Gladiator!

Casablanca
The Godfather
The Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
Star Wars

The Matrix.
As for parts 2 and 3 – not so much.

Bringing Up Baby
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.)
Babe
And I’m still thinking for my fifth.

As far as comedies go, “The Blues Brothers” is my all time favorite. I don’t think there has been a greater chase scene in all of film history!

I like “The Ghost and the Darkness”
We saw “Up” last night. I recommend it to everyone. Great art, great story. It’s OK if you don’t have any kids to bring with you, it’s still worth it.

1.Away All Boats..sentemental favorite. I wasn’t allowed to see movies as a kid so I snuck out to see this one.
2. The Great Escape
3. The Great Train Robbery..the original
4. The Robe
5. The Man For All Seasons

Answers are subject to change on a weekly basis.
Lord of the Rings (I’ll count the trilogy as one incredibly long movie)
Fight Club
Casablanca
Empire Strikes Back
The Shawshank Redemption

depends on the genera…
first, Citizen Kane is just the best film…
but if we’re talking about comedy: Let’s start with “Waiting for Guffman”
Drama, how about “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
Does chickflick count as a genera? “When Harry Met Sally”
Documentary? I’ll throw “King of Kong” in there; or maybe the Dylan documentary, “Don’t Look Back”
These are not the “greatest films” but they are fun…
Amistad (Sp?) is a textbook in classic filmmaking…

BEN HUR

Top 5 faves:
The Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
Anne of Green Gables
Shawshank Redemption
Little Women – the Winona Rider one [though, not because of her!]
Thanks for this fun distraction from packing, moving, and keeping 4 small children and 1 nervous poodle out of the chaos!

5)Night at the Museum
4)Star Wars (the trilogy)
3)Benny and June
2)Lord of the Rings (the trilogy)
1)Speed Racer
O.K., I might be influenced by having a 7 year old in the house… but Speed Racer is a good story, fun, action packed and cinematically very well done.

1) Across the Universe
2) The Departed
3) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4) Batman: The Dark Knight
5) The Godfather: Part 1
Dumb & Dummer, Lucky Number Slevin, and Boondock Saints are all pretty far up there too.

Mary Poppins
Sound of Music
The Incredibles
Chocolat
Hard to choose #5… maybe the first Indiana Jones movie

Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Second Hand Lions
Duma
Lord of the Rings Triology
The Gods Must Be Crazy

- The Godfather Trilogy (is it OK to count it as 1 film?)
- Waking Ned Devine
- Little Miss Sunshine
- A Prairie Home Companion
- Unforgiven (the 1992 Clint Eastwood one)
This list is subject to change, of course, as new films come up.
Two films I watch at least annually, but are not on my “all time favourites” list:
- The Great Outdoors (John Candy and Dan Aykroid)
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

Casablanca

Oops . . .5 then
1. Casablanca
2. Silent Running
3. Bringing Up Baby
4. To Kill A Mocking Bird
5. Wild In The Streets

In no particular order…
The Sound of Music
Schindler’s List
Corrina, Corrina
Steel Magnolias
The Apostle

The Best Years of Our Lives (the heart of American life- the difficulties and the goodness- of the 20th century- it’s all there)
Casablanca (tightest dialogue ever)
Breaking Away (the Italians are coming!)
The Matrix (Neo is not a Christ figure- he is Everyman)
not sure what I would pick for #5- these are the ones I enjoy watching more than once-
I hear Andrei Rublev is excellent.
Dana

1) Animal House
2) Escape From New York
3) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
4) The Enforcer
and
5) Wedding Crashers
The hotness stays classy.

Ouch. Just five–
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Matrix (first one)
O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Schindler’s List

Alice in Wonderland (50s Disney Animated)
My Fair Lady
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Big Lebowski
Shawshank Redemption
Honorable Mention has to go to (since this is a “Jesus” blog) The Life of Brian.

Here are my favorites
1 Rochelle, Rochelle
2 Prognosis Negative
3 Sack Lunch
4 Chunnel
5 Blimp

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Babette’s Feast
3. To End All Wars
4. Signs
5. Hoosiers

Scot,
Why, “Flight of the Phoenix?” I’ve never seen it, but I’m curious as to why it qualifies for your “best of all time.”

David,
1. Jimmy Stewart
2. A movie of ingenuity against all odds.
3. Struggle for survival.
4. Interpersonal strife within the story itself.
5. Drama.
Watch it sometime — in black and white.

