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1TheresaWilliams
Out 18, 2007, 8:36 pm

What are your favorite movies?

2villandry
Out 25, 2007, 9:30 pm

There are too many....love movies.

Last weekend, My Fair Lady was on...ah, Audry Hepburn. She was in INFP!

3mpramanik
Out 26, 2007, 12:45 am

Yes I love My Fair Lady, that was my favorite for a long time and probobly still is, but recently I have also enjoyed Pride and Prejudice (the newer one).

4TheresaWilliams
Out 26, 2007, 2:11 am

Why do you like My Fair Lady?

5villandry
Out 26, 2007, 9:07 am

Is it the music? Well, yes (... i could have danced all night...)
But, mostly it is the honest characterization...none of them are perfect and all so cleverly address human strengths and weaknesses.

I'm also a huge fan of transformation themes...where people change so much they end up feeling lost and have to reinvent their world - after having reinvented themselves.

That next to last scene where she tells him that without his helping it the sun can rise...it's just so funny to watch them both!

And - regardless of all the Jane Austin fanatic's pointing out the flaws, I'm a huge fan of the last version of P&P. The movie is a visual delight for me.

6tim_watkinson
Out 26, 2007, 9:26 am

marry freddy! Hah!

7mpramanik
Out 26, 2007, 7:06 pm

Well Villandry, you took the words right out of my mouth! Well... you probobly said it with a bit more eloquence, but the substance is exactly the same! I guess that is what happens when chatting with other INFP's. LOL Even the comment about the visuals of P&P! I absolutely love how almost each frame could be a photograph in itself. I am especially intrigued by the coordination of color throughout the entire movie.

8villandry
Out 28, 2007, 5:59 pm

I just saw "Across the Universe" a rock opera with Beatles music...a lovely movie! Go see it (especially if you were a Beatles fan and especially if you were around in the 60's!)

What a visual feast...oh, and music too.

9drsol
Out 28, 2007, 6:45 pm

I too loved the latest P&P. The new Darcy is hot!



Also, I'm a documentary fan. My husband thinks they are boring, but I love them. I'll watch most any topic. Recently I have loved Grey Gardens and Dark Times. Other than that I like anything that is pretty enough to keep my attention for 2 hours (Pan's labyrinth, What Dreams May Come, etc)

10TheresaWilliams
Out 29, 2007, 12:24 am

It's funny, I never liked musicals (at least the bright, happy ones). I am more interested in the darker tales, as if I need to explore the darker aspects of myself. I do like Nightmare Before Christmas, essentially a musical, because of the fun and grotesque manner of the characters. Pan's Labyrinth is just my cup of tea.

11theAshLad
Out 30, 2007, 1:32 pm

I'm a big fan of Wes Anderson movies: Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and so on. They're simultaneous touching and hilarious, and he has a knack for making unsympathetic characters sympathetic.

Some other favorites are As Good As It Gets, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Amélie, and as some have already mentioned, Pan's Labyrinth. (Those who enjoyed Pan's Labyrinth, by the way, should give Arthur Machen a try.)

Also, I wouldn't call this a favorite, but Thomas In Love always struck me as an INFP movie.

12paulacs
Mar 27, 2008, 6:10 pm

The little girl in Pan's Labyrinth was stunning. Those eyes.

I also liked the movie, though it was not what I expected. I didn't realize that the fantasy element was going to be more part of the girl's character and less part of the overall genre of the film, if that makes sense... It seemed as though the film was being marketed as a fantasy, and instead, it was a convention for the sake of the girl. So I was totally unprepared for the reality -- which was gruesome and cruel. The little girl's made-up world felt much more palatable.

13bongl
Mar 27, 2008, 6:23 pm


My favorite movie is probably Rear Window or Ride The High Country but I will go with Ride The High Country-a movie that is superb in writing, acting, directing, music, cinematography, editing, emotionally rich and satisfying, covering all the aspect of human-evil, good, cynically, innocence in a literate and visual manner.

14bongl
Mar 27, 2008, 6:30 pm

great music but the filmmaking was so-so. Great performance by Rex Harrison. Audrey Hepburn was great in the second half. The music is the best thing in the movie.

15paulacs
Mar 28, 2008, 4:20 pm

I will 4th (?) the kudos for Miss Audrey.

I love Amelie as well and watch it often.

Although I must say, I've purposely avoided the newest film of Pride and Prejudice -- I just can't take watching Kiera Knightly play one of the greatest heroines of all English literature, but I love, love, love, the P&P version starring Erhle and Firth.

16villandry
Mar 29, 2008, 8:56 pm

It's funny to find your comment here Paulacs! I just watched the new P&P last evening and it felt so strangely abbreviated. There were some lovely scenes, and some of the secondary characters (Mr. Collins!) were excellent. Do see it! I want to know what you think.

But the Firth version is my fav. no doubt!

