<p>I thought My Dinner With Andre is a great movie. </p>
<p>I really like Catch-22 and the Christmas Story too. I still have my old Jean Shepherd records.</p>
<p>Lots of people like My Dinner With Andre. I’m not sure what I think of it, because I have never succeeded in remaining awake for all of it. Or even most of it.</p>
<p>:)…</p>
<p>Benny and Joon
Harold and Maude
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Gone with the Wind
Crossing Delancy
Childen of a Lesser God
Like Water for Chocolate
Shawshank Redemption
Schindler’s List
Sophie’s Choice</p>
<p>now I went back and read all the previous posts and can think of many more…but i will stick with my top 10…
Benny and Joon, Benny and Joon, Benny and Joon!</p>
<p>Favorites? Here goes</p>
<p>North By Northwest (maybe the most fun movie I know for grown people) </p>
<p>All About Eve (Best dialogue, bar none. The way Hollywood made movies when words still really mattered.) </p>
<p>Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Maybe they’ll take ME away!)</p>
<p>Mutiny on the Bounty (The Laughton/Gable version is the coolest adventure movie I know. Its historically inaccurate but I don’t care) </p>
<p>Hurricane (John Ford’s non-Western masterpiece. Even with '30s -era special effects–which still hold up pretty well–you can see a master at work. The pacing is phenomenal, Raymond Massey is a great villain, and the Le Miz type story is pretty good too.) </p>
<p>Cinema Paradiso (Best ending in movies ever, which caught me totally by surprise) </p>
<p>La Dolce Vita (The ultimate sleazy reporter–done surrealistically) </p>
<p>Ace in the Hole (Not Billy Wilder’s most famous flick, but yet another tale of a sleazy reporter – this time done realistically–who exploits a trapped miner to boost his career. Strong stuff.) </p>
<p>Shakespeare In Love (Tom Stoppard deserves every accolade he gets as a writer. Inventive, funny, romantic and stylish all at once. His plays are good too.) </p>
<p>Sweet Smell of Success (Yeah, yet another sleazy journalist, but Burt Lancaster is one of my favorite actors and JJ Hunsecker is one of his best roles. For a Lancaster flick I could just as easily have named Atlantic City, Birdman of Alcatraz, Elmer Gantry, The Killers, Local Hero, or From Here To Eternity, but I especially like the New York setting of this one.)</p>
<p>Did we get to post 106 without anyone mentioning On the Waterfront–my all time favorite movie, or did I miss it?</p>
<p>I love Elia Kazan. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Splendor in the Grass. Gentleman’s Agreement.</p>
<p>How about Alice Adams (George Stevens). Holiday (Cukor.) The Rainmaker. Gaslight. </p>
<p>Try Romeo and Juliet with Norma Shearer (Cukor). </p>
<p>The Women. Stage Door. </p>
<p>Also, as others do, love The Apartment.</p>
<p>Oops…left out Notorious and Dodsworth.</p>
<p>Okay, no way you can ask for only 10!</p>
<p>I don’t think anybody mentioned On the Waterfront, and Iagree it is one of the all time greats.</p>
<p>Notorius I thought was great too. I don’t think anybody else mentioned that one either.</p>
<p>Liked My Life as a Dog too…and Cinema Paradisio. Also liked…</p>
<p>… Eat Drink Man Woman…</p>
<p>Dot…you classicist, you.</p>
<p>I would have trouble naming my top ten, but at the moment I am home with teary eyes watching - Sound of Music!! My daughter left the room because I was singing :-0</p>
<p>Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Pink Panther (the original)
The Sting
Great Escape
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Graduate
H & kids vote for any Bond movie (not me - why doesn’t he ever die?)</p>
<p>BigAppleDaddy, I’m ashamed I didn’t include “Hurricane,” “Ace in the Hole,” “Mutiny on the Bounty,” and “Sweet Smell of Success” on my list(s).</p>
<p>Guess for now I’ll have to stick with a Top 10 Directors list. :)</p>
<p>Ford
Hitchcock
Fritz Lang
Christopher Nolan
Kurosawa
Bergman (adding “Wild Strawberries” for Marite)
Chaplin
Wilder (as writer or director)
Mankiewicz (as writer, director, or producer)
Polanski</p>
<p>^^Forgot Orson Welles, especially “The Third Man” with the best closing scene ever, except for maybe “Les Quatre Cents Coups.”</p>
<p>The Milky Way
The Secret of Roan Inish
The Big Sleep
Willy Wonka
Marat Sade
Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman (made for tv movie though)
White Christmas
Slaughterhouse 5</p>
<p>The Graduate–I saw about 20 times when it came out. I saw it again recently and was shocked when I identified with his mother!?
My dinner with Andre–when I showed it to my son, he said he couldn’t wait until the action figures came out!</p>
<p>Forgt:</p>
<p>October Sky
Five Easy Pieces</p>
<p>Just remembered:</p>
<p>Heartburn</p>
<p>
Make that three. “Night of the Hunter”</p>
<p>Correction: Carol Reed, of course, not Welles for “The Third Man.”</p>
<p>Did anyone list Love and Death??</p>
<p>Nobody listed Love and Death.
Nobody listed Citizen Kane.
Orson Welles has only been listed by one person.</p>