<p>Lawrence of Arabia
Dead Poets Society</p>
<p>BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN ***?</p>
<p>i cant believe no one mentioned moulin rouge</p>
<p>Toy Story I and II</p>
<p>Two movies that make me sit back and smile 
and also laugh out loud, every single time I watch them: </p>
<p>Benny and Joon (one of Depp’s best, and least known films - a must see for the potato on fork scene)
Crossing Delancy - for those of us who have loved a “pickle man.”</p>
<p>The one film I started watching in college and make a point to revisit yearly,
Harold and Maude</p>
<p>I absolutely loved “Everything is Illuminated” …I invite you all to rent this one. I watched it several times and thought it was very well done.</p>
<p>o man. fight club is very rewatchable. so many beautiful signs. its more subtle than a beautiful mind was imho.</p>
<p>a few Jimmy Stewart favorites (besides “It’s a Wonderful Life”):</p>
<p>Harvey
Rear Window
Shenandoah
The Glenn Miller Story</p>
<p>Driver: well gawd damn. We apparently agree on something. I thought “The Illusionist” was the best movie I’ve seen since “Shakespeare In Love,” which in turn knocked “Casablanca” into the #2 spot.</p>
<p>“The Great Escape” should be paired in a double-bill with “Chickenrun.”
“Tootsie” paired with “Victor, Victoria” (required for Smith students)
“Me, Myself, I” paired with “Sliding Doors”</p>
<p>Others: </p>
<p>Prisoner of Zenda (the Ronald Coleman version, not the odious Stewart Granger version)</p>
<p>The Scarlet Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews & Jane Seymour version)
The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester, dir., version with Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Oliver Reed (great!!!), Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Depardieu)</p>
<p>The Princess Bride
Willow</p>
<p>Monty Python & The Holy Grail
The Life of Brian
Airplane
The Great Race
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Shanghai Noon
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Producers
Freaky Friday (the Lindsay Lohan one)
The Parent Trap (the Lindsay Lohan one)
Animal House</p>
<p>Amadeus
The Red Violin
My Fair Lady (Rex Harrison)</p>
<p>Chocolat
Amelie
Together</p>
<p>Eyes Wide Shut
2001 Space Odyssey</p>
<p>Aladdin (Disney)
The Invincibles
Mulan</p>
<p>The Longest Day
Patton
M<em>A</em>S*H with Dr. Strangelove</p>
<p>The Stunt Man (terrific Peter O’Toole)</p>
<p>Bladerunner (director’s cut)
Apollo XIII</p>
<p>Pride & Prejudice (the David Rintoul version & the Colin Firth version)
Sense & Sensibility (two versions)</p>
<p>Chariots of Fire</p>
<p>Harvey (good add, Irish)
The Third Man</p>
<p>N.B. Such lists usually say more about the person making the list than the movies</p>
<p>Crash
Bringing Down the House
Mean Girls
Fight Club
Kill Bill (Volume one and two)</p>
<p>I’ll put on the movie I always add to these lists, The Right Stuff. Just fabulous.</p>
<p>Also, Gettysburg, and Spinal Tap.</p>
<p>I forgot Little Women on my list. Also The Age of Innocence. And Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth version) of course, though that strictly speaking is not a movie. I could watch that about once a month.</p>
<p>I loved Shakespeare in Love too, but I find the parting of the lovers at the end so painful that I don’t think I’d want to watch it too often.</p>
<p>Woohoo, TheDad has some good ones.</p>
<p>The Patriot
Dune
The Matrix
We Were Soldiers
What Women Want (a chick flick, but we had a house full of women)
The Notebook
Shrek
Ice Age
October Sky
The Quiet Man (I LOVE Maureen O’Hara)
Gone With The Wind (Mammy rocks!)
The Sand Pebbles</p>
<p>As we know from previous threads there are a bunch of P&P fans posting here.</p>
<p>How could I forget Raising Arizona???
Apollo 13</p>
<p>I’ll put in another plug for Everything is Illuminated - i made husband and son watch it. It got so-so to terrible reviews, but i thought it was a wonderful movie, and worked better the second time around.</p>
<p>And for the Men in Tights, Monty Python Fans - Young Frankenstein!</p>
<p>And the only modern movie that to me in some insane way goes with those - Zoolander. Don’t know what it is about that movie, but I thought it was hilarious - David Duchovny’s hermetically sealed hand, just too funny.</p>
<p>I love your double-bills TheDad.</p>
<p>How about Pleasantville and The Truman Show?
Memento and Betrayal?
The Right Stuff and Apollo 13?