17TheresaWilliams
Editado: Abr 1, 2008, 4:55 pm

Some of my faves:

1. Saturday Night Fever
2. Deliverance
3. The Lion King
4. The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
5. Nightmare Before Christmas
6. Pather Panchali
7. The Ice Storm
8. Wonderboys
9. Donnie Darko
10. The Misfits

18paulacs
Abr 1, 2008, 4:55 pm

Haha! Okay, I'm talked into it. I will put in on my netflix. My beau will start rehearsals in a couple weeks and I'll be by my lonesome and ready for some vicarious romance. So I'll schedule it on my que for then. :) This reminds me, I do want to get back to some of her work... It's been a while... Do you have another favorite?

19paulacs
Abr 1, 2008, 4:57 pm

Oooo, The Misfits! That's one I own. I do love Marilyn.

Some of these, I have to look up.....

20TheresaWilliams
Abr 1, 2008, 10:09 pm

Marilyn has a couple of moments in THE MISFITS that blow me away. One of them is when the man says he'll save the horses if she gives herself to him. And she is stunned that he wouldn't do this on his own. The other is when she screams that speach. Wow.

21paulacs
Abr 7, 2008, 11:26 am

She was unparalleled. I haven't seen everything she did, and some of it I don't care for (How to Marry a Millionaire), but she is great to watch and that is one of my favorites. She couldn't have been that today, I don't think. She was the right stand-out person at the right time. I also really enjoy Some Like It Hot and Niagra.

22TheresaWilliams
Abr 7, 2008, 4:45 pm

I don't think I've ever seen Niagra but I read about it and I would like to see it, paulacs.

23heidibelle
Editado: Abr 15, 2009, 10:05 pm

every INFP must see Enchanted April!

Cry the Beloved Country and Bella are two more great ones. Pride and Prejudice, yes please.

Lord of the Rings is awesome for its mythic-ness.

Beyond Borders and Blood Diamond are good movies to wake you up to the world's pain.

Sabrina, Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables-to its beauty.

Sesame Street's "What's the Name of that Song?" for kids (I'm a Kindergarten teacher) makes me HAPPY every time i watch it...

24TheSpecialistsCat
Editado: Set 10, 2009, 6:44 pm

New here and chiming in... (funny multi-year conversations!)

Pan's Labyrinth is amazing, but unfortunately it resonated a bit too much with how I saw the world at the time when I saw it. I don't think I've ever walked out of the theatre feeling quite so emotionally eviscerated. Also, there was a woman with her young daughter (?) sitting in front of me. Hard to ignore. I often don't read reviews before I see a film, but I would if I were bringing kids.

Some of my favourites:
MirrorMask (Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean)
La planete sauvage
Neco z Alenky (Jan Svankmajer)
La double vie de Veronique
Trois couleurs: Bleu
The Fifth Element
Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain (the full title is too wonderful not to use!)
28 Days Later
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

25TheresaWilliams
Set 10, 2009, 8:49 pm

I haven't seen any of the favorites on your list. Looks like I need to get busy!

26cmon
Nov 4, 2009, 9:25 pm

I went to see "Back to the Future" about 16 times when it first came out.
Part 2 was too confusing. Part 3 was good.

The Fifth Element (gotta love those revealing bandages, and Bruce Willis, of course -- good original story!)

Pretty much anything Stephen King
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The Green Mile
The Stand
The Shawshank Redemption

Slingblade

Ever After (yeah, a chick flick, but I like Drew)

Probably many more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

Paul

27cmon
Nov 4, 2009, 9:28 pm

oh, the original Planet of the Apes series

also,

any good Sci-Fi movies

Indiana Jones series

28cmon
Nov 4, 2009, 9:31 pm

and the original Star Trek move series.

29mpramanik
Dez 7, 2009, 10:16 pm

Recently I really liked the new Star Trek movie, and I thoroughly enjoyed Peter Pan (the one with Lucious Malfoy as Hook and the dad).

30bookblotter
Jul 22, 2013, 12:54 pm

Just to toss my movies in the ring and revive this topic; rather late though...

Musicals in the broadest sense; American Graffiti ("my" era), West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Little Shop of Horrors (1986).

Other; Anatomy of a Murder (a great older, underrated court room drama), The Apostle (Robert Duvall - Yes!), Five Easy Pieces (Jack Nicholson - Yes!), Body Heat (starting to sweat just thinking about it).

I don't generally see block busters, science fiction, violence (although off screen or incidental, single incident violence needed for the plot is okay). I go to movies to be entertained and, perhaps, see a different point of view. Is that radical?

31PhaedraB
Jul 22, 2013, 3:02 pm

I've seen some interesting ones lately, on the small screen. I don't get out to actual movies often, so my favorites tend to be more intimate.

One I liked was a Russian remake of 12 Angry Men, titled just 12, where the accused murder is a teenaged Chechen living in Moscow.

The other is Another Earth, a very low-tech sci fi movie, where a new, possibly identical yet alternate, planet Earth appears in the sky. A young woman who messed up her promising life wonders if she has an alternate self there who made different choices.