MOVIES YOU CAN WATCH AGAIN AND AGAIN

Paaskynen, welcome to A2K -- great list of fillms. Glad to have another aficianado of movies on board.

Get Shorty reminds me of Out Of Sight. Both good Elmore Leonard book-movies

Thanks Lightwizard, I have deduced from your pseudo and your previous posts that you are a venerable expert yourself. Have you considered responding to adt4m's thread "Every Movie I've Ever Seen"? It has filled my day with memory flashes of films I have seen. Apparently, I have seen many more films than I would have guessed myself. However, the above mentioned are the ones that have made the experience really a memorable one

The cinema is the greatest thing the US and the French have jointly given to the world!

How do you count or even recall "every movie you've ever seen?" I wouldn't know where to begin.

I quess I missed that thread -- I try to keep at least one featured topic up regarding favorite films.
As far as contibutions to the art of filmmaking, I would add the Brits, the Italians and the Japanese.
I now have VOOM which shows a better collection of foreign films than either Sundance or IFC. NetFlix is indespensible for exploring independent and foreign films. I wrote elsewhere in trying to sit through Kurosawa's "Red Beard" and got bored half way through but not every director turns out an entire library of masterpieces.

My short list of favorite comedies would have to include

The Producers

Moonstruck

Dr Strangelove

Young Frankenstein

Love And Death

Some Like It Hot

The Hot Rock


These seem to get funnier and funnier each time I watch them. I just never tire of them. Strangelove is a comic masterpiece.

Great list and....If you haven't seen it...check out The Ref with Dennis Leary.

Welcome, firefly, to A2K and the Film Forum. A good short list of comedies to which I can, off the top of my head, add another Woody Allen. "Sleeper." And Chaplain's "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator." Well, most of Chaplain and most Woody Allen.

I don't think I have seen The Ref, panzade. I will definitely check it out.

Thanks for the welcome, Lightwizard. I would also add most of Woody Allen and Chaplain to my list too.

Another few that I would also add

The Mouse That Roared

Make Mine Mink

The Belles Of St. Trinians

Tootsie

Oh, how I miss Peter Sellers, Alistair Sim and Terry Thomas. Such wonderful comedic actors!

I just reread everyone's lists again. There are some movies (mostly oldies) I've really loved, and re-watched, that nobody has mentioned so far

Hannah And Her Sisters

A Man For All Seasons

Repulsion

Elvira Madigan

Amarcord

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

The Ox Bow Incident

All Quiet On The Western Front

For King And Country

Becket

The Seven Year Itch

The King And I

Oliver

North By Northwest

A Christmas Story

I could go on and on, so I just better quit now. I passionately love good movies.

The Labrynth
The princess Bride
Full Metal Jacket
Notting Hill

Adding "Becket" to the list, one could naturally add "The Lion In Winter" (even the TV remake was excellent). They're a great double bill.

I quite liked "Red Beard". It was nice to see Mifune in a non-warrior role. We showed it as a Christmas film, because of its heart warming message. Red Beard is one of Kurosawa's socially engaged films even though it has a historic setting. Another in that genre that I liked (though somewhat melodramatic) was "Ikiru". I liked it better than the more frequently mentioned "Dodeskaden".

The art of filmmaking has seen contributions from many countries indeed. I was referring to the invention of the cinema by Edison and the Lumière brothers in the remark about the US and France's gift to the world.

(Saw 10 films this weekend, of which 2 were reruns for me, am thus quite satisfied even if most of them were shallow one-dimensional flicks)

I'm afraid I was discerning a degree of shallow sentimentality. "Ikuri" is a far superior film IMHO. I do vaguely recall seeing "Red Beard" originally at the old Vogue Theater in my UCLA college days but obviously it didn't make enough impression on me to spark an interest in the film again (I had rented it from NetFlix to complete my traversal of the Kurosawa film library. I became tired of Mifune's mask-like scowl after about and hour and then just lost interest in the storyline, at least as much of a substance to the story that would grip me. I thought it episodic, overlong and not up to the quality of camera work in Kurosawa's other great films. I'd rather watch "Dreams" again -- at least there is some striking imagery in that film.

i havnt read every reply to this but im gonna list mine(no order)-

1. american history X
2. clockwork orange
3.scarface
4.airheads(funny movie)
5.fight club
6. saving private ryan
7. se7en
8. 25th hour
thats all i can think of at the moment

Good list maybe excepting "Airheads." Well, I guess half the people like it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109068/

1 and 5 couldn't sit through. 3...well, is there a Pacino film that absolutely stinks?...I'm thinking....no

You can count on Pacino for an interesting performance, even if the movie ain't so hot. 'The Devil's Advocate' comes to mind immediately.

Good one!

I managed to get through "The Devil's Advocate" and I think some of Al Pacino rubbed off on Keanu who desperately needs some coaching. He's improved ever since he was paired with Pacino. But the Pacino performance that stands out in the last several years is in the TV miniseries "Angels In America" for which he is sure to received the EMMY. His Roy Cohn was so astonishingly real and had such powerful depth that I believe the man had risen from the dead. The deathbed scene with Meryl Streep was riveting.