Published on 12, July, 2020
The Italian Job for me the original one I mean. Not only do I love Michael Caine in it, but also the Minis and the other classic cars as well as a solid brilliant plot for a movie!
It's a classic and one of my favourite movies of all time. And also why I have such a deep love for classic Minis and why I bought one! On the DVD there's audio commentary which you can listen to while the movie plays, I highly recommend listening to it, it's really interesting to hear.
It's impossible to pick just one!
I have lots of favourites!!!
I honestly couldn't think of just one
But Skyfall , Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Back to the Future 2, Spiderman 2 ( i am starting to sense a theme here )
Spirited Away and Les Triplettes De Belleville, rank rather high for me personally.
oh ,Captain, my Captain.
I also love amelie, the closest I will get to her is my name and the autism thing since she seems like an autistic character to me.
I went on a business trip to Paris with two work colleagues last February and managed to arrange a hotel in Montmartre for our stay. I don’t think they figured out why
I love too many films to have a single favourite but off the top of my head, these are some of my favourites that I never get bored of watching...
And many others I can't think of right now.
My favourite bit is trying to persuade the bomb not to explode by engaging it in existential philosophy.
Have you seen First Man? Ryan Gosling is in that one, but it's very underrated I think. Similar Apollo 13 vibes! Very enjoyable.
"Who's turn is it to need the alien?" - Dark star
A single favourite wouldn't be possible!
Hello, I went to Paris to see the filming locations including the cafe but no sign of Amelie! I agree, it would be nice to meet someone like her. I lost count of how often I went back to the local art house cinema to see the film but I must have made a difference to paying the overheads. I could not ger her out of my mind, she was so nice.
I absolutely love Amelie. She is obviously a bit different from the people around her, lives in her own world, spends a lot of time observing people and is just a thoroughly lovely character.
It’s easy to see why autistic people would like her.
I wish I could meet someone like her!
Well, it's a great film ASD people can easily identify with. Being an outsider and all that. I'd say Amelie is clearly autistic, though! Not possibly.
I'm surprised the Temple Grandin film hasn't featured more as that's life-affirming like Amelie. And Claire Danes is fantastic in it.
Interesting that Amelie is featured so often. Could it be that the character is possibly autistic? I have always seen it as an autism film given the very different view of life around her. My favorite film is Fear And loathing in Las Vegas as I love the sheer anarchy of trashing hotel rooms and the insanity of covering a bike race in the desert.
Roy that's an awesome project you have going there and I hope one day you have the time to get it completed, then you can go to Turin and do some driving through the city!
What's your favourite classic car?
What one are you restoring currently?
I love classic cars! I don't restore classics as a job - I wish! - but I do restore them as a bit of a hobby. Last year I was working on a Triumph Stag, a nice white one which was an absolute wreck, but got it looking like new in the end.
Currently I've got a classic Escort mk3 Ghia in the garage ready to be started.
Taxi (1998)Stalker (1979)Logan's Run (1976)Wargames (1983)Hackers (1995)Any of the Star Trek Films, but especially the first and possibly Wrath of KhanDonnie Darko (2001)Baby Driver (2017)
I honestly have many favourites. I love sci-fi and action films, anything with really good soundtracks and I watch foreign films a lot. My first real one was probably the original Taxi, seen at 2am one Saturday morning on Channel 4, maybe 20 years ago. I love anime and own most of the Studio Ghibli DVDs.
I like many types of film, but the one I always call my favourite is Apollo 13. The space race was a fascinating period of history for me. I loved watching the story of how a real space mission recovered from failure (plus all the technical ground people who played their part).
Some wonderful classic sci-fi there, that I grew up on.
Silent Running is a beautiful and moving film. I’d probably have to watch Dark Star straight after to lift my mood again
I think the movie, that if there must be just one, it would have to be...
Houston's Treasure of the Sierra Madre".
•closing in for a close tie for 2nd place are•
Trumbell's Silent Running
and
Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry
Anderson's Logan's Run
•and for #1 in camp category.•
a tie vote for
John Carpenter's Dark Star
Tarkofsky's Solaris
I have three that tie for 1st place: The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman. Katharine Ross and Anne Bancroft), The Apartment (Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine) and Some Like it Hot (Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtiss and Marylin Monroe).