<p>ek - watched Days of Heaven for the first time a few months ago. LOVED it.
Some of my favorites…
Shawshank Redemption<br>
Quiz Show
Lawrence of Arabia
The Quiet American
Young@Heart
Eight is Enough (huh? well yeah, I love dogs)</p>
<p>Casablanca–I’ve watched it so many times I can recite the lines along with them</p>
<p>Princess Bride: My family quotes that movie ALL the time. It is amazing how many quotes can be used in real life. (Although my husband had to control himself from using “Do you realize your job is on the line!?” when confronted with an underperforming employee.</p>
<p>Favorite sports movie (with four sons, sports movies are big in my house):
Hoosiers.</p>
<p>It’s a Wonderful Life because it you sometimes forget how important some things are and indeed what wonderful lives we have.</p>
<p>I love all the Terrence Mallick films - Days of Heaven, Badlands, even Thin Red Line (took me three viewings to figure it out).</p>
<p>Also love Sense & Sensibility whenever I’m in a rough patch in life - just makes me feel better about surmounting a challenge.</p>
<p>And never tire of The Lady Eve with Barbara Stanwick and Henry Fonda - my fav oldie.</p>
<p>Casablanca.<br>
When I was in grad school, the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square showed in every January during exam times. </p>
<p>I also like Ozu films.</p>
<p>wow, you are all so serious. Mine:</p>
<p>The Wizard of Oz
The Princess Bride
Airplane</p>
<p>Love Leads the Way</p>
<pre><code> An obscure film about the very first Seeing Eye Guide dog in America and her owner, Morris Frank. Based on their true story it covers the obstacles they ran across gaining legal protection for blind people using dog guides. If you love German Shepherds or dogs in general, you will love this movie if you can find it. Made in 80’s?
Do any of you remember it?
I also loved Seabiscuit…it’s about the Depression and a thoroughbred’s team of people.
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<p>Thelma & Louise</p>
<p>jude_36
I was thinking the same thing!!!
Glad to see another Princess Bride lover.
My personal favorite as a Sicilian:
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!</p>
<p>Has to be one of the most quotable movies of all time.</p>
<p>Under the Tuscan Sun
Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House
When Harry Met Sally
Miracle on 34th Street
ET</p>
<p>When S was 11, he wandered away from the rest of us at the 9-mile marker up on Pike’s Peak. We searched for him for a while and then asked some construction guys to help. They radioed the Park Ranger who called the Sheriff who activated the Search and Rescue group who were then followed by the TV news crews. It was quite a scene. The Sheriff eventually confined us to our minivan (in case it was actually a crime scene). But for the 2+ hours I spent circling the area, calling, I had one scene from a movie going non-stop through my head. I wasn’t remembering it perfectly, of course. Here it from The Fugitive:</p>
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<p>PS: Yes, S was eventually found by one of the many unbelievable teams of searchers who astonished us that day. More than twenty strong, healthy young people left their jobs, jumped in their cars, and came out to search.<br>
PPS: The Sheriff asked us if we thought S would stay on a road if he came to it or if he would cross the road and continue in the woods. Wow, there’s a question we’d never thought of. If you’re ever with kids in the wilderness, make sure they know to stay on a road if come across one. Pikes Peak has old mining and logging roads. The Search and Rescue coordinator used a map to send out the teams with the assumption that S would walk downhill if he came to a road. And that’s exactly where they found him. In all, he was missing about 5 hours.</p>
<p>Cinema Paradiso</p>
<p>From IMDB: "A man receives news from his aging mother in a little town that someone he once knew has passed away. A beautiful story unfolds about the man’s childhood friendship with an old man who was the projectionist at the local theater. Their bond was one that contained many highlights and tragedies, and shaped the way for a young boy to grow and move out of his rundown village to pursue a dream. "</p>
<p>It won the Special jury Prize at Cannes in 1989 as well as the Best Foreign Language Oscar that year.</p>
<p>Watch the original version first then the Director’s re-cut that fills in many of the blanks. I can’t tell you how many times I have watched it and, to this day, I go back and forth about which version is my favorite.</p>
<p>I always feel good after watching it and ask why don’t they make more movies like this? it also never fails to bring a lump to my throat and cause my eyes to well up.</p>
<p>Highly highly recommend.</p>
<p>[Cinema</a> Paradiso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso]Cinema”>Cinema Paradiso - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Top 3 favorites</p>
<p>1) Rashomon
2) The Prestige
3) Lawrence of Arabia</p>
<p>1) Field of Dreams – I absolutely love this one, it never fails to choke me up and make me laugh out loud.
