Off the top of my head:
1) Shadow of a Doubt
2) Rear Window
3) Sea of Love
4) Midnight Run
5) In the Loop
6) All the President's Men
7) Best Years of Our Lives
8) The Politician's Wife
9) Pride & Prejudice (Colin Firth)
10) A Letter to Three Wives
Yours?
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2001 A Space Odessy
The Colour Purple
Refer Madness
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The last two are so totally awful that you will laugh till you cry.....
R
:-)
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The Colour Purple
Refer Madness
Plan 9 From Outer Space
The last two are so totally awful that you will laugh till you cry.....
R
:-)
.
Okay, Libby
Here's my list. last time I did one of the, the person running it asked if had seen anything after 1960. R
Shane
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Quiet Man
Charade
The Searchers
Lord of the Ringa (all three)
Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis)
Streetcar Named Desire
North by Northwest
Dr. No
Here's my list. last time I did one of the, the person running it asked if had seen anything after 1960. R
Shane
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Quiet Man
Charade
The Searchers
Lord of the Ringa (all three)
Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis)
Streetcar Named Desire
North by Northwest
Dr. No
Excellent list libby. I haven't seen Midnight Run and didn't much like Sea of Love, but the rest are gems. Here's mine
1 - Casablanca
The rest in no particular order:
Philadelphia Story
The Four Feathers (1936 version)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Cabaret
Goodfellas
Chariots of Fire
Tale of Two Cities (1930s version)
North by Northwest
Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight
1 - Casablanca
The rest in no particular order:
Philadelphia Story
The Four Feathers (1936 version)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Cabaret
Goodfellas
Chariots of Fire
Tale of Two Cities (1930s version)
North by Northwest
Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight
LONE STAR
ANNIE HALL
DIRTY, ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
CASABLANCA
BOUND
THE WIZARD OF OZ
many more
ANNIE HALL
DIRTY, ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
CASABLANCA
BOUND
THE WIZARD OF OZ
many more
r.
Sorry, I went a little overboard, but it's hard for me to kick some of these off the list.
1. The Ballad of Narayama (Japan, 1983)
2. Bliss (Australia, 1985)
3. Das Boot (German, 1981)
4. The Hidden Fortress (Japan, 1958)
5. Sullivan's Travels
6. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7. The Godfather
8. Wings of Desire (German, 1987)
9. Gone Baby Gone
10. The Fountain
11. Resurrection
12. El Amor Brujo (Spain, 1986)
13. Equus
14. Man Facing Southeast (Argentina, 1986)
1. The Ballad of Narayama (Japan, 1983)
2. Bliss (Australia, 1985)
3. Das Boot (German, 1981)
4. The Hidden Fortress (Japan, 1958)
5. Sullivan's Travels
6. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
7. The Godfather
8. Wings of Desire (German, 1987)
9. Gone Baby Gone
10. The Fountain
11. Resurrection
12. El Amor Brujo (Spain, 1986)
13. Equus
14. Man Facing Southeast (Argentina, 1986)
Casablanca 1942
Doctor Zhivago 1965
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958
The Help 2011
Silver Linings Playbook 2012
Midnight in Paris 2011
The Graduate 1967
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975
As Good As It Gets 1997
Terms of Endearment 1983
Doctor Zhivago 1965
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958
The Help 2011
Silver Linings Playbook 2012
Midnight in Paris 2011
The Graduate 1967
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975
As Good As It Gets 1997
Terms of Endearment 1983
To Sir with love
Sound of music
Magnificent seven
Grease
The war of the Roses
Sleeping with the enemy
Killbill
White chicks
Mr and Mrs Smith
The pink panther with Steve Martin
Sound of music
Magnificent seven
Grease
The war of the Roses
Sleeping with the enemy
Killbill
White chicks
Mr and Mrs Smith
The pink panther with Steve Martin
Sooo very many for so many different reasons, I will list those that I will always watch:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Casablanca
3. Schindler's List
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
5. Robin Hood 1939 Errol Flynn
6. Lion in Winter
7. Inherit the Wind
8. Mr. Roberts
9. Red River
10. The Ruling Class
11. On Golden Pond
12. The Stunt Man
13. The Seekers
14. My Favorite Year
15. A Clockwork Orange
16. Platoon
17. Bad Day at Black Rock
18. Cannery Row
19. Apocalypse Now
20. The Duelists
21. Full Metal Jacket
22. Fiddler on the Roof
23. Star Wars
24. Dr. Strangelove
25. Charade
and On the Beach
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Casablanca
3. Schindler's List
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
5. Robin Hood 1939 Errol Flynn
6. Lion in Winter
7. Inherit the Wind
8. Mr. Roberts
9. Red River
10. The Ruling Class
11. On Golden Pond
12. The Stunt Man
13. The Seekers
14. My Favorite Year
15. A Clockwork Orange
16. Platoon
17. Bad Day at Black Rock
18. Cannery Row
19. Apocalypse Now
20. The Duelists
21. Full Metal Jacket
22. Fiddler on the Roof
23. Star Wars
24. Dr. Strangelove
25. Charade
and On the Beach
As well as many of those listed here including:
M.A.S.H.
The Quiet Man
Cabaret
The Wizard of Oz
Lone Star
The Graduate
All the President's Men
Philadelphia with Tom Hanks
Alien
El Topo - Alejandro Jodorowsky
and The American President
M.A.S.H.
The Quiet Man
Cabaret
The Wizard of Oz
Lone Star
The Graduate
All the President's Men
Philadelphia with Tom Hanks
Alien
El Topo - Alejandro Jodorowsky
and The American President
Thanks for playing this with me! I think I could easily have put my top 50 now that I am seeing stuff on each of your lists, like Color Purple from sky (Plan 9???), Mockingbird & Charade & NXNW on Gerald's (yes, mine are all oldies too except In the Loop which isn't exactly new any more), Casa Blanca went thru my mind, of course, and Cabaret, Phil Story, on yours Abra (have you really heard of all of mine? how cool), Kate 2 of yours I have not seen and need to investigate, jonathan great list except I don't know Bound, mish yours is far more eclectic and exotic for the most part compared to my movie adventurousness but Resurrection popped out at me -- one of my top 20, I think of that movie often, loved the ending especially, and Sullivans Travels and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House -- Cary and Myrna was it? Hah! those are oldies that seeing them made me smile, Lyle you got some greats there, too, how could I forget the Graduate and Cuckoo's Nest, those are heavy weights like Shawshank and Cool Hand Luke, A.W. To Sir and Sound of Music when I saw them rocked my world, and War of the Roses is one of the best black comedies ever.
I realized I probably should have knocked out my Midnight Run and put in Enchanted April that I remembered belatedly but I can't not laugh when I watch MR with odd couple DeNiro and Charles Grodin -- to me it is DeNiro's best hah!, there's another movie with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk that reminds me of it, the In Laws. I had My Cousin Vinny but then I remembered the awesome A Letter to Three Wives.
I also love a little movie called Compromising Positions with Susan Sarandon about an amorous dentist who gets killed on Long Island. And a movie that never fails to entertain me is Dial M for Murder with Ray Milland and Grace Kelly. There's another one like it with Rex Harrison and Doris Day called Midnite Lace I am thrilled to see running when it rarely does. Crazy from the Heart another little romantic one.
Now my head is swimming with movies. Great ones and fun ones, guilty pleasures. Election is a masterpiece. Poor ol Matthew B.
I love Hitchcock movies and wanted to do a blog at one point on scenes in his movies where Hitch appears. Anybody remember when he comes in for Dial M?
My favorite of his is Shadow of a Doubt. come to think of it, where does he come in in that one? I have forgotten! I liked all of his but Psycho and the Birds are at the bottom.
There are movies that grab me and I cherish them for a while and then leave the enthrallment though still can appreciate
When 4 Weddings and a Funeral came out I went to an Oscar Party at a NYC neighborhood bar and since I loved the movie I filled it in in most of the categories for the Oscar contest. A Brit movie like that? What was I thinking???? I don't think it won anything. NADA.
