All Time Favorite Film

A Christmas Carol, 1951 with Alistair Sim, and also Exodus with Paul Newman. Two excellent films, IMHO.
 
Hey Yvsa, Did you like "Last of his Tribe" ?
It was an excellent docudrama about Alfred Lous Kroeber "the Dean of American Anthropology" and Ishi. (played by Graham Greene)
It was great having one of my college subjects turned into an enjoyable movie. I wish they did it more often, it would certainly raise GPA's across the country.
To be honest, I had many grades in school that were a little higher than they would have been because I watched a lot of monty python and black adder. They use more history in their TV and it helped me out in the long run. I wish our TV could be more like that.
What would be so hard about that?
 
A classic which I sat through with my 15 yr old son recently is "Where Eagles Dare" which stars Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. He thoroughly enjoyed it...commenting that it was 'just like the computer game 'Wolfenstein''. Actually, it's the other way around, I said, the movie is 30 years old....way before computers. Son - 'You never had computers?'. Great movie.
 
You know guys, this thread is developing a potential I hadn't anticipated. There's some really good films that are popular & others that are just as good or better for some reason are not well known or almost forgotten. A few of my favorites:
Wake of the Red Witch
Sahara (1942)
Maltese Falcon
The Big Red One ( the reconstruction)
Fire and Ice
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Second Hand Lions
The World's Fastest Indian

I've got a bunch more on my list, but I want to hear some of your's.
Uplander
 
Top five for me:
1: Bladerunner
2: Last of the Mohicans
3: Dune (David Lynch)
4: Rough Riders (Tom Berenger as T. Roosevelt: :thumbup:!)
5: Monty Python's Holy Grail

After that, any of the 'spaghetti' westerns, then Lord of the Rings, then . . .

thx - cpr
 
My favorite film is Tri-X developed in D-76.






Oops, I seem to have misunderstood the question.;)
 
DannyinJapan said:
Hey Yvsa, Did you like "Last of his Tribe" ?
It was an excellent docudrama about Alfred Lous Kroeber "the Dean of American Anthropology" and Ishi. (played by Graham Greene)
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I'm not sure if that's the one I saw or not as the one I saw was more a documentary on Ishi's life but it may have been. It was a great doc and maybe a movie, did it show where Ishi had shot a deer with a bow and arrow and then went and gave it an offering of water to ease its passing while one white fellow was jumping up and down saying over and over, "You got it Ishi, you got it!"? If so it was the one I saw. It was a very moving movie/doc and what was done to Ishi after he walked west still ain't right.:(
 
I remember watching Smoke Signals in a literature class. Goofy wig aside, it was a pretty interesting film.

My top 10 list (in no particular order) goes like this:
Jurassic Park - I know it's not as good as the book, but it's still grand in its own right.
Casablanca - It's a classic for good reason.
Airplane - Surely, it's one of the funniest movies ever made.
Ronin - Great car chases + twisty plot + excellent cast + exotic locales = awesome.
The Star Wars trilogy - The first three movies (by which I mean "last three"), tell one of the best modern myths in my opinion.
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut - A movie about itself set to some of the most hilarious music I've ever heard.
Indiana Jones series - It's not a real trilogy, but they are solid adventure yarns. Even ToD, the weakest film, was pretty good.
Jaws - What can I say? I like monster rampages, and it's one of the best.
Tora, Tora, Tora - Everyone knows how it ends and it's still suspenseful.
The tenth spot goes to any and every MST3K version of a crappy B-movie, but if I had to pick a single non-MST3K movie...Life of Brian
 
Just remembered another great one. "The Villain", starring Ott the Horse with a supporting cast of Ann Margrett, Kirk Douglas & Arnold Schwartznagger
 
Yes, Yvsa, that was the one. It is required viewing in intro Anth. classes these days. Ishi taught us alot. He even added a big piece of understanding to the art of flintknapping. The "Ishi stick" was named after him.
Ishi was autopsied, but in most states, if not the entire USA and most countries, an autopsy is legally required in cases of death other than old age/natural causes. Ishi died of T.B., a communicative disease, so his autopsy was required by law. Having assisted in a few autopsies, I can sympathise with you, it is a terrible thing to do to a human body, but you have to think of the greater good.
Autopsies catch killers, bring justice, detect terrible diseases and help us understand their pathology which helps us keep others from dying.
Having said that, I enjoy waking up having forgotten those experiences a little more each day.
 
DannyinJapan said:
Yes, Yvsa, that was the one. It is required viewing in intro Anth. classes these days. Ishi taught us alot. He even added a big piece of understanding to the art of flintknapping. The "Ishi stick" was named after him.
Ishi was autopsied, but in most states, if not the entire USA and most countries, an autopsy is legally required in cases of death other than old age/natural causes. Ishi died of T.B., a communicative disease, so his autopsy was required by law. Having assisted in a few autopsies, I can sympathise with you, it is a terrible thing to do to a human body, but you have to think of the greater good.
Autopsies catch killers, bring justice, detect terrible diseases and help us understand their pathology which helps us keep others from dying.
Having said that, I enjoy waking up having forgotten those experiences a little more each day.
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It's not the autopsy that pisses me off so much. I don't know if an autopsy was required by law way back then but that's beside the point. The point is that Ishi's brain was removed and kept in a jar instead of being buried with him.:( :mad:
In my belief that means Ishi's spirit/soul is trapped here and will never be free until his brain is properly put away.:(
 
I was unaware of that part. Normally only a piece is kept for analysis. However, in the old days brains were sometimes kept for scientific study, that is true. I imagine that it could be interred by the university if enough people petitioned them..
 
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