I am lighthearted so my question is what is your favorite film of all time?

I never thought about this, but I watched "It's a Wonderful Life" staring Donna Reed and James Stewart and that movie changed my way of thinking. I started being more empathetic towards people and I try to be the best I can be to uplift the people I meet. I find myself in tears of joy every time I watch this movie and it really makes you think. Tell me what your favorite film of all time is. One that makes you think.

 

mine would be gone with the wind hands down

 

A friend of mine, watched The Sound of Music more than 3,000 times at the cinema. Is that a record.?

 

If you haven't you need to see it on the big screen, it's great. Every time I watch it, I see something new that I hadn't noticed before....what is interesting is the commonality of characters in movies of that era. Zuzu and young George were both in Bishop's wife...The bald headed guy on the porch was the preacher in Christmas in Connecticut, on and on... Evidently, it wasn't such a big hit at the time it was released.

 

Kelly's Hero's! Hubby and I know it Word by Word!

 

Ever notice Sam had a 55 key piano..... Another classic to see up on the big screen . . they had it playing once here for Valentine's day...

 

“gone with the wind “but lPearl harbor “is right there with it!!

 

Definitely Barbet Schroeder's "MORE" with original Pink Floyd soundtrack.
Great great great hippie flick.
Watch it before it is removed from YT !
You won't regret a minute of it. Honest

 

The Outlaw Josey Wales.

 

In case you thought that my friend was completely barmy, he was the sound and projection engineer at the London Dominion, where the film ran for more than 6 years.
I relieved him on his holidays, so I only watched it a couple of hundred times.

 

Impossible to pick a favorite for me. All mentioned are good. Some of my "favorites" begin in the 30s and some are recent.

 

If only they used a real airplane on the closing scene of Casablanca instead of the hokey model....

 

As you can imagine, neither myself or any of my engineers ever touched alcohol when we were working.
When it came to sound, nothing touched watching Oklahoma in a 70mm theatre. Unfortunately, since the film was shot at 30fps and the world was not ready to change the standard stayed at 24fps. Oklahoma had to be shot using 2 cameras, so all the technical costs doubled, needless to say, since different shots were selected, their was a lot of variations between the 70 and 35mm end products. South Pacific was another early example. When 70mm was shot at 24fps, the 35mm was simply an optical transfer.

From that point, sound went downhill, culminating in the film "Sid and Nancy", which I refused to accept for the London opening. I tried to explain, that while at a pop concert it would be impossible to hear a word spoken, bringing this to the cinema and expecting the audience to pay to watch a film with no intelligible dialog was going a step too far. I re-recorded the film with Alan Dykes from the BBC and they wrote all over the cans, "Sound of music part 2. punk version". America simply retitled the film "Love Kills".

Needles to say, I did not have the same problem with "Silent Movie" and Mell Brooks even offered me a lollypop.

Back to Oklahoma. Anyone we heard those 6 magnetic soundtracks running at 137 feet per minute, at 1.33 on this video, had a moment that they will never forget.
Fred Zinnemann was a wonderful guy, even when he came banging on my front door at 2am one morning. LOL

 

Can't go wrong with a R&H musical...

 

I've probably seen tens of thousands of movies - so it's incredibly hard to pick just one as a favorite.

That said, I will, anyway. It's Unforgiven (1992).

 

so far, i would still have to say furtopia. sorry, human emo just isn't really my thing. its landscapes and scenery that i watch them for mostly. i WANT (e.t.) alien travelogs.
odd interesting strange landscapes, architecture and infrastructure. i really seriously am not amused by idiots with guns and cars beating each other over the head.

 

I find Weekend at Bernie's to be waaaayyyy more hilarious than any rational human being should.