I share the difficulty of picking just one - it's too much like lining up friends in order of affection. Yet I don't consider myself a "movie person." I rarely go and I just can't stand most of the big blockbuster stuff out there... Favorite movie from when I was a teenager, aching for love and life and to be a grownup? "A Room with A View". No film was more awakening, more alive, more beautiful, or more heady than that one. I can still recall running to the theater to catch the show, alone, in the afternoon, when my mother was at work. It must have been summer, because I wasn't in school. Then there was this marvelous, romantic, unfolding which kept me mesmerized. (Didn't hurt that the story was tastefullly lusty with gorgeous young actors.) The music and the scenery were deep, deep, delights. As rich as chocolate. Or brocade. Of course, then there were "films" when I was in my twenties. Kurosawa's "Ran" blew my head off, even in subtitles. The whole David Lynch oeuvre was fascinating and wonderful in its weird, weird way*. "Hannah and Her Sisters" - others have noted the cool Woody Allen stuff. This was one of them, although imagining Woody Allen as a sex symbol was at the time almost impossible for me. (Still is.) I saw "Mississippi Burning" with a French friend and was ashamed to be an American. "The Killing Fields" made me ashamed to be a human being. Since then, I've seen "Fargo" more times than a person should and I don't think I moved from my seat for the entire show while watching "No Country for Old Men", which was unbelievably violent, yet hugely powerful. And I can't wait to take my daughter to see "Fantasia" or show her "The Secret Garden" or "The Black Stallion" or any of the other great movies I went to see as a kid that are now just part of my consciousness. *(If you're interested in the music of David Lynch's films, look up Angelo Badalamenti. The absolute coolest documentary I EVER saw was on the Donner Party, and featured music by him. It was on PBS, and is probably available on DVD.)