A week later I get a check in the mail congratulating me since I won the consolation prize at the bar that night for having the WORST guesses of anyone. The money was nice. Maybe $50? Hah!
I finally saw 3 Days of the Condor the other night. I can't believe that one got away from me. There are gaps I should really catch up with. Network was such a wow. Butch Cassidy was enchanting, too.
I walked out of No Country for Old Men. That psycho was so scary I didn't want to deal with him. Seriously. And I couldn't and still can't sit through Silkwood because watching or hearing about nuclear fallout makes me faint, literally.
Sorry to chatter on, but I love movies!!!! And I intend to borrow ideas for movies to see from contributions here! Will be back!
Thanks again!
best, libby
I realized I probably should have knocked out my Midnight Run and put in Enchanted April that I remembered belatedly but I can't not laugh when I watch MR with odd couple DeNiro and Charles Grodin -- to me it is DeNiro's best hah!, there's another movie with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk that reminds me of it, the In Laws. I had My Cousin Vinny but then I remembered the awesome A Letter to Three Wives.
I also love a little movie called Compromising Positions with Susan Sarandon about an amorous dentist who gets killed on Long Island. And a movie that never fails to entertain me is Dial M for Murder with Ray Milland and Grace Kelly. There's another one like it with Rex Harrison and Doris Day called Midnite Lace I am thrilled to see running when it rarely does. Crazy from the Heart another little romantic one.
Now my head is swimming with movies. Great ones and fun ones, guilty pleasures. Election is a masterpiece. Poor ol Matthew B.
I love Hitchcock movies and wanted to do a blog at one point on scenes in his movies where Hitch appears. Anybody remember when he comes in for Dial M?
My favorite of his is Shadow of a Doubt. come to think of it, where does he come in in that one? I have forgotten! I liked all of his but Psycho and the Birds are at the bottom.
There are movies that grab me and I cherish them for a while and then leave the enthrallment though still can appreciate
When 4 Weddings and a Funeral came out I went to an Oscar Party at a NYC neighborhood bar and since I loved the movie I filled it in in most of the categories for the Oscar contest. A Brit movie like that? What was I thinking???? I don't think it won anything. NADA.
A week later I get a check in the mail congratulating me since I won the consolation prize at the bar that night for having the WORST guesses of anyone. The money was nice. Maybe $50? Hah!
I finally saw 3 Days of the Condor the other night. I can't believe that one got away from me. There are gaps I should really catch up with. Network was such a wow. Butch Cassidy was enchanting, too.
I walked out of No Country for Old Men. That psycho was so scary I didn't want to deal with him. Seriously. And I couldn't and still can't sit through Silkwood because watching or hearing about nuclear fallout makes me faint, literally.
Sorry to chatter on, but I love movies!!!! And I intend to borrow ideas for movies to see from contributions here! Will be back!
Thanks again!
best, libby
jmac, what a juicy, juicy list! you got some wonderful choices there! Bad Day at Black Rock that was Spencer, right? Mr. Roberts made me cry. After I saw MASH the movie I went around for a long time singing "suicide is painless"! Some of yours I have heard so much about but never seen. Time to join netflicks! finally.
gotta go, but glad I caught yours! thanks!
best, libby
gotta go, but glad I caught yours! thanks!
best, libby
See Holly's post for three of them,
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Schindler's List
7. Duck Soup
8. My Little Chickadee
9. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
10. The Shootist
4. The Grapes of Wrath
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. Schindler's List
7. Duck Soup
8. My Little Chickadee
9. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
10. The Shootist
Donny Darko, for obvious reasons.
aha.
well, me and the sisters watched the first two of the "before"
trilogy...
before sunrise
before sunset.
alot of talking between julie delpy and ethan hawke.
romantic love? is it real or not, is the theme..
new one coming out soon..before midnight.
~
oh then django unchained.
and inglorious bastards.
and
hm.
for my fifth?
that dylan fiasco, masked & anonymous.
well, me and the sisters watched the first two of the "before"
trilogy...
before sunrise
before sunset.
alot of talking between julie delpy and ethan hawke.
romantic love? is it real or not, is the theme..
new one coming out soon..before midnight.
~
oh then django unchained.
and inglorious bastards.
and
hm.
for my fifth?
that dylan fiasco, masked & anonymous.
Frank, Becket is definitely on my List along with A Man for All Seasons, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and Lawrence of Aribia, Bridge Over the River Kwai, the Young Lions, One Eyed Jacks, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Ballad of Cabel Hogue, Jeremiah Johnson, Long Day's Journey Into Night 1956 & 1988, the list goes on and on and on !!!
Here's my Netflix 5 star rated movies:
The Train
Ran
The World of Apu
Pather Panchali
Network
Tokyo Story
Destiny of a Man
High Plains Drifter
Wall Street
Paths of Glory
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Jean de Florette
Young Frankenstein
Shanghai Triad
His Girl Friday
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Cats of Mirikitani
Stalag 17
Fires on the Plain
Danton
In the Heat of the Night
The Conversation
Crazed Fruit
La Terra Trema
Manon of the Spring
A Raisin in the Sun
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1980)
