<p>jacdad~</p>
<p>Welcome to CC! 
Congrats on your FIRST POST! :p</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Clearly, I’m not particularly deep when it comes to movies. The ones I love most tend to be sweet or idiotic escapism, and all are films I could watch a million times. (In no particular order:)</p>
<p>Blazing Saddles
Sleepless in Seattle
Young Frankenstein
The Wizard of Oz
Field of Dreams
Meet the Parents
The Sixth Sense
Animal House
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
When Harry Met Sally</p>
<p>Great first post jacdad! My D often has a hard time trying to convince her friends that M is a great movie. They just don’t seem to appreciate a plot about a child murderer who is captured and put on trial by a bunch of street people. Fritz Lang and Peter Lorie are incredible!</p>
<p>Thank you all for the warm welcome! I have a couple of more films that bubbled up in my mind today;</p>
<p>Children of Paradise
Grand Illusion
Angels with Dirty Faces
High Sierra</p>
<p>Entomom- I particularly like the music the murderer whistles, “The Hall of the Mountain King”, from Pyr Gynt I think. Also the movie is rather humorous at times despite the subject matter.</p>
<p>I am going with my younger son this Sunday-Tuesday to an accepted student days event. It is his last visit before deciding between two schools, should be interesting and tiring.</p>
<p>I remember the first time I saw Gaslight when I was in seventh grade. It made such an impact on me, I’ll never forget that day. I wonder, though, if you have to first see it when young.</p>
<p>Has anyone seen Tiger Bay? It’s a British film with John Mills and a very young Hayley Mills and Horst Bucholtz–again, saw it first as a girl so it has special meaning (and a haunting theme melody).</p>
<p>(Not necessarily in this order):</p>
<p>Annie Hall
Godfathers I and II
Shadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
Gone With the Wind
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Double Indemnity/Dark Passage/+similar true film noir from '40’s
Cabaret
Walkabout
The Secret of Roan Inish
The Conversation</p>
<p>(Sorry, didn’t realize I went to 11, but I could easily go to 22, 33, or 44!)</p>
<p>Hi I’m new here and love movies! My top ten are:</p>
<p>Kill Bill
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Buffalo 66
Life is Beautiful
Some Like it Hot
What’s Up Doc?
Bowfinger
Groundhog Day
The Matrix
There’s Something About Mary</p>
<p>I love movie threads!!!</p>
<p>Manhattan
When Harry Met Sally
Goodbye Girl
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Four Seasons
Annie Hall
Hannah and her Sisters
LOTR (all three)
Sense and Sensibility</p>
<p>DrDrewsmom, I like your list. 4 Woody Allen movies 
The right 4 too.</p>
<p>If anybody ever sees that Gaslight is going to be on Comcast, please give a holler.</p>
<p>I know; I have several others on tape or dvd (Broadway Danny Rose, Love and Death, Play it Again Sam, etc) but I only listed the top ones I watch repeatedly. I’d say next in line is Broadway Danny Rose and almost listed it instead of Sense and Sensibility. I can watch that one repeatedly too----so many funny lines and I just love Mia Farrow’s character.</p>
<p>Well, I only had three Woody Allen movies on my list. I didn’t want to get too carried away. I like Broadway Danny Rose too. I like Sweet and Lowdown. I like Stardust Memories. Maybe, I better stop. :)</p>
<p>Manhattan Murder Mystery is a good one too, but I don’t have it so I don’t watch it over and over (but I probably would). I actually did have it on tape once upon a time, but somebody taped over it :mad: </p>
<p>Ah well, like I don’t already have enough. </p>
<p>Take the Money and Run is a good one too ;)</p>
<p>lol…</p>
<p>My list:
The African Queen
Chariots of Fire
Sense and Sensibility
To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Home Alone
My Father’s Glory/My Mother’s Castle (French–Anyone seen these?)
Napoleon Dynamite
My Fair Lady</p>
<p>Also:
The Wizard of Oz
How Green Was My Valley
Bringing up Baby
Babe
Babette’s Feast
The Yearling (hate the sappy music)
Jacques Tati --Mr. Hulot’s Holiday, Mon Oncle, Playtime
Singin in the Rain
On the Town
Just about all musicals, though some things about the films aren’t quite right–but I do own most of them: The Music Man, Oklahoma, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver, The Sound of Music, Brigadoon, etc. etc.</p>
<p>I’m with DrDrewsMom. I would have listed several Woody Allen films (including Play It Again Sam + Hannah & Her Sisters), but then in fairness I would have to include more than 2 of the Hitchcocks, too! (Dial M for Murder, The Birds, etc.)</p>
<p>The Big Lebowski
Edward Scissorhands</p>
<p>I didn’t list any Hitchcock movies. I wouldn’t know where to start. Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt, The Birds, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Psycho, Strangers on a Train. I probably missed a couple. What a great career!</p>
<p>A Vermont-made film–Man with a Plan–is one of my all-time favorites. Really amusing. The elderly dairy farmer in the title role later ran in the Republican primary and took out the (essentially) OOS business person who was running against Patrick Leahy, then dropped out of the race.</p>
<p>Another winter storm here in VT. Time to break out The Jungle Book, one of my favorite Disney films. I also love The Rescuers Down Under.</p>
<p>I had the same problem with Hitchcock movies. Tough I’ve got a fondness for *Shadow of a Doubt *which I studied in a film class.</p>
<p>My two favorite Woody Allen movies are *Zelig *and Purple Rose of Cairo. I like movies that play with the medium. I loved Pleasantville. In fact it should probably go on my top ten list.</p>
<p>oh mathmom, do I ever agree. Shadow of a Doubt is one that I just love. Something about the intimacy of the relationship between the 2 major characters, in addition to touches like Hume Cronyn (!) being in the cast, and Hitchcock’s daughter. And the character of the Mom and the actress who plays her: a supporting role, but a “period” aspect & a distinctive role given to her. That actress did the max within her role, as did Hume Cronyn. </p>
<p>There’s no substitute for great direction, but I probably love great casting even more.</p>