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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.i have studied film at university after many hours watching film after film and have to say if you were looking to list 12 films that could truly stay with you for ever i would have to say,
its a wonderful life with james stewart
life is beautiful
the magnificent 7
die hard
blues brothers
midnight run
dead poets society
yojimbo
zulu
gungadin
a bridge to far/ the longest day- both similarly classic
the great escape
rocky 1
big
philidelphia
beau jeste- not the one with telly savalas as its not as good as the first remake
ok so maybe its more than adozen but these films are tip top. let me know what you think...
Heff113- Great stuff. I also studied Film at university but it was 15 years ago now, and I have not been good at keeping up with films! I watched real Avante Garde stuff at uni, which was great, but I know there are MANY films that are amazing, which aren't your typical Hollywood blockbuster, which I should see to educate myself.
hellion- no kids, just a figure of speech!!
If you fancy trying subtitles , I can recommend " jean de Florette " and " Manon des Sources " . A cracking story of love and revenge told over two films , it is also sumptiously filmed in the French countryside. An absolutely absorbing experience and not at all "arty".
Children might find it a little slow depending on their ages.
The Children may enjoy the films of Miyazaki - a Japanese Director who has made some wonderfully whimsical animated films . All are available in English versions: Try
Howl's Moving Castle
My Neighbour Totoro
Laputa - The Flying Island
Scarlett, if you studied film at uni you must have seen most of the greats but the films that have stayed with me all my life include:
The Third Man - nothing beats this for atmosphere
Most of the Powell/Pressburger output but particularly A Canterbury Tale, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death;
Ivan the Terrible (I preferred Part 1, though) - this is how historical epics should be done; brilliant photography and Prokofiev wrote the score...
The Big Combo (Joseph H Lewis, 1955) a little-known but brilliantly nasty gangster thriller
Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936) the ultimate mid-life crisis film (from the Sinclair Lewis novel)
For fun, I could recommend Hellzapoppin, just about anything by the Marx Brothers, and of course The Producers!
For musicals, try to get hold of some of Eddie Cantor's 1930s musicals; not so well-known now but the songs are really good and where does that guy get his energy from?
I could go on, if you've got about a week....