[Coffin]

Originally Posted by Pecker

This is a very special desert island...

Haha!

I see some people are 'cheating' by including box sets as individual entries! I may have to revise my list..

[Pecker]

Originally Posted by coffin137

Haha!

I see some people are 'cheating' by including box sets as individual entries! I may have to revise my list..

I strongly encourage cheating and creative accountancy. Boxed-sets areone film, unless the films have nothing to do with each other.

You may, for example, have 10 DVDs in your hand luggage and one extra in the player. I stop short of you having 10 DVDs in your hand luggage, but managing to smuggle a seperate crate full through customs.

Steve W

[sja]

Originally Posted by Pecker

This is a very special desert island.

On it you will find the wreckage of a small plane. In the plane you will find, undamaged, a Blu-ray Disc player and surround sound set up, a complete home cinema system, and a series of solar panels and small wind turbine, complete with instructions on how to set them up.

The island has a bat cave - literally! It appears that the pilot was a film fan, and wanted to set up his own desert island home cinema. Fed up with the world, he wanted to get away with it all by marooning himself on the island with only a Grade A home cinema for company.

He had already found a bat cave, cleared out all the bats (and bat dung), and installed much of the equipment necessary for converting the cave into a home cinema.

Sadly he was going to bring his extensive DVD collection on the next trip, so you'll only be able to watch the films you have on you.

I've thought this one through, you know.



Steve W

NO NO You're wrong. When I landed it had all been washed away! All that was left was a Generator, Matsui DVD player and an old Black and White Bush television set.

So, we'll have 10 Black and White films to watch...

Top of the bunch and one of the funniest films ever:

The Chiltern Hundreds

Then in no particular order:

Kind Hearts & Coronets
Passport to Pimlico
The Longest Day (all in one film of every actor ever seen acting)
The Douglas Bader Story
Angels One Five
Goodbye Mr Chips

And finally the first three of the original quartet of St Trinian's films (Can't have the fourth; it's in colour!):

The Belles of St Trinian's
Blue Murder at St trinian's
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's

[Big_Dan_C]

Originally Posted by robfosters

The Goonies
Pirates trilogy
Goodfellas
Life of Brian
Forrest Gump
Shawshank redemption
Gremlins
Braveheart
Poltergeist
My Bruce Lee collection

I haven't seen the goonies for an age! what a touch of class

Anyone seen BMX bandits? I remembered it after I read rob's post - nicole kidman at her best!

[J.J.GITTES]

Good to see people liking Will Hay Oh Mr porter was on Barry Normans 100 films list as well i thought i was the only one who liked him

[pRot3us]

Originally Posted by J.J.GITTES

Good to see people liking Will Hay Oh Mr porter was on Barry Normans 100 films list as well i thought i was the only one who liked him

There are a few of us on here

[J.J.GITTES]

There should be more people watching Will Hay films and Marx brother film to see how comedy is done right Simon Pegg must of watch Ask a policeman before he did Hot Fuzz because the tone of the movie is just like that

[Garrett]

Originally Posted by pRot3us

There are a few of us on here

^^^

As he said there is a lot of us here that likes his films there was a long thread or long part of a thread here about how good his films are.

[shemp]

Evil Dead 2
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Moulin Rouge
Fried Green Tomatoes
Labyrinth
Legend of the Red Dragon
Misery
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Little Mermaid
A Christmas Story

[purleylad]

Vertigo
The Searchers
The Wild Bunch
Jaws
True Grit
North by Northwest
For a Few Dollars More
The Third Man
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Professionals

[andrew markwort]

The Godfather
Amelie
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Hobson's Choice
Citizen Kane
Belle et la Bete
Throne of Blood
Tokyo Story
Cries and Whispers
Shrek

[IAN P]

Originally Posted by andrew markwort

Hobson's Choice

Hobson's Choice,an absolute masterpiece.Haven't seen it in a long time.

[brian s]

Originally Posted by IAN P

Hobson's Choice,an absolute masterpiece.Haven't seen it in a long time.

So Hobson's Choice is your choice for a DIF. Damn good choice.



Bri

[IAN P]

I made my choices long ago.


Can't change em' back,that would be cheating.


Hobson's Choice is just a classic Sunday afternoon film.

[brian s]

Originally Posted by IAN P

I made my choices long ago.


Can't change em' back,that would be cheating.


Hobson's Choice is just a classic Sunday afternoon film.

For me anything with Alistair Sim is a first rate choice.


Bri

[IAN P]

Originally Posted by brian s

For me anything with Alistair Sim is a first rate choice.


Bri

There's been a couple of his on Film4 and Ch4 in the last week or so.

And yes,he has made some stunners down the years.Who can forget School For Scoundrels,to name just one.

[andrew markwort]

Hobson's Choice was recently released in a Criterion edition. There's also a BFI disc available, but with fewer extras. Incidentally, John Mills on several occasions said it was the best film he ever worked on.

[KhalJimbo]

Me, Myself and Irene would be one of them for me, got to be one of the funniest films I have ever seen!!

[brian s]

Originally Posted by IAN P

There's been a couple of his on Film4 and Ch4 in the last week or so.

And yes,he has made some stunners down the years.Who can forget School For Scoundrels,to name just one.

I recorded "Innocents In Paris" on Friday. Sim was excellent as usual but Margaret Rutheford was criminally underused.

Cheers
Bri

[Steve N]

Originally Posted by IAN P

There's been a couple of his on Film4 and Ch4 in the last week or so.

And yes,he has made some stunners down the years.Who can forget School For Scoundrels,to name just one.