Risky Business
Mutiny on the Bounty
Hombre
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The French Connection
The Godfather: Part II
The Longest Yard
Nights of Cabiria
Die Hard
A Man and a Woman
Cranes Are Flying
Knife in the Water
Shogun
Promised Land
The Chess Players
I Vitelloni
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Day of the Jackal
Wild Strawberries
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fitzcarraldo
Bonnie and Clyde
Spellbound
The Lion in Winter
The Breakfast Club
Becket
High Noon
The Best Years of Our Lives
Hidden Fortress
His Girl Friday
To Live
The Natural
The 400 Blows
Ran
Man of Marble
The Godfather
Seven Samurai
Reilly: Ace of Spies
The China Syndrome
A Fistful of Dollars
The Battle of Algiers
Star Wars: Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
A Christmas Carol
Patton
Casablanca
The Virgin Spring
The Verdict
Enter the Dragon
The Thin Man
Ugetsu
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Goldfinger
High and Low
Trading Places
Chinatown
Manon of the Spring
Out of the Past
The Sea Hawk
Capturing the Friedmans
Gone with the Wind
Stroszek
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Moulin Rouge
To Have and Have Not
Norma Rae
Thunderball
Ju Dou
King Rat
La Dolce Vita
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Das Boot: Director's Cut
Open City
Lust for Life
La Strada: Special Edition
48 Hrs.
House of Cards Trilogy (BBC)
Throne of Blood
The African Queen
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Caine Mutiny
Record of a Living Being
Paper Moon
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity
Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Serpico
Saturday Night Fever
Blow-Up
Two Women
Ikiru
Smiles of a Summer Night
Army of Shadows
Hud
Rififi
Inherit the Wind
The Man Who Would Be King
Deliverance
Sansho the Bailiff
Gandhi
Midnight Cowboy
From Russia with Love
The Last Picture Show
Diner
Platoon
Trouble in Paradise
Burnt by the Sun
Hoosiers
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ballad of a Soldier
Beau Geste
All Quiet on the Western Front
Disconnect
The Limey
Yojimbo
The Seventh Seal
Dances with Wolves
The Killing Fields
Bob Le Flambeur
A Man for All Seasons
Vertigo
Even the Rain
Rebel Without a Cause
MASH
Smiley's People
National Lampoon's Animal House
I.M. Pei
All the President's Men
The 400 Blows
The Enforcer
Five Easy Pieces
The Seventh Seal
Stripes
The Sword of Doom
The Sting
Citizen Kane
The Wizard of Oz
North by Northwest
The Return of the Pink Panther
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: A New Hope
Being There
The Hustler
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Young Frankenstein
Kagemusha
On the Waterfront
Incendies
Le Trou
8 1/2
Cool Hand Luke
Broadcast News
Farewell
The Pride of the Yankees
Rocky
Silkwood
Amadeus
Rear Window
Samurai: The Last Warrior
The Color of Money
Kapurush
The Maltese Falcon
Harakiri
Jaws
Spartacus
Witness
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Grand Illusion
The Fugitive
The Graduate
Network
The Bicycle Thief
A Face in the Crowd
Romeo & Juliet
Shampoo
Lethal Weapon
The Train
Ran
The World of Apu
Pather Panchali
Network
Tokyo Story
Destiny of a Man
High Plains Drifter
Wall Street
Paths of Glory
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Jean de Florette
Young Frankenstein
Shanghai Triad
His Girl Friday
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Cats of Mirikitani
Stalag 17
Fires on the Plain
Danton
In the Heat of the Night
The Conversation
Crazed Fruit
La Terra Trema
Manon of the Spring
A Raisin in the Sun
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1980)
Risky Business
Mutiny on the Bounty
Hombre
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The French Connection
The Godfather: Part II
The Longest Yard
Nights of Cabiria
Die Hard
A Man and a Woman
Cranes Are Flying
Knife in the Water
Shogun
Promised Land
The Chess Players
I Vitelloni
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Day of the Jackal
Wild Strawberries
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fitzcarraldo
Bonnie and Clyde
Spellbound
The Lion in Winter
The Breakfast Club
Becket
High Noon
The Best Years of Our Lives
Hidden Fortress
His Girl Friday
To Live
The Natural
The 400 Blows
Ran
Man of Marble
The Godfather
Seven Samurai
Reilly: Ace of Spies
The China Syndrome
A Fistful of Dollars
The Battle of Algiers
Star Wars: Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
A Christmas Carol
Patton
Casablanca
The Virgin Spring
The Verdict
Enter the Dragon
The Thin Man
Ugetsu
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Goldfinger
High and Low
Trading Places
Chinatown
Manon of the Spring
Out of the Past
The Sea Hawk
Capturing the Friedmans
Gone with the Wind
Stroszek
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Moulin Rouge
To Have and Have Not
Norma Rae
Thunderball
Ju Dou
King Rat
La Dolce Vita
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Das Boot: Director's Cut
Open City
Lust for Life
La Strada: Special Edition
48 Hrs.
House of Cards Trilogy (BBC)
Throne of Blood
The African Queen
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Caine Mutiny
Record of a Living Being
Paper Moon
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity
Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Serpico
Saturday Night Fever
Blow-Up
Two Women
Ikiru
Smiles of a Summer Night
Army of Shadows
Hud
Rififi
Inherit the Wind
The Man Who Would Be King
Deliverance
Sansho the Bailiff
Gandhi
Midnight Cowboy
From Russia with Love
The Last Picture Show
Diner
Platoon
Trouble in Paradise
Burnt by the Sun
Hoosiers
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ballad of a Soldier
Beau Geste
All Quiet on the Western Front
Disconnect
The Limey
Yojimbo
The Seventh Seal
Dances with Wolves
The Killing Fields
Bob Le Flambeur
A Man for All Seasons
Vertigo
Even the Rain
Rebel Without a Cause
MASH
Smiley's People
National Lampoon's Animal House
I.M. Pei
All the President's Men
The 400 Blows
The Enforcer
Five Easy Pieces
The Seventh Seal
Stripes
The Sword of Doom
The Sting
Citizen Kane
The Wizard of Oz
North by Northwest
The Return of the Pink Panther
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: A New Hope
Being There
The Hustler
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Young Frankenstein
Kagemusha
On the Waterfront
Incendies
Le Trou
8 1/2
Cool Hand Luke
Broadcast News
Farewell
The Pride of the Yankees
Rocky
Silkwood
Amadeus
Rear Window
Samurai: The Last Warrior
The Color of Money
Kapurush
The Maltese Falcon
Harakiri
Jaws
Spartacus
Witness
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Grand Illusion
The Fugitive
The Graduate
Network
The Bicycle Thief
A Face in the Crowd
Romeo & Juliet
Shampoo
Lethal Weapon
I like movies about media, so
The Front Page
All the President’s Men
Broadcast News
Good Night and Good Luck
Shattered Glass
Cheshyre, are you sure you didn’t miss one or two?
The Front Page
All the President’s Men
Broadcast News
Good Night and Good Luck
Shattered Glass
Cheshyre, are you sure you didn’t miss one or two?
Titanic
Beaches
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Shawshank Redemption
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
The Breakfast Club
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fly Away Home
Bambi...
Beaches
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Shawshank Redemption
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
The Breakfast Club
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fly Away Home
Bambi...
Best Years of Our Lives
Roman Holiday
The Music Man
Oklahoma
Brigadoon
West Side Story
The Sound of Music
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Bird Cage
The Princess Bride
The Way We Were
Roman Holiday
The Music Man
Oklahoma
Brigadoon
West Side Story
The Sound of Music
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Bird Cage
The Princess Bride
The Way We Were
matrix wink
Fun topic libby. In Dial M Hitchcock appears in that class photo that Ray Milland is showing to the putative assassin. I'm a big Hitchcock fan too but I do very much like Psycho. One that sometimes escapes notice is Stage Fright. Having now had more time to reflect, here's my second tier top ten.
Modern Times
Gone With the Wind
The Maltese Falcon
Witness For the Prosecution
Orfeu Negro
Lawrence of Arabia
Godfather 1&2
Annie Hall
Fargo
Baader-Meinhof Complex
JW's pick of Bound is well worth watching. Almost as many twists as Dial M. And if you liked Hugh Grant in 4 Weddings as much as I did, he's at his best in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain. Highly recommended.
Modern Times
Gone With the Wind
The Maltese Falcon
Witness For the Prosecution
Orfeu Negro
Lawrence of Arabia
Godfather 1&2
Annie Hall
Fargo
Baader-Meinhof Complex
JW's pick of Bound is well worth watching. Almost as many twists as Dial M. And if you liked Hugh Grant in 4 Weddings as much as I did, he's at his best in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain. Highly recommended.
#1 The Out-of-Towners (original)
Two For The Road
Bronx Tale
Diner
Avalon
Small Town Crooks
Mr. Saturday Night
Once Upon A Time In America
Glengarry Glen Ross
Match Point
Some Like It Hot
House Of Games
Unfaithful
Funny Girl
Shawshank Redemption
Falling In Love
When Harry Met Sally
Big
Sea of Love
Let It Ride
Unfaithfully Yours
So many more! That was fun, Libby! R
Two For The Road
Bronx Tale
Diner
Avalon
Small Town Crooks
Mr. Saturday Night
Once Upon A Time In America
Glengarry Glen Ross
Match Point
Some Like It Hot
House Of Games
Unfaithful
Funny Girl
Shawshank Redemption
Falling In Love
When Harry Met Sally
Big
Sea of Love
Let It Ride
Unfaithfully Yours
So many more! That was fun, Libby! R
Here's some random pics; I tried to think of films that moved me for whatever reason or that I wanted to see again. No particular order.
1. The Long Good Friday
2. Ran
3. Infernal Affairs
4. Duel
5. Westworld
6. Marty
7. Missing
8. Wait Until Dark
9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (just saw)
10. The Matador
11. The Usual Suspects
12. Everything Must Go
13. Hear My Song
14. Lord of War
15. The Devil's Double
16. The Dictator (needed to lighten this list up a bit!)
1. The Long Good Friday
2. Ran
3. Infernal Affairs
4. Duel
5. Westworld
6. Marty
7. Missing
8. Wait Until Dark
9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (just saw)
10. The Matador
11. The Usual Suspects
12. Everything Must Go
13. Hear My Song
14. Lord of War
15. The Devil's Double
16. The Dictator (needed to lighten this list up a bit!)
Babette's Feast.
( The original ) Journey to the Centre of the Earth, ( with James Mason .)
To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Big Chill.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Lantana.
The Gypsy Queen.
The Princess Bride.
Fantasia.
Talk To Her.
( The original ) Journey to the Centre of the Earth, ( with James Mason .)
To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Big Chill.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Lantana.
The Gypsy Queen.
The Princess Bride.
Fantasia.
Talk To Her.
Not The Gypsy Queen ~ African Queen~ Hepburn & Bogart.
Also The Station Agent.
