Your Top 20 favourite films?

L'Age d'Or
L'Argent
L'Atalante
Blanche
Conspirators of Pleasure
Drifting Clouds
Ed Wood
Eraserhead
In the Mood for Love
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Marketa Lazarová
The Night of the Shooting Stars
Once Upon a Time in the West
Performance
La Roue
Russian Ark
Sherlock Jr
A Short Film About Love
Stalker
Withnail & I

Well, you did ask! ?

And in alphabetical order too... anyone would think you had the list already....?

ETA I just noticed you have In The Mood For Love on there. Wonderful film. I might have to change my list to incorporate it. and Ed Wood is fab, too. I wondered whether it was the Bela Lugosi/ Hungarian cinema connection that helped it onto the list?

Here goes-in no particular order.

1. Once upon a time in America

2. Raging Bull

3. Jean de florette/Manon

4. Cinema Paradiso

5. Charade

6. Breakfast at Tiffanys

7. Play it again Sam

8. Cape Fear

9. Vertigo

10. Midnight Express

11. Once were Warriors

12. Gilda

13. American Psycho

14. Fight Club

15 Don't look now

16. Secretary

17 Rosemary's Baby

18 Spartacus

19 La Vie en Rose

20. What's eating Gilbert Grape

Nice list ddw; we're going to have quite a bit of overlap, I think.

Let me see....

1 Gregory's Girl

2 Cinema Paradiso (mainstream release cut not Director's Cut)

3 When Harry Met Sally

4 Local Hero

5 The Last Seduction

6 La Vie en Rose

7 The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover

8 Delicatessen

9 The Belles of St Trinians

10 Rosemary's Baby

11 To Kill A Mockingbird

12 Don't Look Now

13 Jean de Florette/ Manon des Sources

14 O Brother Where Art Thou

15 Kes Annie Hall

16 Cabaret

17 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Mr JK has reminded me of In The Mood For Love which is such a beautiful film, and has to be on my list

18 The Ladykillers

19 It Happened One Night

20 Singin' In The Rain

? twenty's not enough is it? I keep changing my mind. I don't have space for Carrie, American Beauty, Kes, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, If, Taxi Driver, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Reservoir Dogs, North By Northwest, Rear Window, Ferris Bueller's day Off, Badlands etc etc etc etc.

No particular order:

1. Fight Club
2. Platoon
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. The Breakfast Club
6. Goodfellas
7. Almost Famous
8. American Beauty
9. Seven
10. Shawshank Redemption
11. Raiders of the Lost Ark
12. 12 Angry Men
13. Resevoir Dogs
14. The Usual Suspects
15. The Big Lebowski
16. Amores Perros
17. St. Elmo's Fire
18. Raging Bull
19. Jaws
20. Dirty Dancing

1. the crow

2. matrix

3. matrix reloaded

4. underworld

5. underworld evolution

6. bram stoker's dracula (has to be watched if only for keanu's killer 'i am english' performance)

7. mulholland drive

8. the others

9. labyrinth

10. scent of a woman

11. constantine

12. stigmata

13. star wars II

14. the star trek one with the whale in

15. italian for beginners

16. raise the red lantern

17. die hard

18. v for vendetta

19. the latest st trinians (i know)

20. amelie

In no particular order, and thinking of the top of my head I'd say

1. Nil by mouth

2. Life is beautiful

3. Fight club

4. Gladiator

5. Moulin Rouge

6. Grease

7. Shawshank Redemption

8. Brother where are thou?

9. The departed

10. Kill Bill (part 1)

11. Annie

12. Psycho

12. Dirty Dancing

13. Snatch

14. Ronin

15. The pianist

17/18/19 Lord of the Rings trilogy

20. The Bourne trilogy (I know that's cheating!)

Actually, it's because it's just about the most pleasant surprise I've had in a cinema in the last twenty years - I expected it to take the same line that literally everyone else did with Ed Wood (i.e. let's all point and laugh at the incompetent hack), but it was so much richer than that, largely because I think Tim Burton recognised that he had more in common with Wood than otherwise (talent being the only significant gap).

The last thing I expected was for it to be so moving - especially Bela Lugosi's speech about having no home (eat your heart out, King Lear!) and the ending where Wood is watching the premiere of Plan Nine from Outer Space in a beatific trance and saying "This is it - this is the one I'll be remembered for!"

