My Favorite Movies

A beautiful movie, very British and very romantic...the scene where a secret admirer is 'rumbled' (find it on you tube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jcgj2luC7A) gets me every time...best line: 'as chance and fateful cockup would have it...'

best multi genre film ever...it's kung fu meets Sci-Fi meets Computer Animation meets Tom and Jerry on computersmack....yes, I DID just invent that word.

An interactive postcard of tokyo...or how to kill time in a strange foreign city. Great karaoke scene!

If you can stand the steady stream of French subtitles without missing the story...one of the best period dramas ever...tells the true story of the largest massacre in French history, but it's NOT particularly violent (considering the subject matter)...lots of sensualité...favorite line: Tu as faim? Are you hungry? When a catholic and a protestant finally call a truce and become friends, warmongers take note!

jack and shirley at their best...ucompletely understated romance

Rather slow but worthwhile story of a couple of diving geeks who specialise in prolonged underwater breath-holding compete for the championship. Lots of blue water, and deep.

If you haven't seen this film then youv'e missed one of the all time classics...Clint Eastwood with a strange accent...aparrently the basis for 'The Magnificent 7' and countless 'spaghetti westerns'.

A moving and original srory of a young boy's struggle with grief. Not at all depressing, but have plenty of kleenex handy!

SLINKY....check out Max von Stroheim as the loyal butler.

Sensual portrayal of Bram Stoker's classic...Dracula can never be the hero, but you do feel a little sorry for him in this one...Monica Belucci steals the show for me, but I am a guy after all...

Probably the best romantic film ever? without the slush...well maybe just a few buckets here and there...

If you've ever wondered why anyone would want to waste their time with poetry, then this film is for you...a moving and tragic story of how internal beauty overcomes physical ugliness. Handsome but clumsy boy meets poetry loving girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again with help of ugly but poetic 'uncle'...boy goes to war...oh just see it, its great.

can't remeber much but it impressed me as a kid...

Possibly Spielberg's best film, the moving and uplifting story of a geman playboy business man cheating his way to wealth and ultimately- redemption by saving several hundred jews from the death camp. Best moment for me when Schindler (Liam Neeson) accidently drops the gold ring that has been presented to him by the grateful survivors.

Basically a day out in Paris with one thing leading to another...Julie Delpy at her best...great dialogue...no action, this ain't a Bruce Willis film...burt if you are a new romantic, tjhis is for you.

Julie Delpy at her sensual best in this one dialogue film of boy meets girl.

Great and totally convincing brit accent from texan Renee Zellweger playing a 30 something intellectually challenged woman on the slippery road to 'abandonment' and finding her feet gravitating between bimbo, slut, career woman and romantic....Hugh Grant as the likeable bad guy...my favourite line:...'What's wanky Darcy (Colin Firth) doing here? Blimey! here he comes again? and not a cowboy hat insight.

A big budget 'western' that tells the other side of the story, those 'pesky injuns' turn out to be the 'good guys' at last after decades of gross misreprentation, .ok it's a romantic view- but the sentiment to see the west before the remaning tribes get 'herded' onto the 'res' is real enough. Leonard Peltier is still in prison and many native people still live in dire circumsatnces, but this film shows the period of 'the white man is coming' when they were the kings of the plain... a beautiful moving film of friendship, values and injustice.

Great old style BIG movie...tells it more or less as it was...favourite line: 'Thank Mr Gandhi for his letter and arrest him'

Incredible portrayal of cockney psycho by Ben Kingsley travelling to Spain to track down a retired and reluctant safecraker Gal (Ray Winstone) for one last job. Things get kind of messy as the sub plot involving ex-girlfriends forces Gal to do the inevitable. Favourite line: 'Why are you swearing? I'm not swearing...'The actor who played peace loving Gandhi shows great versatility here, managing to exhude violence with his choice of clothes- a neatly pressed white short sleeved shirt, just a little too tight I'd say. and if your'e thinking of moving to Marbella...forget it, it's full of gangsters. I can't understand

A light plane crashes in the arabian desert and water is running low...get me out of here!

Woody Allen,psycologically deranged in wacky 'remake ' of Tolstoys classic 'War and Peace'...

A trifle, how should one say? Too many notes...but what the hell, its worth it for the wigs alone...

The first 15 minutes scared the bejeesus out of me...but I suppose THAT was the point of the film...

I love the music in this film and it still moves me...

Excellent portrait of colonial India and British injustice...try not to snigger at Alec Guiness in a turban...

Worth it for the Coen Brothers portrayal of an innocent American tourist getting duffed up by a young french 'hoodlum'...France gets it's revenge on hollywood! Basically a collection of shorts representing love and the different 'arrondisments' of Paris. If foreign films send you to sleep with all that 'foreign' talking, then this could be a good introduction- most of it is in English. Its an original fim, if you discount 'Night on Earth' and goes from the sad- a young unemployed black man gets knifed and robbed, the kitch- a silent love story of a vampiress and her willing 'victim', the wacky- a mime artist finds his 'other half', the poignant- a lonely middle aged tourist reflects on her isolation in what is pssibly the worst french accent in history...a must-see for 'French nerds' like myself. Best line: 'What are you looking at? CxxT person' in French of course! pardonnez moi.

Features what was the most expensive set in French film history...you'll never look at derelict bridge (or person) in the same way again...some interesting and original scenes...Juliette Binoche even looks good whilst 'slumming it'...

Charton Heston at his best as the soul searching and ultimatlely redeemed Mr Moses who, like Buddha- turned his back on the good life to serve humanity. great story! How DID they part that sea without computer graphics?

NOT an an easy film to watch...