Favourite: My 10 Favourite...
Submitted by 1922 on Mon, 01/10/2005 - 02:36
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Films
- Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
- East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955)
- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
- Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
- The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
- Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
- A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988)
- Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
Decades (for film)
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1950s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 1940s
- 1930s
- 2000s
- 1920s
- 1910s
Actors
- Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)
- James Dean (1931-1955)
- Henry Fonda (1905-1982)
- Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000)
- Dustin Hoffman (1937)
- Kevin Kline (1947)
- Christopher Lee (1922)
- Jack Nicholson (1937)
- Al Pacino (1940)
- James Stewart (1908-1997)
Actresses
- Kathy Bates (1948)
- Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982)
- Dame Judi Dench (1934)
- Faye Dunaway (1941)
- Whoopi Goldberg (1953)
- Anjelica Huston (1951)
- Bette Midler (1946)
- Meryl Streep (1949)
- Sigourney Weaver (1949)
Directors
- Ingmar Bergman (1918)
- Tim Burton (1959)
- David Fincher (1962)
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
- Elia Kazan (1909-2003)
- Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
- David Lean (1908-1991)
- Sergio Leone (1929-1989)
- Michael Moore (1954)
- Martin Scorsese (1942)
Websites (links will come soon) (Currently)
- afi.com (the official site of the American Film Institute)
- filmsite.org (lists of the greatest films ever, ...)
- filmstarts.de (German) (reviews on current films)
- goldderby.com (predictions for upcoming award ceremonies)
- imdb.com (you know)
- insidekino.com (German) (statistics about films, box office, predictions for award ceremonies,...)
- listology.com :)
- movie-reviews.colossus.net (reviews)
- prisma-online.de (German/ TV-planner)
- thegoldenglobes.com (the official site of the Golden Globes)
Books
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
- The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
- Desperation (Stephen King)
- East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- Jugend ohne Gott (Ödön von Horváth)
- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
- Le Petit Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
- The Shining (Stephen King)
Literary Characters
- Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)
- Gandalf, the White (The Return of the King)
- Monsieur Ibrahim (Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran)
- Ma Joad (The Grapes of Wrath)
- Tom Joad (The Grapes of Wrath)
- Lee (East of Eden)
- Johnny Edward Marinville (Desperation)
- Paul Sheldon (Misery)
- Cal Trask (East of Eden)
- Prof. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing (Dracula)
Characters from Film and TV
- Darth Vader (Star Wars, David Prowse)
- Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers, John Cleese)
- Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck)
- Juror #8 (12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda)
- T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole)
- Reverend Harry Powell (The Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum)
- Col. Frank Slade (Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino)
- Dr. Christian Szell (Marathon Man, Sir Laurence Olivier)
- Tim Taylor (Home Improvement, Tim Allen)
- Cal Trask (East of Eden, James Dean)
TV Shows
- Alf
- The Benny Hill Show
- Columbo
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Fawlty Towers
- The Flintstones
- Home Improvement
- The King of Queens
- Roseanne
- The Simpsons
Performances by Actors
- James Dean (East of Eden)
- Henry Fonda (Once Upon a Time in the West)
- Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men)
- Sir Alec Guinness (Lawrence of Arabia)
- Sir Alec Guinness (Star Wars)
- Sal Mineo (Rebel without a Cause)
- Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets)
- Sir Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man)
- Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia)
- Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman)
Songs
- Baby Jane (Rod Stewart)
- I Saved the World (Eurythmics)
- Lasciate mi cantare (Toto Cotugno)
- Losing My Religion (R.E.M.)
- Manhattan-Kaboul (Renaud)
- Man on the Moon (R.E.M.)
- Mensch (Herbert Grönemeyer)
- Only Time (Enya)
- Tournent les violons (JJ Goldman)
- Tu vas me détruire (Daniel Lavoie)
Performances by Actresses
- coming soon...
Listology articles, lists, poll
- coming soon...
Author Comments:
Comments welcome.
I've just started reading The Grapes Of Wrath, and I'm already beginning to enjoy it.
I video taped '12 Angry Men' last week, so I hope to watch that very soon (it is many years since I last saw it). Then a few days later I spotted The Grapes of Wrath was to be shown on UK satellite TV on Saturday, so I planned on taping that too, but we had high winds in the UK (across N. Europe?) and the satellite service wasn't working when it was shown so I missed it - my frustration still hasn't subsided even now, but I hope that they will repeat it soon (which they often do).
I've also got Desparation, And Then There Was None, and Of Mice And Men all on my unread shelf yet to read, but I don't expect to get to them any time soon. (How good are they ?)
The Grapes of Wrath will still become better, the more you read. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts about it. The adaptation by John Ford is a good film, but (especially when compared to the book) somehow disappointing. Fonda is great though.
And then there were none is Agatha Christie's best novel. I'm not really a fan of crime novels, but this one impressed me very much. It doesn't take very long to read it.
Of Mice and Men is along with East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck's best work. It won't take you very long to get through this neither.
Desperation is very thick, but it is quite probably the most thrilling book I have ever read. You read and read, and can't stop. But please note that this is a typical King-novel. Therefore it always depends on whether you like his stories and his style or not. Personally I enjoy his books very much. Yet for somebody you can't stand King's works at all, this could be a torture (above all because of some rather violent scenes).
Of these three books, Of Mice and Men is the best one, but just slightly.