What Is Your Favorite Film of All Time and Why?

[Suki]

Inca,
it is a pleasure to read your favorite film list.

[Yujike]

Me encantaria discutir mas de cine. Al principio me desilusione un poco con este sitio pues parecia que algunos individuos estaban mas interesados en un analisis psico-social de mi personalidad o de ponerme en una categoria, en vez de mis opiniones y comentarios. Es refrescante conversar con personas que den valor a la opinion sin pasar juicios sobre la persona que escribe.
Como habras podido observar yo creo que muchos cineastas juzgan una pelicula por los protagonistas, especialmente en los EU donde existe un exagerado culto a la personalidad.
Para mi lo primero que yo considero en un filme es quien es el director o realizador, luego si es una adaptacion de una obra escrita o si es un guion original. Despues quien la fotografio y en que transfondos. Me encantan las peliculas de Maria Luisa Bemberg, argentina y una de las pocas realizadoras en la industria. Me encanto Chocolat y A beautiful life con Roberto Benini, tambien los trabajos de Almodovar en Espana. De Puerto Rico creo que Jacobo Morales hace un trabajo meritorio, aunque me gustaria mas si explotara temas universales pues es un poco provincial en su enfoque.
Tambien el area de los documentales me interesa, pero de eso hablaremos mas tarde

[Suki]

Te escribo pronto Yujike. Me voy del trabajo a la casa. Y te escribo esta noche. Promesa. Hablaremos de cine como dos entusiastas, esta bien?

Suki.

[inca]

When I was a kid I saw Moby Dick with Gregory Peck and Richard Basehart and it's something Spielberg probably payed attention when he did JAWS cos the "talking" previous to the actual photograph of the animal (white whate or shark)created the spectation.
I enjoyed very much WEST WORLD with bald Russian actor Yul Brynner (pharaoh Ramses in 10 Commandments)as a cowboy robot (wearing his official western dress like in The Magnificent 7). It's was a bit like Terminator but decades before. TERMINATOR 2 was better than the first one. The third one sucks!
Second STAR WARS was awsome.The new trilogy has awful acting performance.
One of my favorite Western movies is Clint Eastwood's PALE HORSE based upon SHANE with Alan Ladd. Yet, Clint Eastwood is larger than life and didn't talk too much and the landscape went along perfectly with snowy mountains riding a gray horse. He's about to bring revenge and justice a bit like his previous western HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER.

[Eddier1]

My favorite film of all is "Casablanca". Why? because it is the closest that any film has come to perfection in the art of cinematography.

[inca]

Can you imagine a re-make with Bruce Willis as Humphrey Bogart and Isabella Rosselini with the role of her mother?
Play it again, Sam.

[inca]

It's impossible for me to say what's my favorite film. I guess I said Ben Hur and 10 Commandments. But how can I forget EL CID also with Charlton Heston or not to mention THE SILENCE OF THE INNOCENTS with Anthony Hopkins?
Marlon Brando is supposed to be one of the better actors of the world and I remember him in old films like in THE MEN, IN THE WATERFRONT, STREETCAR ...,but if we're dealing with favorite films with him, I'll say GODFATHER.