but not sentimental, telling the banal and the extraordinary with the same deadpan humour that hints only slightly of shocked resignation.  The cinematogrophy is somewhere beyond beautiful - the City of God itself, a sprawling Rio de Janerio slum, is all mellow earth tones basking in warm sun, this collection of hovels and human hive caught on film as a beloved home.  The editing is a work of art in itself.  But it is the characters, and the plot, and the magnificent richness of these people in the opprossive nowheres that are their lives.  It is the most glamourless gangster film in existence, without a shred of moralism or sentiment but with wonderful humour.  From the fantastic opening sequence, a samba-fuelled chicken chase through the market leading immidiately into a gang showdown, this film is perfect.

[Good Intentions]

The film I've seen the most is without a doubt Dr Strangelove, Or, How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb[/i].  After seeing it well over 50 times, sometimes once a day for a week on end, there is perhaps one joke which gets old.  Perhaps.  The best pisstake of government ever.

[Ah_Pook]

Ghostbusters

[william]

under milk wood, with richard burton and elizbeth taylor and peter o'toole. its very funny and weird, and just highly memorable in every sense. also, butch cassidy and the sundance kid -

'why you so talkative today?'
'don't know. just naturally gabby, i guess.'

Poifect!

[peacocks]

whenever someone asks me this question I immediately say The Princess Bride but I watch the Royal Tennenbaums and Frida a rediculous amount.

now I'm going to type out my favorite quotes from these movies:

"Look he wiggled his finger, that's wonderful!"

it's hard to pick a fav from TRT bbuuuuut I'll have to go with
"where's that red one gonna go?"

"BUT WHY?  It was just a fuck, like a handshake!"

yaaaay

[El_Josharino]

Mine is either The Big Lebowski or The Sandlot.

[jebreject]

My favourite line from Royal Tenenbaums is "Wind's sure blowin' up a gale today."

My favourite movie would either be Tenenbaums or Big Lebowski.  Also I like O Brother, Where Art Thou? a whole lot.

[Kath]

The Big Lebowski is fucking great. I also really like Kurosawa movies.

[peacocks]

the dude abides

[omymai]

office space
it never gets old for me. maybe I empathize too much, and I have a friend that's just like Michael Bolton.

[Steve]

North by Northwest or Back to the Future.

[Nickosaurus]

My favourite line from Royal Tenenbaums is "Wind's sure blowin' up a gale today."

Mine is: "Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't."

[jebreject]

The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "V/*monos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.

[Bernard]

I don't have a single favorite movie. Tarkovsky's my favorite director, but Renoir's up there too, as are Fassbinder and Almodovar, Wong Kar-Wai, Godard, T. Malick. The list gets really long. There are individual films that really stand out for me, like Ermanno Olmi's 'Tree of Wooden Clogs' and Rene Clement's 'Forbidden Games' -- again, it would be a long list.

[elpollodiablo]

GI wins. City of God is one of the best films I've ever seen. It does have everything.

My favorite Tenenbaums line:
Interviewer- Can the boy tell time?
Raleigh- Oh, my lord, no.

[davy]

recently, it's been all the real girls. historically, i've been a huge star wars geek, but you can't talk to me about the prequels without me flying into a rage.

favorite movie of 2004: station agent.

[Lalitree]

My favorite movie might be this mildly obscure Danish film called The Celebration, but I'm not sure if I really loved it or if I've been waiting so long to see it again (waiting for a DVD release that was "upcoming" forever and then apparently cancelled, the Amazon product page removed from the site) that it's been elevated in my mind to the Best Thing Of All Time.

Edit: Hey wow, the DVD is out, they just gave it a new product page,  rather than updating the old one. Way to go, Amazon. *duh*

[Bubbachups]

Citizen Kane is definitely my favourite movie of all time. The storytelling, the use of special effects, the sound. And of course the acting. Everything is just about perfect. Also light years ahead of it's time. The only thing that reminds you that you're watching a movie from 1941 is the fact that it's in black and white.

Other favourite movies are Dr. Strangelove, Stalker, Brazil, Seven Samurai, Godfather Pt.1&2, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Clockwork Orange, 12 Angry Men and Vertigo.

More recent favourite movies are In The Mood For Love, Gattaca, Hana-Bi, Yi Yi A One And A Two, Wonder Boys, Magnolia, Cidade Deus, Pi, Hable Con Ella and Mulholland Drive.

[old kentucky shark]

Barton Fink. Or Rushmore.

[william]

is it just me, or did anyone else see how magnolia was a great film but still manage to really hate it?