In no particular order:

Life of Brian

When Harry met Sally

In the name of the father

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Human Traffic

Breakfast Club

A Clockwork Orange

Goodfellas

Citizen Kane

Last King of Scotland

Citizen Kane

The Usual Suspects

It's a Wonderful life

Star Wars - A New Hope

Deliverance

Monty Python's Holy Grail

Sexy Beast

Kramer vs Kramer

Crazy People

Being John Malkovich

In order of most viewings

1. True Romance

2. Weird Science

3. The Usual Suspects

4. My Own Private Idaho

5. Lock, Stock and Two smoking barrels

6. Friday

7. Leon

8. Grosse Point Blank

9. I, Robot

10. Gosford Park

11. High Fidelity

12. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

13. Shaun of the Dead

14. Napoleon Dynamite

15. The Big Lebowski

16. Empire Records

17. Kung Fu Hussle

18. The Godfather

19. The Pianist

20. Be Kind Rewind

Again in no particular order.

1) Grease

2) Schindler's List

3) The Notebook Dead Poet's Society (I can't believe I forgot this one)

4) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

5) Beautiful Mind

6) Walk The Line

7) Shrek

8) The Butterfly Effect

9) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

10) Forrest Gump

11) Dirty Dancing

12) Taxi Driver

13) It's A Wonderful Life

14) Gone With The Wind

15) Angels With Dirty Faces

16) The Great Escape

17) Good Will Hunting

18) August Rush

19) Once

20) Little Miss Sunshine

Also in no particular order - (I'm not much of a 'heavy' or arty film fan I'm afraid ?)

1. In America (this really is number one, the best film ever)

2. Love Actually

3. The Holiday

4. Ladies in Lavender

5. The Bucket List

6. The Devil Wears Prada

7. The Calender

8. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

9. The Lion King

10. Mona Lisa Smile

11. Mamma Mia

12. The Dead Poet's Society

13. The Women

14. Definitely Maybe

15. Steel Magnolias

16. Bridget Jones' Diary

17. Muriel's Wedding

18. Four Weddings and a Funeral

19.

20.

I'll come back to the last two...

Another in no order (although the 1st is my favourite)

1. The Shawshank Redemption

2. Dancer in the Dark

3, 4 & 5 - Lord of the Rings Trilogy

6. My Name is Modesty

7. Metropolis

8. Ghost in he Shell

9. Dune

10. Citizen Cane

11. The Straight Story

12. Serenity

13. The Meaning of Life

14. The Italian Job (original)

15. The Usual Suspects

16. Blade Runner

17. Blue Velvet

18. The Ipcress Files

19. Spirited Away

20. My Neighbour Totoro

Gosh this is so hard but in no particular order (apart from the first)

1. Gone with the Wind

2. Fellowship of the Ring

3. The Two Towers

4. Return of the King

5. Kind Hearts and Coronets

6. Blythe Spirit

7. The Crucible

8. Father of the Bride

9. Legally Blonde

10. Ben Hur

11. The Railway Children

12. Quills

13. Little Women

14. My Fair lady

15. The Slipper and the Rose

16. Shawshank Redemption

17 Green Mile

18. Schindlers List

19. Dirty Dancing

20. Wizard of Oz

I'm useless at doing things like this because I always end up changing my mind. So, in haste, thinking mainly on rewatchability (is that a word? it is now) and in no particular order:

1. Strictly Ballroom
2. Dead Poets' Society
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
4. The Princess Bride
5. Star Wars IV - A New Hope
6. Clash of the Titans
7. Stand by Me
8. The Thomas Crown Affair (Pierce Brosnan version)
9. Tron
10. Shaun of the Dead
11. The Aristocats
12. Memento
13. The Fifth Element
14. The Big Blue
15. A Room with a View
16. Withnail & I
17. Pirates of the Caribbean
18. Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
19. The Breakfast Club
20. The Mission

Polls have just closed on the BFI's survey of people's favourite films, and apparently 20,000 people voted - so here's the top twenty, with individual votes in brackets:

1. Quadrophenia (470)
2. Stalker (468)
3. The Third Man (463)
4. The Women (462) - presumably the original!
5. The Wizard of Oz (435)
6. The Battle of Algiers (432)
7. A Matter of Life and Death (417)
8. Lawrence of Arabia (411)
9. Blade Runner (300)
10. The Godfather (177)
11. Billy Elliot (170)
12. Pulp Fiction (161)
13. Singin' in the Rain (86)
14. L'Atalante (85)
15. Metropolis (84)
16. Vertigo (82)
17 & 18. Dr. Strangelove & Once upon a Time in America (both 74)
19 & 20. Apocalypse Now & Back to the Future (both 72)

Complete list here.

