Richard Hawley

Not necessarily top five but first five that come to mind

Cinema Paradiso
A Taste of Honey
Cathy Come Home
The Last Waltz
Kes

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oh and Whistle down the wind

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Argggh another one! I'll go through this list and see if I can get my favourites on DVD...

Same here! I've got loads that I taped from TV back in the '80s, but they're so mixed up with the other random stuff I used to tape, it'd take a lifetime to sort them all out. So, it's off to Amazon I think

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I actually picked up my DVD of Whistle down the Wind at the local charity shop. They have a box with all the DVDs that have been given out with newspapers - I think I only paid 20p or 50p or something close to that. I also got a copy of Taste of Honey at the same time. Definitely worth looking at charity shops if you have any close by.

Just remembered another one of my favourites - Straight Story (David Lynch).

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I used to tape a few obscurities - Edgar Wallace 'Man Of Mystery' short films etc, that were on just before closedown. Ahh, closedown & watching the white dot disappear when you turned off the TV - about 11.30pm!

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And the nice man telling us to sleep well and not to forget to turn off the TV. And the National Anthem. Those were the days.

This top five film thing is impossible. I want to use categories. Can I use categories? I am going to use a few categories.
Horror/Thriller:
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
The Omen
Halloween
Seven

Oldies:
Brief Encounter
Now Voyager
Star is Born (Judy Garland and James Mason)
Showboat (Paul Robson version)

Other:
Saturday Night Fever (different levels of hero worship within the film - young lad who killed himself trying to impress JT, young girl with the crush becoming a slag, JT worshipping 'sophisticated' lady, lady worshipping horrible rich boyfriend. It is more than just the Bee Gees, a white suit and a crass dance!)
Pulp Fiction
Deer Hunter
Sarah's Key
Ring of Bright Water (took me days to get over it as a child)

I had better stop now but there are so many more!

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Top 5 films? I can't decide at all.
But I feel obliged to nominate

- Dr. Strangelove or How I etc. etc.
- The Party
- Being There
- The Pink Panther
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again

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So many of these choices I should also have picked! Ring Of Bright Water - wouldn't you love to hear Richard sing the theme song?

The Party - don't think I've ever been so helpless with laughter as when I first saw that

Kes
Life Of Brian
Seven
The Time Machine
The Cruel Sea
This Happy Breed
Carry On Behind - and most of the other Carry Ons...

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Well, I like to add my favourites involving the work of Ray Harryhausen:

Jason And The Argonauts (1963)
The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad (1958)
Clash Of The Titans (1981)
First Men In The Moon (1964)

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As usual, late to the party, but couldn't resist.
I have two favorite fives - the ones I am in awe of but don't necessarily watch often and the ones I watch a lot.

1. Seven Samurai
2. City of Lost Children
3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
4. Silence of the Lambs
5. Klute

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Persuasion
3. Aliens
4. La Femme Nikita
5. When Harry Met Sally

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No later than me Laylah

1) The Shining (1980)
2) The Assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (2007)
3) The Departed (2006)
4) Kes (1969)
5) Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

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They used to show Jason and the Argonauts every year when I was a kid (before cable tv and vcrs) and I looked forward to it for weeks. In high school (a performing arts school) I decided after a viewing that I wanted to play a swashbuckling female pirate villain - not directly related to the plot I know. It helped that I'd played loads of Dungeons and Dragons so wanted to fight skeletons and harpies anyway. (eh 'scuse me, letting the geek-girl out for a minute)

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-- LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE

in no particular order.

carlitos way
wuthering heights
local hero

my head has now exploded and can't think of anymore.

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withnail and i. just can't think of number 5.

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