Fave Films
Withnail & I (Richard E. Grant gives a performance I could watch 5000 times - itz def. in my TOP 5 Flicks of all time)
Funny Bones ( ok and this, ditto, is an obsession of mine on a par with Withnail & I).
My Man Godfrey - seen over 15 times and am completely besotted with William Powell. Can't we clone him?!
Death In Venice - my Dirk bogarde obsession started here and never ended.
Aguirre the Wrath of God - ditto on my fascination with Klaus Kinski - what a fabulous scarey furious freak.
All About Eve - yes, I quote from it constantly and have seen it too many times. Makes me want to morph into George Saunders and become snidely brilliant just to goad those who I find tedious - still need to read his auto-biography "Confessions of a Professional Cad".
The Portrait of Dorian Gray - another film worth seeing for George Saunders suave nastiness.
The Last Wave
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Intimate Strangers(Confidences Trop Intimes) - all films by Patrice Leconte (L'Homme du Train & Monsieur Hire) are must sees.
The Hairdressers Husband - ditto as above, that's when I fell for John Rochefort - a truly amazing character actor and fab dancer, too!
Jules & Jim - another great Truffaut, but this one I see over & over again and somehow my song "Halfway Through" developed out of seeing it with a high fever - although little in the song suggests it was inspired by this film.
Night of the Iguana - ok, so I have a Richard Burton adoration-problem and add in loving Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner (love the cabana boyz with those creepy maracas)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - one of my faves in the disturbing-brilliance departments.
Antonias Line
The Manchurian Candidate
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Maggie Smith rules and is in my seen over 15 times catagories.
La Ceremonie (Danish)
Eye of the Needle
The Thin Man series
1900
Besieged
The Servant - more Dirk Bogarde being disturbingly evil-smart-sexy.
The Night Porter - what could be disturbingly sexier than my ultimate man Dirk Bogarde and ultimate woman, Charlotte Rampling?
Oscar & Lucinda
Last Days of Chez Nous
Angel at my Table
The Pumpkin Eater - Anne Bancroft is uber-amazing in this wonderful chill witnessing of a disintegrating marriage.
Under the Volcano
The Pianist
Rosemary's Baby
Valley of the Dolls
Black Narcissus - a campy must for those who like frustrated horny nuns stuck in Nepal with a Hugh Hefner like stud as the monestary handy-man (Deborah Kerr is fab as always).
Street Car Named Desire
The Lover
Indochine
Fanny & Alexander
Persona
Rebel Without a Cause
Giant
Room at the Top - wonderfully tragic, sad and sexy
Ship of Fools - one the best casts/scripts eva' - do not die before seeing
Citizen Kane
Swimming Pool
Under the Sand
Georgie Girl
Far From the Madding Crowd
Darling - another of my seen too many times and require all must see in order to be considered worthy (LOL)
Women In Love
In the Realm of the senses
Tampopo
The Burmese Harp
L'Auberge Espanol
The Beat My Heart Skipped
Read My Lips
Russian Dolls
The Decalogue
81/2
Amarcord
La Dolce Vita
La Strada
Lolita
Bad Education
Talk To Her
Matador
L'Eclisse - I'm an Antonioni fan and admire all his work, especially Monica Vitti who is especially good in this film.
LAventurra
Charade
Hedwig and the angry inch
The Misfits - Definitely in my best of all time list and Marilyn is her most heartbreaking and sweet, Eli Wallach wonderfully disturbing , Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift equally touching and amazing, Thelma Ritter as ever perfect. Another can see it 20 times and never tire of it.
Days of Wine & Roses - painful and brilliant, not easy to see that often and watch Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon drink themselves apart - more an every few years brill flick.
Lost Weekend - the opposite coin to Days of Wine and Roses since the overblown campiness of this alkie flick makes an easy win for repeated viewing (hopefully with wise-crackin' hard-drinkin' friends for a wacky film-party)
Sweet Smell of Success
The Crying game
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Rear Window
I Captured the Castle - completely adored this and Bill Nighy is as mesmerizingly entertaining as ever.
Sean of the Dead - too too funny and more of fab Bill Nighy.
Antonia & Jane - more of Bill Nighy and Emelda Staunton being ultra-super endearing and funny.
Career Girls
Secrets & Lies - I'm a complete Mike Leigh devotee, but this is still my favorite of his.
Nuts in May
Life is Sweet
The Croupier - OK SO I HAVE A CLIVE OWEN FIXATION LIKE 80F THE WORLD'S FEMALES - SO WHAT!
Close My Eyes
The Third Man - another film I can see over & over, plus love the theme music - love that zither.
Zorba the Greek
Stella
Alfie - Micahel Caine as the ultimate cad and absolutly amazing dialogue - and Shelly Winters is fab.
Shirley Valentine
TransAmerica
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Player
Annie Hall
Hannah and Her Sisters
Manhattan
Sleeper
Early James Bond flicks
Most Peter Sellers flicks
The Tao of Steve
The Virgin Suicides
Roger Doger - Campbell Scott is one are best character actors - and his rather dislikeable cad is supreme (he's amazing in The Dying Gaul, too)
The Squid & the Whale - Laura Linney kills in this and in these other wonderful indie, quiet, perfect films - P.S., You Can Count on Me. My only gripe is the unbelieveablity of them not knowing he's ripped of Pink Floyd's "Hey you". And, Jeff Daniels is the best pompous ass ever - I think I dated afew of those back in the 80's in Brooklyn myself.
Tellie Shows
Absolutely Fabulous
Rome
6 Feet Under
Queer as Folk
Cold Feet
Coupling
Pennies From Heaven (orig bbc version)
The Singing Detective
Masterpiece Theatre junkie
Ditto on BBC Mystery series
Strangers with Candy
Jon Stewart & the Daily Show
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
French & Saunders
Wooster & Jeeves
One Foot in the Grave
The Young Ones
As Time Goes By
Black Adder
The Thin Blue Line
Mr. Bean
Red Dwarf
Most PBS documentaries
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
What Not to Wear
Tracy Ullman Show
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
The Avengers