Kittys Last Week - Films To Watch?

Its my last week of freedom next week! Im fully booked up this week with stuff but next week ive got bugger all to do.

I apologise if this topic has been discussed before but i would like to know everyones favourite all time films so i have some ideas what to watch in the insomniac ridiculous hours of my last week of freedom - after that itll be early bed time to get up VERY early to set off to sheffield from rotherham through all that rush hour traffic. My poor little car. And they say unis supposed to be fun!

My favourite films so far are Kes and Shawshank redemption to give you an idea but im open to any kind of genre - Im off to watch Lolita in an hour (its on C4.)

Thanks! Kat De Kitty (preparing for lolita - is it french??)

Lolita is Russian originally (by Nabokov).

Which version? The James Mason/Shelley Winters (I think it was them) is a superb film

oh is it? i cant say i know much about it only that ive heard of it and its on. I dont know which version either! Its got Jeremy Irons in and its from 1997? Is that the one thats good or shall i not bother?

Old favourite:

In The Heat of the Night with Sydney Potier and Rod Steiger

Oscar winning movie. Excellent film.

Jaws of course. I can watch that over and over and still get scared when the head falls out of the bottom of the boat

New favourites:

Matrix - Great special effects.

Pay it Forward - Cute movie. Chic Flick.

Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels - Excellent laugh.

The Patriot - Mel Gibson, what more can I say!!!

I,m a musical fan, South Pacific is my fav, but i also like the old classic comedy films, Will Hay, George Formby, Marx Bros and Laurel and Hardy.

The odd slapstick comedy Norman Wisdom films still amuse me to.

My two favourites are 'The Red Violin' and 'The Legend of 1900' - both a delightful experience.

I haven't seen the 1997 version, but I understand that Dmitri Nabokov, the authors son, rates it over the '67 Kubrick Version, where James Mason plays Humbert like a slightly dirty old man, rather than Lolita's emotional equal.

Interestingly both films raise Lolita's age in the book from 12 to 14 or even more in the 97 version.

Other movies to watch:

Solaris - not the excremental George Clooney Version, but haunting tale by Stanislav Lem about a mysterious planet that seems to be alive.

Bowling for Columbine - Oscar Winning Documentary

Being John Malkovich - Hilarious 'head' film

Koyaanisqatsi - (warning - Phillip Glass Soundtrack!) No words, just pictures of how we live our lives and how crazy it seems

Dark Star - Sci Fi the way it should be, the story of a bunch of smelly astronauts who are blowing up unstable suns like interstellar navvies.

Starship Troopers - Likewise, great giant bugs.

Naked Lunch (and indeed most things by Cronenberg) - Best realisation of a William Borough Book.

Raise the Red Lantern- Amazing Chinese Film, slow moving but beautiful

Les Amants du Pont Neuf - Great love story

The Three Colours 'trilogy' by Krzysztof Kieslowski-Sumptious Auteur Films

Strictly Ballroom - Hilarious Australian Comedy/Romance

Heavenly Creatures - Kate Winslet's best film yet.

Accion Mutante -Mutant and Crippled Terrorists strike blow against society obsessed with beauty and normality.

Dog Soldiers was excellent. And I just saw Snatch on the weekend, which I enjoyed. Reign of Fire was all right.

More topically, Bowling for Columbine was mindblowing.

OK, my favourite films of all time...

25th Hour

Mean Streets

Dog Day Afternooon

Shawshank Redemption

Dr.Strangelove

Some Like It Hot

Punch Drunk Love

Most over rated film of all time...

It's a Wonderful Life :spits:

Cool - another Koyaanisqatsi fan. Have you seen Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi yet Phanerothyme?

Cronenberg films - also great.

Some great foreign films:

Le Pacte des loups (aka Brotherhood of the Wolf)

Ringu (the original japanese film...not the abysmal and completely unnecessary US remake)

Batoru rowaiaru (aka Battle Royale)

Lola rennt (aka Run Lola Run)

C'est arrivé près de chez vous (aka Man Bites Dog)

Audition

Das Experiment

Cronos

Delicatessen

Other films:

Donnie Darko

Most Hitchcock films (particularly Rear Window, the 39 Steps, Vertigo, Rope and North by Northwest)

It's a Wonderful Life

Maltese Falcon

eXistenZ

Dune

Can't think at the moment...

Which 39 steps? Donat, Powell or Moore?

Originally posted by alchresearch

Which 39 steps? Donat, Powell or Moore?

Erm... the Hitchcock version, lol . 1935, Robert Donat.