IN MY OPINION THE BEST FILM IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA IS "GONE WITH THE WIND"-1939.I LIKE VERY MUCH VIVIAN LEIGH, IS HER BEST ACTION. THE NOVEL IS WONDERFUL, AND TOO THE SECOND PART WRITTEN BY ALEXANDRA RIPLEY, BUT ONLY THE NOVEL, ´CAUSE THE FILM "SCARLETT" I DON´T LIKE VERY MUCH.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FILM AND WHY?

Hola, olatropo! Que tal? I couldn't agree with you more. "Gone With the Wind" was a remarkable achievement for its time. I also agree that Vivien Leigh was, and is, the only Scarlett possible. Her performance, and her exquisite beauty, were flawless. Her's was an interesting character...she was rude, threatening, manipulative, selfish, greedy, cruel....yet one couldn't help but love her. Perhaps it's the same type of charisma that Marilyn Monroe had. Underneath Marilyn's sexuality was a touch of innocence...under Scatlett's rudeness, manipulation, etc. was a touch of vulnerability?

They don't make movies like that any more.

I've said previously and I'll say it again (and this time I know I have another FT'er on my side) that the best movie ever made was in fact "The Third Man" directed by Carol Reed, based on a script written by Graham Greene.

First off, I don't think we want to get into a debate about Margaret Mitchell vs. Graham Greene. We all know who the better writer was. Carol Reed was possibly the best English director ever in the history of cinema. Who directed "GWTW" again?

GWTW is a big epic picture, with a lot of money thrown at it, to be sure. But I have never been in awe of "GWTW" and I never shall be, especially since it smacks of a apologia for wealthy white southerns in the middle of Civil War.

"The Third Man" contains Orson Welles' finest performance aside from Citizen Kane (a movie I still hold to be overrated, though it is definitely the best movie ever produced and directed by a 25 year old). It also contains Joseph Cotten's finest performance. It is a beautifully written script (Graham Greene will do that for you). The musical score is haunting and entrancing, and the cinematography is one hand brilliant and yet disturbing.

And, it doesn't give you any easy answers, or catch lines. You watch "The Third Man" and you are left with several uneasy questions, about ethics, about society and about the general state of the human condition. It may the first movie to accurately portray a sociopath (thanks in part to Welles' incredible performance). It's movie that few people have seen, but it's a movie that I have seen in every Video Rental Store I've been in.

Do yourself a favor and rent it, and watch it, before you praise some big hunk of Hollywood pap as the greatest movie ever.

I AGREE WHITH YOU TOMIJE, THAT THE THIRD MAN IS A FANTASTIC FILM, I LIKE ORSON WELLS VERY MUCH, HE WAS A WONDERFUL DIRECTOR, ACTOR AND WRITER, I SAW THIS FILM ONE YEAR AGO AND I LIKE VERY MUCH."CITIZEN KANE" IS TOO A WONDERFUL FILM. HOLLYWOOD MADE A ERROR WHEN HE WAS EXPULSION OF WOLLYWOOD. THERE ARE MANY FILM THAT HE MADE AND WE CAN´T NEVER SEE BECAUSE HE ALWAYS NEED MONEY AND HE NEVER HAD. "THE THRID MAN" IS MY FAVORITE SECOND FILM AND "CITAZEN KANE" IS MY FAVORITE THIRD FILM.

The Best film is the film you like best! Forget about Citizen Kane or Ragging Bull! My best film is The Magnificent Seven!