1. shawshank redemption
2. Atonement
3. Breakfast at Tiffanys
4. The breakfast club
5. Big
6. It's a wonderful life
7. To kill a mocking bird
8. Crash
9. Unbreakable
10. Kill bill
11. Dirty dancing
12. Heathers
13. Stand by me
14. The Green mile
15. cool hand luke
16. Ferris beullers day off
17. 12 angry men
18. some like it hot
19. Raiders of the lost Ark
20. secrets and lies

1.Godfather I

2.Godfather II

3.The Princess Bride

4.Brotherhood of The Wolf

5.Gross Pointe Blank

6.O Brother Where Art Thou

7.Breakfast At Tiffany's

8.The Majestic

9.GhostBusters

10.Dodgeball

11. Road To Perdition

12. Guys & Dolls

13. Lost In Translation

14. 12 Angry Men

15. African Queen

16. Mr Vampire

17. Devils Backbone

18. The Empire Strikes Back

19. No Country for Old Men

20. Dogma

I have omitted to Kill A Mockingbird and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as they are in my top 20 books instead ?

No particular order

1, Battle Royale

2, Rouge

3, Espirit d'amore

4, Ichi

5, Young and Dangerous

6, Killer

7, Bullet in the Head

8, Spirited Away

9, The Science of Sleep

10, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead

11, Ghost in the Shell

12, Dead Mans Shoes

13, Downfall

14, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

15, Audition

16, Oldboy

17, Wartership Down

18, Juon

19, City of God

20, A Chinese Ghost Story

Mr Vampire! A magnificent film - if you haven't seen it, treat yourself, as it's not only on YouTube in its entirety, but their version has the original gloriously semi-literate subtitles that were cleaned up for its British DVD release.

The opening scene alone will determine whether it's your sort of thing - as will the phrase "the definitive hopping vampire zombie kung fu film". ?

I nearly weed laughing at the hopping the first time I saw it. WTP thought I would like it and he was right ?

I saw it way back in 1986, as part of a Hong Kong all night quintuple bill at the late lamented Scala Cinema, years before deranged Hong Kong films became fashionable over here.

It was the first one up, and the audience initially groaned when they realised that it was subtitled, but got into it almost immediately - and the police station scene (jump to 5:56) had them cheering and applauding.

At the time, I assumed I'd never get a chance to see it again, and it was a good four or five years before I managed it. Now, the younger generation can order it in a trice, and have no idea how lucky they are.

1. Beaches - total snotfest ?

2. To Kill a Mockingbird - I saw this at shcool when studying English and I was hooked.

3. There something about Mary

4. Die Hard 2

5. Ghost

6. Dirty Dancing

7. Saw1

8. Saw2

9. Saw 3

10. Moulin Rouge

11. Watership Down - Always, always makes me cry.

12. Calender Girls

13. Spiderman 2

14. Ghostbusters

15. Stand By Me

16. The Goonies

17. I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry

18. Pirates of the Carribean 1

19. Pirates of the Carribean 2

20. Pirates of the Carribean 3

Not the greatest list ever but hey !

TT - Funnily enough I watched Cool Hand Luke last night for the first time. Great film.

In no particular order off the top of my head:

1. No Country For Old Men

2. Burn After Reading

3. The Goonies

4. The Godfather II

5. A Beautiful Mind

6. The Pianist

7. Shawshank Redemption

8. The Deer Hunter

9. The Cider House Rules

10. Stand By Me

11. To Kill A Mocking bird

12. Trainspotting

13. Monsters Inc

14. Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory

15. On Her Majestys Secret Service

16. American Pyscho

17. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

18. The Departed

19. Fargo

20. The Green Mile

Amelie

Roman Holiday

Breakfast At Tiffanys

A Bridge Too Far

Apocalypse Now

The Wizard Of Oz

Threads

The Notebook

A Beautiful Mind

Theirs Is The Glory

Cross Of Iron

Jacob's Ladder

Arlington Road

Omega Man

Princess Bride

Still Crazy

La Vita E Bella

The Thing

La Haine

Dogs In Space

Very plebian.

ETA - Deliberaltely did this without looking at others lists, reviewed them now and this list could easily have been doubled or more.

Off the top of my head, in no particular order, and stopped when I got to 20 - could have been 50!

la haine
romper stomper
ferris bueller's day off
the lost boys
some like it hot
rebel without a cause
iron man
thankyou for smoking
shrek
toy story 1 & 2
monsters inc
vera drake
the outsiders
catch me if you can
the terminal
metropolis
oldboy
lady vengeance
coming to america
crouching tiger hidden dragon

Sorry for no caps, /i'm typing round the cat ?