What is your favorite film for push processing?

This question us prompted by an answer in the thread about pushing Agfa 400. In that thread the respondant states that his favorite films for pushing are HP5 and TriX. Yet in other discussions I have seen people say that they hate HP5 and just love Delta 400 for pushing. Clearly these two answers are due to different expectations in the results of push processing so I pose the question to all: What is your favorite film for push processing and why? Are you trying to get slow film performance at low light levels or are you trying to get a particular grain structure that can only come from abusing your favorite emusion. For my part, I have been experimenting with pushing HP5 recently. I have been shooting an old abandoned territorial prison and trying to explore the character of the place and to access the stories of the men that were incarcerated there. I have been shooting HP5 at EI 1600 and developing accordingly. I want grain. I want the intimacy of the shot to be offset by the distance created by a low key print with golf ball sized grain. The one thing that I have noticed in using HP5 is that I am losing shadow detail faster than I expected. It doesn't detract from these particular images, and in fact some images are better, but if I were trying to record a wider contrast range in low light I think I would use a different film, probably a T-grain film. So what are your thoughts?

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