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Favorite film ever

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What's your favorite film?, mine is David Lean's Great Expectations. The opening sequence to the film is wonderful and i just adore Dickens, get lost in his world for a few minutes......
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWh1pK1rvrs"]YouTube- Great Expectations (1946) - "Boy Meets Convict" (Dir:David Lean)[/ame]
 
It as got to be Zulu

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I can remember when I was at school and Zulu hit the cinema screens. The boys would run around the playground chanting like the Africans in the movie. It really became a cult movie!
 
To many films to have just one favourite, but some of them are 633 Squadron, Dambusters, Quadrophenia, Psycho, The Full Monty and Mamma Mia. What a mixture !!
 
Thank god nobody has mentioned The Shaw:angry:bloodyshank Rescamption:angry2:.....yet
 
Charlie said:
Mine's also a David Lean film: Brief Encounter :cry::cry:
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Try pulling your eyelid down as far as it goes and blowing your nose....

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0CosTboBz8"]YouTube- Trailer Brief Encounter[/ame]
 
A few of mine already mentioned but one I have to mention was The Green Mile.
 
theres quite a few i like...the dambusters..the great escape..the italian job..the graduate.sleepless in seatle..oh and jungle book:D

lyn
 
For me it has to be between three Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz and Dr Zhivago. I could sit and watch any of them over and over again.:)
 
My favorite film has got to be Lawrence of Arabia , why Pete OToole never got an Oscar for that film I will never know , he was brilliant , the scene in the officers Mess when he said "We have have captured Akabar sir , who has ? we have sir the bloody Wogs , wonderful
stuff, I also loved the 1939 version of Robin Hood , with Errol Flynn ,
Bye Bernard
 
Any Film by David Lean,plus a few hundred others, just watched 'Passage To India' in the last few days:)
 
But if you want something that stirs all the emotions you must watch this at least once:):(:D:cry:

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5A6HIaqzxM&feature=related"]YouTube- As good as it gets[/ame]
 
"12 Angry Men". The most thought provoking film I've ever seen. I never tire of watching it. I also agree with Frothblower that "Zulu" is a great film. Other favorites of mine are Glory, Das Boot, Brassed Off, Italian Job, Quadrophenia, The Shawshank Redemption, Road to Perdition, The Wanderers and Once upon a Time in America. along with hundreds of others. I love watching films!
 
I love the Ealing Films comedy "The Titfield Thunderbolt" and also one of the lesser known Powell and Pressburger films "Gone to Earth" set in and around Much Wenlock in Shropshire.
 
i HAVE MANY FAVORITES - Zulu. Three Coins in a Fountain. Roman Holiday. The Magnificent Seven. Gypsy [with Rosalyn Russell] and a few more, I'm sure. Miriam.
 
Laurie_B said:
I love the Ealing Films comedy "The Titfield Thunderbolt" and also one of the lesser known Powell and Pressburger films "Gone to Earth" set in and around Much Wenlock in Shropshire.
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I agree the Ealing films were wonderful and i find the street scenes in them very nostalgic, i'd watch them just for that alone. The Ladykillers was very amusing and Mrs Lopsidey was wonderful......

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoPaqgKWWv0"]YouTube- The Ladykillers Trailer (1955)[/ame]
 
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gHsxJLl6k"]YouTube- Omar Sharif & Catherine Deneuve in Mayerling[/ame]

This is mine and I still cry buckets
 
Mine's the 1981 John Boorman film ''Excalibur'' with Nichol Williamson as Merlin, Helen Mirren as Morgana (Morgan le Fey) and John Terry as King Arthur....it is a superb mixture of the haunting, the daft and the spectacular...and above all else, it is magical!
 
just thought of another one i like...the vikings...kirk douglas and tony curtis...haunting music in that one...

lyn:)
 
The Great Escape:)
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFTVaOTviP4"]YouTube- Steve McQueen in the Great Escape.flv[/ame]
 
A bit difficult to say a film was a favorite but one of them has got to be This Happy Breed.
 
Darby said:
A bit difficult to say a film was a favorite but one of them has got to be This Happy Breed.
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Yes another very nostalgic David Lean film, those houses look wonderful at the begining...

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAqeKpzlR3w"]YouTube- This Happy Breed (1944) Directed by David Lean[/ame]
 
Ice Cold In Alex. Another favourite of mine.
Watch how the froth on the beer gets bigger and smaller. You'd expect me to spot that with a name like Frothy:D
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Ra7hQoHpE"]YouTube- ice cold in alex[/ame]
 
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