Man on Fire
Gladiator
Braveheart
Blackhawk Down
Glory

Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Remember the Titans
Mr. Holland’s Opus

The Borne identity
The Borne Supremacy
The Borne Conspiracy
Apollo 13
It’s a Wonderful Life

Blade Runner
Star Wars
The Great Escape

In no particular order:
1) The Princess Bride
2) Saving Private Ryan
3) Schindler’s List
4) Forrest Gump
5) A Beautiful Mind

In no real order:
- Casablanca (self-sacrifice, redemption and unambiguously evil bad guys)
- The Shawshank Redemption (so many lessons and thoughts but I’m especially fond of it’s message of friendship sustaining one through the worst of times)
- Blade Runner (“All these moments will be lost, in time. Like tears, in the rain. Time, to die”)
- Fight Club (lot of people miss the point of this one. The nihlism, hopelessness and violence are NOT supposed to be lauded)
- Gladiator (because the one thing that no-one can ever take from you is your honour)

-Princess Bride
-High Fidelity
-Gladiator (“Are you not entertained!!” – I quote that far too much being a youth minister)
-Star Wars: A New Hope
-Scrooged (Really anything Bill Murray outside of Space Jam and Osmosis Jones)

My five favorite movies, in no particular order:
Dances with Wolves
Silence of the Lambs
Ghost
The Color Purple
Fried Green Tomatoes
Second five, in no particular order:
No Way Out
Babe
Top Gun
Sleepless in Seattle
A Christmas Story

To End All Wars
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Good Will Hunting
The Dark Knight
Independence Day or the Godfather part 1

No particular order:
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Miss Potter
O Brother Where Art Thou
Really, any good story.
And Scot, I just ordered “Flight of the Phoenix” from our library system. Thanks.

I’ll cheat and include six:
13 Conversations About One Thing
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Lord of the Rings
The Red Violin
12 Angry Men
Snow Falling on Cedars

My top few would definitely include the following, in no particular order:
- Heat (Michael Mann; De Niro and Pacino ? arguably the greatest heist movie ever, and with one of the most intense scenes ever when De Niro and Pacino meet face to face)
- Gladiator (so many memorable moments… “The time for self-congratulation will soon be over”)
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Schindler’s List
- Shawshank Redemption
- The Matrix (pt 1)
- The Devil’s Advocate

Hard to put that into ONE movie. I have some faves based on how I think they turned my thinking of a larger world (I guess):
1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) – timeless; it deals with class, status, dreams, disappointment, hope…wow
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – this movie took a lot of Christians out of the “I can only go to Disney movies…I would be afraid to go to others–someone might see me there”
3. Indiana Jones 1 & 3 of course – just plain fun
4. Children of a Lesser God (1986) – again dealing with stereotypes and difficult relationships; dealing with what a person wants for someone else without asking them
5. Others…too many (fun story telling): Waking Ned Devine, Truman Show, all the Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind mocumentaries…I could go on.

-The Mission
-Wit
-The Color Purple
-Lady In The Water
-12 Angry Men (original)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Andy W. (#24), that’s awesome! I’d have to add Death Blow, as well as The English Patient.

I’m a bit late on this one…but I’ll give it a shot. I’m going to do two ‘Top 5′ lists. The first is my favorite movies of all time and the second is what I consider to be the greatest movies of all time.
Favorites:
1) Boondock Saints
2) Pi: Faith in Chaos
3) Good Will Hunting
4) Helvetica
5) The Emperor’s Club
Greatest:
1) Citizen Kane
2) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
3) Sound of Music
4) Star Wars: Episode 4
5) Wizard of Oz

Chariots of Fire
Shawshank Redemption
The Searchers
Tootsie
The Mission

Netflix has the old Flight of the Phoenix available to watch online, you’re a member and your interest has been peaked by Scot’s mention.
Five favorites:
The Fifth Element
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Love Actually
Princess Bride
The Gods Must Be Crazy

Ok, I’ll add my #5:
The Princess Bride (Inconceivable!!)

Inconceivable that I could miss
Princess Bride
Oh Brother where art thou..
So that is my top 7. I am like someone above said though, I love a good story. Keep it captivating and I like it.

The Mission
Shrek
Les Choristes
Bladerunner
Good Morning Vietnam

1. Life is Beautiful (Italy)
2. Amelie (France)
3. The Castle (Australia)
4. Shawshank Redemption (USA)
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (USA)
I think. . . there’s actually about 15 films in my top 5. . .