My favourite's Green For Danger.
He's got some great droll lines

[brian s]

Originally Posted by Steve N

My favourite's Green For Danger.
He's got some great droll lines

I've got the DVD. It's quite a while before Sim turns up but when he does he transforms the film from a very bad melodrama to sheer genius.


Bri

[Coffin]

I've been thinking and having watched many of them literally this past month or so, would like to revise my original list, explain a bit on each and narrow the list down to 10 as originally requested

Some Like it Hot (1959)
- Being a big Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder fan, it was always between this and The Apartment. Having watched both recently, I think Marilyn Monroe would appease me more on those lonely nights than Shirley Maclaine

The Godfather Part II (1974)
- There isn't a great deal left to say about The Godfather films. I have chosen the 2nd one ahead of the first mainly for the performance by Pacino which I believe he never bettered (which is praise rather than criticism) and for the scenes filmed in Sicily, a part of Italy I once visited with fond memories of

As Good as it Gets (1997)
- I guess you need a few laughs stranded on a island and what better than the true legend that is Jack Nicholson. Oh, and I think I have OCD too

The Gold Rush (1925)
- Sir Chaplin was a genius and this remains my favourite work of his. My grandfather who fought with the British in WWII told me how Chaplin "made people happy when they most needed it". There will never be another like him

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- I guess the list would be incomplete with some science fiction and what better than 2001. This isn't my favourite Kubrick film but it would be unjust not to include some of his work in the list. Maybe some extra terrestrial could come and rescue me from this barren island?!

Charade(1963)
- Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn....in the same picture Grant was born less than 30 miles from me so I am utterly bias in that respect. As for Audrey...well, we're kinda an item (in my head). Just don't tell my girlfriend.

(Yes, I am insane)

Vertigo (1958)
- I shan't elaborate on this too much or this post will turn into a babbling of Vertigo praise. Not favoured by all, but I will never tire of watching this thriller which mesmerises me with each scene as if being subjected to a whole new experience, each time, over and over again. My number one film.

Mother India (1957)
- My parents were both born in India and I visit the country often. This is a masterpiece of Indian cinema and recommended to all mindful only of the often usual Bollywood tripe

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- You can't beat a good Western and there aren't many better. This isn't my favourite spaghetti but it's got a bit of everything so makes the list. Oh, and obviously, Claudia Cardinale has nothing to do with my selection

Casablanca (1942)
- I like a bit of romance as a few of these titles suggest! A truly iconic film and a timeless classic for a timeless island!

[Pecker]

That's a list and a half.

Cheers, mate.

Steve W

[ade4all]

in the mood for love
the fall
sunset boulevard
there will be blood
me & you & everyone we know
seven samurai
godfather2
dont look now
close encounters of the 3rd kind
dead man's shoes
delicatessant
sita sings the blues

[Todd Tomorrow]

Vertigo
Marnie
North By Northwest
Notorious
Sabotage
The Night of the Hunter
Black Narcissus
I Know Where I'm Going
Alien
Blade Runner
Aliens
Read My Lips
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
All About Eve
Funny Face
Cat People (Torneur)
Curse of the Cat People
The Big Heat
You Only Live Once
Fear Eats the Soul
Pandora's Box
Petulia
Don't Look Now
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Lady From Shanghai
The Wicker Man
Johnny Guitar
House of Games
Rosemary's Baby
The Tenant
Dance of the Vampires aka The Fearless Vampire Killers
Chinatown
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Adventurers
Breathless (Godard)
Possession (Zulawski)
The Iron Giant
Spirited Away
Imitation of Life (Sirk)
Blood Simple
Safe
Blow Out
Carrie
Peter Ibbetson
Days of Heaven
An American Werewolf in London
Point Blank
Prime Cut
Annie Hall
The Brood
Brides of Dracula
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
The Sugarland Express
E.T.
Halloween (Carpenter)
A Woman Under the Influence
Opening Night
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Wizard of Oz
Female Trouble
Blue Velvet
The Elephant Man
The Fourth Man
Starship Troopers
Vampyr
3 Women
You Can Count On Me
The Woman Next Door
Night of the Shooting Stars
The Sound of Music
Viridiana
Belle de jour
Miracle Mile
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Let the Right One In
Into the Wild
Black Sunday (Bava)
Rabid Dogs
In a Glass Cage
The Godfather 1 & 2
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978 versions)
The Wonderful World of Jules Verne
La belle et la bete
Donnie Darko
2001
Suspiria
Inferno
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hye (Mamoulian)
The Holy Mountain
Harrold and Maude
Birth
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in the West
Children of Men
Careful (Guy Maddin)
The Woman Next Door
The Story of Adele H.
The 400 Blows


After over 40 years of loving film you accumulate a lot of favourites...

[Pecker]

Todd, you might just have squeezed in more than ten there - my maths isn't what it used to be.



Good job the customs control isn't very on-the-ball on this island.

Steve W

[Coffin]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

Vertigo
Marnie..

After over 40 years of loving film you accumulate a lot of favourites...

Erm, considering how the rest of us struggled, 10 only please!

[Todd Tomorrow]

..sorry, got a bit carried away.

I edited my above post and I selected ten films in bold lettering, but the truth it's that this an almost arbitrary choice.

[Pecker]

Great stuff. For Lewton I'd have The Seventh Victim, but that's just me.

Steve W

[Gilly]

Got a bit of a mixed bag to be honest and in no order:-

Halloween
Jaws
Hot Fuzz
The Wedding Singer
Can't Buy Me Love
The Blair Witch Project
Shaun of the Dead
Slaughter High
Cocktail
The Fog