Also Hombre.
The best movies are on tv at 1am with subtitles. I make notes, then never see them again ...
Also The Station Agent.
Also Hombre.
The best movies are on tv at 1am with subtitles. I make notes, then never see them again ...
I was trying to pick a few favorites but was hit by a tsunami of titles.
I loved them all and am older than most here so my memory goes back further. They were one of the reasons my life was worth living.
There were more, of course, but these will do for now.
The Dead of Night
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Wizard of Oz
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Invisible Man (with Claude Rains)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Thing (John Carpenter version)
Blade Runner
Topper
You Can’t Take It With You
Arsenic and Old Lace
Animal Crackers
2001 A Space Odyssey
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Grapes of Wrath
Fantasia
Duck Soup
The Pink Panther
My Man Godfrey
Bringing Up Baby
Back to the Future
Adam’s Rib
His Girl Friday
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
The Thin Man
Death Takes a Holiday
Henry V
West Side Story
The Manchurian Candidate
The Body Snatchers (With Donald Southerland)
A Bad Day at Black Rock
ET
Alien
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (British)
The Life of Brian
The Meaning of Life
The Time Bandits
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Take the money and run
Anne Hall
Everything You ever Wanted to Know About Sex
Sleeper
Galaxy Quest
Terminator 2
Chicago
Ground Hog Day
Ghost Busters
Poltergeist
Blythe Spirit
My Fair Lady
The Lavender Hill Mob
Some Like It Hot
The Silence of the Lambs
The Remains of the Day
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Portrait of Jennie
Citizen Kane
Blood of a Poet
The Godfather
Singing in the Rain
The African Queen
The Devil’s Advocate
Jurassic Park
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Hustler
La Strada
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
I loved them all and am older than most here so my memory goes back further. They were one of the reasons my life was worth living.
There were more, of course, but these will do for now.
The Dead of Night
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Wizard of Oz
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Invisible Man (with Claude Rains)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Thing (John Carpenter version)
Blade Runner
Topper
You Can’t Take It With You
Arsenic and Old Lace
Animal Crackers
2001 A Space Odyssey
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Grapes of Wrath
Fantasia
Duck Soup
The Pink Panther
My Man Godfrey
Bringing Up Baby
Back to the Future
Adam’s Rib
His Girl Friday
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
The Thin Man
Death Takes a Holiday
Henry V
West Side Story
The Manchurian Candidate
The Body Snatchers (With Donald Southerland)
A Bad Day at Black Rock
ET
Alien
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (British)
The Life of Brian
The Meaning of Life
The Time Bandits
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Take the money and run
Anne Hall
Everything You ever Wanted to Know About Sex
Sleeper
Galaxy Quest
Terminator 2
Chicago
Ground Hog Day
Ghost Busters
Poltergeist
Blythe Spirit
My Fair Lady
The Lavender Hill Mob
Some Like It Hot
The Silence of the Lambs
The Remains of the Day
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Portrait of Jennie
Citizen Kane
Blood of a Poet
The Godfather
Singing in the Rain
The African Queen
The Devil’s Advocate
Jurassic Park
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Hustler
La Strada
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Sesame Street
Doom
Alien vPredator
Silent Running
Good,Bad,and Ugly
Dirty Dozen
2001
Kelly's Hero's
Reservoir Dogs
Alien vPredator
Silent Running
Good,Bad,and Ugly
Dirty Dozen
2001
Kelly's Hero's
Reservoir Dogs
Silent Running(Bruce Dern space version)
I also love "Midnight Run". A few of my favorites are;
The Nuremburg Trials (Spencer Tracy, can't go wrong)
Antonia's Line
Black Book
The Driver's Seat (Eliz. Taylor)
2001 Space Odyssey
BBC's "I Claudius"
....so many others. When I'm feeling blue I'll watch The trinity boys movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill such as Odds and Evans, They Call Me Trinity etc.
The Nuremburg Trials (Spencer Tracy, can't go wrong)
Antonia's Line
Black Book
The Driver's Seat (Eliz. Taylor)
2001 Space Odyssey
BBC's "I Claudius"
....so many others. When I'm feeling blue I'll watch The trinity boys movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill such as Odds and Evans, They Call Me Trinity etc.
[r] there are so many fantastic lists including movies I love and forgot and ones I don't know but have heard of and time to finally see and ones I have never heard of. thank you!
I have been haunted by more movies myself.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
GOD, WHO SHOULD I KNOCK OFF ON MY TOP 10 LIST TO PUT THAT ONE UP? NO, NOT LETTING GO OF MIDNIGHT RUN, MY GUILTY PLEASURE. I'LL LET GO OF AL IN SEA OF LOVE BEFORE COLIN I'M THINKING.
I so recommend that movie, The Lives of Others. Perfect for our time now of surveillance, especially this week, right Abra? It has subtitles but it doesn't matter. The story is so very compelling it sucks you in and you forget you have to do the work of reading to comprehend. So understated.
I loved the Winslow Boy, Invasion of Body Snatchers but the Kevin McCarthy one (I didn't see the remake), Auntie Mame, the Women (Rosalind Russell), Moonstruck was so well done, All About Eve, Desk Set, Holiday with Kate was it, Wait Until Dark, Flirting with Disaster, Mr. Hobbes Takes a Vacation (the bird watching bit), The Apartment, Miracle Worker, A Town Like Alice. Black Widow. Yipes. So many.
jmac appreciate your list. really strong strong stuff. I side-stepped some of them. I think I am strong enough now. the war ones, clockwork, and some I don't know. Philadelphia was a strong one. I forgot that one.
bobbot, that's an eclectic collection. I have to check out phyllis'. It's a madX4 (?) world was hilarious.
Blazing Saddles? Young Frankenstein?
Must google Donny Darko, sorry, Don. never saw it. cult following though, right?
The Johnny Depp and DeCap one with the obese mother. That was powerful. I'm blanking on that one.
Haley Mills in Tiger Bay? And whoa... Whistle Down the Wind with that great Brit actor as a young pup. God, I am forgetting his name, too. He was in An Unmarried Woman, that is also in my top 20!!!
Oh, James. That's more of a youthful list! Inglorious Bastards is it and Twilight? I should examine.
Django is what's his name. I really didn't care for Pulp Fiction. Got a lot of arguments about that one. Probably will here, but I didn't!!!!! Gratuitous violence for titillation. Not fun. Not sexy. Not healthy is my take. Too desensitizing. I did like In Line of Fire. Tin Cup. The baseball one with Sarandon.
Man for All Season with Scofield. That goes on my top 20 for sure. That speech about when the laws go the winds blow! Wow.
Anne of a 1000 days. That was a good one I thought. I love that actress.
CG, that is an INCREDIBLE LIST, got so many of my favorites as reminders!
Being There was so sly and powerful.
A Few Good Men always works for me. Can't hear Nicholson on that final climax enough.
Harvey?
Dandylion -- I do too. Absence of Malice was another one journalism one. Sally Field. (Norma Rae rocked). I LOVED LOVED LOVED Broadcast News. All three actors in that were amazing and it really came to pass, the messaging there. Curious about Shattered Glass, didn't catch that on the first bounce.
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best, libby
I have been haunted by more movies myself.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
GOD, WHO SHOULD I KNOCK OFF ON MY TOP 10 LIST TO PUT THAT ONE UP? NO, NOT LETTING GO OF MIDNIGHT RUN, MY GUILTY PLEASURE. I'LL LET GO OF AL IN SEA OF LOVE BEFORE COLIN I'M THINKING.
I so recommend that movie, The Lives of Others. Perfect for our time now of surveillance, especially this week, right Abra? It has subtitles but it doesn't matter. The story is so very compelling it sucks you in and you forget you have to do the work of reading to comprehend. So understated.
