Favorite Movie and Favorite Author/Philosopher...QUICK!

[JanMichael]

Don't THINK, just DO.

"Trust" by Hal Hartley and Albert Camus.

[TheReligiousLeft]

1. Jesus Christ Super Star

Voltaire

[TheReligiousLeft]

3. quick enough for you?

[JanMichael]

4. Well of course!

Although I really meant to just answer the question without stopping to consider the first answer.

Voltaire is one of my favorites too.

[shockingelk]

2. eXistenz or Contact, Aristitle or Heinlein

as II couldn't think I couldn't narrow it down.

[Khephra]

5. "Blue Velvet"

Philip K. Dick
Timothy Leary

[rbnyc]

6. Night of the Living Dead and Wallace Shawn. (nt)

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Back to school

Rodney Dangerfield.

[moof]

8. Casablanca, Joe campbell

n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

9. Tender Mercies, Heraclitus

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. To Have and Have Not (Bogart/Becall) and Frank Herbert

of course, many other worthy ones that didn't pop into my head first would be A-List.

[tishaLA]

11. Le Samourai / Gilles Deleuze

[tarkus]

12. Chasing Amy, Karl Marx. N/T

[NightTrain]

13. FIlm: DR. STRANGELOVE

Author: Too many to list just one.
Philosopher: Uncertain. Sorry!

[DemoTex]

14. Hamburger Hill/William Faulkner/Immanuel Kant

Quick enough?


Kant

[fknobbit]

15. Shogun

and Kurt Vonnegut jr.

[spaceprophet]

16. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Art Bell

Translator: He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him.- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Art Bell: I'm not saying whether I believe it or not but isn't it better to keep an open mind than be wrong.

[DemoTex]

17. Art Bell? Are you lost, child?

This is DU.

[Terwilliger]

18. Local Hero / Bertrand Russel

kinda pulled Russel outta my ass...looking for a favorite writer/philosopher

[DemoTex]

27. According to Bertrand Russell, I am a war criminal

He painted all participants in the Vietnam war with the war criminal brush. Sorry, I was just there. Alone, Unarmed and Scared Shitless as the patch on my flight suit (a real combat flight suit) said.

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[DemoTex]

37. Yes

I was not a war criminal. However, Vietnam was - by his definition - a "crime of war."

[Tikki]

19. James Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise" (1984) and...

Truman Capote/Jacqueline Susann.

[VOX]

20. "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and Walker Percy...

n/t

:kick:

Kick, after editing for those damn typos!

[Ramsey]

21. Breaking the Waves and Jean Paul Sartre

My alternative choice would be :

Gladiator and Joseph Campbell

That probably makes more sense.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Breaking the Waves - good movie, tough to watch

so painful.

[Dogmudgeon]

22. Lord Love a Duck. Alfred Jarry.

An dat's dat!

--bkl

[Dirk39]

24. Blue Velvet, Taxidriver; Theodor W. Adorno, Franz Kafka...

but I'm german, anyway.
Hello,
Dirk

[Snow]

25. Lord of the Rings. Colin Wilson

world's only cheerful existentialist.
Also, Pirsig - other favorite philosopher.

[mitchum]

26. "Taxi Driver" Marcus Aurelius

[LWolf]

28. Uh...

Brainfreeze on movie...

ok. Monty Python. Damn. Life of Brian or Holy Grail? Ni.

Author??? You ask an ex-librarian and confirmed bibliophile for a favorite author?

BarbaraKingsolverUrsulaLeGuinPatriciaMcKillipElizabethPeters ok, I stopped for a breath. I could go on. For a really, really, long time.

[5thGenDemocrat]

29. Favorite movie: The Right Stuff

Favorite author -- probably Bruce Catton, the writer of several of the finest Civil War histories ever published.
John
Not much into philosophy myself -- like everyone here couldn't tell.

[George_Bonanza]

32. I adore the Right Stuff

But my favourite movie is the Usual Suspects.

Favourite author? I've read a lot of books and yet I've just began to scratch the surface. I can't give an honest answer. I'll just say Jane Austen and Stephen King.

[HuckleB]

30. "Raising Arizona" (Coen Bros.) and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

.

[jayfish]

31. "Unforgiven" And Me.

If I can't believe in my own BS, then what's the point.

Jay

[roughsatori]

33. "Harold and Maude" Kirkegaarde (off the top of my head) NT

[Jack Rabbit]

34. Citizen Kane

Sartre

[Kenneth ken]

36. The Princess Bride

Mark Twain