Bean: 5. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - I hope to be alive if the aliens ever make it to earth and I hope they are as friendly as these guys were. And I am suddenly craving mashed potatoes.
Michelle Kube (morning show executive producer of the KFI Bill Handel Show):
1) The Quiet Man - John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara... enough said
2) Blazing Saddles - Who doesn't love Mel Brooks?
3) The Producers - OMG Dick Shawn as L.S.D. and Kenneth Mars as Franz Leibkind, when you hear Springtime for Hitler it's hard to get it out of your head!
4) The Revenge of the Pink Panther - all I have to say is ‘Ca-to, this is your employer speaking’
5) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - a movie I can watch 1,000 times and laugh just as hard as I did the first time.
Doc on the ROQ: The ones I keep re-watching number over a dozen, but the 5 most interesting are: Fellini's 8 and ½ - (marvelous stories and images, ultimate creative frustration, Claudia Cardinale)
Richard Lester's How I Won the War – (total insanity … been there … Nam)
John Huston's The Maltese Falcon – (perfect hardboiled Hammett, plus Bogie, Lorre, Greensteet and remind J. Gonzer it was Marlowe, not Spade in the Big Sleep)
The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole – (O'Toole morphs from Jesus to Jack the Ripper. Ruling Class has creepy, funny satire and characters who burst into song)
Ed Wood's immortal Plan 9 – (Plan 9 is Plan 9)
Honorable props to Pulp Fiction and (in this age of Inception) and the dreamy Peter Ibbetson with Gary Cooper.
Jim Governale (KKLA): Here's my two (or should I say five) cents:
Blues Brothers - still funny after all these years and the soundtrack is second to none
Jeff Gonzer: The Big Sleep - 1946 Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade. I love film noir. I love Raymond Chandler’s writing. I love stories that take place in L.A. in the late 40’s-early 50’s. This is one of the best. Wizard of Oz - 1939 One of my favorites as a kid. My son fell in love with it when he was 3 years old and we watched it every day for six months, and now my granddaughter, who’s 5 years old is in love with it. It’s a universal story that can be taken on so many levels. It will live one forever.
Avatar - 2009. Just spectacular in so many ways. I understand that it is being re-released in 3D at Imax theaters later this month. Can’t wait. I have a DVD copy, but haven’t been able to watch it on a ‘little screen’ yet. A masterpiece.
Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 I’ve seen it over and over again at The Cinerama Dome and I’m always overwhelmed at the grandeur, acting, and storytelling.
Juno - 2007 Honest, funny and real. What a perfect little film. Months after I had first seen it, I was in Palm Springs and took my then 15 year old son and my parents, who are in their 80’s and they all loved it. Universal theme and done with the right honesty, integrity, and humor.
I’m sure I can give you a different list next week, but for now that’s it and I’m sticking to it.
Bob Fox: Gigi – a beautiful movie, charming, fun, great music and great photography.
Goodbye Mr. Chips – a great story and wonderful acting by Robert Donat
Singing in the Rain – Just to see Donald O’Connor improvise his great dance scene plus all of the music and dancing.
Chariots of Fire – Great story and a tie with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – a great comedy
Gone with the Wind – A wonderful story and superb acting and the cinematography was marvelous.
LARP Rewind: August 24