Favorite movies

Dear fellow Basenoters, I took the liberty of herewith staring a thread, where everyone of you is invited to post the titles of their fave movies. I'll break the ice and reveal the titles of some of the films which changed my life for good and influenced my tastes, my life options, my perceptions and my outlook on everything:

La Dolce Vita, Velvet Goldmine, Pola X, Citizen Kane, Scarface, Casino, Women in Love, The Wall, City of God, Modern Times, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, A Clockwork Orange, The Godafther, Divina Creatura, Repentance, 8 1/2, 8 1/2 Women, Henry and June, Die Manns- Ein Jahrhundertroman, Boulevard du Rhum, Stavisky, Stalker, Amarcord, Fellini-Roma, Fellini-Satyricon, Le Couperet, Kids, The Acid House, Victor/Victoria, A Woman of Paris, Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno, Eureka, Senso '45, Caligula, L' Eredita Ferramonti, Drama della gelosia, Novecento, La Luna, The Dreamers, Mobsters,
I served the King of England, Star!, Savage Messiah, Nettoyage a sec, Merci Docteur Rey,
ABBA- The Movie, The Conformist, Dorian, Sitcom, Mosieur Verdoux, The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover, Providence, Once upon a time in America, L'Humanite, Un amour de Swann, Touchez pas a la hache, The Magus

If you want to, I can also tell you some words why I liked all these films or any other short info about them. I'd be pleased, eager and honored to hear your opinions and preferences. And may this list grow to be long, insightful and entertaining.

"The Leopard" is one of the greatest films in movie history by far.

Well, I had the honor of seeing both the film and reading the book, which became instantly, after the first pages, one of my instant favorites regarding literature. And the Greco-Roman reference is totally correct and I even think this might have also inspired certain ethical codes/outlooks on family life/traditions with the aristocratic families of Mediterranean and/or Southern Europe. Feudal and modern age aristocracy was partly based on patronage too and, virtually all aristocratic and dynastic clans had either a figure-head of the family or a figure-head aided by other respectable elderly blood relations and/or venerable members of community, known for both social success and moral conduct, doubled by wisdom and life experience. At any rate, these venerable elders acted as father figures not just for their blood relations, but also for other younger male members of a wider circle of friends, acquaintances and social ties.
It is actually interesting to see how the values and the social structures of antiquity and of feudal European aristocracy influenced so much even the Mob families (and I am not being derogatory or politically incorrect at all) of today or from the recent past. Maybe it has to do partly with the European lineage, of which I am actually proud, since I'm European and of Latin extraction myself.
At any rate, family bonds and social ties based on patronage were, as I read the first pages or watched the first minutes of the film, not quite unfamiliar to me, since, while I was born in a quite modern and emancipated family, my larger family circle of more remote relatives and society in general was quite traditionalist (maybe even with pre-Christian elements mingled with both Christian and secular values). OK, maybe I was getting too personal and putting this film too much in relation with my past, my family, my acquaintances. But I guess that, with the risk of being wrong, both the book and the movie were created in such was as to relate to many of us on a personal level, as well as to the "collective imaginary" of some long forgotten social rituals and norms from our distant or not too distant past.

[QUOTE=monsieur_sparkle;1646657]Hey K_R, Stalker is great and so is Roadside Picnic, the movie that it's based on.

I haven't read it yet, but I'm planning to read this asap.