2) Always
3) Frequency
Runner up: The Hunt For Red October. Strange, I know, but the whole family loves that movie and we have seen it over a dozen times over the years. Gotta love Sean Connery! :)</p>
<p>My family’s all-time favorite movie is My Cousin Vinny. It is our modern day version of Rocky Horror Picture Show in that we can quote almost every line from the movie that are also sometimes accompanied by acting (think of Marisa Tomei’s character telling Joe Pesci that her biological time clock is ticking!) out the scene - especially banging our feet to the above-mentioned scene.</p>
<p>I can always watch
- Caddy Shack
- Animal House
- Last Waltz</p>
<p>So many good movies mentioned here, makes you think!
I also love Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and Moonstruck.
Enchanted April, if you’ve not seen it, give yourself a treat! Even my husband loves it!
Babette’s Feast, it has subtitles, which I normaly hate, but this one is worth it. It’s a story about a successful woman restaurateur around the turn of the century. Her son and husband get into some sort of political trouble and she has to leave France and go into hiding. She ends up in this small desolate, bleak and colorless village (I think on the coast of Denmark) This village is inhabited by a small, very strict religious group, all of them older. She ends up keeping house and cooking for two spinster sisters. They live a quiet spartan life and she only cooks some sort of gruel for them. But being a famous chef (which is her secret) she can’t resist in improving their daily meals, just a little. She slowly becomes a fixture in the community. After being there for some time, she finds out that she has won a lottery, I think back in France. She confesses to the sisters that she has won this money and she is a cook and asks if she can make them and some of the other villagers a special meal. And what a meal and what fun. She brings in all of these wonderful and amazing ingredients, dishes, linnen, silver, wine… the villagers decide they will eat the meal, but not enjoy it but get in the spirit of things, for many of them it’s the first time they’ve eaten like this. The next day the sisters ask her what she is going to do now that she is rich. She tells them that she has no money, she spent it all on the meal. I’ll leave what she does do for those that want to watch the movie!</p>
<p>The Graduate, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Roman Holiday, Joy Luck Club, Under the Tuscan Sun, Westside Story, Field of Dreams, English Patient, The World of Henry Orient, Hand In Hand (very old English movie), and many more</p>
<p>Harold and Maude…on so many levels…humor…love…acceptance…philosophical…and Cat Stevens musical score throughout…oh…and brilliant acting by Bud Cort AND Ruth Gordon…</p>
<p>With the exception of the multiple mentions of “Under the Tuscan Sun,” which was I think is little better than weak, predictable melodrama, I think you all have impeccable taste. Except for horror and slasher movies I have pretty broad tastes, but I do have a weak spot for movies that have otherwise “ordinary” stories that are perfectly executed, and for movies driven by memorable, quirky characters. So here’s a list of quirky-character favorites for you:</p>
<p>*Local Hero<a href=“one%20of%20my%20all-time%20favorites,%20and%20clear%20inspiration%20for%20%5BI%5DNorthern%20Exposure%5B/I%5D,%20too”>/I</a>
*Whisky Galore<a href=“an%20Ealing%20Studios%20spiritual%20predecessor%20to%20%5BI%5DLocal%20Hero%5B/I%5D”>/I</a>
The Commitments
Saving Grace
Roxanne
*L.A. Story<a href=“yes,%20L.A.%20Story”>/I</a>
Lars and the Real Girl
Princess Bride
*Real Genius<a href=“frequently%20mistaken%20for%20an%2080’s%20slob/teen%20comedy,%20this%20is%20actually%20a%20story%20of%20fish-out-of-water%20kids%20coming%20of%20age”>/I</a>
Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring
*A Christmas Story <a href=“I’m%20a%20long-term%20fan%20of%20Jean%20Shephard%20and%20this%20movie%20was%20fun%20and%20subversive%20long%20before%20it%20became%20a” title=“Holiday Classic”>/I</a>
*Best in Show
The Wrong Trousers
Bull Durham
Defending Your Life
Broadcast News
The Philadelphia Story
*</p>