I loved the Winslow Boy, Invasion of Body Snatchers but the Kevin McCarthy one (I didn't see the remake), Auntie Mame, the Women (Rosalind Russell), Moonstruck was so well done, All About Eve, Desk Set, Holiday with Kate was it, Wait Until Dark, Flirting with Disaster, Mr. Hobbes Takes a Vacation (the bird watching bit), The Apartment, Miracle Worker, A Town Like Alice. Black Widow. Yipes. So many.
jmac appreciate your list. really strong strong stuff. I side-stepped some of them. I think I am strong enough now. the war ones, clockwork, and some I don't know. Philadelphia was a strong one. I forgot that one.
bobbot, that's an eclectic collection. I have to check out phyllis'. It's a madX4 (?) world was hilarious.
Blazing Saddles? Young Frankenstein?
Must google Donny Darko, sorry, Don. never saw it. cult following though, right?
The Johnny Depp and DeCap one with the obese mother. That was powerful. I'm blanking on that one.
Haley Mills in Tiger Bay? And whoa... Whistle Down the Wind with that great Brit actor as a young pup. God, I am forgetting his name, too. He was in An Unmarried Woman, that is also in my top 20!!!
Oh, James. That's more of a youthful list! Inglorious Bastards is it and Twilight? I should examine.
Django is what's his name. I really didn't care for Pulp Fiction. Got a lot of arguments about that one. Probably will here, but I didn't!!!!! Gratuitous violence for titillation. Not fun. Not sexy. Not healthy is my take. Too desensitizing. I did like In Line of Fire. Tin Cup. The baseball one with Sarandon.
Man for All Season with Scofield. That goes on my top 20 for sure. That speech about when the laws go the winds blow! Wow.
Anne of a 1000 days. That was a good one I thought. I love that actress.
CG, that is an INCREDIBLE LIST, got so many of my favorites as reminders!
Being There was so sly and powerful.
A Few Good Men always works for me. Can't hear Nicholson on that final climax enough.
Harvey?
Dandylion -- I do too. Absence of Malice was another one journalism one. Sally Field. (Norma Rae rocked). I LOVED LOVED LOVED Broadcast News. All three actors in that were amazing and it really came to pass, the messaging there. Curious about Shattered Glass, didn't catch that on the first bounce.
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best, libby
Henry V
Sin Nombre
The Unforgiven
Heaven
Runaway Train
The French Connection
Young Frankenstein
Good Will Hunting
Princess Bride
Crooklynn
Stop Making Sense
Snatch
Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2
Pulp Fiction
Cool Hand Luke
Streetcar Named Desire
Angels With Dirty Faces
American Grafitti
Night Of The Hunter
Twelve Angry Men
The Monsters Come Out On Maple Street {Twilight Zone]
Marjo
Midnight Run
Robo Cop 1 & 2
The Meaning Of Life
The Life Of Brian
A Night At The Opera
West Side Story
Badland [for its sickeningly real irony and awafulness]
Romeo and Juliet [Franco Zifferrelli]
Bandwagon
That's Entertainment!
Dog Day Afternoon
Sin Nombre
The Unforgiven
Heaven
Runaway Train
The French Connection
Young Frankenstein
Good Will Hunting
Princess Bride
Crooklynn
Stop Making Sense
Snatch
Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2
Pulp Fiction
Cool Hand Luke
Streetcar Named Desire
Angels With Dirty Faces
American Grafitti
Night Of The Hunter
Twelve Angry Men
The Monsters Come Out On Maple Street {Twilight Zone]
Marjo
Midnight Run
Robo Cop 1 & 2
The Meaning Of Life
The Life Of Brian
A Night At The Opera
West Side Story
Badland [for its sickeningly real irony and awafulness]
Romeo and Juliet [Franco Zifferrelli]
Bandwagon
That's Entertainment!
Dog Day Afternoon
Funny.
Even I left out Doctor Strangelove. One of the funniest most iconic films I had ever seen and quite on topic for the current batch of assholes running the world.
Even I left out Doctor Strangelove. One of the funniest most iconic films I had ever seen and quite on topic for the current batch of assholes running the world.
Belinda, your list sure resonates! A Christmas Story!! Yes!!! Fried Tomatoes was great and Breakfast Club was great fun! Cuckoo's Nest. Something real and raw about Beaches, though I want to fight the emotionalism during parts. Both actresses keep it real. Bette was great in the Rose, too.
Bernadine i nodded all the way through yours. The Way We Were I really get more now than when I first saw. The Birdcage is an awesome movie. Elaine May takes your amusement sensibility simmers it and then brings it to a rolling on the floor boil!!!
You got two of Audrey's in there. She was awesome. I'll add Wait Until Dark. How can anyone replicate her in Breakfast at Tiffany's. And though she was younger than Cary in Charade, one bought the love between them.
vzn, i really didn't think i wouldn't groove on matrix but i so did!
While You Were Sleeping was great.
Abra, a couple of yours I don't recognize. But Fargo was discomforting and so worth seeing at same time.
Good going on the picture in Dial M!!!! I'll have to watch Shadow again to nail the place Hitch comes on there.
Annie Hall was so iconic. Influenced a lot of female wardrobes back then!
Abra loved Hugh in that movie re the mountain. He also rocks in About A Boy!
Marilyn, who can outdo Jack Lemmon for ever-rolling giggling at comedy in Out of Towners as he proceeds to try to write down every troubling clerk, etc., name! When he starts helplessly whistling while talking through his broken tooth in central park you just want to surrender! Almost like Ground Hog Day ... give it up, Jack!
I agree Marilyn with all of yours except Falling in Love. I wetblanketed that one on one of your blogs. Sorry. Sigh. But I had such high hopes!! Glengarry Glen Ross. Wow. What acting. Lemmon again and Alec Baldwin did well.
Funny Girl -- STREISAND'S ULTIMATE BEST! Loved that movie when I saw it.
You agree re Sea of Love. Also, the Big Easy did it for me, too. Barkin again this time with sexy Dennis Q.
I loved When Harry Met Sally. Also loved Ephron's Heartburn. Have you seen it? Meryl does great in that one with Jack N.
Margaret, yours is fun and elective. Hear My Song I know I saw and loved and now I am blanking on it. Will have to google. Yes, Wait Until Dark. When Arkin leaps across the floor in the dark I thought I would have a heart attack. Audrey so brave, Arkin so psycho. Some of yours I never heard of. Marty was an old classic for sure. I got so upset when I saw Missing. Even angry. It really unnerved me.
Classy list, Kim. Serious classics. African Queen was awesome. That chemistry really worked with them. The Big Chill was another classic for a generation, eh? Like Annie Hall had been earlier. I recently saw Station Agent and loved it.
great Jan list! Take Money and Run!! Hah! What a hoot. "You have a 'gub'" NO A GUN!!! "This word looks like gub!" Hard to get respect even as a bank robber! My Man Godfrey was so much fun with a lesson for our times! That's some range. The fun ones. The very deep ones. Old great classics. Bridge on River Kwai so wonderful.
Steel Breeze, VERY strong offerings. Was too cowardly to sit thru Reservoir Dogs when I had the chance. A few of those I remember going to not expecting to like and was so pleasantly surprised!
IceRune, wow. Interesting list and stop the presses. I have got to put I Claudius into my top ten. I forgot how it blew me away. Okay Colin Firth, you have to go. We had a long run.
;-)
Thanks for sharing you guys! I printed out and am joining Netflix this week. (Did I spell it right this time?)
best, libby
Bernadine i nodded all the way through yours. The Way We Were I really get more now than when I first saw. The Birdcage is an awesome movie. Elaine May takes your amusement sensibility simmers it and then brings it to a rolling on the floor boil!!!
You got two of Audrey's in there. She was awesome. I'll add Wait Until Dark. How can anyone replicate her in Breakfast at Tiffany's. And though she was younger than Cary in Charade, one bought the love between them.
vzn, i really didn't think i wouldn't groove on matrix but i so did!
While You Were Sleeping was great.
Abra, a couple of yours I don't recognize. But Fargo was discomforting and so worth seeing at same time.
Good going on the picture in Dial M!!!! I'll have to watch Shadow again to nail the place Hitch comes on there.
Annie Hall was so iconic. Influenced a lot of female wardrobes back then!
