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Bugger The computer played up when I tried to type in, so this is disjointed. Still here goes:
Belleville Rendevous (a brilliant French animated film)
The Singing Ringing Tree ( a 60's b/w tv programme, does anyone remember this?)
Robinson Crusoe, the 60's series that is on 1 cd.
The Pianist
Citizen Kane
Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
To kill a mockingbird
The Rutles
Blazing Saddles
And now, any credibility that I may have had,I suspect has gone down the pan because as my last choice, I choose anything by Sean The Sheep. Nothing makes me laugh so much as Sean and the Flock, especially the episode when the sheep go to buy Pizza's -
How many are we allowed? I've gone for a Top Ten in no particular order. I mainly like 'Boxing Day' type films.
Wizard of Oz - collectors edition with extras and interviews
Edward Scissorhands
Some Like It Hot
Plunkett & Macleane
Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) and/or Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves
The Princess Bride
Jaws
The Breakfast Club
Cinema Paradiso
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Assuming there's a big screen on the island these are mine. They aren't my top 10, but ones for being on the island with. Nearly put in The Wizard of Oz, The Red Shoes, Umbrellas of Cherbourg for colour, but thought I might tire of them. I used to love the Singing Ringing Tree, but when I saw it again recently, it was a bit tacky.
Battlestar Galactica (2004-09 including 4 hour miniseries)
The Ipcress File
Nights of Cabiria or maybe another Fellini, (would have the boxset if allowed).
Blade Runner
Columbo boxset
Ryan’s Daughter
Fanny and Alexander (500 minute version)
Singin’ in the Rain
Once Upon a Time in the West
Debbie Does Dallas (or maybe something with nuns) -
Despite my massive pretensions elsewhere, my film tastes tend to be at the low-culture end of the market, with maybe a few from left-field:
Y Tu Mama Tambien (all time favourite)
Labyrinth
Pan’s Labyrinth
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Gladiator
Shawshank Redemption
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Lazenby was greatly underrated)
I’ll allow myself one Disney film, either The Lion King or Robin Hood
As for series:
West Wing
Six Feet Under
I’m starting to think that Game of Thrones may come to qualify, but one season is not enough to judge. I really wanted Lost to qualify too – and am one of the few people who liked the ending – but it doesn’t quite hold together, sadly.
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@ andy
Plunkett & Macleane is all time classic! Love the soundtrack, set design and the outstandingly over the top performances from all involved. It's like a really top notch panto. And it has the delightful Jonny Lee Miller in it.
Almost went for Labyrinth instead but I thought that might crop up in other lists.
I didn't choose a TV series so either Six Feet Under or Moonlighting.
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Indeed I do. I saw a review of Labyrinth recently - it was entitled 'Beyond the Bulge and other reasons to watch Labyrinth'.
Hallowe'en outfit this year?
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I saw Labyrinth at the Queen of Hoxton rooftop cinema a few weeks ago. Honestly - what a load of bollocks. I felt like throwing myself off the roof. The audience kept laughing when there was a scene with Bowie's codpiece. I couldn't wait for it to end.
And now to show myself up with my top ten:
Star Wars
Bladerunner
Groundhog Day
After Hours
Alien Trilogy
Dumb and Dumber
at least one zombie film - probably Shaun of the Dead
Jaws
Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
TV:
Partridge
Family Guy
Friends (sorry)
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I saw it when I was very young in black and white and it seemed very eerie and magical. I don't think there was an awful lot on telly then. It's actually made in lurid colour or maybe the colour was put on later, which kind of ruined it for me. There's a scene where the princess is trying to swim away from a big plastic dragon thing in a swimming pool which doesn't work at all. It has no pace either. I thought that bear was just a bit pervy as well. It might be ok for you. The extras were interesting, interviews with the actors etc.
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@dorothy.Many thanks for telling me.I shall stick with my childhood memories.From what you say, It is a bit like discovering that Father Christmas does not exist.Now I need to decide what else to take to my Island.So I take:
The Day the Earth stood Still, the original version with Michael Rennie.
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a list limited by the fact that I only see about 1 film per year even when on the telly:
The Man Who Planted Trees (Frédéric Back)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Shooting the Past (Stephen Poliakoff)
Casablanca (1942)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
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oh, go on then.
Lost boys
Heathers
The entire studio ghibli collection (am I allowed that!?)
The graduate
Chopper (pure entertainment)
Interview with the vampire (pure lust)
The latest Harry Potter film (because I cried with joy!)
Dellicatesion
Night watch
High society
T.v
Firefly (oh yes!)
twin peaks -
Seconding Misscara, my first choice would be A Matter of Life and Death (unless I'm allowed my 9-disc Powell & Pressburger box set, in which case that, clearly).
Similarly, My Neighbour Totoro is a definite unless the above-mentioned complete Ghibli exists/is allowed.
And I think a Complete Dr Who would be a dream box set too far, so probably the first Matt Smith season.
Then:
Lord of the Rings (extended editions)
Withnail & I
Zoolander
The Wire
Casablanca
X-Men 2
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@ Hannadala I absolutely loved the novel 'Interview with a Vampire'. I was inspired to read it after hearing the song by Sting 'Moon over Bourbon Street.However the film did nothing for me. Sometimes I think that it is better to leave things to the imagination, rather than the Big Screen. Have you read any of the Anne Rice Vampire books?
