Favourite films

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is a wayward masterpiece. There's just so much in there that would be deemed unnecessary were it to be made today. It isn't quite a thriller, isn't quite a horror, isn't quite a melodrama, isn't quite a comedy. What I really do like is the character of the down at heel piano player who brings the whole house of cards down, he's just a wonderful little sketch that I personally would love to see an entire film about. I'm also a sucker for films that have a definite geography to them. In WHBJ you have the house, which has a layout, and then you have outside and that's the world. The end with beach is so wonderful and shocking because it suddenly breaks out of that geography, depositing these grotesque characters back into the real world where they are viewed with complete horror and/or bafflement. A cracker!

markbrown I like the way you think! I had not given it that much thought in terms of the house and the outside world but it seems quite obvious after reading your post!

Oh, why thank you *blush*... I love to think about stuff that I like in terms of why I think it works, or what it is about it that generates whatever it is that I feel about it. For instance, the films that I find most disturbing are ones about codependent relationships. Dead Ringers is a good example of this. The twin gynacologists, with their too close relationship, effectively manage to live in a world of their own. The problems come when one of the brothers decides to move beyond that world, thus fracturing it forever. Sid and Nancy is very similar, as is Heavenly Creatures, as is, to an extent WHBJ. They all feature closed relationships that have their own internal logic and rules that are challenged either by the outside world or the tensions within the relationship itself. I think the question of why you like your favourite films, or the why you like the feeling that your favourite films give you, is an even more interesting question than what those favourites are.

okay markbrown why do you like your favourite films and what feelings do they give you?

Ever since I was a young girl I wanted to be a boy who wanted to be a gangster! I just saw The Long Engagement and Loved IT! also I am digging these movies (yeah I said digging!) City of God Love, Honor, and Obey (thaks for the recommendation Foxy!) Smilely I am still waiting for your recommendation to get to the top of my queue list should be another week...House of Flying Daggers in case you forgot

I just saw War of the Worlds, Are We There Yet?, and Left Behind: The Movie