Abra loved Hugh in that movie re the mountain. He also rocks in About A Boy!
Marilyn, who can outdo Jack Lemmon for ever-rolling giggling at comedy in Out of Towners as he proceeds to try to write down every troubling clerk, etc., name! When he starts helplessly whistling while talking through his broken tooth in central park you just want to surrender! Almost like Ground Hog Day ... give it up, Jack!
I agree Marilyn with all of yours except Falling in Love. I wetblanketed that one on one of your blogs. Sorry. Sigh. But I had such high hopes!! Glengarry Glen Ross. Wow. What acting. Lemmon again and Alec Baldwin did well.
Funny Girl -- STREISAND'S ULTIMATE BEST! Loved that movie when I saw it.
You agree re Sea of Love. Also, the Big Easy did it for me, too. Barkin again this time with sexy Dennis Q.
I loved When Harry Met Sally. Also loved Ephron's Heartburn. Have you seen it? Meryl does great in that one with Jack N.
Margaret, yours is fun and elective. Hear My Song I know I saw and loved and now I am blanking on it. Will have to google. Yes, Wait Until Dark. When Arkin leaps across the floor in the dark I thought I would have a heart attack. Audrey so brave, Arkin so psycho. Some of yours I never heard of. Marty was an old classic for sure. I got so upset when I saw Missing. Even angry. It really unnerved me.
Classy list, Kim. Serious classics. African Queen was awesome. That chemistry really worked with them. The Big Chill was another classic for a generation, eh? Like Annie Hall had been earlier. I recently saw Station Agent and loved it.
great Jan list! Take Money and Run!! Hah! What a hoot. "You have a 'gub'" NO A GUN!!! "This word looks like gub!" Hard to get respect even as a bank robber! My Man Godfrey was so much fun with a lesson for our times! That's some range. The fun ones. The very deep ones. Old great classics. Bridge on River Kwai so wonderful.
Steel Breeze, VERY strong offerings. Was too cowardly to sit thru Reservoir Dogs when I had the chance. A few of those I remember going to not expecting to like and was so pleasantly surprised!
IceRune, wow. Interesting list and stop the presses. I have got to put I Claudius into my top ten. I forgot how it blew me away. Okay Colin Firth, you have to go. We had a long run.
;-)
Thanks for sharing you guys! I printed out and am joining Netflix this week. (Did I spell it right this time?)
best, libby
Yes, Jan, Strangelove certainly is fitting. I liked Catch 22, too, though I think the book outshines the movie. The book really captures the insanity though Arkin does a masterful job. And Jon Voight's character gave me the chills. I had a boss once like Major Major (Bob Newhart).
Steve, they just showed the Monsters on Maple Street one on tv last week. I was supposed to be going to bed but I couldn't not watch it. So powerful and iconic. How quickly they turn on each other. Appreciate most of your picks, except Pulp Fiction I HATED. Ah well. Cool Hand Luke was amazing. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Streetcar is so ripping. American Grafitti was also a movie of a generation. Twelve Angry Men -- so simple and so powerful. MIDNIGHT RUN!!! Yes, isn't that one a gas???? Dog Day Afternoon has to be Pacino's best I am thinking.
Thanks, guys!
best, libby
Steve, they just showed the Monsters on Maple Street one on tv last week. I was supposed to be going to bed but I couldn't not watch it. So powerful and iconic. How quickly they turn on each other. Appreciate most of your picks, except Pulp Fiction I HATED. Ah well. Cool Hand Luke was amazing. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Streetcar is so ripping. American Grafitti was also a movie of a generation. Twelve Angry Men -- so simple and so powerful. MIDNIGHT RUN!!! Yes, isn't that one a gas???? Dog Day Afternoon has to be Pacino's best I am thinking.
Thanks, guys!
best, libby
And how the hell did I forget Catch 22?
Ah heck; before I forget:
A Hard Day's Night
Let It Be
Fantasia
Woodstock
Gimme Shelter
Apocalypse Now
Deathrace 2000
Night of the Living Dead
Benny and June
Henry and June
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Two Mules For Sister Sarah
Terms of Endearment
Lonesome Dove
Duel
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
All That Jazz
King Kong
Bridge Over The River Kwai
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Elmer Gantry
The Rose Tattoo
Field Of Dreams
Cat Balou
Tombstone
Silkwood
Moonstruck
The Shining
Blue Velvet
The Hunckback Of Notre Dame [Charles Laughton]
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
Lincoln
The Book Of Eli
The Song Remains The Same
The Blues Brothers
Mary Poppins
A Hard Day's Night
Let It Be
Fantasia
Woodstock
Gimme Shelter
Apocalypse Now
Deathrace 2000
Night of the Living Dead
Benny and June
Henry and June
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Two Mules For Sister Sarah
Terms of Endearment
Lonesome Dove
Duel
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
All That Jazz
King Kong
Bridge Over The River Kwai
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Elmer Gantry
The Rose Tattoo
Field Of Dreams
Cat Balou
Tombstone
Silkwood
Moonstruck
The Shining
Blue Velvet
The Hunckback Of Notre Dame [Charles Laughton]
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
Lincoln
The Book Of Eli
The Song Remains The Same
The Blues Brothers
Mary Poppins
Wait Until Dark [thanks, Margaret!]
Amadeus
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Amadeus
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pulp Fiction
Hud
Breakfast Club
Reservoir Dogs
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fargo
Inglorius Bastards
Cool Hand Luke
The Big Chill
Hud
Breakfast Club
Reservoir Dogs
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fargo
Inglorius Bastards
Cool Hand Luke
The Big Chill
Some Like It Hot
Southern Comfort
Boys Town
Platoon
Down And Out In Beverly Hills
Fargo
Conair
Brubaker
Fearless
Coal Miner's Daughter
Deliverance
Paul Simon's Concert In The Park
Watermelon Man
Soylent Green
Sicko
Hail Hail Rock N Roll
Southern Comfort
Boys Town
Platoon
Down And Out In Beverly Hills
Fargo
Conair
Brubaker
Fearless
Coal Miner's Daughter
Deliverance
Paul Simon's Concert In The Park
Watermelon Man
Soylent Green
Sicko
Hail Hail Rock N Roll
Three Days of the Condor
Wings of the Dove
Monsters, Inc.
Con Air
Volver
Devil Wears Prada
Independence Day
The Day After Tomorrow
Highlander
Something's Gotta Give - but only for that glorious kitchen and the soundtrack
Skyfall
The Moonspinners
Yeesh - what does this say about me?!?
Wings of the Dove
Monsters, Inc.
Con Air
Volver
Devil Wears Prada
Independence Day
The Day After Tomorrow
Highlander
Something's Gotta Give - but only for that glorious kitchen and the soundtrack
Skyfall
The Moonspinners
Yeesh - what does this say about me?!?
@IceRune - I omitted I, Claudius because I thought it more properly belonged in the TV/miniseries category. There I would place it at head of the class. Glad to see another aficionado.
On The Waterfront
The Birds
Patton
As Good As It Gets
Dirty Dancing
Collateral
House [William Katt; 1986]
City Lights
Steambath [Valerie Perrine]
Nightstalker [Darrin McGavin]
Trilogy of Terror [Karen Black]
Dolores Claiborne
In The Cut
The Hustler
The Birds
Patton
As Good As It Gets
Dirty Dancing
Collateral
House [William Katt; 1986]
City Lights
Steambath [Valerie Perrine]
Nightstalker [Darrin McGavin]
Trilogy of Terror [Karen Black]
Dolores Claiborne
In The Cut
The Hustler
High Noon
Pride Of The Yankees
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mad Max
9 Songs
Pride Of The Yankees
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mad Max
9 Songs
X
Redemption
Lolita
Dead Poets Society...
Wow. You have really connected with me with this question!
Sobering...
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Natural Born Killers
No Country For Old Men
Redemption
Lolita
Dead Poets Society...
Wow. You have really connected with me with this question!
Sobering...
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Natural Born Killers
No Country For Old Men
Sorry for going on and on.... my response has even surprised myself, and I went with it [sometimes it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission].