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@ Cookie I have read them all, they are a huge guilty pleasure as is the film!
To be honest I chose that film more because it reminds me of being 14 and endlessly watching it with my best friend, I'm well aware it's not that well done! It also wins points for being the only film I can bear to watch tom cruise in. -
@ hannadala, so nice to hear from someone who also loved the books.
What I really loved about the book 'Interview with a vampire', was the way that Anne Rice looked at both sides of what has always been a one sided story, despite the fact that Vampire tales are fiction. Very clever and extremely imaginative Author. If you have not heard 'Moon over Bourbon Street' by Sting, have a listen. Try the net. 'Sting' really encapsulates the essence of the book in this song which he recorded in the 80's. Would love to know what you think. -
@ADGS - no I have not read the books, though I hear good things about them. I had a realisation recently that I was missing out on numerous films and series due to a rarely-fulfilled intentioon to 'read the books first'.
@The Anne Rice fans: have any of you read her adaptation of Sleeping Beauty? Graphic and hardcore sex on every page. Literally every page.
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Queen of the Damned goes a similar way.
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The vampire books and others under her own name are not shy of sex, but yeah, the initially-pseudonymous porn (including the Beauty trilogy) is in a whole other league. Of course, all that was before she re-found Jebus - I've only read one of her books since her conversion and dear heavens it was tiresome.
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Haven't read any of the 'Beauty' Books. By the sound of them, I am not missing much. Think that I will stick with the Vampire novels and proceed no more. Shame, but I do not want my illusions of what I consider to be a brilliant writer, shattered.
I am also a huge fan of Terry Pratchett ( I adore the Witches) and Robert Rankin, ( chewing the fat with the barman) Whilst I have several friends who are Pratchett fans, finding a Robert Rankin Fan is rare. If you are one, then I say Sproutlore -
I loved the original Brentford and Armageddon trilogies, and the first few after that, but after a while he seemed to be repeating himself a bit much. The in-jokes were great for a while (it's a tradition or an old charter or something), but by the time I opted out some of the books seemed to be little more than in-jokes. Whereas Pratchett started off brilliant, but then managed to complexify and deepen as an artist in ways of which most litfic darlings can only dream.
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@ADGS, I understand what you are saying about Pratchett, but I like the way that he gets the reader to think outside the box. We Pratchett fans can get too comfortable with the earlier books and their characters. I found it quite hard to leave the familiar Characters behind, but even on Discworld, life moves on. Apart from the Witches' I really miss Cohen the Barbarian and all of his cohorts.Etc
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I was very keen on Rankin and Pratchett both as a teen, but agree that Rankin got a bit tedious after a bit. Still love Pratchett, though, although I am a few books behind.
I've just realised I haven't actually answered the original question. I'm not very keen on watching the same things over and over again, and the films I like best are not necessarily the ones I'd be able to rewatch more than once in a blue moon. I'd be bound to regret whatever choice I made, but here you go (any suggestion that any of these choices are partly motivated by eye candy is, well, probably correct):
Little Shop of Horrors
Bringing Up Baby
Charade
That Touch of Mink (yes, I have a bit of a thing for Cary Grant...)
Definitely agree with ADGS on the Doctor Who issue (or maybe this year's...)
The Goodies
Black Books, or a Dylan Moran live DVD with a Bill Bailey one (but not the old one where he bangs on about getting stoned for the first half hour) stashed inside the box
Jules et Jim.
If we can have box sets, then all the Harry Potters, otherwise Deathly Hallows Parts I and II (hopefully I don't get shipwrecked until after DHII is either legitimately available on DVD or I figure out how to burn things to a DVD...)
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Cookie - sorry if that came across unclear, it's Rankin I've gone off, Pratchett I still love. What I was trying to say was that he started off very, very good - and then got better.
Regarding Cohen, did you read The Last Hero? I think the illustrations meant it stood outside the mainstream a little and so a lot of people missed it (see also: the stories of Unseen University in alternate chapters of the Science of Discworld trilogy). And the witches have just moved across to the (excellent) Tiffany Aching books, which are marketed as young adult but functionally indistinguishable from the rest. I think Granny Weatherwax is excellent, and she probably had the single best moment of that thinking outside the box for which you rightly praise Pratchett - after he'd taken a sledgehammer to organised religion in Small Gods, I love the bit in iirc Carpe Jugulum where Granny lays into how pallid and feeble the reformed, C of E-style version of the church has become, and she'd prefer something with a bit of fire...
But narrowly edging out Granny and the wizards, I think my favourite's still Vimes. Really looking forward to Snuff, and hoping it won't be the last book. -
@ADGS, loved and hated The Last Hero. loved the story, hated the fact that Cohen + co were no more. Yes I have the illustrated book, and the illustration of the bits of wheelchair et al in the snow saddened me. Pratchett really knows how to tug the heart strings!
Whilst I love Granny Weatherwax, have to say that Nanny Ogg is my favourite. I adore the fact that she is so on the ball even when she seems to be rather laissez faire. She is a 'woman of the world'.
Only Nanny could play I Spy with the ghost of a king!
As for Vimes, did you read the book when he was desperately trying to get home to his son to read The book? Wracking my brains for the title. All I know is that it was heart wrenching. Pratchett really knows how to tug the heart strings. -
Probably a Coen Brothers box set would do me.
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