Have always, even as a child, liked to watch films, especially late at night during the summer. A few years back, took a summer grad class at Mary Baldwin College in filmmaking that expanded even more so the desire to actually create a film from start to finish, included working in the production studio on the hill at MBC, with two others. We spent a good week on that film....was 8 minutes in length!!
My choices so far:
1) "Bridges of Madison County"---in the very last scene, in the rain, she looked over and saw
Clint's truck at the light...her hand eased over to open her husband's truck door and go
to Clint...Clint's truck seemed to pause a long time with the green light...and then, in the rain,
the truck drove off...forever.
2) "Fried Green Tomatoes"---at the very end of this film, Evelyn found Ninny sitting on her
suitcase, in front of her torndown homesite and said: "Evelyn, know what I think is the most
important thing in life?....Friends...."
3) "Milk Money"---near the end, again: "There's a place you can touch a woman that will drive
her crazy...her heart!"
4) "Witness"---ha, at the ending...John Book is leaving to go back to his "world" of being a cop...
Rachel knows that she must stay as an Amish on the farm...no words are spoken...she stands at
her farmhouse door and watches John Book, ready to leave in his little VW...he looks at her from across the
yard, back and forth--flirting--with Rachel shyly looking back from the edge of her front door...brilliant direction and acting, without words!
5) "The Color Purple"---the scene at the dinner table when Whoppi finally gets up enough nerve to tell her 'husband' to, uh, go to hell....
6) "The Notebook"---I simply liked the entire well written story and acting, period!
7) "Song of the South"---it's that kind of film a kid sees when young and never forgets!...the real characters mix with the cartoonism plus the songs that I can still sing!...and anyway, Uncle Remus was my first hero. "...ho, ho, ho...now children, Uncle Remus goona tell you a story about that Tar Baby....." Entered a State storytelling championship once, in Charlottesville, and earned a First and declared a champion Virginia storyteller! Owe it all to Uncle Remus!!
8) All of the Indiana Jones films!...ADVENTURES, know what I mean? Indy was a prof who would put on his old fedora hat and go off adventuring...my kinda life, like yeah!
9) Clint 'the man' Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" series. He stood for justice where 'the end justifies the means' kind of justice...hey, it's a film! Al Pacino's "And Justice For All" needs to be squeezed in with this one, too.
10) "The Travel Channel"...anything with Samantha Brown and Anthony Bourdain.
11) "The Haunting"...b&w film based on the book, "The Haunting of Hill House"...the only film that I can think of that actually mucho scared me, with shivers!...three who have experienced 'ghosts' in the past are invited to spend the week in Hill House!..wait until you witness the scenes late at night when the house comes alive.....
12) "M*A*S*H*"...the TV series....especially the many scenes in 'the swamp' (tent) of the 4077 M*A*S*H!
13) OK, I've added "Pirates of the Carribean" for pure swashbuckling and just plain fun and ADVENTURE!! Hey, does the devilish pirate win over the girl in the end?
14) "Alien"...darn, forgot that this film did some mighty good scaring...right? Wait until whatever is alive in the errant spacecraft...well, wait....
15) "Dances With Wolves"...the entire epic-kinda film, plus 'Two Socks' the wolf!...the evolution of one man, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner), takes plenty of time to reveal...and DON'T look when Costner reveals his tush! Oh, has a good romance theme later!
16) "THE GOONIES!"...yeah!...and what was the ice cream flavor mention in this film when 'Sloth' tells 'Chunk' downstairs in the freezer?...(can you say Rocky, uh, Road?)
17) "The Devil Wears Prada"...a 'chick flick' but a good one. Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) is excellent in character...Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) always has that prominent lipstick on but needs more depth as a character...you decide!...I simply respect Streep's acting, for years.
18) "Mystic Pizza"...first film with that "Pretty Woman" actress!...scene where she dumps the barrel of fish into the rich guy's little sports car is priceless...as a matter of fact, all three (3) young stars in Mystic, Connecticut have a character story and tell it well.
...and your faves, as always?
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