This is so much fun and addictive, even.
Hi Art! I overlooked your Sesame Street contribution. I thought the Electric Company rocked. Way back when I remember coming home from a stressful job and turning on tube to see Mr. Rogers and being so depleted I didn't even change the channel. I just sat there and watched the ultra patient Mr. R and he was making a sand castle. He wet the sand and packed a large plastic cup with it and then turned it over and pulled the cup up and ... and ... and... IT DIDN'T WORK. The sand spread all over the newspaper on his table. No tower. And Mr. R tilted his head serenely and said calmly, "Well, that didn't work. I think we need more water next time." And he re-did it and it worked but even if it hadn't Mr. R would have stayed serene and I just found my chest expanding and breathing in that unconditional patience with people and himself that Mr. R was role modeling -- so alien to the work and even personal life I was leading. I got so much why kids LOVED Mr. R so much. No stress was welcome on his show.
Jeremiah Johnson -- wonderful movie, jmac!!! Robert Redford and Stanley Pollack!
They Shoot Horses Don't They. Masterful movie. Bonnie Bedelia was good in that, too. She was also great in Heart Like a Wheel.
The Fabulous Baker Boys. I liked that one very much. Big Lebowski hasn't shown up yet.
Steve, more good ones! Cat Ballou. I loved that movie!! Lee Marvin was awesome especially. When he pulls it together to help Cat. "All That Jazz" was excellently acted and directed. "It's showtime!!!!" when he looked into the mirror to launch himself, Roy S.
Good list, william, except once again Pulp Fiction sent me the other direction. Ferris Bueller was so great. Another one like that is "The Secret of My Success" with Michael J. Fox. Cruise did a great job on Risky Business, too. One of my favorite Cruise movies, though he did do great with J. Maguire.
Steve, SICKO was such an awesome documentary from Moore. Why don't we have universal health care? Seeing that would convince anybody I would think. I was so hoping during the big debate that movie would be brought back and shown a lot!!!! How the harshness of US on citizen health care was unique among so many other industrial countries that take it as a given the government ensures universal physical welfare of citizens from taxation. Now taxation is for corporate not people welfare.
Nilesite, another great eclectic list. I thought Prada was outstanding. Reminded me of some of the narcissistic psychos I had to work for in my temping and even some of my ongoing corporate jobs. Being at the mercy of someone with impossible deadlines and demands. And being trapped in their thrall. Especially socios who terrorize an entire work family no matter how large. It is stunning. Dysfunctionalism at the office on steroids.
Something's Gotta Give. Diane Keaton always gives a great full-hearted performance. My fave was the crying montage when the wailing just kept on going and going and going. I bought it. And yeah, fabulous kitchen. During big chill I kept feeling jealous of Close's and Kline's fabulous house. It distracted me a bit. Keaton's best movie I think was Little Drummer Girl.
Moonspinners was Disney, right? Disney had some great ones growing up to for sure. I was in love with Peter Brown in Summer Magic. The Parent Trap. Was that Disney? For a kid to see fellow kids try to help their parents get along and fall back in love. How compelling was that one. Sigh. 3 Days of Condor! Yes! Haven't seen all of yours, must investigate.
Abra, so agree about I Claudius. I wasn't thinking mini-series. Then I would have to throw in Prime Suspect. Especially the first. What a role model was Helen M. But the final one made years later so depressed and angered me. A real risk for writer but still. Sigh.
Steve, As Good As it Gets, what a great and hysterical movie but I kept thinking inside, Jack N. as life partner would take way too much patience and bruising -- RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, HELEN!!! Arsenic and Old Lace -- was Cary Grant not the most brilliant physical comedic actor in that movie? Brilliant writing and characters in that movie and Cary Grant just brought it totally over the top!!!! That holds up against anything today!
Time to leave movieville for now. Thanks again.
Maybe someone should do your 3-5 most hated movies! hah! rotten tomatoes blog. For now I am grooving on the positives. (though did I tell ya how I felt about Pulp Fiction?)
best, libby
Hi Art! I overlooked your Sesame Street contribution. I thought the Electric Company rocked. Way back when I remember coming home from a stressful job and turning on tube to see Mr. Rogers and being so depleted I didn't even change the channel. I just sat there and watched the ultra patient Mr. R and he was making a sand castle. He wet the sand and packed a large plastic cup with it and then turned it over and pulled the cup up and ... and ... and... IT DIDN'T WORK. The sand spread all over the newspaper on his table. No tower. And Mr. R tilted his head serenely and said calmly, "Well, that didn't work. I think we need more water next time." And he re-did it and it worked but even if it hadn't Mr. R would have stayed serene and I just found my chest expanding and breathing in that unconditional patience with people and himself that Mr. R was role modeling -- so alien to the work and even personal life I was leading. I got so much why kids LOVED Mr. R so much. No stress was welcome on his show.
Jeremiah Johnson -- wonderful movie, jmac!!! Robert Redford and Stanley Pollack!
They Shoot Horses Don't They. Masterful movie. Bonnie Bedelia was good in that, too. She was also great in Heart Like a Wheel.
The Fabulous Baker Boys. I liked that one very much. Big Lebowski hasn't shown up yet.
Steve, more good ones! Cat Ballou. I loved that movie!! Lee Marvin was awesome especially. When he pulls it together to help Cat. "All That Jazz" was excellently acted and directed. "It's showtime!!!!" when he looked into the mirror to launch himself, Roy S.
Good list, william, except once again Pulp Fiction sent me the other direction. Ferris Bueller was so great. Another one like that is "The Secret of My Success" with Michael J. Fox. Cruise did a great job on Risky Business, too. One of my favorite Cruise movies, though he did do great with J. Maguire.
Steve, SICKO was such an awesome documentary from Moore. Why don't we have universal health care? Seeing that would convince anybody I would think. I was so hoping during the big debate that movie would be brought back and shown a lot!!!! How the harshness of US on citizen health care was unique among so many other industrial countries that take it as a given the government ensures universal physical welfare of citizens from taxation. Now taxation is for corporate not people welfare.
Nilesite, another great eclectic list. I thought Prada was outstanding. Reminded me of some of the narcissistic psychos I had to work for in my temping and even some of my ongoing corporate jobs. Being at the mercy of someone with impossible deadlines and demands. And being trapped in their thrall. Especially socios who terrorize an entire work family no matter how large. It is stunning. Dysfunctionalism at the office on steroids.
Something's Gotta Give. Diane Keaton always gives a great full-hearted performance. My fave was the crying montage when the wailing just kept on going and going and going. I bought it. And yeah, fabulous kitchen. During big chill I kept feeling jealous of Close's and Kline's fabulous house. It distracted me a bit. Keaton's best movie I think was Little Drummer Girl.
Moonspinners was Disney, right? Disney had some great ones growing up to for sure. I was in love with Peter Brown in Summer Magic. The Parent Trap. Was that Disney? For a kid to see fellow kids try to help their parents get along and fall back in love. How compelling was that one. Sigh. 3 Days of Condor! Yes! Haven't seen all of yours, must investigate.
Abra, so agree about I Claudius. I wasn't thinking mini-series. Then I would have to throw in Prime Suspect. Especially the first. What a role model was Helen M. But the final one made years later so depressed and angered me. A real risk for writer but still. Sigh.
Steve, As Good As it Gets, what a great and hysterical movie but I kept thinking inside, Jack N. as life partner would take way too much patience and bruising -- RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, HELEN!!! Arsenic and Old Lace -- was Cary Grant not the most brilliant physical comedic actor in that movie? Brilliant writing and characters in that movie and Cary Grant just brought it totally over the top!!!! That holds up against anything today!
Time to leave movieville for now. Thanks again.
Maybe someone should do your 3-5 most hated movies! hah! rotten tomatoes blog. For now I am grooving on the positives. (though did I tell ya how I felt about Pulp Fiction?)
best, libby
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Libby Liberal (open minded)
Big Bird is not a Cassowary.
Those Birds are Dangerous.
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You tour NYC's Museums?
