What are your Desert Island Movies?

[Frank O' Phile]

You have been sentenced to solitary isolation on a desert island and on the way to the ferry terminal you are allowed to stop at the video store.

You can choose three movies but only one from each category.

1. Modern\Mainstream. (the one everyone knows about)

2. Filmhouse\Animated\Foreign etc (the one everyone else should know about)

3. Classic. (I'll set the date as 1979 or earlier)

Please try and include the year in case of remakes and you are allowed a one line review to justify your selection.






My choices...

1. Sexy Beast (2000)
Brilliant acting performances.

2. Belleville Rendezvous (2008)
Watched it many times and always has something new in it.

3. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Huge Powell & Pressburger production and it's got David Niven.




Your turn. Make your choices carefully and feel free to comment on others choices after you've made your own selection.

 

[Spinal]

1. Modern\Mainstream. (the one everyone knows about)
The Godfather. Needs very little justification.

2. Filmhouse\Animated\Foreign etc (the one everyone else should know about)
Mahabharata (or something spelled similar to that). Comes as a 16-DVD movie, by the time you see the last one you'll have forgotten the first.... So you can watch it over and over Also, the box is heavy enough to kill small animals with.

3. Classic. (I'll set the date as 1979 or earlier)
No clue!

 

[Frank O' Phile]

Spinal, Godfather was made in 1972. There's your classic.

 

[wemorgan]

1. Apocalypto
2. La Vie en Rose
3. The Deer Hunter

 

[whitenemesis]

1. Vanilla Sky
2. C'etait un Rendezvous
3. 2001 A Space Odyssey

 

[Mudster]

1 - Any (preferably all) of the Bourne trilogy
2 - Art house doesn't do it for me, usually pretentious claptrap so I'll take - Blade Runner instead.
3 - Apocalypse Now

 

[AANDYY]

1. Saw (1,2 or 3)
2. Dune.
3. Star wars.

 

[BlackC55]

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. don't have one
3. Grease

 

[Ted]

1 T2
2 No idea
3 The African Queen

 

[Spinal]

Spinal, Godfather was made in 1972. There's your classic.

Then I'll put either the Matrix 1 or one of the Star Wars for the Modern Mainstream

 

[Mr E]

1. Silence of the Lambs
2. Blue Velvet
3. Godfather II

 

[tpwuk]

1)Schindlers List
2)Toy Story 3
3)Wild Geese

 

[crockers]

1. Band of Brothers (Boxed set) reasons - it's brilliant and lasts for hours.
2. Either Black Book or Citron and Flame - most likely Black Book.
3. Zulu.... my all time favourite film....Boys own adventure and it's true.

 

[stevieb15]

1 Anchorman, that film has so many levels!
2 Zulu, foreign, set in Africa. I did think about Team America as an animation
3 Godfather 2

 

[Alfie]

1). Great Escape
2). The Italian Job
3). Godfather 1

 

[Deker]

1) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Need a laugh if I'm on my own.

2) Battle Royale (2000)
Only foreign film I could think of that I've seen.

3) Scaramouche (1952)
Possibly the best sword fight in film.

 

[iscaboy]

1/ They Live
2/ Fritz the Cat
3/ Dambusters / 633 squadron

 

[R2D2]

1. Saw (1,2 or 3)
2. Dune.
3. Star wars.

Star wars isn't a film, its a documentary!

 

[jpskiller]

1) Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2) battle royal, Roger Rabbit 8)
3) Fistfull of dollors (1964) etc

 

[Spinal]

2) Battle Royale (2000)
Only foreign film I could think of that I've seen.

That's a good, albeit disturbing film! Have you seen BR2? Nowhere near as good as the original, but it does follow the macabre trend!

M.