Top 5 films

Only 5 - that is sooo difficult! Mine are:-

It's a Wonderful Life.
Dead Poet's Society.
Stand By Me.
Mamma Mia.
Brokeback Mountain.

Citizen Kane
Amelie
Love Actually
The Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner version - why on earth have they done a re-make?)
Les Enfants du Paradis

Some Like it Hot
The Last of the Mohicans
La Reine Margot
L'Histoire d'Adèle H
The Well Digger's Daughter
Something Wild

Close Encounters
Brief Encounter
Little Shop of Horrors
Towering Inferno
The Day After Tomorrow

Why only five?!! I need to list more!

I change my mind quite often, but at the moment the list would be:

Dr Zhivago (Omar Sharif)
Any Fred and Ginger films
Gone with the wind
Some like it hot
Schindler's list

It's quite hard to restrict it to such a small number.

Today my list of 5 is:-

Bringing up Baby
Fargo
Out of Africa
Lawrence of Arabia
Bull Durham

I could probably name 5 a day for the next month, so many brilliant ones.

Love Story
Baby Boom
Waterworld
On Golden Pond
Don't Eat the Daisies

Oooh, and Oliver!

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Parenthood
The Green Mile
High Society
Boyhood

Bridges of Madison County
Where Eagles Dare (I’ve seen it so many times but still love it)
Man for All Seasons
Ryan’s Daughter
Forrest Gump

Harvey
sound of music
it's a wonderful life
star wars
angels share

So glad someone else doesn't like Wonderful Life, I thought there must be something wrong with me

Possibly "Bruef Encounter" is right up there and if they ever attempt a new version, I wouldn't go and see it - it is as near perfection as you can get!

I've never been able to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" - boring. "Budapest Hotel"- worst of all time. "Love Actually" - can't really understand why everyone likes it so much.Never seen "Braveheart" or "Shawshank Redemption" - I go to the pictures every week, sometimes twice and I've been known to go three times. I don't think Ive got five favourites - only ones I've loved or liked or others that have bored me. Maybe I go too often, am too critical, but I love the cinema more than theatre although "The Lady in the Van" was so much better in the theatre and Alan Bennett appeared as one of himself but they showed almost all the funny parts of the film in the trailer which one saw very often! I still love "The Sound of Music" and watch it most times I can!! But five favourites, I cannot say!!

My top films change with my mood but thinking today:
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Ingrid Bergman)
Sleepless in Seattle
Brief Encounter
South Pacific
Dirty Dancing
I've watched these over again and never get tired of them!

Foul Play (however many times I watch it it always makes me laugh)
Starman
West Side Story
Shawshank Redemption
The Devil's Advocate

I have DVD's of these apart from Shawshank Redemption which is on TV so many times I don't need the DVD.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Some Like It Hot

Oliver!

Forrest Gump

Cabaret

Ooh, I forgot Shirley Valentine!

Too difficult, so many films. My favourite films to iron too are:-
Dirty Dancing
Mamma Mia
Pretty Woman
High Society
Sister Act

Today mine are (but may change tomorrow):

Jean de Florette
Dr Zhivago (With Julie Christie and Omar of course)
Pride and Prejudice
Out of Africa
Gone with the Wind

I forgot The Devil Wears Prada

It's A Wonderful Life
The Third Man
The Godfather I and II
Some Like It Hot
Pulp Fiction

Why have I never "got" Citizen Kane? It always tops the critics' lists. I'll try it again next time it's on telly.

Random Harvest
Love Actually
ET
Forrest Gump
Oklohoma
They are all soppy but happy

I like
Lawrence of Arabia
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Wrong Box (Pete and Dud - much missed !)
Bambi
The Cruel Sea

Last of the Mohicans
Notorious
Prince of Tides
The Way we Were
Galaxy Quest

Oh, must have a 6th - Out of Africa

Gosh it's hard to do a top 5!