You drink Ginger Brew Beer?
Potent women smell Good?
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Sassafras tea? Catnip Teas?
No belch No` burp catnip,
nor bellow No` toot fart.
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apology
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it lord day
we need lard
Oh, mercy.
Libby Liberal (open minded)
Big Bird is not a Cassowary.
Those Birds are Dangerous.
`
You tour NYC's Museums?
You drink Ginger Brew Beer?
Potent women smell Good?
`
Sassafras tea? Catnip Teas?
No belch No` burp catnip,
nor bellow No` toot fart.
`
apology
`
it lord day
we need lard
Oh, mercy.
Disney, yes, Moonspinners. It changed my life! I was a huge Hayley Mills fan. Three Days of the Condor is a masterpiece. Try Wings of the Dove, if you don't know it.
OK, one more: A Little Romance. Diane Lane when she was a kid, with Laurence Olivier, set in Paris and Venice. Wonderful!
You, and your ability to respond to everyone, are incredible.
Be careful what you ask for, isn't it.
Be careful what you ask for, isn't it.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
2001 A Space Odyssey
Dr Strangelove
Patton
After these five, it kind of depends on my mood. For now:
Shawshank Redemption
After Hours
Sophie's Choice
Days of Heaven
Gattaca
Casablanca
2001 A Space Odyssey
Dr Strangelove
Patton
After these five, it kind of depends on my mood. For now:
Shawshank Redemption
After Hours
Sophie's Choice
Days of Heaven
Gattaca
Hmm, I forgot to include "Godfather", and it's entirely possible the remake of "True Grit" may break into the list.
Gosh, where can I squeeze Monty Python and the Holy Grail into this list? See what happens when you start writing before you think it all the way through?
Here's the thing: these days, and for many years now, I have thought of myself as book-centric. I really try hard to not think of the movies I have seen in my lifetime [formulaic Hollywood is junk food to me] preferring, these days to remember books; written passages. Then, Bam! Your question; like a subconscious explosion! And Bam! There they are! Floating up from the bottom of my mind like long lost treasures!
Overwhelming. Such great movies...and, to add to this all the great music...social movements...
Your question, Libby, has stopped me in my tracks and made me think; one cannot forget the unforgettable, no matter how hard one tries.
Thanks!
Overwhelming. Such great movies...and, to add to this all the great music...social movements...
Your question, Libby, has stopped me in my tracks and made me think; one cannot forget the unforgettable, no matter how hard one tries.
Thanks!
so many good choices here..
To kill a Mockingbird
Sophie's Choice (book so very good)
Wonder Boys
Hannah and Her Sisters
South Pacific
Moonstruck
Wings of Desire
Roman Holiday
Deer Hunter
Bull Durham
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
Another Earth
The Quiet American
The Year of living Dangerously
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby (robert redford version)
so many movies so little time....
To kill a Mockingbird
Sophie's Choice (book so very good)
Wonder Boys
Hannah and Her Sisters
South Pacific
Moonstruck
Wings of Desire
Roman Holiday
Deer Hunter
Bull Durham
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
Another Earth
The Quiet American
The Year of living Dangerously
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby (robert redford version)
so many movies so little time....
Juno on tv tonight. Darn good movie. Thelma & Louise, how did I forget that one? That is one of my top 20. I think if I go back my top 20 is more like 40 now.
Art! :-)
Nilesite, Wings of Dove I will put on my short list. Thanks!
They are showing 3 Days of Condor again. What a compelling hook at beginning. Going out for sandwiches was never so significant, eh? Makes me think of the survivors of 9/11 tragedy who had reasons not to be at their jobs that day. Survivor guilt! In 3 Days, when later in movie the subject of America and "oil" comes up. Whew. There it is. The truth of American military madness.
Kim, I thought I might get no response on this one. You never know! :-) It's been a fun ride. Can't believe how many movies have moved through my life and others!
Procopius, interesting list. I thought of Days of Heaven. Very strong, beautifully sensuous, moody and minimally-verbal movie that made its point! That was Gere and Shepherd and Brooke Adams if I got the name right. That one deserves to be seen in a theater with big size of screen, like artwork that deserves a whole wall! Like seeing jurassic park on a small screen doesn't add up, it just loses its power.
Rita, love your list. Wonder Boys was special. And The Quiet American ... I had forgotten the name of that powerful anti-war movie. Brendan Frasier as a metaphor for callow earnest America! Redford was a very good Gatsby and Waterson a great narrator/watcher and Mia the sought after but weak princess. Deerhunter, another resonator of a particular generation's special plight. Thanks for commenting.
best, libby
Art! :-)
Nilesite, Wings of Dove I will put on my short list. Thanks!
They are showing 3 Days of Condor again. What a compelling hook at beginning. Going out for sandwiches was never so significant, eh? Makes me think of the survivors of 9/11 tragedy who had reasons not to be at their jobs that day. Survivor guilt! In 3 Days, when later in movie the subject of America and "oil" comes up. Whew. There it is. The truth of American military madness.
Kim, I thought I might get no response on this one. You never know! :-) It's been a fun ride. Can't believe how many movies have moved through my life and others!
Procopius, interesting list. I thought of Days of Heaven. Very strong, beautifully sensuous, moody and minimally-verbal movie that made its point! That was Gere and Shepherd and Brooke Adams if I got the name right. That one deserves to be seen in a theater with big size of screen, like artwork that deserves a whole wall! Like seeing jurassic park on a small screen doesn't add up, it just loses its power.
Rita, love your list. Wonder Boys was special. And The Quiet American ... I had forgotten the name of that powerful anti-war movie. Brendan Frasier as a metaphor for callow earnest America! Redford was a very good Gatsby and Waterson a great narrator/watcher and Mia the sought after but weak princess. Deerhunter, another resonator of a particular generation's special plight. Thanks for commenting.
best, libby
- The Piano
- Snatch
- 12 Monkeys....
- The Princess Bride
- Sound of Music
- Moonstruck
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- To Sir with Love
- The Bells of St. Mary's (I don't know why! but I love this one, it's so sweet, that Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman...)
- Lilies of the Field
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith (I don't know why! but I love this one, it's so sweet, that Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt... : ))
- Labryinth
Okay, those are the ones I thought of....now to read others' choices.
Great idea, Libby ~
- Snatch
- 12 Monkeys....
- The Princess Bride
- Sound of Music
- Moonstruck
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- To Sir with Love
- The Bells of St. Mary's (I don't know why! but I love this one, it's so sweet, that Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman...)
- Lilies of the Field
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith (I don't know why! but I love this one, it's so sweet, that Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt... : ))
- Labryinth
Okay, those are the ones I thought of....now to read others' choices.
Great idea, Libby ~
This is another reason I will never appear on Jeopardy.
On the other hand, tomorrow is another day.
I'll always adore:
Vickie
They Came on a Ship
Sport Logos, Stockyards
War Horse
Forest Gump
Miracle Drugs
TBA
ICBM
Peace Games
Doctor, Doctor
Clowns
Painters Painting
La Misma Luna
and so it goes, ofcourse
Unchartered Waters
& all of the above including
Counting &
Days Without Violence
Where Have Gone John Lennon
On the other hand, tomorrow is another day.
I'll always adore:
Vickie
They Came on a Ship
Sport Logos, Stockyards
War Horse
Forest Gump
Miracle Drugs
TBA
ICBM
Peace Games
Doctor, Doctor
Clowns
Painters Painting
La Misma Luna
and so it goes, ofcourse
Unchartered Waters
& all of the above including
Counting &
Days Without Violence
Where Have Gone John Lennon
....and The Secret of Roan Inish!!!
How could I ever forget one of my very favorite movies ?
I first had words to identify my sylkie self, with that film....
anna1liese reminded me, I had to come right over and add : )
How could I ever forget one of my very favorite movies ?
I first had words to identify my sylkie self, with that film....
anna1liese reminded me, I had to come right over and add : )
This is just excellent. I love reading what others think here. What a rush of nostalgia. I think films are in two different catagories. before the digital effects and those after the digital effects.
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