Groundhog Day with the Star Trek: Next Generation episode “Cause and Effect”</p>
<p>What a fun thread…
Some of my favorites:</p>
<p>The Fugitive
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Terminator II
Shawshank Redemption
My Man Godfrey
Annie Hall</p>
<p>Are people listing movies they thought were great, or movies that they could watch so many times that they would purchase the DVD?</p>
<p>It’s very hard for me to buy a DVD (I own about 50 or so), because as much as I may like a movie, it’ might not one of those that I can put into the DVD player again and again…</p>
<p>So, my tastes tend to go to the escapist realm (although I second most of the ones on TheDad’s list, with the major exception of Eyes Wide Shut). For example, the “repeat viewings” we own tend to be along the lines of the films in the list below. Now I realize that some of these are NOT critical successes, but there’s just something about them that I can view multiple times and still enjoy them:</p>
<p>Independence Day
Jurassic Park
Jaws
My Cousin Vinny
Kill Bill (1&2)
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Matrix
Apollo 13
Titanic (especially the first part, set in the present day)
October Sky (an anagram of the book’s title, Rocket Boys)
…and along similar lines.</p>
<p>A lesser known movie that is one of my favorites: Local Hero</p>
<p>And movies that I’ve TOTALLY memorized the dialog for: Dr. Strangelove, Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail </p>
<p>And almost ANY movie with William Powell and Myrna Loy!!</p>
<p>…and a note to those who have seen Jaws a thousand times on TV: Pan-and-scan, broadcast quality, commercial interruptions, and dialog editing really detract from just how good that film is. The DVD made me fall in love with it all over again.</p>
<p>DadtheGlad - I forgot The Fugitive, probably one of the finest examples of popular escapist entertainment movies ever made!! “You said you didn’t care.” “I don’t.”</p>
<p>This is a great thread for my future Netflix picks. I’m a classic movie fan and like a lot of foreign films too, but all time mainstream favorites are Casablanca, Singing in the Rain, It’s a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Philadelphia Story, An Affair to Remember, Bringing Up Baby,any of the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn movies, My Fair Lady, Dr. Zhivago. Also, Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Woody Allen movies ie Sleeper, Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters, Blazing Saddles, City Slickers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Graduate (or anything with Dustin Hoffman), Big Chill, When Harry Met Sally, Groundhog Day, Trading Places, My Cousin Vinny (loved this one), Finding Forrester (or anything with Sean Connery - he was the best James Bond),Any of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, Steve Martin in anything ( Parenthood, Roxanne), Contact, A Time To Kill, Bridges of Madison County, Pride and Prejudice (my favorite book of all time too), Love Actually, Ghost, Titanic (the first half), Independence Day, Dave, The American President, Star Wars, Mr. Holland’s Opus, A Beautiful Mind, Fiddler on the Roof, Life is Beautiful (unforgettable), Schindler’s List. Also Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail.</p>
<p>More recent movies- 61, Woody Allen’s Match Point, although it’s not one you’d probably see over and over. Cinderella Man and Million Dollar Baby were great. I also loved Walk the Line. I’m sure I’m forgetting tons!</p>
<p>Driver, I liked Sixth Sense too, but none of his others have matched up. If you run into M. Night around town, don’t tell him I said so!</p>
<p>There are so many great movies! I don’t think anyone has a list with less than three or four that I agree with.</p>
<p>These aren’t “better” than others’ picks, just a bunch of movies that my kids and I have liked watching together repeatedly:</p>
<p>Before Sunset (S: “That’s what I want to do when I get older. Ride trains in Europe and meet really cute French girls.” Every parent should watch this with his or her teens.)</p>
<p>L’auberge Espagnole (S: “That’s what I want to do when I get older. Go to grad school in Barcelona and meet really cute French girls.”)</p>
<p>Kal Ho Naa Ho (Bollywood movie taking place in New York; very Indian love triangle where there is no “bad guy”; great production numbers)</p>
<p>Mononoke Hime (Other people seem to like Miyazake movies, too; this is our clear favorite, and we’ve seen them all several times)</p>
<p>Dazed and Confused (one of the best high school movies ever)
Metropolitan (one of the best first-year college movies ever)
Clerks (THE best loser movie ever)
(I have always wanted to do a “talkie” film festival with Whit Stillman, Richard Linklater, and Kevin Smith: different age cohorts, different social classes, different regions – Manhattan and Red Bank are different planets – but very similar sensibility.)</p>
<p>Scream (I once watched this and Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty in one evening; they are about 90% the same movie, and Scream is the much better of the two)</p>
<p>The Wild Bunch (every minute a classic except for the ones that got restored in the Director’s Cut and shouldn’t have)</p>
<p>Untitled (the Director’s Cut of Almost Famous, and a significantly better movie)</p>
<p>The Parent Trap (Lindsay Lohan is still coasting off the credit she gets for this movie – maybe the best performance by a 12-year-old ever; one of the great junk movies of all time)</p>
<p>Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Pretty In Pink
(Even my son likes these.)</p>
<p>Diva</p>
<p>Drumline (a sensational, underappreciated visual movie)</p>
<p>The Year of Living Dangerously
Il Conformista
(You can’t beat sex, politics, and period costumes.)</p>
<p>Victor/Victoria</p>
<p>JHS - not Molly Ringwald, but another very watchable movie: Clueless</p>
<p>btw roshke, great idea for adding to the Netflix or Blockbuster queue…</p>