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In Reply to: movies that reward many viewings? posted by tunenut on September 27, 2004 at 14:23:06:
I have one word to say to you: "Netflix!"Congrats on the DVD player, BTW. Wait'll you get hooked on the extras. If you like film, you're gonna have some fun.
The question of "what movies" is very much a question of personal taste. You surely must have some flicks you love, ot at least some that you always watch when they air on TV, besides 8 1/2 (good pick BTW).
What's your poison? Classics? Foreign? Thrillers? Action? Drama? Sci-fi? Epics? If quality/longevity is what you're looking for, you might consider checking out the AFI and (especially) the Sight & Sound lists of notable films (search the threads at hometheaterforum.com).
A movie that doesn't reward repeat viewings is not a movie I want own. Just my taste...but here's some movies I *do* own:
70's to current:
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The Age Of Innocence
The Grifters
House of Games
The Godfather I & II
Apocalypse Now
The Conversation
Amarcord
Dreams
Gods & Monsters
Master & Commander/Far Side of the World
Topsy Turvy
Naked
The Man Who Would Be King
The Dead
The Crying Game
Mona Lisa
No Man's Land
Blood Simple
Miller's Crossing
Fargo
Blue Velvet*
Mulholland Drive*
The Draughtman's Contract*
Drowning By Numbers*
The Pillow Book*
The Elephant Man
Say Anything
High Fidelity
A Fish Called Wanda
Bull Durham
Eight Men Out
Lone Star
Talk To Her
Winged Migration
The Devil's Backbone
Y Tu Mama Tambien
A Little Princess
Amores Perros
LA Confidential
The Insider
Wonder Boys
The Player
MASH
The Right Stuff
The Hunt For Red October
Best In Show
Waiting For Guffman
Sense & Sensibility
Pride & Prejudice (A&E Made for TV)
Howard's End
The Winslow Boy
Last Rights
Heavenly Creatures
Taste of Cherry
The Double Life of Veronique
The Decalogue
An Angel At My Table
Whale Rider
The Last Wave
The Year of Living Dangerously
Fearless
Walkabout
Don't Look Now
Brazil
The Duellists
Sex Lies & Videotape
Reservoir Dogs
The Sweet Hereafter
The Last Picture Show
Paper Moon
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Ju Dou
Raise The Red Lantern
To Live
Farewell My Concubine
Yi Yi
Delicatessen
City of Lost Children
Attanarjuat The Indian Runner
The Shining
LOTR Trilogy
Blade Runner
Alien
Close Encounters of The Third Kind
Gattica
Dark City
Pi
The Wicker Man
Spirited Away
Grave of the Fireflies
My Neighbor Tortoro
The Iron Giant
Finding Nemo
Monsters Inc.
Toy Story I & II* I realize that directors Lynch & Greenaway are not every inmate's cuppa tea, but they are mine.
Some favorite classic & vintage films from my collection:SILENTS:
The Gold Rush
The Circus/The Pilgrim
City Lights
Modern Times
Sherlock Junior
The General
Greed
Sunrise
The Pasion of Joan of Arc
Battleship Potemkin
Metropolis
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari30's & 40's
Vampyr
The Blue Angel
L'Atalante
Grand Illussion
Rules of The Game
Les Millions
Beauty & The Beast (Cocteau)
The Maltese Falcon
The Scarlet Empress
Alexander Nevsky
Citizen Kane
Bride of Frankenstein
King Kong
42nd Street
Goldiggers of 1933
Top Hat
Shall We Dance
Snow White
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
M
All Quiet On The Western Front
Out of the Past
Double Indemnity
The 39 Steps
The Lady Vanishes
The Women
Bringing Up Baby
You Can't Take It With You
A Night At The Opera
Horse Feathers
Captain Blood (or the Adventures of Robin Hood, you must have one Errol Flynn)
Dinner At Eight
The Wizzard of Oz
His Girl Friday
The Third Man
The Treasure of Sierre Madre
Tokyo Story
A Story of Floating Weeds
I Know Where I'm Going
The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
Notorious
My Darling Clementine
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
Phildelphia Story
Stage Door
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
The Lady Eve
Palm Beach Story
Sullivan's Travels
Henry V
Great Expectations
The Bicycle Thief
Umberto D
Germany Year Zero
Favorites from the 50's & 60's:Seven Samurai
Ikuru
Ran
Rashomon
On The Waterfront
The Hustler
Vertigo
Rear Window
North By Northwest
Singin' In The Rain
West Side Story
Roman Holiday
Some Like It Hot
Pather Panchali (and rest of Apu Trilogy)
The Leopard
The Searchers
The Big Country (A guilty pleasure)
The African Queen
Sunset Boulevard
To Kill A Mockingbird
Charade
Zulu
The 400 Blows
Shoot The Piano Player
8 1/2
Bob le Flambeur
Coup de Torchon
The Life of Oharu
Nights In Cabiria
La Strada
A Hard Day's Night
Performance
Blow Up
The Killing
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Strangelove
2001
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Forbidden Panet
The Thing From Another World
The Haunting of Hill House
Rosemary's BabyI notice with slight surprise I don't actually own any Bergman, Goddard or Woody Allen on DVD.
Follow Ups:
That is a terrific list -- a "who's who" so to speak of great cinema. But the post asked for movies that stand up to repeated viewing and you must have listed over 100 films. I envy you the time to enjoy these treats over and over again.
I did not want to list any of my own favorites...I am interested in what other people like. I had Taxi Driver before I had a DVD player...when I could only play it on my computer...I've seen that so many times and knew I would want a permanent copy.Others on your list would be on mine as well, Rosemary's Baby and the Day the Earth Stood Still, to name two.
Others, however, are clearly not on my list. I saw Talk to Her in the theater and once is enough. Best in Show was funny but I don't feel compelled to watch it again.
OTOH, nobody that I've seen has included Fawlty Towers. This is still as funny to me as anything I've ever seen, and I have it all on videotape.
Of course the main value of such a list lies in the movies I know little about, which can send me off into new directions.
As far as Godard, I had Alphaville, again before I even had a DVD player. I don't know why I am so fond of this bizarre work, but I am.
I DO have some Fawlty Towers on disc - from your post, I was thinking of movies on DVD, not TV productions. FT is my SO's favorite comedy series of all time, and I still laugh out loud at Basil's antics.I have quite a few BBC TV productions: Middlemarch (R2), Forsyte Saga (original), I Claudius, Rumpole, The Racing Game etc. I also have Lonsome Dove on disc.
I used to show dogs (and I still show horses) so I found Best In Show pretty amusing. I don't watch it that much, but some dull damp evenings it hits the spot for myself and my SO.
I have an awkward relationship with Goddard - I have Alphaville and a couple others on tape, but haven't bought any DVDs yet. Same with Bergman. I plan to pick up Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries and a few more on disc one of these days. Criterion is coming out with Fanny & Alexander with tons of extras next month.
I own some cherished films on DVD - the Criterion Brakhage Collection, Resnais' Last Year At Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon Amour - that I imagine few inmates would tolerate. (Brakhage was my film teacher at the Art Institute.)
BTW, for classic films the Criterion releases are usually very good, especially with supplemental materials. There are som R2 discs that have slightly better image quality, but Criterion's extras are usually well worth it.
You now know about 70% of my DVD collection.
Don't throw away your tape player yet: An Angel At My Table is available in NTSC on tape only, as is Naked, Dinner at 8 and Performance.That's what I get for trying to read movie titles from across the room.
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