A Chorus Line. Released in 1976. Directed by Richard Attenborough. Starring Michael Douglas. With unforgettable songs like At the Ballet, Sing, Nothing and the more popular What I Did for Love, it ranks as my number one favorite musical of all time.
The Sound of Music. Released in 1965. Directed by Robert Wise. Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Ok, so this is pre-historic. But who can argue with the power of this classic. In fact, we wouldn't have learned our musical notes that easy if not for this movie. I watched it just recently in cable and I was awed. A timeless masterpiece.
Falling In Love. Released in 1984. Directed by Ulu Grosbard. Starring Robert deNiro and Meryl Streep - two of my top faves in the acting department in a romantic comedy about middle-aged lovers.
Big Business. Released in 1988. Directed by Jim Abrahams. Starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. Two comic divas in a story of two sets of twins switched and separated at birth, one set ending up rich and the other poor. Imagine the riot when they meet later on.
Moulin Rouge. Rleased in 2001. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. Starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor. According to my research, this is the third version of the film – with two previous versions, one in the 30’s and the other in the 50’s. Very smart use of contemporary songs on an old but still interesting material.
Death Becomes Her. Released in 1992. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. A top-notch cast in a comedy-horror film that looks deep into our fear of getting old and dying. It won Best Visual Effects in 1992 from Oscars.
Flashdance. Released in 1983. Directed by Adrian Lyne. Starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri. The 1,000-watt smile of Jennifer, some mean dancing and an OST that remains as one of my favorites. Flashdance… What A Feeling still makes me wanna dance whenever I hear it today.
Evita. Released in 1996. Directed by Alan Parker. Starring Madonna, Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce. I was not a Madonna fan until she did this film. Then she turned me into a believer. Awesome songs like High Flying Adored, You Must Love Me, She Is A Diamond and Another Suitcase in the Hall made me buy the complete OST album.
The Full Monty. Released in 1997. Directed by Peter Cattaneo. Starring a host of British actors. The film that showed me that Brits, aferall, has got humor. A story of 6 ordinary, unglamorous steel workers who formed a group and did a striptease act! Hilarious!
The Devil Wears Prada. Released in 2006. Directed by David Frankel. Starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. In case you haven’t noticed, this is the third Meryl Streep movie in my top faves on comedy/musical category. Which means I love her on offbeat roles as much as I love her on serious ones. Hell, I love this wonderful actress in whatever she does .
The Sound of Music. Released in 1965. Directed by Robert Wise. Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Ok, so this is pre-historic. But who can argue with the power of this classic. In fact, we wouldn't have learned our musical notes that easy if not for this movie. I watched it just recently in cable and I was awed. A timeless masterpiece.
Falling In Love. Released in 1984. Directed by Ulu Grosbard. Starring Robert deNiro and Meryl Streep - two of my top faves in the acting department in a romantic comedy about middle-aged lovers.
Big Business. Released in 1988. Directed by Jim Abrahams. Starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. Two comic divas in a story of two sets of twins switched and separated at birth, one set ending up rich and the other poor. Imagine the riot when they meet later on.
Moulin Rouge. Rleased in 2001. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. Starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor. According to my research, this is the third version of the film – with two previous versions, one in the 30’s and the other in the 50’s. Very smart use of contemporary songs on an old but still interesting material.
Death Becomes Her. Released in 1992. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. A top-notch cast in a comedy-horror film that looks deep into our fear of getting old and dying. It won Best Visual Effects in 1992 from Oscars.
Flashdance. Released in 1983. Directed by Adrian Lyne. Starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri. The 1,000-watt smile of Jennifer, some mean dancing and an OST that remains as one of my favorites. Flashdance… What A Feeling still makes me wanna dance whenever I hear it today.
Evita. Released in 1996. Directed by Alan Parker. Starring Madonna, Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce. I was not a Madonna fan until she did this film. Then she turned me into a believer. Awesome songs like High Flying Adored, You Must Love Me, She Is A Diamond and Another Suitcase in the Hall made me buy the complete OST album.
The Full Monty. Released in 1997. Directed by Peter Cattaneo. Starring a host of British actors. The film that showed me that Brits, aferall, has got humor. A story of 6 ordinary, unglamorous steel workers who formed a group and did a striptease act! Hilarious!
The Devil Wears Prada. Released in 2006. Directed by David Frankel. Starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. In case you haven’t noticed, this is the third Meryl Streep movie in my top faves on comedy/musical category. Which means I love her on offbeat roles as much as I love her on serious ones. Hell, I love this wonderful actress in whatever she does .
If you haven't watched these wonderful films, I suggest you try them. Really entertaining. (Naku dapat bayaran ako ng mga producers nito huh!)
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I loved A Chorus Line and The Sound of Music. But how could you miss out West Side Story? Who would forget Cher in Moonstruck or Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire? I know there are so many great movies out there. Once again, nice choices you've made.
A Movie Fan
Oh yeah, these are a bunch of good films too. But I'm bound (LoL) to trim it down to 10 films lang so I really have to choose my very top faves.
Give me your top ten - and maybe our other friends will share theirs too. Who knows you might have seen something I haven't.
Eniweys, it's nice to find someone who loved A Chorus Line like I did. Morales, ikaw ba yan? :)
Thanks for always visiting...
Sa pelikulang Pilipino, ano ang top 10 favorite mo Dante?
naku magandang tanong yan... isa nga yan sa mga pinag-iisipan ko kasi na-realize ko puro western films ang mga dini-discuss ko. yaan mo gagawa ako ng top ten pinoy films ko then i-post ko dito
My list of ten favorite movies changes every now and then. On top is still The Godfather, Parts I & II. Part III, failed to deliver, unfortunately.
And then in no particular order are the classics: Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind. You really have to see these movies. Then the musicals, which are also classics in their own right: The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Wizard of Oz. You can basically sing along while watching these. Among the recent ones are: Lost in Translation, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine - I love comedies. Any Meryl Streep movie and of course Crash, which I know you will disagree with me (lol). See, I can't limit my list to ten. I have to stop there.
I prefer the newer films to the classics. But if I have to strictly limit my list to the best of the best, the classics always come out on top.
Anyway, are you into documentary feature films?. If not and wanna give it a try, then I'd suggest that you see "March of the Penguins". Find out if this kind of filmmaking is something that you would enjoy watching.
Keep writing and more power! By the way I'm not Morales. Let me just remain
A Movie Fan
I'm beginning to think you're my long lost twin! hehehe...
march of the penguins tops my list of 'must see' movies together with the classics that i've been missing (how bout one flew over the cuckoos nest?), along with other recent great/successful pinoy indie films.
trouble is that my current location isn't the greatest place for film buffs like you and me. so i have to do it whenever i'm on a holiday or whenever i'm staying in PI.
and yes, like what you said, i've got a wide taste in films so i'll definitely see that one, plus the al gore doc about global warming - title currenlty unretrievable by my memory bank! darn!
and yes, i've seen little miss sunshine and it's one of my recent faves too. in fact it was the very last to go from my list when i had to decide on the ten.
and what is this... we do agree on Mery Streep too!?! Are you sure we're not cloned or something!? hehehe
Ok, how about this one - another actress i love is Judi Dench... comment?
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