Desert Island Films ......movies, not TV offerings.

[salymap]

If you were unlucky enough to be marooned on an Island with Solar Powered Film Screen what eight Films would you choose for company?

Anything from Silent Movies to the latest blockbusters.


So far I've chosen 'The Way to the Stars', 'Brief Encounter' 'The Seven Year Itch' and 'Casablanca'..........

[vinteuil]

... a rapid choice* :

The Spider's Stratagem
1900
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Heaven Can Wait
Leave Her to Heaven
Ridicule
The Big Sleep
Ma Nuit Chez Maude

[ * I'm sure if asked next week I might have a very different list... ]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Bambi
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Ben Hur (1958)
The Cassandra Crossing
Chariots of Fire,
A Room with a View
Brassed Off
Star Trek Insurrection

[teamsaint]

Not sure I can do 8.
but Trains Planes and Automobiles
Shawshank Redemption
One Flew over the Cuckoos nest
Catch 22
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Buddy Holly Story



would make my list.
(have left two blanks while I make sure the parsnips aren't sticking !)

[Anna]

A bit like everone's else I guess, but a rapid summary:
Some Like it Hot
Brief Encounter
Casablanca
Went the Day Well?
Brighton Rock
The Third Man
The Big Sleep
Whistle down the Wind
edit! Withnail and I

[johncorrigan]

Bladerunner
Heimat
The Jungle Book ( the animation that is)
West Side Story
39 Steps ( hitchcock)
Local Hero
Ikiru
It's a Wonderful Life

They would do as a start=up list, but I probably have to edit.

[vinteuil]

... another fave eight (plus) :

Providence
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Milou en Mai
Andrei Rubleiev
Men in Black
Hellboy
A Fistful of Dollars (etc)
Apu (etc)
Eldorado

[Richard Tarleton]

A Matter of Life and Death
Went the Day Well? (snap)
Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources (counts as one choice )
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Duellists
Como agua para chocolate
Waterloo
Zulu

[Northender]

Cabaret
Casablanca
Fargo
Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
Manhattan
North By Northwest
Picnic at Hanging Rock
A Room With A View

[vinteuil]

... or again

Vertigo
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
le Genou de Claire
Mirror
Rio Lobo
Purple Rose of Cairo
Shadow of a Doubt [ - on the tele tomorrow! ]

EDIT - yes, and Waterloo - thanks for the reminder, RT!

[Anna]

Oh, forgot: Aquirre, Wrath of God and Fitzcarroldo! And, Key Largo. In fact, too many to mention

[Richard Tarleton]

Likewise -
Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Coleman version)
Michael Strogoff (Anton Walbrook version)
Barry Lyndon
Mujeres al bordo de un ataque de nervíos
Capricorn One
Moonstruck
etc.......

[salymap]

I need help. That b/w film that mostly takes place in a train. BasilRadford & Naughton Wayne[?] as Charters and Caldecote. OOh Is It The Lady Vanishes?

[vinteuil]

I need help. That b/w film that mostly takes place in a train. BasilRadford & Naughton Wayne[?] as Charters and Caldecote. OOh Is It The Lady Vanishes?

... lovely fillum!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Vanishes_(1938_film)

[salymap]

I have to speak sternly to vinteiul. I did say eight (8) I think you now have 27 Still, you've posted a link to The Lady Vanishes so...........