<p>“The Philadelphia Story - comedy and another fabulous cast.”</p>
<p>Yes!!! I can watch this one time and time again. Now S is hooked too. 
The dialog there is like champagne. :-)</p>
<p>We sometimes have these “movie marathones” . The most recent ones were Audrey Hepburn one, Hitchcock one and film noir one( “The Big Sleep” , “The Maltese Falcon” and so on) .</p>
<p>Hardly great (or even good) movies, but do you remember the “Billy Jack” series of movies? The woman that ran the school (I think his wife in real life) was a pacifist, but he constantly had to resort to some serious violence to protect the kids at the school. I remember that whenever he removed his boots, someone was in for a serious butt kicking! </p>
<p>What ever happpened to Tom Laughlin?</p>
<p>Harold and Maude (Ruth Gordon & Bud Cort - in love)
Young Frankenstein (Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Fronkensteen) & Peter Boyle as The Monster)
The Miracle Worker (with Patty Duke as Helen Keller & Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan)
Philadelphia (Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington)
On Golden Pond (Henry Fonda & Katherine Hepburn)
Adam’s Rib (Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn)
The Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland)
Arthur (Dudley Moore & Liza Minelli)</p>
<p>oh, I could go on…and on</p>
<p>My all-time Favorite movie is Full Metal Jacket</p>
<p>I’ll try not to repeat titles already mentioned:</p>
<p>“Twelve Angry Men”
“Life is Beautiful”
“What about Bob” (OK, maybe not timeless, but our family has adopted a lot of lines from the movie!)
“The King and I”
“Fiddler on the Roof”
“The Harmonists” (German)</p>
<p>The Killer Shrews. (The final scene is absolutely the apex moment in American moviemaking history.)</p>
<p>Twelve Angry Men - oh, yeah. That is definitely a classic. What a great group of actors, with a fantastic script.</p>
<p>How about “The Producers” ? I still think that is one of the all-time funniest movies ever made.</p>
<p>Every Christmas- “It’s A Wonderful Life.”</p>
<p>So many movies, so little time:</p>
<p>Papillion
The Big Sleep</p>
<p>Blazing Saddles - the uncut version, not the bleeped out version on the Family Channel. I watched the uncut version with my sons when they were 10 and 7, and they laughed so hard they split their sides! Maybe not the best movie for tender ears, but every kid deserves to laugh like that sometimes.</p>
<p>Every Christmas: “A Christmas story” . " You’ll shoot your eye out, kid. "</p>
<p>I have so many…but some that no one has mentioned as yet:</p>
<p>Sabrina (the original with Audrey Hepburn & Humphrey Bogart)
Bridge over the River Kwai
The King and I (Yul Brynner)</p>
<p>Shawshank Redemption
Bull Durham
Cannery Row
King of Hearts
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</p>
<p>I’ll second Cool Hand Luke, Harold and Maude, particularly, and I like lots of others mentioned.</p>
<p>For sheer fun “Pirates of the Carribean”</p>
<p>Am I the only one who thought that Brokeback Mountain was a remake of “The Way We Were”? And Mini - yeah, love the Killer Shrews. The metal can “armor”? Classic. For a movie which surprised me lately I’d go with “Pirates of the Carribean” - who knew? Johnny Depp is a genius. Worst movie I’ve seen in a long time? “Far From Heaven” - or as I like to call it, “Close to Hell.” B o r i n g.</p>
<p>What about:</p>
<p>Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Officer and a Gentleman
Steel Magnolias
Saving Private Ryan
Rear Window</p>
<p>I could go on and on…</p>
<p>A few I haven’t seen mentioned yet:</p>
<p>“Double Indemnity” (Billy Wilder/Barbara Stanwyck/Edward G. Robinson/Fred MacMurray in a terrific performance that shows there was so much more there than you could see in “My Three Sons”)</p>
<p>“Singing in the Rain” (if you loved it you’d love “On the Town,” too)</p>
<p>any Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical (my favorites are “The Gay Divorcee” and “Top Hat”) - the situations and relationships may be dated, but the dancing is ageless</p>
<p>“Notorious” - Hitchcock/Ingrid Bergman/Cary Grant </p>
<p>“All About Eve” - my nominee for best dialogue ever written!</p>
<p>“The Palm Beach Story” - wonderful Preston Sturges movie (but kind of overlooked nowadays - I also love Sturges’ “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” which is an insanely irreverent film)</p>
<p>In the category of films that are pretty dated but still lots of fun:</p>
<p>“The Women”
“My Man Godfrey”
“Pillow Talk”</p>
<p>How about “Memento”? That’s about as “timeless” as it gets.</p>
<p>Hey, I was going to say “Double Indemnity.” They don’t make noir like that anymore.</p>
<p>But for sheer timelessness and gorgeous spectacle: “Lawrence of Arabia.” Does anyone do the epic movie better than David Lean? (He also did “Bridge Over the River Kwai.”)</p>
<p>The “Lord of the RIngs” trilogy. Watch as marathon.</p>
<p>While not up to “The Killer Shrews” standard, “Giant Behemoth”, made in the same year, belongs on anyone’s short-list.</p>
<p>And if you like Kim Novak, her best (in my view) was “The Eddie Duchin Story”.</p>
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<p>Whenever we watch a David Lean epic, my kids are agog at the idea that NO computer graphics were used to achieve his effects. What an amazing filmmaker: Dr. Zhivago, A Passage to India, Ryan’s Daughter … and of course Lawrence of Arabia and A Bridge over the River Kwai. His earlier films are smaller but still wonderful: Summertime, Great Expectations and above all Brief Encounter (I would love to find that on DVD).</p>
<p>As for David Lean, how about “Oliver Twist,” thus getting Lean and Dickens in one sitting. One of his great early ones–black & white.</p>