Romper Stomper was just released on DVD, and I'd highly recomend any of the following:

This Boy's Life
A Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting
The Snapper (a small indie film)
She's the One/Brothers McMullan
The Quiet Man
Wilde
Dangerous Liasons (the original one)

There are lots more but these are just a few of my favorites...

all 3 Godfather movies.

East of Eden
Giant
Scarface
The Outsiders
Hoosiers.....

1.Heavenly Creatures
2.Magnolia
3.Being John Malkovich
4.Happiness
5.Boogie Nights
6.Jude
7.Lolita
8.Basquiat
9.South Park movie
10.Waiting for Guffman or Best in Show
these are the 10 best movies to me

Razor's Edge
Wild At Heart

how about this one?

Everyone should watch 'Withnail and I' as its the best film ever made.
'Festen' and 'Man Bites Dog' are also very good.

willy wonka and the chocolate factory

goodfellas

friday

dont be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood.

office space

rushmore

muriel's wedding

national lampoon's vacation

cheech and chongs next movie

son in law

green mile

pee wee's big adventure

the color purple (the book is better)

whats eating gilbert grape

i could go on and on.......

willy wonka chocolate factory
friday
dont be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood
rushmore
office space
goodfellas
the color purple (the book is better)
whats eating gilbert grape
muriel's wedding
national lampoon's vacation
the green mile
pee wee's big adventure
i could go on and on.........

Almost Famous is a great movie that any music fan can enjoy. I highly recommend this film. I enjoyed it so much I saw it twice in the theater and I plan on buying it when it comes out on DVD. This movie is based on a true story where the director Cameron Crowe, goes on tour with a band when he was fifteen years old.

Billy Elliot
Croupier
The End of the Affair
Sunshine
Elizabeth
Wilde
Deja Vu
Quiz Show
Shakespeare In Love
Citizen Kane
Hamlet (Branagh version)
Othello (Branagh version)
Life Is Beautiful
Solomon & Gaenor
Schindler's List
English Patient
Sliding Doors
Ever After
Great Expectations (Gwyneth Paltrow one)
Mansfield Park
The Insider
Dreaming of Joseph Lees

You people have it all wrong. HERE are the top ten movies of all time. No question.

1.) King Kong- the bruce cabbot fay ray one

2.) Fear and Loathing in las vegas

3.) Encino man

4.) Rock n'Roll Highschool (Corey Feldman one acceptable)

5.) Halloween- One of Morrissey's favorites

6.) Dawn of the dead

7.) Godzilla 1984

8.) Godzilla vs. King Gidorah

9.) Decline of western Civilization 1-3

10.) I'm gonna have to say a tie between European Meat Market and Intercourse With the Vampire. The first for it's excessive use of Van damage and the last for Kim Chambers. Always a hottie.

ps) Billy Elliot was a fine film. It's always funny when people with english accents curse.

i wont mention my all time favorites, but here are some that i've really liked this year.

"You Can Count On Me"
stupid title, great film. Loved the characters and dialogue.

"Almost Famous"
a bit on the campy side, but i never felt let down once.

"Croupier"
A slick gambling/drama/crime film that deserved to have a larger audience.

"High Fidelity"
A bit of a painful experience if you've just broken up with someone, but then again, we're Moz fans. This kind of depressed/angst is what we live for.

hope you guys go to see these, if you can find them anywhere.

Just saw it last week.. yes, ashamed to say I had tears rolling down my face.. very British, not that bleak, but set historically against the Miners strike.. Very moving and a good portrayal of Northern bigotry in miners towns where I imagine 'a man must be a man'.. and from when I was there in a Student day visit, Durham always had the smell of coal dust in the air!

Other films.. Rumblefish, Outsiders, Chasing Amy, American Beauty (?), West Side Story, Oliver, Wanderers (great soundtrack)and of course more mainstream 'Planet of the apes', and 'The Good the bad and the Ugly'...

Must see High Fidelity as well (thinking aloud!!)

Home of the brash outrageous and free..

Small Faces (Glasgow gang wars in the 60-ies)
Gattaca (brilliant SF - with Uma Thurman)
The Snapper/The Van/The Commitments (all based on Doyle-books)
Wilde (ofcourse)
Leaving Las Vegas

Saw a movie once with Robert Carlyle and ... Damon Albarn with very good music in it (Gene, Elastica, ...)--> forgot the title, saw it on BBC ... can anyone post it please??

1. Rushmore
2. Big Night
3. Like Water for Chocolate
4. Dreamlife of Angels
5. Life Is Beautiful
6. Being John Malkovich
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
8. When Harry Met Sally
9. Mary Poppins!

You must see 'Requiem For A Dream' it is by far one of the best looking films I have ever seen. It is so beautiful yet seriously disturbing at the same time.

These are great movies!
*Trainspotting
*Velvet Goldmine
*Swimming with Sharks
  (for those of you who like Kevin Spacey or the
  thought of getting back at your idiot boss)
*Gummo - weird but interesting
*Dead Poet's Society
*Run Lola Run
*The Krays
*Brassed Off
*Blade Runner
*Pi - the mathematical symbol
*Basquiat
*The Usual Suspects
*Tatie Danielle - French
*Clerks

Drumroll please...

