Introductions

[laughingrat]

Good morning! Wow, we've already got a few community members--cool! I thought it might be nice to break the ice a little, so if you like, please feel free to share your favorite movie, actor, director, etc. with us in the comments! Be as brief as you like, or go on at great length about how and why they're the best thing since Nutella on toast.

Ready...set...go! :-D

Comments

[absque_setentia]

Oh dear, where to start. I love the big ones, of course - Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn.

Some of my favourite movies include Woman of the Year, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Alfred the Great and A Patch Of Blue.

I'm pretty infamous in real life for being the girl who's addicted to TCM. :-)

Oh, and recently I've been watching a lot of Gene Kelly films. What a talented man!

Hmm, what do I like best...

[laughingrat]

It's hard to say. Every film buff has more than one fave, don't they? I guess it's Buster Keaton I go back to again and again, though. He's just it for me, you know?

As far as genres/eras/whatever, I apparently really like the German silent stuff. Go figure. Obviously, I like a lot of other stuff too!

Here's a Keaton macro, just for kicks:

[my_daroga]

Hmm, as above, where to begin? I'm a huge fan of Orson Welles, both director/actor/writer/whatever. Otherwise some of my favorites are:

Lawrence of Arabia (all time favorite; also any David Lean)
Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
Peeping Tom (anything by Michael Powell, really, but that especially)
Sweet Smell of Success
Harold and Maude
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Phantom of the Paradise
Dog Day Afternoon
Akira Kurosawa (and especially anything with Toshiro Mifune)
Wicker Man
Anything with Lon Chaney
The General

Totally random list, subject to change, obviously, but that should give you an idea! I write movie reviews, which you can find with my films tag or this master list, on LJ as I haven't updated the links yet here. Unfortunately they tend to be modern, depending on what I watch and what I have time to review.

[alchemia]

All time favourite film I think is Chris Marker's La Jette. A short, B/W film that inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys. You can watch the entire film online here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RvmJan17q8 But don't watch it if you are in a crappy mood. (As far as remakes go, 12 Monkeys is pretty good too imho...)

As a kid, I saw The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which continues to be something of a guilty pleasure/favourite for me, because of its historical and cultural failings that I learned about when older.

Most of my film interest though is not in whats a favourite, has actor(ress) so-and-so in it, etc, but rather in film history (the really really early shorts and how they built off each other's knowledge, stuff like Fred Ott's Sneeze, Le Voyage dans la Lune [watch online], and Battleship Potemkin [watch online]) and film theory and culture.... watching films with an eye for things like discussed in The Celluloid Closet, or how are the disabled portrayed in cinema, especially autistics (which I touch on in this essay (eg: Rainman's influence on cultural perception of autism, repeated in other books and movies like Snow Cake.)

[mecca]

My absolute favorite actress is Doris Day! Love, love LOVE her! I've been a fan of hers since I was 13. I'm 28 now. I have most of her films on VHS/DVD and periodically watch them all the time. Never tire of her.

Currently I'm obsessed with the film, "The Clock". :: points to icon :: It's such a sweet romantic movie. I think I've watched it at least twice in the past week. lol

I tend to stick with the classic comedies. I just prefer that over all the drama. I'm pretty much like that with the modern movies that I watch as well.

If anyone is on the LJ side of the "classicfilm" community, I'm user "timeofmonth" over there so you may see some cross posting.

One question, are we allowed to post graphics...icons and such?

[kittenbiscuits]

Hi there! Well, let's see. Favorite classic actors: Cary Grant, James Cagney, Gregory Peck, Rock Hudson, Paul Henreid, Joseph Cotten, James Stewart, John Garfield, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Ronald Colman, Montgomery Clift, Jack Lemmon, Paul Newman. Actresses: Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, Judy Holliday, Jean Arthur, Barbara Stanwyck, Deborah Kerr. I could keep going. ;)

I love movies by Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, George Cukor, and William Wyler. My all time favorite film is Hitchcock's Notorious.