1. Apocolypse Now
2. The Jigsaw Man
3. The Manchurian Candidate
4. Three Days of the Condor
5. All the President's Men
6. The Odessa File
7. The Marathon Man
8. Where Eagles Dare
9. Solient Green
10. Slaughterhouse Five

I just saw Billy Elliot this weekend and Morrissey came to my mind as soon as Cosmic Dancer started to play. I also thought that Morrissey would appreciate this movie as well. It's funny how we Morrissey fans think alike. My favorite movies of all time are:
1. Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
2. Sixteen Candles
3. The Breakfast Club
4. Pretty in Pink
5. The Outsiders
Cheers!

Not that I'm biased or anything, but this tale of the tragic lovelife and times of Beethoven just squeezed my heart and caused Niagra nose! A must see!

I'm so tired of this retro English provincial schtick. Morissey used the emotional topography of these films in the '80s because, with his ruthless instinct for efficiency, he knew it was the best way of:

1 getting the coordinates of his worldview across with maximum efficiency.

2 finding a perfect corrective to the Reagan/ Thatch/ Athena/ Sade culture that abideth-eth then.

3 Benefitting from all the warm heartbreak that his association with these films imparted to his image - this took the edge off the mysanthropic, solipsistic nay-saying of which he was occasionally guilty.

I can't express to you how dull, monumentally irrelevant and cheap the whole Billy Eliot/ Taste of Honey/ Leather Boys, etc thing now is. Discard it, my young troopers.

I just saw the best film. "On Borrowed Time" from 1939. Lionel Barrymore is this mean old man in a wheelchair who is trying to raise his grandson. Death comes for him and he traps him in an apple tree and no-one can die for the rest of the movie. totally amazing and the kind of film I never expected to be made in 1939. with some of the most bizarre dialogue I've ever heard. "Stay away from that tree or I'll brain you with my cane!" "I'll prove I'm not crazy. Catch a fly and give it some poison, it won't die." When Aunt Demi starts asking Miss Nellie repeatedly about her gas problem, my head started spinning. Later on the little boy (who's name for some reason is "Pud") says casually of the Aunt, "Let's kill her and bury her in the ground." I'll be thinking about this for a while.

Other films that stick in my mind:
Most anything by Lars von Trier -dancer in the Dark, the idiots, Breaking the waves, the kingdom.

Fight Club

short Cuts

Magnolia

A movie that Morrissey should see if he hasn't already: Louis Bunuel's "Wuthering Hights" set in Mexico. this has Morrissey written all over it.

A Hard Day's Night

Superman 1 and 2

the Limey and Out of Sight

Dark City

This is Spinal Tap. (my computer has no button for umlaught's. sorry.)

the Magnificent Ambersons

Babe and Babe 2

the Philadelphia Story

North by Northwest, Rebecca, and Vertigo

Chicken Run

"the knack and how to get it" which is the basis for the Smith's "I want the one I can't have". trust me it is.

Freaks, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Sunrise, Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, the day the Earth stood still.

Intolerance.

Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill.

Beyond the Valley of the dolls.

Planet of the apes, the Omega Man, Ben Hur

And then there were none.

What about "Tricolore: Rouge" by...that Polish guy..it's very good, and I'm sure its story could be turned into a Morrissey song. Maybe.

Or Life Is Beautiful, which probably couldn't, but is still worth a look anyway. Or La Haine?

in no particular order:
quiz show
north by northwest
touch of evil (welles)
400 blows
all about eve
american history x
graduate
jerry maguire
rebel without a cause
jailhouse rock

there are plenty more......don't think i could pick just ten all time.......

From the movies above, it looks as though one would be considered unsophisticated if she/he were a fan of mainstream films. Is that what the Morrissey pysche is all about - appreciating the avante garde movies and if one does not than they are an uncultured oaf?

Charlie's Angels and Big Momma's House make massive amounts of money and no one will admit seeing them, myself included. However, everyone has seen every Orson Welles, Kevin Smith, and Ingmar Bergman film.

I am not suggesting that we are George the Twenty-thirds. But, we should enjoy a good fart joke and think less of someone if they are will to admit enjoying one.

Here are some of my favorites:

Last Year at Marienbad
Repulsion
Belle De Jour
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise
L'Avventura
Blow-Up
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Scenes from a Marriage
8 1/2
Nights of Cabitria
Vertigo
Rear Window
The Elephant Man
The 400 Blows
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Pierrot le Fou
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Fearless
The Philadelphia Story
You Can't Take It With You
Breathless
Splendor in the Grass
American Beauty
Nosferatu
Broken Blossoms
The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
Open City
Big Night
The Imposters
Dinner at Eight
Magnolia
Grand Hotel

                                        ~Jami~

******The Outsiders*******
  Need I say more??

I thought someone would mention
Breakfast at Tiffany's (it's where Moon River came from, ya know)

The other is The Commitmnets. Anyone who's ever been in a band or loves anything Irish (and a little English) should see this film.

xxx

I'd recommend Beau travail (1999) by Claire Denis. Very nice photography.
Permanent favourite of mine: A corps perdu/Straight for the Heart (by the Canadian Léa Pool).

And if you're in the mood, see "In the mood for Love" (Wong Kar Wai). He's always excellent with the camera. And you're never bored with a Kieslowski either.

I find myself watching these movies more than often,and probably should spend my time practing my spelling:
*somekind of wonderful
    "All i care about is me, my drums and you"
*say anything
*pretty in pink
*blue velvet
*wild at heart
*better off dead
*An Ideal Husband
*Edward Sisscored Hands ( uh my spelling)
*of course The Breakfeast Club

American Beauty
Harold and Maude
The Usual Suspects
Trainspotting
Vertigo
Psycho

It plays on our emotions and makes us feel a better person. I discount the dull ending